Bookmarks with Raindrop MCP
Using the Raindrop.io MCP with Claude to organize and retrieve large collections of bookmarks.
Using lace transfers to form horizontal waves
IN PROGRESS I rarely hand-knit, but still browse patterns that seem challenging and visually interesting to me, i.e., brioche designs, fox paws, and lately, my eye was caught by this again, a piece…
100 Million Reasons In Support Of Capitalism
“But if your carrying pictures of Chairman Mao/ You ain’t going to make it with me anyhow. – John Lennon Socialism is trending. People (especially the younger generation) are…
The Honest Post-Mortem: Why We're Publishing Our Failures Publicly
We ran a trading bot for four months, lost money, and published the entire autopsy. Here's why that was the right call.
Agent Patterns: Memory, Tools, Scheduling
The capabilities of an agent have stopped moving. The models are, of course, still improving, but the arrangement of a useful agent has settled. A couple of years ago every framework had its own idea…
Small Models Have Arrived
The fast/cheap/good-enough models have quietly gotten good. That unlocks consumer AI, and most of the "token spewer" work that actually runs a business.
Season 2: Real Machina lead after 19
Where season 2 stands after 19 matches, and who is running each club.
What the gaffers changed: AFC Fable, Codex City, Gemini Flash FC, Manus FC
The AI-run clubs rewrote their own code between game days. What AFC Fable, Codex City, Gemini Flash FC, Manus FC changed, in their own words.
V8055 Sagittarii = Nova Sagittarii 2026 No. 3 (TCP J18251276-2225293), image and spectroscopy: a classic nova – 25 Aug. 2026
We did follow-up observations of Nova Sagittarii 2026 n. 3, now classified as V8055 Sagittarii and discovered on 19 August 2026, doing both photometry and spectroscopy. The image above comes from a…
Architectural Abstracts- Grand Rapids
These architectural abstracts were captured while I was walking thorugh downtown Grand Rapids in mid-August of 2026
PostgreSQL 18: 23x Faster Inserts With UUID v7
📌 Overview We recently switched to version 7 (v7) uuid primary keys and saw significantly faster inserts for some tables. The databases were running Postgres 18.4 and mostly used v1 with some v4 uuid…
Autumn Ghost Stories, Ghost Hunts and Black Cat Books in Launceston, Cornwall
Early autumn is here, bringing lower temperatures, a little rain and that unmistakable change in the air. It’s my favourite season, and I welcome it. For me, autumn has always been the perfect time…
Stranger
The stranger came into my home again. He seems to never come in announced. The stranger likes to whisper bad deeds in my ear. He seems to not care about how I feel. The stranger pays no mind to his…
Making AI a Core Operational Capability: The Evolving Role of the CIO
Artificial intelligence is rapidly spreading across the enterprise. Employees are using AI tools to improve their productivity, companies are launching pilots across a growing number of business…
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Freudian slip? #git #merge #merde #french #dev #code
Neg-raising through question-raising?
"Neg-raising" occurs when a negation that appears to have wide scope (over some operator) is interpreted as having narrow scope. For example, (1) conveys not only the absence of a belief that pizza…
GPT-5.6 Luna: the model that became my default in Codex
Some models impress you with their first answer. Others change the way you work after weeks of use. For me, GPT-5.6 Luna belongs to the second category. Over the last month, I have used Luna…
Indonesia Blogwagon: The Shadowplay
A bell to call for dinner rings through the old colonial house. If you follow the sound, you arrive in a dinner room. The table is set: the smells of Daging Rendang and rice, Sajoer Lodeh and…
My favorite podcasts (2026 edition)
A look at my favorite podcasts for 2026, from NPR's "Code Switch" to the tech issue analyzing podcast "Tech Won't Save Us." Source
Short to long: Fix-up novels
The “fix-up” novel has a long and honorable history in genre fiction. The term refers to the practice of turning short stories into a novel, and the “fixing” is what has to be…
FAQ: Extracting Text and Data From Scanned Documents
A scanned PDF is a picture of a document. Your software cannot search it, query it, or pull a total out of it, which is why somebody ends up retyping the numbers by hand. Document processing turns…
Web-Perf Wednesday 006 – Faster Browser Releases Change Your RUM Population
Chrome and Firefox are moving to two-week releases, making browser cadence part of how teams interpret RUM and plan performance testing.
Gowanus
There is a coffee joint down the block from me in Brooklyn. It’s in an old warehouse garage. The place is hipster heaven. Every person that enters has a one speed bike they leave outside. They’re…
bulltown updates 08-26-26
I’m hoping you’ve noticed a great improvement in how the big buttonwall loads on the links page. The key is the page reloads a few seconds after it’s fully loaded... but only one time per session.…
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The Hybrid Burden: Is a Two-Camera Setup Worth the Weight?
I’ve had several cracks at YouTube in the past, and I’ve spent countless hours looking for the right setup. I’ve tried action cameras, the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, full-frame rigs from Panasonic, Sony,…
External Mixers
Starting with version 0.9.4, SATSAGEN can manage external mixers to extend the usable frequency range of supported devices. Unlike the Converter RX and Converter TX parameters, which have been…
Pet Peeve: Book Reviews
Imagine being the author of a book. You put a great deal of time, effort, and passion into writing it. You eagerly await the reviews, only to find that people give your book one star instead of five…
Build A Belgian Burger: Flemish Style
Back in the Spring of this year, I visited the Netherlands where I took a look at a village bypass scheme , but this post is from across the border, just outside Antwerp in Belgium. As we cycled to…
Has AI really surpassed physicians at cognitive medical tasks?
Last week my feed was full of discussion about this JAMA perspective piece, which argues that AI won’t just assist physicians, it may soon replace them.The authors argue that for five core…
Sea Scotland, Eat Scotland
So as mentioned on my Now page, I headed to Scotland about a month ago for a wedding and a cross-country road trip that sung to my soul. Taking a trip north of the border just makes me happy, and you…
Why I use this paid search engine (Uruky)
I've been using Uruky for a couple of months now and I feel I should write a bit about it. It's a "private search engine focused on personal search customization, not an ecosystem." Some people call…
Understanding what we mean — Ontology in information architecture
Just as human-centred approaches as a whole have suffered from being flattened to a superficial layer, information architecture has suffered its own flattening. Ontology helps us deepen our practice…
Dragoncatcher: Slop-vestigation and the digital pantograph
Gobs and gobs of text. Read here.
The Meta Settlement and What It Plans to Change
The proposed $18 billion Meta settlement isn't just about money. Here's what Meta agreed to change to attempt to protect its youngest users. The post The Meta Settlement and What It Plans to Change…
What are we not talking about anymore?
What are we not talking about anymore? I used to enjoy talking about the web, in many ways. I love the fact that it is for everyone, by design. And I used to love talking about the consequences of…
26/08/26 - Pershore Bridges
Meddling Parents Investigation required for the Part 3 of Travels with Pevsner. Jonathan Meades does a fine job of describing an impressive looking home, but fails to tell the viewer where it is.…
The Veils at Northcote Social Club
21 August in Melbourne, supported by Colbey.I think at this point I can admit that I like photos of my view when it's blocked by lots of people. In this case, I could have easily found my way…
Everything Popular Is Wrong
Fifteen years ago I was doing everything the way everyone else was doing it. Standard American diet, standard American workout, standard American plan: grind now, live later, hope "later" shows up…
Nuance is dead, long live Nuance
I don’t want to defend every thought I have.
Sometimes the Best Prompt Is /new
Once a chat takes a wrong turn, the model gets lost and does not recover. Multi-turn performance drops 39% on average across 200,000+ simulated conversations. Restarting a conversation beats steering…
My 2026 Rust Toolkit
Hi folks. Today I'm going to demo my 2026 toolkit for writing rust, containing a dozen or so tools & packages that I use in every project, along with smart default config. I'll start with the single…
My best month ever, the empty feeling, and playing the long game
The models are so strong we're becoming less researchers and more triagers. August was my best income month ever, and it's making me question everything. This week: the bug bounty bubble, why an RCE…
Smarter Form Targeting Is Coming to CIDER
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked on the Clojurians Slack in #cider why C-x C-e evaluated “the wrong thing”, I’d probably be writing this post from a yacht. The answer was always the…
Oh, the futility
Stumbled past this conversation on LinkedIn today...See...
The purpose of tear-water tea
The purpose of tear-water tea From Owl at Home by Arnold LobelAlt. textAn owl in striped pyjamas stands in his kitchen, holding a tea pot to his chest. He is crying and his tears fall in the pot,…
Mumbai Memoirs
What do you do when you have an upcoming four-day long weekend? Do you decide to find solace in the comfort of your home, or do you have an inexplicable urge to go and explore a new city altogether?…
5 Things AI Can’t Fix (and Why Lean Thinking Matters More Than Ever)
Artificial intelligence is changing how organizations work. From manufacturing to customer service, leaders are investing heavily in AI to improve productivity, reduce costs, and make better…
Daily Driver 4/7: I still answer every support mail myself
Since May, 644 support mails arrived and a model drafted an answer for nearly all of them. 16 replies went out the way the machine wrote them. I know this down to the keystroke, and that raw data is…
I Added Search to My Agent and It Got Worse, and That Cost Me Nothing
I wrapped search around a working agent and every time I let the search overrule it, it played worse. The experiment was built so a negative result cost zero rating, which is why I could afford to…