Keep your scribblings straight. Read “Announcing: Dover” at joeldueck.com…

Extra! Extra! Read All About It — The Week That Refused to Stay Quiet These stories first appeared on January 20, 2026. As we settle into October 2026, some predictions aged poorly, others eerily…

クラウンズ・ド・ラ・シャットのサーカス兼劇場は、奇妙な一座だった。 観客の中にはショックを受けて途中で席を立つ者もいたし、毎回必ず誰かが金を返せと要求した。 同じ夜は二度となかった。 というのも、このショーは本当の意味で終幕へ向かって進んでいくのではなく、組織されたアナーキーとなって、ゴールラインへ向かって崩れ落ちていくようなものだったからだ。…

Hinagiku Hat Winter is coming and I desperately need a new hat. My previous beret was a bit small already and it’s shrink quite a bit, I’m sure I can pull it back by blocking it in a…

Author and yoga teacher Sue Bushell shares how ancient wisdom, Hindu mythology, meditation, and creative practice can help us discover the extraordinary within the ordinary.

Wrote this little long to practice some fingering and chords. https://youtu.be/wS9jZ-QJmfM https://youtu.be/wS9jZ-QJmfM This post (Song - Hello Hollow) was last edited 4 days, 12 hours ago .

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Setting up and customizing Linux machines has always been a pleasure of mine. For years I ran a few clunky local servers at home and hosted every kind of application on them. Then the cloud came, and…

Today we believe that the oldest living Romanian Olympian, Francisc Horvath, is celebrating his 98th birthday. We featured Horvath in our Olympic medal mysteries series some time ago, as he won…

A harness is software, not a secret handshake. Inspect the prompts and tool calls before attributing a benchmark difference to model–harness chemistry. An October 19 post from Beamsters asserted:…

I love Australian animals deeply. They're part of my identity and culture. And yes, when it comes to choosing between protecting native wildlife and allowing invasive animals like feral cats to…

All Things Open 2026 is on in Raleigh! With more than 100 sessions and speakers, choosing what to attend is not easy. I went through the conference program and shortlisted the sessions that caught my…

The alleged discovery of a covert recording device inside OpenAI’s offices raises an important question for corporate Australia: are businesses protecting their confidential conversations as…

bob kitella - the simps on ai

A curated list of cyberpunk Japanese anime and OVA and Western animated films and television cartoons.

https://colorbrewer2.org/ A set of color-blind safe color palettes that I've used as the basis for a bunch of visualizations

AI cut the cost of sending a submission to almost nothing, so signal and noise both went up by a factor of ten. The triage queues were built to never miss, and that's exactly what's breaking. Some…

From the air, a great circular gymnasium with a domed roof sits like a green eye in the middle of the overgrown grounds.

Schokomürbeteig is the chocolate variation of classic German Mürbeteig. It is made by replacing part of the flour with unsweetened cocoa powder to create a tender, crumbly dough that’s ideal…

Homeschooling comes with plenty of exciting opportunities, but figuring out where all the learning is actually going to happen can be a challenge. You want somewhere your kids can concentrate, get…

Chapter 1 of my first foray into fiction is out: Heavenly Lord - the story of Maewen. Mind the messy writing!

Some unfinished business with Dialectica categories I've recently put two Lab notes in my Drafts repository , both about extending Dialectica constructions beyond their usual setting. Neither is…

The 1975 “Manned orbital systems concept study” looked at extended duration Spacelab derived mini space stations, capable of being expanded into greater capability. The artwork reproduced…

I’m a fan of the Harmful Digital Communications Act. We need a quick and accessible remedy when a video of a child being bullied is posted on social media, for example, and the rest of our…

Hello, sweet friends! I saw that the Pink & Main monthly challenge and Simon Says Stamp IG Challenge were BOTH Halloween themed so I thought I would make something to join in the fun! Two birds with…

Today, for the first time, I used Apple’s “Describe an Extension” feature in Safari to have Apple Intelligence make a little useful extension for me and I was impressed. I hate clicking a link and…

The new Spacing Magazine arrived in my mailbox today. Can you imagine how excited I was to discover THIS while flipping through the pages? Definitely Thriving is on sale at the Spacing Store. Toronto…

AllSides puts three opinion pieces side by side: one from the right, one from the left, and one they call center. All three are about whether hooking up is bad for people. Here's how it reads to me.…

One of the big things I’ve done recently has been to reduce my dependency on subscription-based software. I did some initial work on this a…

While I’ve had some time off from work, I’ve been designing curriculum. It seems like a good way to keep my skills sharp and create something useful for the greater math community. I chose to use a…

Four Supreme Court justices sat out the music publishers’ petition over “Double Shot,” leaving the Fifth Circuit’s worldwide-termination ruling in place by default. The post BMG v. Vetter: Recusals…

David Wilkerson was deeply affected emotionally by what he was shown about the future of the United States. For months afterward, he “tried to shake it off”, but he couldn’t do it.…

A case study in procedural atrophy

A long time ago, I was on the radio. And there I am, above - in a photocard I’ve still got. I was on The Pulse, in West Yorkshire, from 1993 to 1995. I then did swing on Hallam FM until the end…

Since 22 September, Google’s consumer AI subscriptions include Colab. Google’s help page is specific about what that means: “Google AI Pro members get 200 CCUs”, Colab compute…

The supply chains for chips, robots, and power can probably be scaled up fast enough that none of them seriously delays post-AGI growth.

You can download MacBeeb from GitHub, where the source is too. MacBeeb is a BBC Micro emulator written for the Mac in Swift. I’ve spent a lot of time in the BBC Micro’s internals through…

Every MVP has an event horizon: the point where people start depending on it. You won't feel yourself cross it - you'll find out when you try to back out.

Jamboree on the Air 2026 On Saturday, October 17, 2026, Troop 119 in Lexington, MA took part in Jamboree on the Air (JOTA). This year the troop set up a radio station in the center of town instead of…

My youngest daughter has neurodiverse challenges that we’re still figuring out at the moment. One thing she finds especially hard is media that makes her feel stressed or anxious. She’s…

Awalnya saya berpikir bahwa saya tidak akan sempat mengikuti openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 yang akan diselenggarakan di Yogyakarta dikarenakan saya cukup kewalahan mengurus BlankOn, baik proyek maupun…

A follow-up to my post on Gradle's rich console on Nix: a small patchelf script in my nix configuration that repairs the native library cache whenever the Gradle wrapper breaks rich console.

Nuova postazione nata per caso e necessità Ho sostituito da una settimana l'iMac 27 del 2009, onore alla resistenza di questa macchina, dopo 16 anni abbondanti guasto alla scheda Wi-Fi ed al…

Copy my Scout, Margin, and Phone Bot templates. Explore a 13-bot personal AI team, real app screenshots, setup prompts, and checks for work you can trust.

The Priest Mountain Shelter, VA (37.817850, -79.070375) Seven years ago I hiked half the Appalachian Trail, from its midpoint in Harper’s Ferry, WV, to its northern terminus at Katahdin, ME.…

Miscellaneous notes on St. Louis slang and customs, from pronouncing Carondelet to defining a hoosier.

International restaurants and shops along South Grand Boulevard

I’ve been doing some simple experiments probing what kind of persistent identities we get out of language models. Here, I’ve put together a small harness that carries on a conversation with multiple…