Arm FQ4 & CoreWeave Q1 – Rocky Road
Arm FQ4 26 – RSI curse. CoreWeave Q1 26 – Revenue per GW bomb
what people think + I fell in love
Blog. I have not written in what feels like actual years. However I didn't expect to write this entry for at least another 7 years. Since I was young, my dad's stance on dating was that I was not…
Stepping Away from Streaming with the Snowsky Echo Digital Audio Player
I’ve already spent some time stepping away from streaming with another digital audio player, but the Snowsky Echo sits in a slightly different space. Where something like the Innioasis Y1…
What Is Going On With Adobe?
Perfect strawberries. Real or completely AI generated? What's your guess? The answer is at the end of this post. (click to enlarge) I can't help but notice. What in the world is going on with Adobe…
How to Shoot More Creative Landscapes on Film by Angela Izzo
I have an adventurous heart and a deep love for nature, so I’ve always been mesmerized by and drawn to all kinds of landscapes... The post How to Shoot More Creative Landscapes on Film by Angela Izzo…
Oh, Tilston
The town of Tilston has two grain elevators. Both have a lot of character!
50 for 50: An Adventure Half a Century in the Making
To mark my 50th birthday, we walked 50+ miles around Knoxville, Tennessee . It was awesome! Here's 5 reasons why. Terrain The goal for 50-for-50 had always been simple: cover 50 miles, ending on my…
Three-Fer Friday.
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The One Who Was Ready
They will ask you about Carnegie Hall. About the Musikverein. About standing ovations and spotlit stages and famous names in programme notes. I will tell you about a Tuesday afternoon in 1987. Trust…
The peasant home
Patrick Joyce, Remembering Peasants: The dwelling is also a constitutive part of the relationship between past and present generations, between the living and the dead. Something handed on, or hoped…
Hermes Voice Control from Your Phone
You already chat to Hermes Agent from your phone with text. Now you want to talk to it directly and get spoken replies back. That is usually the right move, especially if you already use Hermes as a…
Friday 8th May 2026
8561/21480It's the eight year anniversary of the day I found a toilet especially for me.I seem to have got more attractive since I was 50. But that might just have been a bad day. After…
Anger and other emotions
I am no medical professional, I simply have reflected a lot on my own emotions and feelings, and am sharing my thoughts on what works for dealing with emotions in my own experience. I’m going to…
How Death Becomes Imaginable: Yiyun Li, Suicide Affordance, and the Limits of Literary Mourning
I. Not Causation, but Lowered ProtectionSuicide prevention has a language for contagion. It does not yet have an adequate language for what makes suicide imaginable before any specific crisis…
AI stole my hobby
I've been playing on computers since I was four or so, and building them since around twelve or so. PC building has always been one of my favourite hobbies: something about the need to deeply…
I AM: Indie Arcade Moray – Games, Developers, Talks All Wanted
Elgin has long established itself as the most (we think) northerly games hub in the UK. As the home of the excellent Moray Game Jam, the internationally successful Hunted Cow, and the specialised…
Daynote - Fri 8 May 2026
A day of cutting words.
Getting peak TOPS on a Ryzen AI 7 350 NPU
I have a Framework Laptop 13 that has a Ryzen AI 7 350 CPU that includes an NPU. I have started playing with this NPU to understand how to develop software for it. While NPUs are mainly intended as…
62++C (C++26 Reflection)
Preamble I've always been better at the 'doing' rather than the explaining, so as part of my “what can we do with C++26” exercise I thought this would be a good opportunity to attempt to practice the…
Inventions in Everything: Disposable Boxer Shorts
The animated television show South Park has satirized many things over the years, but none more effectively than its creators' take on corporate business plans. Yes, we're talking about the…
The Story of the Gnome Fly Part 1 - The American Dwarf; Harvey Leach (1801-1847)
From the February 1954 issue of the US comic 'Nightmare' I believe the name "Hop-Frog" was not that given to the dwarf by his sponsors at baptism, but it was conferred upon him, by general consent of…
NOT MY FAULT !
The model today is really Roger's fault, which means the delay on getting my first Monster May(hem) post up is also his fault ! LOL The other week when I showed Jaxxon, Roger said was I going to do…
- created
Gunpei Yokoi, inventor of the gameboy, came up with a concept called Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology. The concept is simple, use very well understood technology and combine it in novel…
Sometimes Resisting Means Recommitting Yourself To What You’re Already Doing
Over the last four years that I’ve been reading the statement, however, and especially since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, it has become an affirmation that gathering as we do every…
Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 3, "I would that His peynes were my peynes"
"I would that His peynes were my peynes." In Chapter 3 Julian finally tells the story about the origin of her showings, some details of which I've already shared. As Julian recounts, when she was…
Why Are Baby Sandhill Cranes Called Colts?
8 May 2026 Sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) hatched a few weeks ago at Magee Marsh in northwestern Ohio. We found two colts following their parents on Thursday 7 May. “Colts?”…
Capsules: compile-time lock discipline in OxCaml
x-ocaml { font-size: 0.8em; display: block; margin-bottom: 1.4rem; } x-ocaml.hidden { display: none; } In the previous post we fixed the racy gensym with Portable.Atomic . That worked because the…
AI Automation
The interesting thing about AI is that the software engineers now are trying to automate part of the job like writing code and also automating the parts that they should be doing on the result like…
Connecting To MySQL & MariaDB using MySQLConnector in C# & .NET
When it comes to working with MySQL and MariaDB in C# & any of the languages on the .NET platform, the first port of call is which managed drivers to use.
GitHub stars inflation
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Arch Linux: WireGuard Peer for Connecting to MikroTik
In the post MikroTik: setting up WireGuard and connecting Linux peers I described how to set up MikroTik as a VPN Hub and connect a peer running on Debian Linux. Setup on Arch Linux is mostly the…
Kafka Community Spotlight 🔦
Kafka Community Spotlight is an initiative to bring more life, depth, and visibility to the Kafka community by regularly highlighting the people involved in Kafka ...
Kafka
Kafka is a good thing.
Happy Birthday, David!
David Attenborough turns 100 today. Thank you, David, for sharing and for inspiring!
The soul in the machine
One of the first things skeptics learn is to never assume that paranormal belief implies stupidity. Smart people believe questionable things all the time; intelligence is different from the ability…
Exterminate! …no not, that the other one
Animate! (your gmail logo)
The Feast Day of Julian of Norwich
May 8 is the feast day of Julian of Norwich in the Anglican and the Lutheran church; in the Catholic church, it's May 13. Is Julian of Norwich as famous now as Hildegard of Bingen or Ireland's St.…
[dVerse] May 7th - The Fog Has My House Keys
The Fog Has My House KeysThe fog comes inlike it has been here before.Not dramatically.No doorbell.No throat-clearing at the gate.No screaming.No door-slamming.Just a soft trespassover the balcony…
Real.com April 2001
never-obsolete:Real.comApril 2001
What Do We Do Tonight? Try To Take Over The World
Pinky and The Brain
Paper flood at dusk our machines, they judge themselves Kamo water keeps flowing
Paper flood at duskour machines, they judge themselvesKamo water keeps flowing
Making CoMaps future-proof: How we are removing technical debt
Between Maps.Me and Organic Maps , some parts of the CoMaps code are 15 years old and have not been updated recently. For that reason, they continue to use quite old implementations and technologies.…
Operators Are the Missing Role in AI Agent Design
Everyone is racing to build autonomous agents. Almost nobody is designing the human role that keeps those agents from drifting, lying, or quietly burning money in a corner. That role has a name, and…
Dunhill Namiki Yukari Urajiro Fern
Summary The Dunhill Namiki Yukari Urajiro Fern is a painfully beautiful piece of maki-e art. However, you are paying a substantial premium for an unusual Yukari variant. If you are a hardcore Namiki…
💭 Cloudflare cuts 1100
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I toyed around with using Language Embeddings as a way to categorize my RSS Feeds
I toyed around with using Language Embeddings as a way to categorize my RSS Feeds interesting HN comment around low-cost home usage of LLMS/embeddings: "I toyed around with using Language Embeddings…
If This Were a City, It Would Be Madrid
Let me tell you something about Madrid that hit me the moment I arrived: it feels like a city built for city connoisseurs. People who love dining, parks, museums, traveling on public transit. I am…