“Are we sure we’re going the right way?” We’re walking up from the parking area, with a bunch of other people following us, including my friend Savannah and a few familiar Cape Town faces. Now we’re…

I started Alloy almost a year ago as a model-agnostic AI chat app, so that my conversations would live in plaintext files I control. It has since become my AI chat app of choice. I use it daily on my…

How CSS class selectors work: adding multiple classes to an element, .a.b vs .a .b vs .a, .b, class vs id, naming rules, specificity, and adding or removing classes with JavaScript.

How you can use deterministic filtering, grouping, and formatting to reduce agent context, then use semantic compression and prompt rewrites separately. Practical examples from RTK, Caveman, and…

Another couple of weeks, another new kernel release. Not many interesting things from me, just some Kconfig cleanups, IIO patches and a syzbot fix in the NILFS filesystem. What is odd is that the…

Helen Adam wrote rhymed Scottish ballads in the middle of the San Francisco Renaissance. A Helen Adam Reader is the 2007 collection that recovered her.

Let’s get climbing #photography #shotoniphone

What Happened Four notable UK prosecutions illustrate the growing intersection of cybercrime, online exploitation subcultures, and digital terrorism involving teenage offenders: Scattered Spider…

I was recently held captive and sedated in Las Vegas for seven days, plus or minus a few, under 24/7 florescent lights where the staff would chatter and the TV played incessantly. The…

Every good adventure ends the same way: you start fantasizing about your own pillow. I’ve noticed it after backpacking trips, camping trips, road trips, and international trips, solo, with friends,…

The Lanterns series ended with a thud. Some spoilers follow: Hal is still dead and the secret to his murder was unsatisfying and insulting to the character - not to mention his killer faced no…

I've always been told you can't trust a weatherman. Forecasting has gotten dramatically better, but there's a reason most apps stop pretending after a week or two: beyond that, you're not getting a…

Installing and running Oyster, sending PRL to SafeTrade, and explaining why an address balance can differ from the total wallet balance. Continue reading.

Gwen John, St Thérèse of Liseux and her Sister. Photograph from Wikimedia . Following an essay on the MusikFest Berlin performance of Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre , a report-essay on the world…

Edited by Azizi Powell Latest revision- October 22, 2026 This pancocojams post presents the history of the motivational (hype) sports song "We Ready". That song has also been adopted as a…

In the coming version 4.0.0 of Chord, I've added a type that allows the author to create oceans, large terrains, and open caverns with multiple visitation points. Also known as a grid or matrix,…

Can simple rules make a world worth exploring, one small change at a time? Up.

🪷 Finding True Peace: A Reflection on “You Are the Happiness You Seek” 🔗 We’ve all been there: chasing the next promotion, waiting for the perfect relationship, or buying that one…

I was going to prepare the layers of a small quilt for basting on my large table in the basement when I remembered I still needed to trim this 16 patch quilt. I didn't look for binding fabric yet.…

In this article, I talk about how I create and maintain a centralized, augmentable list of deserialization methods for resources used by ToyMaker.

Readers will be happy to know that tonight’s kitsune tale is a heartwarming one, not a sad one like the previous animal stories we had. The story refers to a man named so-and-so and a place…

The most interesting part of this interview was the brief discussion on the rate of diffusion of AI into the broader economy. It’s a fascinating clash of old-school economics perspective and…

The concept of You, Inc. is a direct application of the idea of self-motivation instead of externally-imposed motivation, self-discipline in place of outside discipline, self-reinforcement in the…

I was thinking of maybe having themes for each week, but decided against it since it would add complication and would make it even harder to do things in time (I don’t have a backlog for this yet).…

"Any city, however small, is in fact divided into one city of the poor, the other of the rich." Plato "One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human…

We’ve had several inquiries about our plans to drive the iconic Route 66 that we’d planned. So what happened? Hmmm… our plans changed is the short answer.

I suspect Luke Muscat isn’t the kind of dev who’d be content to spend the next few years churning out course add-ons, but I for one would be glad if he did just that. Normal Golf Game has…

PHP ships an emergency security release today, October 21, 2026, at 14:00 UTC. The release fixes two critical bugs in PHP core. People already call them “php2shell”. The details leaked…

In Expert asterisks, Ned Batchelder asks knowledgeable people “to resist the impulse to add little-traveled tangents” when helping learners…

The fourth little pig’s house was made of wolf skulls. They aren’t very sturdy, but they send a message. From a Cartoon Depending on the [...]

Text of the day: “I might have put up with it years and years ago but I’m not putting up with it now.” The post Some Woman appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

REIMAGINING THE GOOD LIFE PODCAST Season 11 of Reimagining the Good Life begins October 28! This season, we’ll explore what it means to flourish through conversations about disability and belonging,…

Allowing an AI to write code that you then ship without considerate review causes some anxiety. How do you know the code works? How do you know it isn’t doing something strange you didn’t ask for? It…

Exit SlaveWorld: Training Camps And Men’s Retreats: Pittsburgh, PA, 5/11/26

Figured it was time for a fresh coat of paint~

TAKE THE NEXT STEP PODCAST E34—Do your conversations end in silence, defensiveness, or words you wish you could take back? Are unhealthy patterns undermining your marriage? How can you communicate…

Software job postings peaked before ChatGPT existed. A look at the real data behind the AI jobs fear, who profits from it, and what the real long term question is.

In the previous post I described my process for creating a platform that lets me record and visualize personal statistics, such as how many free throws I hit, but I passed over the natural question…

Machinists > Tailors Software engineers are turning into AI Engineers? No, we are turning into software machinists. Replacing handmade software with (increasingly) cheap, plentiful, machine-made…

Pull request #9111 "Build FirebirdSQL CMake+CLang" by Sergey Khalyutin was merged into the Firebird master branch on October 21, 2026. It makes it possible to build the whole Firebird project with…

I uploaded a new article, "An Imperial Cipher from 1496?" . This is about a cipher recently identified independently by Daniel Bourdeau and George Lasry. Lasry dated it to 1496, to which Bourdeau…

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Since 1.0.0 nspawn 1.0.0 came out a month ago. There were ten minor releases between that one and 2.0.0, and most of them went into making a machine do what docker run does with a container, so that…

If you are a software engineer, or generally work in the tech industry, there is a good chance that you heard about the eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise that was disclosed yesterday (October 20,…

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Following the success of Simon’s Collingwood appearance at the The Fareham RailEx show earlier this month which included being awarded ‘Best layout in Show’ , Collingwood and its…

How a 1994 SNES cartridge became a native PC program in ten days, one loop at a time.

Microsoft Clarity is a useful way to see how people interact with your website. I’ve been using it since it first came out in 2020, but ignored or overlooked something that happened a year ago,…

Switzerland, a Prison? A few days ago, I came across a short video from Switzerland. Perhaps fifty seconds long. The first time I watched it, I was convinced the whole thing had to be staged. It was…