It's the end of the first half of the year, can you believe it? It feels like just yesterday we were all amazed we had made it to 2025, and now we're half way through 2026! And it's Tuesday, which…

This new version adds option –stats. For more details, take a look at SANS Internet Storm Center diary entry “Evil MSI Background: BASE64 Statistical Analysis“.…

A big casserole of baked pasta, an ooey gooey cheezy topping, and crisp garlicky breadcrumbs. Need I say more? Ok, I will! Because I really can’t shut up about vegan baked ziti. I grew up on…

A song about Los Angeles, the land of broken dreams.

Yancey Strickler describes the process of getting the Artist Corporation through the Colorado legislature, and gives more information concerning why the A-Corp is important to artists. I hope…

For over a year, I've been using Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)" -- and the multitude of side-projects that have branched out from reading it -- as something…

“Thank god this app rocks and I can live through the chompers.” (a chomper, in the chat, on a night they could not make the show) Two months ago I wrote up Goose Spring ‘26. The through-line of that…

Nau maiYesterday we played in the jewel of the Midwest, Cleveland, Ohio. My day began in a large parking lot next to Lake Erie. The Ghost Whale was laid up in this concrete wasteland a few blocks…

if you're true to yourself, it's actually impossible to hate on someone. you're probably just jealous.

David Bessis’s “The fall of the theorem economy” is ostensibly about LLMs and the pursuit of pure math, and I found it fascinating in its own right, even while I’m not qualified to evaluate a number…

Hard to believe that half of 2026 is over now… and for the end of the month as usual, I have my look back at and summary of things and happenings, stuff from behind the scenes, a few links, and…

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My usual morning routine involves a blended fruit, yogurt, and nut smoothie. That said, when researching Dallas recipes from 50 years ago (which led to these pork chops), I came... Source

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:RFID_Wrist_Tag_on_Alpine_Loop_Watch_Band.jpg}}|thumb|The RFID tag on my wrist]] A short while ago, I bought [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD3R9W81 a set of Apple…

In current market of tech, R&D is dead because there is no need for research and people want all the solutions yesterday.

An earlier version of this article appeared June 19, 2023 Toward the end of summer, have you ever felt that you wished you’d done more with those months? Life feels richer and more memorable when…

For the past month I have been reading about multi-tenant SaaS architecture. Not as an academic exercise. I kept running into the same questions on every project I looked at: where exactly does…

Assessing how my year went so far.

The second half of our time in Cambodia! We visited Siem Reap and the temples of the Angkor complex.

Modern Machine Learning models are trained with a large number of parameters, often too large, and this overparameterization is very useful during training as it creates a vast search space for the…

We hear a lot about NEET’s (those not in Education, Employment or Training); they are a major source of concern and form the focus of the recent Milburn Review. His recent, if interim report, has dug…

I recently joined WGN Radio’s Legal Face-Off to discuss futures prediction markets. My segment begins at 17:15. You can listen…

Up until the early 2000s, even though Americans were less obese compared to today, it was implicitly understood that fitness/health-minded people occupied a sort of celebrity status or were different…

Reverse-engineering Photon's Spectrum iMessage extension and ChatKit's private plugin-payload APIs to send iMessage mini-app messages from a Mac.

"I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who…

Sometimes I feel that everything can be collapsed back to What Is, discarding all the socially constructed abstract bullshit, and a less wrong, less distorted observation can be made for a few…

Pas mal de choses se sont produites ces derniers mois, dont notre déménagement. Après avoir vécu près de 26 ans dans notre tout petit appartement parisien, ce n’est pas rien pour nous. Nous ne…

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Here’s a problem that sounds simple but isn’t. You own a 40-person company. One of your salespeople, Dana, needs to fly from Chicago to Austin next month to close a deal. You’d like…

ChoiceScript release and WIP update digest for Feb-June 2025

Google just announced the launch of some new image and video models: Nano Banana 2 Lite (the fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model yet) and Gemini Omni Flash for high-quality video and…

Machine identities now outnumber human identities in the enterprise 109 to 1. That was one in a long list of surprising things I recently learned. Here we look at machine IDs, the secret zero…

A deadline appears from somewhere above. The scope is already fixed. The complexity is underestimated. The team is told that it is “empowered”, which somehow means that it is now…

> Reply to Knoppix Knoppix nostalgia Oh man, fond memories. I remember being very interested in programming in middle/high school, but all the environments in our school computer lab had windows…

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop

Excerpt from a conversation while the TV was on, the news talking about heat waves in Europe and Paraguay's president declaring a national holiday after winning a soccer game: "Next cup is going to…

[…] LLM-generated prose undermines a social contract of sorts: absent LLMs, it is presumed that of the reader and the writer, it is the writer that has undertaken the greater intellectual…

Today’s report review took me a strange direction. What started as a simple report review ended up becoming a full working paper, but more on that shortly. This post is in two parts: In the US…

Museums and Video Games. Collection, Interaction, and Playable Heritage Edited by Matteo Bittanti and Elisabetta ModenaIn 2011, artist and game designer Pippin Barr created The Artist Is…

"Depression is like… when you don't want cheese anymore. Even though it's cheese." — Jenny Lawson depression is like… “when you don’t want cheese anymore. even though it’s cheese.” not even the…

So, where have I been? Two of my poems were published in Mouthful of Salt's Spring 2026: Savory issue. These are my first publications since getting back into writing and I am hoping to continue…

When people talk about animal care, especially small mammals, the conversation can become extreme very fast. One side can make it sound like keeping or breeding animals is automatically wrong. The…

Ian Wright Wright Wright! The post Ian Wright’s 185 goals for Arsenal appeared first on Playrface.

Junited 2026It’s June again, a month of many special occasions: Pride month, my birthday, and Junited! I’m very excited for this. Junited is simple, and basically what many bloggers…

Transcript Welcome to the Misaligned Markets Podcast. I'm your host, Mike. I'm also the writer of the Misaligned Markets blog.Fundamentally, Misaligned Markets is a project about a marriage…

On the scale of stupid things the US government is doing this is pretty small, but they appear to be banning the census bureau from any effective methods of privacy-preserving information release,…

TIL: The Isles of Scilly Football League is the the smallest in the world with only two clubs: Woolpack Wanderers and Garrison Gunners. The post The world’s smallest football league appeared…

minecraft bender... i have brought and installed like 10 games that are not minecraft and are currently not playing them for minecraft this is how you juice your time lemons people!!!!!! play the…

codex.humdrum.me One more terminal app for good measure! Been working on this one for awhile now and it's already my main driver for writing anything. It's designed to be a standalone text…