I think over the next few months we are going to start seeing a massive wave of new software releases. It's been a good number of months now that AI agents have been of a high enough quality that…

There are only two types of startups now: 1) lifestyle and 2) sci-fi. Lifestyle startups should bootstrap. Sci-fi startups should raise lots of capital. Anything in the middle is what...

“As the extension, so the force”Hooke’s law, first published in 1676 as the anagram ceiiinosssttuv(Gourlay’s springs are Hooke’s law with a stop) ​The last few…

One man played outsized role in ending the Panic of 1907, and for many Americans weary of the power of bankers, that was unsettling. Five years later, Congress summoned John Pierpont Morgan to…

Bit of a wordy title, but since macOS 26.4 the rebranding options in both Jamf Auto Update and Notifier have stopped working, at least as far as the icons being shown in Notification Center for…

Really like the framing of this article. It uses some very visceral (or easy to understand) examples of how people vs. AI would approach the problem space, and my feeling is that this kind of…

Series: Standalone Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition Release Date: October 1, 2026 Publisher: Montlake Source: Kindle Unlimited Genre: Romantic Suspense A woman’s unexpected return to her isolated…

Wish you could learn how to see ghosts? These ritual games might teach you. Just be warned: Not all spirits are friendly...

Mode 3 from part 2 takes standing decrypt away from the token vault with KMS grants. The grant quota caps the whole system at 50 exchanges a second, and the attacker who actually shows up doesn't…

We’ll finish proving Theorem A.2 of Paper S6 in this post. Links to: index page, 10/12/26 (last post), 9/28/26, 9/21/26, 9/7/26, 7/21/25, the generalized binomial theorem. Next time,…

This month I'm very busy preparing my first commercial game for the v1.0 release in December. Additionally, I will also speak at GodotFest26 and SFSCON in November. For that reason this month's blog…

From the very beginning of Portable, logging is always a four-tiered simple idea: We assemble a formatted String with a designated log le

language has become a collective hallucination in which consumption has become the dominant mode of production. this has rendered language more or less meaningless. we live in a world where there is…

<< First | <Prev | Next > << First | <Prev | Next > It’s important to me that you know: this comic has always and always will be made…

This post is part of Prismatic Wasteland's blog bandwagon on the topic of player advice . At the end of the AD&D PHB, just before the Appendices on psionics, bards, alignment, the planes, and…

I’ve been meaning to write something, anything , about my experiences over the last, like, five months–holy shit, it’s been nearly five months since I left the US. Holy shit! I thought just now,…

By Jeffrey D. SachsI wish to state my position plainly. I am a defender of Ukraine and of peace. I believe in the concept of indivisible security, meaning for Ukraine, Russia, and Europe.  Those…

The following poem -- "Fayetteville Junior High" by Delaware poet Fleda Brown -- uses mathematical terms in entertainingly describing a romance between two teachers: Read more »

As AI models improve, the engineering challenge shifts to agent harnesses, data quality, evaluations, memory and security. Here's what it takes to build reliable AI systems.

Event: Community Over Code 2026 Dates: October 11–14, 2026Location: Glasgow, UKWebsite: https://communityovercode.apache.org/events/glasgow-2026/ Community Over Code is the Apache Software…

Keep WordPress updated. Use reputable plugins. Download them from official sources. That’s familiar advice, and there are good reasons for it. But what happens when the official plugin package…

VMPal is described as “Virtual Machines built for Apple silicon and AI agents”. Straight from Apple, installed in minutes, with Metal on your Mac’s GPU. VMPal Tools add the clipboard and drag &…

My grandmother hated throwing away the boxes things came in. There was a mountain of them in the storage closet by the kitchen that threatened to topple over every time we needed something from the…

Every teacher who builds slides has hit the same problem. You need a particular shape or piece of clip art, and it isn’t there. As a science teacher, the one I want most often is a thermometer, and…

IntroWatch the video: The Marketplace of Alignment Last week, All-In Podcast E292 spent more than half an hour on whether Claude might be conscious. What does it mean that a frontier lab takes the…

Will the real hockey fans please stand up? Believe it or not, some teams have already played more than 10% of their seasons. We've had some surprises, and plenty of things have gone exactly as…

Dates are ALWAYS necessary, Ren!! Source

I have been trying out Grammarly, but the editors it integrates with are not the ones I use. I want to write Markdown in vim on Linux and have the same features.

I’ve not posted here for a while. Some of that is because I was moving cross country, some of it is because this is usually just an extra space for ideas that I’m not pitching to…

Recently at Nordhealth we embarked on a re-skin of our entire application: a visual uplift of the whole product to bring it into 2026. These kinds of changes have a big blast radius and are…

guy at my showing of you can see everything kept changing his opacity from 100% to 13% to 93% mid movie. really distracting.

A guy in Hampton turned ~$10m into ~$50m picking stocks. He makes 2.9 decisions a year. What the rare market-beaters have in common, and how to apply it to your business. The post 2.9 decisions a…

Volume 10 , Issue 31 ; 19 Oct 2026 Who doesn’t love a good markup side quest? In my day job , we run regression tests before each release . Regression tests generate a bunch of XML and the easiest…

A lot is happening these days that makes my book The World After Capital more relevant than ever. My central argument is that digital technology, with AI as its apotheosis, is so powerful that it…

TLDR; I set out to make asynchronous programming on microcontrollers easier. Along the way, I accidentally built somewhere that humans and AI’s can work together comfortably. This is the first…

Seems there is a bit of a rumble on the web at the moment about a ‘vibe-coded‘ suite of applications, called ArtCraft. These are said to be”clones” of leading Adobe and…

"I don't use Artificial Intelligence." A carpenter who refuses a hammer doesn't make the house any better. He has only made his work slower and harder. Judge the work, not the tool.

A smart person knows everything about a single topic. An intelligent person knows as much as possible about more than one topic. Both have great value, and depending on the industry, some…

10th October 2026 Oxford City FC were making one of their longest journeys of the season in the Conference North, taking on league newcomers Hebburn Town on the southern side of the River Tyne. It…

In honor of Thomas Ray Heels (AKA Tom Heels), October 19 is now Like Everything Day. Tom Heels was born on 1936-10-19 and died on 2025-12-05. Today, 2026-10-19, would have been his 90th birthday. On…

Yellow knight mushrooms, also known as man on horseback, are a controversial edible mushroom. Here's what you need to know before eating them. Jousting with the Yellow Knight is the latest post on…

T o properly finalize the development of this board—which is a modern clone of the original AKAI card—I need to create the metal mounting bracket for the rear panel of the S5000 rack. In theory, the…

Colors in DuPont Oct 18 I realize that there is a head spinning amount of information in my last two blogs. With our future gardens certainly to be reduced in size, delegating continuation and…

Spent most of yesterday in the mountains just east of Eugene, on a trail run along the McKenzie River Trail and around Clear Lake. I’ve been going to Clear Lake for years now and find it a…

I started this blog a few years ago when I began my journey studying immunology, to have a place to write about what I was learning and about applications of AI to the field. My studies were a…

Week notes, week 1342 / 2026-10-11 Immediately after complaining that my room and mental is a mess in the last week notes, per long-standing tradition of this blog, I proceeded to clean up the whole…

AFTER the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, progeny of the Nazis) secured the largest slice of the vote in the elections […]

What you see: Mandarin oranges that look old, dried out and sad. They may have brown splotches on their peels.What it is: Old mandarins.Eat or toss: These are simply showing their age; they might…

My mum’s iPhone face ID stopped recognising her. Just didn’t want to know her. We spent an hour resetting things, rebooting the phone, following all steps. In the end it turned out that…

Steve Cobb's "Must Dance" Playlist My birthday was last weekend and I started writing a blog post about how lucky I feel to have lived 74 years. At the same time, I realized that my blog has become…