This is the official video for the song All my friends are heathens by Twenty One Pilots. My oldest son who is frequently assumed to be ASD by people who have barely met him had that song on repeat…

At some point today, I'll receive a call from the funeral home to let me know my dad is ready to be picked up. Like my pretend child that does an after school program, only it's my cremated dad. I'll…

Earlier this month, I attended ClueCon 2026 in Chicago. The event was well attended with open source RTC/VoIP community members. Any opportunity I get to spend time with Daniel-Constantin Mierla is…

The demo sets an anchor nobody wrote down, and then your team spends a quarter losing an argument to it.

I decided to lump these together because we need all the SMIZE answers, and we need them TODAY. [Ed. We got a SMIZE answer from…

Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this enamel cuff bracelet since I had the pleasure of seeing it in NYC, so today we’re going to talk about it. This Victorian enamel cuff…

The development of air-to-air refueling changed aerial warfare and gave US Air Force SAC bombers global reach. KC-135 tanker on display at the Barksdale Global Power Museum in Louisiana The first…

Three years ago today we returned for the third time to our favorite beach. As we were reflecting on what it's meant for us to keep coming back to the same place, he went down on his knees and asked…

There are a lot of guides online for recording cassettes This is another one, because why not. This isn’t a guide for how to get the ~best~ sound, it’s just how I figured out to do it using stuff…

August has not been kind to me. Work draws taxes from my soul and the weather from my body. I read in deep, hours-long gulps on the weekend, then spend my time craving the feeling of crafting good…

This article includes sponsorship or links with referral codes which will earn me an affiliate fee. These are clearly marked with a 💵 symbol. My Oops! All Servos! expansion boards are now available…

My new home is definitely smart - CAT5 cabling, smart thermostats, wireless access points, gigabit internet, and more. But there's the thing - there's no manuals, diagrams, or help guides. So far…

I listened to two great podcasts this week exploring the tangle of human/AI relationships. In “Computer Love,” the guests explore whether these relationships are good for us, and in…

I want to write a new crowdfunding module, and it's probably going to be for Eco Mofos!!. I'm thinking: Bestiary - Monsters with all kind of extras, like hooks, biome, and habitat - Villains with a…

I really liked this book

iPhone Mirroring is one of those little Apple inventions that – when it works – is quietly excellent. When I first heard the concept I really thought it was bananas....

Some interesting insights from my past six-plus months of geeking out with Anthropic's insane AI tool.

Gaming Science | It's cool to be a criminal in-game. Violent video games were shown to drive aggression. But is this also true for the crime rate? Today's study analyses a dataset of 50+ million…

Palantir has access to the personal information and news-reading behavior of—if USA Today Co.'s own reports are true—158 million average unique monthly visitors, or 48% of the American people.

I set a 5 a.m. alarm for years and kept snoozing it. On swapping inputs without quitting the goal, and letting go of who you used to be. The post Make It Easy to Win appeared first on Christopher…

In one week of late-August 2026, Agent Sandbox, Kueue, and LeaderWorkerSet each shipped a limiter on their own elasticity: a warm pool that refills more slowly, a field that used to be editable and…

I recently read a great post from Matt Haughey about his time spent working in a bike shop as a teenager and it got me a little nostalgic about my own teenage “bike shop” experience and…

I got fired, chat. How cooked are we? 😱 It's never a good time to lose a job - but to lose a job in this economy? No thanks! So... What happened? Background Disclaimer I need to address some…

I share internet links that I find interesting and informative. Besides photography, I've collected news articles and thoughts around the world.

In a short period of time, I’ve rebuilt my Kenner Star Wars collection from its humble new beginnings. Y got me an Ikea Billy bookcase for my birthday, which I used to display most of it now.…

Five data channels, no HTTP for app data: using WebRTC as an app transport between iPhone and Mac. The community framework whose macOS slice ships one header, the WebSocket storm, ICE restart vs…

[1967] A scuzzy fuzz monster with a neanderthal beat sweetened by the use of some very cool bells! The fuzz and bells in this snarly stomper are an unusual but excellent combo!

First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit . You can't polish a turd Omarchy 4.0 shipped with a collection of security issues which I can only…

last week i played man i just wanna go home . that wonderful experience, combined with the fact my pc died (although its back working again yay), made me finally pick up renpy and start tooling…

Monday [Aug. 24, 2026] Chill day. Spent a bunch of time on Bluesky pinging back and forth about the NY AT Proto community day. Did a big refactor on the ways I'm working on NeoDoc. I'd been trying to…

This is the second post in a series, so I encourage you to go back to read the previous post about Building Healthy and Sustainable Projects Using CHAOSS Practitioner Guides if you haven’t already…

Matthew 5:4 reads: Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. [Matthew 5:4, NASB 1995]μακάριοι οἱ πενθοῦντες, ὅτι αὐτοὶ παρακληθήσονται.[NA 28]...

I had a really… interesting search on this site, with the Jekyll rewrite. It worked, I guess, but I never found it enjoyable to use, and it actually was a lot heavier than it should have been. It was…

Discover how Expeditione turns curiosity, questions, and classroom exploration into student-led learning adventures.

Last Friday I found myself standing at my computer and staring at it, realising that I have no idea what I should be working on with my precious free time. So I decided to make this unordered list as…

On Linux, Citrix Workspace (wfica; icaclient 26.04.0.105) crashes, printing the following error message to console: *** WFICA CRASH: SIGFPE (Floating point exception) *** Crash log saved to:…

PTown's Hammock on the 26th & FR MoCA on the 5th

Two problems survived every prompt patch, so I threw the pipeline away

Today I learned how to find out how to find the REST API URLs in Workday. WD Community: Guide to Formatting REST API Endpoint URLs They follow this format:…

I don’t often get my nails done professionally. It’s not really part of my usual routine - between skincare and hair care, nails have always been the thing I quietly skip over. But recently, I had an…

Covering a tune by Norman Blake.

Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 tied on strict functional score across 25 matched Stet tasks, but their paired artifacts differed: Opus 4.8 had the lower footprint on 20 tasks, while Opus 5 ran more shell…

A 1972 paper that predicted the iPad (or, rather, it's spiritual opposite) but is actually way more important than that.…

Open standards and specs are often more powerful than open source. Especially in the age of AI. Open source has been a dominant force in software development and operations. It’s enabled the…

A Fabric-powered Pi session won all 25 ARC-AGI-3 environments in one run. This post explains the setup and the parts of Fabric that carried it.

How to make life feel long and rich

Rarely have I found a main character both so appealing and so annoying. Yet Sybil Van Antwerp, in Virginia Evan’s novel The Correspondent, is just that. Sybil’s cantankerous,…

A year ago I wrote the blog post Why I'm Bearish on U.S. Stocks (for the Second Time Since 2017). Since then U.S. stocks are up 16% (total return) and my bearish prediction turned out to be…