No business is too small to attract cybercriminals. In fact, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are often more appealing targets for ransomware than large, established enterprises. Limited…

Un petit billet de prof, pour changer... Je voudrais ici saluer ces élèves qui à tord, sont mal considérés. Ce matin, j'étais jury pour l'épreuve du CFG blanc, le certificat de formation générale qui…

Ars Technica reports that an article touting the effectiveness of ChatGPT in education has been retracted by the original publisher due to questionable methodology. That analysis supposedly showed…

During the 2018 Centennial of World War I, Donald Trump was scheduled to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France. The relentless rain made helicopter travel to the Cemetery impossible, but…

This post introduces a project that Gabriel Desfrene did in my group as an intern last summer. Gabriel will present his project in a paper coauthored with my PhD students Quentin Corradi and Michalis…

Aquinas’s account of location for material substance is as follows. Ordinary material substances have a special accident—one more fundamental than all other matter-related accidents—he calls…

“This year’s Earth Day in Ashland, Oregon, where I live, featured an interfaith service at the local Unitarian church, and I wasn’t too surprised to get a call inviting me to be one of the…

It took me ten years to write this. After more than 60,000 photographs with the Fujifilm XF35mm f2, this became less of a lens review and more of a reflection on reliability, everyday carry…

Deep into tinkering with gaming on Linux using Bazzite 44. The problem I’m wrestling with is that fullscreen games are guessing a different resolution than they should. my screen is…

The fear of AI replacing your work is real. So is the shift. The teams that build structure around agents instead of resisting or rushing find the job gets better, not smaller.

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The other day, I saw a house for sale with the usual realtor’s name, company, and usual other info, and then a dedicated URL for its address. For example, 123SohoAvenue.com. First of all, this was…

Shipyrd started as a Kamal-first tool. You'd add the shipyrd-gem hook to your deploy.yml, and Kamal would ping Shipyrd at the start and end of each deploy.At the end of the day, though, Shipyrd…

By: Cody Bechberger/ HelloYesToast I’ve been away for a little bit. Got myself wrapped up in a lot of things and felt like I wasn’t giving my family the attention they needed (still don’t, but that’s…

Recently a saw an article come across my feed that Notepad++ was now available on MacOS. Turns out that was partially true. TL;DR; Trademarks are incredibly important to the success of open source…

I'm so overwhelmed. Between relationships, graduation, shifts, and my own self care, it's all getting to me. I'm not able to be independent at home, I keep messing up with my partner, I still a bunch…

Today's Write Now interview features Ela Thier, author of HOW TO FAIL AS AN ARTIST.

My Master of Science degree was something done to be able to teach continuing education credits for nurses. What I discovered in the years since then is that there are […] The post Western…

God damn I love hot cross buns

I know it sounds insensitive to say we choose our lives before we live them, because some of us live very hard lives, but that’s what I believe. I believe we specifically choose our family, the…

I had a fun trip to Goa over this past long weekend for Labour Day. It was a short and fun trip with soham, sid, priyansh and myself. I missed hanging out with my lads, kinda reminded me of hostel…

I've been working on a letter to send to some friends, aesthetic PenPal style. They don't know it's happening. Beyond that, Fletcher and I have been trying to put together our I-130 package. We…

In this article: How to Choose Who to Measure: Types of Sampling Sample Size: The Math Behind the Estimation Let’s Calculate It in R and Python From Estimation to A/B Testing Sampling Error vs…

A few years ago, I developed a regulated power supply with three outputs: +5V, +12V, and -12V, primarily intended to replace the one found in the Prophet VS. The characteristic of this power supply…

Screenshot from The Gamer American media seems to love complex heroes, especially morally gray ones. The characters who will break the rules, but do so in pursuit of a goal that the viewer/reader…

Coaching can involve asking a lot of questions — I’ve mentioned several examples already in “A few things about coaching” (where I was surprised by how much people appreciated some wide-open…

This post has been brought over from my Medium page, where it existed first. From April 2026 onward, all of my writing will be published here first and syndicated elsewhere. My altar is in a box in…

Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! As I’m sure most of us have been anticipating eagerly for some time, ROCOR is moving ahead with the canonization of Fr. Seraphim Rose and his formal…

Continuing on with my haiku series around “Songs of The Eight Postures” attributed to T’an Meng-hsien and translated by Lee N. Scheele here is my second entry, Lu. Lu is often associated with the…

There is a scene in Jaws where the shark finally shows itself, and Brody famously says, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” He was wrong. They didn’t need a bigger boat. They…

Using a sheet of polystyrene and a concept from a science fiction novel's front covers art the authors builds a fabulous space ship. As building a spaceship with styrene is on my bucket list this…

I have a new book out, Don’t Get Hacked! Protecting Yourself at Home. It’s released under a Creative Commons license, so it’s freely sharable and redistributable. I’m working…

In John Owen's classic work The Mortification of Sin, he states that, "The choicest believers, who are assuredly free from the condemning power of sin, should also make it their business…

Jark Scarpo Stamina 9 Breather Mask Ox-Tank Eggshell Armor, Protection 3 (1-in-6 chance of breaking) SMG, Lethality 5 1d6+1 bursts Claymore Shield, Protection 1/Lethality 6 Shoot 3 Brain 2 Jark is 89…

Why lithium investors keep getting psychologically destroyed at both the top and the bottom of the cycle For those newer to the lithium space, the past few years probably looked completely insane.…

Thank you to the wonderful individuals I work with daily at Coalition Technologies and Our Big Family Farm! Working alongside smart, hardworking people makes getting things done a joy. The post Thank…

Supabase: Industrial vision cameras SDKs: Solarwinds: Spectrum and/or Optimum: Wifi boosters/extenders: The lack of an e-stop on a $10k robot: Raspberry Pi scalpers on eBay: (this list may grow in…

My boss formally gave me what's called a PIP (Performance Improvement Plan). Two weeks ago, I walked into our regularly scheduled meeting, only to find not just my boss, but HR as well. They handed…

Yesterday I received an email from the Thunderbird team inviting me to join a preview of their new hosted email service, Thunderbird Pro. I love email, so was very keep to sign up and test it out.…

Building a TDW-inspired environment can feel like an overwhelming affair. I can say this because I’ve seen it happen. And because I experience the same thing myself. In fact, I sometimes think…

I have an EV Switch AC7000 EV charger installed at home and it’s integrated into Home Assistant via the OCPP integration. It’s kind of annoying if you want to update the firmware - as the only real…

Anthropic shipped managed memory stores in April. They sit at the third of four layers. The fourth, hooks, is the one that closes the Lucy loop.

Famished! You look positively famished! Sit down right now, it’s soup time. Cream of Bisque. No that’s not just a fancy name for “I put all my leftover soups in the same bowl,” why do you ask?…

Last week marked a major milestone in small-molecule drug discovery with the first FDA approval of a proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC). After a modest but successful phase 3 clinical trial…

They can't stop the signal: Manyverse, Nostr, Delta Chat & Mitra

Podcasts intend to inform, inspire, educate - but most skip one essential element.

Ranting against the aviation bores you’ve had to endure for so many years Two leading military historians (Al Murray and James Holland), a former Sea Harrier pilot (Paul Tremelling), a former…

Coined in 1740, ‘Britannia! rule the waves’ was a dawn-of-Empire exhortation to assert British naval power worldwide. Today, the Law Commission exhorts Britannia (or England and Wales, to be exact)…