Today, I will briefly talk about an upcoming features of SPMF that I am working on. It is file types. Currently, a problem in SPMF is that there are a lot of different input and output formats for…

A provocative meditation on why cats—and self-taught learners—see through the illusion of modern education. This piece dismantles the cult of brand-name universities and charismatic teachers,…

Looking for luggage storage in Queenstown while you head out on the multi day hike or you’ve returned from a hike? Or may you have some time to do some Queenstown hikes/things to do in.…

Texas Tech should run this conference and the only thing that will stand in their way is themselves. They are

City council’s vote over Gaza on Monday evening was an ambivalent judgment that stands as a fine example of craven consensus: they “adopted an amended motion on Gaza Monday night after…

In which I examine an article complaining that college students are no longer reading novels, along with the despair of their professors. This wasn’t my experience. The post Are Lit Teachers Giving…

My first fragment function, I've been learning about shaders.

I read a fascinating obit of Victor Niederhoffer, a Wall Street trader, and these last few sentences of the obit really stood out: His daughter, Katie Niederhoffer, said that until the last days of…

Tired of explaining the same things again and again to your AI Agent? Frustrated because the AI keeps forgetting minute things custom to your codebase which needs to be kept in mind in each change? Th

My copy of Real Ghosts up there has seen better days. Originally published in 1977 by Pocket Books, then reprinted in 1992 by Minstrel, this book fell into my hands in the early 90s, probably at a…

Dear Dad, Do you remember that time when I was 5 or 6 and you took me for a car ride into Manhattan? I can't remember what we went there for but I can remember your road rage and how you rolled down…

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Y'know, for all its flaws and how it has become bastardized over the years, there's one thing I'll always love about the internet: Seeing people speak about something they're genuinely passionate…

What an odd little movie. Much more trying to be just a fun thriller than you'd expect. You really think this is going to be some kind of "oh this guy is doing Saw for real" thing but really, it's…

I wrote this obit for The Guardian, U.S. edition of September 21, 2018. A star of New York City Ballet and the co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem, Arthur Mitchell was also the first African…

Reorgs are cheap. Rebuilding the decision rights, metrics, and systems around them isn't. That speed mismatch, not bad planning, is why ownership and architecture keep drifting from the org chart,…

Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree read by the Author Macmillan Audio, 2025. 8 hours, 25 minutes. Review written July 13, 2026, from a library eaudiobook. Starred Review Brigands and…

There is one additional thing I'm using AI for, besides asking it to find words that I know but have slipped my mind. And that is, finding commands or fixing glitches in programs and apps. This…

Focus, literal and metaphorical. Kagi Small Web.

Dragon Star Varnir is a jrpg by Idea Factory it focuses on witches who are cursed with dragons within them who must consume other dragons but must be careful with said consumption and they must break…

Monday again. I had some friends over yesterday to hang out and play video games. We ended up bringing out my gaming pc to hook up to the tv to play street fighter 6 - my buddy uses a keyboard that…

So far, we have reviewed how to review code with ES Lint + Prettier and Typecheck , how to set up and run smoke tests , how to run all Playwright + TypeScript tests , and reviewed the HTML report of…

For no particular reason other than "I wanted to see if I could", I added an ActivityPub server to this domain ( wrla.ch ). If it worked, you should be able to subscribe to future posts on from this…

Broadway musical from 1991 that won the Tony awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score. It's about the life of historical figure Will Rogers (1879-1935), who was a performer and social…

I just came across a fascinating visualization of rail in Europe. You can also visualize other places like the US, but as you know, there isn’t much to see there in the way of trains. What is…

[7:35 PM]Mario Writes For You: Hi everyone! My name is Mario Valencia. I am from Monterrey, Northern Mexico, I am 26 years old, and work in Marketing and Graphic Design. For the last 3 years I have…

What's up. What's going on. What am I doing, reading, interesting stuff to share that I don't feel like making a separate page for. I don't expect myself to keep this super regularly updated or fully…

This is a response to James' posts about inspiration from physical artifacts and how to organize them. My home bookshelf is almost full, but it still houses a bunch of reference books that can be…

The man with the wide-brimmed hat approached me first. "Excuse me sir," he said. "What's the only state that ends with a K?" I slowed down, shrugged, then picked up my pace. "You're living in it!" he…

AI can enable genuine transformation. But leaders and boards should be alert when the language of innovation is being used to obscure a conventional cost-out program that shifts work, capability and…

The next alpha version, 0.2, of my "do-the-work" Git repository viewer is now available; you can try it out on git.legoktm.com. My previous post explained the rationale behind it; in short: this…

Hello, Internet, and good mornight to you all! My name is Taffryne, shoppekeeper of Midnight on Memory Lane , and it is my absolute delight to welcome you to this week's gathering for Manga Monday!…

More times than I can count, I have looked over at my mother while we were watching a movie, singing together, or simply holding a conversation, and have seen her eyes just full of tears. And when I…

I’ve been using YNAB for a few years now, but the way I organize my budget today is very different from how I started. Before YNAB, I used Mint. Mint encouraged a fairly traditional approach to…

In 1569, a Flemish geographer named Gerardus Mercator published a world map that would shape how humans see the planet for the next 457 years. The map was 202 by 124 centimeters, printed in 18…

Today was pretty alright. I got up early and my partner had set our new coffee machine to have coffee ready for me when I got up, so I got to enjoy a nice hot coffee and a breakfast burrito with some…

Verdict first: this is the funniest short novel of the eighteenth century, the most widely taught, the most widely mistranslated, and the most widely misread. Read it in a new translation. Read it…

Would you believe, I have actually written about ZZ Top? I reviewed their Greatest Hits along with a Lynyrd Skynyrd box set. ZZ TOP, Greatest Hits Melody Maker , 1993 Like 'funk', like 'raunch',…

Nights Of Azure 2 is the sequel to the first game developed by GUST. It focuses Aluche who must stop the azure moon from coming to protect the land. The game is notable for its timer mechanic which…

kind of crazy to realize i'm a few weeks away from my 33rd birthday. you guys, i actually did something this week!!! vibe: nick and i listening to mid-spiral, drinking coffee (yes, 6pm). ill cook…

Why do I do things? Sometimes it's because Business Cat lives in my head.

Weeknotes again, twice in a row, it really has been a while since that happened. Anyway!

Ambient membership. Important card. Carry at all times.

We rarely talk anymore, but every year we still exchange the same birthday texts we’ve sent each other for decades. I’ve started wondering how long this little piece of our friendship will last.

Noise is cheap. With the right people around you, one ordinary day can move a product, a home, and a body forward.

In a small city of some 5,000, you would expect there to be some overlap between the city council and other institutions in town, like the volunteer fire department, the PTA, or the Kiwanis Club. One…

First: hi, this is the official Kaijuville entree into RSS Club. 👊 Email subscribers to this site got a second ping last week, because somehow while proofing my…

Believe that what you know is enough, and the vast gulf of what you don't know will cease to scare you. With the barrier of fear demolished, the unknown will become accessible to you. When you are…

Have you lived somewhere other than your birthplace? How many languages can you converse in? How do you think you’d fare in political prison? Do you have a hard time in airports with the way you…

I think I have eaten something that my body disagreed. I have been unwell for nearly 24 hours. The abdominal pain has been annoying. Instead of lying down on bed, I decide to keep working by going…