At the moment I am writing this, bad internet bills are being proposed across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. They're using the usual tactics: they claim they're fighting for kids or fighting…

In a past life, I worked on Titanfall and Titanfall 2

Family Movie Night Menus: Recipes & Films for Unforgettable Times Together is a charming guide to turning movie watching into a shared family tradition. Leonard Maltin and Jessie Maltin pair…

One practical way we may be able to help affected coworkers is by using AI tools to look through our own email for LinkedIn recruiter outreach we have received, then sending those recruiters the…

Vor genau elf Monaten haben wir ein Balkonkraftwerk auf’s Dach gelegt und das hat sich binnen kürzester Zeit gerechnet. Die Vorgeschichte dazu: Vor ein paar Jahren haben wir uns eine…

A recent comment, on Retired Martin’s blog, about sitting next to someone on a plane, whose country is at war, reminded me of a polar opposite experience that occurred on our not so recent, cruise to…

Quite a eventful month this time, with some games I finally started to play, and many things to look forward to next month~!

Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month. Think of Dispatch as my monthly mixtape from the internet with no real theme except…

Last Sunday (28), I took a plane with a kitty that isn't mine to her new home in Brasília. Am spending the week here; there isn't a lot to do but it's a good...

Everyone has the same nightmare now, and it is a very boring one. You are at your desk. An email arrives. It is warm and grammatically perfect, which is how you know a machine wrote it, and it…

With not having written nor scheduled much blog posts lately and Nate's Taking a week off on my mind, I believe it's a convenient time to take a month off posting myself. Like him, I have no hard…

Grubdog has a great primer on how accessible personal websites are easier than you think at the Good Internet magazine, with practical suggestions that donʼt require a lot of time to do something…

I recommend this heartbreaking long-form profile of the American writer William Vollmann: https://bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com/p/we-always-leave-things-unfinished Vollmann writes exhaustively…

It's the end of the first half of the year, can you believe it? It feels like just yesterday we were all amazed we had made it to 2025, and now we're half way through 2026! And it's Tuesday, which…

Here’s a complete list of new stories and/or story updates that I published in the month of June, 2026. All my BtVS/Spuffy stories are Sunnydale After Dark Exclusives , with the exception of drabble…

This new version adds option –stats. For more details, take a look at SANS Internet Storm Center diary entry “Evil MSI Background: BASE64 Statistical Analysis“.…

A big casserole of baked pasta, an ooey gooey cheezy topping, and crisp garlicky breadcrumbs. Need I say more? Ok, I will! Because I really can’t shut up about vegan baked ziti. I grew up on…

A song about Los Angeles, the land of broken dreams.

Yancey Strickler describes the process of getting the Artist Corporation through the Colorado legislature, and gives more information concerning why the A-Corp is important to artists. I hope…

“Thank god this app rocks and I can live through the chompers.” (a chomper, in the chat, on a night they could not make the show) Two months ago I wrote up Goose Spring ‘26. The through-line of that…

For over a year, I've been using Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)" -- and the multitude of side-projects that have branched out from reading it -- as something…

if you're true to yourself, it's actually impossible to hate on someone. you're probably just jealous.

David Bessis’s “The fall of the theorem economy” is ostensibly about LLMs and the pursuit of pure math, and I found it fascinating in its own right, even while I’m not qualified to evaluate a number…

I'm baaaaack!

My usual morning routine involves a blended fruit, yogurt, and nut smoothie. That said, when researching Dallas recipes from 50 years ago (which led to these pork chops), I came... Source

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:RFID_Wrist_Tag_on_Alpine_Loop_Watch_Band.jpg}}|thumb|The RFID tag on my wrist]] A short while ago, I bought [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD3R9W81 a set of Apple…

In current market of tech, R&D is dead because there is no need for research and people want all the solutions yesterday.

An earlier version of this article appeared June 19, 2023 Toward the end of summer, have you ever felt that you wished you’d done more with those months? Life feels richer and more memorable when…

Assessing how my year went so far.

For the past month I have been reading about multi-tenant SaaS architecture. Not as an academic exercise. I kept running into the same questions on every project I looked at: where exactly does…

The second half of our time in Cambodia! We visited Siem Reap and the temples of the Angkor complex.

Modern Machine Learning models are trained with a large number of parameters, often too large, and this overparameterization is very useful during training as it creates a vast search space for the…

We hear a lot about NEET’s (those not in Education, Employment or Training); they are a major source of concern and form the focus of the recent Milburn Review. His recent, if interim report, has dug…

I recently joined WGN Radio’s Legal Face-Off to discuss futures prediction markets. My segment begins at 17:15. You can listen…

Up until the early 2000s, even though Americans were less obese compared to today, it was implicitly understood that fitness/health-minded people occupied a sort of celebrity status or were different…

Reverse-engineering Photon's Spectrum iMessage extension and ChatKit's private plugin-payload APIs to send iMessage mini-app messages from a Mac.

Sometimes I feel that everything can be collapsed back to What Is, discarding all the socially constructed abstract bullshit, and a less wrong, less distorted observation can be made for a few…

Pas mal de choses se sont produites ces derniers mois, dont notre déménagement. Après avoir vécu près de 26 ans dans notre tout petit appartement parisien, ce n’est pas rien pour nous. Nous ne…

i am bowled over by this

i documented the stapling and binding of my new project!

ChoiceScript release and WIP update digest for Feb-June 2025

Here’s a problem that sounds simple but isn’t. You own a 40-person company. One of your salespeople, Dana, needs to fly from Chicago to Austin next month to close a deal. You’d like…

Google just announced the launch of some new image and video models: Nano Banana 2 Lite (the fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model yet) and Gemini Omni Flash for high-quality video and…

Machine identities now outnumber human identities in the enterprise 109 to 1. That was one in a long list of surprising things I recently learned. Here we look at machine IDs, the secret zero…

A deadline appears from somewhere above. The scope is already fixed. The complexity is underestimated. The team is told that it is “empowered”, which somehow means that it is now…

> Reply to KnoppixKnoppix nostalgiaOh man, fond memories. I remember being very interested in programming in middle/high school, but all the environments in our school computer lab had windows (this…

Excerpt from a conversation while the TV was on, the news talking about heat waves in Europe and Paraguay's president declaring a national holiday after winning a soccer game: "Next cup is going to…

Today’s report review took me a strange direction. What started as a simple report review ended up becoming a full working paper, but more on that shortly. This post is in two parts: In the US…

Museums and Video Games. Collection, Interaction, and Playable Heritage Edited by Matteo Bittanti and Elisabetta ModenaIn 2011, artist and game designer Pippin Barr created The Artist Is…