The 1973 Radio Times Special (see Featured Post of go to November 2018) was an iconic publication for fans so it’s not surprising that a follow up was produced ten years later to celebrate the show’s…

The hardest part about going to Disney World is waiting in lines, especially when you're under ten years old and each minute feels like forever. When I was at Disney World recently, I saw lots of…

I had plans every single evening this last week. Fortunately, I could bike to attend to all my commitments. So I consider these commutes as working out. On Wednesday, I finally sat for a Leben in…

I noticed in the replies to a Bluesky post recently that people are misreading certain polls in a way that […]

When a journalist is killed in a war zone, the reaction is immediate and predictable: condemnation from press-freedom groups, statements from the UN, headlines about “attacks on the…

For the first-time traveler to Hawai'i, a word about the birds. There are two groups of birds, the species native to the Hawaiian Islands, and the introduced, or invasive species. There are also two…

I'm not fully vested in and convinced by Spec Driven Development. I've gotten over 70% of my initial "BDUF" concern and am thinking more clearly. I thought that it would be a good time for me to list…

Today I share my thoughts and FEARS of the social media landscape. I think this post is important for any content creator wanting to last.

i miss talking about death. partially because it is scientifically and spiritually fascinating to me of course - and it being a special interest of mine obviously helps - but i miss talking about…

The Cyber Veterans Alliance began with Ryan Jones’s idea for an enduring veteran-led cyber community. I subsequently helped develop that concept into a structured, independent operating model. The…

Here are the last lines of some well-known novels. Can you identify them ? 1) ‘ Tomorrow I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.’ 2)  Lying on the floor…

My pick: listed first. Home team: CAPS. Post-game comments, if any, in italics. Took an 0-8 beatdown last week, which means I’m due to win big this week. London: Jags -2.5 vs. Texans ❌ 1p:…

Introduction Slack agents are massively powerful. A well-made Slack agent can be used by a company to automate a lot of toil and tiring work. You might ask why a Slack agent is uniquely powerful…

Using the terminal can make a lot of fun and speed up productivity. Either using it during development and switching between different projects and files or when logging into a server: Knowing some…

During the October 2026 OpenCode Console breach, the frontier models helping the team investigate started refusing partway through. The team got OpenAI's Daybreak Blue access and carried on. Vetted…

When I updated my agent traffic classifier last month, I wrote about some observations related to agent data seeking patterns. And one of my takeaways was that five months was too long to let a…

I originally wanted to submit this artwork at the Deadline Demoparty, but unfortunately I wasn't feeling well enough to attend, and the artwork wasn't really finished by then either. Now it's…

a rabbit runs on an infinite hamster wheel and is told by the Wolf if she stops running the sky will fall. she runs and she runs until her ankles twist and snap. she runs and she runs despite the…

I love to read books , and I've been part of a book club since 2022. Thought I'd share the books we've read so far. As a record of sorts. Enjoy! Dune by Frank Herbert 1 The City We Became by N.K.…

July's moongazing and the golden handle

Learn how to install Open WebUI with Ollama on Debian using Docker, connect local LLMs, create users, manage model access, and secure remote access.

On Monday, I was looking forward to a great studio week. I had very few appointments or commitments - just a long stretch of 5 days to paint. Bliss!On Monday, I started a painting based on…

Plasma 6.8 is out, the dawndrums Divine D has reached MVP running Plasma Mobile, Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 adds Volla Tablet support, and more! Collected on Sunday, October 18th 2026, 16:31 UTC and…

Passkeys and authenticator apps in plain PHP: relying-party identity, session ceremonies, trusted-device cookies, recovery codes, and an explicit CLI exception.

“When the great etch-a-sketch is shaken”, Gregor Hens writes in The City and the World, “and the public streets are erased, this microcosm always remains, the memory of the most…

Jailer 2

Last month I observed that “it seems only a matter of time before Trump ‘renames’ either the Pacific or the […]

At least they're human. Biologically human, anyway. 1.   Civilization ends at the Hudson River — everything to the east of it is a howling barbarian wilderness. It's dotted with quaint…

Here, we will maintain a list of series summation methods. Methods currently covered: Operator method Euler transform for alternating series Borel trick Shanks transform Method 1: Operator method The…

Alice Meets Gertrude From the moment Alice B. Toklas met Gertrude Stein in Paris (Sunday 8 September 1907) she heard the sound of bells ringing inside her head and took this to be a sign of…

Computer-Casa: Making a Human-size computer case Computers are getting smaller and smaller. So small, that despicable billionaires want to implant them inside our bodies.[1] On the other hand,…

This is the backstory for reverse-bin: My Retro-Futuristic Successor to CGI-BIN. In the early 2000s Linux was cool, corporate types used Windows and kids were learning Linux. Linux systems were…

A recurring feature curating interesting speakers for sale on Craigslist from around the Pacific Northwest. Links to Craigslist postings might go down at any time if they’re sold or pulled from sale.…

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• 4-star hikes • 4 to 5 mile options • Easy | Gain 140 to 360 feet • Haverhill, MA | Northeast Region . The 1875 castle-like summer home crowns the park. Winnekenni Park is a scenic conservation area…

Rarely in life does one encounter an actual abomination, something both perfect in every way and directed at the opposite of good. This is a well-made beer that someone doused in cherries in order to…

IPAs conquered the beer world to get us away from the sweet, slightly fetid flavor of American adjunct beers, which were born when industry took one look at breakfast cereal and realized there were…

Week ending Oct 18 2026 Cached... ට Life ට Games ට Plushie of the Week #250 ට Dreams

There are a number of software engineering skills out there and I’m here to tell you to stop using them. The three most popular plugins for software engineering skills are:…

The news media are reluctant to discuss race, ethnicity or immigration status when it comes to crimes, except in instances where the offender is Caucasian and victim is non-white. The supposed reason…

The week’s Bizarro comics and my scandalous confessions about vacation food and Grandma’s house!

When I started studying machine learning, before the advent of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) , recommender systems were pretty terrible. More than a decade later, you’d think that the…

In this paper, we evaluate how quickly Minecraft's non-renewable resource can become over extracted to make glass pyramids The post Sand Scarcity in a Post-Scarcity World: Ecological Collapse Driven…

Person A's stance is that disagreements happen. They seem unbothered. Person B frames the disagreement--amplified by the fact that it apparently means so little to Person A--as disrespect and…

Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) is defined as a relapsing disorder characterized by persistent use of marijuana despite negative consequences such as being arrested and incarcerated. According to…

VS-7375, an oral KRAS G12D ON/OFF inhibitor, reached a confirmed ORR of 9 of 22 (41%) at 900 mg in 2L+ mPDAC. How might this ORR translate into survival, and how does VS-7375 compare with…

I remember back when I was in school, just getting into computers. I didn't have a decent one at home yet, and I gazed upon these machines with awe and wonder as aspirational devices.The one…

On Thursday, October 15, I completed my 31st cycle around the sun. My wife bought us tickets for “Elephants and Ants”, a play based on one of Yaşar Kemal’s books. It was a story about elephants…

Doublets are pairs of words in the same language which, despite often having different meanings, are derived from the same root (or etymon)1. As you might imagine, they are rather common in any given…

About Elevation of Privilege - Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) (CVE-2026-85880) vulnerability. ALPC is an internal Windows mechanism for high-speed message exchange between processes. It…