My weeknotes are here! Took care of my gaming handhelds, saw a movie with family (and a friend) and there's lots of blogposts this time. From June 23 to 29, 2026.

Every week the team individually pick tracks that make up the listening post but there are always “ones that got away”. These are the alternative picks and some words by our moderators on each one.…

I also recorded a video version of this post if you’d prefer to watch rather than read: https://youtu.be/VPIf6dUKwKA Last week I was at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City for UN…

I spent the last few days running Ornith 1.0 (35B MoE) locally with Ollama and Claude Code. No cloud, no API keys. It claimed to surpass even Qwen3.5-397B on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (64.2 vs 53.5). Those…

The idea to implement some kind of LQIP (Low Quality Image Placeholder) came about as part of working on supporting type: image posts on this here website. I didn’t want to deal with generating…

Montechiara Prosecco NV - $10.99 Vitification: 100% Glera, Veneto (Prosecco DOC); importer datasheet is undated/evergreen. Vinification: Charmat (Martinotti) tank method, temperature-controlled…

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On day 3 of the hackathon, I compared Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6 using the gcx tool and debug-with-grafana skill to diagnose a fault-injected failure in the OpenTelemetry demo. Both models pinpoint the…

Circa 1905. "Memorial Arch, Brooklyn, N.Y." The Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza in Prospect Park. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

LGBTQIA+ Literature Recommendations by WritingWithColor: 2025-26 ReleasesHappy Pride!I decided to do this post for Pride to help fellow creators. Finding an audience for our creations can prove…

In the last few hours, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy has said that she is “minded” to intervene on public interest grounds in the Paramount acquisition…

Plus! Brand Equity; Distribution; Cheating; Federalism; Complementarity

This week sees a more personal anniversary for me than the Brexit celebrations/recriminations last time: it’s three years since I published my book Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future. In it, I…

When impressive performance gains do not matter is a very nice article covering some ways in which going after performance alone is not sufficient without considering the wider picture. It resonated…

The explosive AI market is changing everything, and even Handshake, the leader in university recruiting and early career growth, is taking the bait. Today Handshake acquired Uplimit, one of the…

[This is a follow-up on a previous blog post on QCC, the Quining C Compiler which is designed to transform any single-file C program into a valid quine.] Recall that a quine is a program that can…

I really don't. There are times when I have something in mind , but I guess I get distracted and on to other things. Maybe I just start getting the words out like this, while I ride the Max into work…

Nhận định Tây Ban Nha – Áo vào lúc 02:00 ngày 03/07 thuộc vòng 32 đội diễn ra tại World Cup 2026. Cuộc đối đầu diễn ra tại sân SoFi Stadium (Los Angeles, Mỹ). Chuyên gia đang đánh giá La Roja…

The first half of 2026 is done. I was planning to write a recap over what has been happening since December, when I posted my last newsletter. Today I decided to change that plan. I’ve been…

Official OpenAI Whisper has 12 unique checkpoint files, but the OpenAI Python package exposes 14 local model names because large and turbo are aliases for large-v3 and large-v3-turbo.The real…

Post last updated 2 days, 18 hours ago This time I'll go with Robert Birming's Bearming theme, just because I'm lazy and want to cleanly tests some other things he created. For posterity, here's the…

The Roberts Court has legitimized the white supremacist attack on the 14th Amendment

Friday's release post introduced the Game Builder and promised a tutorial series. This post is the orientation that sits in front of those tutorials: what the Game Builder is, how its pieces fit toget

Wow! This month was huge for this usually silent blog: four posts! That’s quite an achievement (irony inside).

One of the things I love to do is type. I guess, because I'm good at it, it enables a flow state for me. But this is another skill that likely won't be around in a hundred years. It doesn't make a…

At least half of my enjoyment of Gullet of the Rust Demon , a one-page, system-agnostic tabletop RPG adventure by Dan D., comes from the “establishing shot” of the dungeon exterior at the top of the…

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Understanding the USGS Monitor and Why Water Management Matters If you’ve walked the south shore on Cottage Road, you may have noticed a small concrete square with a “please don’t…

Hey team!I'm more-or-less dug out from the most recent pile of dirt I found myself in, so my apologies for spacing on this very easy email to send.June 30 – 6-8p, the Main CinemaJuly 11…

Green Stuff World have released six new patina paints that oxidise just like the popular Dirty Down paints. But without the solvents, without the smell, at a lower price, and with extra colours like…

Not to be alarmist, but: The rise of tech competition for commercial clients could spell the slow death of legacy banks. Legacy financial institutions face an urgent and worsening retention issue…

Divine, Pink Flamingos Wikipedia defines Coprophagia as "the consumption of feces". Since brevity is the soul of wit", my favorite science fiction includes the 254 words of Fredric Brown's Answer…

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October 1971. An American spy submarine has just crossed into Soviet waters, an area completely off-limits to outsiders. Most people onboard the submarine have no idea why they’re here, but some do.…

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I have a complicated relationship with information. I want a lot of it: what’s happening in tech, the world, culture, and the corners of the internet I care about. What I don’t want is my…

I've 'laid down' the guitars for the last song of the album, and also re-recorded the guitar parts for another song and made them worse. It's time to watch Boon , nestled as it is between ads for…

I've been listening to the new song Baby I'll change by Fiddlehead every day for like a dozen times since it came out. It's been a long time since I've been so captured by a song. You could say I'm…

Yesterday afternoon, I walked around the town of Rovinj. It was the hottest part of the day and didn’t have the will to go up to see the bell tower. I did have an excellent tuna poke bowl for dinner…

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It is safe to say I am not getting any younger. Although I suppose that is the same for all of us apart from Benjamin Button. I am turning 40 next year and with that comes quite a lot of…

teaaddictyt:I was downloading some of @lamare-sims’s shiny new mods tonight and found a conflict between Cafe Mod and her wonderful “use inaccessible dining booths” mod, so…

Shadowlands A Journey through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew Green WW Norton & Company 2022 In Shadowlands , author Matthew Green takes us to 8 sites around Great Britain…

To Liverpool, where I stayed for longer than expected – given the railways’ advice not to travel in the hot sticky heat, ignoring their advice would have been rude and looked like I was unkeen to…

On Friday 26th June, I had another random spike in internet traffic to Contains Moderate Peril. The statistical package that comes with my Squarespace account recorded over 13k visits in less than 24…

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I got off a phone call with my best friend. We mostly talked about romantic relationships and, most importantly, men. Yup, we failed the Bechdel Test. I started the conversation about Androgenic, an…

While Langley City is one of the most affordable places to live by Metro Vancouver standards, I know that the cost of housing, transportation, and food is a challenge for many people. A Metro…

This is a post about that tries to capture my journey with AI as an early skeptic to my current thoughts on it now.