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It was near the end of April when I interviewed the creator of Bubbles.town, Benjamin Behnke, and I feel as though I've been using the platform for enough time to give a more long-term review of it now. Here are some of my thoughts, and...
Links. We have links. Links are back. Imagine an Organism, by David Lobina, Inference When My Husband Died in a Surfing Accident, Life As I Knew It Was Destroyed. Ten Years On, This Is What I’ve Learned About Grief, by Hannah Richell,...
Technical expertise matters, the problem begins when technical expertise is treated as the only legitimate way of understanding a social problem. This is the trap of technocracy: taking a useful tool for understanding parts of the world...
Our plans for dinner were simple; drive over to Stourbridge to collect a present and go for a quick, one-course dinner at The Old Wharf Inn. Sophie wanted the chicken caesar salad, whilst I was going for the raviolo. Glass of wine for...
Finished reading: The Mulai by Munir Hachemi 📚 — recommended by VHBelvadi as part of the IndieWeb Book Club.
Candy Darling died at 29, broke and largely uninsured, having spent most of her adult life unable to walk into certain bars without risking arrest for the dress she was wearing. She also spent those same years being photographed by...
In July, several Confluent colleagues and I published The LogDrive: Composable Durability for Cloud-Based Shared Logs. The paper evolves the concepts of Virtual Consensus in Delos by decomposing the Loglet abstraction into AtomicLog and...
On Linux, Citrix Workspace (wfica; icaclient 26.04.0.105) crashes, printing the following error message to console: *** WFICA CRASH: SIGFPE (Floating point exception) *** Crash log saved to:...
Two things happened last week that reminded me that not all people are not using generative AI and LLMs in the same way. The first thing that I read was Timonthy Gowers‘s blog about math and LLMs. In the post, What sort of maths are LLMs...
“As long as you’re dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.” - Mary Oliver, “Three Things to RememberHello friends! Rules were made to be broken, right? At...
Check out these great new recruiting posters for the USCG, which show off current programs (MSRT, Blackfin MH-65Es with HITRON, etc.) in an early 1980s throwback style. The last features a great image by Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler...
Last month, the announcement of a new-to-science monkey species from the Congolese rain forest made a bit of a splash. It’s Colobus congoensis, formally, and less formally and based on a local name, the likweli. It’s a lovely monkey, I...
Some 52 years ago this month, a high speed formation off the coast of southern California. August 1974. We see the front runner, the Interdiction Craft Experimental (CPIC-X), in the center, flanked closely by the experimental hydrofoil...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. D&D In A Castle D&D In A Castle is a VERY expensive event to attend. I went...
Spanish quiz Here are clues to the names of 30 Spanish cities, towns and islands. The first column are all anagrams, the rest are cryptic. n.b. I've taken liberties with pronunciation and ignored accents. How many can you identify? 1)...