What Is Medallion Architecture? Bronze, Silver and Gold Layers Explained with Databricks and Snowflake Examples
The Medallion architecture is a data design pattern, that organizes a data lake/warehouse into three layers of increasing quality: bronze for raw data, silver for cleansed and validated data, and…
The Work Hidden Inside “Just Ask”
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What is a reasonable vitamin D level?
The figure and table below are from Vieth (1999); one of the most widely cited articles on vitamin D. The figure shows the gradual increase in blood concentrations of 25-Hydroxyvitamin, or 25(OH)D,…
Ron Koslow (1945-2026)
Producer and scriptwriter Ron Koslow, who created Beauty and the Beast (CBS, 1987-1990), My Life and Times (ABC, 1991), and co-created Roar (FOX, 1997) and Moonlight (CBS, 2007-2008), has died at the…
English and the Interpreter
English leaves room for interpretation. Now the listener can build software from what we leave unsaid.
Introducing Dreamer, a Screen Saver for Android
Dreamer turns your idle phone, tablet or TV into a slideshow of hand-picked, high-resolution photos.
C++26 Ranges: Better Infrastructure
C++26 ranges isn’t only about new view adaptors. Three changes landed that don’t give you new ways to compose pipelines but fix real problems: containers can now reserve space for lazy ranges that…
My free Scrabble tool is 20 years old. A 666k-row search log told me what to fix first
MOPSiK is a free helper for crossword and Scrabble players that I built in the mid-2000s. It still gets 1,600-1,700 unique visitors a month. Here is how I used a 666k-row search log to decide what to…
llama.cpp, vLLM, and SGLang: Three Approaches to LLM Inference
llama.cpp, vLLM, and SGLang all run transformer weights and stream tokens, yet each is built around a different systems bottleneck. Here is how they differ across model loading, KV cache memory,…
Protect your Shopify theme app extensions from script injection
How attackers can inject scripts through Shopify theme app extensions, and how to protect yours with app-reserved metafields, escaping and stricter custom code handling.
VERDICT: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Beautiful, atmospheric, multi-layer, and deeply terrifying. I loved how calmly the story unfolded, and how much dread was underneath. It reminded me of Tarkovsky's Solaris.
Wipr 2.43
Two changeblogs in a row! I don’t have much time to chat with y’all, but this is kind of a way to do that. And I’ve been doing a lot of heterogeneous work on Wipr, it’s worth discussing.
Delphi, KAI and ExeWatchMCP: What If Your AI Assistant Read Your Customers' Errors and Fixed Them?
🌐 This article is also available in other languages: 🇮🇹 Italiano • 🇪🇸 Español • 🇩🇪 Deutsch • 🇫🇷 Français • 🇧🇷 Português On Monday morning you open the…
Delphi, KAI e ExeWatchMCP: e se o seu assistente de IA lesse os erros dos seus clientes e os corrigisse?
🌐 Este artigo também está disponível em outros idiomas: 🇮🇹 Italiano • 🇬🇧 English • 🇪🇸 Español • 🇩🇪 Deutsch • 🇫🇷 Français Segunda de manhã você abre o…
Revamped the kollektivavtal archive and became an AI douche this weekend
After well over a year of procrastination I finally shipped the next iteration of the kollektivavtal archive this week. The new version introduces the ability to browse by union, so you can look at…
Machines Read, Humans Sign: Code Review in One Year
What building our own review agent taught us, with our numbers, what Anthropic and one open-source pull request show about where review is going, and eight bets on how teams will review code by…
A Survey on Empathy
I started following Jack Jenkins , a prolific reporter/writer for Religion News, some time in the past year or so on BlueSKy. For an atheist, that may seem a bit of a weird thing, but he keeps me on…
On Courage
“Courage in work does not usually mean fighting wolves. This is unfortunate but survivable. It means asking the question when everyone else is pretending to understand. It means saying the plan is…
Large Language Models and Free Software
The ability to write and modify software with large language models (LLMs) is a well-trodden topic. My opinions are still forming, but my current thinking is that LLMs allow individuals to actually…
2025 Books
2025 Books A list of books I've read this year. The rating system: 1 star = Didn't finish it 2 stars = Finished it but can't really recommend it 3 stars = Good book - recommended - you can have my…
A first look at New Zealand's only artist alley store
New Zealand is getting its first artist alley store! I talk to the owner to see what's up.
Mr. O’Malley dines out
A very Happy Crockett Johnson’s Birthday to all who celebrate! The author of Harold and the Purple Crayon and the creator of Barnaby (and Mr. O’Malley) was born 120 years ago today in New…
Checking into Glacier
Arrived at the final National Park of our adventure this afternoon.
Colour variants from base colours with OKLCH, CSS relative color, and CSS functions
Many others have covered the manipulation of colour in CSS. This is me documenting what has worked for me, practically, 'in the wild'. It is a common requirement to need a variant of an…
My Take on Undefined Behavior in C
My Take on Undefined Behavior in C :root { color-scheme: light dark; } * { box-sizing: border-box; } body { max-width: 68ch; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 40em; font-family: -apple-system,…
A Large-D Closure for Asymmetric Kinetic Vector-Spin Systems
Introduction ✨ Code: In , we introduced transformer-like modules built from driven stochastic vector-spin systems. The blocks , but comparing naive mean field with exact sampling , especially in…
Gatekeeping in the Age of AI
Every shift in software has been told it’s already solved. With AI, that pushback has become gatekeeping, and it risks talking us out of the biggest chance in decades to change how we build.
Switzy
Last of my three Booker shortlisted birthday novels, and another absolutely brilliant, original book. Switzy is the last few days in the life of a guy heading to his assisted death, told in the first…
Rediscovered: Arkham House Ephemera Suddenly 13% Off
Aha. Today I see — just in time for Halloween — that Amazon has knocked an eldritch 13% off the $40 retail on Arkham House Ephemera: The Classic Years. Or, as I call it, Eph Book.…
How to Run Turing-Complete Malware in PyTorch's Backward Pass
Originally I was toying around with a question about floating-point precision in PyTorch: as a joke, I was curious to see if it's possible to find some weird loss \(\mathcal{L}\) for which calling…
0015 – Volcanum
Digital Breakbeat Glitch Ambient music ShrineGen v20261021 seed 65088 biome Verdant weather Dusk wildlife off scale Phrygian root note D# chords 3 mode half-time tempo 156 BPM start at the beginning…
2026-10-20 Tuesday
Up early, planning call, sync with Laser, lunch. Catch up with Andras, Monthly management meeting, sync with Kohei. Dentist, more admin.
Final Thoughts on Hosting My Greece Cruise: The Good, the Bad, and the Weight Gain
Ten days. Thirty-five of my closest Kansas City friends. Multiple countries. Thousands of stairs. Millions of calories. And enough cheese to make a Wisconsin dairy farmer weep with joy. Hosting...…
a quick note from the hub 10-20-26
Just to let you know link testing was completed here at the hub today - a number of bad links were removed. Virtually free of link rot at the moment (the way I like it). 😎 -joe jenett
Why is “Loud Working” the New Trend
You may have seen these “loud working” types. That is someone who is always announcing how hard they are working, how valuable they are and how important they are to the…
Laptop Stickers
I’ve been seeing a few folks around making posts about their laptop stickers, and thought it would be a fun little diversion to post about. I have far too many stickers in my craft…
A Few Scans from My Father's 1961 J. Press Catalog, My Mother's 1961 Ann Taylor Catalog, and Some Random Labels and Tags
All Photos and Scans by Muffy Aldrich A few old labels, tags, and catalog scans (from 1961), all courtesy of my parents. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsE
An “Amish Cabela’s,” Yoder’s Sausage Kitchen, & A Long-Debated Amish Community Center: What’s New In Jamesport, Missouri
Don Burke is back with a look at an old favorite – Jamesport, Missouri – and what’s new in the community since his last visit. The Jamesport area is home to one of the state’s…
Push to multiple git remotes with one command
Push to multiple git remotes with one command I keep my main repo on a self-hosted server and mirror it to GitHub. Two remotes, one command. 1. Add the remotes git remote add aurcade…
Waymo Plans to Increase Its Robotaxi Fleet Fivefold
Operating in 15 metropolitan areas in the U.S., preparing to expand to another dozen cities, and planning an international expansion … More
Mark & Shari's Excellent Adventure (Days 3 & 4)
Summary In which our intrepid explorers actually, you know, explore. Day Three I woke up early and went for a walk to watch the sunrise. Banff was quiet - just some folks walking to their jobs - and…
Measuring Go Landlock Adoption 2026
Landlock users in Go, by library Not using Go-Landlock yet? Landlock feature sets in use How to use more Landlock features If you maintain a software library, it is easy now to crawl code…
The Enemy Within
Four years ago in 2022 a paper appeared in the journal Science Translational Medicine entitled “SARS-CoV-2 S2–targeted vaccination elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies”. It…
Oxford vs Wingtip vs Brogue: What’s the Difference?
There are a lot of terms in the shoe world that get thrown around rather loosely. Oxford, wingtip, brogue, cap toe, balmoral, spectator—the list goes on. And one that has always driven me slightly…
Seasons
Fucking fall is here. Or so I would’ve thought in earlier years. These days I’m not so sure. I haw learned to appreciate the seasons for what they are. At least a little more.Our…
Why I Wrote “Master Sun’s Problem”
In my career, first as a mathematician and then as a math writer, I’ve read a lot of books that were written by mathematicians “for the general public.” And yet I have found very…
Is this the backbone to my "laziness"?
I wanna be the genius I thought I was growing up. From preschool until I graduated college, and even during my office days, there was always someone who’d call me a genius . Those interactions…
Homemakers
I'm a former homemaker. I spent about two decades as a full-time homemaker and I think my oldest child was nineteen when I got my first full-time paid job during my divorce. At some point, I read…