I was reminded of the bit player from three consecutive James Bond movies who witnesses something surreal and subsequently questions his sobriety. He was uncredited, but IMDb lists him as “Man with…

I think memory-safety is a great idea. I’m mainly a C programmer and I’m all too familiar with the “fun” of debugging memory issues. But I believe the pace at which Rust is…

Yesterday I discovered the Internet phone book, and I was really excited to buy one because this project resonates with me. Unfortunately, it is sold out pretty much everywhere and I'm not going to…

After years and years of talking about it, I’ve finally made it. Toechat is here, and it has been made with simplicity in mind from the start. In this short blog post, I’ll explain how…

I have been coding for a few years now, and in that time, I have done nothing but remove complexity from my coding setup and I feel like I've reached a point where I'm happy with it. My favourite…

There are nicer places out there.

FINALLY brought my music page up to speed! Now contains some album "reviews" and links to some playlists I've made! ...also I want to say thank you and sorry for the long break over the summer. You…

An automatically generated look at today's numbers.

Today’s Newsday Saturday Stumper is by the puzzle’s editor, Stan Newman, constructing as Lester Ruff. Indeed, today’s puzzle was Les than Ruff. It’d be a good one for someone who wants to sample the…

[ Mutts , September 5, 2026. Click for a larger view.] Mutts premiered on September 5, 1994 . For today’s strip , Millie has prepared a very special meal. Venn reading All OCA comics posts : comics…

Telling your team quality matters changes nothing. Here is what actually moves engineering culture, and the test for whether your fix is real.

Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai , Hacker News The Register , The Verge , and…

i open up to love it's what being human is about right? paying the price for it grief i know people who keep reaching out for love are courageous and strong hopeful a little mad despite the…

You don’t know what you do know in agentic engineering. The model also doesn’t know what you don’t know. Bad news: the model won’t tell you what you don’t know before…

I've always been a health and fitness buff since I was a kid. My parents had enrolled me in plenty of sports and outside activities to try to tame my endless energy, but gymnastics, taekwondo,…

In the late 1960s and 1970s, people like David Parnas faced a problem. A decade earlier there were almost no programmers. Suddenly there were hordes of inexperienced ones. What could have been a…

Hookland Fragments is a small book, mostly comprised of a thirty-page lecture and fifteen pages of an A-Z of Hookland Influences, along with some smaller essays. What is Hookland? It is a fictional…

 9/1/26 Neocolor II on UglyPads paperOnce again, my friend Alice generously shared her garden’s bounty. I think she picks out the prettiest produce just for me because she knows I will want to…

Growing up and watching Star Trek, one thing that made it feel futuristic to me was the interaction with the “computer.” You didn’t see Captain Picard updating software or managing…

Took the entire family on a camping holiday to the coast of Calvados, Normandy. Visited Houlgate, Honfleur, Bauvron-en-Auge.

Engineers solved this problem twenty years ago. Nobody else got the memo. Batch size, queue time, cost of delay — Reinertsen wrote the book in 2009. Toyota was shrinking changeover time to enable…

 08.26 to 09.03.26AlbumsLonesome Blue - Fourth Dimension (+2)Xandria - EclipseBunny X - Love On a High FloorAryem - AgnesCZARINA - Painted HologramZanryupa - Dream, dream, dreamZyana - Donde…

“This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it. They will appear wise, but not be so.” — Thamus to the god Theuth, on the invention of writing, in Plato’s…

Another Bandcamp Friday has came and went and of course, purchases were made. Last time out I bought a bunch of death metal albums that had been in my wish...

Extraordinary Language Philosophy The legacy of commonsense philosophy and ordinary language philosophy is not dead.[1] It still haunts the precincts of academic philosophy. I wish to put on record…

Yesterday evening the village of Portomarin where we are spending two nights began celebrating a Fiesta dedicated to Jesus Christ. The town was full of young revelers. The main stage was right next…

There are probably a few R.E.M. songs I haven't hit yet which I like more than "Me In Honey"--yes, I could take nearly every song from their first couple albums before I stray into something…

On Monday the trusses should be delivered. There's at least one more course, possibly two, of blocks to stack. Once that's done, the end truss will be landed and secured to the gable. That will also…

Finding my way back into photography.

I am a deeply sick individual who conflates customizing a text editor over the course of a week so that it is a passable version of a program like Notepad---something that every computer has had out…

Introduction: God created mankind with a thirst for glory. We do not fulfil our creational purpose apart from glory. The very definition of sin is to fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23).…

via NASA I love mashups , I love timelines , I’m certain I’ve mentioned somewhere that the ideal Alien franchise is Alien , Blade Runner , Predator , Avatar , and Halo . This post started as that,…

In Hong Kong, space is at a premium. Homes are small and cramped and buildings are built closely together in the area between the ocean and the mountains. While Hong Kong's housing constraints…

Vibing I made my vibe-coded app "Fold" public the other week ( Docs , GitHub ). I'm still figuring out how I feel about vibed personal software being made public. At the very least this is something…

Hello readers! This week there are updates for YouTube (as usual), Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, AdSense, X, and more. Top Updates YouTube is expanding access to “Watch With” reaction live streams.…

I started the second day of the Halifax Fringe Festival The post Halifax Fringe Day 2 appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog.

. MAGA supporter message on Truth Social. However White House assertions about Canada are patently false, says Ryan Lewenza. Just look at the facts. . By Guest Blogger Ryan Lewenza . President Trump…

corn field’s given up on being seen today

There's a lot of debate around my corner of the internet, among friends, and between work peers lately about whether or not vibe-coded/AI-assisted software is a good thing, a bad thing, or the end of…

Late last year my team got disbanded, my boss got let go, and I got “handed the bag”. Politics were sensitive. My job description grew three new heads overnight. The work we'd spent a year building…

The prose is gorgeous, the characters and relationships are heartfelt, and this is a story that reimagines Christ as a necromancer in the background…fall in love with this trio as they face the…

Washington State is getting invoices. A record $614 million in outstanding state liabilities for legal fees, jury awards, and tort settlements. A housing and homelessness crisis keeps compounding.…

They sue on behalf of professors whose free speech rights have been violated by mindless ideologues at universities. Like this computer science guy at U Wash who made fun of the land acknowledgement…

What good is having money if you have nobody to enjoy it with? Learn more about how to plan your retirement around things that matter by reading this week’s terrific links. Doing nothing is a…

Not just mean-spirited but sadistic Stay with me for a moment. Friends and fans often suggest that I start a Substack. You could make money, they say. My mother finally stopped asking me if I’m…

Follow bun run app.ts through CLI dispatch, module resolution, TypeScript transpilation, JavaScriptCore, Node compatibility, and the event loop.

Scientists estimate there are 4.8 × 10⁴⁴ legal chess positions. That is 4.8 followed by 44 zeros. Yet the chessworld is flooded by opening courses and promises to “just watch this and get better”.…

Every metric you optimise for is a proxy. The moment you forget that, the proxy becomes the goal. A short one about a bounty on dead cobras, a surgeon’s scorecard, and what happens when a…