Today's Record High is a website I created that tracks the record highs and lows for major weather stations and cities across the United States.

I learned to program through online documentation and projects. I also read books but I don’t consider them pivotal to my programming or software engineering career. Some of the books I read…

Six months later, I can answer now this little bugger question.

Two-year anniversary, new features, bug fixes, and initial ptrace support!

It's hard to get a good butterfly photo in the afternoon when they are frenetic, but this checkerspot was nice enough to pose for a few seconds. #dailyphoto #oregon #insectphotography

Number of movies watched: 27 Favorite/most memorable movie: Disclosure Day (2026) Think I'm finally done collecting tarot decks for a while, as I was able to procure all the out-of-print companion…

Word on the street is that the cost of building software is going to zero. Zero? Sounds like a good deal! Over the last year, my co-founder and I have iteratively automated our coding loops. Each…

Meet Lawrence Lawrence C. Harris is a speaker, author, and advocate who helps teens and young adults navigate trauma, mental health, and personal growth. Through his writing and speaking, he…

temperature lowered in my cave, so new comic page!!!!! ദ്ദി◝ ⩊ ◜. .

This weekend I saw Andy Warhol’s Shadows at Dia Beacon. Shadows is “a single painting in multiple parts,” and is designed to be installed to fill the available space. Dia’s space, as you can see, is…

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux…

South and westerly from the mainland, the Agglehorn Sea stretches into the horizon, beyond which lie the legendary nineteen other sides: The Icosahedra. Of note: the Isle of Lewis, home to Lewis, the…

I wanted a small Windows app that lives in the tray instead of the taskbar, and minimizes/closes to the tray. This can be useful for building small service apps, while having a UI you can…

I've written this newsletter again and again and again. It's the last day of Pride and nothing feels right. Xenophobia, ultra-violence, the criminalisation of queer people in Africa, we…

According to my many masters

A procedure on how to structure relationships in a game.

I'm working on a project where I'm making optimizations to web fonts to make their file sizes as small as possible, giving the benefits of faster font loading and reduced bandwidth. One method of…

I volunteer with NICA , training coaches and working with the league to put on races. I've also been a coach and a head coach. I've done it for a long time, since before my kids were old enough to…

The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Championship this past month. I said to my youngest brother that this was my new favorite non-Boston championship. The Knicks were…

Riding the Oregon Cascades Volcanic Arc (OCVA) bikepacking route to Bend, Oregon My bike, just before I rolled out About to to roll out, mile zero

"Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened." Romans 1:21Walk through the wings…

A while back, a salesperson from a well-known AI lab came to visit us. Before diving in, he paused — proudly — to show us how the day’s deck had been made: his model had researched our company,…

Another scorching month! For the blog that is. June was kind to this corner of the internet, and not all the traffic was from LLMs hungry for new content to "train" on. Here are the favourite five.…

RTE Player, like most Irish broadcasters, is geo locked to Ireland. When I am abroad I still want to watch it, but I have no interest in routing my entire phone through a VPN to get at it. My banking…

no, because the thing is, we’ve all got apps that block the other apps on our phones haven’t we? and we all live in houses not made for 33 degree weather? so I turned my computer off for…

about a month ago, i went to Ljubljana to talk about friendship in the art industry. It was the most beautiful capital city I’ve ever been to. And also everyone was cool while I was there, I…

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I have been updating my monthly post for May with some microposts from the end of that month and I can see we had a heatwave back then. And here we are coming out of another one. Yesterday (27th)…

Egbert Schroeer has let me know of his GitHub featuring Sidekick Delivered by PolitePaul service

This is a progress report on my new Pando keyboard - a split keyboard that keeps the same key layout as the Pando58, but with a completely redesigned PCB and electronics. Pando prototype keyboard on…

[Speaker 1] Did you know there’s food dyes in marshmallows? And of course, that makes you start looking into the food industry. Why are all these things in our foods? Why are these chemicals…

Less than two weeks until the annual Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Conference. As far as I am concerned this is the most important professional development conference for computer…

IntroductionYou don't need to look far to find claims that folks have been using AI to do the work of dozens of people. I tend to be skeptical of any claim that discusses improvements without…

Mia Harden Christine Elizabeth Cleopatra Lee Doechii Ola Serena Monaleo Nia/Hoochie Gawd Whoever these girls are Zendaya I gotta show that bitch cancer what's for Reply via email or sign my guestbook…

Sometimes I just need to laugh and find little things that bring me joy. This one did it for me today. It's been a long time since I've genuinely laughed.

Back in the day, reporters would record their phone interviews by attaching a suction cup to the back of the earpiece part of the handset. It was attached by wire to a machine that did the recording.…

When I stepped up to the synth a few days ago I had it in my mind that I would continue on my Adventures In Fading, only using an entirely different subsystem. I ‘ve recorded a few Fading patches…

I made a webring for fellow Project Moon fans! Applications are currently open.

In a dreamzone, anything can become more than what it is, so long as some sapient mind nearby attaches unconscious significance to it. Those objects that are more symbolically potent, like a skull...

On my (retired) disability blog, back in 2010, I wrote a post called The tangible world wherein I ruminated on how I felt less and less able to interact physically with the world around me. I noted…

If you're a manager who has testers reporting to you (or if you are a manager who has a manager who etc.), at some point you're going to ask the question: "How do I know they are doing a good job?"…

constexpr has come a long way since its introduction in C++11. Back then, constexpr functions were extremely restricted and could essentially contain only a single return statement. C++14 relaxed…

For the Ford StreetKA 1.6 convertible (first generation), presumably sold anywhere but this one is from the UK. One day you shut the boot and as it clicks home, you realise you’ve just locked…

Learn how Tina combines AddressSanitizer, arena allocation, and logical lifetimes to detect memory safety violations

How I found 5 vulnerabilities and achieved Remote Code Execution in OPNsense after a week of security research (including CVE-2026-57155).

The Lindy Effect is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable thing, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to its current age. The project age is now…

I have so many drafts that I have yet to hit publish on. It's really a shame but I wish to undraft one of them soon. Reply via email or sign my guestbook .