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I've been diving into software factories and how they're built as I believe that's where the industry is heading. AIs can crank out reasonable code much faster than we can and often at same or higher…

This is another research iteration with Opus 5.5, see PR #215. I verified every step and concept and wrote most of the prose myself (where I didn’t, I guided the LLMs carefully, as I am not a native…

Build repeatable Moose models from source projects, automate them with the MooseNexus CLI, and share them through artifact registries.

Once a year, ask everyone in your organization to share what they did that mattered most to them. The benefits go beyond the good vibes.

I'm such a bad loser...

Roden Readers — Hello from the other side of hiding in Europe during Japan’s extended summer / record-breakingly rainy September. It is I, Modo-san. I was working on a book in London. And then…

Today is the first anniversary of my mum's death . I don't know how I feel or how I am supposed to feel, I dare say that there are no rules around this. I do know that I think about her every day and…

When does a product first reach someone other than the people building it? Clemens Adolphs wrote a thoughtful article, MVPs are not products , and summarized it this way: Jason says we should use…

# Introduction In my self-hosted infrastructure, most services are only reachable through my VPN. But some of them have a feature to share something with people outside: Immich has share links for…

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for…

Sheetmusic4J is a Java(FX) library to render and interact with sheet music. After MusicXML, MIDI, ABC and Guitar Pro, version 0.0.5 adds another format: LilyPond.

It was about time to upgrade K3s nodes from Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04. I’ve also wanted to test out using Debian 13 as K3s nodes for some time. Using Ansible to automate provisioning of cloud-init…

I replaced this blog’s Python spell checker that took more than three minutes to run with the new rubocop-spellcheck . I really love RuboCop for its standard approach to linting and auto-correction,…

A reprint of a column from May of 2003. Please note this was written in my Atheist days, so nothing but secular reasoning is here. I have been asked what the vice might be in a man and woman, both…

The consequences of Silver and Lead continue to spin out throughout the fae communities. Turns out that it really messes with your head to have memories of 2 lives lived - especially one so…

An SCMP op-ed offers a dash of ‘soft resistance’ on the subject of the Tai Po fire inquiry… We also learned just how far our systems have fallen short in protecting Hongkongers’ lives and property.…

I played the database game TR-49 , by Jon Ingold et al, during a micro-convalescence brought about through my annual double-jab of flu and covid vaccine boosters. After putting close to ten hours…

Recently, El Explorador de RPG covered the Italian RPG Avventura 1, which drew my attention to two Italian games in my domain: Avventura 2 (a…

Wizard stuff King’s Cross, yesterday. The Harry Potter industry continues to thrive. It must be one of Britain’s biggest cultural exports. Quote of the Day ”Potentially, TV can transform the…

GOCA presents the 2026 UCCS Visual Art Faculty Exhibition. Brand new artworks from ten distinguished faculty will be on view in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery at the Ent Center for the Arts. The…

ULTRA INFRA [field studies] is a numbered limited edition 7” vinyl record featuring two tracks exploring sound beyond human hearing range. Side A (Above) is a composition of ultrasonic bat…

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A GMT offset saved as -8 is wrong half the year. How my blog’s clock ran an hour slow, and how I fixed it in ColdFusion and Lucee with Java time zone names.

I like planned obsolescence, but only when it comes to people.

Five bite sized, quick tips of best practices. In this post: 1) why you don't need an extension for a Grigri rappel, 2) backup that hauling system 3) better hiking in your harness 4) when to use a…

There was no rifle to defend myself, only instinct.Cereus & Limnic: Escape From Okinawa Type BKeith HaydenToday's writing session took way too long and wasn't satisfying.When you pick a…

It is the silly season folks and the NDP and Conservatives have made promises to build more SkyTrain and why not, as politcal promises are easily made but much harder to keep. The first question I…

A feature I sometimes forget is present in NetNewsWire is that you can change its theme. That is mostly because I set it years ago and forgot all about it. Dave Marquard recently created a theme…

Tasting History with Max Miller is must-watch YouTube for me. Miller is a wonderful storyteller, and his show melds interesting history lessons with period-appropriate recipes. As it turns out, he’s…

"I love the difference between authors who have favorite songs on deep background, giving them the feeling of their life, and authors who play particular songs in their head while they write, or the…

In product, we risk getting bogged down in all the what-ifs, questions about possibilities, uncertainty.When you're designing a product, you only have the limited information in front of you,…

In my last post about the 14 year GEX backtest, I left one question open, does GEX (gamma exposure, how much hedging the option dealers have to do when the index moves) add anything beyond VIX? GEX…

I started building Handmade right before I put out the previous blog post. I needed something to start building because, boy... a blank folder with an index.html document is quite daunting. So I…

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours G.Kelly in happier days This week, I was so saddened to confront the long-closed-up premises of G. Kelly at 444 Bethnal Green Rd – which…

A link to a Guassian splat to an intriguing room.

Back in September the Jiyugaoka Muse Square openedOn the first 5 floors there are shops and some eateriesThen on the 6th floor is office spaceAnd from the 7th floor up to the 15th are apartments(When…

Fix the rounded corners and style the vertical tabs in Firefox.

This month’s subscriber-only playlist and podcast episode explore the glacial stylings of the slowcore genre.

Tuesday night Hilary Duff gig with a room full of millennials.

If you use an account only to mirror data to OneDrive and run backup or other applications against the uploaded files, you may not need email or the other apps included in a Microsoft Office 365…

In the natural realm, biological living beings act in view of five ends: nutrition, organic growth, self-defense, self-repair, reproduction. The analogies to spiritual life are present in the…

Yonks ago, I started writing my passwords down in my phone, so I'd always have them available. No, I'm not stupid. They were encrypted. Eventually, I wanted to get the list out of my phone and on to…

Gallery theme for Hugo by Nico Kaiser. Recently I needed a photography portfolio website. In the past I’ve used Flickr but I wanted it on my own domain. After poking around and trying a few…

For the fourth year in a row, the foursome of Luke, Nick, Walsh and I hit the road for a Vikings road game. After successful trips to Las Vegas, Nashville and Detroit where the Vikings won all three…

The Future Will Be Hacked - There has been so much political grist for the networks and the news world lately about hacked celebrity accounts that I wonder what sort of pretensions we are all…

Olin asunut kaksiossani seitsemän vuotta ja luulen, etten paljoa valehtele, jos sanon sinä aikana käyneeni hautausmaalla noin 300, ellen peräti 400 kertaa. Hautausmaa ei oikeastaan ollut matkan…

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