My system for keeping a history of my writing and research within Obsidian.

This was someone's pride and joy at one time–also essential to generating their income. It is now designated to be scrapped in the next several days. (click to enlarge) The other day I was out and…

My recent forays in x86 segmentation (1 2) made me notice a trend in the evolution of x86: the decline of fine-grained memory protection, both across the move to 64-bit and indeed before that in the…

It’s unrestrained summer fun, Paul Ford-style: Using AI tools to actually ship some software. On this week’s podcast, Paul shows Rich his recent vibe-coded project, Stellate.app, which visualizes…

Models are already smart enough for a huge amount of real work. What is missing is the software layer around them — the one that defines how a task is executed, verified, corrected and finished. A…

An alternate title for this post could have been something like A Medical Yankee in King Charles’ Court or King Donald’s Court – your choice of Kings. The recent Eclipse makes this…

Trevor McKendrick asked for favorite recent applications of AI. Here are some of mine: I have a large corpus in which I want to find the most frequently occurring facts. I've built a system that (i)…

It’s a visually stunning, spiritually powerful conclusion. It is the point of The Truman Show that we don’t know what world he is stepping into, and can’t follow him to see what happens next. This is…

CXC Devblog: CXC is an immutable, typed, object-oriented language. Functional programming language enthusiasts often point to how object-oriented programming (OOP) languages cannot escape including…

I've never really done one of these so bear with me, I'm sure formatting and content will change over time should I continue. Movies and Shows Chronicles of Riddick - I'm not going to claim it's high…

Sunday My alarm wakes me at 6. My emotional state is somehwere between annoyance at being woken up too early and excitement to try a new thing. The excitement wins out, and I do my skincare and get…

Questo articolo è disponibile anche in Italiano Happy Tuesday my dear friend! Welcome back to another appointment with My Travel Diary Chronicles, where Tamara takes us to her beautiful travels…

The strange thing about using AI for analysing cryptography - ciphers, hash functions, digital signatures, etc. - is that getting ideas is not the hard part. Getting rid of bad ideas is.I…

How the US abandoned its Reserve Fleet and ended up in deep ship

Last week was all about headspace control. Something that many people struggle with, and I always feel that I struggle with it more than most. The trouble is that it makes me a less pleasant person…

Taking a break from digital privacy news, online engagement in discussion groups and testing new privacy tools can be a positive, healthy experience.

I’ve read several standalone novels by Louise Douglas and enjoyed them all, but haven’t tried any of the books in her detective series set in France until now. This is the fourth in the series so I…

When splitwise no longer fit my needs, I had to build an alternative for myself.

A fun programming project for Go or Rust learners: help rescue a stranded spacecraft by writing an emulator for its simple CPU!

I thank Matt Toggle, pastor of Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, for teaching me the following lesson. When preaching a sermon on Philippians 4:4 (“Rejoice in the Lord, always;…

When dealing with big numbers in the news stories, consulting AP Style's numeral rules can help make sure you get them right. The post AP Style has Debated Numeral Rules for Headlines appeared first…

A three-week August itinerary through Finland, Estonia, Sweden, and Denmark, with notes on ferries, saunas, hotels, and a bicycle hazard nobody warns you about.

Translated from French into English by Mark Hutchinson. This book isn't out yet, but will be in November 2026. I received a digital ARC from the publisher (thank you!). I was excited to read this…

Read about how BurgeonLab.com came to be and how it has transformed to become Naty’s de facto home on the Internet after discovering the IndieWeb.

I was browsing youtube on my TV a couple of months ago and the HPA Live Webinar: Introduction to EFI popped up and I had a watch, and Andre (the good salesperson he is of his tuning courses) was…

Learn how to use the React 19 cache() API in the Next.js App Router to optimize performance and avoid fetch waterfalls when using React Server Components.

What about nonchalance is so enticing to some? The act of pretending to not care? Isn’t it human experience to love and feel? To me, it seems these people are giving up their agency and their…

This is still very early days, but Sifa is a professional network built on the AT Protocol. It’s meant to be an open alternative to LinkedIn which, let’s be honest, has always been a bit…

I was in Denver last week for work. I managed to get out to Red Rocks on my final morning. It was fantastic during the day—I can only imagine what it would be like seeing a gig there at night. 🔗 ∙…

"The Flight 93 election" was a term used by conservatives in 2016 to justify voting for Donald Trump. The basic idea was that, even though Donald Trump was essentially everything we, well, knew he…

A one-page machine learning cheat sheet

R&D engineer with 30+ years building real-time signal processing and estimation systems that run unattended, in the field, for years. Deep expertise in C++, Python and SIMD; recovering timing and…

OTD in 2008, I began blogging about family history. I was a decade into my genealogy research and my first blog post was about great-grandpa Meyer Elias Mahler (1855?-1910). In the 18 years since…

Tried to see what Chatgpt says about the 2019 Gutenberg-Net analogy. Because Nov 2026 is very close. Gutenberg–Net correspondence: a reconstruction through 2026 I reconstructed the sequence using the…

| Read on LessWrong | Comment on HN | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts…

Much of the Indian philosophical tradition shares a fundamental concern: understanding the nature of the reality in which we find ourselves. Traditionally, these classical systems are taught as…

Source: The Oil We Eat – How Our Food System Depends On Oil and How Fragile It Makes Our Food Security Preface. Even though this article was published in 2004, it is still true today, only…

Your executable is a SQLite database Turns out you can make an SQLite database file into a valid ELF object. Crazy hacks Tags: hacks nix sqlite elf file-formats

The OG wayOne of the key design initiatives for

iOS text analysis app

Everything has a last time. We just don't know which time it is.

I keep a note of sentences that are harder to read than they need to be. Most come from documents that are otherwise careful and correct: it is the writing that lets them down, not the thinking. Here…

“Opposites are complementary.” - Niels Bohr In investing as in life, labels are useful in small measure but potentially fatal if abused. Many labels are no more than marketing slogans, or some are…

Well, let me tell you a story. There's a race I don't particularly like... Look, I'm kinda hesitant to say that I don't like this or that running event. If you dislike the January gloominess, or…

How a home-lab AI console grew from a viewer into an instrument panel: live knowledge maps, review coverage, writable ideas, voice capture, supervised agent sessions, approvals, and read-only…

Like I did for the first half of the year, here is my list of events I attend from August 2026 on. Some of these I help to organise, some are run by good friends, and at some of them you’ll find me…

Michael Faraday died 25 August 1867 at the age of 76. He … Invented the concept of the field — originally applied to electricity, but later expanded to magnetism and gravitation. Discovered…

A decade of good weather, unreasonable expectations, and things mostly working out

Back in 2022 I announced a new Q# community project - a proper, standalone TextMate grammar for Q#, built with a real build pipeline, test suite and multiple output formats, rather than the handful…

Baikaju was another bargain I found on Kleinanzeigen. I bought it in mid-2025 with two other boxes of Japanese incense… Continue reading “Shoyeido – Selects – Baikaju · Plum…