I had some free time, so I tried to pwn V8
TLDR I am not working full time right now, which means I have free time which is dangerous. You start by reading one V8 blog post and somehow end up trying to make Google’s Chrome open…
Web Wandering 2
Web Wandering 2 Spidah. It’s been rather sticky of late. The plants are suffering and my sun screen budget has spiralled out of control. Luckily it seems we’re through the worst of it for this year…
Separation of Base System and Userland
I had a need to deploy a small VPS recently and I wanted it to be reliable and secure so I gave FreeBSD a try. This was also a great excuse to play around with something I've been curious about for a…
From Failure to Success (Sort Of)
My fair(s) experience.
Intelligence and behavior
There has been constant fighting with the latest crop of AI models.
Cochran's Q test in R, or the extension of McNemar's test for more than two groups
Introduction In previous articles, we showed how to test whether two qualitative variables are related thanks to the Chi-square test of independence in R (and how to compute it by hand). Both…
A scooter is cheating, a cargo bike is rude, the car is fine
The Scooter I still remember using an electric scooter for the first time and feeling a strong sense of guilt and physical laziness as I effortlessly glided over the concrete. With a few hours of…
Tests and product market fit
I watched a team write a careful test suite for a feature, then kill the feature two weeks later because nobody wanted it. The tests were wasted effort, and worse: they made the feature harder to…
Hidden Tech Debt Is Still Tech Debt: A Production Lesson
A production system ran reliably for years until bot traffic exposed hidden technical debt, exhausted its SNAT ports, and brought API calls down. Let's dive into what happened and explore how it…
But We Really Mean It This Time!
Coverage and commentary of the US water utility cyber incidents continue to dominate OT security content, often with suggestions to address the problem (including mine). Most of the suggestions are…
Continuations 2026/34: First anniversary!
• Happy first anniversary to my weeknotes! I started these exactly 52 weeks ago, and managed to write on 49 weeks since then. I’ll call that a success! After all...
Some blogs are ugly, but many need better accessibility
Portuguese Some blogs are ugly. Fact. But there's nothing wrong with that! Our blogs are forms of expression, from the text to the appearance. Sometimes, some aren't so… aesthetically pleasing? I say…
If more people asked themselves this the world...
If more people asked themselves this the world would be a much better place. #DollyParton
Family
My family love me as much as I love them. We tell each other all the time. But when I’m at my lowest is really when they show it. MumShe...
Slushpile 20: Linkapalooza
Index In celebration of 20 of these damn things, I'm doing a throwback to the halcyon days of 2021 and Slushpost 8.5 , where I shared a bunch of links from my Firefox bookmarks. Except this time it's…
More from ‘external forces’
A group of lawyers’ organizations issue a statement on Chow Hang-tung… Chow Hang-tung has been subjected to extensive harassment, multiple arrests, prolonged pre-trial detention and periods of…
Wednesday 26 August, 2026
Poppy farming A reminder of what the garden was like before the Great Drought. Quote of the Day ”Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”…
The Goal of Achieving Medicare-for-All
BRIAHNA JOY GRAY: Let’s talk about something like Medicare for All, which Bernie has already done the work of making popular. It went from a 37% approval prior to 2016 to enjoying 90% approval…
The Job Is Not Yours to Ban
Some people seem to be tempted to say, "I dislike LLMs, so my license should forbid LLM training." Four essential freedoms define free software. The first of those freedoms, Freedom 0, is for any…
A day of mourning for Dolly
It's inconceivable that we have lost Dolly Parton. How beautiful that we lived in the time that she lived. There will never be another. There just couldn't be. I can't help but feel especially low…
Alguns blogs são feinhos, mas muitos precisam de melhor acessibilidade
Inglês Alguns blogs são feinhos. Fato. Mas não tem nada de errado com isso! Nossos blogs são formas de expressão, dos textos à aparência. Às vezes, alguns não são tão… esteticamente agradáveis? Digo…
In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but…
Why Isn’t The Muslim Brotherhood A Designated Terrorist Organization?
Here’s an article I found quite surprising: “U.S. Muslim Brotherhood authorizes $140M annually to help Muslims take control of American government.” Welp, the Muslim Brotherhood is…
Cool Link: Healthy Websites Have Good Anatomy
by Jeff Calaway If you’ve ever struggled on how to organize components in your project, then this is well worth the read. This article goes into the Atomic Design principles (+ some extensions of it)…
Everybody’s a facilitator, whether you know it or not. Three ways to learn the most human skill going
Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of all sorts to the best possible outcomes & help everyone around you have a better…
consumed
all these mysterious peppers have me governed they do not deter me from themselves i notice. and i would not mind - not at all - were they not consumed other things said question Yesterday ::…
Dr. Dre on AI music, creativity (Reaction post)
Yahoo via Tom’s Guide quotes Dr. Dre on AI in music production: “I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating,” he noted.…
A Citation to Asimov
A few times in the past few years, I have felt the need to cite the passage in his memoirs where Isaac Asimov explained why Mensa and other high-IQ societies were not useful places for him to spend…
The Language Of Printers
Tickets available for The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Spitalfields this Saturday and for The Gentle Author’s Tour Of The City Of London on Bank Holiday Monday. Click here to book for all The…
Can a Version Control System Help in Project Planning?
I’ve written before about how my team at work has adopted a variant of the Mikado Method for software project planning. We started this in 2023 and have evolved the process a bit since then.…
I Love My Helix Stadium XL, But NAM A2 Is Making It Look Expensive
A HeadRush Flex Prime is $819 at Turramurra Music right now. It’s a compact box with a 4in touchscreen that you could hide under a pedalboard and forget about. It loads NAM A2 captures…
restaurant savy's
We tried a new (to us) place called Restaurant Savy's they have mainly counter seating and one or two tables in the back of the restaurantI tried their tomato omurice...delicious! 1000 yen (tax…
AI and this Blog
Wow, I don't think I ever went this long without writing a blog post since this blog exists. What happened? Nothing in particular I think. I'd say it's ...
Adding diagrams to my static site generator with D2
A lot of the time when I've been writing posts for this blog, I've felt that a diagram would really help. But they're a pain to produce well, and I think I underuse them as a result. I wanted to fix…
Go-Landlock talk about Multithreaded Policy Enforcement
📢 I gave a talk about Go-Landlock and Multithreaded Policy Enforcement with LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_TSYNC at the Zurich Gophers Meetup on 2026-04-23. The video should eventually appear on the Zurich…
Abingdon School to begin its move to co-education
A historic change is taking place at Abingdon School this September, as girls join the senior school for the first time. From September 2026, girls will be welcomed into the First Year (Year 7) and…
Dolly Parton (1946-2026)
Dolly Parton passed away today at the age of 80; earlier this year she was having a number of health problems. A great country music singer and an even greater songwriter, she has been one of the…
Jolene
And as a fitting tribute to Dolly, one of my favorite bands of all time cover Jolene.
full service gas stations
where are all the self-serve stations?
Red Sky at Night (2026)
This one started out as an experiment to learn how to use the new sky, sun and clouds settings in Cinema4D.   As you may know I am still looking for alternatives to create the types of…
Out There - Session 5
In which the crew weighs their prisoners, cooks omelets, and considers blackmail.
Making A Better Book List
Goodreads is yuck. Too many options, functions, and animations. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I like lists. Simple lists that I can bring with me wherever I go. Not held preciously in a app, but dumb and free.…
GAME OF THRONES: WAR FOR WESTEROS gets a new trailer
Game of Thrones: War for Westeros , the latest attempt to bring George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire novels and their HBO TV adaptation Game of Thrones to the video game sphere, has received a…
A Q&A with Christina Solis Caron, Baby Doll from Mi Vida Loca (1993)
Christina Solis Caron played the role of Baby Doll in the cult classic movie Mi Vida Loca (1993). Mi Vida Loca is a groundbreaking film in the history of movies about Chicanos, as it follows the…
categories of AI for helping onboard folks who are new to AI
Teaching folks how to use AI includes conveying the scope of what aspects of problem solving can benefit from use of AI. The following list is not exhaustive, but is sufficient to help newbies…
Trump was right: Nobody's ever seen the Alaska LNG pipeline cash
Seven months ago President Donald Trump praised himself for starting the giant Alaska LNG pipeline project. “Launched a massive Alaska pipeline project to export natural gas to Asia. We made a deal…
My Ruby Ridge videos get 70,000 views
Thanks to everyone who viewed, commented on, or reposted my Ruby Ridge videos I posted on Facebook and Twitter/X the last few days. The number of views on my posts is roughly 70,000.…
METRO 2039 gets first full trailer
Metro 2039 , the fourth game in the long-gestating Metro series, has received a new trailer. The Metro series is set in a post-apocalyptic Moscow, where the survivors of a nuclear war in 2013 have…