From Mari Ruti’s The Call of Character pg 18: Likewise, there is perhaps nothing that contributes to the uniqueness of our character more than our suffering. In so many ways, who we are arises…

Sinds begin dit jaar ben ik lid van de Metal Business Club. Een zakelijk netwerk voor ondernemers die van steviger muziek houden. Die club past bij me. De combinatie zakelijk netwerken, nieuwe…

I rewrote I/O Riot. The old version, written in C and SystemTap, dates back to 2017. The new version (called `ior`) uses Go, C, and BPF via libbpfgo. It runs on Linux and is primarily a TUI dashboard…

Making the Gauge StockEpisode three is out on Woodworking Masterclasses if you want to go that route too, but all of the details are below here as well for those who like text and drawings. Here is…

April has been another month balancing work with everything else. Despite project deadlines, I’ve mostly kept on top of things – although a lack of sleep towards the end of the month got…

I am quite surprised with the votes on this one! I would love to see what civilization was like thousands of years ago, but the period I'd be most interested in seeing is the Age of Exploration and…

Naveen Kumar Devaraj mentioned an interesting fact in his EVPN-related comment : The EOS default ARP timeout is 4 hours, and MAC aging is 5 minutes. Arista is not the only platform using these…

One of the joys of working in-house is seeing the cumulative buildup of your efforts over time. You’re able to invest into something bigger than individual projects; you can build a body of…

The UK’s cyber security data does not describe a single reality; it describes three filtered views of it. By overlaying Breaches Survey, ICO, and NCSC data, a clearer model emerges: one of layered…

This is amazing!! And thanks for the super detailed steps. Could this be my first « DIY » project?

Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.

The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.

THE SCHOOL SEMESTER IS OVER!! I AM FREEE

There are three main engines: Businesses for Wealth Creation. Politicians for Tax Collection. Monks for Allocation of Collected Taxes. But the power dynamics are in reverse. Monks sit on top of…

Professional services firms are designed to minimize risk. Their business model depends on trust, reputation, and consistency. Clients rely on them for assurance, judgment, and reliability, which…

  PROGRAMMED DECAY: DESIGNING INTENTIONAL EROSION IN EARTHEN ARCHITECTURE This erosion study began with an observation of the oldest sections of the Great Wall of China, where layers of straw…

I don’t use A.I. for my posts; I prefer the human touch (and if you suspected I did use it because of em-dashes, I can point you to a snapshot of my blog from 2015 where you can see that I averaged a…

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I read the book Principles of Neural Design recently. It’s extremely dense, which you’d hate or love depending on how much you’re in awe with how our brain works. I totally loved it! The…

90 days into her job at the Bureau, Judith is woken at 2AM by Janet Garcia to come in for a sitrep for not one, but three cases that needed attention.

In the previous post talked about why the GitHub Copilot SDK matters: it gives you a production-grade agent harness out of the box, so you can skip building the infrastructure and focus on your…

Jason Kridner returns to The Amp Hour after his first appearance 15 years ago to talk about the BeagleBadge and Zepto boards that showcase new capabilities in the Linux and Zephyr space. The…

After doing chores, playing games, and having a midnight snack, I'm feeling wonderful and content. Ready for some sleep, and to knock out work tomorrow so I can have a cozy weekend Previous Next

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com Global affairs journalist David Rothkopf wrote today in The Daily Beast: “Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie…

The Earth Is Full of Your Creatures Scripture: Psalm 104:1-4, 24-31 Rev. Nathan Hill I was listening to a presentation from a theologian and researcher from South Africa who introduced two proverbs…

Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian report for MS NOW that the FBI director has ordered more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail, as well as others, to be polygraphed.

Part 2 of 2 on inference engineering for AI engineers.

What looks like a motivation problem in software work is often the cost of entering the next step - context load, cross-system design, LLM drift, verification, and re-entry. The fix is not more…

The Saturday night supremacy of CBS in the seventies has finally ceased (how’s that for alliteration?). This would be the final year for both The Bob Newhart Show and The Carol Burnett Show ,…

The Flourish is our swang song in eurorack. The best after a decade in the business. This month we are making 20 Flourishes, 9 Geometric Anomalies, 20 NextTuesday expanders and 20 Switches. We still…

Sometimes it seems as if the universe is warning us against something. Or, perhaps, it is just measuring our determination. Testing us. In “The Once and Future King,” the fine telling of…

In this post, I argue that hexcrawls don't need to have a key for every hex, and might even be better if they don't. 1 My perspective on this is influenced by my experience running Antarctica jam. 2…

Fundação MEO, ISBN 978-9729968594, English, Portuguese, 204 pages, 2025, Portugal Still largely unacknowledged by official art history and the contemporary art scene, (inter)net art remains relevant…

孩子，是上天給我們這些破碎、愚蠢的大人最珍貴的一堂課。 是的，連那個摔門、滿嘴藉口、只有錢花完了才肯跟你說話的青少年，也是。 但幾乎沒有父母真的從孩子身上學過什麼。這堂被擺在他們眼前、最大最珍貴的課，他們眼睜睜錯過。 因為社會已經徹底洗腦他們：為人父母，就必須背負起責任和義務，去教導、糾正、獎勵、懲罰。他們把孩子當成一件需要被修理的半成品，而不是一個帶著天賦、優雅與單純來到這個世界的存在。…

Every day we encounter a diversity of materials: liquids, glass, ceramics, metals, crystals, magnets, plastics, semiconductors, foams, … These materials look and feel different from one another.…

Hello, I wanted to do a deep dive into Next.js's structure and how it differs from traditional HTTP servers such as Flask, Express.js, and many other frameworks.As you know, Next.js is…

Turning 50 comes with a myriad of cliches: Not caring what other people think. Taking stock of what's really important. Focusing on health or other things that have been neglected for years. But for…

it's Device Talk Time here on the ol' bloggeroo

In 2018 I wrote about Your Version Number: I think the version metaphor works. You are a different person in your 20s, 30s, 40s and so on. Your life changes in meaningful ways! MAJOR version! Each…

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Money for nothing and your chips for free.

Having just nearly fucked Survivor 50 with a coin flip last week, Jeff Probst and company left yet another episode to random chance, this time combined with Probst's obsession with tiny tribes.

Archaeologists racing to excavate the bones of a lost race of giants in a remote wilderness. Hints of a lost civilization. An attack by hostile Natives, and sensational dispatches from a reporter on…

I just finalized my itinerary for my upcoming international trip, and boy was it a challenge...I waited on hold for over an hour with Aeroplan today and over 2 hours yesterday. So that motivated me…

I mean, fuck Aramark, UK's food quality has been declining since they privatized out to them. But a... Continue reading →

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My coding agent, sid has a compaction strategy I’ve not seen in use elsewhere; I call it, “Ask an Expert!”

Courage Patience Diligence Love I believe in me.

The Apology is Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial where he faced charges of impiety and corrupting the youth. The most important thing to understand going into reading this is the…