Are downpayments outdated? When half of the kiddos without houses say saving enough for that initial lump sum is impossible, why do we cling to this anachronistic rule? The question’s being asked…

This post discusses "programming" in the lambda calculus.

New post: Meilisearch on a Hugo-based website

New post: Meilisearch on a Hugo-based website

How context, reusable engineering skills, and Open Machine enabled nine hours of autonomous engineering, raising average GPU utilization from 43% to 93%.

New Q&A! These questions come from Patreon supporters: Patreon.com/KnifeSteelNerds The post Q&A: Are We Running Out of Premium Knife Steel? And Other Questions appeared first on Knife Steel…

Today, I'm really happy to announce a brand new AppleSqueezer accelerator: the AppleSqueezer GS Turbo. And as you may well guess from its name, the main difference is in the speed, although it's not…

Same-role agents edit their assigned files in one shared repo. A coordinator repairs the fallout and gets the build green. Then I review.

AT THIS ADDRESS IS A LINUX KERNEL BUILD TOOL THAT IS VERY USEFUL, YOU WILL FIND, FOR RUNNING A COPY OF THE SATELLITE INTERPRETER I AM KIND OF PROUD OF THE LINUX KERNEL TOOL MYSELF, IT WAS MADE BY THE…

There’s an older deaf gentleman in my town who’s very friendly, and likes to communicate with rudimentary hand gestures, but I have a hard time understand what he’s trying to say.…

Transfers on transit are funny things. On the one hand, it is undeniably helpful to have multiple lines connect to each other and feed ridership; trying to have a single-seat ride for every trip…

Where I grew up the Alder, related to Birch, was called a trash tree. Why? It took over fresh-water wetlands and filled in ponds. Not a strong wood, long lived or large. Folks never mentioned it is…

A new Asana report finds leaders use far more AI agents than their teams, while workers lose time juggling them. My take on why the two sides see agents so differently, and why leaders should measure…

As I've probably discussed previously, Radiohead sit high atop my list of artists I really wish I liked more. ( See also, e.g. , Steely Dan , Public Image Ltd. , Van Morrison , etc.) However much I…

Next week I am on a panel at Black Tech Fest and received this encouragement to sign up for one of the workshops. The wording was striking. Unpacking follows. The claim I want to focus on is: Yet…

The conclusion to Catarina’s adventure!

An institution finds a home in the Richmond District just before the 1906 earthquake hits.

Large language models are obsessed with a name again. But why? The post AI Has a New Crush, and He Keeps a Lighthouse appeared first on Namerology.

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) has declared the end of leap seconds!

I have never been, nor am I, a Minecraft fan. I mean, I have never been able to get into the game, per se. I love the Minecraft Movie and...

So I went and watched a movie… Transcript

Ok so, some fun notes: Cloudflare deployed blocking rules at about 1500 today! Ubuntu back ported the fixes so this … Continue reading Upgrading to PHP 8.5.12 Backports

This morning, two critical PHP Security Advisories were published: RCE via OOM corruption (9.2/10) RCE via stale global state (9.2/10) If you're running PHP for any service, you need to upgrade…

This article — perhaps the most important of the more than 100 articles I’ve written about Israel’s genocide in Gaza over the last three years — reveals a hitherto unnoticed pattern of almost daily…

My review of Street Fighter (2026).

Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s film crackles with sex and dark comedy but can't weave a satisfying finale.

Today is the Feast of St. Gaspar del Bufalo (+1837), “Hammer of Freemasons”. I have interest in St. Gaspar as one of my Roman patrons because I exercised ministry as a seminarian and then…

The International Museum of Sports, Berlin would be a perfect venue for an exhibition of photographs of super athletes, but it does not exist—explained below. INSTALLATIONS Every artist that I know…

If you publish a podcast, your podcast may well take advertising. And if it does take advertising, you probably want people to actually listen to the ads. Your audience listening to podcast ads…

The 2020 pandemic lockdown was a globally historic event, and one that created a groundswell of resentment and lasting antipathy. So naturally many writers and artists steer clear of referencing the…

After staying the night at Stanger Vineyards in Paso Robles, we drove the Noovo Plus van south to El Capitán State Beach Campground, with a couple of interesting stops on the way.An interactive map…

Somewhere along the way, "feel the reset" became gospel. Instructors preach it, forums fight about it, new shooters lose sleep over it. But maybe, just maybe, there's some heresy: when the adrenaline…

Breakfast at the hotel was surprisingly good despite my low expectations. The food was plentiful and of reasonable quality. We did not see any other cyclists, probably because we got to breakfast…

Day 2 of the Python Core Sprint was all about one thing for me: moving our GitHub bots, bedevere, blurb_it, and miss-islington, off Heroku and onto the PSF’s Cabotage. Monday was prep.…

On Saturday a researcher told Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and eMudhra that eight of eMudhra’s intermediate certificate authorities had private keys anyone could recover in under a second.…

 10/17/26 F-C Pitt Artist Brush Pens in Stillman & Birn Zeta sketchbook (photo reference)If you look closely at the individual leaves of trees that are turning, you’ll see that most exhibit…

[Readers of Rick On Theater will know that I have an interest in the visual arts. I’ve posted many articles, both by me and by others, including a number from published sources, on art from one…

USC’s Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis is hiring two tenure-track assistant professors, one in transportation planning and one in environmental planning.

Following his work on 1976's Space Ironman Kyodain , creator Shotaro Ishinomori expressed an interest in creating his own giant robot show akin to the likes of Tetsujin 28 and Giant Robo as its…

A career ladder creates winners and losers; what happens to the losers?

This is a well-written and interesting read. It's not a review bashing Houdini: Back from the Dead per se. It even acknowledges there are good moments. But it does take on the idea of an all-AI…

What if the standard career path was a driver of authoritarianism?

The title was always a magician’s trick.

There are so many objects in this image! I think this is the best framing with my 518 mm focal length imaging setup. The bubble nebula seems like a planetary...

Edited by Azizi Powell This pancocojams post presents some general information about United States historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). This post also presents a list of the top ten…

A HoverEffectComponent-shaped API for selections in RealityKit.

The Trump Era will be known to history as World War III. It began in 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine. It has since become ubiquitous, extending deeply into every area, and into the life of…

A practical guide to designing agent systems around capability, cost, privacy, and security risk. An agent includes a model, an execution loop, and tools.

Setting the stage I need to give a name to something, a name for a problem I keep waiting for the “AI” community to solve. I'm not sure that community even knows the problem is there. Maybe. Maybe…