I recently attended a church conference, and during a roundtable discussion titled "A Christian's Guide to Authenticity in an Artificial Intelligence World," I made the following observation: Let me…

In Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious , Jim wrote: I often look at my own posts and think, “There’s nothing novel, or important, or deep in here at all — is this even worth saying?” How can I…

Week 26 of 2026: heatLast week was very hot and ended in a thunderstorm that flooded our bike parking and the rest of the ground floor of our building. But cancelled plans lead to other plans and…

As I wrote many times, I use pdf-tools as main pdf viewer. I thought that one thing that would be nice is being able to open pdfs in it from outside Emacs. For example, texdoc could use it instead of…

That's prompting your VC. You're not asking me to take your word for anything. You're telling me exactly who to call and exactly what they're going to say. When I make that call and the answer comes…

The Ephemeris is the part of Orbit I was most nervous about, because it's the part that has to be correct. Telemetry can drop a sample and shrug. The ledger cannot drop a placement, can't…

A busy week meant no episodes. But now I’m home again. Transcript

Armonía (Harmony) by Remedios Varo (1956)A peer-reviewed paper I co-authored with collaborators at the University of Michigan is published in the current edition of the Journal of Statistics and…

GPU Lab Launched We’ve just launched our GPU lab, which allows you to practice GPU programming like CUDA in your browser. GPU Programming requires both an expensive GPU, and one compatible with…

Exactly what I thought would happen, RISC OS WiFi, Random rant about version numbers, I was not so great last night, A political rant.

This weekend, on the way home from a drive-in event at the mighty Mahoning (largest screen in the US! only 35mm projecting drive-in left!), the Simulwatch crew and I stopped off at Timeline Arcade in…

Meta’s Brain2Qwerty decodes typed sentences from noninvasive brain signals. The science is real, the patient upside is real, and the helmet is not exactly AirPods.

Shooting a parade is hard. That is why I try to shoot around it, not the parade itself.

social.lol Mastodon server upgrade It’s time for an upgrade! The server that powers our social.lol Mastodon instance is approaching its capacity, so we’re going to do the little…

ALTEric Ladd and Carl Lundgren’s 1978 cover for Tongues of the Moon, by Philip José Farmer

Summer Holiday the Musical was reviewed at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield where it continues until 18 July 2026. The production then transfers the Grand Theatre, Blackpool from 29 July to 8 August…

Reed Semiconductor's $100 million round says the AI boom is now financing power delivery. Annoying, essential, and far more strategic than it sounds.

The plan this morning was to give a Biology lesson to Year 12 students at Rednock School on Riverfly. We did the...

The all-you-can-eat AI coding era is over. So what do you do on the 22nd of the month, when the token budget's gone and there's over a week of work left? Here's a local coding agent (Pi…

20cm x 15cm (8"x6"), oil on board...

The SailGP league is like nothing else in the sport, having transformed a sailing regatta into an entertainment product. Now in its sixth season, the league has an established platform, with SailGP…

I think it was the semester's first career fair, during my sophomore year in college. A Microsoft recruiter, screening for computer science majors, pulled me aside and asked me what my…

ISPs in Ghana are reporting their 2Africa waves are up and running. So 2Africa's main trunk appears untouched. Hence the Cote d'Ivoire outage must be due to a branching segment fault. It is thought a…

This bookshop receipt was Left Inside a copy of The Wallet of Kai Lung that I purchased many moons ago from John Chandler's long-lived but sadly now defunct bookstore Bookman's Corner on Broadway and…

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The death tolls associated with twentieth-century communist and Marxist-Leninist regimes are a subject of ongoing historical research because total numbers include a mix of direct political…

Why We Should Start Naming Heatwaves | Weeknotes #445Listening to the rain arrive out the open window, I decided we should name heatwaves the same way as we do storms….Why We Should Start…

Socialism is inherently unstable as it ignores what motivated humans. Once one person slacks off, everyone else sees it and does the same. Socialism has zero motivation to work. Then the leaders have…

iamspeed.dev now supports 10+ LLM providers, a head-to-head Race Mode, and a community leaderboard backed by Amazon DynamoDB. Find out which LLM API is fastest for your use case. The post Which LLM…

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. - Aristotle Onassis The coding agents revolution is taking the world by storm and we are right in…

I guess that Method Of Doubt's latest EP, Total Soul Ignition , technically came out at the end of 2025, but since we didn't see the vinyl release until early in 2026, I'll probably include it as one…

And in your browser, it's hard to tell who's winning Remember "fair use"? It's a concept kind of like "public airwaves." There's an ideal in there somewhere, but the…

Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari: osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window' Tags: safari, til, applescript

Max Planck won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. He is considered the father of quantum mechanics. So why were two of his papers retracted? Source

New job, new apartment, new city, new quests

  2022 post. While mowing June 26, 2026 I saw that this pole was savaged once again and more severely. There wa​s a bite at the bottom from a bear on all fours wh​ich was unusual​. ​Mostly they…

Over the years I've picked up a few books by Zilpha Keatley Snyder that I remembered loving as a kid -- specifically, The Egypt Game and The Velvet Room. But the one I kept wondering about was Below…

Babrius 48 (tr. Robin Waterfield): A square-cut statue of Hermes had been placed by the side of a road, supported by a pile of stones at its base. A dog came up and said, "To begin with, Hermes, I…

Galicia, June 2026.

This week it's an article looking at how to do theming with CSS, some bad announcing at the World Cup, layoffs at Bungie, and more. Web Development How we’re approaching theming with modern CSS -…

This was initially diagnosed as a shunt fault, but the cable appears to be effectively severed with the approximate location of 9 kilometers from repeater 4 towards repeater 3. To the best of my…

Emmett Rensin, writing at Los Angeles Review of Books: But if it is childish, if any of this—the outrage, the horror, the belief that something must be done—is childish, it is only…

In this bite, we explore how slurping on (or being slurped by?) cosmic spaghetti affects galaxies.

Napster returns as an AI music generator, letting users co-create tracks with chatbots. But questions about copyright and creativity remain.

Trying to prod myself a little into reading more carefully.

MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2026 On the Long-Term Trend version, that is: Friend, did you know there are two different versions of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (the NAEP)? The Naep is a…

Joanna Newsom – Only Skin

2026 and all that: Well for one thing the nukes are not Scottish, more UK-ish but also mostly USA-ish. It's mixed bag of defence chicanery that goes right back to the 1950s and the Polaris deal with…

I love flying, even though I rarely do so -- I'm not one for travel. But when I get the chance to fly I find it hard to not just sit there, staring out of the window, marvelling at the view. Today I…