An ode to plaintext
I consider myself a simple boring guy, I like ed, I enjoy eating plain pasta, I wear only a few clothes in rotation, and my favourite way of writing and reading text is plaintext. There is something…
Uses
Here I'll list the stuff I use on a daily basis. Hardware Computer: MacBook Pro (2023), M3 Pro, 14-inch, 18GB RAM Monitor: Philips 34M2C8600 Ultrawide OLED Phone: iPhone 16 Pro Max Keyboard: Keychron…
More review is not better review
Half the pull requests in our monolith at Buser were reaching main without a human reading them. I found that out the week I decided to tighten code review, and I learned more from what went wrong…
dry season returns
We have gone over a week or maybe more with no rain. It seems dry season has come back. What happens this time of the year is the evenings cool off and between now and January, it sometimes gets down…
My problem with dates on the web
You might have noticed that there are absolutely no dates on this website. And that is because I have a real problem with them. I think this started with Youtube, I've always felt that since…
How to make technical decisions more objectively
The hardest part of being a decision-maker is looking at a problem objectively. Everyone has biases, and the closer you are to a problem, the harder it can be to recognize your own. When you’re…
Made just for me
What it took to get a novel I’d actually read out of a language model.
I Don't Write Code Any More - I Manage AI Agent Swarms
I stopped typing code more than a year ago. My job now is to manage swarms of SI agents. Here is what that job is, day to day: what I do, what I decide, what I never touch, which old management…
What Am I Going to Do With Deep Dish Swift?
I've been sitting on a blog post called The Last Slice. Part of me thinks it's right. Part of me is really sad about it. So before I decide anything, I want to ask you: is this still what you want?
Building Multi-Harness Multi-Agent Swarms
My projects are now built by swarms of SI agents that run in Codex, Grok and Claude Code at once. They share one workflow made of Nushell tools, AGENTS.md files, skills and Git. Here is how it works,…
Calls for ‘deaf access for all’ in theatres as 3 in 10 turn on subtitles
The arts access charity Stagetext has called on theatres to offer captioned and live subtitled performances, as new YouGov data reveals 30 per cent of Brits watch TV and movies with the subtitles on.…
Possible Snow Showers Saturday Night
Above, snow at Barking Spider Acre in 2019. Photo by Armand Vaquer. The temperature in the Gallup/Jamestown this week will be in the upper 50s to the low 60s. However, there is a chance that we may…
Knowember plus!
Well thank you Robert Birming for 'Knowember' which arrives on my 'more-than-human' blog as I'm hibernating from https://loveisverbing.bearblog.dev/ for 40 days (and nights!) A photo - or in this…
all that remains is to guide it into the exact shape of our dream
Some counter-cozy deep cuts from an old Mike Harrison interview.
Is the Panasonic L10 the ideal compact camera?
I’ve been shooting with the Panasonic L10 for a couple of weeks now after buying one with my own money. I’ve written a very popular guide to compact cameras based on my extensive…
Project Mid-Life 52 #6
Another week, another my mid-life project entry. I. Body When I was a kid, I wondered for a while about life lines in your hand. I had heard about it, and being young, I considered the validity of…
Film: Lovely & Amazing
Every now and then, you just need a little Catherine Keener in your life. Lovely […]
Phantom Encounters (1987)
Monks seem to have a propensity for coming back as ghosts. The post Phantom Encounters (1987) appeared first on Vintage RPG.
Star Trek, Volume 3 by Mike Johnson, Stephen Molnar, and Claudia Balboni
Star Trek , Volume 3 Collection published: 2013 Acquired: December 2016 Read: November 2025 The Return of the Archons / The Truth about Tribbles , from Star Trek vol. 1 #9-12 (May-Aug. 2012) written…
How Do I Hold Onto Hope Of Finding Love When Life Makes It Impossible?
She's been single for decades, and each passing year makes it worse. How does she solve her love life when the world seems to say she's defective? via Paging Dr. NerdLove @ doctornerdlove.com
Welcome to Wordorigins.org
Detail of Bayeux Tapestry: Norman cavalry attacking an English fort. Image by Myrabella, 2013, licensed under Creative Commons. And we’re on Bluesky and Mastodon too.You can also follow the site on…
The Wisdom of Mall Cop, I
From December 2020. “I'm telling you guys, the 10 and 20, those are the main ones: the 10, 20 and 50 [day moving averages]. Those are the only indicators you need. You don't need a single indicator…
Veterans Day
The Great War ended on November 11, 1918 at 11:00 a.m. Paris time. Armistice Day was observed the next year. In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations, Armistice Day is now Remembrance Day. In…
Our Future as the Democrats Reveal It to Us
Our Future as the Democrats Reveal It to Us Paul Craig Roberts Three news items yesterday provide an indication of […]
The New York Times Launches the Democrat Socialists’ Attack on the Rich
The New York Times Launches the Democrat Socialists’ Attack on the Rich The rich didn’t just get richer. They got […]
Rustic reindeer
This month's CAS Christmas challenge is focusing on reindeer. I've gone a little bit rustic with mine by using a kraft base. I got this pretty stamp in a sale a while ago, I think it's designed to…
You might want to sit down
The Colonel by Carolyn Forché
"Building a general entity matcher requires more than one dataset - 3
Entity resolution decides whether two listings from different sources describe the same real-world business. The listings share no key, and their names and addresses rarely match letter for letter.…
‘Apple Support Community’ Permanently Closing on November 20
Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: Apple today announced that the long-running Apple Support Community discussion forums will be permanently closing on Friday, November 20. Effectively immediately, the…
Gangland Blackmail 📖
- Mob Boss: "Neville, I need you to do something for me, or the press gets to hear about your numerous indiscretions."- PC Spooner: *GULPS* "OK. What do you need me to do now?"- Mob Boss: "Good boy,…
The Happiest Man
My wife uploaded a video of our one-year-old daughter, Hyun, giggling at me as I rapped about how happy our family was. Within a few days, the video had eight million views on YouTube. Friends I…
Waiting for the Autonomous 500
I don't know if this has ever been done, but it should have been. Take a bunch of self-driving cars and turn them loose on a NASCAR track. It should have been done before they put them out on the…
I need testers! The THRM ONE, an OpenTherm boiler controller
The THRM ONE is an ESPHome controller for OpenTherm compatible boilers, supporting WiFi, Thread, Zigbee and Ethernet. I'll be releasing the first 50 units near the end of this month, and I'm really…
The House Is a Robot: How an AI-Native Homelab Works
<p>The house runs itself the same way every morning. And every night, it can rewrite how it runs.</p> <p>Those two sentences are in tension — a system deterministic enough to trust…
Home Assistant, Organized: Packages, Blueprints, and a Deterministic Plane
<p>A whole-house automation setup lives or dies on how it’s organized, not on how clever any single automation is. Mine runs on a few dozen YAML packages, a handful of custom blueprints, a…
Tech Tips and Other Musings #4
Open-source skills let you extend the capabilities of your AI tool of choice.
Windows 11 KB5132061 Released: Security Fixes, NTLM Protection, File Explorer Enhancements & More
Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5132061 update for versions 26H2, 25H2, and 24H2. The November 2026 update includes important security patches,...
A Midweek Recalibration to Ponder
A Midweek Recalibration to Ponder Calls for an immediate market collapse have been loud. But what if there’s still one more moonshot left? This morning on Peoplenomics, we examine the improving…
For me, the resemblance of the Ukraine War and WWI is tragic
A front that hardly moves, soldiers taking refuge in the trenches and relentless artillery fire. What is unfolding there is indeed a war of position. And from experience, we know the kinds of…
iPhone Wallpaper No. 46: Antarctic Icebergs In Still Water
One large berg and its own reflection, nothing moving. Free iPhone wallpapers at 1320 × 2868, light and dark, each with a matched home-screen version.
Arrived in Hobart, Tasmania.
I caught the A220-300 from Canberra to Melbourne then from Melbourne to Hobart – the flight from Canberra to Melbourne was late but thank goodness when the tickets were organised that there was…
(I) Like Bryce in the Sunshine
After watching sunrise from Bryce Point it was time for a hike down into the hoodoos but as soon as I walked to Sunset Point, where the Navajo Loop Trail starts, I was instantly mesmerized by the…
Animal Spirits: What the Hell Just Happened?!
On today’s show we discuss how price sets the narrative, the blue tsunami, data center backlash, Thursday’s stock market wipeout, why everyone is always wrong about the markets, recency bias in…
Is FOGO The New FOMO?
Investors may have 99 problems but FOGO shouldn’t be one. Most are familiar with the term FOMO. fear of missing out. This is the perplexing desire to purchase things you don’t need to…
Helpful Hints from joeeze: Buy a spare TV remote NOW
Because what happens if you break/lose your remote, or it gets wet? Your TV becomes a giant sheet of reflective black glass. The time to get an extra remote is NOW. The exact one you have, from…
Veterans Day: Crayon Letters and a Draft That Never Came
Childhood letters to troops in Vietnam, a family of WWII Navy veterans, and the draft that ended just before my turn. A personal Veterans Day remembrance.
Blog aggregators and discovery engines
The Notes are short posts where incomplete ideas live. May include links, images, or drawings. Because writing is …
Homemade Sidewalk De-Icer
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