W̶o̶m̶a̶n̶ Painter: Revelations Rethinks And Retellings – National Museum Norway
Women have been so thoroughly written out of art history that a survey of Renaissance-era female artists is full of revelations. Their work was commonly attributed to male artists. Once corrected,…
My Experience as a Crowd-Sourced Funding Investor
In 2024 I invested $1500 in Evee and Broad Radio via Birchal's crowd funding platform and not much has happened since.
Welcome to the machine
This blog post is only incidentally about AI.
Gallipoli Review: World War I Is Best Experienced One Terrifying Shot at a Time
Most military shooters make you feel powerful. They give you a weapon, point you toward an objective, and encourage you to turn everything between you and victory into a pile of bodies. Gallipoli…
my kid could not have done this (not least because I don’t have one)
(You're looking at me) looking at myself looking at art (on the internet).
Palvelinten Hallinta
Control 10 , 100 , 1000 many computers. Or control 2071 computers, like Jussi did on a earlier course. Or handle 7 different operating systems and OS versions with a single master, like Matias. Best…
Stop Building Training That Was Never Going to Work
A free tool that walks you and your stakeholders through Mager and Pipe’s performance flowchart, before anyone opens an authoring tool. Here’s a made-up request. You’ve seen one…
Are Plug-in Home Batteries Worth It? Check the Savings Before You Buy
A small home battery can reduce your electricity bill, even without solar panels. But saving money each day and recovering the purchase price are two different questions. Before buying extra storage,…
Solsbury Hill
It was a long time ago now. 1985. That's over 41 years that have passed. We were living in Bath, on Great Pultney Street at the time, and I was a mature but immature student on a Bristol University…
What is the Average Net Worth by Age? [2025 Latest Data]
Do you want to know how you are doing relative to your peers financially? Then this is the article for you. The Federal Reserve recently released its 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, the gold…
L'avenue Thiers et la « colonie anglaise » à Grasse
La construction de l'avenue Thiers a prolongé Grasse vers l'est et a catalysé la « colonie anglaise ».
Logging Every Play
Why I log every board game I play, where MyLudo fell short, and how a homemade MCP server lets me log plays just by talking to Claude. Read the full post on the blog.
UK Sectoral Balances - Oct 2026
Sectoral Financial Balances for the UK as a % of GDP, smoothed over a year
UK Employment Stats - Oct 2026
The number of people in the UK without work that want it
How Decision Models Became a New AI Category After Jev
Within a month of Jev by TypeSafe AI, hyperscalers, AI labs, data platforms and open source projects shipped their own decision models. The request schema became the standard, the model became…
Volvo B10M/Alexander Q
DAZ 1516 is a 1994 Volvo B10M-16 with an Alexander Q body. Entered service with Ulsterbus as fleet number 1516, now preserved at the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum.
Don't be a Meat Puppet
Don't let AI be the master of everything you do
Au Doigt et à l’Œil: teaching a Chinese action cam to press its own OK button
A cheap Chinese action cam with a hidden Android, a bad flash that bricked it, a 40-byte loader that brought it back, and a software finger that presses OK at boot.
Japan Inspired Designs
After we visited Japan in the fall of 2023, I started developing ideas that would eventually become designs printed on a series of T-shirts with a touch of Keith Haring. Here are a few of them. None…
You Should Not Have to Perform to Belong
Being welcomed into a community is one thing. Feeling free to be yourself within it is another. What happens when acceptance comes with unspoken expectations, and how can we build communities where…
More Goodness – The Apollo Cast-1
Another box that arrived for me this week contains a lot more that it seemed at first sight. The Apollo Cast-1 is a fairly boring looking 3D-printed box with 1 USB-C connector, 3.5mm socket (lead…
What Does MSE = 0 Actually Require?
Mean squared error bundles three separate checks: bias, direction and volatility. See the MSE decomposition and why MSE reaches zero only when all three hold. Artykuł What Does MSE = 0 Actually…
Research communication benefits researchers too
Journal article abstracts have been getting harder and harder to read over the last 60 years. Make it easier on your fellow researchers.
Faith – GOD’S Rx!
“Ahhh! I have a headache, fever and feel achy all over,” groaned Susan. Neil went into the bathroom returning with ibuprofen and water. “Here take this,” he said handing it to Susan, “then I’ll get…
Not every agent task needs a plan
Two Haze tasks show when direct implementation is enough, when planning earns its place, and which checks still matter either way.
What a VW Lupo and a Tesla Roadster Have in Common: CAN Bus
A 1999 Lupo and a 2026 Tesla speak the same language. Why CAN bus refuses to die, and how I built CAN-Lab to learn it…
All Aboard the EventBridge Custom Bus!
Last week I was in Brisbane to talk about Amazon's new EventBridge Custom Bus. This post is a recap of my presentation for those who didn't make it to AWS Community Day Australia. Last month AWS…
Object 003 - N.010 : Nostalgic 90s School "Cakes"
This is part of a series as I document the life of a dress worn and lived in, in one real life, in the Highlands of Scotland. Object 003: Highland Mess Dress It's the Tattie Holidays here.…
Flotsam & Jetsam 23.10.26
The Grindadráp, Tassie fishing rules, use it of loose it, and are the pontoons deserted?
For the Love of the Game
.post .post-content { margin-top: 0px; } .post hr { margin: 10px; } I always liked building things. I built mazes (from decommissioned punched tape). Then LEGOs, and robots made of LEGOs. Then I…
Photography Edge Cases
PictureCorrect has a fun photography challenge where you take your shots using a 1/10 second exposure time without a tripod. This comes at a time when I’ve been looking for more photo lessons…
Testing browser extensions with playwright-webext
Learn how to set up playwright-webext, put tasks into extension storage, and check that a todo list popup displays them.
2026 State of OSPOs
At the recent Open Source Summit Europe in Prague, the Linux Foundation / TODO Group just released the 2026 version of their State of OSPOs and Open Source Management Report: Expanding Open Source…
Why I made Proza, a typographic theme for Ghost
Last year, after spending a few years establishing the habit of writing and sending out a post every month, I designed and built a theme of its own for Trema , which I publish with Ghost . I wrote…
Event Sourcing: Is our Projection Code fast enough?
In this part of my event sourcing series, we take a quick, pun intended, look at how fast the projector we saw in the last post actually runs. The projector gets a list of events as input and…
Cross-Compiling C++ with Bazel: Platforms, Toolchains and the Exec/Target Split
Alamedin gorge. The tent goes where the ground is flat, not where the view is. Nothing required those to be the same place. As far as I'm concerned, Bazel is the best build tool you can pick today,…
This blog has moved to a new domain
TL;DR: This blog has moved from https://andrea.corbellini.name to https://andrea.corbellini.blog. Please update all URLs pointing to this blog, and sorry for the inconvenience. Me and .name Back in…
Blog Tour: Guest Post: I Was Watching You by Chris Westlake
Today I am part of the blog tour for I Was Watching You by Chris Westlake. He is going to share about himself and the novel! This one looks to be right up my alley of interests, so goes another one…
Device Bound Session Credentials in ASP.NET Core
A session cookie is a bearer token, which is a polite way of saying that whoever holds it is you. Copy the cookie, replay it from another machine, and the server happily serves your account. Nothing…
Circular Distance Map
I’ve been playing around with map visualisations a fair bit again recently, both using JS libraries like D3.js for interactive ones, and the R Project for non-interactive static ones. I’ve also been…
Scope gating Agent Framework agents with Microsoft-Decision-1
Anyone who has put a customer support agent backed by a large language model in front of real users has, sooner or later, watched it cheerfully write a Python web scraper or summarize last…
Dystopian Book Club: The Gate to Women’s Country
This month’s Dystopian Book Club selection is Sherri Tepper’s 1988 post-apocalyptic novel The Gate to Women’s Country. Set three hundred years after a nuclear war, it describes a…
Rubik’s Cube fun
Earlier this year I rediscovered my enjoyment of Rubik’s Cubes. I am no way a fast solver but I like the challenge and it gives me something to do rather...
New Blogpost
New blogpost has been added to the journal page: Alegria Jazmine Mary Janes: Product Review A product review of the Jazmine Mary Janes by Alegria!
The biggest structural threat to Open Access is (still) researchers
The Success of Open Access Open Access is in my view a success story. It seems to be fashionable to flagellate ourselves about failures to reach 100% or bumps along the way, but over the course of…
Cyber Security - 2026 late autumn
Learn cyber security. Link birds-eye view to hands-on. Master's level course. Course name and code Cyber Security - ICB705AS3YE -2 (study guide) Timing 2026 period 2 late autumn, w43-w50 ECTS Credits…
Two day trip to Lopburi, the town with monkeys
Keoni and I just did a two day trip to Lopburi, the small town 3 or 4 hours north of Bangkok that's overrun by monkeys. There are less monkeys now, which in general was a good thing. To me the…
Lower bills and more investment: it is never going to work
Everyone knows that Britain needs a major infrastructure upgrade. Over 40 years since the first privatisation kicked off, none of the core infrastructure networks is fit for purpose. From potholes…
MCVT – a VT100 terminal app for the Psion MC400
Writing software for a 30+ year old platform that nobody uses... Welcome to MCVT - a VT100 terminal emulator for the Psion MC400
Spintop: Notice that you're dreaming. In a dream, the top never falls.
In Inception, a spinning top tells a dream from waking life. I wanted that top on my desk, as a quiet nightly practice for noticing when I’m dreaming.