Matthew 5:4 reads: Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. [Matthew 5:4, NASB 1995]μακάριοι οἱ πενθοῦντες, ὅτι αὐτοὶ παρακληθήσονται.[NA 28]...

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Discover how Expeditione turns curiosity, questions, and classroom exploration into student-led learning adventures.

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Last Friday I found myself standing at my computer and staring at it, realising that I have no idea what I should be working on with my precious free time. So I decided to make this unordered list as…

On Linux, Citrix Workspace (wfica; icaclient 26.04.0.105) crashes, printing the following error message to console: *** WFICA CRASH: SIGFPE (Floating point exception) *** Crash log saved to:…

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For presenting number-y things, I think internal consistency of numbers is probably the biggest self-own mistake you could commit.

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Covering a tune by Norman Blake.

Two problems survived every prompt patch, so I threw the pipeline away

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A 1972 paper that predicted the iPad (or, rather, it's spiritual opposite) but is actually way more important than that.…

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A Fabric-powered Pi session won all 25 ARC-AGI-3 environments in one run. This post explains the setup and the parts of Fabric that carried it.

How to make life feel long and rich

I love running fanlistings. I love going into Photoshop and making a layout, I love tweaking colors to fit a new theme, it's all very fun. The not-so-fun part comes with people not bothering to link…

Rarely have I found a main character both so appealing and so annoying. Yet Sybil Van Antwerp, in Virginia Evan’s novel The Correspondent, is just that. Sybil’s cantankerous,…

A year ago I wrote the blog post Why I'm Bearish on U.S. Stocks (for the Second Time Since 2017). Since then U.S. stocks are up 16% (total return) and my bearish prediction turned out to be…

Repository fragmentation turns shared work into internal transactions. Pricing those transactions reveals opportunities to move faster, release capacity and simplify control.

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I've released a new library opengl_extrusions which is a Numpy and Cython library that does 3D extrusions (like the GLE library) and tessellations (one of the things the GLU library does). The…

It has been a busy weekend. I completed four different projects all to do with entertainment. It started with me rummaging around in my electronics bin and bumping into the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 WH on…

While we wait to see whether MiniMax releases its reported 2.7-trillion-parameter successor, known internally as MiniMax M3 Pro and potentially arriving as early as the third quarter, I decided to…

Our job is to follow after God as we see Him leading, not to charge out in front and hope He will follow us.

I don't hate Christianity. For my first two years of college, I was a fairly devout Episcopalian. I've recently been growing more unsure whether I believe in the religion, but I haven't left it yet.…

Mead doesn't have to be sweet. It often is, but it doesn't have to be. During fermentation, yeast consume the sugars and turn them into alcohol, so you can finish with a bone dry beverage. But,…

What’s Going On It’s been a minute. I took a step away from my blog for a while because my brain latched itself to something else and I followed it for a bit. But I still like this blog and want to…

Saturday night, I had a horrifying dream. There was a city, and either because of the heights of the buildings or because of the hills in the city, the church had a site people could visit where you…

My wife and I spent the weekend in and around Charlevoix. Here are a few snaps from the trip. City Park Grill Chair on condo deck overlooking the harbor "Imperfect Rack" (because we're 12) Dinner at…

WFH, one day before ~6 days off. Took the pup for a nice walk this morning, tires her out which is good! Mostly writing code by hand, stumbling through it and remembering how to do it. Never really…

Remembering the Illinois State Fair in the late '70s, the smell of frying dough, grilled onions, and sweet hay still brings back summer magic.

A look back at six months of AI-assisted design, a newsletter that didn't stick, and why I'm moving my writing away from AI and back towards maths, data and code.

Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: At this point we must recapitulate the distinction, fundamental for us, between allegory and symbol; allegory is a rational operation, implying no transition…

My system for keeping a history of my writing and research within Obsidian.

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I almost quit reading “Into the D/ark”, but I am glad that I persevered.

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It’s unrestrained summer fun, Paul Ford-style: Using AI tools to actually ship some software. On this week’s podcast, Paul shows Rich his recent vibe-coded project, Stellate.app, which visualizes…

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An alternate title for this post could have been something like A Medical Yankee in King Charles’ Court or King Donald’s Court – your choice of Kings. The recent Eclipse makes this…

Trevor McKendrick asked for favorite recent applications of AI. Here are some of mine: I have a large corpus in which I want to find the most frequently occurring facts. I've built a system that (i)…

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