A data pipeline is a set of choices. It's almost always a bet that you know how this data will be used, how it needs to be modeled, how it needs to be queried. I've watched a data engineers…

The most exciting bit of news this week is that I bought myself a new phone. It's not brand new; it's a refurbished Samsung A23 which is a huge leap from my old phone and it will hopefully make my…

Can IPv6 play a role in resisting internet censorship? Background Earlier this week a user on the Fediverse noticed that a website titled “w-social.eu,” recently went offline. Looking…

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Learn why using multiple AI subagents improves results through cleaner context, natural output diversity, sharper task prompts, and adversarial reviews.

I’m going to say something that’ll upset a lot of people: pandas had its run. Polars is just better. I don’t mean that lightly. I spent years writing pandas code. I taught pandas to…

Orson Welles, 1962, ★★★★ A surrealist nightmare of expressionist lighting and skewed compositions made from colossal pre- and postwar European architecture, oppressive even when it’s beautiful, its…

Bookmarked The Davy Knot. Tim Flagler on tying a Davy Knot with hackle pliers.

I've lived with depression/anxiety/whatever for years, many of them untreated. Five or so years ago, I started therapy and have been in it most weeks since then, except for one lapse after getting…

Finally: successfully leverage all the chatbot friends, and an entire year's worth of tinkering experience to get MEH commenting up and running on my site. Leave me a note!

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Corporate social media is having a devastating effect on queer peoples' lives

Are you a master of the “warm intro” who is not afraid to step inside Tokyo’s luxury hotels while also meandering the hidden ateliers of Kanazawa ? Do you thrive in the high-octane…

The first Mass Effect Alright, let's go back to the year 2007, where Britney Spears shaved her head, Transformers was the summer's blockbuster hit, and the first iPhone was released. People still…

Boards of Canada – “Prophecy At 1420 MHz” Fever Ray – “I’m Not Done (Therapy Session)” ear – “Real Life” The post Visual Velcro 53 first…

Get better at: handling multiple files, multi-indexes, pivot tables, and plotting with Plotly.

Recently, I’ve realized that some the qualities I cherish in people seem to be mutually exclusive. And not in an obvious way: you’d expect the Venn diagram of nerdy and sporty people look like a half…

In the last ~6 months, Agent Skills have gone from a new feature introduced by Claude Code to a widely adopted paradigm across the industry. Companies that want to signal they understand customer AI…

I’ve commented that agentic coding makes things that were previously on your “list of impossible projects” into things that you can do. I have long had on my “impossible…

Even though I've been job searching for four months now, I am busier than I have ever been. You know what I mean. You've seen this blog! One week I am experimenting with AI, the next I am pairing…

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today,…

There’s a disturbing incident caught on camera in Maui going viral. I have to warn you: watching this will most likely make your blood boil. Outrage is growing across Maui,... The post Tourist…

You know when I’m home on my own I don’t watch much TV like actual TV, but I do watch music videos on YouTube on the TV. Sometimes new music but often ones I know really well. Music videos are such a…

Last night, I finished reading The Wayfinder , a novel by Adam Johnson. I had started this book on Christmas Day (I give books to each of my family, and when I saw this on the table at Flyleaf Books,…

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What happened was, after 10+ years of not exercising, I started running again for real in 2025. I've been tracking progress in my head, in text files, a spreadsheet. Madness. The next logical step is…

Feeling ugly, feeling bad, feeling all kinds of sad. Which is odd, because recently, things have been relatively good. And I can hear my priest in my head now. Something about the kind of happiness…

I have released SatPulse 0.2. This is a major new release with a lot of new functionality (more than 60% of the code is new since 0.1).

I just got back from DevOpsDays Austin, and it’s always great to go out and talk with a wide array of folks from the tech community to see what’s up. The takeaways were interesting.…

In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as an Emacs coach to help with doing review passes over my upcoming ffs package as I work on polishing and documenting it in preparation for offering it…

In a recent blog post, Bob Priddy explains “why Donald Trump is Donald Trump.” [Shared here with Bob’s permission] I think I have figured out why Donald Trump is Donald Trump. He never had a…

The company behind the Centurion Club and the Black Card, best known for a concierge service and charge cards without limits, and for turning the card in your wallet into a lifestyle choice, that…

It's been a weird year. Last May I was working full-time for a client when they announced that they wanted to try Claude Code. Suddenly, I was furnished with an account and encouragement to try it…

Intro Think back to the last game you played that felt good. What happened when you jumped? Did the camera move a little? Did your character squish for a moment before launching? What happened when yo

RIP Magic “Screwdark” There are moments in “Screwdark” that sound like three DJ Shadows DJing at each other like the Spider-Man meme, or someone trying to Zaireeka the entire…

K recently joked that were I to appear on Mastermind, my specialist subject would be Iron Maiden. She may be right. They’re certainly the band I have paid the most attention to over the years.…

Today I opened my university's Canvas and attempted to take a quiz. The quiz did not load. Instead, I saw a ransom note from the hackers who have been attacking Canvas. Frustrated, I watched the due…

Look, I’m going to be direct here. If you are not using AI agentic coding methods right now - today - you are going too slow. Not “a little behind.” Not “maybe missing…

**Regularly UPDATED**   Reflecting on the Russo-Ukraine War, I am putting together a timeline of the most relevant…

January The Roses (2025, movie) Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025, standup special) Bugonia (2025, movie). Stars Stone, Plemons, and directed by Lanthimos) All Creatures Great & Small (2025,…

A thin lit edge of a pale blue dot against vast nothingness. The same picture Apollo 8 took in 1968. Updated for 2026. To remind us, all of us: Everything and everyone we have ever touched is…

you know sometimes it's worth just taking a step back, seeing if something is worthwhile to keep doing, and then adjust accordingly. i know that's something that should be easy advice but wow do i…

What have you tried? Four brilliant words I need to start using. All. The. Time. The post What have you tried? appeared first on Jay Hoffmann.

A short drive today, only 242 miles. We got out of Illinois first before tanking up the VRRV and saved .76 cents/gallon for 87 Octane gasoline by buying it in Indiana! The last 22 miles or so were on…

I am fully aware they are bad for you. Yes. I know. I've heard it all. But something about smoking a cigarette in the car after a hard day at my part-time job is really healing. Or a cigarette during…

unprovable truths in diagonalosis all watching that space interrogation - and me? a forest fade other things said marginal these are the days, my friend Yesterday :: Thursday, 7th May 2026

The old axiom—that a 7-day JR Pass costs the same as a round-trip Shinkansen journey between Tokyo and Kyoto—is no longer true. The post Is the Japan Rail Pass Still Worth It? appeared first on Japan…

finally reworked my links page and added a whole art resources section with my csp favs, also updated 2026's gallery and added a new comic section (mature)