CHAPTER 33 IDENTITY OF GOD’S WILL WITH HIS INTELLECT Patet autem quod oportet ipsam Dei voluntatem nihil aliud esse quam eius intellectum. Bonum enim intellectum, cum sit obiectum voluntatis, movet…

These days the watch on my wrist has rings that want closing, and more than once I've caught myself watching a percentage instead of a field. That bothered me at first — felt like a…

Uploaded a Destiny 2 fanfic. Updated some oops'd links on other fanfics.

Notes from the Austin JS talk, the status of Astrohacker TermSurf, and the two developer APIs that the audience asked for: browser control for SI agents and a Playwright-compatible API. Both are now…

PowerShell, I owe you an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game.

CHAPTER 32 THE VOLITION OF GOD Ulterius autem manifestum est quod necesse est Deum esse volentem. Ipse enim se ipsum intelligit, qui est bonum perfectum, ut ex dictis patet. Bonum autem intellectum…

Mmmm...let's see. Where to start? Where to start...? So, for last year's Cauldron, my inspiration for the Blackrazor Tournament Cup adventure came mainly from the old TSR module DL6: Dragons of Ice (…

IntroductionuCreater (the vendor's own name for the product is YingGai) is a commercial Android surveillance platform built around 群控 (“mass control”). Branded…

I've been searching through my layout photos, thinking about putting together a little book of pictures I've taken over the years. There's a story in them, and a picture book might help me figure out…

My oatmeal revolted this morning. I’m not sure why. I don’t know what I did differently, but it was like a hard cake of oatmeal instead of like a mushy cereal. I don’t know what I…

In 2011, a friend and I spent more than ten hours trying to reconcile two apparently incompatible ideas: free will and an all-knowing God. I was a believing Muslim at the time. That mattered. I…

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Check out the complete 21 page paper describing FCMP++ here on kayabaNerve's GitHub Max's Quest to Seraphis I am expatriotic, a scribe of the square of Ring, and I was there the year the masks came.…

Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias at LACMA The exhibition explores the technological optimism of futuristic living while questioning who was excluded from this high-tech…

HOLY COW, GUZY, you can customize TypeScript compiler errors now! Well… you probably could before, but… not easily. This new TypeScript 7.1 API allows you to get info about what the…

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Our ongoing review of my first and least accurate set of predictions about the immediate future of industrial society has had its ups and downs, its hits and misses. The post I’m assessing this time…

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The End of the Programme The final instalment of Travels with Pevsner sees Jonathan Meades in a melancholy mood. He starts to reminisce about his fallen heroes - first Duncan Edwards (Dudley used to…

This post discusses "programming" in the lambda calculus.

New post: Meilisearch on a Hugo-based website

New post: Meilisearch on a Hugo-based website

How context, reusable engineering skills, and Open Machine enabled nine hours of autonomous engineering, raising average GPU utilization from 43% to 93%.

New Q&A! These questions come from Patreon supporters: Patreon.com/KnifeSteelNerds The post Q&A: Are We Running Out of Premium Knife Steel? And Other Questions appeared first on Knife Steel…

Today, I'm really happy to announce a brand new AppleSqueezer accelerator: the AppleSqueezer GS Turbo. And as you may well guess from its name, the main difference is in the speed, although it's not…

Same-role agents edit their assigned files in one shared repo. A coordinator repairs the fallout and gets the build green. Then I review.

AT THIS ADDRESS IS A LINUX KERNEL BUILD TOOL THAT IS VERY USEFUL, YOU WILL FIND, FOR RUNNING A COPY OF THE SATELLITE INTERPRETER I AM KIND OF PROUD OF THE LINUX KERNEL TOOL MYSELF, IT WAS MADE BY THE…

There’s an older deaf gentleman in my town who’s very friendly, and likes to communicate with rudimentary hand gestures, but I have a hard time understand what he’s trying to say.…

Transfers on transit are funny things. On the one hand, it is undeniably helpful to have multiple lines connect to each other and feed ridership; trying to have a single-seat ride for every trip…

Where I grew up the Alder, related to Birch, was called a trash tree. Why? It took over fresh-water wetlands and filled in ponds. Not a strong wood, long lived or large. Folks never mentioned it is…

A new Asana report finds leaders use far more AI agents than their teams, while workers lose time juggling them. My take on why the two sides see agents so differently, and why leaders should measure…

The conclusion to Catarina’s adventure!

Next week I am on a panel at Black Tech Fest and received this encouragement to sign up for one of the workshops. The wording was striking. Unpacking follows. The claim I want to focus on is: Yet…

An institution finds a home in the Richmond District just before the 1906 earthquake hits.

Large language models are obsessed with a name again. But why? The post AI Has a New Crush, and He Keeps a Lighthouse appeared first on Namerology.

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) has declared the end of leap seconds!

I have never been, nor am I, a Minecraft fan. I mean, I have never been able to get into the game, per se. I love the Minecraft Movie and...

Ok so, some fun notes: Cloudflare deployed blocking rules at about 1500 today! Ubuntu back ported the fixes so this … Continue reading Upgrading to PHP 8.5.12 Backports

This morning, two critical PHP Security Advisories were published: RCE via OOM corruption (9.2/10) RCE via stale global state (9.2/10) If you're running PHP for any service, you need to upgrade…

This article — perhaps the most important of the more than 100 articles I’ve written about Israel’s genocide in Gaza over the last three years — reveals a hitherto unnoticed pattern of almost daily…

My review of Street Fighter (2026).

Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s film crackles with sex and dark comedy but can't weave a satisfying finale.

The International Museum of Sports, Berlin would be a perfect venue for an exhibition of photographs of super athletes, but it does not exist—explained below. INSTALLATIONS Every artist that I know…

If you publish a podcast, your podcast may well take advertising. And if it does take advertising, you probably want people to actually listen to the ads. Your audience listening to podcast ads…

The 2020 pandemic lockdown was a globally historic event, and one that created a groundswell of resentment and lasting antipathy. So naturally many writers and artists steer clear of referencing the…

After staying the night at Stanger Vineyards in Paso Robles, we drove the Noovo Plus van south to El Capitán State Beach Campground, with a couple of interesting stops on the way.An interactive map…

USC’s Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis is hiring two tenure-track assistant professors, one in transportation planning and one in environmental planning.

[Readers of Rick On Theater will know that I have an interest in the visual arts. I’ve posted many articles, both by me and by others, including a number from published sources, on art from one…

Day 2 of the Python Core Sprint was all about one thing for me: moving our GitHub bots, bedevere, blurb_it, and miss-islington, off Heroku and onto the PSF’s Cabotage. Monday was prep.…