Last of my three Booker shortlisted birthday novels, and another absolutely brilliant, original book. Switzy is the last few days in the life of a guy heading to his assisted death, told in the first…

Aha. Today I see — just in time for Halloween — that Amazon has knocked an eldritch 13% off the $40 retail on Arkham House Ephemera: The Classic Years. Or, as I call it, Eph Book.…

Originally I was toying around with a question about floating-point precision in PyTorch: as a joke, I was curious to see if it's possible to find some weird loss \(\mathcal{L}\) for which calling…

Up early, planning call, sync with Laser, lunch. Catch up with Andras, Monthly management meeting, sync with Kohei. Dentist, more admin.

Ten days. Thirty-five of my closest Kansas City friends. Multiple countries. Thousands of stairs. Millions of calories. And enough cheese to make a Wisconsin dairy farmer weep with joy. Hosting...…

Just to let you know link testing was completed here at the hub today - a number of bad links were removed. Virtually free of link rot at the moment (the way I like it). 😎 -joe jenett

You may have seen these “loud working” types. That is someone who is always announcing how hard they are working, how valuable they are and how important they are to the…

I’ve been seeing a few folks around making posts about their laptop stickers, and thought it would be a fun little diversion to post about. I have far too many stickers in my craft…

All Photos and Scans by Muffy Aldrich A few old labels, tags, and catalog scans (from 1961), all courtesy of my parents. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsE

Don Burke is back with a look at an old favorite &#8211; Jamesport, Missouri &#8211; and what&#8217;s new in the community since his last visit. The Jamesport area is home to one of the state&#8217;s…

Push to multiple git remotes with one command I keep my main repo on a self-hosted server and mirror it to GitHub. Two remotes, one command. 1. Add the remotes git remote add aurcade…

Operating in 15 metropolitan areas in the U.S., preparing to expand to another dozen cities, and planning an international expansion &#8230; More

Summary In which our intrepid explorers actually, you know, explore. Day Three I woke up early and went for a walk to watch the sunrise. Banff was quiet - just some folks walking to their jobs - and…

Landlock users in Go, by library Not using Go-Landlock yet? Landlock feature sets in use How to use more Landlock features If you maintain a software library, it is easy now to crawl code…

Four years ago in 2022 a paper appeared in the journal&#160;Science Translational Medicine&#160;entitled&#160;“SARS-CoV-2 S2–targeted vaccination elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies”. It…

There are a lot of terms in the shoe world that get thrown around rather loosely. Oxford, wingtip, brogue, cap toe, balmoral, spectator—the list goes on. And one that has always driven me slightly…

Fucking fall is here. Or so I would&#x2019;ve thought in earlier years. These days I&#x2019;m not so sure. I haw learned to appreciate the seasons for what they are. At least a little more.Our…

In my career, first as a mathematician and then as a math writer, I&#8217;ve read a lot of books that were written by mathematicians &#8220;for the general public.&#8221; And yet I have found very…

I wanna be the genius I thought I was growing up. From preschool until I graduated college, and even during my office days, there was always someone who’d call me a genius . Those interactions…

I'm a former homemaker. I spent about two decades as a full-time homemaker and I think my oldest child was nineteen when I got my first full-time paid job during my divorce. At some point, I read…

Journal The last few days of computer action have been spent on the big blog archive project. I&rsquo;ve been knocking the Art Pete blog into shape, fixing image links and reminding myself what…

The Ana and Din Mysteries, currently three books starting with The Tainted Cup is a fantasy detective series that managed to tell both interesting detective stories and provide an interesting world…

The Frankenstein genesis legend gets a delightfully 80s-horror-film makeover in this semi-obscure classic.

I have been angry about this for days.

We leave eaaarrrlllly tomorrow morning to go see Beatrix at Sarah Lawrence's "Friends and Family" weekend, and I was thinking earlier today about leaning into the identity of someone who goes to New…

Somedays you wake up and your head lifts from the pillow like a brick tied to a noose. A heavy lead ball, disaffected and disjointed, you cradle one hand against the disappointment of your face, and…

One of the struggles I have come to know intimately over a career as a programmer is the tendency to over-engineer solutions. You constantly walk a knife edge trying to write good clean code and also…

After the recent announcements by OpenAI et al., I am often asked whether there is still a future for researchers in academia. I think this is an important question&mdash;but I believe an equally…

Isaac Correa's study of eight months of his own daily work with Claude Code: the model mattered more than the rules he wrote, guards filtered without teaching, and his supervision moved from…

In mountaineering, the idea of climbing 2 or more mountains in one trip, which may often cover multiple days, is nowadays called enchainment. By one trip, I mean in one push. And by that, I mean in…

Supplements advertise boosting your immune system because it's not a medical claim.

Derek Sivers brilliantly explains in under five minutes what it takes to be a leader. Not all TED talks deserve your attention, but this one definitely does. And Derek Sivers himself too. After his…

One of eMudhra&apos;s certificate authority private keys is the number 4.Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and…

I was in Chicago, stopped by Dusty Groove, and found this album in the “new used” crate. With tenor saxophonist Houston Person, the provocative cover art (by Hal Wilson), the Muse label, the sidemen,…

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A practical look at what happens when you push Java Virtual Threads in the wrong direction: how unmounting copies stacks to the heap, triggers OutOfMemoryErrors, pressures the Garbage Collector, and…

Hydrogen remains one of the most exciting applications of clean , renewable energy. Its production has been demonstrated on an industrial scale. Today the price of hydrogen is at an all time low of…

🛠️ The Year is 1999. Meerendal Wine Estate. If you clean out your old desktop folders long enough, you occasionally stumble across absolute gold. The photo above takes me straight back to the winter…

I don't want to read lengthy blog posts that have been spat out by a Large Language Model (LLM), because the author hasn't felt they want to write the words to share their point. I'm not going to…

BICEP &#8211; &#8220;Gas&#8221; ft. Lauren Duffus &#038; SOARR BICEP &#8211; &#8220;Ultra&#8221; ft. Eartheater &#038; Saskia BICEP &#8211; &#8220;Equarium&#8221; ft. Kehina The post BICEP – Gas /…

Jacques Greene &#8220;Two&#8221; ft. SAM-E Patricia &#8211; &#8220;The Ooze&#8221; Cesco, Machinedrum, &#038; Sam Binga &#8211; &#8220;Stainless Meal&#8221; Cesco, Machinedrum, &#038; Sam Binga…

A pair of ordinary little girls create a wicked Old Witch in their imaginations and then banish her to a house on a glass hill, giving her a family for company, until she can prove that she can be…

Next up was the Anchor, a pub that wasn’t on my original list, but I’m pleased now that I took a punt on this lengthy oak-beamed building that is over 300 years old. Situated close to the quayside…

I first heard of Squint back in 2022, when they released their Feel It EP. I'm pretty sure that I got the tip from No Echo on the band... back when I was paying attention to this kind of thing. I…

"Can I go into your heart?" A girl (Arabella Olivia Clark) is targeted by some demon that tries to take over her heart by shapeshifting into her mother (Jessica Chastain). As the family realise what…

Mountains calling

I am happy to see that this year’s World Series will be the Rays versus the Brewers. As one would expect I would sure prefer the Phillies to be in the finals, but they were ass this year and did not…

How cushy did those Boomers have it compared to Gen Z, really? Posted by Ed Folsom, October 20, 2026. (Revised 10/22/26 9:15 a.m., to correct faulty median home sale price numbers for 1985, 1987,…

Ancient author: Sulpicius Serenus, IPan 87 [i.e. Bernand 1972 below] = SB I 4282 = PH219404 (122/123 CE; link). Comments: That categorizing and characterizing populations in negative terms was not…