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A recent discussion on Reddit was about shaming plugin developers who offer free features and then take them away (with the assumption being that they make them part of the paid-for version). Now, I don’t agree with shaming, but I don’t...
This is a very valuable non-fiction book that dives into the definition of genocide and why it can't be denied that what's been happening in Gaza is a genocide. I liked how clear and well-structured the text was. It takes the time to...
I think the last time we looked at these, I both mused they were different to previous ones, vis-a-vis colour schemes, and that I'd found more on Amazon (and left them there!). But, without postage, and at pocket money prices, I picked...
“Oh please, don’t sell me out” Said the man with the hammer hammering the anvil ”I’ve been walking on the road of rocks I keep on hammering, keep on hammering Keep on hammering, hammering the anvil I started my third sculpture: a male...
A classless, level-less rules hack for folk heroic play I noted in my last post that 5.5e D&D is a lot more powerful and super heroic than the D&D that lives in my mind, but it retains a lot of the old system still. So I thought I would...
Another day of cold winds. Played with Jane in garden for a bit. Did all the mowing over again. Stayed in at night and watched the tellie. No visitors.
When I was a kid I was fairly inept… my older sister was a near Olympian level athlete. And now she is a multi millionaire (owning dozens of businesses and featured in magazines). And I was super morbildy obese barely articulate and a...
Last week I closed the Kimi K3 post promising you that I’d do the same exercise of explaining the improvements of the newly released Qwen3.8 and GLM5.3 models in plain English. It turns out that as I was writing this post Qwen and GLM...
This article appeared in The New York Times, July 27, 2026 “Ms. Millman is a designer and brand strategist, the host of the podcast “Design Matters” and the chair of the master’s program in branding at the School of Visual Arts. There is...
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved sequence generation and derangement. (Note that this ends today.)
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this scene in the 1000 Islands region of Ontario, Canada. Thick fog drifts across the water, softening the silhouettes of tree-lined islands and reducing the view to bands of gray and white. The mist...
Yesterday was ‘business as usual’ weather wise, in North Wales. Welsh sunshine from wall to wall, Blaenau to Porthmadog…I enjoyed a trip on the Quarryman service that leaves Blaenau about 11:40am and returns arriving back about 16:40pm...
If you think there are too many cats featured on this blog, then you're quite right. I do think that we can learn a lot from cats, but... we're clearly not cats and are unlikely to evolve in that direction. It wouldn't be a good...
Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month. IndieWeb Carnival is a monthly blogging event where one person chooses a topic and invites others to write about it. For...
In 2009, I co-authored a paper titled Formal vs. Agile: Survival of the Fittest, in which I argued that rigour and agility in software engineering were not antithetical. I first had to explain to my co-authors that Agile Software...