Tuesday 25th August 2026 Among the many changes to bus routes on the western fringes of Essex at the end of last month was the introduction of new route 19 between North Weald and High Ongar taking…

Use Grok Build with local and OpenRouter free models alongside Grok-4.6. Copy-paste config.toml for Gemma, Qwen, and GLM — same harness, switch with /model.

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114. CREEPY 1969 YEARBOOK, August 1968Warren Publishing Co. Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella were all initially started as a sort of revival of the original EC comics, using most of the original artists…

of all the hosting places i could've platformed my website on, why did i choose bear blog? if you were ever curious, it's time for some 'splaining. so, sit back and grab some popcorn as i take you…

Someone asked on Slack about how many more revisions I'd be making to the 88 Illini list (I change it CONSTANTLY all summer) and I wanted to share my answer here as well as there. This year,…

The promise was calm seas and light winds all day. It started perfectly with another early one Gorgeous smooth calm paddling right down to Simmonds islands This view is looking back up the coast from…

“All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close, this is gonna be your lucky day!” –Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson After Bungie’s Halo: Combat Evolved launched on November…

Sole, amore, velomassacre am Lago Maggiore A lap around Lago Maggiore in northern Italy, with a little grande boucle problem to solve: the lake itself doesn’t quite give you the full 200km. The…

Highlights: Bloggo redesign Achilles tendonitis more interview prep went to a kid’s birthday party Bloggo redesign I ended up redesigning Bloggo, my android app that I use for blogging from my…

How Stretch 4 finds its charging dock and drives itself home.

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A few days ago I wrote about a new tool called wacz-pdf, which will read a WACZ file and write out each web page as a PDF file. I got some quick feedback from Henry Wilkinson who suggested that it…

OC Grand Prix is a platform for real-time competitive overclocking. Compete in Battle Royale rooms or race in Grand Prix endurance events. The full post Introducing OC Grand Prix by Pieter can be…

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…

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

A user submits a question, and somewhere in our program LanguageModel.generateText sets off to fetch the answer. The errand takes ten, twenty, maybe thirty seconds. By second twenty, the user has…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

This is a response to James' posts about inspiration from physical artifacts and how to organize them. Updated August 27, 2026: James replied to this post about organizing his bookshelf. My home…

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…

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! From August 18 to 24, 2026.

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…

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…

new blog post about what i've been up to in the last couple months--my birthday, art fight, and my first convention, AnimeNYC!

TrendWeight has an API now. If you're comfortable writing a bit of code, you can pull your weight data out (including the calculated trend values you see on your dashboard) and push new weight reading

I added 5 new games to my favorite games section, which are Steins;Gate, Vermintide 2, Call of Duty 4, MW2, and World at War.

How I hacked custom sounds into the onboard memory of my Ozlo Sleepbuds 2 for phone-free local playback.