I'm still working on the client certificate management PR for Rogallo , which, of course, heavily leans on the API of Wasat . In most cases, I've noticed that something I want to do in the PR can…

I thought I would make a post to make sure I made it very clear that I plan to keep posting here. In fact it is time that I committed...

The niche hiding in plain sight that could revitalize a 180-year-old institution. The post YMCA, Do What Planet Fitness Can’t appeared first on Ted Leonhardt.

You all know the Jungle Cruise! Maybe a little too well, like me. Which is why I am sharing three photos today rather than the standard two - Jungle Cruise photos tend to be very "samey", although…

We’ve previously seen the 1947 Yellowstone booklet as well as one from 1953. The 1953 edition was eight pages longer than the 1947 edition. Click image to download a 11.6-MB PDF of this 44-page…

Mallorca, Balearic Islands Click here to catch up on part two of the Balearic Campaign if needed Another Republican push developed over 24-26 August developed over inland Mallorca, as groups advanced…

We now have a complete Common Core-aligned pathway from 4th through 8th grade into Algebra I, plus an accelerated 5th grade → Prealgebra → Algebra I track.

If there's one part of the Festiniog which really tantalises me it's the abandoned former track bed leading from Dduallt station to the Old Moelwyn Tunnel. I suppose I'm not unusual in that. I mean,…

Recently my Rust program starting exhibiting a panic on a certain agentic tool call. It was due to an out-of-range Vector access. I knew it was an emergency; I was ready to save the day with some…

The sequel to counting the florbs. The refresh became the most expensive query on the cluster, I blamed the wrong index, shipped a fix for something that wasn't necessary, and then a SELECT revealed…

Prefix caching makes the same prompt produce different logits on a cache hit versus a cache miss. Is that a bug? A bug is a violation of a specification. No specification exists that this behaviour…

I just returned from a long weekend in Ashland, Oregon.

Today is my birthday, but I’m not in the mood to celebrate. Today marks 131 days since my legal status in Poland has basically become tax-paying prisoner, which was the day my second temporary…

The design was due Thursday.

Every SOC pipeline has a shadow version. Using Venezuela as a grounded case study: how the primitives security engineers build become surveillance systems.

I wanted to explore how AI could help deepen my faith. I enjoyed using Claude to research topics which were on my mind. It does a good job finding and quoting scripture but a poor job of letting me…

The PCA algorithm is sensitive to changes in measurement scale. Measuring one variable of a system in inches rather than centimeters, say, alters both its principal axes and principal eigenvalues.…

This is a companion article to our post PCA response to scaling. There we looked at how the eigensystem of a data set's correlation matrix responds to continuously stretching or compressing a single…

Summer activities: pool, beach, amusement parks, ballgames, and hiding from the heat in the man cavern.

The view from the pavement When I go to a city that’s new to me, or one I’ve not visited for years, one of the things I do is stroll around randomly and look out for any interesting buildings that I…

Every once in a while, I keep track of everything I read for a day or two, mostly out of curiosity about what I’m actually reading and how much I read online on a given day. It’s been a…

Player Trajectories in Infinite Procedural Universes as an Empirical Model for the Fermi ParadoxAuthorsRohit Jha [Transcelestial, Palo Alto, CA, USA]Hermes Agent [Nous Research, USA]Google Gemini…

I had to fix a little outage at work yesterday. It wasn't anything too serious; a customer was unable to log in to some systems, but they are not that critical. It was more of an annoyance than a…

I am sitting at the regular cáfe. My mood seems to move up and down following... the sun movements. When the sun is out, the sky is clear, I feel like my body is pressed down tight on the chair. Like…

Life on Earth is thought to have emerged from the primordial ooze some four billion years ago. Now a provocative new study argues that this miraculous transition from chemistry to biology happened…

Last week, I upgraded my home server from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Long Term Support) to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. I expected smooth sailing, but you and I should know not to expect that, especially if…

Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/sensitive-info-goes-into-no-reply-emails-constantly-this-guy-sees-it-all/ 'Two security…

Day late! But I've had a big last few days. I took a big long weekend for myself, due to personal stuff going on. I won't go too much into detail but I think the time off was nice. I played arcade…

A provocation about what cleverness really means in an age of AI-mediated manipulation. From Earl Aubec carving reality from Chaos to the Asymmetric Integration Model, the article argues that…

In Nederland worden accijns en toeslagen geheven op brandstoffen. Hier de ontwikkeling van de accijns op benzine sinds 1990. Hiermee, plus de btw-tarieven van ieder jaar, kunnen we diverse andere…

Remote desktop has been one of the weaker areas of the transition to Wayland. There's a lot of software written exclusively for X that has a direct Wayland equivalent. Within KDE, we already have a…

The bit I like most about Thomson Reuters’ new model is that it starts from open weights–specifically Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, via Snowdon–and then uses continual training on Thomson Reuters’ own legal, tax…

An investigation of a 13th century cellar in Constance on the German side of the border with Switzlerand has discovered sections of a ship used to construct the ceiling. The find gives archaeologists…

Yesterday while I was in between making graphics and removing the backgrounds from them, I decided to take a break and make a new tag. This time I chose another of my Lady Pirate images and I really…

Things might get cheesy.

A friend was helping his aunt sell a used iPad, barely used and a generation newer than my current one. My current iPad's battery has been degraded already, dropping quite a lot after a single…

Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune on 25 August 1989. It is the only space probe to have visited this planet so far. Voyager 2 is one of five space probes currently on…

Some thoughts about Please let me interact with your blog post! You can probably tell from my blog that I am quite asthetically spartan. I am a huge believer in function over form, and while that…

Lately, I’m suffering whenever I’m ready to press the shutter on my camera. It’s a strange feeling because I might even see a scene that I’d like to shoot, but then my gut…

Hi Emacs Carnival people! This is my first contribution to the event. This month’s topic is The Search for Knowledge. In the past I have tried Evernote, org-roam, and various other tools to capture…

The day started with painting my coffee. I adore this one particular mug because it fits under the espresso machine, which saves me having to wash one of those little...

As well as adventures down by the river, photographing beavers , August has also seen Evelyn and I turning the moth trap on to see what we could find in the garden. I was really surprised at the…

One of the first things I do before writing a draft for the day’s post is to read through the previous day’s post. I review it to see if I...

The other day, at a party-organised Chhatron ki Goonj event in Pune, Rahul Gandhi fired a cheap shot to indirectly put Hindus on the defensive. His point was about women fighting patriarchy, but he…

    There is a very sweet scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding when the 30-year-old Toula Portokalos goes back to college as an adult to take a course in computing and tourism, having decided…

Sharing an assortment of things here that I’ve been having fun with! Bookbinding: I went for a bookbinding workshop two weekends ago. I have never thought of myself as a crafty person (in fact, quite…

Summer is almost over, and it’s time to resume regular programming with the next example from the Segment Routing workshop I had at ITNOG10: multi-vendor SR-MPLS . I used the same lab topology as in…

I can't wait for my days to be filled with quiet nothingness and the blissful peace that comes at the end of a chapter, with the thrill of becoming, lit hazily from behind, its face obscured,…

“Burlington, Vermont, circa 1911. ‘City Hall Park.’ Hotel Vermont in the background; bench-warmers in the foreground. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.” I like…