nikitonsky is being grumpy
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How (not to) name things
Imagine every sign stating "you are now in front of a sign". Or the LinkedIn-app is now called "this is an app". A name is supposed to help you identify something. It sets it apart from other things…
Something to Brighten your day
Reddit being wholesome and hilarious
Santai Eyeball Ham Jerantut (Zello) di Kampung Jeram Landak, Kuala Lipis, Pahang
Assalamualaikum geng semua! Pernah dengar tentang komuniti HAM-JERANTUT? Bagi yang belum kenal, mereka ialah sekumpulan operator radio amatur dan SWL yang aktif. Walaupun nama mereka membawa istilah…
rose ▪ bud ▪ thorn - june 2026
Joy, success, things I am working on, and challenges in June.
💭 Why even have a backlog if you're not going to play the games on it?
We went away for a long weekend in Marseille. Which was really nice. But I came home from our trip really looking forward to playing a game. Like, really looking forward to it. You know when you're…
Herefordshire Week 339: Tuesday 23 – Monday 29 June 2026
Heatwave. Red Warning – Extreme Heat. And Humidity….. A visit from SG. JG Birthday. Small Breeds and Giant Icecreams. Shropshire Stiperstones. Up to Northumberland. Another photography…
Wet and Wild
Hey Rob, Greetings from the wilds of Canada. We came upon a waterfall during our camping trip this week and thought it a perfect occasion to tuck into a few pages of Tether — falling water being, of…
PAT32 History Retold
I know I’m a little late with my blog post on this update - but only because I was busy finishing up my retrospective of year two since the game announcement. The update landed last Thursday, the…
Patti LaBelle & The Bluebells’ British tours of the 1960s
Hailing from Philadelphia, lead singer Patti LaBelle first toured Britain with her backing group The Bluebelles featuring singers Nona Hendryx, Sarah Dash and Cindy Birdsong in January 1966. The tour…
Women: Aim higher!
Click this image to watch short a Instagram video on the subjects of the spiritual role of the Divine Feminine […] The post Women: Aim higher! appeared first on The pleasure of partnership.
Sifting Fact from Fiction Workshops | April and June 2026
Report on a series of workshops on 'Sifting Fact from Fiction' conducted in April and June 2026 in association with the Teachers' Centre.
emotional stability
i feel like my emotions flip flop a lot and i wish how i could just feel locked in and hyped and focused all the time without using anything of course. but ig that is just part of being human. i feel…
Bubbles
I recently came across Bubbles, a really nice IndieWeb aggregator. It’s great to see the IndieWeb ecosystem getting better and better, and I love the idea of having something like Lobsters or…
New Bi-Weekly Poll: What Should be the Next Weekly Content?
Last Poll Response: I Pick & - I wouldn't call myself a conspiracy theorist, but do have a (slightly unhealthy) skepticism of the News and Government, but don't think everything is a big orchestrated…
AI Leaders in Chicago
Celebrating the first graduating class of the AI Leaders program in Chicago, insights on AI in the workplace, and the importance of staying curious.
What Kind Leadership Really Means
Whenever I run a session on kindness with a room of leaders, there's a particular look I've learned to watch for. It's the look of someone worrying that I'm about to ask them to go soft. To stop…
Understanding Functional Decision Theory as Program Search
Epistemic note: Probably already known or obvious, but this treatment seems clearer to me than the standard treatment in e.g. the FDT paper. The other day I went down a deep lesswrong rabbit-hole and…
Don’t Choose to Ignore: A New Song About Refusing to Be Invisible in a Destructive Relationship
You told yourself it was fine. "Don't Choose to Ignore" is the new single that says it wasn't, and means it. Co-written and sung by Heather Bradley, this is a song built from the inside of a real…
Blogo Interruptus...
Taking a break for a few and will be happily sweltering away this 4th at our nation's Capital in the interests of patriotism and historic documentation. Hopefully, we won't get completely rained out…
Tom's opinionated guide to skill building 101
The thing I'm most excited about with AI lately is SKILLs. (I have to capitalize the word at first so you know I'm talking about agent skills rather than just general capabilities; however, I'll…
Standard Chartered Investor Day
At Standard Chartered’s Investor Day, Dr. Parag Khanna discussed the Asianization of the world as a defining post-Cold War megatrend, extending beyond China to include India and Southeast Asia.…
The Dating App Plot Device
I've always been interested in how dating apps work. You really only have two choices if you want to get in the business. Help people find a match, and they will never come back Make people pay and…
Lured
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she’s approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who…
Why Well-Written Prompts Are Almost Always Structured
A Plain and Intuitive Explanation
Keyword Clustering: grouping thousands of queries with K-means and hierarchical clustering
It happens with every reasonably serious project: you export the keyword list from Search Console or a tool, and you find yourself facing thousands of rows. Three thousand, ten thousand queries.…
My June log and Steam Next Fest recap
A month with hot new games and actual really hot weather.
Building a local RAG in Go
I had to go through an “AI” course recently for work, which included a couple of homework assignments. The intent was that these would be company-specific, but because 1 of these had to…
Podcast #117. Writer Bots and Reality
June 19, 2026. Talk on writer bots, and rising above them by using transrealism and an awareness of reality at large. At a High Castle dinner hosted by the Point Reyes Reality Investigation Center…
Mature white male seeks wellness on West Side of Manhattan
I am dreading Wednesday when I must go see Dr. Taylor, the surgeon who did my shoulder replacement, and confess that I have sinned and not faithfully followed the exercise regimen and so my left…
CH Ludens – The Podcast: …talking with Addrich Mauch (University of Bern)
by the CH Ludens Team In “CH Ludens – The Podcast”, Arno Görgen and Eugen Pfister are sitting down each month to have a chat with a different member of “Confoederatio Ludens” to talk about how they…
Self-hosting a static site using Forgejo, Headscale, and Caddy
Self-hosting a static blog with push-to-deploy: Forgejo Actions ships the site over a Tailscale/Headscale tailnet to a Caddy reverse proxy, with no long-lived SSH keys to manage.
"Monument for Nothing - Red Torii Gate" by Makoto Aida (Naoshima)
One of the most interesting artworks in the Naoshima New Museum of Art was created by Makoto Aida especially for the museum. It is the latest iteration of his "Monument for Nothing" series,…
Hisohiso
In this day and age with prompt to code being twenty a month, writing about your side project is like the old meme “let me sing you the song of my people”. So, yea, let me tell you about my side…
Gen AI and Architecture
Almost a decade ago, I was an intern at certain large tech company, working on a team that no longer exists. I was living on the third floor of a house that lodged around 15 other people who…
The Morroch: Ancient Wanderers of Loria
Colossal terrestrial gastropods older than kingdoms, the Morroch are among the oldest living beings in Veyr, wandering Loria in migrations measured by centuries.
The Hard Part of Automation Is Seeing It
I haven’t written much this month. I’ve been busy, although to be fair, quite a lot of that “busy” was running. I’m properly back at it now, and the injury finally seems to be more or less under…
BLE HID coprocessor for microcontrollers
Teensy in green, ESP32-C3 in blue I have a Teensy 4.1 operating as a Commodore 64 (and Vic-20, and 128, and Apple 1) emulator. It already supports USB Host (via 5 pin header on top) and web page…
Narrative death cleaning
Swedish death cleaning is about discarding possessions before you die as a kindness. But in the smaller universe of personally meaningful objects, the ones you leave behind will be the last story you…
And now the news: 6/29/2026
This weekend, it’ll be 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, but mourning seems more appropriate than celebration. Going to a parade, a fireworks show, anything to seriously…
Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards.
Stop for one second and ask yourself a simple question. Where do your words come from? When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word? Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after…
Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick
Finale (2011) 454 pages by Becca Fitzpatrick Hush Hush #4 Nora now has to lead the Nephilim rebellion against the fallen angels. Dating Patch is a conflict of interest. She can't appear to be…
Turning Immigrant Children Into Good Americans – 1893
Indoctrinating Young Immigrants To Be Patriotic Independence Day Celebration A Short Article From The New York Evening World July 3, 1893 CHEERED LIKE AMERICANS Independence Day Exercises at the…
Knitlog [2026-06-30 Tue]
Sassy Classy Top Well, I have to say this colour is lovely. My ribbing tension is ridiculously good after switching to Eastern knitting to work on the back section which requires me to work k2p1 rib…
Added Tab5 Keyboard support for my portable emulators for Commodore
Tab5 Keyboard is a convenience add-on I added native keyboard support to my emulators already running on M5Stack's Tab5. There were already 64/Vic-20/128 original keyboards , CardKB , web page…
Susquehanna Boxcar Never Dies: Reviving This Stale Meme with 30Haul’s Old Drivetrain!
Good ol’ Susquehanna Boxcar. What started as a quick-build meme using whatever I had dug out of my (then, in late 2021, still not yet unpacked) totes full of motors turned into… something…