Author Ross Dunbar kindly sent me a copy of Click Clack Boom , the first in his Blackjack Harrigan Files series. Harrigan is an intelligence officer who specializes in finding unusual people who are…

Gaming Science | It's cool to be a criminal in-game. Violent video games were shown to drive aggression. But is this also true for the crime rate? Today's study analyses a dataset of 50+ million…

Palantir has access to the personal information and news-reading behavior of—if USA Today Co.'s own reports are true—158 million average unique monthly visitors, or 48% of the American people.

In a short period of time, I’ve rebuilt my Kenner Star Wars collection from its humble new beginnings. Y got me an Ikea Billy bookcase for my birthday, which I used to display most of it now.…

The standard recommendation on time out duration is one minute per year of age, often capping out at 5min. In my experience (n=3, not independent) this is much longer than needed; I typically do…

In one week of late-August 2026, Agent Sandbox, Kueue, and LeaderWorkerSet each shipped a limiter on their own elasticity: a warm pool that refills more slowly, a field that used to be editable and…

I got fired, chat. How cooked are we? 😱 It's never a good time to lose a job - but to lose a job in this economy? No thanks! So... What happened? Background About 4 and a half years ago, I joined…

I set a 5 a.m. alarm for years and kept snoozing it. On swapping inputs without quitting the goal, and letting go of who you used to be. The post Make It Easy to Win appeared first on Christopher…

Five data channels, no HTTP for app data: using WebRTC as an app transport between iPhone and Mac. The community framework whose macOS slice ships one header, the WebSocket storm, ICE restart vs…

I recently read a great post from Matt Haughey about his time spent working in a bike shop as a teenager and it got me a little nostalgic about my own teenage “bike shop” experience and…

A Chinese AI lab shipped a model that got so good at hacking, mid-training, that they decided to hold the open weights back and spend two more weeks hardening it before they let you download it. The…

Bulova Lunar Pilot Blue & White, and Super Seville Precisionist Introduction There are many factors I consider when looking at watches, here are a few of them: Is it funky or strange looking, but…

[1967] A scuzzy fuzz monster with a neanderthal beat sweetened by the use of some very cool bells! The fuzz and bells in this snarly stomper are an unusual but excellent combo!

Digital tools make it easy to capture and store information before we have really processed it. But once the device has it, the mind may quietly let it go. As soon as we come across an interesting…

First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit . You can't polish a turd Omarchy 4.0 shipped with a collection of security issues which I can only…

Roundhouse now has four applications in flight. Status for each is here . Each one is there to test something different. Blog is the conformance oracle — small enough to support completely, and the…

last week i played man i just wanna go home . that wonderful experience, combined with the fact my pc died (although its back working again yay), made me finally pick up renpy and start tooling…

This is the second post in a series, so I encourage you to go back to read the previous post about Building Healthy and Sustainable Projects Using CHAOSS Practitioner Guides if you haven’t already…

Matthew 5:4 reads: Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. [Matthew 5:4, NASB 1995]μακάριοι οἱ πενθοῦντες, ὅτι αὐτοὶ παρακληθήσονται.[NA 28]...

I had a really… interesting search on this site, with the Jekyll rewrite. It worked, I guess, but I never found it enjoyable to use, and it actually was a lot heavier than it should have been. It was…

Discover how Expeditione turns curiosity, questions, and classroom exploration into student-led learning adventures.

​In a podcast appearance on the Cleared Hot Podcast to promote his own paranormal podcasts, Jack Osbourne claimed that a friend had told him the Donald Trump alleged that UFOs are in the ocean:…

Last Friday I found myself standing at my computer and staring at it, realising that I have no idea what I should be working on with my precious free time. So I decided to make this unordered list as…

On Linux, Citrix Workspace (wfica; icaclient 26.04.0.105) crashes, printing the following error message to console: *** WFICA CRASH: SIGFPE (Floating point exception) *** Crash log saved to:…

PTown's Hammock on the 26th & FR MoCA on the 5th

For presenting number-y things, I think internal consistency of numbers is probably the biggest self-own mistake you could commit.

Two problems survived every prompt patch, so I threw the pipeline away

A 1972 paper that predicted the iPad (or, rather, it's spiritual opposite) but is actually way more important than that.…

Reflecting on 48 years of marriage, the friends and family who've faded away, and why a good adventure needs an uncertain outcome.

Open standards and specs are often more powerful than open source. Especially in the age of AI. Open source has been a dominant force in software development and operations. It’s enabled the…

I don’t often get my nails done professionally. It’s not really part of my usual routine - between skincare and hair care, nails have always been the thing I quietly skip over. But recently, I had an…

Mood: Average Today was a pretty boring day at home. I expected something to happen in the morning, but nothing did and it was still fine. I just continued with work. I mostly just played Project…

Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 tied on strict functional score across 25 matched Stet tasks, but their paired artifacts differed: Opus 4.8 had the lower footprint on 20 tasks, while Opus 5 ran more shell…

Covering a tune by Norman Blake.

A Fabric-powered Pi session won all 25 ARC-AGI-3 environments in one run. This post explains the setup and the parts of Fabric that carried it.

How to make life feel long and rich

I love running fanlistings. I love going into Photoshop and making a layout, I love tweaking colors to fit a new theme, it's all very fun. The not-so-fun part comes with people not bothering to link…

Rarely have I found a main character both so appealing and so annoying. Yet Sybil Van Antwerp, in Virginia Evan’s novel The Correspondent, is just that. Sybil’s cantankerous,…

Armitage was Nairobi born and raised, but then trained in traditional London and now paints images that reflect these very different environments. Socio-political and identity issues are prominent,…

Critics have long puzzled about Currin’s paintings, and a London show continues the trend. Painted with great finesse, these images of women are drawn from 1970’s clothing catalogues and display a…

A year ago I wrote the blog post Why I'm Bearish on U.S. Stocks (for the Second Time Since 2017). Since then U.S. stocks are up 16% (total return) and my bearish prediction turned out to be…

Repository fragmentation turns shared work into internal transactions. Pricing those transactions reveals opportunities to move faster, release capacity and simplify control.

I've released a new library opengl_extrusions which is a Numpy and Cython library that does 3D extrusions (like the GLE library) and tessellations (one of the things the GLU library does). The…

It has been a busy weekend. I completed four different projects all to do with entertainment. It started with me rummaging around in my electronics bin and bumping into the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 WH on…

While we wait to see whether MiniMax releases its reported 2.7-trillion-parameter successor, known internally as MiniMax M3 Pro and potentially arriving as early as the third quarter, I decided to…

Our job is to follow after God as we see Him leading, not to charge out in front and hope He will follow us.

What’s Going On It’s been a minute. I took a step away from my blog for a while because my brain latched itself to something else and I followed it for a bit. But I still like this blog and want to…

Mead doesn't have to be sweet. It often is, but it doesn't have to be. During fermentation, yeast consume the sugars and turn them into alcohol, so you can finish with a bone dry beverage. But,…

My wife and I spent the weekend in and around Charlevoix. Here are a few snaps from the trip. City Park Grill Chair on condo deck overlooking the harbor "Imperfect Rack" (because we're 12) Dinner at…