On 30 June 1970, Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Valeri Kubasov, and Pyotr Kolodin died of asphyxiation as their Soyuz 11 spacecraft was preparing to re-enter earth’s atmosphere. A ventilation valve…

I watched Her, which I have not seen before. I found it mid. It's sort of intimate in a way I find annoying. I dislike him, and Her and all his friends. Mostly, much worse than I expected it to be.

daddyisatitlenotagender:Anyways I saw this sign at pride and it instantly became my favorite sign of the day

Consensus reality is the social layer of reality that becomes operationally real because enough people route behavior through it. It is not objective reality, subjective reality, or mere illusion,…

Celebrating the first graduating class of the AI Leaders program in Chicago, insights on AI in the workplace, and the importance of staying curious.

I will have a Table at Anthrocon 2026!

Many people are betting taste is the human moat against AI. But taste is just inarticulation with good PR. If you can't define your quality bar, you can't hire for it, develop toward it, or scale it.

I wanted to build something that didn’t just solve a math expression, but actually showed you what was happening at every stage — how the expression gets broken apart, and in what order the…

A few months ago, I came across one of Dwarkesh's big questions about AI, and I decided to go ahead and lightly muse about the fourth question he posed: What should countries which are not currently…

When I was at school half a century ago history bored me witless. It was all kings, treaties, wars, royal marriages and archbishops. Also, it's in my nature to look forward to possibilities for…

Being unexpectedly removed from social media turned out to be something I never thought I'd appreciate. It pushed me to explore other ways of creating and sharing my work, namely this blog and a…

You give an agent everything a project has produced: every Slack message, every deck, every status update since kickoff. Then you put a dashboard and a chatbot on top, so anyone can ask where things…

Bookmarked https://thelemonbowl.com/lebanese-cabbage-salad/. Lebanese cabbage salad

Bookmarked Toum Recipe: Fluffy Lebanese Garlic Sauce (Tips and Fixes). Toum

Over time I've collected a few Cloudflare accounts that separate work, personal and side-projects. I really like using wrangler , the Cloudflare CLI tool, but I'd gotten sick of having to wrangler…

This week’s episode is on the Trump administration, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza and how to tackle online racism. The post The Antony Loewenstein Podcast: Reacting to Viral Chaos – War,…

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The theory of evolution explains the origin of biological diversity and levels of similarity between species. A characteristic of emergence is that many iterations of a simple law (natural selection…

Today’s video is on one of the more commonly asked questions I get about sunscreen. You put your sunscreen on in the morning, apply your makeup over it… but you’re meant…

The Accenture / Dragos / runZero / NetRise deal may be the most significant single event in the OT Security Community & Market since Colonial Pipeline. I tackle this in 3 parts over the next 3…

There is a disconnect between the sheer volume of writing published online and who actually sees it. If you have ever felt like your personal blog is a quiet, isolated corner of the internet, the…

At first I thought the sunblasted video of Rick Owens’ 2027 collection, presented last week on the shadeless place of the Palais de Tokyo in the midst of the 40-degree Saharan omega heatdeath…

There's a sentence I keep coming back to from a conversation Josh Bressers and I had recently on Open Source Security: we'd already gotten pretty bad at the intake side of vulnerability…

Below you will find a list of some distributions I'd recommend. Now a distro doesn't nessicarily mean you're tied into a desktop envorinment. Many of these support many different ones out of the box.…

Wow I posted two things in one day

Mercedes did not just celebrate George Russell’s Austrian Grand Prix win. They absolutely detonated the place. What began as the usual neat team photo outside the engineering motorhome turned into...…

You can ship type stubs for a third-party library with your own Python library, so everyone who installs yours gets them too. When you own both the library and its consumers, this sidesteps the need…

Story Well, it’s been fun riding my first beginner bike, but it’s time to upgrade 😎.

Student behavior isn't what it was 10 years ago. A 26-year teacher breaks down what changed, why it's not your fault, and what actually helps.

Building my home gym step by step

If I presentation to the Sydney Testers Meetup in Australia, from my home in the Massachusetts, through Zoom, does that make me an international speaker? [ Vote in the New Poll, on LinkedIn ] There…

I never feel the same before a trip to France. The post Dear Mark, I Wish France Was Boring first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

I live in two places: a terminal running Claude Code and Neovim. For months I bounced between them. Edit in Neovim, alt-tab to the terminal, paste a file path, ask Claude something, alt-tab back,…

A quick welcome to new bus route 140A (Rockbank to Mt Atkinson) which joined the weekday Useful Network frequency map yesterday. Described by Transport Victoria here , hopefully they will add it to…

We very much appreciate the bug reports and feedback from NetNewsWire beta testers — and we want to make sure that everyone who might be interested in helping this way knows how to get started. It’s…

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — Morale is “really good,” among members of the Dauphin County GOP who will soon be out in neighborhoods knocking on doors to prepare for the general election. They recently…

A meteor or comet fragment exploded in the atmosphere near the Tunguska River in Siberia. The energy released was about 1000 times greater than the nuclear blast at Hiroshima, Japan.

I recently came across a <a href="https://x.com/SpecterAnalyst/status/2070152064051605517">Tweet by Specter</a>: > It appears there may be a phishing attack targeting…

There is a difference between knowing something, and truly understanding it. I think we've all had those moments, the ones where a truth you learned a long time ago really sits with you for the first…

A stalled startup in 2014 became Gin: a Go web framework shaped by simple-over-easy design, a radix-tree router, and an API that still works ten years later.

I rewrote jibot's architecture today and re-derived how it is wired: two machines over a shared vault — a disposable cloud VM for the public surfaces, a home Mac mini running Hermes and a dozen…

Today I deleted beads, a tracker I praised here two months ago. I had been running it beside kata against real work for weeks, and I kept reaching for kata on how it held up under load. The trial is…

The CIO's choices are clear in 2026. Across 87 public SaaS & platform companies, only Infrastructure & Dev Tools (+68.5% 1Y) & Security (+17.6% 1Y) are positive; the other three sectors are down.…

June 2026 Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It’s Backwards ranpara.net · comments Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week? taonaw.com · comments Memoirs of Extraordinary…

I knew very little about tuberculosis prior to reading this book. I enjoyed learning about how advances in medicine led to the discovery of a cure, and was of course disheartened by the fact that the…

It’s not all black and white

In December I wrote Forty-two about being forty-two percent of the way through my career break. Time has flown since then. Today the progress bar reads one hundred percent.