Notes and links from 20 Oct
Journal The last few days of computer action have been spent on the big blog archive project. I’ve been knocking the Art Pete blog into shape, fixing image links and reminding myself what…
Book Review(s): Ana and Din Mysteries
The Ana and Din Mysteries, currently three books starting with The Tainted Cup is a fantasy detective series that managed to tell both interesting detective stories and provide an interesting world…
A retro film for spooky season: “Gothic” by Ken Russell (1986).
The Frankenstein genesis legend gets a delightfully 80s-horror-film makeover in this semi-obscure classic.
The “Not Chronically Ill” Claim Is Ableist Bullshit
I have been angry about this for days.
"I've Got a Kid in New York"
We leave eaaarrrlllly tomorrow morning to go see Beatrix at Sarah Lawrence's "Friends and Family" weekend, and I was thinking earlier today about leaning into the identity of someone who goes to New…
The unbearable being of being-ness
Somedays you wake up and your head lifts from the pillow like a brick tied to a noose. A heavy lead ball, disaffected and disjointed, you cradle one hand against the disappointment of your face, and…
AI is getting smarter, but is it becoming intelligent?
OpenAI’s Chief Scientist warns that we are building increasingly capable AI systems we cannot fully explain or reliably monitor. Yann LeCun argues that language fluency is not intelligence. Both may…
The Last Best Place On The Internet, a book about Wikipedia, by Richard Cooke
Sydney, Australia, based author and journalist Richard Cooke explores the inner workings of online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is his recently published book, The Last Best Place On The Internet: In…
Is Taming of the Shrew about Male Fragility?
Perhaps Taming of the Shrew is less about taming shrews and more about male fragility. That would restore some of Katharina's dignity. The post Is Taming of the Shrew about Male Fragility? first…
Quo Vadis, Academia?
After the recent announcements by OpenAI et al., I am often asked whether there is still a future for researchers in academia. I think this is an important question—but I believe an equally…
What changes a coding agent's behaviour
Isaac Correa's study of eight months of his own daily work with Claude Code: the model mattered more than the rules he wrote, guards filtered without teaching, and his supervision moved from…
Over-engineering makes you feel smart, but here comes the technical debt
One of the struggles I have come to know intimately over a career as a programmer is the tendency to over-engineer solutions. You constantly walk a knife edge trying to write good clean code and also…
Enchainments – Canada
In mountaineering, the idea of climbing 2 or more mountains in one trip, which may often cover multiple days, is nowadays called enchainment. By one trip, I mean in one push. And by that, I mean in…
"Coding" is Largely "Solved"
Supplements advertise boosting your immune system because it's not a medical claim.
How to start a movement
Derek Sivers brilliantly explains in under five minutes what it takes to be a leader. Not all TED talks deserve your attention, but this one definitely does. And Derek Sivers himself too. After his…
Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
One of eMudhra's certificate authority private keys is the number 4.Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and…
Crate Digger’s Gold: Houston Person – Wild Flower
I was in Chicago, stopped by Dusty Groove, and found this album in the “new used” crate. With tenor saxophonist Houston Person, the provocative cover art (by Hal Wilson), the Muse label, the sidemen,…
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following... Continue reading →
The Hidden Cost of Java Virtual Threads: Deep Stacks, GC Pressure & CPU Cache Locality
A practical look at what happens when you push Java Virtual Threads in the wrong direction: how unmounting copies stacks to the heap, triggers OutOfMemoryErrors, pressures the Garbage Collector, and…
Hydrogen At Scale
Hydrogen remains one of the most exciting applications of clean , renewable energy. Its production has been demonstrated on an industrial scale. Today the price of hydrogen is at an all time low of…
From Spaceframes to Cloud Architecture: The Day Pentech Took on UCT at Meerendal (1999)
🛠️ The Year is 1999. Meerendal Wine Estate. If you clean out your old desktop folders long enough, you occasionally stumble across absolute gold. The photo above takes me straight back to the winter…
Being more explicit with the limited AI usage in my blog posts' content
I don't want to read lengthy blog posts that have been spat out by a Large Language Model (LLM), because the author hasn't felt they want to write the words to share their point. I'm not going to…
#0179
Considering... Sharkey account, specifically sakurajima.social . Same groups that hosts the Mastodon sakurajima.moe server which is focused on "Japanese-media and Anime/Manga/Japanese Media…
BICEP – Gas / Ultra / Equarium
BICEP – “Gas” ft. Lauren Duffus & SOARR BICEP – “Ultra” ft. Eartheater & Saskia BICEP – “Equarium” ft. Kehina The post BICEP – Gas /…
New Hots Hots 32
Jacques Greene “Two” ft. SAM-E Patricia – “The Ooze” Cesco, Machinedrum, & Sam Binga – “Stainless Meal” Cesco, Machinedrum, & Sam Binga…
The Witch Family
A pair of ordinary little girls create a wicked Old Witch in their imaginations and then banish her to a house on a glass hill, giving her a family for company, until she can prove that she can be…
Light pollution
I didn't touch a camera until 7pm today. That makes me sad.96 words · 1 image
Faversham revisited - Pt. 2
Next up was the Anchor, a pub that wasn’t on my original list, but I’m pleased now that I took a punt on this lengthy oak-beamed building that is over 300 years old. Situated close to the quayside…
Big Squint
I first heard of Squint back in 2022, when they released their Feel It EP. I'm pretty sure that I got the tip from No Echo on the band... back when I was paying attention to this kind of thing. I…
When Universities Automate Education, What Gets Lost?
The title of Robert Sparrow and Gene Flenady’s paper, “Bullshit Universities: The Future of Automated Education,” is deliberately provocative. Behind […]
Other Mommy
"Can I go into your heart?" A girl (Arabella Olivia Clark) is targeted by some demon that tries to take over her heart by shapeshifting into her mother (Jessica Chastain). As the family realise what…
Mountains calling
Mountains calling
Happy To See Rays Versus Brewers World Series
I am happy to see that this year’s World Series will be the Rays versus the Brewers. As one would expect I would sure prefer the Phillies to be in the finals, but they were ass this year and did not…
How cushy did those Boomers have it compared to Gen Z, really?
How cushy did those Boomers have it compared to Gen Z, really? Posted by Ed Folsom, October 20, 2026. (Revised 10/22/26 9:15 a.m., to correct faulty median home sale price numbers for 1985, 1987,…
Agriophagians: Serenus the military prefect on “worthless wild animal eaters” of the eastern desert (122 CE)
Ancient author: Sulpicius Serenus, IPan 87 [i.e. Bernand 1972 below] = SB I 4282 = PH219404 (122/123 CE; link). Comments: That categorizing and characterizing populations in negative terms was not…
Bringing AI to the LoRa Mesh: Building a Smarter MeshCore Bot with Ollama
I’ve been experimenting with LoRa mesh networks, AI agents, and running local LLMs with Ollama. At some point, it occurred to me: why not bring them together? Both Meshtastic and MeshCore…
Dynamics N5 Resources
Resources for the N5 Dynamics Topic. Let’s start with a couple of videos to get you ready. I can’t condone where the guy places his hands in the first video but it is a good song.…
Original artwork used for the cover of a 1995 issue of the Brazilian SuperGamePower magazine,…
Original artwork used for the cover of a 1995 issue of the Brazilian SuperGamePower magazine, featuring Yoshi and Baby Mario. Please zoom in to see details.Source: originalvideogameartMain Blog |…
Tu 20 October 2026
A few weeks ago I linked to Rich Hickeys Gist-Post about open source. Yesterday, Konstantin pointed me to the CultRepo-Youtube-channel and their playlist Documentaries for Developers. Concidentally,…
Attention Neopets kids
I've spent the last few days playing an open beta of a uh... a website... a game that is a website... called Dog Online. It is extraordinarily good at replicating the exact impact that Neopets had on…
Mark 13:32: Can We Choose What God Already Knows?
Jesus knew who would betray him and who would deny him, yet said he did not know the day or the hour. What that tells us about free will. Giotto di Bondone, Kiss of Judas, fresco, Scrovegni Chapel,…
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Response to Paolo Pedercini's stance on AI usage
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Record: Omul Cu Șobolani - Distopia (Povești De Adormit Părinții)
2026 • LP, Red, Gatefold • Cassette • CD To see all 8 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at:…
Goodbye, Lara ★★★★☆
In the opening scene, when Lara is being born, her sisters already know that she’s going to be a princess, but argue about if she will be a blue or red, as if mermaid gender is colour-based, and her…
Experts: Before You Can Increase Revenue or Impact, Stop Making This Mistake
A few years ago, I was having coffee at a conference with a friend and fellow speaker, when someone approached with a question."Jay!" she said. (A fine opening, I thought. For that, dear reader, is…
On top of the world, III
Washington, September 2026. From the video I finally found the image I was looking for in the mountains of Washington.
Post-It Dungeon for October TWO !!!
WE'RE DOIN' IT AGAIN!!! This dungeon can be either standalone (in which case there is an area for a potential entrance marked with a large E on the map above) or it can serve as a lower dungeon level…