Juha-Matti Santala is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “A love letter”. Thanks, Juhis, for hosting! As a small intro, this is a love letter to sixteen-year old me, with…

In the last ~6 months, Agent Skills have gone from a new feature introduced by Claude Code to a widely adopted paradigm across the industry. Companies that want to signal they understand customer AI…

Even though I've been job searching for four months now, I am busier than I have ever been. You know what I mean. You've seen this blog! One week I am experimenting with AI, the next I am pairing…

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today,…

There’s a disturbing incident caught on camera in Maui going viral. I have to warn you: watching this will most likely make your blood boil. Outrage is growing across Maui,... The post Tourist…

You know when I’m home on my own I don’t watch much TV like actual TV, but I do watch music videos on YouTube on the TV. Sometimes new music but often ones I know really well. Music videos are such a…

Last night, I finished reading The Wayfinder , a novel by Adam Johnson. I had started this book on Christmas Day (I give books to each of my family, and when I saw this on the table at Flyleaf Books,…

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What happened was, after 10+ years of not exercising, I started running again for real in 2025. I've been tracking progress in my head, in text files, a spreadsheet. Madness. The next logical step is…

Sad news: Robert Reich's site has become paywalled. As a result, access to an article there requires running nonfree JavaScript code (https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html) and requires…

US citizens: call on Congress to refuse to fund Trump’s executive order that could label millions of Americans as domestic terrorists, or in any fashion block it. See the instructions for how to sign…

Feeling ugly, feeling bad, feeling all kinds of sad. Which is odd, because recently, things have been relatively good. And I can hear my priest in my head now. Something about the kind of happiness…

The recent conversation explored the intricate relationship between consumer brand choices and personal identity, revealing varied perspectives on the significance of brands across different cultures…

I have released SatPulse 0.2. This is a major new release with a lot of new functionality (more than 60% of the code is new since 0.1).

Gee, I get another Tariff "I Told You So."

I just got back from DevOpsDays Austin, and it’s always great to go out and talk with a wide array of folks from the tech community to see what’s up. The takeaways were interesting.…

In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as an Emacs coach to help with doing review passes over my upcoming ffs package as I work on polishing and documenting it in preparation for offering it…

In a recent blog post, Bob Priddy explains “why Donald Trump is Donald Trump.” [Shared here with Bob’s permission] I think I have figured out why Donald Trump is Donald Trump. He never had a…

Via Laudator Temporis Acti: Letter of Edward Lear to Evelyn Baring: Thrippsy pillivinx, Inky tinky pobblebockle abblesquabs? — Flosky! beebul trimble flosky! — Okul scratchabibblebongibo, viddle…

Today's pic from the archives was contributed by Jeff R. in Nov-2008. Black & white Adidas Adicolors with red & cyan trim laced with white “Hexagram Lacing”.

The company behind the Centurion Club and the Black Card, best known for a concierge service and charge cards without limits, and for turning the card in your wallet into a lifestyle choice, that…

Marvel is in the process of wrapping up their reboot of the Ultimate Universe (I'm still shocked they are actually ending it) and just started hinting at something called the, " Midnight Universe, "…

It's been a weird year. Last May I was working full-time for a client when they announced that they wanted to try Claude Code. Suddenly, I was furnished with an account and encouragement to try it…

Intro Think back to the last game you played that felt good. What happened when you jumped? Did the camera move a little? Did your character squish for a moment before launching? What happened when yo

Good Soil The Education of an Accidental Farmhand by Jeff Chu Convergent, 2025. 317 pages. Review written March 24, 2026, from my own copy, purchased via Amazon.com Good Soil is a memoir about Jeff…

Miles: 11 Shorter day today. It was wet and sort of cold and sort of miserable. But the fog was super cool. And Zero is now addicted to cigarettes. And scary days 19 miles in a day is nothing. I…

The dog-named insurance unicorn built to protect startups from themselves just hit a $1.3B valuation. Then it launched 34 ETFs. Before dinner.

RIP Magic “Screwdark” There are moments in “Screwdark” that sound like three DJ Shadows DJing at each other like the Spider-Man meme, or someone trying to Zaireeka the entire…

K recently joked that were I to appear on Mastermind, my specialist subject would be Iron Maiden. She may be right. They’re certainly the band I have paid the most attention to over the years.…

Roche is buying Boston-based PathAI for $750M upfront plus milestones, and yes, this is exactly the kind of hard-tech, health-AI win Boston should be insufferably proud of.

Today I opened my university's Canvas and attempted to take a quiz. The quiz did not load. Instead, I saw a ransom note from the hackers who have been attacking Canvas. Frustrated, I watched the due…

The National Cartoonists Society has announced that they will be presenting Bone creator Jeff Smith with their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s 80th annual Reuben…

Look, I’m going to be direct here. If you are not using AI agentic coding methods right now - today - you are going too slow. Not “a little behind.” Not “maybe missing…

**Regularly UPDATED**   Reflecting on the Russo-Ukraine War, I am putting together a timeline of the most relevant…

 An armed uncrewed surface vessel (USV), almost certainly a Ukrainian example, has been discovered with its motor running, in a sea cave on the Greek…

At this moment, the Disquiet Junto music community has begun the third week of its three-week “trios sequence.” These trios make up one of my favorite examples of Junto projects, and…

January The Roses (2025, movie) Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025, standup special) Bugonia (2025, movie). Stars Stone, Plemons, and directed by Lanthimos) All Creatures Great & Small (2025,…

A thin lit edge of a pale blue dot against vast nothingness. The same picture Apollo 8 took in 1968. Updated for 2026. To remind us, all of us: Everything and everyone we have ever touched is…

you know sometimes it's worth just taking a step back, seeing if something is worthwhile to keep doing, and then adjust accordingly. i know that's something that should be easy advice but wow do i…

This page is auto-generated from Github Actions workflow that runs every day at night and fetches the 5 latest articles from each of my favorite blogs.

crow-with-a-pencil:bonesbeetle:pixelartpeach:Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huhALTIt’s the wikipedia image??? How big could it beALTWhatALTHuh???can see the…

What have you tried? Four brilliant words I need to start using. All. The. Time. The post What have you tried? appeared first on Jay Hoffmann.

A short drive today, only 242 miles. We got out of Illinois first before tanking up the VRRV and saved .76 cents/gallon for 87 Octane gasoline by buying it in Indiana! The last 22 miles or so were on…

I am fully aware they are bad for you. Yes. I know. I've heard it all. But something about smoking a cigarette in the car after a hard day at my part-time job is really healing. Or a cigarette during…

unprovable truths in diagonalosis all watching that space interrogation - and me? a forest fade other things said marginal these are the days, my friend Yesterday :: Thursday, 7th May 2026

finally reworked my links page and added a whole art resources section with my csp favs, also updated 2026's gallery and added a new comic section (mature)

Hotel this, hotel that. Hotel somewhere, hotel wherever. The well of hospitality runs dry. Hopping from place to place chasing hope is tiring precisely because it feels so good. But running away from…

Down by the river, the place has been reverberating to the guff-like sound of paddleboards being deflated at the end of a day in the water. Similarly but differently, I overinflated a bike tyre –…

Sunrise, Pinos Altos We were up at dawn to tackle our steepest trail of the trip: Signal Peak, a 4.7 mile trail with elevation change of 1700 feet. At the top is a manned lookout tower during fire…

turns out i have a lot of horse-owning-simulation games from the 2000s. but are any of them, like, actually fun?