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I haven’t been on my phone very much lately, let alone properly online. I actually think this might be the least time i’ve spent online in my entire life, which is strange considering how much of my life used to revolve around the...
Heads up for you blog-reading types: I’ll be teaming up with my friend Mike Monteiro next Friday (August 28th!) to offer an info-packed 90-minute online workshop on MAKIN’ BOOKS. Mike and I have decades of combined experience crafting...
Better Batteries Aug 20, 2026 One of the eternal schisms in programming is over the question of whether the standard library should be minimal or encompassing. This is the wrong question to ask. The right one is: Which social...
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. They may rationalize it in this or that way, but they shake off the fetters and allow nature to touch them....
Long-time readers of this blog know that The Monkees is my favourite sitcom of all time and The Monkees are one of my favourite bands of all time. I am then very happy to report that for the first time ever The Monkees is on streaming....
Lots of steady rain today for the first time in what must be a couple of months if not longer. The lawn was properly soaked. Been feeling a bit tired in the head today. Mental activities needed extra effort and result in fuzziness and a...
I am currently 8 sessions into running this campaign for some people on the glog server. It's been eye-opening running games again, and I thought I'd do some reflection on how it's going, to get my thoughts in order. The first thing to...
I am a slow adopter of new technologies. I have recently been playing around with AI at a very basic level on some research problems. Colleagues are also telling me about their experiences. I want to write something about its potential,...
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There's this claim going around that AI programming is going to kill "traditional CI" and transform it into something novel and complicated and based on... gamedev programming? I guess?The logic is something like this: Thanks to AI there...
Use Gmail’s Message-ID to point Codex or Claude at one exact email and retrieve the complete conversation rather than a plausible result.
I switched e-readers I've been using a Kindle Paperwhite for a while now, and it was fine. But I'm trying as best I can to distance myself from Amazon, and their changes to e-books over the years finally pushed me in that direction....
Because I feel like moving a bit beyond the hits. Enjoy. — JS
This is a post nominally about the origins of Waluigi. Alas, it will not offer any new answers about where this wonderful weirdo comes from. In the course of trying to find any, however, it will arrive at some conclusions about how bad...