I’ve been revisiting trying to run NetBSD on Wrap030, my 68030 homebrew computer. In the process I’ve been running into some truly strange behavior. I’ll change a kernel compile…

MLA, KDA, MoE, NoPE all attack either bytes transferred or bytes resident. MLA shrinks KV per token, KDA replaces a O(n)O(n)O(n) cache with an O(1)O(1)O(1) state.

Chris from uncountable thoughts is hosting this month's IndieWeb Carnival topic on purpose . This is my first participation in such a carnival, and its been fun, if a little challenging on my noggin.…

The boy appeared on a Thursday, which was collection day. Danny Toal had taken over the corner of the big shed from Micky Breen two years before, and he still thought of the week in terms of who…

I’m pleased to share a new practical guide to the Stoic Attitudes and Behaviours Scale, or SABS, written by Tim LeBon, the research director of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit. I helped create…

It was New Year's Day 2024, and downtown Miami should have been winding down from the holiday celebrations. Instead, Bayside Marketplace became the center of one of the internet's strangest modern…

This is the official video for the song All my friends are heathens by Twenty One Pilots. My oldest son who is frequently assumed to be ASD by people who have barely met him had that song on repeat…

At some point today, I'll receive a call from the funeral home to let me know my dad is ready to be picked up. Like my pretend child that does an after school program, only it's my cremated dad. I'll…

Earlier this month, I attended ClueCon 2026 in Chicago. The event was well attended with open source RTC/VoIP community members. Any opportunity I get to spend time with Daniel-Constantin Mierla is…

In my last two posts on this topic, I provided the history of the development of a mechanical CPR device. I also discussed a recent study examining a very large patient population and comparing…

The demo sets an anchor nobody wrote down, and then your team spends a quarter losing an argument to it.

Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this enamel cuff bracelet since I had the pleasure of seeing it in NYC, so today we’re going to talk about it. This Victorian enamel cuff…

With New Horizons now 63 AU out, it’s time to ponder that record hibernation period that the spacecraft just went through. Over 10 months long, this one had the same goal as previous such periods, to…

Time, Discomfort, Payoff Well, that was a Monday. Between local fires, some personal news, and the awful unrelenting heat, I’m glad to be done with the whole thing. Today promises to be warm…

Part four of our summer adventure: Amsterdam!

The development of air-to-air refueling changed aerial warfare and gave US Air Force SAC bombers global reach. KC-135 tanker on display at the Barksdale Global Power Museum in Louisiana The first…

Three years ago today we returned for the third time to our favorite beach. As we were reflecting on what it's meant for us to keep coming back to the same place, he went down on his knees and asked…

August has not been kind to me. Work draws taxes from my soul and the weather from my body. I read in deep, hours-long gulps on the weekend, then spend my time craving the feeling of crafting good…

The anxiety is enormous. It grew both deeper and wider. Regarding this collapse (not merely nervous, for that matter), an interesting point is that some small changes in everyday life turned out, at…

♠ A serendipitous discovery: macOS continuity. Picture this: I am using my corp Macbook Pro, whilst my personal Macbook Air happens to be close by. Both of their lids are open. In my corp Macbook,…

This article includes sponsorship or links with referral codes which will earn me an affiliate fee. These are clearly marked with a 💵 symbol. My Oops! All Servos! expansion boards are now available…

I have argued for a while that MDR has to move beyond alert triage and become a cyber risk reduction service. A recent conversation with an experienced MDR operator added another piece to that…

My new home is definitely smart - CAT5 cabling, smart thermostats, wireless access points, gigabit internet, and more. But there's the thing - there's no manuals, diagrams, or help guides. So far…

I listened to two great podcasts this week exploring the tangle of human/AI relationships. In “Computer Love,” the guests explore whether these relationships are good for us, and in…

I want to write a new crowdfunding module, and it's probably going to be for Eco Mofos!!. I'm thinking: Bestiary - Monsters with all kind of extras, like hooks, biome, and habitat - Villains with a…

"Nyzoura's Pendant" is a fun ride.

iPhone Mirroring is one of those little Apple inventions that – when it works – is quietly excellent. When I first heard the concept I really thought it was bananas....

Intrepidina the cricket stowaway in my suitcase made a ‘new leap forward’. She crossed an ocean, was cooped up in a suitcase and nearly died getting to her destination. Crickets, in China, are…

Some interesting insights from my past six-plus months of geeking out with Anthropic's insane AI tool.

Author Ross Dunbar kindly sent me a copy of Click Clack Boom , the first in his Blackjack Harrigan Files series. Harrigan is an intelligence officer who specializes in finding unusual people who are…

Gaming Science | It's cool to be a criminal in-game. Violent video games were shown to drive aggression. But is this also true for the crime rate? Today's study analyses a dataset of 50+ million…

Palantir has access to the personal information and news-reading behavior of—if USA Today Co.'s own reports are true—158 million average unique monthly visitors, or 48% of the American people.

I recently read a great post from Matt Haughey about his time spent working in a bike shop as a teenager and it got me a little nostalgic about my own teenage “bike shop” experience and…

Five data channels, no HTTP for app data: using WebRTC as an app transport between iPhone and Mac. The community framework whose macOS slice ships one header, the WebSocket storm, ICE restart vs…

A Chinese AI lab shipped a model that got so good at hacking, mid-training, that they decided to hold the open weights back and spend two more weeks hardening it before they let you download it. The…

In a short period of time, I’ve rebuilt my Kenner Star Wars collection from its humble new beginnings. Y got me an Ikea Billy bookcase for my birthday, which I used to display most of it now.…

I got fired, chat. How cooked are we? 😱 It's never a good time to lose a job - but to lose a job in this economy? No thanks! So... What happened? Background About 4 and a half years ago, I joined…

The standard recommendation on time out duration is one minute per year of age, often capping out at 5min. In my experience (n=3, not independent) this is much longer than needed; I typically do…

I set a 5 a.m. alarm for years and kept snoozing it. On swapping inputs without quitting the goal, and letting go of who you used to be. The post Make It Easy to Win appeared first on Christopher…

In one week of late-August 2026, Agent Sandbox, Kueue, and LeaderWorkerSet each shipped a limiter on their own elasticity: a warm pool that refills more slowly, a field that used to be editable and…

Bulova Lunar Pilot Blue & White, and Super Seville Precisionist Introduction There are many factors I consider when looking at watches, here are a few of them: Is it funky or strange looking, but…

[1967] A scuzzy fuzz monster with a neanderthal beat sweetened by the use of some very cool bells! The fuzz and bells in this snarly stomper are an unusual but excellent combo!

Digital tools make it easy to capture and store information before we have really processed it. But once the device has it, the mind may quietly let it go. As soon as we come across an interesting…

First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit . You can't polish a turd Omarchy 4.0 shipped with a collection of security issues which I can only…

Roundhouse now has four applications in flight. Status for each is here . Each one is there to test something different. Blog is the conformance oracle — small enough to support completely, and the…

Inside a Chinese MSC manufacturing facility: what cell banking, culture conditions, microcarriers and secretome research reveal about the future of regenerative medicine.

last week i played man i just wanna go home . that wonderful experience, combined with the fact my pc died (although its back working again yay), made me finally pick up renpy and start tooling…

This is the second post in a series, so I encourage you to go back to read the previous post about Building Healthy and Sustainable Projects Using CHAOSS Practitioner Guides if you haven’t already…