Robert Geary with members of the Volti vocal ensemble The Volti vocal ensemble will begin its 48th season with a return to Knuth Hall, which is in the Creative Arts Building on the campus of San…

When I checked in at a hotel in China last night, the employee behind the desk excitedly told me that her hotel was now running a special free breakfast promotion. All I needed to do was to give the…

Learn how to use Tachyon, Python's sampling profiler. “Tachyon” is a new sampling profiler that was introduced in Python 3.15. It provides a CLI that allows running and profiling scripts or attaching…

Cristi Cretan has a very nice post on using Bloom filters to reduce system load. The TL;DR is that his team had a system that used a database to determine if they had seen a certain file before.…

So in case you missed the news from my last blog post (I haven’t exactly made it to the cover of Newsweek), I have released a demo for my space based autobattler Ridiculous Space Battles. You…

There is a peculiar kind of free-speech campaigner who becomes a censor the moment somebody else reaches for the microphone. While in general most do believe in the concept, when some advocate for…

Outside temperature today 5 degrees. Roxanne's use of Finnish language: 0%. I am going to start this blog with a quote from Tomas Linden: Btw. I enjoyed reading your travelblog! Especially the end…

In the last post, I explained how we came to return to the Dominican Republic and attempt its highest mountain, Pico Duarte, by the Mata Grande Route. I covered the first part of our trek through…

According to an old Southern California legend, an enormous winged predator once lurked beneath the waters of Elizabeth Lake, emerging after nightfall to devour livestock and terrorize ranchers in…

So what's the difference between human-written software and AI-generated slop? Epistemologically, the latter is fundamentally bullshit. It's not that I hate AI: this is the conclusion philosophers…

When I was a kid, one of my favourite genres of book to read was about UFO cranks. Now, I want to be clear, and my attorney wishes me to make it even more clear: I do not endorse or loudly oppose the…

A witch-themed speed connecting night, two days to plan, and two pipe cleaner spiders in my hair... plus the shoulder spider that got left behind again.

We are right in the middle of fall, and that means BazelCon 2026 just took place. This time around it was hosted in Amsterdam and spanned three days: one day of tutorials and an overlapping Buildbarn…

There's an interesting Atlantic article here. I don't particularly believe or disbelieve its central thrust -- that ice cream has a variety of possible health benefits -- for reasons I'll get into…

I guess you're also of the opinion that The Beatles violated the Budokan? There's actually a really fun set of philosophical questions, here. As an example... have you ever heard the Johnny Cash song…

As the hours coast through late and tip into early, more and more…one by one…two by two…invariably fall victim to fatigue or sensibility and shuffle off in search of sleep. While some, seemingly…

You have a spreadsheet with business-partner IDs and want to check the names against SAP. In Joule Work Desktop (JWD), you might ask: Look up business partner 1000001 in SAP and compare its name with…

Today I learned that there's a version of XScreenSaver for iOS . I haven't used XScreenSaver in years; probably decades at this point. Not because I don't like it or anything; it's just because I've…

AI has purported to prove two new and improved versions of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis, as discussed at Quanta magazine and a Twitter thread discussing additional proofs (by humans) that flow from…

You might sometimes use incognito mode, private browsers, or even Incognito Mode, but if you're not changing your DNS, snoops can still see where you go online!

Why typography rarely gets revisited, what designers struggle with most – and arguments to get your stakeholders on board. The post The State of Typography in Design Systems appeared first on Pimp my…

I gave my Home Assistant photo dashboard a tiny AI guide. It adds a short description beside each picture, with optional camera clues and a free PDF for the full setup.

A prospective client once told me, “I don’t care about what you do or how. I only care about results.”  This statement conveys short sightedness and ineffectiveness. Even if clients only care…

Medieval Paris was not simply a royal capital, a university town or a city of magnificent churches. It was also a crowded and constantly changing urban landscape, shaped by the Seine, its bridges and…

So the trees are shedding their leaves quickly, but there’s still a few colourful spots lingering, bathing in glorious sunshine. And to the left, from my balcony, looking into the...

If you run a website built on PHP, today is a day to drop what you are doing and check your servers. Two critical vulnerabilities were disclosed in PHP, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and…

Few know his name today. But over a 34-year military career, Marine officer Smedley Butler (1881-1940) was for long America’s most famous soldier. He fought in the Philippine–American War, the…

CHAPTER 33 IDENTITY OF GOD’S WILL WITH HIS INTELLECT Patet autem quod oportet ipsam Dei voluntatem nihil aliud esse quam eius intellectum. Bonum enim intellectum, cum sit obiectum voluntatis, movet…

These days the watch on my wrist has rings that want closing, and more than once I've caught myself watching a percentage instead of a field. That bothered me at first — felt like a…

A study of 500 Thai retailers has found that businesses with stronger big data analytics capabilities tend to be better at identifying market needs, innovating, and executing effective marketing…

PowerShell, I owe you an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game.

I wish I’d started planning my retirement fund earlier. For most of my 20s, I knew I should do something beyond the statutory pension insurance, but I never found the courage to learn about my…

Notes from the Austin JS talk, the status of Astrohacker TermSurf, and the two developer APIs that the audience asked for: browser control for SI agents and a Playwright-compatible API. Both are now…

Uploaded a Destiny 2 fanfic. Updated some oops'd links on other fanfics.

CHAPTER 32 THE VOLITION OF GOD Ulterius autem manifestum est quod necesse est Deum esse volentem. Ipse enim se ipsum intelligit, qui est bonum perfectum, ut ex dictis patet. Bonum autem intellectum…

Mmmm...let's see. Where to start? Where to start...? So, for last year's Cauldron, my inspiration for the Blackrazor Tournament Cup adventure came mainly from the old TSR module DL6: Dragons of Ice (…

IntroductionuCreater (the vendor's own name for the product is YingGai) is a commercial Android surveillance platform built around 群控 (“mass control”). Branded…

I've been searching through my layout photos, thinking about putting together a little book of pictures I've taken over the years. There's a story in them, and a picture book might help me figure out…

In 2011, a friend and I spent more than ten hours trying to reconcile two apparently incompatible ideas: free will and an all-knowing God. I was a believing Muslim at the time. That mattered. I…

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Check out the complete 21 page paper describing FCMP++ here on kayabaNerve's GitHub Max's Quest to Seraphis I am expatriotic, a scribe of the square of Ring, and I was there the year the masks came.…

Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias at LACMA The exhibition explores the technological optimism of futuristic living while questioning who was excluded from this high-tech…

The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph's authority, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper (Genesis 39:23). Joseph is an…

HOLY COW, GUZY, you can customize TypeScript compiler errors now! Well… you probably could before, but… not easily. This new TypeScript 7.1 API allows you to get info about what the…

Unhappy is he who has nothing to give. But a thousand times unhappier is he who has no one with whom to share what he has. Quis me sustinebit? — Quis me audiet? My fountain dries up and its water…

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Our ongoing review of my first and least accurate set of predictions about the immediate future of industrial society has had its ups and downs, its hits and misses. The post I’m assessing this time…

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