I played the database game TR-49 , by Jon Ingold et al, during a micro-convalescence brought about through my annual double-jab of flu and covid vaccine boosters. After putting close to ten hours…

Recently, El Explorador de RPG covered the Italian RPG Avventura 1, which drew my attention to two Italian games in my domain: Avventura 2 (a…

Wizard stuff King’s Cross, yesterday. The Harry Potter industry continues to thrive. It must be one of Britain’s biggest cultural exports. Quote of the Day ”Potentially, TV can transform the…

GOCA presents the 2026 UCCS Visual Art Faculty Exhibition. Brand new artworks from ten distinguished faculty will be on view in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery at the Ent Center for the Arts. The…

ULTRA INFRA [field studies] is a numbered limited edition 7” vinyl record featuring two tracks exploring sound beyond human hearing range. Side A (Above) is a composition of ultrasonic bat…

I like planned obsolescence, but only when it comes to people.

I want to draw your attention to some changes in the menu of this blog, most notably the addition of the “About this Blog” tab. I’m going to go grab the text I put there and paste…

Five bite sized, quick tips of best practices. In this post: 1) why you don't need an extension for a Grigri rappel, 2) backup that hauling system 3) better hiking in your harness 4) when to use a…

There was no rifle to defend myself, only instinct.Cereus & Limnic: Escape From Okinawa Type BKeith HaydenToday's writing session took way too long and wasn't satisfying.When you pick a…

It is the silly season folks and the NDP and Conservatives have made promises to build more SkyTrain and why not, as politcal promises are easily made but much harder to keep. The first question I…

Tasting History with Max Miller is must-watch YouTube for me. Miller is a wonderful storyteller, and his show melds interesting history lessons with period-appropriate recipes. As it turns out, he’s…

In product, we risk getting bogged down in all the what-ifs, questions about possibilities, uncertainty.When you're designing a product, you only have the limited information in front of you,…

In my last post about the 14 year GEX backtest, I left one question open, does GEX (gamma exposure, how much hedging the option dealers have to do when the index moves) add anything beyond VIX? GEX…

I started building Handmade right before I put out the previous blog post. I needed something to start building because, boy... a blank folder with an index.html document is quite daunting. So I…

A link to a Guassian splat to an intriguing room.

Fix the rounded corners and style the vertical tabs in Firefox.

Tuesday night Hilary Duff gig with a room full of millennials.

If you use an account only to mirror data to OneDrive and run backup or other applications against the uploaded files, you may not need email or the other apps included in a Microsoft Office 365…

Yonks ago, I started writing my passwords down in my phone, so I'd always have them available. No, I'm not stupid. They were encrypted. Eventually, I wanted to get the list out of my phone and on to…

Gallery theme for Hugo by Nico Kaiser. Recently I needed a photography portfolio website. In the past I’ve used Flickr but I wanted it on my own domain. After poking around and trying a few…

For the fourth year in a row, the foursome of Luke, Nick, Walsh and I hit the road for a Vikings road game. After successful trips to Las Vegas, Nashville and Detroit where the Vikings won all three…

The Future Will Be Hacked - There has been so much political grist for the networks and the news world lately about hacked celebrity accounts that I wonder what sort of pretensions we are all…

Olin asunut kaksiossani seitsemän vuotta ja luulen, etten paljoa valehtele, jos sanon sinä aikana käyneeni hautausmaalla noin 300, ellen peräti 400 kertaa. Hautausmaa ei oikeastaan ollut matkan…

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The Medallion architecture is a data design pattern, that organizes a data lake/warehouse into three layers of increasing quality: bronze for raw data, silver for cleansed and validated data, and…

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The figure and table below are from Vieth (1999); one of the most widely cited articles on vitamin D. The figure shows the gradual increase in blood concentrations of 25-Hydroxyvitamin, or 25(OH)D,…

Producer and scriptwriter Ron Koslow, who created Beauty and the Beast (CBS, 1987-1990), My Life and Times (ABC, 1991), and co-created Roar (FOX, 1997) and Moonlight (CBS, 2007-2008), has died at the…

After well over a year of procrastination I finally shipped the next iteration of the kollektivavtal archive this week. The new version introduces the ability to browse by union, so you can look at…

English leaves room for interpretation. Now the listener can build software from what we leave unsaid.

Dreamer turns your idle phone, tablet or TV into a slideshow of hand-picked, high-resolution photos.

C++26 ranges isn’t only about new view adaptors. Three changes landed that don’t give you new ways to compose pipelines but fix real problems: containers can now reserve space for lazy ranges that…

Beautiful, atmospheric, multi-layer, and deeply terrifying. I loved how calmly the story unfolded, and how much dread was underneath. It reminded me of Tarkovsky's Solaris.

What building our own review agent taught us, with our numbers, what Anthropic and one open-source pull request show about where review is going, and eight bets on how teams will review code by…

Two changeblogs in a row! I don’t have much time to chat with y’all, but this is kind of a way to do that. And I’ve been doing a lot of heterogeneous work on Wipr, it’s worth discussing.

MOPSiK is a free helper for crossword and Scrabble players that I built in the mid-2000s. It still gets 1,600-1,700 unique visitors a month. Here is how I used a 666k-row search log to decide what to…

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llama.cpp, vLLM, and SGLang all run transformer weights and stream tokens, yet each is built around a different systems bottleneck. Here is how they differ across model loading, KV cache memory,…

How attackers can inject scripts through Shopify theme app extensions, and how to protect yours with app-reserved metafields, escaping and stricter custom code handling.

2025 Books A list of books I've read this year. The rating system: 1 star = Didn't finish it 2 stars = Finished it but can't really recommend it 3 stars = Good book - recommended - you can have my…

The ability to write and modify software with large language models (LLMs) is a well-trodden topic. My opinions are still forming, but my current thinking is that LLMs allow individuals to actually…

New Zealand is getting its first artist alley store! I talk to the owner to see what's up.

A very Happy Crockett Johnson’s Birthday to all who celebrate! The author of Harold and the Purple Crayon and the creator of Barnaby (and Mr. O’Malley) was born 120 years ago today in New…

Arrived at the final National Park of our adventure this afternoon.

Many others have covered the manipulation of colour in CSS. This is me documenting what has worked for me, practically, 'in the wild'. It is a common requirement to need a variant of an…

My Take on Undefined Behavior in C :root { color-scheme: light dark; } * { box-sizing: border-box; } body { max-width: 68ch; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 40em; font-family: -apple-system,…

Introduction ✨ Code: In , we introduced transformer-like modules built around dynamical mean-field descriptions of driven stochastic vector spins wobbling about on hyperspheres. Even though the…

Every shift in software has been told it’s already solved. With AI, that pushback has become gatekeeping, and it risks talking us out of the biggest chance in decades to change how we build.