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I'm delighted to be able to report that Moelwyn has returned unscathed from its 800-mile round trip in the post.Our vintage Meridian-kit model of the FR's venerable Baldwin Tractor has undergone a surgical operation for a motor...
Looking a gift horse in the mouth Wolfgang Peterson's Troy is an odd mix-- a summer blockbuster with the patina of a sincere attempt at adapting a literary classic painted all over its bright surface. David Benioff's script, loosely--...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Many were the things that happened, this week in 1976.For instance, Jimmy Carter was nominated for President at the Democratic...
Around the time I was writing about iPhone’s Safari breaking the expected “tap to jump to the top” gesture, a conversation on social media pointed to yet another thing that this tab control does strangely. A typical use of Safari means...
Now you can track Flock surveillance cameras and other automated license plate readers. Why is there a cluster of them on every approach to Tufts University in Massachusetts? Automated Surveillance of Car Traffic There are these things...
Summer 2026 saw us shunning foreign shores and instead spending a week in Derbyshire, beginning with a four night stay in the spa town of Buxton.After checking into our holiday apartment, we wandered through the Pavilion Gardens,...
The Jehovah’s Witnesses (the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania) sought to unmask a Doe who uploaded an archive of religious texts, along with some associated linguistic parsing tools, to a website...
It's been just over a week since I deleted all my corporate social media accounts and, honestly? I've been loving the quiet and lack of notifications and decreased screen time. I'm sure I'm missing out on things, but those are not things...
Back in my brighter and chipperer student days, I became mildly obsessed with stories of Benjamin Lay. A four foot tall Quaker with a hunched back, "Little Benjamin" was an 18th century radical abolitionist and animal rights activist. I...
From The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris, by Andrea Wulf (Knopf, 2026), Kindle pp. 148-151: A week later, on 21 November, a group of Māori women paddled out and told the Resolution crew...
On Sunday night, Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge casually tweeted a surprisingly simple counterargument to the Jacobian Conjecture, a mathematics problem that has been unproven for over 80 years. Said counterargument was identifed...
I finished reading Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers. It’s a great little book packed with practical wisdom. Every chapter is a life lesson. Highly recommended!
Since breaking free of my corporate shackles, I’ve gotten to experiment with a variety of approaches to AI-assisted development. After months of tinkering, I’m quite happy with my current setup, and want to capture and share it. Things...
Keeping it simple where it affects your code and your users.
I've heard so many people complaining about Disclosure Day that I expected to be disappointed. I wasn't. It was a fun ride. It gets a little Spielberg-ey at times, but I didn't mind. ✍️ Reply by email