YOLO is a terrible strategy for validating production changes. How many times have you seen it? Your platform is running smoothly. No alerts, no issues. Then suddenly, something breaks. After digging…

The simplest improvement you can make to your agentic programming workflow is to run two agents instead of one. One writes code in its own worktree; the other, in a parallel worktree, reviews it.…

Stretching, cycling, and pizza

telepathy (usually uncountable, plural telepathies) (parapsychology) The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or…

Hey, dipshit. You know what compiles in two seconds, deploys as a single binary, and doesn't shit itself when a transitive dependency gets yanked from npm at 3am? Go. The same way HTML has been…

Gutenberg 23.1 ships a native UI for custom post types. Good. But CPTs without custom fields are just renamed posts, and the half Core still hasn't answered is the half that matters.

Federal agents and LAPD crashed multiple May Day protests in DTLA on May 1, 2026.

A used Canon EOS 6D with a solid 75-300 mm lens!

Kodak UltraMax 400 / Nikon Coolscan / SmartConvert / Zeiss 35mm EF

Out of office? Cambridge in the Summer? Quote of the Day ”Holy Mother we do believe, That without sin Thou didst conceive; May we now in Thee believing, Also sin without conceiving.” A.P. Herbert My…

I drew this a few weeks ago and finally put the video together that I planned to make while I was drawing it. I feel like I have a large backlog of things I've been wanting to do, but I've also been…

Flyology continues at the Union Theatre, London until 8 May 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Flyology reminds us to keep pushing, so that artificial intelligence does not make the same…

Having a chronic condition is like drinking a glass of poison every day. The poison doesn't guarantee that you get sick, but you are still forced to drink.

Showing how JavaScript has access to information about the browser that the user uses to watch a webpage.

(One of my summaries of the 2026 one-day PyGrunn conference in Groningen, NL). His parents owned a record store in some Dutch town. First records, then CDs. A social shop where you would gather to…

(One of my summaries of the 2026 one-day PyGrunn conference in Groningen, NL). When automating in a big company with many systems, you often end up with spaghetti: many systems connecting to a lot of…

Akademy 2026 (the annual world summit for KDE) is happening in Graz. Austria, Saturday 19th – Thursday 24th September. First of all, if you're reading this and thinking, "Should i go to Akademy?" The…

You type "good" and macOS helpfully pops up a thumbs-up emoji suggestion. You type "love" and a heart appears, uninvited, hovering over your cursor. Trying to get to the actual emoji you want to use…

Imagine plugging an ESP32 into your computer’s USB port - and suddenly, your OS detects a brand-new MIDI device. You connect your phone to the WiFi network the ESP32 is hosting, open your…

Jokingly calling it Finder++. Here are a couple of videos from the past few days of playing around. You can use cmd+shift+. to summon the shelf from the bottom of the screen at any time. It’s a…

Dear Ciara, The garden beds are built, the seedlings are growing, but they’re still not large enough to be transplanted. I’m hoping another next week is all that is needed, provided the weather…

  I recently asked people on Mastodon “What’s the most surprising fact you’ve learned in the last couple of weeks?” It was a nice way to learn a lot of interesting…

Euler CMX (supports Mini-ITX motherboards) Euler TX3 (supports Thin Mini-ITX motherboards) Euler CTX (supports Thin Mini-ITX motherboards, ultra-compact case) Galileo TU1 Plus (supports Thin Mini-ITX…

Talking this morning with Matt, our book man in Venice, about the intense passions of collectors of James Joyce’s Ulysses, and he reminded me that Richard Prince’s own bibliophilia…

LNG Canada and Mark Carney’s “Low Carbon Oil”Those of you following the parallel track to my essays, the chapters of my memoirs I am also putting out on Substack and […]

Puppy considers all its traits that make it pawsibly a vampire.

A robot made by Toyota blows its own horn.Image from Wikimedia.   I happened to type “evolution revised” into my Safari browser, and A.I. kicked in. I try to turn off A.I. as much as I can, but…

I have been using Roam Research for taking notes for years. One of the crucial features I like in Roam is linked references, also known as “backlinks”: you create links to new or existing pages as…

the pain in my shoulder finally cleared up and i'm back to normal now, yay ^-^ hopefully i can go more than a few months now before another major health disruption (╥_╥) [...]

If you’ve ever needed to produce a typed binary format where the header constrains what the body can contain, you’ve probably written validation code that runs at runtime and hoped your…

In this blog I’ve often mentioned the name of my late friend Bertrand Dufresne, who passed away 10 years ago this year. Despite all the good memories I have with him, I wanted to remember him…

A rambling acknowledgment of the shmup community and their door-holding nature; a list of YouTube creators that you might find enjoyable.

STORM: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST MUTANTS #4 “Mama” Writer: Murewa Ayodele Artist: Federica Mancin Colour artist: Java Tartaglia Letterer: Travis Lanham Editor: Tom Brevoort STORM:…

This is a list of things I buy and regret purchasing every single time. Ever expanding reminders for myself. My general theory of life: Do not expose yourself to luxury (middle class life being my…

Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone (Europe/Berlin) in /var/www/html/domain.com/public_html/wp-includes/script-loader.php:414 Stack trace: #0…

Maureen Bowden

Second-game F2P economy design can lower pressure without flattening spend by selling identity, continuity, social value, and creator-driven attachment. The post The Second Game Strategy: Designing…

Safe Intelligence is launching a new AI Agent validation and monitoring platform named /Spec27. Signup is free for early access.

AVIF, JXL, or WebP?

No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.

The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is now onl... Continue reading →

I moved into my new house three weeks ago. It came with a sofa. Not a welcome gift. A hostage situation. The sofa lived on the top floor. A beige, British-made monstrosity that had clearly been…

Fourteen Again continues at the Victoria Wood Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere until 6 June 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a divinely entertaining and heartwarming show which is a…

Short discussion of "organic voice enrollment" in Sparky -- how he learns names and voices without ceremony, but by conforming to polite social norms.

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Funny. I think this a lot - but never quite put my finger on it. 🔗 Geography is four-dimensional But that place is long gone. It’s not like that anymore. 💬 Derek Sivers When it gets down to it I…

Nobody really talks about radio anymore. And by "nobody", I mean people my age. Speaking of people my age, I've been noticing this uptick in content about curation. Its the mechanic behind online…

Previously I had talked about the idea of personal marketability when it came to learning AI. That was in the … More AI Was Already Here: Loud Opinions vs. Precise Understanding →

My review for one of the most impressive titles for the PSP, which I owed a second try for almost a decade now. It did not dissapoint

Week 19 NOTE: Don’t feel like you’re supposed to make all these recipes. Choose just one to experiment with each week. MONDAY Beautiful Broccoli Burgers It’s funny how ideas come and go.…