Bubbles
I recently came across Bubbles, a really nice IndieWeb aggregator. It’s great to see the IndieWeb ecosystem getting better and better, and I love the idea of having something like Lobsters or…
New Bi-Weekly Poll: What Should be the Next Weekly Content?
Last Poll Response: I Pick & - I wouldn't call myself a conspiracy theorist, but do have a (slightly unhealthy) skepticism of the News and Government, but don't think everything is a big orchestrated…
AI Leaders in Chicago
Celebrating the first graduating class of the AI Leaders program in Chicago, insights on AI in the workplace, and the importance of staying curious.
The Other Half of Identity Security
I was most of the way through writing about break-glass access when I realized I had only written the prevention half. Build a break-glass account that stays inert until used, expires fast, and gets…
What Kind Leadership Really Means
Whenever I run a session on kindness with a room of leaders, there's a particular look I've learned to watch for. It's the look of someone worrying that I'm about to ask them to go soft. To stop…
The Dating App Plot Device
I've always been interested in how dating apps work. You really only have two choices if you want to get in the business. Help people find a match, and they will never come back Make people pay and…
Standard Chartered Investor Day
At Standard Chartered’s Investor Day, Dr. Parag Khanna discussed the Asianization of the world as a defining post-Cold War megatrend, extending beyond China to include India and Southeast Asia.…
Understanding Functional Decision Theory as Program Search
Epistemic note: Probably already known or obvious, but this treatment seems clearer to me than the standard treatment in e.g. the FDT paper. The other day I went down a deep lesswrong rabbit-hole and…
June 30th
I’ve been trying to get up a little earlier to spend the beginning of my day in the garden, in the daylight. Yesterday it was gloriously sunny, but this morning was overcast and on the cooler side.…
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Demat Breizh
Blogo Interruptus...
Taking a break for a few and will be happily sweltering away this 4th at our nation's Capital in the interests of patriotism and historic documentation. Hopefully, we won't get completely rained out…
You Consume All Day. Then You Wonder Why You Can’t Create Anything.
Two people have the same free evening. Same couch, same three hours, nothing on the calendar. One of them will spend it consuming. The other will spend it creating. Neither one decides on purpose.
Don’t Choose to Ignore: A New Song About Refusing to Be Invisible in a Destructive Relationship
You told yourself it was fine. "Don't Choose to Ignore" is the new single that says it wasn't, and means it. Co-written and sung by Heather Bradley, this is a song built from the inside of a real…
Tom's opinionated guide to skill building 101
The thing I'm most excited about with AI lately is SKILLs. (I have to capitalize the word at first so you know I'm talking about agent skills rather than just general capabilities; however, I'll…
The Eyes Have It
Last Wednesday I woke up and had a massive spot in my vision. After years of stuff like this, I didn’t panic. I thought perhaps it was a new floater, and eventually my brain would learn to…
Lured
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she’s approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who…
Why Well-Written Prompts Are Almost Always Structured
A Plain and Intuitive Explanation
Keyword Clustering: grouping thousands of queries with K-means and hierarchical clustering
It happens with every reasonably serious project: you export the keyword list from Search Console or a tool, and you find yourself facing thousands of rows. Three thousand, ten thousand queries.…
Israel has Nukes and Will Use Them
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Building a local RAG in Go
I had to go through an “AI” course recently for work, which included a couple of homework assignments. The intent was that these would be company-specific, but because 1 of these had to…
My June log and Steam Next Fest recap
A month with hot new games and actual really hot weather.
Podcast #117. Writer Bots and Reality
June 19, 2026. Talk on writer bots, and rising above them by using transrealism and an awareness of reality at large. At a High Castle dinner hosted by the Point Reyes Reality Investigation Center…
zibaldone
Recently I started reading The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Within it I learnt about zibaldone – the italian version of the commonplace book. As usual, I forgot I had...
Mature white male seeks wellness on West Side of Manhattan
I am dreading Wednesday when I must go see Dr. Taylor, the surgeon who did my shoulder replacement, and confess that I have sinned and not faithfully followed the exercise regimen and so my left…
CH Ludens – The Podcast: …talking with Addrich Mauch (University of Bern)
by the CH Ludens Team In “CH Ludens – The Podcast”, Arno Görgen and Eugen Pfister are sitting down each month to have a chat with a different member of “Confoederatio Ludens” to talk about how they…
Self-hosting a static site using Forgejo, Headscale, and Caddy
Self-hosting a static blog with push-to-deploy: Forgejo Actions ships the site over a Tailscale/Headscale tailnet to a Caddy reverse proxy, with no long-lived SSH keys to manage.
You're Not Going to be on TV
I am an old hand at not being on TV. There are more of us than you'd imagine. Let's survey the whole field from top down, from the perspective of someone who was actually a prospect. At any given…
JULES SCHEELE Brings Woolf's ORLANDO into Full Color
Interviews Editor, Andrew Irvin, welcomes Jules Scheele, the live scribe and creator who has given us the graphic novelization of Virginia Woolf's Orlando from Avery Hill Publishing. COMIC BOOK YETI:…
"Monument for Nothing - Red Torii Gate" by Makoto Aida (Naoshima)
One of the most interesting artworks in the Naoshima New Museum of Art was created by Makoto Aida especially for the museum. It is the latest iteration of his "Monument for Nothing" series,…
Hisohiso
I made a thing. In a world where prompt-to-code costs twenty bucks a month, writing about your side project is basically singing the song of my people. It is called Hisohiso, it lives at…
Gen AI and Architecture
Almost a decade ago, I was an intern at certain large tech company, working on a team that no longer exists. I was living on the third floor of a house that lodged around 15 other people who…
The Hard Part of Automation Is Seeing It
I haven’t written much this month. I’ve been busy, although to be fair, quite a lot of that “busy” was running. I’m properly back at it now, and the injury finally seems to be more or less under…
BLE HID coprocessor for microcontrollers
Teensy in green, ESP32-C3 in blue I have a Teensy 4.1 operating as a Commodore 64 (and Vic-20, and 128, and Apple 1) emulator. It already supports USB Host (via 5 pin header on top) and web page…
Narrative death cleaning
Swedish death cleaning is about discarding possessions before you die as a kindness. But in the smaller universe of personally meaningful objects, the ones you leave behind will be the last story you…
Monday's Trailheads
America’s Promise and Achievement by Leonidas Zelmanovitz History offers sobering reminders of how fragile civilizations can be. The collapse of Roman authority in Western Europe did not occur in a…
And now the news: 6/29/2026
This weekend, it’ll be 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, but mourning seems more appropriate than celebration. Going to a parade, a fireworks show, anything to seriously…
Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards.
Stop for one second and ask yourself a simple question. Where do your words come from? When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word? Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after…
Caitlin holds out hope for humankind
I had meant to post a different piece today, one already written, but will save it for tomorrow. Here’s why: The statements of my intended piece, a class analysis of post Soviet Russia, is…
Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick
Finale (2011) 454 pages by Becca Fitzpatrick Hush Hush #4 Nora now has to lead the Nephilim rebellion against the fallen angels. Dating Patch is a conflict of interest. She can't appear to be…
Turning Immigrant Children Into Good Americans – 1893
Indoctrinating Young Immigrants To Be Patriotic Independence Day Celebration A Short Article From The New York Evening World July 3, 1893 CHEERED LIKE AMERICANS Independence Day Exercises at the…
Knitlog [2026-06-30 Tue]
Sassy Classy Top Well, I have to say this colour is lovely. My ribbing tension is ridiculously good after switching to Eastern knitting to work on the back section which requires me to work k2p1 rib…
Added Tab5 Keyboard support for my portable emulators for Commodore
Tab5 Keyboard is a convenience add-on I added native keyboard support to my emulators already running on M5Stack's Tab5. There were already 64/Vic-20/128 original keyboards , CardKB , web page…
Susquehanna Boxcar Never Dies: Reviving This Stale Meme with 30Haul’s Old Drivetrain!
Good ol’ Susquehanna Boxcar. What started as a quick-build meme using whatever I had dug out of my (then, in late 2021, still not yet unpacked) totes full of motors turned into… something…
Souyuz 11 disaster (1970)
On 30 June 1970, Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Valeri Kubasov, and Pyotr Kolodin died of asphyxiation as their Soyuz 11 spacecraft was preparing to re-enter earth’s atmosphere. A ventilation valve…
Tricky Problem
--> Hello, loves! We have a tricky problem ahead of us, but first: the tests are too slow. Nice result, very pleased. How slow are they? Well, according to pytest’s final report, 2.4 seconds. But…
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I watched Her, which I have not seen before. I found it mid. It's sort of intimate in a way I find annoying. I dislike him, and Her and all his friends. Mostly, much worse than I expected it to be.