I have a copy of SICP, or as it is also known, The Wizard Book. This book is widely praised, but I can’t take the time to work my way through all of it. Instead, I’m going to occasionally…

Unpacking a database of unknown type

My girlfriend wanted to watch Sparkle, Whitney Houston’s last film. I have a full *arr stack running, I thought this would take 30 seconds. No seeders. Zero. Asked Claude to add better…

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Contents A stable decision and a stable patient are the same illusion The paper survives, the ground does not A short story about a tool that was right until it wasn’t The role that keeps decisions…

Chromebooks, iPads, and other Silicon Valley devices are infiltrating public school classrooms. Nicholas Smyth, professor of ethics and technology at Fordham University, interviewed 30 parents about…

The title of this posting asks the question “What holds our future back?” You may propose answers like the limit to our imaginations, fear of change, and more, but, in truth, what truly…

I bought a sample of Demeter Fragrance Library's Kitten Fur and wore it last night to a screening of Gregg Araki's Three Bewildered People in the Night at 2220 Arts. I didn't have to include the…

    BACKGROUND For the next six months, I intend to fulfil a long-standing objective of mine to visit each of the properties on the London Monopoly board. This will encompass 22 streets and…

Tabitha's 8-10pm badminton put me in a scenic part of the county, during a nice pre-dusk, and I did nothing with it.52 words · 3 images

The extraction class media will spend all summer and fall telling you that very ordinary and popular public interest reforms are the very worst form of extremism.

i've been thinking of death lately since oliver tree's death. i am processing it still and it feels weird to say, since i did not personally know him. maybe that is a mark of a great artist - you…

Mrs. Mai Tai hadn’t been to Jungle Bird in a while so we made sure to visit during our night in Sacramento, arriving for a reservation at 9 pm. The tiki bar was busy at a time when we’re…

It was a slower week. I enjoyed catching up with new CSS features through reading articles, watching videos, and working through a tutorial. The post Weeknotes 26:26 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.

A follow-up to the split Cursor workflow: install Ollama on Manjaro with CUDA, pull coding models, wire up Aider and Cline for scoped local work — with honest limits on tool reliability, privacy, and…

I still continue to write all of my computer graphics programs line by line. No vibe coding, no asking an AI to “insert an implementation of this here”. I do understand that this puts me…

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Math is wonderful, and there are so many different ways to play and experience it. I enjoy having conversations with other math lovers and sharing ideas, puzzles, pedagogy, and questions. In one of…

Within the history of cryptography, the tale of how Bletchley Park broke Germany’s Enigma cipher has been told many times, in both print and on screen. With so much emphasis on the…

Season 1 · Episode 4 Good morning, Capital Scholars friends and family! This week we are on Chapter 3 of 7 in our book, How to Change. Today's topic is procrastination. This post is one of a few…

Suppose you need to run 15 miles (24 km) in the next week. You can distribute this volume however you want, both within and across days. Your goal is to cover the requisite distance in a way that…

I started freelancing this year. This has meant jumping between unfamiliar codebases and getting productive as quickly as possible. A year ago this process entailed scouring through READMEs and…

Every time I tell someone new that I'm a writer, they pause for a moment, then ask the same question: "So, what do you think about AI?" This question has been sapping my motivation to write for years.

Season 1 · Episode 3 Good morning, dear readers! We have now been in DC for around a month; four chapters into our reading assignment, and four weeks into our internships. As we close in on the…

This article considers the use of human-generated data by Artificial Intelligence (AI). More specifically, I am concerned with what I call “spontaneous data,” under which Instagram photos and TikTok…

"Supergirl," is the second big film in James Gunn and Peter Safran's new take on the DC cinematic Universe. "Superman," did quite well, and the second season of, "Peacemaker," which altered its…

X-MEN #32. (Annotations here.) I know, I know, we’re into the next week now… but let’s run through these anyway. This is part 2 of “Anomaly”, which is basically the…

Chas Glatzer, fellow adventurer in nature photography and someone I’ve been with on trips multiple times over the years, has passed after being involved a three-vehicle collision on Interstate 85 on…

thanks to those who left recent doodles in my drawbox! love the cute cat and the smiley face :D i dumped some art i did recently, mostly silly stuff, but putting it on here anyway!

Today is the feast of St. Peter and Paul, Apostles. From Pope Leo XIV's homily for the day : In this light, we can interpret the mission entrusted by the Lord to Peter and his Successors for the…

In my time time scrolling through the Discovery page, a detail that I sometimes make a mental note of is if someone's blog is under their IRL name. This makes me think about and sometimes question my…

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There was one occasion during Keir Starmer's leadership that I felt a frisson of hope. That was during Gordon Brown's report back on his commission on the UK's constitution . Its devolutionary agenda…

powRSS will start listing the blog carnivals happening around the indie web.

Since it is the last Monday of the month, here is a mix of my favorite songs I heard in June. Enjoy!Songs to check out:01. Behind You by House of Harm02. I Was Ill, You Were Wrong by TRAITRS03. Moon…

CJ Chilvers: Before influencers, there were bloggers. Before bloggers, there were TV stars, rock stars, and movie stars. Call them whatever you want, but individuals have always been the drivers of…

My blog maintenance/inspiration template has gone through a couple of changes since I first created it, and while I mentioned the new list recently, I didn’t really explain what the different…

“ J ust as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our political parties can undermine a great civilisation.” ~ Thomas Sowell from his 2002 '…

I’ve traveled to Graz to for once *not* speak at the Frontend Graz meetup, and instead be a regular attendee who can simply enjoy the show. By the way, this was the tenth edition, because we include…

Enjoy a 1-minute video celebrating the MATH and POETRY of Omar Khayyam This Mathematician Solved Impossible Equations While Writing Poetry -- YouTube This blog posting -- from long ago in 2011 --…

Nice! It really captures that Star Wars craze vibe

Imagine a love letter to the lost skill of paying attention. That is this book complete with 131 bite-sized exercises that wake you up to a world you see but don’t notice. The Art of Noticing…

On the feedback loop that AI’s democratization left behind In the previous post I argued that research is not engineering carried out at a slower speed, and that the two activities have…

In the Sixties there was more than one way of getting it together in the country. You could, like Traffic, have your own cottage out in the wilds, or you could get a place at Reg Calvert's boarding…

$389,000 - Standing proudly in the heart of Bristol's prestigious Solar Hill Historic District, this remarkable Neo-Classical residence, built circa 1910, is one of the neighborhood's true landmarks.…

PROCESS IS DIFFERENT FOR STANDARD DENSITY (1130) CARTRIDGES The method of aligning the heads takes advantage of the wider spacing of the poles of the erase coil in the head compared to the read/write…

A quick guide to help users set up account backups on their iOS devices

Guys, some of the stuff that I am working on are really noteworthy. Well, of course (I believe) my Sir Whiskerton stuff are all great unique fun and all that. But mean other things that I am working…