I co-organized a focus group at EuroPLoP earlier this year and also contributed to a paper mining service design patterns in the context of monitoring sensors and controlling actuators. This post…

This week, in a morning group music therapy session, something happened that I didn’t plan for. A consumer mentioned he used to play guitar years ago. Hadn’t touched one since. I handed him a guitar…

D&D was fun this week, I’m enjoying Luke’s creative encounters, we had to defuse some peanut-butter-smothered dynamite before some squirrels got to it. Weekly is quite nice tbh, something to look…

I wanted a lid for my shop espresso jar, so I machined one from billet 6061 aluminum. JarMagic is a small project made for everyday use around the CL MotoTech machine shop. Continue reading →

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Jason Frederick continues to surf the wave of an enormously busy career that we’d normally expect from several different people. At any given moment, he might be…

There are two techniques for specifying the display information contained in any graph within a pdf file. Raster graphics specifies (e.g., jpeg and png formats) the location and color of pixels, and…

This week started off as a ‘get the cards done’ kinda week, So I made a start on the funky ‘Hub’ card as I thought it would be pretty handy I thought it would be sensible to…

Before you begin reading this, it is imperative that you put on some Yellowcard. Preferably, the song Way Away, off their album Ocean Avenue. While listening to that, take a look at this gif.…

I've been running into all manner of problems connecting a USB4/TB4 docking station (Satechi) to my ThinkPad P16V gen 1 laptop. I would get intermittent connections, oscillating connections…

The NexusCorp Employee Portal appears to be a typical internal application with authentication controls and role-based access in place. However, multiple small weaknesses, ranging from…

Gil Duran of The Nerd Reich talks to Jennifer Welch of the I've Had It podcast about JD Vance, Peter Thiel and tech's takeover of US government

Entrance to Framlingham Castle. Photo May 2015. Continue reading

Felt like I really benefited from having last week off work, and that feeling lasted about an hour into my Monday morning. Turns out a lot happened last week so I spent most of this week trying to…

lingthusiasm:Vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, zombies, imposters, and frankenstein have something in common: they’re all possessed by the spirit of linguistics! In this silly spooky…

Release 0.9.0 of Vulcard - the Difficulty Update

MSF 750P is a 1976 Seddon Pennine 7 coach with a Gardner engine and Alexander body, built for Eastern Scottish express routes and now preserved at Lathalmond.

by William Alexander For nearly seventy years, two of Lake Champlain’s oldest lighthouses stood dark. Their lamps had been taken away. Their keepers were gone. Newer, cheaper steel towers had been…

A list of things I highlighted from my first read through of John Green's "Hollywood, Ending"

The American Sign Museum is ten minutes away from my house, but I'd never gotten around to a visit until my friend Sam and I were invited to type poems for guests at a bat mitzvah party there last…

Continuing our discussion of the City of Austin ballot for the November 3 election, this article will take readers through the “propositions” from the City of Austin, as put on the ballot by the City…

I wrote a short diary blog about my microSD card woes, and I added a new illustration of Ashley to my gallery ♥

Humanity seems to have a bright future, i.e., a non-trivial chance of expanding to fill the universe with lasting life. But the fact that space near us seems dead now tells us that any given piece of…

Internet is all but a necessity today. For a home office it is even more important. I recently set up a TMobile Backup Internet gateway and enabled automatic failover with my Mikrotik home network.…

My book A Level of Consciousness, was not about AI, it was about humans, but in several areas went deep into my thoughts on the mysteries of consciousness, with several parallels that translate to…

TL;DW: VerbSevens is a calibrated reference reverb plugin for reverb matrices. VerbSevens.zip (619k) standalone(AU, VST2) VerbSevens in Airwindows Consolidated under ‘Reverb’ (CLAP, AU,…

Condor 25k in the books. Final race of 2026.

Like many others in the free software community, I've been been growing apathetic with the whole thing, lately. One project after the other - and one Linux distro after the other - embrace the…

Cheery Friday Greetings from Barb Oakley! (Friday ran long this week.) What I’m Reading: The AGI Chronicles I’m in the middle of Kevin Roose’s new book, The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the…

I loved learning about Sundays Company from this post. Their Field Stool looks neat! The most important thing is that you have to give up the idea that it’s going to be perfect. Inviting people you…

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Today was my third time running the York 10 Mile . My previous years were 2022 (when I ran 1:25:46) and 2024 (1:23:57). Today, I really wanted to break the 1:20:00 mark. It’s actually a really nice…

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A little over a year ago, Kathryn and I saw Geese at the Cat's Cradle. While in line, we met Izzy and Jess, two fellow Geese fans who are just as passionate as us when it comes to attending local…

It&#8217;s been many years since I walked around Berkeley Deer park, so we decided to spend the morning there and also check...

You can make good stuff with AI. You just have to have your priorities right.

Howdy, link fans! I wanted to get this one out a little earlier than the end of the month because this issue marks ONE FULL YEAR since I started whatelseison.net , and therefore one full year of…

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'What Else Is On?' is a collection of things from elsewhere on the web that I want to share. Howdy, link fans! I wanted to get this one out a little earlier than the end of the month because this…

Despite what many may think given my background, I&rsquo;ve never been much of a coder. I learned BASIC in 5th grade for all that&rsquo;s worth. Since then it&rsquo;s been a meandering path through C…

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The heaven I imagine, and the questions I will never stop asking. Oh, how I wish I could wake up naturally every morning, and have time for the things I wish to do. Today, I had an extraordinary need…

The US is now in the middle of a measles outbreak, with Pennsylvania currently experiencing the most cases. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said that as of October 16, there have been 1260…

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In this post, I take a look at the basic idea of why the logistic regression’s familiar S-curve exists, its relation to the familiar concept of probability, and how framing probability as the…

A few weeks ago, the odometer on my car rolled over 66,666 miles. This got me thinking. For purely aesthetic reasons, this struck me as a (admittedly not significantly) memorable moment for my car’s…

I share a lot of useful articles, research, frameworks, tools and commentary through the All-About-GRC Newsletter. This page brings all those original sources together in one searchable place, so…

Someone asked me, given that LLMs exist and likely keep improving, whether I thought Ruby on Rails still made sense? The implication being of course that writing code is now extremely cheap and you…

A select bunch of Facebook and Instagram users around the world are opening the app and finding themselves dunked straight into an autoplaying video - no news feed, no new message notifications…