In a market full of talkers, the builder has an unfair advantage.

i joined a new webring! the Creatively Weird Webring :) see it on my homepage.

For most of our lives - atleast mine - ambition was supposed to be an all consuming fire. You burned in the flame and like a phoenix you were born anew. But The Bear, posits a question about what…

Part 1 of the Data Structures catalogue · The Catalogues A slice is not a growable array. It is a small value that describes part of an array it does not own. Every surprising thing slices do follows…

I apologise for being absent so long, the day job has kept me busy for a lot longer than originally expected – with a little luck next year should be a lot better for the project. That said a…

I’m painfully aware that I’m a bit of a nostalgia poster. Most things I post about on here are basically baked in millennial nostalgia. When I post about current events or recent trends, it’s usually…

1979 was the year I got into buying and studying fanzines. That had a lot to do with Maximum Speed , the main mod publication, which that year was particularly high-profile and prolific. I recall a…

Publisher: Capcom (2002). Review posted 2026/10/21.

Publisher: Limited Run (2023). Review posted 2026/10/21.

I built a Mac dictation app in about a day. Press Caps Lock, talk, and your words appear at the cursor in any app.

Web browsers enable incredibly rich app development—and that’s radically easier than it used to be.

Modern CCTV cameras come in many types, shapes and sizes, and can have a multitude of different features. In this post, I’ll share my thoughts and opinions on choosing appropriate cameras for a…

The Internet is having a bad few days. One of the many recent security issues is a compromised certificate authority that -- get this -- used "4" as…

My weekend project was to fix a leaky valve and a leaky connection for the irrigation system at my house. In the ten years I’ve lived here, I’ve replaced just about every sprinkler and a bunch of…

Highlights include the initial release of command-line tool tblaunch to support automated workflows and a preview of fafalone's forthcoming rich edit control.

So, a bunch of my services run, or rather, ran, on an old Intel NUC 8 that I bought back in 2020 and have mostly used as a “random stuff goes here” server. A year and a half ago the fan…

You probably only have 78 keys on your keyboard. So why do you never use 12 of them?

So, catching up on some published volumes that I haven’t discussed yet in much detail… The Center for Social Presence arose out of a collision between a few different things, one of which…

<p>Last year on a whim, I completed the <a href="https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2025/10/27/atb-2025/">Around the Bay</a> 100km route. However this year I wasn’t…

There were 32 different kinds of apples for sale at Volante Farms in Needham last weekend, roughly tracking the 30 varieties listed on their dedicated apple web page . ¶ (They were out of Cosmic…

Now that it’s October, triathlon season has come to a stop. Although warmer than usual in Toronto, I have stopped swimming outdoors and cycling with my group. I still try to run two times a week and…

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It's that time again: there are new Oracle JVM updates released today (Oct 20, 2026) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java 25, 21, 17, 11, and 8, as well as the newest…

around about and therapy this week and turned out this time: the problem is that i am myself again other things said well, Yesterday :: Tuesday, 20th October 2026 :: Tomorrow

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

Why I Decided to Upgrade My C10 Cooling System Last summer, while driving my truck to car meets, I noticed it was getting fairly warm when we were moving very... The post Budget C10 Electric Fan…

Recently, I've been hearing about people wanting to make an SMW Central alternative. As far as I can tell, the individuals who desire this the most are also the individuals most open to using GenAi.…

In the current AI discourse I keep hearing things like “being human means thinking and expressing independently”. Here is V. H. Belvadi: “…so I want to start with the fact...

Hi there, I’m Steven 👋 I enjoy solving hard problems. I currently work on the GPU performance team at Jane Street where I think hard about making models train faster on GPUs.

I've had medium to long hair for most of my life. I've dyed it red, blonde, purple, green, blue, magenta. I've shaved the side and had designs razored into my scalp. When I was younger (and…

GPU (Nvidia) GPU Architecture How is GPU architecture different from CPU architecture? This is a good article for the different sms, like sm_87: https://arnon.

A spooky one for the spooky season, Through Familiar Eyes is in pre-launch over on Backerkit. It's a kind of fairytale horror piece, self-contained with pregens with their own tiny tiny system. It's…

Ugly (UK) “In Samphedoo” Ugly (UK) are very polished, precise, and mannered in ways that don’t often overlap, which means they often sound sorta like modern musical theater crafted by…

Many of us are living a bonus life (or two) because of modern medicine

Short to the point: there seem to be a divide between AI criticism and AI “accelerationists.” The divide being that on one side “they get it”, on the other they don’t.…

Robert Yang made a web-based clicker game called Up the Vote in response to news about dismal voter registration rates among young people in New Zealand, where he lives. I enjoyed both reading about…

We’ve heard a lot about Amish disaster relief in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene, which, time flies, happened over two years ago now (September 2024). Amish crews from the Midwest and…

I have to admit I’m brought up a little short by things presupposed by this article by the European Space Agency about AMEC , a cloud in the Martian atmosphere that forms daily (by Martian reckoning)…

Book 48 of 2026: ⭐️⭐️⭐️: A dark but interesting LitRPG adventure, something of a blend of SF (in the framing world) and F (in the online world).

We mentioned that in a previous post, a couple of days after coming back from Japan, we had a Filming Day in Quebec City, with Olivier and Marie-Pier. The paper Governing Fairness in Insurance…

I have blogged every previous Cyan Kickstarter, so the foolish hobgoblin demands this post. Cyan is now crowdfunding the Myst Trilogy "Guild of Writers" Deluxe Collection. These are the three Myst…

There is another man with the same name as me. He is a professional bicyclist, and he is Swiss. I figured this out when I kept getting emails to firstnamelastname@gmail , but my email is…

This is a very long and detailed article and study on pricing yesteryear and today on a whole host of things. I’ll leave it to the reader to study for himself, but here are snippets. At a…

Covered here, but this is a more succinct listing of what models have been canceled for production. Maybe Beretta knew something we didn’t when they tried to buy Ruger. Maybe they should still…

Written by: Mindy Weisberger New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced the launch of the New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative, at an event held on Oct. 20 in New Brunswick. New Jersey Governor…

在未来的工作模式，或者说如何高效使用AI中我提到了那个笑话： AI流行之后，经常能看到一些社畜下了地铁以后还捧着电脑走路，因为电脑上的AI正在干活，不敢把电脑合上。 要想让AI不间断地干活，要么让自己的电脑24小时开机，要么租一台服务器（VPS），然后远程指挥AI。 前者对笔记本用户来说很难，所以这里主要说第二个办法 - 服务器。 配置好的效果 配置好了是这样的：…

I listened to the podcast The Making of Xi Jinping where the host interviewed Joseph Torigian, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Party’s Interests Come First: The…

This is a crosspost of my recent blog post on the specific version of EA I like the most and am excited to defend and promote . I’m working on a much longer post articulating the reasons and…

My review of “Psycho”.

A bit cool today when the sun was not out but still a pretty good day. Martha and I drove the Honda CRV down Colorado highway 67 towards the town of Victor, Colorado. Back during the Gold Rush days,…