So the Supreme Court issued a pile of decisions this morning, including one in which the only good part was intellectual honesty about being disingenuous (of which more in the future). It is that…

Unpacking a database of unknown type

I have a copy of SICP, or as it is also known, The Wizard Book. This book is widely praised, but I can’t take the time to work my way through all of it. Instead, I’m going to occasionally…

Lucide is a fantastic resource for icons. Just wanted to make a note for myself because I keep forgetting the name.

Chromebooks, iPads, and other Silicon Valley devices are infiltrating public school classrooms. Nicholas Smyth, professor of ethics and technology at Fordham University, interviewed 30 parents about…

Contents A stable decision and a stable patient are the same illusion The paper survives, the ground does not A short story about a tool that was right until it wasn’t The role that keeps decisions…

    BACKGROUND For the next six months, I intend to fulfil a long-standing aim of mine to visit each of the properties on the London Monopoly board. This will encompass 22 streets and 4…

The extraction class media will spend all summer and fall telling you that very ordinary and popular public interest reforms are the very worst form of extremism.

i've been thinking of death lately since oliver tree's death. i am processing it still and it feels weird to say, since i did not personally know him. maybe that is a mark of a great artist - you…

It was a slower week. I enjoyed catching up with new CSS features through reading articles, watching videos, and working through a tutorial. The post Weeknotes 26:26 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.

A follow-up to the split Cursor workflow: install Ollama on Manjaro with CUDA, pull coding models, wire up Aider and Cline for scoped local work — with honest limits on tool reliability, privacy, and…

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Math is wonderful, and there are so many different ways to play and experience it. I enjoy having conversations with other math lovers and sharing ideas, puzzles, pedagogy, and questions. In one of…

Within the history of cryptography, the tale of how Bletchley Park broke Germany’s Enigma cipher has been told many times, in both print and on screen. With so much emphasis on the…

Season 1 · Episode 4 Good morning, Capital Scholars friends and family! This week we are on Chapter 3 of 7 in our book, How to Change. Today's topic is procrastination. This post is one of a few…

Suppose you need to run 15 miles (24 km) in the next week. You can distribute this volume however you want, both within and across days. Your goal is to cover the requisite distance in a way that…

I started freelancing this year. This has meant jumping between unfamiliar codebases and getting productive as quickly as possible. A year ago this process entailed scouring through READMEs and…

Every time I tell someone new that I'm a writer, they pause for a moment, then ask the same question: "So, what do you think about AI?" This question has been sapping my motivation to write for years.

Season 1 · Episode 3 Good morning, dear readers! We have now been in DC for around a month; four chapters into our reading assignment, and four weeks into our internships. As we close in on the…

This article considers the use of human-generated data by Artificial Intelligence (AI). More specifically, I am concerned with what I call “spontaneous data,” under which Instagram photos and TikTok…

Chas Glatzer, fellow adventurer in nature photography and someone I’ve been with on trips multiple times over the years, has passed after being involved a three-vehicle collision on Interstate 85 on…

thanks to those who left recent doodles in my drawbox! love the cute cat and the smiley face :D i dumped some art i did recently, mostly silly stuff, but putting it on here anyway!

In my time time scrolling through the Discovery page, a detail that I sometimes make a mental note of is if someone's blog is under their IRL name. This makes me think about and sometimes question my…

powRSS will start listing the blog carnivals happening around the indie web.

CJ Chilvers: Before influencers, there were bloggers. Before bloggers, there were TV stars, rock stars, and movie stars. Call them whatever you want, but individuals have always been the drivers of…

Over on powRSS I’m putting together a list of blog carnivals happening around the web. Send me an email if you are hosting or participating in another community's carnival! IndieWeb Topic: Masks,…

I’ve traveled to Graz to for once *not* speak at the Frontend Graz meetup, and instead be a regular attendee who can simply enjoy the show. By the way, this was the tenth edition, because we include…

Enjoy a 1-minute video celebrating the MATH and POETRY of Omar Khayyam This Mathematician Solved Impossible Equations While Writing Poetry -- YouTube This blog posting -- from long ago in 2011 --…

Imagine a love letter to the lost skill of paying attention. That is this book complete with 131 bite-sized exercises that wake you up to a world you see but don’t notice. The Art of Noticing…

On the feedback loop that AI’s democratization left behind What happens to a technology once it stops being the property of the few who understand it deeply and becomes available to the many…

A quick guide to help users set up account backups on their iOS devices

The Living Reading Room Gazette Hexagram / Matter vs. Spirit 2026 55gsm Newsprint, folded and unbound 8 pages 350mm x 500mm Digital Black printed by Newspaper Club Edition of 200 This publication was…

(pretty awesome) image from Gematsu On we go to the works of Toaplan! Like Emerson Lake and Palmer, Toaplan was a video game “supergroup” comprised of the best designers from Crux and Orca. Okay,…

I was enjoying Benn Stancil’s latest column1 on generalized vs specialized models (his typical, punchy, link-ridden screed) until this paragraph jump scared me: And that’s the turn nobody…

Round 3 Results Die Roll: 2 Cards: 5 Clubs 9 Spades Prompts: Intriguing, Coffee in an open air Cafe I was not sure what to do with this one at first, in my mind Jon is not the type of person to…

For years, visiting the redwoods of Northern California sat near the top of my travel bucket list. I’d seen photos of these towering giants... The post Wheelchair Accessible Redwoods: Your Guide to…

If you want to run a marathon (I don’t), you need to cover 26.2 miles. That’s hard work and there’s no way around it. But you can hire a coach, join a running group, hydrate well,…

UFO 50 #6: Mortol (Perry, 2024)For subscribers only, I’m working my way through UFO 50, in “chronological” order, posting one article a month until they’re all done If you’re interested in reading,…

A developer I was chatting with recently raised a question I’ve been hearing more and more: Since we can produce code so fast now, does the code actually matter that much? Assuming the code…

Robots have gotten good at stringing words together. So what?

A new thought post about a meetup with a neocities lover!!!

A little post about a mantra that has been making me a better person, and I hope will keep doing so.

Finn offers me poppers at his birthday party, I take them, holding one nostril down and pressing the bottle against the other. I inhale, and my body becomes loose, my veins relax, expand, even. A…

Day 2 of the hackathon. I used the Grafana gcx debug-with-grafana skill with Claude to find the root cause of failing and slow services from metrics, logs and traces, and monitoring Claude’s…

Google offers a really strong startups program, which includes >$100k GCP credits and a handful of other goodies like 12 months free of Workspace Business Plus (normally $22/user/month). While not a…

I thank the American institute of physics for organising their monthly Physics of plasma webinar series and for giving me. a chance to interact with some of the leading researchers in plasma science.…

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…

This post compares how Clang, MSVC, and GCC optimise a small integer division routine.

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…