As a designer, I see lots of little problems in the world. I look at something in search of its flaws. I will be bothered that things have to be the way they are. And then I channel that negative…

Installed the macOS 27 beta. My favorite part - consistent corner radii.

So this post is doing two things for me right now. It’s showing myself and anyone that reads this that I’m not a mechanical robot with a linear story to tell, topics on this blog don’t have to follow…

An interesting thing about my recent sprint to get the multi-target users working. I had been working for several days straight, through much confusion and all sorts of head winds, but got to the…

Writers, do you wanna be a rule follower? A nice little meek writer who follows all the commandments out there on social media? I hope you’re a bit of a rebel and wanna write some stories that…

Current Local Time Anywhere | WorldClock.free ( about ) Live local time for every city, country and time zone. Pin the places you care about, see who is awake, and get DST dates, sunrise times and a…

Today on the Carmelite calendar it is the feast of Saint Mary of Jesus Crucified, Miriam Baouardy, known as the "Little Arab." Miraculous phenomena surrounded her. Let us pray to her for Christians…

Like the rest of us, poets often favor certain times of the year. They return to a season or month they find thematically or emotionally rich. Keats, obviously, was an autumn man. Winter I associate…

In Part II of the Practical NLP for Risk Modeling series, we fine-tuned DistilBERT end-to-end on NOAA tornado event narratives. Instead of treating DistilBERT as a fixed feature extractor, every…

Sunday night here in Austin, I was lucky enough to go to a talk that Professor Jiang gave. He is the guy from Predictive History , and he uses classic books and knowledge from the past to get stuff…

I was recently chatting with some colleagues about deployment tooling and FleetDM came up. I felt like I was aware of most deployment tools but this was new to me. Logos are how companies show brands…

Replacing Guilt is a book by Nate Soares, a collection of blog posts about replacing guilt-based motivation with something stronger. From the book's website: "In Replacing Guilt, Nate Soares…

Use Grok Build with local and OpenRouter free models alongside Grok-4.6. Copy-paste config.toml for Gemma, Qwen, and GLM — same harness, switch with /model.

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of all the hosting places i could've platformed my website on, why did i choose bear blog? if you were ever curious, it's time for some 'splaining. so, sit back and grab some popcorn as i take you…

Someone asked on Slack about how many more revisions I'd be making to the 88 Illini list (I change it CONSTANTLY all summer) and I wanted to share my answer here as well as there. This year,…

I finally played through Unhinged, Night School's final game, which runs in the Netflix television app on a variety of platforms. Shortly after its release, Netflix shut down the studio. I know a…

David Simon learned that television writing does not live on the page. Wardrobe, camera, sets, actors and timing decide what the words become.

The MOLCOS (Maintenance Of Law Cybernetic Organism Suit) appears in Case 02 (Psychic Trooper) of Yoshiaki Kawajiri's 1990 cyberpunk OVA Cyber City Oedo 808. Designed by the military as a ruthless…

The promise was calm seas and light winds all day. It started perfectly with another early one Gorgeous smooth calm paddling right down to Simmonds islands This view is looking back up the coast from…

“All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close, this is gonna be your lucky day!” –Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson After Bungie’s Halo: Combat Evolved launched on November…

Adrián Adamec is taking on the classic cosmic horror tale, and his early footage looks very promising.

Sole, amore, velomassacre am Lago Maggiore A lap around Lago Maggiore in northern Italy, with a little grande boucle problem to solve: the lake itself doesn’t quite give you the full 200km. The…

Highlights: Bloggo redesign Achilles tendonitis more interview prep went to a kid’s birthday party Bloggo redesign I ended up redesigning Bloggo, my android app that I use for blogging from my…

A few days ago I wrote about a new tool called wacz-pdf, which will read a WACZ file and write out each web page as a PDF file. I got some quick feedback from Henry Wilkinson who suggested that it…

We’re all a little bit hoarder.

How Stretch 4 finds its charging dock and drives itself home.

Judomaster #94 is dated April 1967. The only credit is "McLaughlin" so I assume that Frank McLaughlin is again responsible for both story and artwork. The story titled "Tiger Hunt" begins with a…

OC Grand Prix is a platform for real-time competitive overclocking. Compete in Battle Royale rooms or race in Grand Prix endurance events. The full post Introducing OC Grand Prix by Pieter can be…

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Today, I will briefly talk about an upcoming features of SPMF that I am working on. It is file types. Currently, a problem in SPMF is that there are a lot of different input and output formats for…

A provocative meditation on why cats—and self-taught learners—see through the illusion of modern education. This piece dismantles the cult of brand-name universities and charismatic teachers,…

Looking for luggage storage in Queenstown while you head out on the multi day hike or you’ve returned from a hike? Or may you have some time to do some Queenstown hikes/things to do in.…

Texas Tech should run this conference and the only thing that will stand in their way is themselves. They are

In which I examine an article complaining that college students are no longer reading novels, along with the despair of their professors. This wasn’t my experience. The post Are Lit Teachers Giving…

My first fragment function, I've been learning about shaders.

I read a fascinating obit of Victor Niederhoffer, a Wall Street trader, and these last few sentences of the obit really stood out: His daughter, Katie Niederhoffer, said that until the last days of…

Tired of explaining the same things again and again to your AI Agent? Frustrated because the AI keeps forgetting minute things custom to your codebase which needs to be kept in mind in each change? Th

My copy of Real Ghosts up there has seen better days. Originally published in 1977 by Pocket Books, then reprinted in 1992 by Minstrel, this book fell into my hands in the early 90s, probably at a…

Dear Dad, Do you remember that time when I was 5 or 6 and you took me for a car ride into Manhattan? I can't remember what we went there for but I can remember your road rage and how you rolled down…

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Y'know, for all its flaws and how it has become bastardized over the years, there's one thing I'll always love about the internet: Seeing people speak about something they're genuinely passionate…

What an odd little movie. Much more trying to be just a fun thriller than you'd expect. You really think this is going to be some kind of "oh this guy is doing Saw for real" thing but really, it's…

Reorgs are cheap. Rebuilding the decision rights, metrics, and systems around them isn't. That speed mismatch, not bad planning, is why ownership and architecture keep drifting from the org chart,…

Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree read by the Author Macmillan Audio, 2025. 8 hours, 25 minutes. Review written July 13, 2026, from a library eaudiobook. Starred Review Brigands and…

There is one additional thing I'm using AI for, besides asking it to find words that I know but have slipped my mind. And that is, finding commands or fixing glitches in programs and apps. This…

Focus, literal and metaphorical. Kagi Small Web.

Dragon Star Varnir is a jrpg by Idea Factory it focuses on witches who are cursed with dragons within them who must consume other dragons but must be careful with said consumption and they must break…

Monday again. I had some friends over yesterday to hang out and play video games. We ended up bringing out my gaming pc to hook up to the tv to play street fighter 6 - my buddy uses a keyboard that…

So far, we have reviewed how to review code with ES Lint + Prettier and Typecheck , how to set up and run smoke tests , how to run all Playwright + TypeScript tests , and reviewed the HTML report of…