Sometimes Resisting Means Recommitting Yourself To What You’re Already Doing
Over the last four years that I’ve been reading the statement, however, and especially since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, it has become an affirmation that gathering as we do every…
Old Toronto is unlike anywhere else in Ontario
These charts, from the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, are an excellent use case for a ternary chart. A ternary chart is a triangular plot with three different variables that all sum…
Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 3, "I would that His peynes were my peynes"
"I would that His peynes were my peynes." In Chapter 3 Julian finally tells the story about the origin of her showings, some details of which I've already shared. As Julian recounts, when she was…
Why Baby Sandhill Cranes Are Called Colts?
8 May 2026 Sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) hatched a few weeks ago at Magee Marsh in northwestern Ohio. We found two colts following their parents on Thursday 7 May. “Colts?”…
Capsules: compile-time lock discipline in OxCaml
x-ocaml { font-size: 0.8em; display: block; margin-bottom: 1.4rem; } x-ocaml.hidden { display: none; } In the previous post we fixed the racy gensym with Portable.Atomic . That worked because the…
Weekend at Bernie’s
Which of your dependencies are wearing sunglasses
AI Automation
The interesting thing about AI is that the software engineers now are trying to automate part of the job like writing code and also automating the parts that they should be doing on the result like…
EyePods
AirPods with cameras aren't to take pictures, but to let Siri "see"...
A ringing phone
Usually I forget my dreams within seconds after waking up, but this one stuck with me a while. The particulars have faded, but I remember the gist of it, because it starred my mother. Nobody else can…
GitHub stars inflation
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Arch Linux: WireGuard Peer for Connecting to MikroTik
In the post MikroTik: setting up WireGuard and connecting Linux peers I described how to set up MikroTik as a VPN Hub and connect a peer running on Debian Linux. Setup on Arch Linux is mostly the…
Could Mozilla Security Hot Air Fill Mythos Sails?
The Register asked for my opinion on the Mozilla blog post that pumps up Mythos. I gave them a short answer. Here’s the long form. As a disinformation historian, I see tell-tale signs in the…
Kafka Community Spotlight 🔦
Kafka Community Spotlight is an initiative to bring more life, depth, and visibility to the Kafka community by regularly highlighting the people involved in Kafka ...
Kafka
Kafka is a good thing.
Happy Birthday, David!
David Attenborough turns 100 today. Thank you, David, for sharing and for inspiring!
May 8: VE Day
It's V.E. Day. On this day in 1945, the Allies accepted Germany's unconditional surrender, essentially ending World War 2 in Europe. Odd or not fact: The leaders of the Axis powers, Hitler, Mussolini…
AI isn’t stuck inside of a computer
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s easy to think that AI can only do so much because it’s “stuck inside of a computer”, but that isn’t really true. As shared in the book…
The soul in the machine
One of the first things skeptics learn is to never assume that paranormal belief implies stupidity. Smart people believe questionable things all the time; intelligence is different from the ability…
Exterminate! …no not, that the other one
Animate! (your gmail logo)
The Feast Day of Julian of Norwich
May 8 is the feast day of Julian of Norwich in the Anglican and the Lutheran church; in the Catholic church, it's May 13. Is Julian of Norwich as famous now as Hildegard of Bingen or Ireland's St.…
[dVerse] May 7th - The Fog Has My House Keys
The Fog Has My House KeysThe fog comes inlike it has been here before.Not dramatically.No doorbell.No throat-clearing at the gate.No screaming.No door-slamming.Just a soft trespassover the balcony…
Real.com April 2001
never-obsolete:Real.comApril 2001
the daddys issue
some days like i become your magazine some days like i become your loaded gun these days it makes no difference which yes i read your letter yesterday and all the days before, your hollow men, your…
What Do We Do Tonight? Try To Take Over The World
Pinky and The Brain
Paper flood at dusk our machines, they judge themselves Kamo water keeps flowing
Paper flood at duskour machines, they judge themselvesKamo water keeps flowing
Iron Man and Captain Comet
Jack Kirby mastered the art of action in comics and his design sense was an inspiration to all. Murphy Anderson made everything look sleek and lavish, especially when he was on full art chores, but…
Sonsio Grand Prix Preview
If you are reading this on Friday morning, Susan and I are on our way to the first of three consecutive weekends at IMS for Saturday’s Sonsio Grand Prix of Indianapolis. The weather forecast for this…
Subfire - Blood Omen
Genre : Symphonic Power/Heavy Metal Year : 2024 01. Tides Of Alibis 05:55 02. Rage Of Emotions 04:48 03. Samurai 03:36 04. Path Of The Assassin (03:49 05. Iga Land 04:53 06. Rise 04:57 07.…
Dunhill Namiki Yukari Urajiro Fern
Summary The Dunhill Namiki Yukari Urajiro Fern is a painfully beautiful piece of maki-e art. However, you are paying a substantial premium for an unusual Yukari variant. If you are a hardcore Namiki…
Making CoMaps future-proof: How we are removing technical debt
Between Maps.Me and Organic Maps , some parts of the CoMaps code are 15 years old and have not been updated recently. For that reason, they continue to use quite old implementations and technologies.…
Operators Are the Missing Role in AI Agent Design
Everyone is racing to build autonomous agents. Almost nobody is designing the human role that keeps those agents from drifting, lying, or quietly burning money in a corner. That role has a name, and…
At Work on the Underground
Elizabeth spotted this at the London Transport Museum, I think it is rather neat
I toyed around with using Language Embeddings as a way to categorize my RSS Feeds
I toyed around with using Language Embeddings as a way to categorize my RSS Feeds interesting HN comment around low-cost home usage of LLMS/embeddings: "I toyed around with using Language Embeddings…
If This Were a City, It Would Be Madrid
Let me tell you something about Madrid that hit me the moment I arrived: it feels like a city built for city connoisseurs. People who love dining, parks, museums, traveling on public transit. I am…
Signal: Dust settles, then blows.
Every triumph, every tragedy, every fleeting moment of perceived permanence – reduces. To dust. The empires you build, the loves you cherish, the resentments you harbor; all ground to the same…
Of becoming a mushroom
Sometimes to become a human you’ve got to become a mushroom. This was the subtext—if not the actual text—of last night’s Music for Mushroom event. Described like so: Ophelia and Tender invite you to…
Cabinet Making Isn't Passive
Many of my projects become courses in cabinet making, with everyday other woodworking thrown in for good measure. My work balances out the machinist in us–that couch-potato, tube-watching…
The tale of two translation houses
There were two translation houses in town. They translated the same things, but they could never be the same.
Too Little, Too Late, But Better Late Than Never?
More snow finally came on Tuesday night, two months later than it was supposed to finally come, and it is too late, but it is better than nothing. That’s what everyone is saying. “I’m so grateful for…
Having a fight to fight
But I think it's more than just avoiding boredom. It's more than being inquisitive. It's about having a fight to fight. Having something that excites you. Something that drives you. Something that…
Dirty Frag Gives Root Access on Every Major Linux Distribution
A new Linux zero-day called Dirty Frag gives any local user full root access on every major Linux distribution, and right now no distribution has a patched kernel available. The researcher planned to…
Baykeri's of Mumbai
Baykeri 's are a Mumbai incense house formed in 1970 with the launch of their flagship brand, Shivranjani ; a well known incense in India, and quite auspicious, as the company managed to get the…
Jez returns for programming language chat!
Veteran super-coder Jez is back, and claims he has "finished" implementing Cell, Andy's toy language, in Rust. Jez and Andy basically gossip a bit, about code type stuff. Read Jez's blog at…
kicking out human slop from my online space
Removing some YouTube channels and other things from my sight.
Update
My coworker: "This is Adam, he's leading the platform development." Researcher: "Oh yes, I saw the platform! Very nice work!" Me: "That's very nice of you, but really, there's a lot of things, we…
Viking gold bangle hoard found in Denmark
A Viking Age hoard of six solid gold bracelets has been found on the Himmerland peninsula of northeastern Jutland, Denmark. The design of the bracelets identifies them as a Scandinavian type dating…
Bonobo trekking in the Democratic Republic of Congo GROUP TRIP (and ROC, and CAR)
Bonobo trekking in the Democratic Republic of Congo GROUP TRIP (and ROC, and CAR) Bonobos are our closest living relatives. The closest thing to humans on our beautiful planet. They are only found in…
New Worlds: Public Transit
It's possible, even in surprisingly ancient times, to have hugely sprawling cities -- but they're not quite the same type of sprawl we see today. The reason is simple: how are you going to get…