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…

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…

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run…

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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…

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…

DailyDogo 1676 🐶

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…

New job, new apartment, new city, new quests

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…

~1089 words. ~5 minutes. tags: emacs programming debugging Or as I would like to call it, GLORIOUS Unified Debugger. This is my submission for June's Emacs Carnival, Underappreciated Emacs built-ins.…

I love it when a romance book becomes more than just about falling in love. Caught Up may not have the most unique plot but the heart of this story is something that you rarely find in just any book.…

Why AT URIs are not valid under IETF RFC-3986, what the impact is, and some possible ways forward.

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…

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.

A new Tradecraft Garden and Crystal Palace release is available. This release introduces a proper install script and consolidates its commands behind a cpl [verb] CLI interface. I’ve also added an…

The 17th annual Panda’s Thumb Photography Contest begins now, Monday, June 29, at 12:00 p.m., MDT (MDT = UTC(GMT) – 6 h). Owing to the short notice (we have been preoccupied), we will accept entries…

Brief Biography: David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and the founding Director of the Institute for Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he also founded the…

I finished my comic project for Kawacon, lol it is done and I made something real!!

overall - what a fun day! had fun, no IT band pain post tri / no cramps on the run. finished on la crema vineyard with wine + pizza from diavola :D other thoughts - tris are tough for partners cause…

I’ve never been great at dealing with stress. I have a tendency to overthink, assume the worst and constantly worry, it’s a great combination! This summer has been the most stressful of my life. My…

Every major shift in software changes the unit of engineering. I believe we're watching it happen again.Software engineering has always evolved through abstractions.We rarely notice the…

Windows blanked, end wall cornice added, gaps puttied, corner bevels adjusted. Ready for stucco. The arcade is coming along, but that'll get its own post.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is a cozy fantasy novel that follows Linus, a caseworker for a government organization that runs orphanages for magical children. As a cozy novel fan, I am…

While Anthropic and OpenAI have massive valuations, the ROI from enterprise AI is coming from applications and data, not the model itself. It’s not unlike the relational database market, which…

Ralph Nader (born 1934, still active today) is a consumer advocate and political leader who interviewed me for his radio show in 2016. Typospherian Elizabeth L. kindly typed up the following…

IDK how long this entry will be, but regardless it IS an entry! To put short, not much has really happened in June, aside from me going to watch the Backrooms movie and seeing TADC finale. The…

I'm going to describe a character archetype to you, found in many modern comedies. These characters have an extremely high opinion of themselves, but are generally incompetent. They are also…

Investors instinctively turn to past performance when choosing funds. But new Morningstar research on 6,003 European funds finds it is far more reliable as a warning sign than a buy signal.

There are dozens forged or cast parts, like the one below, in an aircraft. Forming their shapes with polygon meshes and Bevel modifiers is difficult, because of their complex, rounded edges. Usually…

How I built Tinkerfont, a browser extension for inspecting and swapping fonts on live websites -- Manifest V3, content scripts, and a Firefox port.

Your browser does not support the video tag. I'm a generalist. I design, I code, I end up in a lot of places where typography matters but isn't really the job. Reviewing a client's staging site.…

For the last couple of weeks we’ve been drafting and re-drafting our discovery playback deck, straightening up the story we need to tell so that it’s clear. It’s also helping us create shared…

Ich bin seit gut 20 Jahren ein Touchpad-Nutzer. Zunächst auf iBook und MacBook, dann mit dem Magic Trackpad. Das lag daran, dass die Apple-Mäuse so schlecht, die Touchpads dagegen gut waren. Als ich…

In addition to being a software developer, I'm also a little bit of a DIY handyman. Not a very good one - I'm not one to make things *look* good, just function well. But mostly, I just love tools. A…

This week, lots of people were talking about FSF's policy of not accepting LLM contributions to Emacs core (see the last two items in the AI category). Comments seem generally supportive of FSF's…

Most amusement park enthusiasts point toward the original Bat at King's Island as the world's first, permanent, suspended roller coaster. And in the modern era, this is true, as it ran from…

What is the actual state of AI? I guess, it depends on who you ask. On the one hand, Google (and obviously others) is forcing AI to the absolute limit, replacing the default search behavior because…

Lester, it’s okay, he’s already dead. Lester. LES! You can stop now!!! Thanks to the patrons for supporting this comic which, unlike Compass Guy, is still very much alive and not getting…

I’ve been writing ruby and rails for nearly 20 years. A couple weeks ago, I had gotten code snippets from copy-paste in a chat window, but I hadn’t even experimented with Claude Code or…