Waiting for Housing, Big Rally Nears, Thinking “Anti-Gravity”
Waiting for Housing, Big Rally Nears, Thinking “Anti-Gravity” Two-part column this morning. The second column will be short but useful if you like to play Inflation Spotting — the Home…
Pi'd
It has been a busy weekend. I completed four different projects all to do with entertainment. It started with me rummaging around in my electronics bin and bumping into the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 WH on…
Evaluating MiniMax M3 on Hack The Box Challenges
While we wait to see whether MiniMax releases its reported 2.7-trillion-parameter successor, known internally as MiniMax M3 Pro and potentially arriving as early as the third quarter, I decided to…
Get Busy, Christian, But Be Careful As You Do.
Our job is to follow after God as we see Him leading, not to charge out in front and hope He will follow us.
The History of Webshell
Way back when, once upon a time, webshell meant a product. It was like having a shell for the web, one that you could buy. Positive Software sold WebShell 2.2 in November 1998, as a browser…
Where Were You Last Summer, Mrs. Blue?
25 August 2026 Last week at the Hays Woods banding station, Bird Lab captured a female indigo bunting who was banded almost a year ago, 9/6/2025, on the Canadian side of Lake Erie at Rock Point…
Weeknotes 2026 // August 17-23
What’s Going On It’s been a minute. I took a step away from my blog for a while because my brain latched itself to something else and I followed it for a bit. But I still like this blog and want to…
There is no failure with my son
Tinha pensado sobre considerar a pesquisa e a realização de estudos tarde da noite. Dediquei tempo ao meu filho. Brincamos. Conversamos. Chutamos bola. Lembro mesmo dele não estar com sono, de não…
The Leap of Folly
Saturday night, I had a horrifying dream. There was a city, and either because of the heights of the buildings or because of the hills in the city, the church had a site people could visit where you…
Grumpy Grumperson
There’s a type of person you meet when you’re on holiday. I call them Grumpy Grumperson. They live in or near the places tourists flock to — famous landmarks, national parks, pretty…
2026 Roll 032 (Leica MP)
My wife and I spent the weekend in and around Charlevoix. Here are a few snaps from the trip. City Park Grill Chair on condo deck overlooking the harbor "Imperfect Rack" (because we're 12) Dinner at…
diary - day 315
WFH, one day before ~6 days off. Took the pup for a nice walk this morning, tires her out which is good! Mostly writing code by hand, stumbling through it and remembering how to do it. Never really…
Retiring the Show Home Theme
A look back at six months of AI-assisted design, a newsletter that didn't stick, and why I'm moving my writing away from AI and back towards maths, data and code.
Wasonly the Walonely
what if _everyone_ knows the way you feel tonight, though?
A clogged air filter was not an unusual occurrence, but it had to be replaced immediately
Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard) the Sverdlovsk anthrax leak of 1979: The story went public a few months later—in a way. In November 1979, a Russian magazine published by anti-Soviet émigrés in…
Allegory and symbol
Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: At this point we must recapitulate the distinction, fundamental for us, between allegory and symbol; allegory is a rational operation, implying no transition…
The exception that proves the rule
I first learned a more useful meaning of the expression “the exception that proves the rule” from the essay “Death Before Birth, or a Mite’s Nunc Dimittis” in The…
Why Harness Is Becoming One of the Key Parts of AI Development
Models are already smart enough for a huge amount of real work. What is missing is the software layer around them — the one that defines how a task is executed, verified, corrected and finished. A…
Update on July and August
A long post about what I've been doing this summer, including coursework, seeing bands, going places, and being tired.
It’s Fun to Ship Software
It’s unrestrained summer fun, Paul Ford-style: Using AI tools to actually ship some software. On this week’s podcast, Paul shows Rich his recent vibe-coded project, Stellate.app, which visualizes…
When the Software Speaks
There are two ways to sue a technology company for what its algorithm did to you. One of them hands the company a constitutional shield. Right now, nobody is choosing between them on purpose. In…
Flat vs segmented memory -- it's recursive
My recent forays in x86 segmentation (1 2) made me notice a trend in the evolution of x86: the decline of fine-grained memory protection, both across the move to 64-bit and indeed before that in the…
How to keep track of authorship with Obsidian in GenAI times
My system for keeping a history of my writing and research within Obsidian.
Review: Into the D/ark
I almost quit reading “Into the D/ark”, but I am glad that I persevered.
Thirty-Four Minutes Of Black & White Photography
This was someone's pride and joy at one time–also essential to generating their income. It is now designated to be scrapped in the next several days. (click to enlarge) The other day I was out and…
Blaugust 2026 #3: Garden Report
I wanted to make a list of everything that I grew in the garden this year and whether or not I would grow it again...and if I would, what changes would I make. I'm working with a northern hardwoods…
The Eclipse of Science and of Us
An alternate title for this post could have been something like A Medical Yankee in King Charles’ Court or King Donald’s Court – your choice of Kings. The recent Eclipse makes this…
Kid Stuff.
Forgive me for this one. This will be painting with an extremely broad-brush. Like something the felon-in-chief might use to groom his cranial merkin. I’ve just spent a week with my daughter, S, my…
Some recent applications of AI
Trevor McKendrick asked for favorite recent applications of AI. Here are some of mine: I have a large corpus in which I want to find the most frequently occurring facts. I've built a system that (i)…
World is Dancing – 09
For all that he was among the greatest dancers Japan has known, Zeami's most crucial legacy is as a writer. Read more The post World is Dancing – 09 appeared first on Lost in Anime.
honey can you pt XI........
The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter. There isn't much left to do on the honey can you project. I just have to finish the drawer, put on the top and the three shelves and I'll be…
The Truman Show
It’s a visually stunning, spiritually powerful conclusion. It is the point of The Truman Show that we don’t know what world he is stepping into, and can’t follow him to see what happens next. This is…
CXC Devblog: CXC is an immutable, typed, object-oriented language.
CXC Devblog: CXC is an immutable, typed, object-oriented language. Functional programming language enthusiasts often point to how object-oriented programming (OOP) languages cannot escape including…
Recap Roundup
I've never really done one of these so bear with me, I'm sure formatting and content will change over time should I continue. Movies and Shows Chronicles of Riddick - I'm not going to claim it's high…
Stolen Hours in Hanoi
Questo articolo è disponibile anche in Italiano Happy Tuesday my dear friend! Welcome back to another appointment with My Travel Diary Chronicles, where Tamara takes us to her beautiful travels…
Week 0: Prelude to 4-10
Sunday My alarm wakes me at 6. My emotional state is somehwere between annoyance at being woken up too early and excitement to try a new thing. The excitement wins out, and I do my skincare and get…
AI grinding: what happens when cryptanalytic ideas become cheap?
The strange thing about using AI for analysing cryptography - ciphers, hash functions, digital signatures, etc. - is that getting ideas is not the hard part. Getting rid of bad ideas is.I…
Logistics War 2: The Reserve Fleet
How the US abandoned its Reserve Fleet and ended up in deep ship
📝👹Headspace Control
Last week was all about headspace control. Something that many people struggle with, and I always feel that I struggle with it more than most. The trouble is that it makes me a less pleasant person…
TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Section 2(d) Appeals Turn Out?
TTAB affirmances of Section 2(d) refusals are running at about 86% so far this year, below the usual 90%. Here are three appeals decided recently. How do you think they came out? [Answer in first…
Meditation on This Sunday's Gospel
The readings for Sunday, August 30, 2026: First Reading: Jeremiah 15:15-21 First Reading (Semi-cont.): Exodus 3:1-15 Psalm: Psalm 26:1-8 Psalm (Semi-cont.): Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b Second Reading:…
I built a Splitwise clone out of spite
When splitwise no longer fit my needs, I had to build an alternative for myself.
Welcome to the machine: emulating a CPU
A fun programming project for Go or Rust learners: help rescue a stranded spacecraft by writing an emulator for its simple CPU!
A strange, new, maybe good day
After 27 years of teaching, I find myself sitting at home today as my wife, Elysha, returns to school for her first day of work. This is the first test […]
I’m developing a new, life-enhancing habit.
I thank Matt Toggle, pastor of Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, for teaching me the following lesson. When preaching a sermon on Philippians 4:4 (“Rejoice in the Lord, always;…
Has AI Advanced Enough to Discover New Maths?
We recently discussed how advances in technology are contributing to boosting the productivity of mathematicians during the last thirty years. But the chart we featured in that article depicting how…
4.74 FX Edge Lives in Other Markets (cross-asset series)
FX edge sits in the graph: EM stocks lead by a month, G10 loops pay daily, and FX futures Sharpe jumps from 0.16 to 0.66 once other asset classes are wired in.
All You Ever Needed To Know About UPDI, And Then Some!
Part III — Turning the Arduino Nano into a Real UPDI Programmer Updated for the finalized NANO UPDI PROGRAMMER Rev. 1.0.0 hardware Parts I and II got us across the wire. We now understand enough of…
Hardening the Override Flag
export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1
Letters from the Car Wash
Tattoo You: I have a question I haven’t been able to get a clear answer on: is getting a tattoo sin?Most of what I find lands in the middle—“not forbidden, but be wise about it” — and I’m trying to…