The Casuarina Forum Has Been Retired Early
by Wesley Moore I previously announced that the forum would be made read-only at the end of October 2026. It was always my intention to replace it with a static archive some point after that. Today…
Brown birds, red cabbage and winding down.
1. Sparrows tumble in and out of the sky on unknowable little brown bird business. 2. I hack out a crisp quarter slice out of a red cabbage head and peer within to admire the white on purple…
The eMudhra CA Compromise: Why Your JVM Is Vulnerable (and How to Fix It Properly)
Note Addendum (October 23, 2026): The list of SHA-256 fingerprints in this article has been updated from 16 to 48 hashes. In addition to the 16 canonical certificate fingerprints, the updated list…
On This Day — Pablo Neruda Awarded Literature Nobel Prize (October 21 1971) — Was Neruda a KGB Agent? [UPDATE : Forensic probe confirms Neruda was poisoned]
“And you’ll ask: why doesn’t his poetry speak of dreams and leavesand the great volcanoes of his native land?Come and see the blood in the streets.” I explain a few thingsPablo Neruda…
House of Horrors
Can a vampire also be a ghost? One of the great questions of our time. For my money, CE Ward’s “House of Wonders” answers it pretty well. I came late to CE Ward’s work,…
From the AFDL to the FRN: Thirty Years After Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Is Joseph Kabila Taking Up the Mantle?
Prof HAKIZIMANA Maurice The Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN), announced in Goma on October 12, 2026, under the leadership of former president Joseph Kabila, is more than…
Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure | WebKit
Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure | WebKit: In our iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 27 releases, Safari and WebKit block network access to identity resolution infrastructure to prevent…
My New Group
So, I added a post about my new group where I would be sharing all the graphics that I have made over the years. All the scrap kits, all the web graphics, all the email stationery, all the tubes, all…
Older Revit Will Lose Access to Cloud Models
Starting from July 6, 2027, Revit 2022 and older can no longer create or open Revit Cloud Models, including Revit Cloud Worksharing.
Check fan speed if your Mac mini UI becomes super slow
For several days, I was struggling with a strange issue on my Mac mini M2 Pro: soon after restart, like 5mins or so, entire system would becomes super slow. UI would visibly render bit by bit,…
Why Fewer People Want to Lead — And What Lean Organizations Must Learn From It
For decades, leadership was viewed as the natural next step in career growth. Moving into management meant greater influence, greater responsibility, and often greater fulfillment. Today, that…
Ten months of Alloy: local where it counts
I started Alloy almost a year ago as a model-agnostic AI chat app, so that my conversations would live in plaintext files I control. It has since become my AI chat app of choice. I use it daily on my…
My dev statistics in Linux 7.3
Another couple of weeks, another new kernel release. Not many interesting things from me, just some Kconfig cleanups, IIO patches and a syzbot fix in the NILFS filesystem. What is odd is that the…
A Helen Adam Reader: The Scottish Ballad in Beat San Francisco
Helen Adam wrote rhymed Scottish ballads in the middle of the San Francisco Renaissance. A Helen Adam Reader is the 2007 collection that recovered her.
UK Cybercrime Journal: Teenage Online Extremism Cases in 2026
What Happened Four notable UK prosecutions illustrate the growing intersection of cybercrime, online exploitation subcultures, and digital terrorism involving teenage offenders: Scattered Spider…
Why compression should be part of your agent harness
How you can use deterministic filtering, grouping, and formatting to reduce agent context, then use semantic compression and prompt rewrites separately. Practical examples from RTK, Caveman, and…
In Praise of Coming Home
Every good adventure ends the same way: you start fantasizing about your own pillow. I’ve noticed it after backpacking trips, camping trips, road trips, and international trips, solo, with friends,…
Your 12-month roadmap is fiction
I've always been told you can't trust a weatherman. Forecasting has gotten dramatically better, but there's a reason most apps stop pretending after a week or two: beyond that, you're not getting a…
Fragments of a disordered devotion (Preview)
Gwen John, St Thérèse of Liseux and her Sister. Photograph from Wikimedia . Following an essay on the MusikFest Berlin performance of Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre , a report-essay on the world…
Chord: Hunt the Wumpus
In the coming version 4.0.0 of Chord, I've added a type that allows the author to create oceans, large terrains, and open caverns with multiple visitation points. Also known as a grid or matrix,…
Fun With C++ Templates – Self Registering Factories
In this article, I talk about how I create and maintain a centralized, augmentable list of deserialization methods for resources used by ToyMaker.
Interesting Times - He’s the Most Influential Podcaster in Silicon Valley. He Thinks We’re Getting This Wrong.
The most interesting part of this interview was the brief discussion on the rate of diffusion of AI into the broader economy. It’s a fascinating clash of old-school economics perspective and…
You, Inc., Part Two
The concept of You, Inc. is a direct application of the idea of self-motivation instead of externally-imposed motivation, self-discipline in place of outside discipline, self-reinforcement in the…
Project Mid-Life 52 #3
I was thinking of maybe having themes for each week, but decided against it since it would add complication and would make it even harder to do things in time (I don’t have a backlog for this yet).…
So What Happened to the Route 66 Trip?
We’ve had several inquiries about our plans to drive the iconic Route 66 that we’d planned. So what happened? Hmmm… our plans changed is the short answer.
php2shell, Two Critical PHP Bugs Leaked Before the Patch
PHP ships an emergency security release today, October 21, 2026, at 14:00 UTC. The release fixes two critical bugs in PHP core. People already call them “php2shell”. The details leaked…
Expunging expert asterisks
In Expert asterisks, Ned Batchelder asks knowledgeable people “to resist the impulse to add little-traveled tangents” when helping learners…
Fairy Tale – The Three Little Pigs
The fourth little pig’s house was made of wolf skulls. They aren’t very sturdy, but they send a message. From a Cartoon Depending on the [...]
Some Woman
Text of the day: “I might have put up with it years and years ago but I’m not putting up with it now.” The post Some Woman appeared first on Aleks Sierz.
What Does It Mean to Live a Good Life? Introducing Season 11 of Reimagining the Good Life
REIMAGINING THE GOOD LIFE PODCAST Season 11 of Reimagining the Good Life begins October 28! This season, we’ll explore what it means to flourish through conversations about disability and belonging,…
You Cannot Trust the AI Code Generator
Allowing an AI to write code that you then ship without considerate review causes some anxiety. How do you know the code works? How do you know it isn’t doing something strange you didn’t ask for? It…
New Homepage!
Figured it was time for a fresh coat of paint~
Why keep personal statistics?
In the previous post I described my process for creating a platform that lets me record and visualize personal statistics, such as how many free throws I hit, but I passed over the natural question…
Physical Flow
Exit SlaveWorld: Training Camps And Men’s Retreats: Pittsburgh, PA, 5/11/26
Good Night, and Good Luck: AI, fear and what the job data says
Software job postings peaked before ChatGPT existed. A look at the real data behind the AI jobs fear, who profits from it, and what the real long term question is.
Communication Skills Every Marriage Needs: Disability + Parenting • Katie Gohde, LPC, and Steve Gohde
TAKE THE NEXT STEP PODCAST E34—Do your conversations end in silence, defensiveness, or words you wish you could take back? Are unhealthy patterns undermining your marriage? How can you communicate…
Machinists > Tailors
Machinists > Tailors Software engineers are turning into AI Engineers? No, we are turning into software machinists. Replacing handmade software with (increasingly) cheap, plentiful, machine-made…
People in Glass Houses should be very careful throwing stones…
It really does feel the Atlantic Ocean got much, much wider. As Europe struggles with riots and populism, financiers in the USA dismiss Yoorp as irrelevant, and think their economy is doing just…
Firebird can now be built with CMake + Clang on Windows, Linux and macOS (PR #9111 merged)
Pull request #9111 "Build FirebirdSQL CMake+CLang" by Sergey Khalyutin was merged into the Firebird master branch on October 21, 2026. It makes it possible to build the whole Firebird project with…
Emperor Maximilian's Cipher from 1496?
I uploaded a new article, "An Imperial Cipher from 1496?" . This is about a cipher recently identified independently by Daniel Bourdeau and George Lasry. Lasry dated it to 1496, to which Bourdeau…
REMO Shindig 2026
Event review
Nspawn 2.0: support for compose v2 and Dockerfile builds
Since 1.0.0 nspawn 1.0.0 came out a month ago. There were ten minor releases between that one and 2.0.0, and most of them went into making a machine do what docker run does with a container, so that…
Your MCU Likely Escaped the eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
If you are a software engineer, or generally work in the tech industry, there is a good chance that you heard about the eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise that was disclosed yesterday (October 20,…
Collingwood on the road again, back to back shows in November including Wycrail in High Wycombe
Following the success of Simon’s Collingwood appearance at the The Fareham RailEx show earlier this month which included being awarded ‘Best layout in Show’ , Collingwood and its…
Recompiling The Lion King With an Agent
How a 1994 SNES cartridge became a native PC program in ten days, one loop at a time.
Check Your Microsoft Clarity Consent Setup For More Complete Recordings
Microsoft Clarity is a useful way to see how people interact with your website. I’ve been using it since it first came out in 2020, but ignored or overlooked something that happened a year ago,…
Switzerland, a Prison?
Switzerland, a Prison? A few days ago, I came across a short video from Switzerland. Perhaps fifty seconds long. The first time I watched it, I was convinced the whole thing had to be staged. It was…
Want to Brighten Up Navy? Start With a Scarf – Hungarian Folk Florals Scarf
October 21, 2026 It’s time to bring out the bright colors, if you have them! The crowds these days are pretty drab (and I don’t really do much to help that, unless I’m wearing some…
Universal Behaviour Profile
I did this for hexes and planets , but what if I want to use this same system for giving an NPC some specific behaviour notes? Forget how they look, how do I give this NPC some life without doing a…