Down by the river, the place has been reverberating to the guff-like sound of paddleboards being deflated at the end of a day in the water. Similarly but differently, I overinflated a bike tyre –…

Sunrise, Pinos Altos We were up at dawn to tackle our steepest trail of the trip: Signal Peak, a 4.7 mile trail with elevation change of 1700 feet. At the top is a manned lookout tower during fire…

turns out i have a lot of horse-owning-simulation games from the 2000s. but are any of them, like, actually fun?

A couple of months ago I referred to a quote from Infocom's internal ZIL manual: The other four tokens—ON-GROUND, IN-ROOM, HELD, and CARRIED—are incredibly confusing, and no one really understands…

The other day I came across Connie Kleinjans’ page of “two-minute versions” of G&S shows. She’s got two versions of Gondoliers and one each of Iolanthe and Ruddigore. The technique is the same as…

As we all go about our day we discover bits of wisdom that WOW! and YES! seem to be directed at you. I like to put these bits together in a file for later review. Using the programs fortune and…

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Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Fooocus Fooocus is the third-most popular open-source AI image generation WebUI on GitHub with 48k stars. By exposing it to the internet, you allow attackers to…

Something has changed for me at the bench in the last few weeks, and I want to write it down before it stops feeling new. I have spent the last decade building or using diagnostic tools that put a…

No training, 12 hours of meetings a week, public sprint shaming, and a probation period that guarantees silence. This is not high performance culture.

I use a Makefile to move my emacs configuration from its git repo in my home directory to the emacs config directory. There are a variety of better ways a person could move files from one place to…

My head isn’t aching nor is my neck, but they’re not not aching either. The table I’m sat on slants slightly down towards the pedestrianised road and there is a big menu pinned to…

NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center Infographic describing the best current theory on the evolution of PBHs. Black holes live forever, at least according to general relativity. Once material crosses a…

We just released another minor update to our shadcn/ui kit: 1.9.4. As always, you can see detailed changes in our changelog. In 1.9.3 and 1.9.4 we continued to move customizations on the component…

The current mess in the Linux world is dirtyfrag. A new LPE bug using Kernel modules but the twist here is someone broke the normal embargo to let systems patch, so there’s currently no…

Hey there. Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week: #1. Coding sucks (9min) It’s not like building a house, but like jumping into a ship, nobody knows where it goes…And no, AI didn’t…

I tried leaning into sexual transgression. Here’s what I learned.

It’s no longer defensible for CEOs and boards to outsource understanding AI to their technology execs. I partnered with CxAI on a post about the three key principles that will enable execs to build…

J’ai lu la chronique de Gaspard Koenig sur Sanctuaires d’Abel Quentin, puis le commentaire qu’en a fait Benoît Bergeret. Je voudrais commenter ce commentaire, mais avant cela je…

The following is a press release from Rhizomatica : May 2026 — Rhizomatica is pleased to officially launch Mercury, a completely open-source Digital Radio OFDM protocol for HF broadcast and…

tag(s): #random-thoughts Last weekend the kiddo was in a concert at Montclair University. When leaving the venue, my wife pointed at this sculpture in the entrance hall and said "I want this for…

Obviously quite simple, the only thing to keep in mind is grind setting on my Baratza Encore: 18-20. I usually keep 19.

The first problem with running multiple agents is that they forget. The second is that they can't coordinate. A state layer that solves storage first and then adds signaling becomes a nervous system,…

How my server started as a book library with Calibre and Kavita, then grew into a full media homelab with Jellyfin, Arr automation, a reverse proxy, and operations tooling — one folder per service,…

For forty years we pretended software was the product. SaaS moved the price to the service. AI moved it past zero. The artefact is free now — what's worth paying for is knowing which code to write.

Take a walk along Montreal’s Van Horne avenue at the northern end of the Plateau and you may find something unexpected: An unkempt field populated by rusting metal sculptures. It’s an odd…

I really, really want local models to work. I want them to work in the very practical sense that I can open my coding agent, pick a local model, and get something that feels competitive enough that I…

“un jour je serai de retour près de toi”This week, Aljoscha is updating on his own. Thankfully he did not draw anything, because Sammy left a whole collection of drawings to share.

Selected maxims and passages from ancient Egyptian compilation of proverbs.

I work across three different physical PCs, and on a couple of those I also bounce between Windows and WSL. That’s as many as six different environments where I run Claude Code against the same set…

#monstergarden { corner-shape: scoop; border-radius: 32px; text-align: center; text-wrap: balance; padding: 8px; background-color: rgb(49, 27, 10); color: gold; border: double 4px gold; font-family:…

Today’s starred repositories:

Two tips on using zig fmt effectively. Read this if you are writing Zig, or if you are implementing a code formatter.

AI agents deploying infrastructure directly into your AWS account is ClickOps at machine speed. The Agent Toolkit for AWS shows how to keep agents producing IaC instead.

We’re not even going to do an intro this month, we got ourselves some new hardware this month to play with let’s go!

After using James Howell's Org Teach for a number of semesters, there was one thing that was bothering me with the reproduction of images (and code) between slides and handouts. Chiefly, images may…

I’m trying to bring back light and breezy posting - ones that are short, sweet, and drive a little habit creation. Today, like every Friday, we went to our local park/cricket club and our eldest did…

Bigger prompts do not fix bad agent plans. A good agent workflow starts with a small brief, human review, task sizing, and checks against concrete artifacts.

A CLI is not only a user interface. It is also an API for scripts. Quiet mode, stdout, stderr, colors, and exit codes need clear contracts.

Nick sent me a great post from one of the engineers at Goodenough, the fine folks behind Jelly, on the topic of self-updating screenshots. It is near and dear to my heart: their approach, which uses…

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzeb Salgado about a potential GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm (Part 2).

A reflection on joining Vercel, leading Community through an AI-first era, and the people, systems, and lessons I’ll carry from this chapter.

Software engineering has always been more craft than science. AI doesn't change that.

Movie Poster Memento is another amazing unreliable narrator movie. In the same vein as Shutter Island and as many twists as The Departed. I really like it. There are so many details I probably missed…

Movie Poster I had a busy April finishing my master’s thesis, so I am 4 movies behind. I’ve watched 2 movies this week and will be watching 2 movies next week to catch up. The first movie…

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