Animal Spirits: It’s a Bloodbath
On today's show we discuss AI debt concerns, Coreweave's Rocky IV moment, the 2020s appetite for risk, the Railway boom analogy, carnage under the surface of the stock market, the average stock this…
Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places
Make Happiness the object of pursuit and it leads to a wild goose chase. – Nathaniel Hawthorne Finding bliss is centers around not looking for it. Pursuing feelings is a road to nowhere.…
Do proponents know what “reliably controlled testing” for authorship means? (Part 2)
Today’s blog post is a continuation of a discussion about the meaning of reliably controlled testing. Last time, I talked about the history of FC and critics’ concerns that the FC-generated messages…
Act One: A Century in the Making
Eric Pickersgill is in the book Act One: A Century in the Making, with an exhibition opening October 22 in Queens and a panel and book signing October 23 in Brooklyn.
Design Hireling: Your Rate
How much do you charge per hour (and project) for freelance work?
Joyful Linux Mint
In which I talk about using Linux Mint and the tweaks I have made for a more joyful computing experience.
#TBR Challenge – The Hunt: All-New Wolverine Vol. 1: The Four Sisters
All-New Wolverine Vol. 1: The Four Sisters by Tom Taylor, David Lopez, and David Navarrot collects the first six issues of this comic about X-23/Laura Kinney, who was cloned from Logan/Wolverine of…
How I decide which Python and Django versions I want to support
How I decide which Python and Django versions I want to support A recent post on Mastodon got me thinking about what my philosophy for dropping support for old versions of Python and Django is.…
Keeping Scrapers Out
Letting humans into the web, keeping scrapers out.
Booknotes 5.25
Dead Wake, by Erik Larson, published 2015, history, 440 pages. Really good, though my interest in ever going on a cruise may have plummeted. The conjecture toward the end about a possible and kind of…
Booknotes 5.24
Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead, by K. J. Parker, published 2026, fantasy, 430 pages. Earthy bits aside, I enjoyed it, as I typically do with Parker’s books. Most of his (at least those I’ve…
[EN] Python Version Comparison: 3.15 Down to 3.7 — What\
A reverse-chronological comparison of every Python release from 3.15 back to 3.7. Covers what each version introduced, with links to PEPs and official documentation.
The language that says no
Your agent will cut a corner tonight. Whether that corner ships depends on the language you gave it.
You could do it alone
Better tools make it possible to build more alone. That doesn’t make a good partnership less worth finding.
AI changed the economics of research. Most research teams haven't caught up.
Two weeks ago I promised to close the agentic series, UXR for AI-native teams, with one last post on agents. Then I got into a discussion about democratization that I couldn't stop thinking…
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Infanterie Regiment von Bose
The 250th anniversary of the battle of White Plains is nearly upon us! This weekend not only will over 1500 revolutionary war reenactors converge for the largest event in decades, but the German…
Not All Eyes are the Same, Pt. I
Scout ©2018 Pearl of Light, DeviantArt You stand on a tall hill, bow in hand, gazing at the valley below and searching for your mark. The air is crisp, and dawn’s silver mists have retreated from the…
Almost Wordless Wednesday: The Music Scene
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Wednesday 21st October 2026
9720/21639OK, my job does come with some pretty cool treats. Not often two days in a row, but sometimes. So hot on the heels of visiting the actual set of Horrible Histories, I got to interview…
Lessons in incomprehension
Jason Kratz wrote a rebuttal to my arguments against the precedent set by Aaron Parecki’s decision to use AI in his work on the IndieWeb and his method of defending it. It is a poor rebuttal for…
Four ways to install Nix in GitHub Actions
To run Nix in GitHub Actions, the default CI runner needs Nix installed first. Here are some popular alternatives for pre-made CI actions that do this: - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v31 - uses:…
On writing humanly
Recently I’ve been heavily engaged in AI-assisted scientific research. While the large language models are generally impressive, their behaviors outside of coding and running research experiments…
Bradel Binding Using Scraps
I'm going on holiday next week, and I've made a little book my kids can use as a doodle book. My main goal was to use left over material from previous projects, and to just spend my time on it. I did…
godot starter kits
https://kenney.nl/starter-kits Generous contribution of 6 game skeletons in Godot. Impressive what one person can accomplish these days! I've made 6 open-source @godotengine.org projects perfect for…
Horror delight
The evening light has changed. After work, it shines an amber glow across spindly seedheads. Shadows stretch. Coppery leaves fall slowly to the ground. At the beginning of October, our son announced…
Kenya: Paul Mackenzie Found Guilty of 191 Murders as Questions Mount over Failures by Authorities
Prof HAKIZIMANA Maurice Kenyan preacher Paul Mackenzie and 28 co-defendants were found guilty on Monday, October 19, of murdering 191 people, including 190 children, in the Shakahola mass graves…
It was just a polling experiment, bro
In August, I wrote about the exposé of fake pollster Median Strategies. Yesterday, the team over at poll aggregator FiftyPlusOne exposed yet another fake pollster: Wedgewood Polls. Their suspicions…
Flow in UX
Flow is the state of total absorption in which work feels effortless, time evaporates, and performance peaks. Its 3 preconditions (clear goals, immediate feedback, and a challenge matched to skill)…
Post-submission revising and the Three o’clock Problem
So I just finished the page proofs for How to Run Your Evil Empire, which has me thinking about the differences between writing the first draft, revising it, and polishing it. For those of you who…
EVE Online's Winter Expansion Fractured Skies Launches November 10th
The mad lads and lasses in Rekjavik went and did it. While some studios shied away from launching titles into the meatgrinder World of Warcraft Forever and Grand Theft Auto VI have made this…
Most Improbable Agent of You
It is commonly said that AI today is the worst it will ever be. This is true. AI today is probably the most centralized it will ever be as well. Currently the most reliable way we know how to make…
Wednesday Comics: DC, January 1986 (week 4)
I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of Crisis ! This week, I read the comics on sale on October 24, 1985. World's Finest #323: Metropolis is engulfed in perpetual…
Thomas Jefferson’s Pumpkin Soup
Celebrate this semiquincentennial Halloween in ghoulishly revolutionary fashion with this Founder-era pumpkin soup. Use your jack-o-lantern’s excised body parts to make it!
Thursday Photo Funnies
It's time for the Thursday Photo Funnies, brought to you a day early because that's just how hard we work here at RoundSeventeen Headquarters, formerly in Culver City, now in Pasadena. And…
Complaining with ✨style✨ 101
Today’s guest post comes from Skyler Holobach! I’ve known Skyler forever, as one of our fellow deliverability experts in this world of email, and now she runs her own company focused on email…
Web-Perf Wednesday 014 – Performance Budgets Need a Representative Worst
Performance budgets need a representative worst, while Safari changes identity resolution and Chrome improves module recovery and memory debugging.
The tipping point
Back in 2019 I ran into a silly interaction while pushing code to Bitbucket. I wrote a commit message locally Adding @font directives and pushed it up. To my surprise, it had tagged the user @font ,…
The Epidemic of Billionaires
It takes a lot to get tens of thousands of people to riot. For it to happen simultaneously across several countries points to a supranational underlying cause, as opposed to local grievance at an…
The 2027, 2028, 2029, and 2030 Cranky Network Awards Will Be in Phoenix
Summer is over, and that means planning for the Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is in full swing. I thought it was time for a little update on where things…
The clock is going back; what does your body think about it?
The clock going back is one of the UK's most universally experienced seasonal transitions. It abruptly changes how a person experiences daylight throughout the year. And what I mean by this is, in…
Sunstone dev log 15: Bistro is here
Seeing Bistro right-way up, and improving depth buffer precision.
The Women of Route 66
And Their Roles in Creating and Maintaining the Highway's Kitschy-Americana Environment The post The Women of Route 66 appeared first on WednesdaysWomen.
Frigate on Proxmox: the config problems nobody warns you about
Frigate itself is good software. Almost every problem I hit running it came from the layers around it: Proxmox, LXC, Docker, kernel modules, and my own YAML. None of them announced themselves…
Consistency and Correction
I was reading Elder Gong’s talk from conference. He mentioned the importance of being consistent in good habits and it put me in mind of something that a firearms instructor told me a couple of…
How to install the VS Code wiqd extension?
After getting back to consulting, I've been in the lucky/unlucky situation where I get to create and maintain different agent setups for various clients, each with their own unique requirements and…
Running AI..
AI is finally becoming useful... to me. When it was just a "chat" bot, I couldn't have cared less. And when it could spit out a python script that I had to copy and paste into an…
10x what?
10x productivity, 10x outputs or 10x frustration? Are we actually more productive? Aren’t we working even more? Where are the productivity gains? Depends who you ask. You can hear bold claims all…
The CBS Eyemark Celebrates its 75th Birthday
On Oct. 20, 1951, television viewers saw a symbol for the first time. After seventy-five years, it's one of the world's most familiar logos. The post The CBS Eyemark Celebrates its 75th Birthday…
The Contract as Data: How ISDA Rebuilt a Market's Paperwork
How the derivatives market turned a library of paper contracts, strained by every crisis from the 2005 backlog to Lehman to lockdown, into named clauses, versioned definitions, an open shared model…