The retailing business is growing slightly more quickly, up 18 sites to a total of 110. Part of this is we pushed a fundraiser with one of our fundraising partners, and part of this is…

This is a transcript of Lex Fridman Podcast #496 with FFmpeg & VLC. The timestamps in the transcript are clickable links that take you directly to that point in the main video. Please note that…

I got to really put my recently-practised and newly-learned system administrator skills to the test again, mere months after my my last update about migrating the server that hosts my websites. Why’s…

This is the seventh chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you! Starting…

Through time, we have glorified conquerors and empire builders in politics, civic life and business, from Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan to the tech titans of today. That is no surprise, since…

Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublicaI’m honored to share that I am officially a Pulitzer Prize winner.Our series on unscrupulous towing…

An event of two halves. I was only there for the first as it's been a long few days and I needed some downtime afterwards. Some notes on the first half.IntroDave West, CEO of Scrum.org, on What…

Turis longa tele sub mari multi per Jul Bern |Jules Verne| (abrebi tele) (This translation is a work in progress. I will occasionally post a new chapter as I finish one. ) biblo 1 1 The year 1866 was…

Here is what we got as new Jetpack artifacts this week!

Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti: Tools created through AIs hurt my brain, I decided, because they’re often devoid of three fundamental qualities of good tools: reach, sociality, and finish. In a way, thanks…

Simon Willison on the nuances of vibe coding vs agentic engineering. simonwillison.net #

For some reason I want to get a bicycle now. It's been a while since I last used one consistently but I figure it would be fun to get some physical activities going on outside!

Since the project began, taskman has run in S-mode — the RISC-V supervisor mode, shared with the kernel. It was kerlinked into the kernel address space at boot, called kernel functions by name, and…

Some scattered thoughts after a visit to the Resistance Museum and Anne Frank's House in Amsterdam

Checklist that I followed while moving from US to India

The tenth novel by the Tasmania based author, and previous winner of the Miles Franklin literary award, was published last week: James Mather is a psychiatrist in his sixties. He is invited to take…

(writing this instead of studying! >. I have always said and will continue to say that Koreans are the truest, most biblically accurate looksmaxxers. I used to think it was mainly a K-pop thing,…

Hi, I’m Lena, and I’ve been off of instagram for 462+ days now. This could be a thing you know? And if you think I’m poking fun at it, I really am not. After ‘quitting’…

If you have been on invent.kde.org lately you might have seen some merge requests about “Install Qt metatypes” and wondered what that’s all about. When defining QML types in C++ the buildsytem tries…

In my opinion wondering round charity shops searching for books is one of the best ways to spend time. The weekend just gone I picked a copy of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, Next to Nature by Ronald…

Despite a later start, today’s run was cooler–a mere 14C, which is practically seasonal. It was also cloudy, so no need for sunblock. I was pleasantly surprised when I got to the lake,…

① Someone felt contemplative… I was looking for a review of Argent Linux and I noticed this ad hoc philosophy at the end of a review of it in DistroWatch […]

AI is reshaping what technical leaders are for. Six patterns of response — buyer, vibe builder, depth-seeker, evangelist, governor, abstainer — each delegating the thinking somewhere different. The…

Photo by Oleg Solodkov on Unsplash I wrote Release Manager because I needed something to build, sign, notarise, package, and ship every Jorvik app from one window. I wrote it in Swift because Swift…

This is an interesting article. The author argues that AI alignment should not be understood as “making AI maximize human preferences.” The mainstream approach to current AI alignment…

Reading Time: 2 minuteson the first of May. I am always grateful to have been born on Labor Day, and grateful for a life I live contingent on so many hands who have built for me, as distant as the…

Utilities Are Good For You Every week, I participate in Winlink Wednesday. I do my check-ins with pat. Once a month, they as for a weather snapshot to go with the check-in. This isn’t…

Life exists in partnership with the world around it.Everything that lives is part of a shared space, air, soil, water, light, other beings. Nothing lives alone. Every living thing gives something and…

I grew up hearing about places various places inside the town's industrial sites. My dad's job is literally going to all those places and checking if their stuff still works. So he knows his way…

For the past two years we, meaning all five of us, have taken a two-week road trip in the summer. Driving around our beautiful country that is Norway 🙂 First year we rented Airbnb’s —…

(Which, incidentally, raises the delirious spectre of the converse of a p-zombie: a being that shows all the properties of being aware, except awareness—wait. No. Strike that. Reverse it.)

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The Lost Americana Tour came through Auckland, but all I really wanted to hear was Tickets To My Downfall

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ServiceNow just unleashed a barrage of announcements that set the stage for its goal: doubling revenue to $30 billion in the next four years. In a nutshell, they want to own the management tools,…

Between the motion and the act falls the shadow.

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The weak Yellow Hive got robbed out by another bee colony. Robbing is when another colony comes and steals/eats the honey in a weak hive. I noticed the sign of chewed up wax cappings and did an…

Two musical worlds and two icons meld their respective styles into a unified canvas of artistic subtlety and beauty. Source: The Perfect Note over at AllMusic 💿 Stream

Join John Warrillow on Wednesday, May 13, at 12 pm ET, for an exclusive live session on creating a business that can thrive without you. Sign Up Free This week on Built to Sell Radio, Boris Berenberg…

First track test on the calendar. Last week was the sprint to close the gap. Three big ones got done — and one of them was an actual drag-out fight with the drive inverter. o o o RADIATOR MISTING…

Devorah and I are spending the week in Boston, well techincally Cambridge. We came up last year around this time and had a big StuyCS meet up hosted at Formlabs. I was talking to my friends in the…

I’m overdue an update. Two months on from my last workflow post, much has shifted - some of it from new tools, more from joining an organisation that takes AI seriously. The biggest change:…

I’ve always been a voracious reader. Non-fiction mostly. In fact, I credit a lot of my early professional success to learning to leverage the big ideas I discovered in books written by people a lot…

I've been thinking a lot about feedback, because I've been taking an improv class, and part of taking an improv class is getting a lot of notes on my performance. I expected to hate this because…

One thing I’ve learned building creative and technical teams is that motivation does not come from process alone. It comes from grounded creative freedom. People do their best work when they have…

Heya! So, for the past couple days, it's been basically impossible to escape this hypothetical question: "Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more…

I own four old ThinkPads now. I blame the algorithm. It really doesn’t take much, watch one nerdy video and suddenly your whole feed is people doing cool things with old laptops, and a few…