Hey there Here’s a few things I found noteworthy in the past few weeks. Code output never was the problem Andrew Murphy put into words what many, especially in bigger engineering teams I…

Space activity started as a government effort. It was driven by competition, mainly between the USSR and the USA.Key early milestones:1957 – first satellite, first signal from space1957…

Last month, I went up to Dublin for an evening symposium on The Idea of a University . It was interesting and informative; but 'ard work trying to take notes like a student. I was relieved to get…

I have left Twitter a while ago now because it became a huge sh*tshow and it looks like a lot are currently doing the same.I built myself a little browser script to delete my public data from Twitter…

Michael Tsai posts another excellent roundup and in the midst of it, nails down what Apple got wrong about the Touch Bar: There’s this amazing, programmable screen, but there wasn’t really any way to…

Farmer here. We would not need market interventions if we simply had high tariffs on food. Farmers produce a commodity product that has to compete on price with food grown in countries with zero…

Notes for reference regarding C13 connectors to NEMA 5-15P inlet on power cords.

I'm using QTableView to show some data, which works well. But I would like to be able to sort the data by different columns. How can I do this without sorting the data manually?

I've been busy... Spanish hogfish (in front), followed closely by a Trumpetfish. Why? ...not just with work, but with another dive vacation. And the vacation causes me to be curious about all kinds…

When you spend enough time wandering the coastal paths and winding country lanes of Pembrokeshire, you quickly realise that this...

I was leafing through the latest issue of Fortean Times when I came across an intriguing essay by Steven Toase. The author notes the marmalade sandwiches left for Queen Elizabeth II alongside floral…

And just like that, Manchester has yet another new pub, which was good enough reason on a blank Sunday for me to have a wander over there to check it out. Here's what I found when I called there and…

The rise of the Tamizhaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), a political party set up by actor Joseph Vijay in Tamil Nadu, implies the slow uprooting of Dravidianism in the state. With a 35 percent vote share,…

Drain Bamage is back! We’ve been on hiatus for a few years, but on May 16th we’re organizing a party again. Hard and/or fun, as usual. This time you need to sign up to get in, so…

🔍 I Didn’t Plan to Switch I didn’t set out to replace Google. It just sort of happened. I was already using Ecosia out of habit, and then Perplexity started creeping into more and more of my everyday…

Today, I turn 30 🎉In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Praise be to the Almighty, Lord of the worldsToday marks exactly three decades since I took my first breath in Ijebu-Ode. I was…

Here are three recent TTAB decisions in Section 2(d) appeals. Remembering that a TTAB Judge (now retired) once said that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time just by…

(Also shown: Iniu 20AH power bank, KWS-1902C USB-C power meter)  I received my KXUSBC2 in the mail today and wasted no time installing it into my KX2.No soldering or de-soldering was…

i mostly grew up thinking that chronic anxiety was something that happened to other people. I was pretty shy with strangers and garbage at public speaking for most of my childhood, but a persistent…

Creative Field Recording A quick look at iZotope RX 12 for sound effects editing and mastering - what's new, what's changed, and whether it's worth upgrading The article is originally from Quick…

Another anthropogenic global warming (AGW) modeling failure emerges in observed tropical cyclone data. According to climate modeling (Knutson et al., 2015 and 2020), everyday human activities such as…

For decades, the German tax advisory market was not simply fragmented. It was deliberately engineered to remain so. More than 100,000 licensed tax advisors operating across roughly 55,000 firms…

A continuously evolving list of observations from San Francisco.

We’re sending healing thoughts to our buddy DJ Ship Rex who is recovering from hip surgery. Rex’s latest gig was at Zombie Village last week, so a few of us went up to San Francisco on a…

Ayam kecap is a popular Indonesian chicken dish made with kecap manis — a sweet dark soy sauce — and a unique blend of spices including fresh ginger, garlic, shallots, makrut lime leaf, galangal,…

Twenty Years Ago on FITK Every school had one. A place for that last butt before classes. The space between the garages was popular for those who were “sneak” smokers. The alleys were tolerated by…

I was talking with a colleague the other day about the current industry trend to focus so much on further quantizing today's LLM models. I'm sure the reasons for pursuing quantization are apparent to…

KISS FM (1982-1984) was one of several offshoots of the large Dublin pirate radio Nova. In this recording, Nova founder and boss Chris Cary is on air using the name Harry Cary. He is followed by…

The following is a guest post submitted by Matt Larson. The post explains how Matt Larson set up an automated atmospheric wind-sensing station using only locally obtained ADS-B data from an RTL-SDR.…

I have talked about Vibe coding in a lot of my posts about AI and I just realized that some of the readers of my Blog Posts might not actually know what it means. ACM (Association for Computing…

[I've backed Twilight Sword by Two Little Mice last year and just recently the beta PDF of the core rulebook was released. According to the rulebook, Twilight Sword is inspired by a number of classic…

How I use AI as a sounding board for home organization, while keeping every decision mine. I work in internal developer relations at Google, which means I spend most of my time thinking about how…

Omg I cannot believe this, we have reached 20,000 visits on this blog! I never would have thought that we would get to this milestone by just 1 year later, thanks so much for reading and visiting my…

In this week’s Mid-Week Mini Episode, we learn that mushrooms are more similar to people than they are plants. You probably learned in school that there are two main categories […] The…

Just to revive it a little bit.

AbstractThis essay addresses three connected questions. First, can genius be separated from moral character? Second, does Martin Heidegger's moral failure stand outside his philosophy, or reveal…

If humans and advanced AI systems are going to cooperate—to make honest deals and avoid negative-sum conflict—AIs will need reasons to trust us. By default, they won't have many: humans routinely lie…

Spotted on Ossington a poster for Sometimes Well, Sometimes Poorly by Dani Dazo and Nadom Paintsil .

Rarely a week goes by without a phone call from a passionate regional community member asking me asking for support to get a grant over the line. I get it, money feels like the answer. It’s…

Please join us on Saturday, May 16 for an afternoon of music for piano trio (violin-cello-piano), a favorite genre for many of us. We’ll hear two great piano trios by Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn,…

The handful of local.conf knobs that make Yocto builds usable, and the failure modes each one buys you in return.

2026 is the age of the software factory. Dark factories where agents run the line at 3am with no humans in the building. Light factories where humans and agents work side by side at the bench. Every…

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I’ve spent years writing Python for DevOps tooling and Go for services. Python is a joy to write but painfully slow for anything compute-heavy. Go is fast but verbose — error handling alone…

What a clear little pen helped me realize about minimalism and opulence

My perspective on how to build a website on the shifting grounds of the Web.

As you know, this month I am taking part in a World Record attempt, as part of Conquer Cancer Australia.

Cookies and sessions are both ways to persist data across HTTP requests, but they work differently:

My easy peach cake recipe is the ultimate throw together dessert that looks super fancy but is a super low lift. A tender butter cake is topped with either fresh or canned peaches (both work…