If someone is described as having come-hither eyes, it means their eyes are seducitve or alluring. If you tell a horse to come hither though, what would you expect it to do? The word hither [ˈhɪðə /…

But all this is no excuse for the STAR CLIPPER to pump clouds of toxic black exhaust fumes into the sky above the bay for hours on end. They steamed into the anchorage around 0700 with a…

‘The Cherry Orchard’ was Anton Chekhov’s last play. Written in 1903, it relates the story of a group of charming, listless, impractical aristocrats and their dependents, as they struggle to come to…

There is a misunderstanding about software engineering that AI is making increasingly visible: we tend to confuse writing code with building software. There is some overlap in certain aspects, but…

Y Combinator isn't just funding early-stage companies—it is rewriting their institutional DNA at the cellular level. Discover how Silicon Valley's most powerful accelerator uses standardized capital,…

I finished the OpenZFS Mastery chapter on volumes earlier this week. Zvols support sparse volumes, also known as thin provisioning or overcommitting storage. A sparse volume is a volume that reserves…

I realized at an early age that I am not a timely person, and recently I even noticed that I measure my arrival at work by asking myself: “How many trains late was I?” I am blessed with a short…

There aren’t many celebrities whose passing seems to temporarily stop everyone in their tracks. Dolly Parton was that kind of celebrity. The post Dolly Parton was the Rare Star Whose Death Hit Nearly…

Global data-center electricity demand is growing at a remarkable pace, and no country is driving that growth more than the United States. The Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World…

A new guide introduces graphs and makes the frontier, traversal tree and exploration order visible. The graphs, BFS and DFS guide covers definitions, representations, properties, applications and a…

If you asked me to name some forested countries, I’d think of Canada and Russia, Scandinavia, Brazil. If I had to guess which country removes the most carbon from the atmosphere through its…

if you think about it, at the end of the day there is nothing to lose. there is nothing like denial in life. if you are grinding and trying to be better you will eventually. you cant be denied of the…

Quick note: I went to Funky Chicken with a friend and it was just the best burger I've tasted in Sweden. It was juicy, rich, and 100 % delicious. This summer has taught me about the simple pleasures…

I learned about snail mail in 2013 when I was in a scout camp at Lake Baikal. I’m a kid of 2000s, I didn’t know how to communicate without the Internet. So when a girl suggested to…

In this guide, I will provide multiple solutions to resolve Autopilot device enrollment error 80180003. Error code 80180003 during Autopilot means...

In the GIS industry, when we talk about LiDAR or 3D point clouds, we tend to think of professiona...

For years, the steps were pretty simple. You had a question, you searched Google, clicked on a promising result and landed on someone’s website to find the answer. Maybe you noticed who wrote it,…

After not thinking about John Gruber for easily more than two decades, I have been exposed to two of his hot takes grounded in misunderstandings of things I actually understand. The first was his LLM…

It’s an instant-classic Thursday Pressing Concerns! We have new albums from Upper Wilds, Graham Hunt, and John Vanderslice, plus an archival compilation from Velocity Girl. They’re all…

This post describes several complementary workflows for reviewing semantic mappings in the Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM) generated either by manual curation or…

A question: where do you pee after drinking beer? The sociological question came up in a conversation touching on the ethics in Ontario, Ireland, Germany and Portugal last weekend. And the associated…

I didn’t do very much last week, which is probably why I haven’t got around to writing this until now. We spent Monday morning travelling back from the festival, I did a lot of laundry on Monday…

I began this post on 14 August and meant to send it last week. I had time over the weekend but couldn't make myself finish it, so I did not. In the past I would have made myself anxious about that. I…

I'm in the introduction of Out of Chaos Man's New Dialogue with Nature of Prigogine and Stengers, and there is a quote in the introduction by Pascal (1904) 1 that reads Man must at last finally awake…

I deliberately make tiny investments in learning opportunities for me and my colleagues. Yesterday I was reviewing a PR which had a large number of edits to data using a few patterns applied in many…

to be honest, i actually do not know exactly what morning pages are. i know i could just look it up, but i also don't really want to (see my last post about research; though this feels like one of…

Earlier this week, I looked at a review copy sent my way by Seven Stories Press, a novel in which an Argentinian man had a rather unusual experience in Berlin, and today’s Women in Translation…

I bought this opened pack in mid-2025 on Kleinanzeigen. The varieties of the Herbosense line cost €6.99 directly from Aromandise.… Continue reading “Les Encens du Monde – Herbosense –…

Blogpost about an implementation of KMeans clustering algorithm using Apache DataFusion DataFrame APIs and operations on relations.

Zine: An old clue from a people long way from home.

*Aside from all the ethical/moral reasons. You can look these up, but for starters: generative AI tools steal creatives’ work, amplify bias and perpetuate discrimination, AI data centres are terrible…

I spent a lot of time making this pattern. Hard to believe. I spent most of my time updating the SVG (scalable vector graphic) for laser cutting, and exporting it to a pdf (for printing). You have to…

It's fitting that one of the signature aromas of Kékfrankos, Hungary’s most widely planted red grape, is paprika, the country’s national spice. To me, it often leans more towards pimentón, Spain’s…

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at the current moment, i am on some level against conducting research for the purpose of writing my blogposts. why? well, first of all, that's just not the sort of thing i write. at least…

During my first Interrail trip through Europe in the summer of 1983, I met all sorts of travelers. Among them was Andrew, a funny, adventurous dude from New York City. We crossed paths on the island…

John Feinstein’s The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball is a love letter to amateur athletics and the notion of the unironic “student” athlete. In the book,…

It's been harder to fall asleep. Somehow, my brain is starting to think that my desk job is dangerous. Having to wake up to do things that I don't want to do is getting harder to white-knuckle…

Üks pildihetk kevadiselt Vereta Jahilt.

Installation howto for a base FreeBSD 15.1 system

The complicated Austro-Hungarian writer who led a complicated life and wrote complicated poetry. [3 pages]

Back in May I wrote a post explaining the architecture of AMD NPUs and demonstrating a simple kernel that reaches close to the peak TOPS allowed by the hardware resources. That program was very…

We lost the best the human. What shall we do now? #dollyparton #dolly

The fastest way to have healthy relationships is to tell people what you want.The fastest way to have unhealthy relationships is to be passive-aggressive.I shared a video about this the other day. I…

As we have all learned, it is the nature of things to break. I used to work in IT support, so I know that computers have a critical-need detector, which ensures they break when most needed. Most…

SQL Server 2016 hit end of support in July 2026. Here's what ESU actually costs (75%→150%→300%), and how to find out what's in your estate first.

A reference post defining Amdahl’s law in words and mathematics.

This is a more personal post than usual, but I think it’s worth writing down. Earlier this year, around March, I had the first proper health scare of my life. I checked myself into the ER and…

If you've been on the job hunt lately (and that's rather a lot of us) you've probably been doing some combination of sitting on Google/Teams/Zoom/whatever calls, and possibly sharing your screen so…

That's right, America's symbol of freedom, the wild Mustangs of the West; get 'em by the thousands for pennies on the dollar - perfect for someone's dining room table, all thanks to... Great American…