One of the interesting things about walking the Camino de Santiago is discovering how many different names exist for the same pilgrimage route…

Plus! Bugs; Layoffs; Trump Accounts and Social Security; Free Cash Flow; Market Efficiency

Let's loosely define a greedy algorithm as one that always takes the locally best step. In surprisingly many algorithms, this turns out to be optimal. The idea of a greedy algorithm makes for a…

I posted my first video to YouTube in 2006 (20 years ago?!). The channel (doesn’t feel like the right word for how I use YouTube) has 624 videos and 1.13K “subscribers.” Claude says “the subscriber…

Don’t worry, I’ve actually used all the bags on this list while I’ve actually traveled around the world. If you happen to follow my YouTube channel, you might have seen some of the…

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2026 Three medical experts agree: This is no country for rational discourse. We've complimented Adam Kirsch for announcing that rarely acknowledged fact. He recently did so in The…

Mmm hmm. Via: Daily Mail: An international team of scientists are working to develop a vaccine against deadly hantavirus after an outbreak of the rat-borne virus on luxury cruise ship left three…

Here is the trailer for Martin Cooper's latest feature documentary "eARTworks", the 3rd feature doc that I have shot (and done motion graphics) for working with Martin.

May 8, 2026 I keep a monthly journal in Markdown; one file per month, each entry stamped with the date and time. For a while I was creating those files by hand. That got old fast. So I wrote a Python…

A Review of The Secret World of Briar Rose by Cindy Pham

It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and if you don’t already have Sunday brunch reservations, you’re screwed. Even Jeff’s Café will turn you away! While we may not be able to save you from a lack of…

Peter Joseph Williams, the former L3 Trenchant executive recently convicted of stealing zero-day exploits from his employer and selling them to a Russian broker, has been ordered to pay $10 million…

In honour of Julian of Norwich’s night of divine deathbed ‘shewings,’ on this date in 1373, let us celebrate a similar visionary experience, this one shared and attested by…

I carved another pink rubber eraser stamp with my take on Jake the Dog from the Adventure Time animated series. The post Jake the Dog Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp appeared first on Evermore Stud.io.

Robert Johnson recorded just 29 songs and died at 27, yet became the foundation of rock and roll. Discover the real story behind the crossroads myth, his graveyard guitar lessons, and his mysterious…

that callus, that thick impenetrable skin, is the only definitive proof of your hard work. maybe you played the guitar, did pull-ups, sawed a log, walked in new shoes... maybe you started the…

Just a simple Lavender doodle (8 May 2026)

Airbnb reported +15% (FXN) revenue growth in 1Q’26 which was its highest topline growth over the last eight quarters. It is particularly impressive given the the backdrop of Iran war. Airbnb…

Supreme court's Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJ “They had to fudge how they’re calculating the turnout rate to get there, and they’re not even taking into…

AI could boost AC/DC hybrid electricity systems and make renewable-heavy power grids more stable, efficient and resilient, according to research in the International Journal of Global Energy Issues,…

I noticed today, after a lot of fatigue of watching social media - mainly Instagram, that consuming social media had become a full time job for me. I use the term job but its more like an addiction,…

Sometimes I draw fanart that isn’t Lupin. A friend streamed/is streaming all the Resident Evil games that feature Leon for my group chat and I fell for this goober. I worked on this while said…

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on any work-related questions that you want to talk about (that includes school). If you want…

The terminal's return as a serious surface for new tools (Claude Code, Codex, Omarchy) has mostly been read as a developer aesthetic story. Alcides Fonseca reads it as the receipt for thirty…

Settling into routine, another mystery novel, sportsball, Québecois Traitors, an absence of video games, and links.

Engineers want to solve their own problems, and AI made acting on that motivation cheap. Alignment used to happen before any code. Now it happens after the tools have shipped.

Classic investigation boards appear in Dark Light (dir. Padraig Reynolds, 2019).

2026 is not going well...

Anthropic doubled Claude Code's rate limits. Users say it's worse. The 5-hour window got bigger. The weekly cap didn't.

For a while, AI has been discussed mainly as a product story. Who has the best model? Who has the best assistant? Who has the best demo? Q1 2026 results suggest the discussion is shifting. In that…

A point: SG1. Z point: FR5. Term: 3 Years. Routing: Avoids Marseille and clocks 140 ms RTD.

Manchmal sind es die kleinen Dinge, die mich erfreuen. Hier zum Beispiel der zweite Lautsprecher, der den am unteren Ende spiegelt. Motorola benutzt hier nicht die kleine Tröte, die normalerweise…

The annual report does not specify what litigation(s) is/are responsible for most of that amount. A recent patent settlement could account for a large chunk of it.

Among the many stories that populate America’s long fascination with UFOs, few are as enduring as the claim that President Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly met with extraterrestrial beings during the…

One of the reasons everyone should watch and participate in sports is that it demonstrates why one must always cultivate hope. Why one should never give up. If you keep your willpower intact and keep…

The shell-pop Emacs package provides on-demand access to a terminal buffer via a single, configurable key binding. It allows toggling a terminal window without disrupting the workspace layout, making…

The cybersecurity industry's reliance on gated PDFs and MQL-driven content is actively destroying future pipeline by making the best content invisible to AI engines. Here's the case for a fundamental…

In this week’s free newsletter, I explained how bad the circular AI economy is in the simplest-possible terms: Anthropic not have money to pay big cloud bills, because Anthropic company…

Eran Feit Accuracy vs. Speed: Comparing Faster R-CNN and SSD in PyTorch Last Updated on 08/05/2026 by Eran Feit In the world of computer vision, choosing the right architecture is often a game of…

This is an amazing documentation about Art Spiegelman, his most famous work "Maus" and how it was created and how he now looks at his legacy.

all-mammal-creechur:ALTVolcano Rabbit Romerolagus diaziAlso known as the teporingo or zacatuche, is a species of small rabbit that lives in pine and alder forests on volcanic slopes in Mexico. It is…

I’ve talked a lot over the years about a simple, powerful idea. This idea represents a shift away from the guest experience of a couple decades ago into something that looks similar on the…

Eh. I really don't have time for this. But.... So, I was reading this post by Mr. Maliszewski the other day, as well as its associated links. All things considered it feels a little disjointed which…

Mr. Blurrycam strikes again: war.gov/UFO I was hoping for some laughs on aliens.gov, but no joy. Via: ZeroHedge: On Friday, the Trump administration released the first official tranche of…

Neil Young - Tanderup Farm, Neligh, Nebraska, September 27, 2014Neil Young’s performance at the Harvest The Hope anti-pipeline benefit in September 2014 has come up on two consecutive All One…

Building a civic information economy, not cultures of extraction.

I don’t like people adding tracking stuff to URLs. Still less do I like people adding tracking stuff to my URLs. https://chrismorgan.info /no-query-strings ?ref=example.com ? Did I ask? If I wanted…

History In 2013, I started my website, using Hyde . In 2016–2018, I reimplemented the site on Lektor and redesigned it twice (including migrating all content, which was actually fairly involved in at…