My Heart is a Chainsaw is the first in a trilogy of horror novels by Stephen Graham Jones. As I mentioned in my earlier review of his book The Only Good Indians there is a strong tradition of…

Im Jahr 2002 hat der Chef von Amazon allen Mitarbeitenden ein berühmtes Memo geschrieben, welches als “The Jeff Bezos API Mandate” in die Geschichte Eingang fand. Kernaussage: All teams will…

I went down the Japanese knife rabbit hole over Christmas. Getting into something new can feel quite overwhelming, especially for me. I tend to skip the Dunning-Kruger effect and immediately notice…

The world won't be the same without Tony Stella in it, but his spirit, integrity, and passionate love of movies lives on in the work he left behind.

I recently bought a new watch. It's the Casio MQ24-9B. I got it for ~20€. Here are some picture of it: I didn't expect much from the watch. It's extremely simple, and it only really does one thing,…

AI is fantastic for extending thinking. The trouble is that the people crossing the line from extension to substitution cannot tell, from the inside, that they have. Including, possibly, the person…

In the 2026 World Happiness Report, all but one Latin American country scores above what income predicts. East Asia shows the opposite pattern.

A friend asked if I was familiar with the crawfish enchiladas offered at Ninfa’s in Waco. While I had never had them, I looked at the restaurant’s online menu, and... Source

John Roberts issues warning on Supreme Court overruling precedent Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts said at a Wednesday judicial conference that the Supreme Court must be cautious about…

So, I was talking to my wife about trying to blog again, and her assessment was pretty blunt: “Blogging is dead.” I can’t say I disagree. Even at the outset of the reboot, I wondered whether the…

On of the first programs I ever ran on a computer was a text adventure game, also known as Interactive Fiction. I think the first one I played was Adventureland by Scott Adams, which was based on the…

Jesus Christ and the Antichrist will be facing off this upcoming January with Dark Horse Comics' next installment in the Millarworld Library. The American Jesus Library Edition will feature all three…

yotsuba&!, kiyohiko azuma whenever i talk about my grandmothers, i feel like i always talk about them with a heavy heart, but it isn’t always so sad and so heavy. sometimes, when it’s funny and…

Watch Red Bull’s 2018 documentary short on the groundbreaking style, music, and cultural icons Major Force Records. Major Force is a Tokyo-based production and label company founded in […]

“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** T his week in 1976 saw disaster hit the Friuli area of Italy when an earthquake struck,…

Print to digital was a mantra from the 2010s, it's not a mantra in the 2020s

At $699, the Angry Miao Relic 80 'Raw' edition is far from value-oriented—but it is undeniably striking. Leaning heavily into an off-white, hypebeast aesthetic, the board features a beautifully…

Release Date: September 2025 RRP: $49.99 Over the last few years Chinese company Blokees have taken the toy collecting world by storm, wowing buyers with their range of affordable yet accurate…

Mark Zuckerberg had his hands full last week trying to calm the storm at his company. In an employee conference call, he had to quell a great deal of panic over the company’s performance.…

from Dean Baker Productivity growth is an old concept; we’ve been seeing it at a substantial pace for more than 200 years. Nonetheless, many elite intellectual types like to claim they know nothing…

Can your interior project benefit from using Figma and a touch of AI? Of course it can!

My most popular post is about how my wife and I traveled through Italy for a month while packing carry-on-only. I carried one (max-sized) carry on bag for that trip.Now, let's talk about…

I hope we all now understand that forging strategic policy partnerships with fascists is like trying to develop an intimate relationship with a running chainsaw.

I finished reading A World Appears appears a few weeks ago and have been thinking about it off and on ever since. The author, Michael Pollan, appeared as a guest on the Colbert Show on February 20,…

Some of us have to live with the consequences of another legislative session (5/7/2026) Iowa's public approval of President Donald Trump has dipped to 42 percent in 2026, according to the World…

I jumped on the trend of running local LLMs and agents and was having a lot of fun until my agents kept failing, timing out, and just stopping without any obvious reason. I tried PaperClip +…

What’s the secrets to unreasonable hospitality? That’s what I wanted to find out when I sat down with Will Guidara and Brian Canlis. Will spent over a decade running Eleven Madison Park,…

This year marks my twentieth year in the industry. I get messages on LinkedIn from college students who want to work in software engineering but feel like their degree, school, or background puts…

For as long as I can remember, I have drawn. In the walls, in my books, in my homework, in any paper I could find. I was never a great artist, does not matter how much people around me tell me…

Dàdù Plateau (大肚台地) is a geographic feature of great strategic importance to the defense of central Taiwan. It overlooks the coastal Qingshui Plain (清水平原) and occupies high ground on the westernmost…

The inspiration for this post came from Dave’s Garage YouTube Channel. It featured dbrll/ATTN-11, which used machine learning on a PDP-11 to reverse a sequence of numbers. I’m not (quite) old enough…

Running coaches all over the world have become increasingly anxious during the past few years with the advent of large language models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini. But…

Share your anxieties, hopes, horrors, and pleasures around relationships in this quick installation I made at the Dublin branch library in metro Columbus, Ohio. Many responses will be included in a…

An EBM finally crossed 800M parameters without collapsing. Nobody has independently reproduced the 35% scaling claim. Both halves matter.

Neither the success of your marriage nor the memories of your guests will depend on the price of a party.

It was summer [1964]; Roger and I had come to spend the day in Paris, and, after visiting a museum, had decided to go to the cinema. Suddenly, on the opposite pavement, we saw Blanchot with a woman.…

On “By Endurance, We Conquer” and framing scenesAllow me another one of those posts where I think out loud about how to run roleplaying games as a GM. Yesterday, I ran By Endurance, We Conquer for…

And the American consumer is struggling! The post I thought Elon hated Anthropic appeared first on Cautious Optimism.

This practical framework shows you 9 steps for line editing scenes in crime and thriller fiction so that every sentence pulls its weight and delivers the appropriate level of tension.In this post​Why…

Conventional wisdom suggests that we should ask AI chatbots to adopt an expert persona to elicit better answers. According to this advice, prompts will yield better responses if they include…

Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve ever resorted to MANDATORY or DO NOT SKIP ,…

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Was on PodRocket to chat about my post Why AI Sucks At Front End: Watch it here or listen

My dotfiles for my MacOS rice and Emacs configuration live in two public repositories. Both repos are shared as a reference; clone, fork, or just lift the bits that look useful to you!

April 2026 was a very exciting travel month indeed. I embarked on a 17-day solo trip to Central Asia, visiting Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan! It was my first time visiting this part of the…

Home Assistant automation triggers are becoming easier to use. Here is what purpose-specific triggers and duration support mean in a real smart home.

After many years of running a few Wordpress sites, last year around September I moved the last of them over to static content serving. It’s been over 6 months, and today as I was checking…

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