This being election time in the US I keep seeing a lot of “go vote” or “I voted”. Going to vote isn’t enough. Going to vote is what got us...

A local model on my Mac mini wrote about 20,000 lines of code across four apps. It burned 81M tokens (FREE, it runs on my desk). Claude used 2.8M tokens to plan and check. That is the split I wanted:…

In news that is not entirely unexpected, but the timing certainly is, Electronic Arts is to shut down BioWare , the legendary RPG studio behind some of the greatest games in history, including…

Table of Contents This is part of a tutorial series on the CKKS homomorphic encryption scheme. In the last article, we described the ciphertext-ciphertext addition and multiplication operations. We…

Started 10/14/26, finished 10/17/26All Tomorrow's Parties, the final book of William Gibson's Bridge trilogy, is possibly his most complex work up to the time it was published, in…

A little update on what I’ve been working on for the Civic Action site! I worked on adding a dropdown menu to the Projects page so admins can filter…

They cried Uncle Sam on day one

Watch Listen “Planning a thing lies with man. Accomplishing it lies with Heaven.” Zhuge Liang A few days ago I wrote about companies that lose money to win a market. Those companies were playing…

I’m in Texas right now, Midlothian, specifically. Looking around for something interesting, I stumbled upon Dinosaur Valley State Park, in nearby Glen Rose, TX. This park has 20-something miles of…

I woke up at 07:00am.The temperature is 70°F.It feels like 70°F.Texts I visited:The Sleep Thief by Ibtisam AzemThe Largest Ocean in the World" by Leroi Jones / Amiri BarakaI walked 6.4 miles (10.3…

I first learned of the annual Interop initiative a few years ago. In case you’re unfamiliar, Interop “aims to make the web more interoperable in key areas, prioritized by web developer and user…

A dark matter detection experiment, Lux Zepplin (LZ) has seen one event that could be dark matter. How likely is it that it could just be an extreme outlier of the background? A new preprint attempts…

Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.215-216 (tr. Frank Justus Miller): Now I have need of juices by whose aid old age may be renewed and may turn back to the bloom of youth and regain its early years. nunc opus…

Nvidia Nemotron Dory 1.0 4B is a surprisingly good model that can be run locally, on a 16GB MacBook Pro, for coding and text generation.

My thoughts and opinions on this movie

A remote cache hit used to wait for its whole download, even when the task itself would have finished first. How vx now weighs each download against the task it replaces, gives up a slow one, and…

The “vibecoding” tag has been a bone of contention on lobste.rs since it was instituted in April 2025. Originally described as “AI/LLM coding tools; don’t also tag with…

Out today is our newest design!! The Oxford Monarch is a dual channel overdrive and distortion inspired by our favorite 90s dirt sounds, with plenty of mods and modern features.More demos:…

“Electronic Arts Closing BioWare, Laying Off Hundreds”: this doesn’t come as any surprise (there was very little chance Bioware was going to survive long enough to ship any other…

I personally think there are two major market crashes coming: Bitcoin and those who are betting on Paxton to lose and Talarico to win the Senate. Abbott won’t endorse Paxton outright but does lots of…

I’ve briefly seen the news regarding compromised intermediate certificates from some unknown CA (eMudrah) yesterday, but quickly dismissed them. I was like, shit happens, something leaked,…

A cached build behind an uncached code generator could replay a stale result when the generator's env changed. Why vx moved inputs out of the cache block and onto the task, so every task is keyed…

I have long wanted to write about this. My new article on Reimagined TOS Characters takes a closer look at how faithful Discovery and particularly Strange New Worlds remain to the originals. Of…

This will be a short one. I've talked about embedding PDFs on web pages for probably close to ten years now. Blame Adobe. Blame me being a nerd and finding this stuff interesting. Blame whoever.…

differential extension for DuckDB 2.0: snapshots, branches and time travel locally, plus leader/follower replicas, failover and shared writers via S3.

Dolphins “ For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the…

15 days of Nginx logs: llms.txt was fetched 31 times, twice by an AI agent. And 4,334 of 4,565 "GPTBot" requests came from somewhere other than OpenAI.

Kavery Kaul’s The Bengali is Every Immigrant’s Story Under Our Sun – Sharing our Stories. You. Me. They. We immigrants each have a story and the further back we venture into our histories, the more…

The men’s adventure magazines are very well remembered for their great covers, and for my money, no artist was ever better at painting those covers than Mort Künstler, who produced scores of them,…

 © Introduction. Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected, all rights reserved."[Pianist Dick] Katz, who was working with J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, dropped in one night, and Pettiford…

Today I took my YouTube Player open source under the MIT license. Looking forward to the community contributions and opinions. The source offers two versions: Desktop and Web. Please read…

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2026 Also, an apparent ongoing decline: Dear persons! This site covers the mainstream press corps' various organs. Nathan Pemberton, late of the New York Times, "writes about…

Some teams are working on AI systems that can rapidly produce clones or modified versions of trending games, release them quickly, and make money by "riding the wave". I think this is bad business…

Driving the current Honda HR-V for a week made me think of what the next-generation could be like. Honda has recently been very conservative with their designs, and we shouldn’t expect anything…

One of Scotland’s most important places for nature saved from destruction Scottish Ministers have today announced that they will save the internationally important wildlife site at Coul Links…

Until we get more assets in orbit around Saturn, we’re left to studying Cassini data on the fascinating moon Enceladus, findings that have already revealed much about geyser activity at the…

Test world for particle simulation.

“This is a candy corn martini. You know, for people who think they hate candy corn.” The post Halloween Spirits first appeared on Broadzview .

The driver of a silver Toyota Camry who hit a man bicycling southbound on Aurora Ave N near N 97th Street shortly after midnight September 29 is now a killer. Luis Maykoll Medero Sagarra died from…

I took my car in for service the other day. I'm a strong believer in regular vehicle maintenance to keep your car on the road for years/decades to come. When I went to pick it up the cashier…

Pipe, CE3SX / CE3SAD in Chile reports that he managed to hear a FM radio station at 97 MHz from Jamaica during a Trans-Equatorial Propagation ( TEP ) opening on the 13th of October 2026. The Jamaican…

Four Jewish brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine, now fighting a war against Putin.

We’ve long derided California’s never-to-be-built “high speed” train to nowhere, which was going to spend (at last count) $135 billion to (in theory) build a 494 mile rail…

Concrete Motivation Craig and I work at a company called QPQ, where we work on the Gajumaru blockchain. Sometimes we need to share confidential information back and forth with non-technical people…

And Fuck Sam Altman Too

From yesterday, or I’d have to post a photo from my window, since I spent all day inside today.

I’m opening 5 flash spots for a spooky little Halloween event: 1–6pm at Affinity. Tattoos are $100 each, with a $20 deposit required to book (applied to your tattoo). Any and all…

Today was a day of firsts, none of them welcome. I broke out my merino wool sweater and rain jacket to head into the office this morning. And then, after...