I listened to the podcast The Making of Xi Jinping where the host interviewed Joseph Torigian, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Party’s Interests Come First: The…

Went to the early voting site in our town and submitted my vote for the midterm elections. Did my part to make sure that no republican gets elected for any...

This is a crosspost of my recent blog post on the specific version of EA I like the most and am excited to defend and promote . I’m working on a much longer post articulating the reasons and…

My review of “Psycho”.

A bit cool today when the sun was not out but still a pretty good day. Martha and I drove the Honda CRV down Colorado highway 67 towards the town of Victor, Colorado. Back during the Gold Rush days,…

Interim President John Pelesko with Foundation Board of Directors Excellence in Research and Innovation Medal winner David Bader. New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) celebrated the achievements…

In the past few months, I've been sharing my experiences working with AI, both in software development and in everyday administrative tasks. AI has been amazing at automating workflows and…

For years, I’ve been using Ansible to configure my homelab, blog, and workstations. After testing out Chef and Salt, I’m glad I happened upon Ansible. The tool has grown more and I’ve gotten tons of…

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Nikon Z8 & LR Taken a few weeks back; you’re getting an old one today because, like Jasper, I didn’t touch a camera today. The surgeon today rocked my world a little bit. There is…

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This essay was originally written for and submitted to the Pragmatic Engineer essay contest in October 2026. At some point earlier this year I realized I was not enjoying work the way I used to. I'm…

Yes, I like this particular shade of blue. It can be the sky, it can be water, it can be a watery sky.

I got tired of trying to be Canadian. These days, I’m not even trying. The post Here or There, Who Cares? Canada and I Are Just Friends Now first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

Before considering pollution as an externality, let&#8217;s first consider another practice that deprives people of life, liberty, and property without due process of law. Sadly, I have to point out…

Seventy-five years ago, the BBC realized that it needed to start broadcasting on VHF. The reason was simple: The mediumwave band in Europe was too crowded. But unlike America, which had been using FM…

I recently learned that there is a large cat colony on Rikers Island, where hundreds of feral cats have been living for many years (most of the original cats had been dumped on the island by…

I&rsquo;ve been sent the below internal email, which I&rsquo;ve been told is from Matthew Grant who is Executive Editor, Radio &amp; Audio Newsroom, BBC News. It suggests that the BBC World Service…

Meeting comes to order at 8PM exactly. 49 people are present. There are public comments. The arguments for and against adopting the SIC report have been heard before, many times. Martin objects to…

That’s a loaded concept. Not easy to deal with. I’ve got some thoughts about this, but not all the answers. I think of the mind like a cluttered desk. To find something, I’ll have to take more time…

You CAN bargain with Death, but their schedule is immutable.

My agent saved a memory saying I'd decided to work with plumbers in the UK. I hadn't, but every agent sharing that memory kept steering me there.

Disclaimer: I started working on this project in November 2025. This post describes where it stands today. That sentence, whose meaning is only partly true, is deliberately a garden path sentence,…

Every community platform right now ends up as a tiny dictatorship. Facebook groups, WhatsApp groups, subreddits. Someone happens to be in the right place at the right time, opens a group around a…

As a lifelong fan of marginal programming languages, I've spent my fair share of time wondering why they don't get more use. I would really have liked to use more Clojure over the last fifteen years.…

An agent with one flat memory file does not forget things; it cannot stop remembering things it was not asked about. The fix is a tiered context where each knowledge layer enters through a different…

Your friends cancel. The riverside row of yatai in Nakasu glows with the usual red lanterns and plastic curtains, but somehow the stalls look smaller, more ordinary than the photos promised. The air…

I found in Newsonat by Mark Rogers his 5 Ws of Reading . So here are mine. WHO - An author you would love to have a ‘one to one’ with? That’s definitely James Altucher. I’ve binge-read almost all his…

Paulblish turns mermaid code blocks into diagrams, and until now it used mermaid.js to do it. It worked, but the diagrams always looked a bit off next to the rest of my site, and on a phone anything…

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Notes from the faculty-trainee lunch at Yale with Jun Lu on Oct 21, 2026 Main goal would be to help the field of interest progress. Questions while aproaching a problem How well or poorly is the…

A 6,000-run support agent costs $9.52 to $150.62 a month in API fees. I priced 5 LLMs across 67 routes and separated the three levers that matter.

A person is a seed and a few props. No .glb , no textures, no rig to import. Everything else falls out of that. Every game with a character creator ends up with the same pile of stuff. A base mesh, a…

Agent capabilities are outstripping human abilities to keep up with security vulnerabilities and patching. In order to keep up,

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Build a SwiftUI calendar export with EventKitUI, immutable request snapshots, and honest save receipts that survive a rescheduled booking.

I've been thinking a lot about how I feel about my voice as a trans woman I've gone through the whole rigmarole of practicing a feminine voice, going to a voice therapist, reading the rainbow passage…

LinkLane sends every link to the right browser and profile – work links to the work profile, personal links to the personal one. Why I built it and how it works.

Rails 8.2 lets an Active Record type define the SQL expression every query compares through. Write lower() once, in a type, and get case- and accent-insensitive find_by, where, order, and uniqueness…

TL;DR Certifications are not bad; chasing them is. A badge proves you reached the passing mark on one exam on one day. It does not prove you have run the service in production, and the terms attached…

TL;DR Question 1, migrate web, batch and legacy apps with scalability and security: legacy and web tiers on EC2 in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones, network ACLs plus security…

We’ve all been amazed at how many LLMs and decisional models we’ve managed to integrate, in all sorts of places, in our codebases. What was once a complicated deterministic process combining many…

On 20 October 2026 a commit went into FreeBSD's source tree with the title pf: Keep every chunk of a table that a ruleset defines: libpfctl sends a table of addresses to the kernel in chunks of 256,…

↗ Mathematics is a subject for the young Tristan Buckmaster · What’s new (Terence Tao) · October 21, 2026 On October 6th, OpenAI released hundreds of manuscripts with proofs that were mostly…

geneva_drive is the first thing I’ve put out for money on my own, without an org behind my back - and a rollercoaster on many fronts. One of the less obvious ones is the actual distribution: how does…

**EARNINGS CALL, HOUR 31 AWAKE (sleep is a Bezos hobby)**Headline today: "Flying Roadsters can't lift Tesla's flat revenue." I built a car that DEFEATS GRAVITY, and the one thing it can't lift is a…