Developing electrobillion, an educational power grid simulator
Micro-toy to mega-project, many lessons in this one!
Hnefatafl, Viking Chess for Game Boy
On The Royal Game of Ur, the link cable nearly broke me. It was by far the hardest feature of that project, burning through most of $50 in API...
AI Az Önce Bir Secret Sızdırdı
Microsoft, Google, Red Hat, Grafana ve LlamaIndex public GitHub repolarına canlı verified credential pushladı. Pipeline'ı ben yazdım: Gemini 2.5 ile etiketle, regex'e distil et, TruffleHog'u active…
Your AI Just Leaked a Secret
Microsoft, Google, Red Hat, Grafana and LlamaIndex all shipped verified live credentials to public GitHub. I built the pipeline that found them: Gemini 2.5 distilled into regex, then TruffleHog with…
TU Wien Lecture: High-Performance Parallel Graph Analytics: Scalable Algorithms and Frameworks for Discovering Structure in Massive Networks
Brief Biography: David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and the founding Director of the Institute for Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he also founded the…
The Bowl Beneath the Sign
A sanctuary sign can keep speaking long after the ground begins to answer.
The Check That Wants Me Wrong
Grimmett and Li solved a small statistical-mechanics model — the polygon model, a way of weighting the closed loops you can draw on a lattice — on the honeycomb, and then named the next step they…
The Paperwork Distance
I help run records sites — public records made findable, a row in a table with a port number and a traffic stat. Then a removals queue stopped being a noun. What's in the queue is people, and for…
🗓️ Weeknote 2026-W26
Half a year down. Wow. We finally got a dumping of snow, but it's disappearing quickly with the sun beaming. White caps from around the block 🏢 Work I finished up at my previous job. Instant weight…
Building My Second Brain on OpenClaw (Part 5)
>- Complete guide to securing your OpenClaw AI assistant. Learn how to implement firewall rules, file permissions, tool allowlisting, and automated security monitoring for production deployments.
Case Study: Reframe — Building an AI Shopify App Solo, From First Commit to Paying Merchants
How I built and run Reframe, an AI product-photo app for Shopify merchants: the architecture decisions that let one person operate a GPU pipeline in production, how session recordings drove churn…
Remote Flutter development with Mutagen
I write a Flutter app in a container on a Hetzner box and build it on my Mac. Mutagen copies each change to the Mac over SSH, not Docker.
Daynote - Mon 29 Jun
A bright and breezy Monday.
The remote development mirage
A post on X predicted that development would all move to remote sandboxes. Here is why I think that is a mirage, what makes the model attractive to executives and unappealing to developers, and where…
The IndiaAI Subsidy Trap: A ₹25,437 Crore Deficit and the Sovereign Compute Lock-In
What is the structural cost of the IndiaAI Mission? MeitY's ₹4,563 crore allocation creates a ₹25,437 crore deficit for 100,000 GPUs. Analysis reveals how data egress fees legally lock MSMEs into…
Why the US Iran War Just Made India's Clean Energy Transition an Economic Mandate
An objective, deeply researched analysis of how the U.S.-Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz disruptions are forcing India to rapidly allocate capital into biogas, nuclear, and clean energy…
Aldi Grocery Giveaway Backfires Leaving Thousands Fuming
Last week, Aldi ran a sweepstakes called Aldi Blind Box promising to give away mystery boxes of groceries each day for four days at exactly the stroke of noon. It sounded like such a good deal that…
Tuesday 29th June, 1965
A lovely sunny day. Hoed all the gravel path. Cleared Bernard’s bins. A lot of stuff in to burn. John from next door cut his head on swing last night. Went to hos.
The Middle East, Hormuz and the New Mercantilism
The provisional surrender document signed by Donald Trump appeared to represent a triumph for Iran and indeed for the world; but neither the USA nor Israel has the slightest sense of honour and they…
No Polestars For You!
Remember the Soup Nazi from the ’90s sitcom Seinfeld? His trademark was a bellicose no soup for you! if he decided he didn’t like you. Well, that’s what Uncle – the federal…
Lostchild Reimagines “Never Sleep” With a Powerful Dancefloor Twist
Lostchild proves one great song can live two different lives. "Never Sleep" evolves from dark pop into a house-driven release without losing its emotional core. The post Lostchild Reimagines…
Garbage for Humans
Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines… This blog post on Unstory is short, but really impactful. 5 paragraphs, and will never rank for anything, but it’s hit me more…
The End of Immunity for Internet Service Providers? C-188/24 WebGroup Czech Republic and NKL Associates and C-190/24 Coyote System, judgment 16 June 2026
Lorna Woods , Professor Emerita, University of Essex Photo credit : TodayTesting.com , via Wikimedia Commons This recent CJEU judgment has been flagged in some quarters as upholding the French rules…
Update
Telling myself, "Shenji, if you don't pilot the eva, Rei will have to do it again." But I'm both Shinji and Rei. 😭😭😭 #evangelion #neonGenesisEvangelion #burnout #shinji #rei #eva #meme #memes
Helen Ganya Transforms Dreamlike Visions Into Haunting New Single “Riding on a dovetailed pony”
Helen Ganya is turning dreamscapes into captivating music. Her latest single "Riding on a dovetailed pony" is haunting, hypnotic and impossible to shake. The post Helen Ganya Transforms Dreamlike…
Hardware-in-the-Loop CI: Line-Rate VPP Testing over Tailscale
TL;DR. Testing a data plane at 100GbE line rate needs real NICs running VPP — which no cloud CI runner has. So an ephemeral GitHub Actions runner joins a private two-machine lab over Tailscale,…
Personality
It's funny, the behaviour in animals that we ascribe to personality. Thinking about it too much makes me wonder if there's even such a thing in humans.152 words · 1 image
20% discount on tickets at a range of Historic Scotland sites this summer
As part of its Historic Summer campaign, Historic Scotland is offering a 20% discount on admission tickets at a number of its sites throughout the country. This offer, which is available to UK…
Rebuilding the computer room
We traded the physical boundaries of dedicated rooms for the convenience of our always-on digital lives -- but recently I've been building those walls back up.
Automating My Vegetable Garden Irrigation with Home Assistant
Growing your own vegetables is fun and delicious to do, but when you go on vacation the plants still need water. Now we can ask a neighbor to take care of it, but we can also use a Sonoff water ...…
Expected vs Actual CTR: finding the pages that earn fewer clicks than their position deserves
Anyone who spends their days inside Search Console knows that little nagging feeling: a page sits steadily in third position, yet the clicks are few, a CTR that looks like it belongs at the bottom of…
Itchy Scabs - More Scavvies
Three more scavvies to swell the ranks. This time its another trio of unreleased Jes Goodwin sculpts. Once again brilliant figures and really enjoyable to paint with all the layered rags and fun…
In Offering Brazil to the US, Flávio Bolsonaro Endangers our Sovereignty and Democracy
By Marcelo Zero The “generous offer” made by candidate Flávio Bolsonaro—officially recorded in a letter from Marco Rubio—to provide the current US administration with a “transition team” should he be…
Crucial Track for June 29, 2026
"Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood & The Destroyers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that makes you feel invincible. - Bad to the Bone by George…
Rosieland Roundup 320
17 links to help you grow your community career
AI took my job as a coder. Then it made me a better software engineer.
Many developers are watching AI agents generate bad code, introduce bugs, and erode their skills. I'm having a different experience. The post AI took my job as a coder. Then it made me a better…
Session on AI and the Human Mission at YMCA
Yesterday 28 June 2026, I had the honor of speaking at the YMCA National Planning Forum in Alwaye, Kerala. We tackled a big topic: how Artificial Intelligence fits into a historic service…
We all shine on
“We all shine on. Like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.” - John Lennon
Give Us Our Daily Bread
No more grocery bread for us - we’re making our own daily bread…
Valuable News – 2026/06/29
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon…
Sleeping in Space
Almost every night since late February I’ve slept on our deck, watching the star-scape creep westward month by month. Scorpius recently came out of hiding and now the great space scorpion is…
Signal: Decay outpaces your best intent.
You operate under the delusion that your trajectory is upward, a linear climb toward some vague, golden summit. This is a cognitive survival mechanism, and it is killing you. Entropy does not…
I love the command line
Open article.txt
The Left Has Begun to Vote Tactically – if the Right Doesn’t Follow Suit, it Will Lose the Next General Election
Labour won 412 seats with the support of just a fifth of the electorate. That will happen again if the Right doesn't get organised. Thankfully, some coders have created a tactical voting site for…
Software Architecture: After Infatuation Comes the Shock
In 2014, when I was working as a professional developer at a gaming company with around 25 developers, I heard about microservices for the first time at a conference - and was immediately excited. We…
Unknown Hands
The visual material presented here comes from an early phase of House of Fire, an installation created by Studio Paradigma Ariadné for the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennale—long before the…
Jane and the Queen
For Round 27 of our writing group, in August of 2009, we decided to write short stories that were somehow based on dreams that we'd had. Well, I'd recently dreamed of a giant ant-like alien that was…
WALLY GATOR, after seeing a saltwater crocodile explode spontaneously in a Discovery Channel-type…
WALLY GATOR, after seeing a saltwater crocodile explode spontaneously in a Discovery Channel-type nature documentary: Hoo boy!! THIS alligator is rather proud to be alive himself, having managed to…
AI Is Eating Itself. One Human Stops It,You.
Scientists have a name for what happens when artificial intelligence runs out of human data to learn from. They call it model collapse. It does not happen all at once. It happens in stages, and the…