While we wait to see whether MiniMax releases its reported 2.7-trillion-parameter successor, known internally as MiniMax M3 Pro and potentially arriving as early as the third quarter, I decided to…

What’s Going On It’s been a minute. I took a step away from my blog for a while because my brain latched itself to something else and I followed it for a bit. But I still like this blog and want to…

WFH, one day before ~6 days off. Took the pup for a nice walk this morning, tires her out which is good! Mostly writing code by hand, stumbling through it and remembering how to do it. Never really…

A look back at six months of AI-assisted design, a newsletter that didn't stick, and why I'm moving my writing away from AI and back towards maths, data and code.

Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: At this point we must recapitulate the distinction, fundamental for us, between allegory and symbol; allegory is a rational operation, implying no transition…

Cold water acts as a stimulant on the nervous system, but wild swimming has its risks

My recent forays in x86 segmentation (1 2) made me notice a trend in the evolution of x86: the decline of fine-grained memory protection, both across the move to 64-bit and indeed before that in the…

My system for keeping a history of my writing and research within Obsidian.

Models are already smart enough for a huge amount of real work. What is missing is the software layer around them — the one that defines how a task is executed, verified, corrected and finished. A…

On the 19th August, fifteen freelancers met in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar in Brighton to talk clients, tech, cats, and other random things. This is a little of what we talked about:…

An alternate title for this post could have been something like A Medical Yankee in King Charles’ Court or King Donald’s Court – your choice of Kings. The recent Eclipse makes this…

It’s a visually stunning, spiritually powerful conclusion. It is the point of The Truman Show that we don’t know what world he is stepping into, and can’t follow him to see what happens next. This is…

“Ruins confound the normative spacings of things, practices and people. They open up possibilities for regulated urban bodies to escape their shackles in expressive pursuits and sensual…

Sunday My alarm wakes me at 6. My emotional state is somehwere between annoyance at being woken up too early and excitement to try a new thing. The excitement wins out, and I do my skincare and get…

Questo articolo è disponibile anche in Italiano Happy Tuesday my dear friend! Welcome back to another appointment with My Travel Diary Chronicles, where Tamara takes us to her beautiful travels…

The strange thing about using AI for analysing cryptography - ciphers, hash functions, digital signatures, etc. - is that getting ideas is not the hard part. Getting rid of bad ideas is.I…

Taking a break from digital privacy news, online engagement in discussion groups and testing new privacy tools can be a positive, healthy experience.

When splitwise no longer fit my needs, I had to build an alternative for myself.

A fun programming project for Go or Rust learners: help rescue a stranded spacecraft by writing an emulator for its simple CPU!

I thank Matt Toggle, pastor of Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, for teaching me the following lesson. When preaching a sermon on Philippians 4:4 (“Rejoice in the Lord, always;…

A three-week August itinerary through Finland, Estonia, Sweden, and Denmark, with notes on ferries, saunas, hotels, and a bicycle hazard nobody warns you about.

Read about how BurgeonLab.com came to be and how it has transformed to become Naty’s de facto home on the Internet after discovering the IndieWeb.

I was browsing youtube on my TV a couple of months ago and the HPA Live Webinar: Introduction to EFI popped up and I had a watch, and Andre (the good salesperson he is of his tuning courses) was…

Learn how to use the React 19 cache() API in the Next.js App Router to optimize performance and avoid fetch waterfalls when using React Server Components.

This is still very early days, but Sifa is a professional network built on the AT Protocol. It’s meant to be an open alternative to LinkedIn which, let’s be honest, has always been a bit…

I was in Denver last week for work. I managed to get out to Red Rocks on my final morning. It was fantastic during the day—I can only imagine what it would be like seeing a gig there at night. 🔗 ∙…

R&D engineer with 30+ years building real-time signal processing and estimation systems that run unattended, in the field, for years. Deep expertise in C++, Python and SIMD; recovering timing and…

A one-page machine learning cheat sheet

OTD in 2008, I began blogging about family history. I was a decade into my genealogy research and my first blog post was about great-grandpa Meyer Elias Mahler (1855?-1910). In the 18 years since…

Tried to see what Chatgpt says about the 2019 Gutenberg-Net analogy. Because Nov 2026 is very close. Gutenberg–Net correspondence: a reconstruction through 2026 I reconstructed the sequence using the…

| Read on LessWrong | Comment on HN | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts…

Much of the Indian philosophical tradition shares a fundamental concern: understanding the nature of the reality in which we find ourselves. Traditionally, these classical systems are taught as…

Source: The Oil We Eat – How Our Food System Depends On Oil and How Fragile It Makes Our Food Security Preface. Even though this article was published in 2004, it is still true today, only…

The OG wayOne of the key design initiatives for

iOS text analysis app

Everything has a last time. We just don't know which time it is.

I keep a note of sentences that are harder to read than they need to be. Most come from documents that are otherwise careful and correct: it is the writing that lets them down, not the thinking. Here…

“Opposites are complementary.” - Niels Bohr In investing as in life, labels are useful in small measure but potentially fatal if abused. Many labels are no more than marketing slogans, or some are…

Well, let me tell you a story. There's a race I don't particularly like... Look, I'm kinda hesitant to say that I don't like this or that running event. If you dislike the January gloominess, or…

How a home-lab AI console grew from a viewer into an instrument panel: live knowledge maps, review coverage, writable ideas, voice capture, supervised agent sessions, approvals, and read-only…

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Like I did for the first half of the year, here is my list of events I attend from August 2026 on. Some of these I help to organise, some are run by good friends, and at some of them you’ll find me…

A decade of good weather, unreasonable expectations, and things mostly working out

Back in 2022 I announced a new Q# community project - a proper, standalone TextMate grammar for Q#, built with a real build pipeline, test suite and multiple output formats, rather than the handful…

when life gets a little busier, or when life throws something at me that takes up a bit more headspace... the blogging and journaling slows down a bit. something I read regularly at roberts blog .…

This popular US R&B quartet were billed as The Original Coasters because they were led by tenor singer Cornelius “Cornell” Gunter who’d been an “original” member of The Coasters who had moved to…

The Vuelta a España goes to Andorra today and pleasant weather awaits, 26°C and sunshine. As a ski resort in the Pyrenees it’s an obvious destination for a race with climbs and hotels but…

I neglected to write about the hi-jinks at Skechers while I was trying to buy my shoes yesterday. (Was it only yesterday? Seems a million years ago. Vacations are nice like that, even one that's only…

The judgment gate assumed a fixed line: automate below it, escalate above it, and the humans above it stay as good as they were. They don't. Judgment at the escalation tier is built by volume at…

Years ago I read this attractive Pushkin Press paperback which, unusually for a 19th century novel, comes with no introduction or footnotes. The publisher's website provides a brief summary of this…