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My review for one of the most impressive titles for the PSP, which I owed a second try for almost a decade now. It did not dissapoint

Week 19 NOTE: Don’t feel like you’re supposed to make all these recipes. Choose just one to experiment with each week. MONDAY Beautiful Broccoli Burgers It’s funny how ideas come and go.…

Intel ships per-sensor calibration data in proprietary AIQB binaries alongside their Windows camera drivers. Here is how to parse them to generate libcamera Simple IPA tuning files with accurate CCMs…

May 8, 1615. This date marks one of the most dramatic and decisive turning points in Japanese history. On this […]

Three-space context management to improve LLM performance and project durability using a vault-docs-index system.

T he lettuce outlasted Liz Truss. And the T-shirt has outlasted the Standards Authority at which it poked the finger. In a move that sees this blog praise this Government twice in one week -- an…

photography, hobby

Claude knows it's being tested almost one-quarter of the time, but almost never says anything about it, according to new Anthropic research. This is, or should be, unsettling, given that…

Take your time pondering this clever map from xkcd . When you give up, there is a link to the answer at the Kottke via. (New England is o.k.) I thought six of them were easy, but the seventh was hard.

The post AI Isn’t Replacing Curious Developers | It’s Changing Who Wins appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

I was clicking around in App Store Connect as I wait for Inkwell to be approved. The long list of submissions and rejections is unusual for me, so thought I’d capture the table here as a blog…

You know, if you go onto Pinterest and type in the word “hotdog” you will find all sorts of pictures. Most are these glorious images of fancy hotdogs with all sorts of topping and what…

Yesterday was great sailing down the Pamlico River to the Sound, wind on starboard beam and at times on the starboard quarter Very rough water and a lot of spray, but good sailing. 27 NM which is a…

Back in the 80’s and 90’s Hudson would host caravans, events where they drove from city to city with a bunch of famicoms/pc-engines and people would compete for a timed high score in the title for…

My first destination on Gran Canaria was the pine forest close to me. I've been to southern pine forests at other locations, but that wonderful, serene scent that a canary pine forest disperses when…

Revisit the Black Mesa region and build happy habitats for the sciencemons that live there

“I try to be scientifically accurate. That’s my whole shtick.”—Andy Weir “You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.”—Inigo Montoya “We don’t need other worlds. We…

What is a Static Website? # A static website is like a digital brochure that remains unchanged unless manually updated. Every page of a static website is a fixed HTML file, meaning the content is…

Static sites are a great part of the small web. They are easy to configure, deploy, and maintain. You can use a static site generator or write the HTML yourself. Static Site Generators # To help some…

Behind the wall, Zoe Hawk

Mike - You said on your podcast

May 7, 2026 But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of…

The streets of San Francisco, Kim Cogan

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I have referenced it in passing a couple of times now, but a few years ago when the Minimalism documentary blew up on Netflix, the whole thing made a lot of sense to me. Back in 2017 I immediately…

Recording of live event with Cindy S Lee on the desert elders

It’s been a while, but let’s finish that tube amp project and see why you should likely not build one yourself! But before we get into the details, a quick recap of the first part.The…

Suggestions for reasons behind the order of the prayers and praises of the final canonical Psalter are legion. While there is much to be gleaned from consideration of various views, is there one that…

There’s a thing I find amazing about music that you can demonstrate with a pair of musicians who are about equally popular but have completely different sets of fans. For example, let’s…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve received a serious flood of similar email messages that claim to be from well-known businesses like Harbor Freight, CVS, Kroger, Marriot, Costco, FedEx, Walmart, and…

For nearly three decades, much of the modern world behaved as though the nuclear age had quietly expired sometime in the early 1990s. The collapse of the Soviet Union created the comforting illusion…

I tried OmniVoice this afternoon because I saw a post on r/LocalLLaMA and got curious. It's a zero-shot voice cloning TTS model that claims 600+ languages. I recorded two short voice memos on my…

Introduction Hopefully you've already read Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey so you understand how I ended up with this mindset and approach. Or maybe you saw how long it was and just…

Here comes the AIRSTEPPY! (via JetPens) It looks like the new LAMY Safari neoncolor pens are set to officially launch on May 12th - allegedly. Maybe then my whingining will end. Plus, I need more…

MicroStimuli argues that human decisions are made in milliseconds by non-conscious processes. The entire tradition of trying to change behavior through awareness, information, and rational persuasion…

Release: llm-gemini 0.31 gemini-3.1-flash-lite is no longer a preview. Here's my write-up of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview model back in March. I don't believe this new non-preview model has…

I will give my first public astronomy talk at TU Chemnitz's Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften on May 9th, 2026 — a journey from comets and auroras to distant galaxies — alongside the Astro Stammtisch…

Via Flowing Data , The Public Domain Review on “The Polish System,” a grid system for visualizing a century’s worth of history : The Polish System — which almost anticipates Piet Mondrian’s abstract…

A couple of years ago, I wrote some code to display my archive of images from ffffound, an image bookmarking site, with the ability to filter by date and generated tags. That’s not the only…

Pascal Holdry has provided the manual for the Macrotronics M80 Ham Interface! Thank you, Pascal! Delivered by PolitePaul service

Helmed by Chris Black and Matt Fraction, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 follows the aftermath of the Season 1 finale, with Keiko, Cate, May, and Shaw returning to a 2017 Skull Island now…

Towards the end of 2019 I started playing goalie in ice hockey. I picked up the sport in 2013 but always played as a skater. I thought playing goalie looked like fun, but there was a high price point…

I ran across this article written by Bob Metcalfe in 1991 about 3Com’s losing bets against Novell. This contained an important fact in our research about Ethernet development in the 1980s. To…

<p>we will probably get to a point where local models are as efficient and capable as current sota models (even if latency is worse locally - probably not a dealbreaker for most agentic…

Eschatology and MarxismOne of the most interesting things about The Communist Manifesto is the literary genre into which it falls. Unlike the other works of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, it is…

Tiffany Aching is continuing her training as a witch under the fearsome Miss Treason, though Granny Weatherwax is still keeping watch from afar. Tiffany makes an unfortunate choice during a winter…

Music can be an underrated force for good. Let it: Excite you about waking up Coax you into dance Boost your mood when you're down Elevate your highs It's so accessible these days with how ubiquitous…

What has the church forgotten that moved and energized Abraham Moses David Paul and the great men and women of the Bible? The answer is closer than you think…