Not only is “Bolsonaro Jr’s” proposed sell out of Brazil to the Trump administration abhorrent, it is illegal. By Marcelo Zero The “generous offer” made by candidate Flávio Bolsonaro—officially…

"Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood & The Destroyers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that makes you feel invincible. - Bad to the Bone by George…

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Many developers are watching AI agents generate bad code, introduce bugs, and erode their skills. I'm having a different experience. The post AI took my job as a coder. Then it made me a better…

Yesterday 28 June 2026, I had the honor of speaking at the YMCA National Planning Forum in Alwaye, Kerala. We tackled a big topic: how Artificial Intelligence fits into a historic service…

No more grocery bread for us - we’re making our own daily bread…

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon…

Almost every night since late February I’ve slept on our deck, watching the star-scape creep westward month by month. Scorpius recently came out of hiding and now the great space scorpion is…

Chapter 165: "One Beat Right, One Beat Left" gold experience, etc You can read the chapter on our various sites using the links below. | mangadex | cubari.moe | Check out below the credit page for…

You operate under the delusion that your trajectory is upward, a linear climb toward some vague, golden summit. This is a cognitive survival mechanism, and it is killing you. Entropy does not…

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For Round 27 of our writing group, in August of 2009, we decided to write short stories that were somehow based on dreams that we'd had. Well, I'd recently dreamed of a giant ant-like alien that was…

In 2014, when I was working as a professional developer at a gaming company with around 25 developers, I heard about microservices for the first time at a conference - and was immediately excited. We…

I‘ve been knee deep in render optimisation the past few days, tough but I‘ve got things working pretty well now. Also just added RSS feed generation. It was really quite straight forward to add, it…

Main Points: Star Trek (the 2009!movie verse) Cambion AU (New Genesis) Summary: Kirk and Spock fight Khan. Word Count: 1190 Rating: Teen ( payoff ) comments

Over the years, we have received, read and handled way over one thousand vulnerability reports filed against curl. We have seen most kinds. It is time for me to try to help future reporters by…

The GitHub Copilot CLI keeps getting more capable. One of the newer additions is the ability to schedule prompts, either on a repeating interval or as a one-shot delayed action. Let me walk you…

[EN] The plastic bag from American Beauty which flies and dances it does nothing it does everything And this bonfire where you are sitting and you throw there ping-pong balls they melt so funny and…

Here we are again at Catcott, reputedly named after Bob Geeza Cat, though that might be wishful thinking on behalf of Bob, because he does have narcissistic tendencies - like most cats. The hot…

  Barbara Hambly has her own voice, that's for sure. The book is good, not perfect, but certainly feels unique. The characters are flawed, but make the best of what they've got, using…

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"Ever since I was young, I wanted to transform unstructured marketing data into actionable insights." This was in the farewell email I got last Friday. It was from a colleague who was let go due to…

a lot of stuff has been removed, hopefully temporarily, but most of the site has been rebuilt to simplify my ease of coding, and finally with semantic html! epic cool!

Generative AI has made plausible ideas nearly free, and a fashionable argument says this changes everything. It doesn't. Ideas were never scarce—judgement was, and remains so. On Grub Street at…

July 2026 brings a heavy run of fantasy, from M.A. Carrick's alt-history fae epic to H.G. Parry's Arthurian Wales and Elizabeth Lim's Cinderella retelling. Here are the six releases I have flagged,…

Work had me in Glasgow for a few days earlier this month, a city I had never been drinking in before, so was pleased to get it some way ticked off, though far from comprehensively, I'm sure. I was…

June 29, 2026 Happy Birthday To Me! I should be sitting in a cafe in Paris when you read this… It seems from your emails that traveling in September is very popular – except for that…

it is, in their minds, the natural next step to prove they are still ahead of the curve against their peers in elementary school you were ahead if you were invited into the gifted program in middle…

So ahead of seeing the new Supergirl movie, I believed I was in bit of a quandary. As you may have noticed, the film had already attracted some negative chatter, primarily from The Usual Suspects.…

Grant someone read access to a database and you have made a decision about a system. You have said nothing about the data inside it. The same read permission covers the table of marketing email…

Let's continue our long series of Big Thunder-related scans, graciously shared with us by the Mysterious Benefactor! We left off from the last installment with some photos of Big Thunder cast…

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An urbanist named Devon Zuegel compares an aerial photo of the city center of Siena, Italy with a Houston freeway interchange (specifically, the eastern intersection of I-10 and I-610). Both occupy…

What This Book Tells Will Surprise You Plenty. Go Get It. Ad/Odds: Drews Delight in New Book , Mac/Eddy a 60's Happening , Cooped Up Lost World Watchers , and What Got Looked At Twenty Years Back <a…

There’s a question that’s ringing out all over the machine learning world these days: what the hell counts as an “explanation” of a complex system? If you listen for a while to conversations in the…

Every team has some definition of done, whether it’s been explicitly documented or it’s just a verbal understanding. Some agreement that when the work gets to this point, we’re not coming back to it.…

If I don’t do something every day, I struggle to do it at all. I haven’t written here in a few days because I haven’t written here in a few days. I’ve also been thinking about what it is I want to…

There seems to be some confusion with bugganes and their hooves, but they can shapeshift into mundane humans AND mundane horses and anywhere in between. Sometimes hooves are better than floppy fins.…

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I started posting daily on X , including, sometimes, videos. And it turns out X isn’t able to automatically generate captions for the video like other platforms do. They do give the option to upload…

I have a LG UltraFine 4K monitor (24MD4KLB-B, the one made in partnership with Apple in 2019 for deep macOS integration). This year it randomly started flickering. Literally once second it was OK,…

The main concern I have with allow_missing is duplication. Does it overlap with some existing api, such as the new apply method?

Amina al-Sirafi is a pirate nakhudha of enough renown that she’s retired, living a quiet life on a secluded coast with her mother and her daughter, hiding from those who seek revenge; though it seems…

In the previous article we took apart the reflect package and found that its magic is mostly the compiler leaving very good notes — type descriptors frozen into read-only data at build time, and a…

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AI makes prototyping easy. But production systems require architecture. A classic systems model can help.

What happens when the most capable AI in the world becomes subject to one country&rsquo;s export policy? June gave us two answers. The two Fridays Friday, June 12th, 5:21pm ET. A directive lands at…

Following on from last weeks ‘Commission Monday’ today I share a trio of Slaters 16mm/ft WDLR skips. These models are built from injection moulded plastic with one piece skips bodies… The wheels are…