Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman
** This book was provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review ** It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Mr. Chapman’s writing. He has this distinct formula…
Thinking Thursday: Sci-Fi Puzzle 2
Writing to Learn Math: Problem-solving cares less about whether an answer is right and more about whether a solution makes sense. Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively…
Reflections on Heroic Flourishing Accelerator 🔥
I just completed the inaugural cohort of the eight-week Heroic Flourishing Accelerator (HFA) . My expectations were high, but it over-delivered. The Accelerator is the best of what Heroic offers in…
An angel and demon talk about doing a PhD
Which shoulder do you listen to?
Rappan: Doors
Session 327 was played on 4/26/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy) Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC)…
Stay in your own chair; on metamechanics and role displacement
I've been brooding quite a bit on metacurrencies recently. After watching Black Lodge Gaming's take on the new VtM 6e rules , I had a discussion with a few people regarding metacurrencies. Now, as…
The 88 Illini: #12-#9
Can I write out some of my injury concerns here? I'm going to write out some of my injury concerns here before getting to the next four players on the list. The fact that two of the players who…
Why People Quit Blogging
The Bridge Over “Content Marketing” Bulls*** Introduction I went down a rabbit hole recently, or at least I tried to. I found it difficult to come up with the information needed to write about the…
The Wolves know who they are (this might not be a good thing)
Jonathan Kuminga heads to Minnesota to replace Naz Reid, in a way. Meanwhile, Bennedict Mathurin achieved new innovations in breaking restricted free agency.
The Nerd Reich is a New York Times Bestseller!
"The Nerd Reich"—an exposé of Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's cult of anti-democracy billionaires—makes NYT bestseller list
Well done again Dalton
Sheringham Open showDalton 1st Puppy (Bracco), Best puppy in Breed, Group 1 puppy.Maeve 2nd Puppy (Bracco)​They are brother and sister. 🐾 [...]
Replacing those panels
Is it possible to improve the efficiency of our home solar panels without losing our feed-in tariff?
The Book of Temples Chapter 35
Hand and Knife’s People living on mainland received wandering strangers. They claimed to be from a distant tower temple of Greedy Noble. They wished to acquire beautiful things like art, treasure and…
Remotevibe: vibing, on the go
I built an open-source solution to start coding sessions on my VPS, from my phone
10 (mostly sociable) years of Mike Young Academy
It is the birthday of my company-of-one: Here is my tribute to the associates, partners and clients who feel like real colleagues The post 10 (mostly sociable) years of Mike Young Academy appeared…
How much access have I given AI?
August 27, 2026 I'm thinking about how I'm using AI and whether I've allowed Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini too much access to my data through plugins, extensions, MCP, Work or Cowork. This all started…
Ulasan Buku: Kita Bikin Sejarah oleh Nasir Jani
Saya anak era 80-an, tapi saya masih kanak-kanak lagi apabila segala apa dalam buku Kita Bikin Sejarah ini berlaku. Barangkali yang menarik adalah saya kenal ramai sungguh figura-figura…
General Licence consultation (Scotland) – Wild Justice’s step-by-step guide
NatureScot is currently running one of its periodic public consultations reviewing the use of General Licences for wildlife management. As discussed earlier this week, RSPB Scotland considers the…
Oops, I forgot about joy again =\
Just a quick little Thursday post to close out the month!Despite it being literally two days since I wrote and sent out the Tuesday newsletter, it's been a week already. Not even counting the…
What If Your Next Race Goes Wrong? (aka Fear Setting)
Every runner (and human) I know sets goals, objectives, and all the positive, optimistic, fluffy stuff that we were all taught in elementary school. But, I’ve never met someone who sets their…
The Other Doc Got Fat Too: My Task File Was 90% Finished Work
A month ago I wrote about my living PLAN.md getting fat and the skill I built so I’d never have to compact it by hand again. 28,357 words down to 8,332. I was pleased with myself. I wrote a whole…
Brier Score Explained: How to Measure If Your Probabilistic Model Actually Works
The Brier score is a single number that tells you whether your probabilistic model is actually adding signal or just making confident noise. Here's how to calculate it, interpret it, and use it to…
Baked Buffalo Cauliflower Bites
These vegetarian healthy-ish Buffalo Cauliflower Bites are made with simple ingredients and paired with ranch dressing. Perfect for game day.
The GCN outcast - Radeon HD 7870 XT
AMD is known to be Linux friendly and has had an open source driver stack for their GPUs for more than a decade. However, there was one GPU that has always been an outcast on Linux because it has…
⚡ When the Compiler Is a PCB Factory
I thought sending a board to a factory was like printing a PDF. Then the factory's output changed one LED—and asked me to approve the result.
Announcing inbox & chill I built the menubar notifications inbox of my...
Announcing inbox & chill I built the menubar notifications inbox of my dreams 🤩 I got tired of having to bounce across a bunch of different apps to keep up with all of my notifications, across…
The U.S. Chooses Favorites: North Korea over South Korea
I’m not sure how crossed your wires have to be to side with North Korea over South Korea, but that’s exactly what Trump did over the weekend. So, what will this mean for the future of…
A week in Valle de Tena (Pyrenees) with kids & teenagers
The holiday season is almost over, so it’s high time to plan the next one! Maybe our experiences from a recent trip to Spain will provide you with some inspiration.
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
One of my summer jobs in university was working in an analytical chemistry lab. I spent countless hours pipetting liquids from tube to tube, scanning labels, manually entering data into spreadsheets,…
Scaling Bespoke Work With Agents
Dashboards and SaaS products encode scarce expert leverage into shared artifacts. Agents can deliver bespoke work point to point, just in time for every user.
Week Notes 72: Back to Writing, Playing Games, and Pumpkins
A return to writing after physiotherapy. The end of summer approaching. Class preparation starting.
Your Porch Wants to Burn
The projecting beam caught fire, which was luckily caught by firefighters working in the area. A s the Aspen Acres Fire moved toward them in early July 2026, the owners of this historic ranch (clear…
Is Renaming an MCP Tool a Breaking Change?
In July I was at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin, where I watched Adam Bird , CEO and co-founder of Cronofy , give a talk called "Building APIs for Agents vs Systems. Is MCP the answer?"…
Containment Was Never the Question
The independent investigators of OpenAI's Hugging Face breach used one of the suspect AI models to conduct the audit and cannot rule out it lied to them. That paragraph should end a particular…
13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 778)
1. A pink 18th century bastide above Cassis waiting to be restored One can dream . Five bedrooms; 227 sqm; 1,779 sqm garden; €2.79M, found on The Spaces. 2. She painted her late father’s…
modern depression
偶爾想像貓一樣睡一下午。也確實睡了許多下午了,就是不像貓一樣睡一下午。
Haiku R1/beta6 released
It’s always a special day on OSNews when Haiku has a new release. While OSNews was founded in... Continue reading →
Christian Obedience in Two Words
So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
🔗 Getting off US tech: a guide
Getting off US tech: a guide
How Placement New Ends an Object’s Lifetime
Below I provided an example demonstrating how placement new creates multiple objects within the same byte storage. Non-overlapping objects can coexist, while constructing an overlapping object ends…
Your AI Generated Menu Triggered my Trypophobia
Quite a few restaurants have started using AI-generated food photos for their menus (or maybe the whole menu is AI-generated). The idea to use completely artificial photos is pretty problematic in…
Learning Data Science, Day 2 – Functions, Categories, Types, and Analysis
I take my Funko Pop and action figure data from yesterday, learn how to import it in as a CSV, clean it up, and analyse it using Python.
I Recommended the 96 GiB VRAM Carveout. Then a 21 GiB Model Hung on Load.
In May I recommended the max carveout and --no-mmap. In June a 21 GiB model hung. Upstream llama.cpp now skips mmap on ROCm and Vulkan iGPUs by default.
Why Your UX Business Case Keeps Getting Rejected
Getting UX work approved has almost nothing to do with users and everything to do with the risks and opportunities your boss already worries about.
COD on an Xbox
Playing an FPS with a controller. Here comes the pain.
A short crash course on metrics: gauges, counters, and histograms
The metric type you pick is a promise about how the number behaves over time. Pick the wrong one and everything you build on top of it breaks silently. No error, no warning, just a graph that stops ma
twofer 08-27-26
weathr A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data. [ 📌 tdjones ] leanrada.com Welcome to my personal website! Hey there → I’m Lean /liˈan/🔊, software engineer who…
Make Stuff Cost Less
Quietly, as the drought of the long cost-of-living crisis continued throughout all of 2026, a four word campaign slogan from North Carolina spread around the world, almost imperceptibly outwards,…