Engineering Theatre
There's a term I like: 'innovation theatre'. It's used to describe when a business does things that look like innovation but really aren't. Hackathons with no real meaning,…
Working hard on making seek shadowing state machine impervious to glitches for Virtual 2315 Cartridge Facility
LOGIC ANALYZER SHOWS SHORT GLITCHES THAT CAN AFFECT STATE MACHINE When looking at the logic analyzer traces I collected while doing seeks with the Virtual 2315 Cartridge Facility (V2315CF), where the…
In London On Hiroshima Day
“ Peace is not something that we passively wait for. Peace is something that we must seek out and cultivate. ” 1 ~ Michiko Yagi Just before lunch on the 6th of August, 2026, I left my office and…
A Little Time Out Of My Day (Poetry Sidebar: Vol Seven)
It's time to decide what this art means At least to me Is it tugging heart strings Or an echo chamber for hollow screams That never reach Practice what I preach But I'm too empty to fill these cups…
I bought an unreleased Teenage Engineering audio toy
Teenage Engineering SP-1 Stem Player I know very little about this device and only recently even heard that it existed; however, what I have learned is that at some point Teenage Engineering and…
Joining the OSM US Charter Project program
Big announcement! An exciting and important update: I’m very pleased to announce that OldInsuranceMaps.net is now officially a Charter Project of OpenStreetMap US! OSM US is a US-based…
Racing to, well, somewhere around the finish
From Harper’s Weekly Review: A Georgia Army unit offered soldiers four days off to play Grand Theft Auto VI upon its release in the fall as a reenlistment incentive, streets were closed in…
WELCOME HOME STALIN
August 25, 2026 I’ve been all over the world and have seen both its good and sordid countries. One of the best run, most decent and honest nations I’ve seen is Canada. As George Bernard Shaw noted,…
How technology is transforming the modern Esports experience
Esports has become a thing - and with it a whole industry branch around it.
Memory ordering in CPUs
I frequently see statements about differences between strongly ordered architectures (like x86 or SPARC) and weakly ordered architectures (like ARM or RISC-V), with the confident assertion that…
The future in the 1990s - Psion and Palmtop Magazine
I have scanned in lots of 1990/2000s "Palmtop" magazines and list some of the articles within them, and their future predictions: "Do you remember when you didn't have a palmtop computer? Life was so…
What I'd Tell My Younger Self About Building Software and Scaling Teams
If I could go back in time, what would I tell myself? Lessons from a career of building software and scaling teams, in four pillars: product, process, engineering, and people.
Progressively Enhancing Grid Lanes
The more I think about it, the less sympathy I have for Grid Lanes. You create a DOM order that you think makes sense, then you mess it up with CSS. Then, if you're aware of the problem, you fix it…
The Only Post We Will Ever Make About Transmetropolitan
Rogan: We dropped into the sci-fi library briefly because there were a few books we wanted to add to the system... and found a big stack of comics on the cart labeled with our name. Turns out someone…
Talking About Water Tasting on the News
I was the guest in the newsroom at KTVU, based in Oakland, CA, to talk about my Water Tasting Classes. The segment went super fast, but I overcame my cringe to watch it and I think I did pretty good!…
Commonplace Book 2
As the philosopher and writer Paul Valéry explained in 1938, “A poet’s function is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.”…
Wrapping up in Cherington
My last harvest of the 2026 season with Glorious Grasslands on a rescheduled day due to heavy rain forecast later this week....
Photography
I’ve never been too far from a camera. Ever since my parents gave me a Miranda Sharpshooter for Christmas at the age of 8, I’ve had a succession of different cameras. As I reached my late 20s and…
[Image description: Screencap meme of Robert Downey Junior as Iron Man inside the suit. End…
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Andrew Tate’s sports cars are rented–so what?
I saw this going viral, “Andrew Tate exaggerates and did not own supercars in photos, his lawyers say.” This is the biggest nothing-burger ever. The media are so desperate to paint him as…
Politiser le bien-être, Camille Teste
Quelques notes de lecture, en vrac.
Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T
For a mobile 'mini homelab' project I'm working on, I wanted to use 5G Internet as a primary 'on-to-go' connection, but still have the ability to plug in another Internet connection when I put the…
Party Planning 4 Bubble Wrapp, Library, & Mod Gallery*~⋆｡‧˚ʚ🎪ɞ˚‧｡⋆
Everything in my lyfe is going to get a little more enchanted over the next couple of months and I can't wait but also I can because tbh I need to take it slow and enjoy summer because it's sooo…
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i'm still smiling, in spite of it all the ache in my chest doesnt quite go away, but it's balanced out by the golden sparks crackling along my ribs butterflies in my tummy orbiting their ball of…
Preview Environments That Actually Promote to Prod
Overview Last week’s post closed with a promise that was really four promises: preview environments per change, release trains where stable and canary share a namespace, weighted traffic…
reminder on sovereignty
when people can’t control you, you may witness them try all tactics and throw all kind of drama at you. when people can’t influence you, they may get very angry at you. when people can’t overpower…
A day in the life of an acquisitions manager
What's an acquisitions manager? At my workplace (in education) that means i oversee a large department's purchasing. This includes things like: monitoring several budget lines; negotiating with…
Daily Thoughts 25 August 2026
Thoughts 💭 I saw a YouTube video titled "Gen X aren't burnt out, they're done." I absolutely feel that. I'm done with the crap. I'm done with the endless struggle. The endless and ever…
Have You Heard the Good News About Microlighter?
Dave Rupert wrote about shipping microlighter: a tool for handling syntax highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlights API. I saw his post the day he released it, and I had an implementation PR up…
An enabling environment for online regulation
In a previous post ( The Vibe of the ECHR ) I explored ways in which a regulatory policy agenda could acquire the halo effect of association with the European Convention on Human Rights. Whilst that…
I have a new fanfic up: Illogical Assumptions About Names
Illogical Assumptions About Names (421 words) by ilzolende Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek , Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply…
A training cluster for this economy
First, a modeling progress update Since my last post about interesting machine learning challenges in Magic: The Gathering, I’ve made some really promising progress on training a modified…
Oh, yeah. I need to do that today too, don’t I?
I didn’t even have a chance to forget that awful runoff today. I went to my allergist for a shot, and as I was leaving… there was Henry. Also waiting for a shot. I stopped to say hi, and…
Apple Not Changing "Hide My Email" Addresses After All
In July, I reported that Apple planned to migrate domains for both iCloud Private Relay (Sign in with Apple) and "Hide My Email" over to a new shared domain: private.icloud.com. While existing legacy…
mi tu li pali ala #789 - jan wawa
Full transcript Page 1 Panel 1: A woman with short spiky hair, jan Aki, is walking down the street. Panel 2: jan Aki: "seme?" Panel 3: The panel shows a second person, jan Mamolu a tired looking…
Héctor Puente Sierra - Revolution & Counter Revolution in the Spanish Civil War
In 1936 a revolutionary movement swept the Spanish state. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the German Revolution of 1918/1919 it was one of the most important workers' revolutions in history.…
New things for regular expressions in PostgreSQL (pg_tre and pg_re2)
Well, truth be told these are not all that new (couple of months), but I finally have gotten around to research it. So, let's see what's what. For starters I need some test data. Luckily, I have…
Humans are terrible programmers 2026w20
Collectively speaking humans have always been terrible at programming. Let's look at some real examples
Goodhart's Law Is a Prediction, Not a Warning
There is a particular comfort in citing Goodhart's Law. Someone proposes a metric. Someone else recites the line about measures and targets. Everybody nods at the wisdom of it. Then the metric ships…
Onboard vs Overhead
Sometimes when I see a plane flying overhead, I’m thankful I’m not on it. That I can stretch out, that I’m comfortable, and that isn’t me. This is not one of those times.…
September
At last, September is coming. The summer is officially ending, brats are going back to school, parents are going back to work, there are less and less insects attacking you in the forest, you don't…
Lady Bird
It was around noon on Friday and I was sitting in my office at work. My boss had left about an hour earlier, and my side of the building had turned into a ghost town as it usually does on Fridays and…
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing the World's Climate
Adam McKay, director of Don't Look Up, points out what should be obvious but is easy to ignore. Like all grand lies, “we have more time” takes many different forms, often focus-grouped. There are the…
You Are Not Special and Wonderful Exactly as You Are
In my posting, "Entitlement" , I described a guy who treated me with nothing but dehumanized contempt while expecting me to lavish kindness on him (ironically missing the kindness I actually lavished…
Bookmarked The IndieWeb is Punk Manifesto.
A manifesto making the case that owning your own website instead of feeding a platform is basically punk .
2026: PRC Prosecutes Slander of the People’s Heroes
Historical nihilism is a broad term applied to accounts of history that do not meet the truthiness standards of the Chinese Communist Party and the PRC state. Historical nihilism is not a criminal or…
M5
M6 supports up to 32GB of unified memory to multitask across demanding apps and run LLMs on device for secure and private agentic tasks. It also provides up to 170GB/s of unified memory bandwidth — a…