A migration reveals the missing concept Consider a representative migration pattern. A detection team at a financial services firm had built its program over four years, accumulating several hundred…

Structural anonymity for the modern inbox. PrivacyZen is an open, high-performance email alias and forwarding service engineered to combat behavioral data tracking, corporate profiling, and…

Structural anonymity for the modern inbox. PrivacyZen is an open, high-performance email alias and forwarding service engineered to combat behavioral data tracking, corporate profiling, and…

Mail chew, planning call - the summer holiday season starts to bite - hopefully in a staggered way. Sync with Anuj, Anna, a long series of trains to Paris, managed to get some work done on some of…

Getting banned on WhatsApp is both bullshit and a real problem.

On the ephemeral nature of proprietary code, and side projects that live forever

I am toying with the thesis that each person’s self-consciousness is qualitatively different. Perhaps all persons have uniquely individuating properties, something like haecceities, and for each such…

I'm very much feeling out of inspiration, ideas and thoughts

Politik is one of those games I wish were more fantastical, which isn’t a ding on the game but rather a reflection of the slow-motion dystopia we have come to inhabit. Designed over the course…

The metal tentacles tightened around Bryant’s wrists and for the first time in his life he finally felt…safe. Bryant Harrison doesn’t do burglaries. His strength, his size, and his obviously once…

This is a transcript of Lex Fridman Podcast #498 with Anthony Kaldellis. The timestamps in the transcript are clickable links that take you directly to that point in the main video. Please note that…

My new story for Club MacStories is a throwback to my early days as an Apple user and an expression of hope that this fall’s software updates for Apple devices might recapture some of that magic…

I finished Octopath Traveler, as in I finished all eight story lines. I really enjoyed it and loved the combat system. I thought the story lines and character abilities were all unique enough to be…

Bunny Yeager shot hundreds of women whose names barely survived their photographs. The story of Dinnie Sutton, Maria Stinger, Lisa Winters, and the women history left behind.

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Atlanta BI fans, please join us online for our next meeting on Monday, July 6th at 18:30 ET. James Serra (Data & AI Solution Architect at Microsoft) will show you […]

We have more than 600 skills, spread across nearly 80 plugins. Anyone on the team can write one and publish it to a marketplace the rest of us install from. While reviewing the PRs that added these…

first, remember/ that you are dying

I don’t miss floppy disks. I miss the mindset they demanded—that every byte matters, that constraints breed creativity, and that software should be light on its footprint. I remember booting up the…

Yes that is Tears For Fears in their early mod revival incarnation: Graduate Looking a bit like Mick Talbot's first band, the one with that song that goes "a man ain't a man with a ticket in his…

Over the last couple months, I've been using my desktop as my primary machine, only using my MacBook when sitting out on the couch or porch. On my desktop, I've remained on my Linux Mint partition,…

I first noticed the rodent activity last week (image above) at the place where the driveway meets the garage, so I replaced the gravel in the burrow and made a mental note to do something about it,…

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The Haunting of Hill House 1959 (queer) horror novel by Shirley Jackson. a lonely woman is invited to join an investigation group studying the affairs of hill house, an estate infamous for its…

I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to…

An idea popped into my head this afternoon: create postcards from the pictures I took on vacation.

Here are my thoughts on news across the internet this week. We touch on rent denialism, collapsing job markets, corporate productivity theater, and the many ways AI is being oversold, misused, or…

It’s been a minute since my last post on data acquisition. Between a much needed vacation &#8211; trip to Italy and wrapping up my tap dance recital (because life exists outside of PyTorch!), sitting…

I&#8217;m making it official: a new edition of Microscope is in the works. I&#8217;ve looked in my crystal ball, laid out my schedule, and set crowdfunding for October. If you&#8217;ve been following…

What I watched, listened to, and read for the month of June 2026.

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"Life Is a Long Song" by Jethro Tull Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. I wrote something recently - a friend wrote back “your on song John” and my mind instantly…

Ayn Rand books have been translated and published in the PRC. She is discussed in China as an important thinker in US society. Some are interested in her philosophy and its implications. Many of the…

A reflection on coding from the beach in Algarve, and whether making things on vacation can still count as rest.

European Data Protection makes it illegal to transfer person identifiable data to outside the EU. Unless there is equivalence in data protection, or an agreement with guarantees and oversight deemed…

At the moment I am writing this, bad internet bills are being proposed across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. They're using the usual tactics: they claim they're fighting for kids or fighting…

In a past life, I worked on Titanfall and Titanfall 2

Family Movie Night Menus: Recipes &#38; Films for Unforgettable Times Together is a charming guide to turning movie watching into a shared family tradition. Leonard Maltin and Jessie Maltin pair…

One practical way we may be able to help affected coworkers is by using AI tools to look through our own email for LinkedIn recruiter outreach we have received, then sending those recruiters the…

Vor genau elf Monaten haben wir ein Balkonkraftwerk auf&#8217;s Dach gelegt und das hat sich binnen kürzester Zeit gerechnet. Die Vorgeschichte dazu: Vor ein paar Jahren haben wir uns eine…

A recent comment, on Retired Martin’s blog, about sitting next to someone on a plane, whose country is at war, reminded me of a polar opposite experience that occurred on our not so recent, cruise to…

Quite a eventful month this time, with some games I finally started to play, and many things to look forward to next month~!

Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month. Think of Dispatch as my monthly mixtape from the internet with no real theme except…

Last Sunday (28), I took a plane with a kitty that isn't mine to her new home in Brasília. Am spending the week here; there isn't a lot to do but it's a good...

Everyone has the same nightmare now, and it is a very boring one. You are at your desk. An email arrives. It is warm and grammatically perfect, which is how you know a machine wrote it, and it…

With not having written nor scheduled much blog posts lately and Nate's Taking a week off on my mind, I believe it's a convenient time to take a month off posting myself. Like him, I have no hard…

Grubdog has a great primer on how accessible personal websites are easier than you think at the Good Internet magazine, with practical suggestions that donʼt require a lot of time to do something…

I recommend this heartbreaking long-form profile of the American writer William Vollmann: https://bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com/p/we-always-leave-things-unfinished Vollmann writes exhaustively…