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Finished reading, “Waxing On.” I enjoyed the parts specific to the original two movies. Little was said about the third or (4th) “The Next Karate Kid.” I also liked some details relating to the remake, which I watched again this week....
As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI. This past month, with the hacking incidents at OpenAI and elsewhere, that has hit the limit, where if you count Lightcone Commons then...
I’m currently pulling together a bunch of sources – that are mostly recent – on the topic of LLMs and their use in software development. Some are peer-reviewed studies. Some are industry studies that haven’t been peer-reviewed. One is...
https://github.com/tailscale/sqlite Not yet officially released, but presumably in heavy usage by tailscale
I'm not a car guy. Nor a guy who can spend $2 million on a reimagined vintage Porsche. But this Louis Vuitton-Singer-Porsche collaboration is beautiful work.→ The Wall Street Journal
There is a solar eclipse today!
Author Under Review:Them. W.H. Chizmar. Gallery Books, August 2026. Having read Them, the debut novel from W.H. Chizmar, it’s not hard to discern that one of Chizmar’s favourite authors is Stephen King. It makes sense: his father,...
. Unknown artist, despite 1917 signature: M&C Apprentices’ Magazine from December 1930 I didn’t expect to receive an art lesson from one of Scotland’s great engineering companies but that’s what I got from a copy of the M&C Apprentices’...
The early partial eclipse. Not bad for a four year old phone camera through a pair of eclipse glasses from 1999!
A disappointing slog across a noisy bridge, but some good views at the end. … Continue reading →
As a 17-year-old intern coming into the office for a few hours after high school each day in the early eighties, I had one job. Listen to AM radio on my way in, and report to the older workers the price of gold and the Dow. They were all...
We’re back with a stack of photos from May 2007. The banner image back in the day I thought was awesome. I was just getting into Linux and messing with images in GIMP, which looking back is pretty much what landed me in my current gig....
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1165/bubble-therapy
As always, the views here are expressly my own. In this post I'm not advocating for adopting agentic engineering. I'm assuming you chose to try it or someone decided for you. Matt Levine often writes about how crypto is rediscovering...
Attackers exploited a vulnerability in Ravencoin, a blockchain based on the bitcoin codebase, to mine invalid blocks. Although Ravencoin subsequently patched the bug, the blockchain contains roughly four days of invalid history.Two...