You Are What You Worship
"Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened." Romans 1:21Walk through the wings…
Good YouTube #21
no, because the thing is, we’ve all got apps that block the other apps on our phones haven’t we? and we all live in houses not made for 33 degree weather? so I turned my computer off for…
i went to slovenia
about a month ago, i went to Ljubljana to talk about friendship in the art industry. It was the most beautiful capital city I’ve ever been to. And also everyone was cool while I was there, I…
More on convex shapes of hexagons
Working out some more equations and a first start of a proof.
Watching RTE Player abroad with a Tailscale app connector
RTE Player, like most Irish broadcasters, is geo locked to Ireland. When I am abroad I still want to watch it, but I have no interest in routing my entire phone through a VPN to get at it. My banking…
When the answer arrives before the question
A while back, a salesperson from a well-known AI lab came to visit us. Before diving in, he paused — proudly — to show us how the day’s deck had been made: his model had researched our company,…
Anti-DDoS research part 3: SYN flood detection with handshake asymmetry. Simple C, Python examples.
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Five Most Popular Posts in June
Another scorching month! For the blog that is. June was kind to this corner of the internet, and not all the traffic was from LLMs hungry for new content to "train" on. Here are the favourite five.…
The World Cup is best in first-person
The BBC are offering interactive 3D replays of every match
June 30, 2026 - Sidekick for the Model I with SuperMem
Egbert Schroeer has let me know of his GitHub featuring Sidekick Delivered by PolitePaul service
Pando Keyboard: A Progress Report
This is a progress report on my new Pando keyboard - a split keyboard that keeps the same key layout as the Pando58, but with a completely redesigned PCB and electronics. Pando prototype keyboard on…
Five Things to Think About: Taiwan, Crypto, Hateful Eight, Agentonomics, etc.
A quick roundup of five things I'm thinking about and have been discussing with clients and others lately. 1/ Taiwan is now the world's fifth-largest stock exchange. It passed UK, India,…
Find Your Freaks Podcast – Episode 028 Transcript
[Speaker 1] Did you know there’s food dyes in marshmallows? And of course, that makes you start looking into the food industry. Why are all these things in our foods? Why are these chemicals…
Previewing CSTA 2026
Less than two weeks until the annual Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Conference. As far as I am concerned this is the most important professional development conference for computer…
Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization
IntroductionYou don't need to look far to find claims that folks have been using AI to do the work of dozens of people. I tend to be skeptical of any claim that discusses improvements without…
The girlies making me wanna do the most in life
Mia Harden Christine Elizabeth Cleopatra Lee Doechii Ola Serena Monaleo Nia/Hoochie Gawd Whoever these girls are Zendaya I gotta show that bitch cancer what's for Reply via email or sign my guestbook…
The Late Great James Burrows
James Burrows, who co-created the classic sitcom Cheers and directed shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Fraiser , died on June 19, 2026, at the age of 85. James Burrows was born on December 30,…
Playing Ketchup
Sometimes I just need to laugh and find little things that bring me joy. This one did it for me today. It's been a long time since I've genuinely laughed.
The search symbol that needs only seven characters
Back in the day, reporters would record their phone interviews by attaching a suction cup to the back of the earpiece part of the handset. It was attached by wire to a machine that did the recording.…
A Panharmonius Mood Of Gloopy Serenity In A Verbosian Music Box
When I stepped up to the synth a few days ago I had it in my mind that I would continue on my Adventures In Fading, only using an entirely different subsystem. I ‘ve recorded a few Fading patches…
Project Moon Webring is Online!
I made a webring for fellow Project Moon fans! Applications are currently open.
Ogre & Ogre-folk
In a dreamzone, anything can become more than what it is, so long as some sapient mind nearby attaches unconscious significance to it. Those objects that are more symbolically potent, like a skull...
Leverage in the Stock Market
Is margin debt a concern for the stock market? The post Leverage in the Stock Market appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
If I want more IRL, I must go AFK
On my (retired) disability blog, back in 2010, I wrote a post called The tangible world wherein I ruminated on how I felt less and less able to interact physically with the world around me. I noted…
How do I know my testers are doing a good job?
If you're a manager who has testers reporting to you (or if you are a manager who has a manager who etc.), at some point you're going to ask the question: "How do I know they are doing a good job?"…
Memory Safety, AddressSanitizer, and Logical Lifetimes in Tina
Learn how Tina combines AddressSanitizer, arena allocation, and logical lifetimes to detect memory safety violations
C++26: constexpr virtual inheritance
constexpr has come a long way since its introduction in C++11. Back then, constexpr functions were extremely restricted and could essentially contain only a single return statement. C++14 relaxed…
Chasing the OPNsense RCE: The Story Behind My First CVEs (CVE-2026-57155)
How I found 5 vulnerabilities and achieved Remote Code Execution in OPNsense after a week of security research (including CVE-2026-57155).
Opening Streetka Boot without Key
For the Ford StreetKA 1.6 convertible (first generation), presumably sold anywhere but this one is from the UK. One day you shut the boot and as it clicks home, you realise you’ve just locked…
AI-authored projects have a lower lifespan, on average
The Lindy Effect is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable thing, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to its current age. The project age is now…
untitled.
I have so many drafts that I have yet to hit publish on. It's really a shame but I wish to undraft one of them soon. Reply via email or sign my guestbook .
On the Radio - June 2026
Related to my previous blog post, here are some of the interesting things I heard for the first time on the radio over the past couple of months.
Enter restaurant era! 😁
gummilutt:Stop the mooching - Split restaurant billWe’ve all been there. Our sim is out having a lovely time with some friends, perhaps family, or a whole frat worth of loose acquaintances.…
#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires
Anthony Kaldellis is a historian of the Roman Empire and author of “The New Roman Empire”, a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Thank you for listening…
Reclaiming the missing positive
Last month, retired U.S. soccer champion Abby Wambach visited Bristol Myers Squibb for our People Week keynote event. She told us that her speaking career began shortly after she retired, when she…
E-Bike Hire (Inconsiderate Act)
🚦 This article is a bout to run a red .You can help Sillypedia by not crashing into it. E-Bike Hire (Inconsiderate Act) Logo for the E-Bike company Oi! Cost £Free.99/hour Working Brakes Optional…
Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
Successful contributions to open source projects are a kind of currency. GitHub in particular encourages this in a number of ways: by showing avatars of contributors on repository pages, by showing…
July 30 (last.fm patch)
APPARENTLY some last.fm album art is animated, figured that out the hard way. Added the freezeframe class to prevent that and it seems to be working good! Sorry to anyone who got flash-banged by…
Stacking Supermarket Shelves Pays Twice as Much as Localizing World of Warcraft
Altagram's own emails, plus public wage law in Japan and the Netherlands, show that a supermarket shelf-stacker out-earns the professionals localizing Blizzard's games. Reporting by Marc…
Cherries and a Northern California Safari
The final weeks we were in California before heading to Philadelphia for the rest of the summer was spent cherry picking, going on a safari, and checking out a local beach! But first we had a visit…
The Green Mile
"You can't hide what's in your heart." We’re back with the Something Strange book club, watching a film of a book and reading a book of a film. This week it’s everyone’s favourite electrocutioner—Tom…
Go to the place and look at the thing
“People who know what they’re doing, who understand systems, will be able to prompt tools to write good code. And people who don’t understand the complexity of systems will also…
CA11: Yahoo not a govt actor in scanning emails for CSAM
Seen on FourthAmendment.com: Yahoo and NCMEC didn’t act as government agents when they scanned defendant’s email account for hash values of CSAM. They were not required to do so, but did so and…
Sirius - A Quest For Life
Genre : Heavy/Power Metal Year : 2024 1. Unbound the Scream 04:58 2. Beyond the Sands of Time 05:42 3. Desdichado 05:16 4. Edge of the World 04:50 5. Fragment 02:00 6. Lostlight 07:07 7. Land of…
Corrupt copies on the OpenBSD CI worker
Last week I updated the OpenBSD workers to OCaml 5.5.0 and took that opportunity to deploy OpenBSD 7.8. Shortly after, issue#1061 was opened as jobs randomly failed with an opam parse error.
🎵 "2026-07-01"
there's a new track on the music section! go check it out :D