You don't need to be told that LLMs impact our critical thinking. You can feel it. When you ask ChatGPT or Claude a question, you are skipping the effort that comes with finding the answer. This is…

Back from vacation with a brand new Bugtunez, here ya'll go! He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms… Also, I did a little bugfix for the front page that…

today i sold these fabulous sequined wedges to my local vintage shop. i knew the day would come. they were a smidge too big on me and impossible to walk in. even though i couldn't wear them, i loved…

My goal this week is for my Kindle to be at the top of my phone screen time report, so I started vibe coding tools to make it happen.

I kept skipping my Screen Time limits and did not want to spend €50 on an NFC blocker, so I made my own.

tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts A couple days ago I was reading a post by Javier, Transferring Knowledge. I agree with most of points made. The last paragraph stuck with me, because I think what…

Basically no one outside of Academia actually understands how Academia works. That's understandable, I don't really know how a law office works. In anycase, here is a super short rundown on the…

Maybe I don’t need to buy a castle after all.

Building Nothing to share currently. Reading I’m currently revisiting Gödel, Escher, Bach, which I’ve not picked up in quite a few years. Thinking about How to make engineering…

Remembering My Teacher, Bill Geppert

Here is a list of tings I read/watched/played/etc. this week that you might find interesting or enjoyable: Things to read Link to heading SIMD in the 90s — Great article explaining what Intel’s…

Three people have three lines of communication. Seven people have 21. That is Brooks’ Law: communication overhead grows much faster than headcount. This single insight should change how you…

Why software built for one is no longer an escape from scale, but its new starting point.

In that weird limbo where I don't know where to direct my energy. I REALLY wanna code but stupid GitHub Actions and the other two ways to sync my site to Neocities DIDN'T WORK! The thought of getting…

Culture College students are experiencing an increase in loneliness since the pandemic. People love to judge people for putting their children in daycare, and also for not putting their children in…

I haven’t given up on this site. But it’s been a battle. When I was going through cancer last year the site got attacked and infected. I cleaned it out and tightened it in every way…

Three weeks into Shipaton 2026: The initial features for v1.0 are set up. Now it's time to clean up and polish 🧽

Read the full post at - Ordinary Abundance What a beautiful website & a beautiful reminder of the absolute abundance that many of us live with compared to our very recent ancestors -…

Howdy!Been awhile! I started Town Hall Citizen (THC). Proud of the work I did there, but one man - or at least this man - isn't going to change a nation. I'll be bringing the THC content…

There's a bit of business that inevitably comes up whenever a friend or acquaintance experiences some level of fame. I hear something like this: "Sure, I'm just a golf columnist [or singer/songwriter…

Executive Summary: Improved buses to major shopping centres are the 'low hanging fruit' of the bus world. They have high patronage gains relative to their cost and often do not need network reform or…

Five pieces that survived every gear purge — including almost ten Echos, worn all four seasons. The closet keeps converging on OR, and not out of loyalty. Good gear is the gear you stop noticing.

In 2017, I decided I needed to get serious about shipping creative work. So I challenged myself to send an email a day for 30 days. I wrote a draft of a book I’d call Getting Art Done. Some of…

AI is the new "organic" in the job market. Every resume claims to be an expert in all things AI. The valuable person is not listing AI as a signal. It is the person who combines AI skills with…

I feel very naive and stupid. Perhaps thats a lot of what your 20s feel like. Having pipedreams and getting them broken over your head. I'm trying to focus on the present moment for now. Life is so…

I was interrupted zero times writing this review. The post My new favorite piece of tech is 37 years old and costs $25 appeared first on Chris Bailey.

The training went where the roadmap went. The work didn’t. [also posted at Engineer of Data Substack] tl;dr – Sign up for SSIS Premium, use the coupon code “alblog” and save…

tldr: i finally had my baby! i had a planned unmedicated home birth and it could not have gone any better. ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ On Thursday, July 9, I wake up at my usual 5:00am to pee. As I’m…

I'm a dumbfuck, I'm clouded, I must be, from all the shit I put into my body , into my brain . I don't recognize myself. I look at me and it's not someone I'd trust. Can I even trust my thoughts? It…

One thing I didn’t understand during my job hunt was how much organizational size and maturity matter for a person’s fit on their new team. Which is funny, considering how much I care…

When should agencies separate account management and project management? Jenny Plant and Brett Harned discuss growth, delivery, client relationships, and AI.

I reveal what I'm doing this year for my daily project. Which is apparently a thing I do now?

Warning, this post is probably not going to sit well with outsiders to my blog. Don't read if you consider yourself a feminist or an "ally" to women. Not because what I say is insulting. It's not.…

Will the Sounders and Quakes do what's necessary to pull out of their death spirals? Will Dallas get their 10? And lots of other questions (I hate writing subheds)

On the 19th of August , I’m still writing this patchwork post. Since I started, I’ve been jobless for more than a month, two of my childhood friends have come to visit me from abroad, one person…

Having been robot-wrangling for a solid year now, I continue to feel like they give me superpowers. However, like all of us, I have a front-row seat to increasingly attractive garbage the robots are…

Bad cinnamon buns, good stories, better evenings.

ID: S202607071224 Status: school Tags: Loopbaan welzijn en studie - LWS avans 2-4 lws opdracht 2-3 Hoe vind je de keuzemodule? ja wel leuk, sybersecurity is heel intressant.

2026-07-28 - Textarea Complete ID: D202607281215 Tags: Todo ⇐ Today’s Note ⇒ This is the Kanban form of my dailynotes.

It’s not often in life you get to say you did exactly what you set out to do, without any compromise to your vision and execution. Up front, then, this is in the ‘win’ column. While…

There's also boobies.

“I’m glad you are starting the recording now because we always say cool shit and then ask, ‘ Why didn’t we record this?” What follows is a simple conversation between…

Is this post self-serving? Sure, but that doesn't make me wrong.

I am NOT a fan of using chemicals in my yard! However, after we spent an inordinate amount of money replacing a fence that had been decimated by hackberry trees, I needed something that I could use…

Hotel breakfast is the creation of the universe. Entropy is low: Everyone there has slept on the same mattress, watched the same Friends reruns, searched for the same impossible-to-reach outlet…

I resigned. My last company, which worked in regulated industries (e.g. Defense) projects, became AI-first late December. Regular readers know my tiredness for genAI, its ethical failings, and how I…

Further to the Jake’s Cakes thing, I saw an ice cream van named Jake’s Flakes – a fine name, even though the van surely sold cones and ice cream as well as flakes. Having a name that rhymes with one…

I often hear walks described as preprandial or postprandial, but I never hear meals described as prepromenadal or postpromenadal. What’s up with that?