A library of ASCII art, but animated! You can browse a ton of scenes and data built with ASCII characters of your choice and even generate your own.

$942,068.68.I know that number to the cent because somebody made sure that I did, and twenty years later I still can't round it off in my head.I was in my twenties at DTCC, the company that…

As previously mentioned ( here ), in 2023 I read a history of how our modern world work arose, as it appeared to the author (Stolzoff, 2023): This brings us to 1500, where "the new profession of the…

A human with calipers and an agent with a CAD script put four printable parts online in eight days. Every mistake between them was a stand-in that crossed the gap in place of the real thing.

Above you see two sketches of a shipping box. I doodled it because I’d just received a new sketchbook in the mail, it was one of the options for a...

Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA) has just released the twelfth edition of the Instrument Rating Oral Exam Guide by Jason Blair. Content is aligned with the Airman Certification Standards (ACS)…

The con artists at ASH are at it again. The state-funded prohibitionist pressure group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has published a report claiming that “the UK’s illicit tobacco market is now…

I’ve been testing Grok Bot and Instinct for a while. As I was recently in the US for a couple of weeks, I included Dots and Muse in the test. This morning I added Wabi. These are my first…

Many websites have started running some sort of “human-verification” script before showing the content. I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes (these seem to be much…

Given that I typically take a wait-and-see attitude when Apple introduces a new product, I was surprised to find myself ordering a HomeView within a day of its announcement. I was even more surprised…

Cooke has announced the S4 FF/i series, a set of six full-frame prime lenses that brings the S4 name back in a new format. The set covers 18mm to 100mm at a constant T2.0, in PL or LPL mount, and is…

I Don’t Fly 5inch Anymore: Why I’m Downsizing My FPV Drones, What I Recommend Looking back at the last few years, I’ve noticed something interesting: I’m barely flying 5-inch…

I don't know if you've seen this, but a CA just got popped. Their keys got leaked, which means the industry as a whole now has some pretty major problems. It was revealed two hours…

"The promotion [of AI] is important, otherwise from both a research perspective and a preparing our students for the future [perspective,] we will fall behind." This assertion, which I will leave…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** Image by Tumisu from <a…

A document app adds trash and restore. Each requirement looks fine, but together they conflict, and a check written for the old version catches it. A minimal example of formal methods for evolving…

Just realized that I've never previously blogged this absolutely classic performance. As one commenter said "Imagine playing Led Zeppelin FOR Led Zeppelin, and getting a standing ovation from Led…

Only four episodes. The first two feel like a return to form, with interesting gimmicks and twists on the formula. I love the surreal confrontations between Columbo and Brady in “Murder, Smoke and…

The U.S. consolidated press once again demonstrates its dedication to lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism.

I recently learned of Ubuntu Workshops. In short, Workshops allow you to create an isolated development environment to safely work with AI agents. You get a configured (via YAML) sandbox where you…

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]The idea is simple: If there’s a fire in a tall building that blocks the main stairwell, people need an alternative way to…

Work is coming along very fast now on my multi-journal app for Mac.

How a Fourier neural operator turns an input into a prediction, step by step, with two small trained models running in your browser.

The advent of large language models has changed the economics of closing gaps in software stacks.

When my intention of ravioli dinner with ribs, balls, and sausage was discovered, one local cousin is coming into town and his wife is cutting girl's weekend short, and their adult son would like to…

As a fair warning, this will contain spoilers on the Street Fighter movie as I will discuss elements of the film I enjoy. I am a massive Street Fighter 2 fan. The game came out when I was 7 but it…

Deep in the dense chaparral of California&#8217;s foothills, a bizarre predator stalks its prey. Without warning, its jointed legs extend upward like a telescoping tripod, elevating its body far…

My observation of air travel is that if there is one significant impact on a flight, there are guaranteed two additional impacts. An example: if my gate changes at the last moment, it is quite likely…

Every relative that Gabe Kotter told a story about on Welcome Back, Kotter

I perpetually struggle with deciding whether I want to make a big change in a small part of the world, or a small impact that is broader. Part of the reason I have such a diverse range of roles&#8230;

I launched Just Movie this week, where I judge cinema as either It&#8217;s Film or Just Movie. Basically, I&#8217;ve extended this blog with a custom made WordPress plugin that Claude and I wrote,…

Original airdate: October 18, 2026 The premise: After some rowdy Halloween night partying, Homer and some others accidentally hit someone with their car driving home and dispose of the body. The…

Art by Chakkree Chantakad from Pixabay. Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This may surprise you, but... The post TRANS ALLEGORIES IN POPULAR MUSIC, PART 1 first appeared on Tilly's Trans Tuesdays.

The Circleville Pumpkin Show, Lantern Festivals, Markets and more! Welcome back, festival fans. It&#8217;s a weekend of biggest Pumpkin Festival that Ohio has to offer! Festivals continue to go down…

Indonesian&#8217;s Bunaken National Marine Park is a world-class scuba diving destination known for its dramatic vertical drop-off walls, crystal-clear water, and abundant, diverse marine life.…

After about a year of using CTactical bags, I started feeling as if something was &ldquo;off.&rdquo; Could be comfort, could be lack of organization, or could be something else. Sometimes, it&rsquo;s…

© Howard Gardner 2026As part of a celebration of D-Day, the teacher of one of my grandchildren mentioned World War II. As an after-thought, the teacher added that World War II had been caused by…

I often find myself in a situation where I need to flatten a directory structure. I kept reusing variants of this script to flatten a&#8230;

I already mentioned the Calibre application in a previous post but this time I set it up properly in order to to store and manage all the books that I bought on Humble Bundle and the Kobo store . To…

Taken On October 19, 2026 Camera Sony α7II Lens SIGMA 150-600 ƒ/5-6.3 DG DN OS Sport Focal Length 366.2mm Aperture ƒ/6.3 Exposure Time 1/400s ISO 125

On Thursday night I attended a small gig in an upstairs room at the Old Nun’s Head in Nunhead. It was a Green Party fundraiser and also the kind of gig that appeals to me anyway.

Back in 2015 Henry Moss, an architect I knew in the Boston area, was helping to restore the Gropius House. This was a slide he had sent me. He had trouble restoring the recessed pinspot that Gropius…

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I have always been a board game fan. But unlike most, I prefer games that offer interesting, unusual, and clever features, qualities, designs, and what Board Game Geek calls &#8216;mechanics&#8217;.…

"Treebeard" by Tomás Hijo'Hoom, hm, I have not troubled about the Great Wars,' said Treebeard; 'they mostly concern Elves and Men. That is the business of Wizards: Wizards are always troubled about…

I run several Claude sessions at the same time in herdr , usually one per repository, and some of them run on another machine. herdr already knows the state of each one (idle, working, blocked or…

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2026 · A puppy app for two tired people. Tap a button on one phone and it shows up on the other in about ten seconds.