all these mysterious peppers have me governed they do not deter me from themselves i notice. and i would not mind - not at all - were they not consumed other things said question Yesterday ::…

A new experimental result confirms Richard Feynman’s 1948 path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. A single photon had 1,419,857 possible paths through an experiment at South China Normal…

Yahoo via Tom’s Guide quotes Dr. Dre on AI in music production: “I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating,” he noted.…

A few times in the past few years, I have felt the need to cite the passage in his memoirs where Isaac Asimov explained why Mensa and other high-IQ societies were not useful places for him to spend…

A HeadRush Flex Prime is $819 at Turramurra Music right now. It’s a compact box with a 4in touchscreen that you could hide under a pedalboard and forget about. It loads NAM A2 captures…

A lot of the time when I've been writing posts for this blog, I've felt that a diagram would really help. But they're a pain to produce well, and I think I underuse them as a result. I wanted to fix…

I’ve written before about how my team at work has adopted a variant of the Mikado Method for software project planning. We started this in 2023 and have evolved the process a bit since then.…

Wow, I don't think I ever went this long without writing a blog post since this blog exists. What happened? Nothing in particular I think. I'd say it's ...

📢 I gave a talk about Go-Landlock and Multithreaded Policy Enforcement with LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_TSYNC at the Zurich Gophers Meetup on 2026-04-23. The video should eventually appear on the Zurich…

Dolly Parton passed away today at the age of 80; earlier this year she was having a number of health problems. A great country music singer and an even greater songwriter, she has been one of the…

And as a fitting tribute to Dolly, one of my favorite bands of all time cover Jolene.

This one started out as an experiment to learn how to use the new sky, sun and clouds settings in Cinema4D.   As you may know I am still looking for alternatives to create the types of…

In which the crew weighs their prisoners, cooks omelets, and considers blackmail.

Goodreads is yuck. Too many options, functions, and animations. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I like lists. Simple lists that I can bring with me wherever I go. Not held preciously in a app, but dumb and free.…

Christina Solis Caron played the role of Baby Doll in the cult classic movie Mi Vida Loca (1993). Mi Vida Loca is a groundbreaking film in the history of movies about Chicanos, as it follows the…

Teaching folks how to use AI includes conveying the scope of what aspects of problem solving can benefit from use of AI. The following list is not exhaustive, but is sufficient to help newbies…

Thanks to everyone who viewed, commented on, or reposted my Ruby Ridge videos I posted on Facebook and Twitter/X the last few days. The number of views on my posts is roughly 70,000.…

How to design agents as a graph, run them through a harness that keeps them reliable, sandbox them because you can’t just trust what they do. (This is a follow-up to AI Writes Code, You Own the…

I made a mistake in my table earlier today regarding the base price of the M5 Max Mac Studio , but my mistake was because of a rather sneaky design in Apple’s purchasing flow. Apple’s web interface…

And the ocean taketh away The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of […]

I watched a bunch of videos from this week’s World Humanoid Robot Games in China. This segment on YouTube is an okay place to start. These robots are advancing more quickly than I was…

Since I take many notes in [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Emacs]] with [[https://orgmode.org/][org-mode]] and [[https://github.com/protesilaos/denote][Denote]], I tend to instantly invoke [...

Oberbozen is situated above Bozen, and you get a nice view of the Dolomites. Bozen, however, didn’t convince us as much - we should’ve returned earlier to Lago di Caldaro to swim some more.

C++26 is generous with new containers — we’re getting both std::hive and std::inplace_vector. In this post, we’ll look at the latter. Until C++26, the standard library had no vector-like container…

Hello! I am super uber busy with school at this moment, hope everyone is having fun in their first week of school, even though I started early.

In May 1942, the high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”, was attacked in Prague by Czechoslovak resistance agents in an assassination operation…

Just a few days ago this little project was the poor brother of the two projects that succeed it. But hey – things change and this is now a VERY useful tool – I hope you enjoy. Before the…

One of the things I’ve spent a significant amount of time on is some Agent Foundations-adjacent philosophy work.While I’ve put together reading lists and simulation environments, I have mostly…

I wrote a whole other post that was super long just talking about how shitty I feel but frankly rereading it made me sick lol. Coping is the mechanism in which we as sentient creatures use to process…

The estimated number of available (usable) nuclear warheads per country since 1945. Data available on data.world. First as stacked bars to show the totals. Current count is behind country name. Next…

I've been saying "life is so beautiful" more often because my best friend started saying it. Whenever I eat a yummy dish or something nice happens to me or i have an exceptional bowel movement, ive…

the moment when I realized how much I was using my hands to talk… :’) catch me waving my hands drawing live at twitch.tv/chibirdart, in 2 hours @ 4:30 PM PST!

Week 34 of 2026: lowlandsI went to a festival! I've added a new section called "listened" to deal with that, but I must warn: I wasn't really there for the music, I mostly just enjoyed…

cw: smoking Since my last relapse post, I've struggled on and off to maintain a general sobriety from smoking cigarettes. I bought two packs the other day despite telling myself I would only get…

I think I might need to back off a bit. My right shoulder is slightly hurting like it did in the fall when I went too hard and had to have my scapula dry-needles to release the pent up lactic acid.…

weather: ☀️ melting critters: fuck going outside today, honestly the proust questionnaire was floating around bearblog some months ago--let's do the rosanna greenstreet one from the guardian what is…

In most elections in the United States, we have "first past the post voting" in which whoever gets the most votes wins.

I thought it prudent after the last entry to refrain from further comment on Bartz until after all appeals were timely filed. Two were: Edelson, PC v. Anthropic PBC, No. 26–5391 (9th Cir., filed 18…

Spotify lets you request all the data it has on your account. It provides a ton of data, including detailed data about every track you’ve ever played on the service … Continue reading…

On the second day of a road trip I took last year, my trunk was already full and my mother was sharing the back seat with four bottles of wine, two hats, a few liters of apple juice and a box of…

I'm still cooking.

In 2095 the human race could travel through space, but Earth was still its only home. There were stations on the Moon, expeditions to the planets, and machines farther out. But there was no place…

Part 2 to this post I'm of the belief that art isn't just a "product" . The end result is one of many representations of the artist. Their motivations, frustrations, anxieties, and desires can all be…

In the last version (1.5.2) I added the Contrast group blend modes: Soft, hard, vivid, linear and pin light as well as hard mix. But that picker menu was getting awfully long and it could sometimes…

My hobby: following GOV.UK to look for interesting announcements. Today was an update on the MOD’s Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce which was previously announced in June during London Tech Week. I…

Ignoring this site for as long as I have has led to it being broken for a couple of months. If you’re seeing this post, great! It works again. What happened? Well, my site’s been running…

Scripts and instructions for migrating a VBulletin5 system to Discourse

I don’t usually, but did today. I stopped at a Starbucks I used to frequent because I had some time to kill. I figured if I was going to sit for a while, I would be a considerate person and…