On Saturday a researcher told Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and eMudhra that eight of eMudhra’s intermediate certificate authorities had private keys anyone could recover in under a second.…

Following his work on 1976's Space Ironman Kyodain , creator Shotaro Ishinomori expressed an interest in creating his own giant robot show akin to the likes of Tetsujin 28 and Giant Robo as its…

A career ladder creates winners and losers; what happens to the losers?

What if the standard career path was a driver of authoritarianism?

The title was always a magician’s trick.

There are so many objects in this image! I think this is the best framing with my 518 mm focal length imaging setup. The bubble nebula seems like a planetary...

A HoverEffectComponent-shaped API for selections in RealityKit.

The Trump Era will be known to history as World War III. It began in 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine. It has since become ubiquitous, extending deeply into every area, and into the life of…

Setting the stage I need to give a name to something, a name for a problem I keep waiting for the “AI” community to solve. I'm not sure that community even knows the problem is there. Maybe. Maybe…

Today is Wednesday, October 21st. Six days ago was the tax deadline. And we’re still waiting on electronically filed returns to be accepted. Normally I’d say, “Bring me the usual…

This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans. Current status Radicle CI is in production use. There are several CI nodes, and…

Overnight, Netflix shares fell 7% in premarket trading following their Q3 earnings report. Although revenues are up 12% year on year, their growth has slowed, and there have been concerns about…

Best Of Singapore Hawkers & Casual Dining: Papadum Papadum Nothing was sponsored, we visited as regular paying customers. Photos in this post were taken between 2000 and 2026 (across 26 years!), as…

His entire life he's been different. Now he's worried that he's just too much of a freak and a weirdo to have friends, never mind love. What can he do? via Paging Dr. NerdLove @ doctornerdlove.com

AI may not be a bubble at all. This time, technology is ahead of our stories—and human imagination is struggling to catch up.

Shallow isn’t always bad. Deep isn’t always good. A simple 2 x 2 framework for sorting the influences in your life and shaping a more nourishing mix. Life is a series of inputs. You sit on a park…

The trailer for next year's adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew was released last week, and I've been thinking about it a lot. C.S. Lewis' Narnia series has a special place…

Both camps of people, the "conservatives" and the "liberals", hate me equally. The "conservative" camp will make arguments about how "Muslim immigrants" must be deported because they are…

This morning I opened the fridge for milk and glanced at my three-month supply of medication. The boy I used to be could not even dream of prophylactic treatment. I think we judge our lives without…

UPD: The official patch is already out, see PHP 8.5.12 Release Announcement. But it’s not available in the Amazon Linux repositories yet. I barely had time to recover from the issue with…

I wasn’t going to Inktober this year, but then I thought it might be fun to use the sumi ink I bought three years ago. So I had my gimmick—real ink. , This concept came easily, with the…

In which I share a “book” I “wrote” to help teach kindergartners the basic colors…

Once upon a time, if you entered the office of an investment bank, opened your books, and showed that your business was a money pit with no chance of ever turning a profit, at best, they would have…

Join me as I take a tour around the northern reaches of England's most northerly county where, amongst the historical towns and villages, and stunning coastline, there are some rather splendid pubs…

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about how to build an alternative to today's social networks using technology that is not only free but also much simpler. Recent developments, such as…

In Scotland, where muffet and Selina Russell lived, as autumn draws out mysterious airs begin. At first, autumn is quite ordinary; there are still late summer colours of heather and the rowan berries…

Get it cheap before hell freezeth over.

I lost most of an afternoon once to a column of addresses that would not standardize. Some had “ST” where I wanted “Street,” some wanted “Saint,” and a few…

A set of practical Kubernetes tips (or how-tos) that may help you in your day-to-day operations. Formating outputs, filtering objects, waiting for pods and more.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Even in math.

AI keeps getting more capable. At some point, likely in the next 1-3 years unless we do something to stop it, we get to where AI systems are able to do everything almost anyone can do. This is often…

I’ve used Remotely Save to sync Obsidian to my phone and iPad since the first week I started using Obsidian. I told it to use Dropbox, it worked, and I didn’t think about it. That’s the greatest…

Why the Version Store won’t clear if any database has open transactions Chapters 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:01:32 – Video Description and Links 00:03:15 – The Version Store…

One day I will be right and Analogue will announce a PlayStation FPGA console , but it is not this day. For their annual announcement, Analogue did something I would not have expected. They revamped…

You would think I’d have looked up the efficiency loss of a jack shaft before starting the Jackalope project. Oops! Could a Fold Rush be modified so its chain doesn’t become a disaster…

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Beth and I had a rather spirited discussion about how we in the U.S. might be able to pay for the healthcare of our citizens. Being ever practical, and also owning the job of writing the checks that…

Today I need to show how splitting your time, can make a lot of progress but also not get a lot finished ! LOL So first a quick easy one, the B-Wing that Squirrel sent over, this was literally a…

I have a new paper that just came out (link), coauthored with Peter Doshi, Mark Jones and Linda Wastila, entitled "Transparency of clinical trials: reproducing and extending analyses". This…

The Amp Hour (my podcast) has always been a great life hack: I can convince folks to talk to me for an hour at a time every, single week. I have met some amazing people that way. As it so happens, I…

As we become more experienced, we grow more confident in what we know. But expertise can also make us less willing to ask questions. An exploration of curiosity, leadership, and the lifelong work of…

According to a rather intriguing genealogy website, I appear to have some decidedly eccentric distant cousins. While researching an ancestor, General Joseph Gardner Swift, I stumbled across a website…

After the side-step of Harm's Way , my journey through Star Trek: Vanguard finally reaches the last three volumes of the series which I (kind of) bought as they came out, but never got around to…

During the last year we have been doing some minor research in the world of Fe flow batteries to investigate the use of MgCl2 and CaCl2 water-in-salt (WiSe) electrolytes for all-Fe flow batteries. We…

There are real issues to vote on, and the ones they want you to vote on.

I began work on Project Questa on the 27th of September, because I couldn’t get Khazad Voice TTS to work on my PC. Since then I’ve spent several days a week working on my AI narrator utility and have…

Here’s a git pre-commit hook for removing all comments that relies on hk-nix. It enforces the removal of all source code comments besides certain doc comments. In Rust, comments that begin with…

The hockey season is well and truly underway, with games coming thick and fast. For Belfast Giants this has meant a lot of games against their usual trio of Scottish opponents in the Challenge Cup,…

I mentioned back on the very first day of this year that my friend Scott Wood and I were planning on setting up something around the “Hastings Weird”: There are some existing loose local…