Cancer is one of the leading health concerns for women in midlife, yet many of the most common types are highly treatable when caught early. This guide breaks down what the statistics actually show…

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple PodcastsThink you don't have big enough problems for AI to help with? Think again.In this episode, Petra and Teresa tackle one of the most common…

The following are three paramount points to consider before proposing a presentation. Don’t just review these points for yourself, do it for the organizer and, especially, the audience, who are…

A closer look at baking with cottage cheese and a recipe for cottage cheese and oat loaf break.

Roundup of the best cheese museums in France

You’ve had git in your daily workflow for a few weeks. You’ve got the basics down, until you do one of these… You committed vault_password.txt and pushed it before your second…

A few more random worldbuilding ideas that are free for the taking if someone wants to flesh them out or incorporate them into their worlds! Intended to be quick and encourage me (and you!) to…

I think there’s a huge difference between “vibe coding” and “coding with AI”, and that difference comes down to one thing: you still need to know what you’re…

Some of the best, simplest, and hardest advice I ever got was from a dead man. When someone dies, we go through many different

Visualize me donning a big, pointy tin foil hat and speaking in my best ex cathedra voice: Babies are born knowing how to crawl. They're all just conspiring to hide it from us. Sure, when you set…

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. (Susan Ertz) I don't see this as dissing immortality so much as challenging me to clarify my…

I recently installed a new printer on my system. Now, before you have an “OK, Boomer” knee-jerk reaction – I am a fairly tech-savvy user. I am not an IT professional, but have used…

End of June. Halfway point of 2026. What exactly happened? I am going to read my entries from Jan to now and then jot my thoughts down here. Let's go ... I give thanks now for the hyper-vigilance…

Inside a cluster, 'where is service B' is answered by a layered system: a Service object, a DNS name served by CoreDNS, a control loop tracking healthy pods, and kube-proxy turning a virtual IP into…

In a year or so, the handwritten birthday card will cost more than the printed one. The home-cooked dinner will be something people brag about . Live theatre tickets will go up while streaming…

When Hulk gets angry, Muscles contract. Strength explodes. It’s spectacular. Fascia looks insignificant. Like stretched mozzarella. Almost boring. You peel it away To get to the muscles. Then you…

The use of AI technologies has added to the risk of harm and privacy violations. The use of AI has also helped people file complaints with the data protection regulator. We may need a…

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Dear Readers, one last thought before the rah-rah America celebration begins.   Pusillanimity Brings War, Not Peace Paul Craig Roberts […]

A small decision about a one-box setup — and the access-control idea underneath it, which scales much further than the box does. I was standing up a small personal server on AWS — nothing exotic,…

Not the houseguests you want.

life of dog, up in these streets

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Postfootball, the new book by Juan Pablo Meneses, uses the World Cup as a lens for surveillance, platforms, and the disappearance of the collective gaze.

So I've been messing around with running an LLM on my computer because I want to understand the technology better and I do think it can provide me with some support in certain areas (like writing…

Russia’s logistical nightmare in Crimea is just beginning. With Ukrainian strikes ramping up throughout Russian-held Crimea, Russian authorities have suspended civilian fuel sales since new…

First published in Stonecoast Review “Again?” I ignore Ellie and choose a pair of thick wool socks from my favorite vendor’s cart. Two pairs, since we’re taking the subway. “They’re supposed to…

I explored the possibility of employing Content Security Policy for this very blog. I succeeded in enforcing a couple of URL whitelists. But that showed that whenever the referring websites change…

There are new releases of tmux about twice a year. There are always new features added, but rarely do I feel the need to talk about them.

The House by Tommi Musturi will be exhibited at the comic book festival Formula Bula 14 in Paris in September. It’s an installation that I made the soundtrack for and it was previously shown in…

A few months ago I saw this video of Kevin O'Leary (Mr. Wonderful) arguing that $5M was enough for a lifetime of financial security. On the surface it seems hard to argue with this, but it was how…

It’s a Saturday morning, and we’re in a taxi on the way to the airport. My clothes cling to my body and already reek of sweat, and that’s even before our 12-hour flight has started.…

I found some contagious metadata corruption in exiv2, such that reading a file with corrupt XML namespace values in XMP data poisons all subsequent metadata writes with the same corrupt namespace…

I talk about a bunch of things here with my good pal Huyen (Kotlin Multiplatform, Android, the web) but arguably the most important thing we chatted about was the role of AI/LLMs, how it’s a…

Some time ago, I saw a nationwide medical organisation advertising a training course for doctors on a particular spreadsheet software. But I still haven’t seen it advertising a training course that…

I didn’t know Om Malik. But apparently I missed out, as he was universally, outwardly adored. The number of effusive farewell posts Om has received this week upon his passing at age 59 is…

Throughout the month of June I held a poll asking, "what's next for Vivarism?" The majority of voters wanted tutorials and resources, so here is everything I would tell to someone interested in…

This is my stand.

Next week, on July 4, the US celebrates its 250th anniversary. As one might expect of a diverse nation, there is a pluriverse of celebrations. Multiple shows (some listed here) focus on the…

A profile of the British artist Celia Paul. Much of Paul’s art portrays her mother and sisters in intense, focused images that offer little other than the subject. They seem to reflect Paul’s…

By Aimee Raleigh, Principal at Atlas Venture, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC In most companies I am fortunate to be a part of, there is a strong relationship between investors…

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When she smiles The day’s a little better

Can you guess what this is? Give up? Riding through the car wash! (click to enlarge) Lucky for you I've had no profound thoughts lately so I thought I would post a few lighthearted ’grabshots’ I made…

We have set up a new partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) to develop research collaborations and exchanges, with an initial focus on digital methods,…

I'm prepared for Art Fight (I think)!!! I finished this cover two days ago (28th) but I was too tired to upload it, travelling is tiring! (28 Jun 2026)Open album

Up at 5:30. Sleeping gear stowed, boom tent tucked away. Third customer of the day at The Bean, a cranberry muffin and a glass of iced tea. Keith drops by for a quick breakfast. He says a small…

Start from a slip. Decide what the note does. Title it Phrase: Role . Write in fragments. Shift register. Link related notes. Date revisions. Break the rules. Sometimes. + Slip: Phenomenon