The Ordesa Valley is everything they say, but also harder work than I had imagined. And keep you boots dry!

The 2026 edition of my No Nonsense Technician Class License Study Guide is now available for review. I would love for you to download it, read through it, and comment on it, either here in this post…

We cancelled Auth0 over a year ago. Not because it stopped working, but because scaling to 350,000 monthly active users made the pricing model untenable. The migration to MojoAuth cut our…

The Strong National Museum of Play announced the 2026 inductees to its World Video Game Hall of Fame on May 7. Source

Okay, today's off to a much better start. Easy to do when I remember I have to work and also get groceries. I do want to try and go as many days as I can without buying groceries because I have a…

A true blue blog is now in a serif font as of today ^^ I will experiment with some more other fonts if/when I feel like it, but I started to get an idea that Space Mono is not the most comfortable…

Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out...

Long awaited and finally released: Every image can be used as a team logo! Simply go to the editor, open a data pack and in the team editor click "Load custom logo". Over the past weeks the game got…

You cannot be happy if you have only one dimension to your life, one personality and one source of validation. People who dedicate their entire existence to their business or job are worse off than…

I’m sitting in a darkened sports arena in Kazakhstan as I write this. For the first time in 7 years I am again on the International Judo Federation world tour; working in the IT team. Life goes…

TrustedVolumes, a resolver and market maker used by 1inch and other defi platforms, suffered a $6.7 million exploit after an attacker was able to steal funds without proper validation. The thief then…

Our internet bill was too high. It had gone beyond the promotional contract period and the triple-play bundle for 300/300 net, medium-level TV package, and home phone (yes, a landline!) was just too…

what? I submit that the most gameable number is 12. I ask you: Why are there 12 months of the year? 12 zodiac signs? 24 hours in a day? 12 inches to a foot? 12 Apostles, 12 tribes of israel, 12 gods…

I just added a new feature to Kino , my educational movie-discovery project built with LangGraph: a prompt-driven discovery flow that finds grounded titles from a local catalog. The easy label would…

David reviews the new 'Mortal Kombat' film

C64 Dev Machine has received another update, bringing a set of practical improvements to its visual coding environment for the Commodore 64. Version V099.61.9 continues the project’s main idea:…

Cat Power & Loren Mazzacane Connors - Tonic, New York City, October 7, 1999Thanks to Jordan for alerting me to the recent upload of this classic, one-time-only (?) team-up — Chan Marshall and…

Insurance brokers are currently in a world of pain as the halcyon days of hard market is clearly behind us. At first glance, the organic growth still seems to be holding up reasonably well (ex BRO),…

Rooted Android phone Disabled IMS (VoLTE, VoWIFI) Lock the LTE band to the lowest band available No voice calls SMS via SGd

Julian of The Incense Atelier has sent me three samples from a range of Baykeri incense he is selling on his website. I've previously reviewed Shivranjani , the flagship brand of Baykeri , which they…

https://open.spotify.com/episode/123CyNvkmrTp4zsRQ2CANu?si=gbJrnHxfSNS432D-djdjTw The post Tax Foundation Podcast Episode on American Financial Literacy appeared first on HumbleDollar.

"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work is a very nice article from Steven van Gemert outlining a simple approach to reduce mental baggage and increase focus. The next time you begin your…

8560/21479A mildly complex school pick up today. Ernie was in clubs til 4.30pm but Phoebe was playing cricket. My understanding from the email I'd seen was that they were playing away at a…

The inaugural taping of The Hook in Austin, TX happened on May 3rd at Sagebrush, and it was a good thing the cameras were rolling, because numerous moments went down that deserved to be shared with…

<p>i was always a big fan of going to developer conferences - talks, in-depth workshops, coding labs and meeting other developers in real life. Also if i couldn’t attend in person i usually was…

Here is Matt Glassman discussing how he's a bit less market-happy than he used to be. It's a good read and very close to my own attitude. Matt's view is, roughly, that the world is getting more and…

Amanda Shendruk writes about the work that’s done after Burning Man , where 150 people line up, side by side and arms apart, and slow walk the entire playa looking for Moop (Matter Out of Place).…

My STT journey started with Whisper. One of Freya's STT models was a fine-tuned Whisper Large-V3. I optimized it with TensorRT, got it to 130ms, around 94x realtime. Solid, but we hit a wall. The…

One of the essays in Voluptuous Panic! is, or started as, an attempt to clarify and explain what ‘genius’ is to me — the word is freighted and its meaning too shifty, so it…

I visited 和食・酒 えん 品川ウィング高輪店 on May 7, 2026. I gave it a 3.1 on Tabelog.

Do you remember Pat Tillman? He was a former NFL player who famously quit football and joined the military after 9/11, only to die by friendly fire in Afghanistan a few years later. What I’ve…

By Peter Gabaldon (X / LinkedIn) TL;DR This past summer (2025), during an Ethical Hacking process, we found a Smart Drawer machine for automated payment management. The employees of this recreation…

Netflix confirmed THE ONE PIECE, a full anime remake by WIT Studio, for February 2027. Seven episodes, 300 minutes, East Blue from Chapter 1. Here's every confirmed detail, the pacing math that has…

IndieGameJoe is the only person I know who can actually make twitter work. Nobody else can tweet once and earn a game thousands of wishlists. 4 Years ago I talked to him about going Viral on Twitter…

Blog Post Preview: Unveiling the Adventure in *Operation Perilous Magnetism. Exciting News for Young Readers! Good morning everyone! We're thrilled to announce an upcoming middle-grade novel that…

As a new quick rule of thumb inspired by the Nature papers, you could do worse than “cut estimated effect sizes in half”. If a published paper says that a college degree raises wages 100%, then…

I spent two nights in Arezzo, which is surprisingly a great town to stay and relax. I stayed at The Homestay, which was a nice place to rest and not too far from the attractions, plus it’s next to a…

Tim Culpan, reporting at Culpium: This renewed commitment to meeting demand means Apple must also ask TSMC for a hot lot of A18 Pro chips, the same processor used in the iPhone 16 Pro. The…

in which i finally put down DDFF and write about something else

Fundamentals is written by a Physics Nobel prize winner (Frank Wilczek), and is an elegantly written paean to science as well as philosophy, which I thoroughly enjoyed. For one thing, he starts with…

 4/30/26 Volunteer ParkSometimes the all-mighty algorithm finally gets it right. With my reignited love for Caran d’Ache Neocolor II water-soluble crayons, I’ve been looking around for unique or…

If you consider it, I wanna encourage you.

We implement tokenization using the byte pair encoding algorithm.

Couple, Too, Tree During Boise Code Camp this past weekend, pgFirstAid hit 500 stars on Github! Honestly, I really did not think it would gain the attention it has. Not to mention, in the thick of…

What happens when someone generates a front-end comp for you and says this must be the way? Of course this hasn’t happened with any of our clients, since this is unallowable into the field. But we’ve…

ocurrent/docker-base-images publishes the ocaml/opam:* Docker images which the OCaml CI systems use. For each distro, it tracks 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, and master opam release branches in…

worldofreel.com Aster once quipped that he couldn’t believe A24 was “stupid enough” to give him $35M to make “Beau Is Afraid.” They shelled out another $30M for…