In my previous post, I said that I live a very sedentary lifestyle and wanted to change that. So this is roughly 3 months of hitting the gym. Truth is this isn't my first three months in the gym, but…

The Hidden Infrastructure Problem Nobody Talks About. India has talent. India has ambition. India has capital. India has one of the largest pools of engineers in the world. Yet India still struggles…

I have recently had the domain renewal notice for skryblans. It is set to auto-renew annually anyway, it's just they let me know a couple of weeks before that's due to happen. Even though I haven't…

I've ported Intel's ASTC compressor (in ispc_texcomp) to pure C for benchmarking and discovered this gem during the process. The swap() utility function for float values, located near the top, has a…

This week's action-packed Commando set includes the epic conclusion to the Valiant Stormers Forlorn Hope series, a race against the clock for SAS Captain Hulke, and some old crackers too. Issues…

The pub on the corner Corner sites are favourites for any business that relies on walk-in trade – shops of course, but also pubs. I passed this glowing example on a recent walk from New Bond Street…

I was working on a design doc recently with the help of AI when it generated a sentence that immediately made me stop. It described another team’s system as “legacy infrastructure that should be…

I decided to try different models at OpenRouter for my OpenCode use. It was easy enough to set up OpenCode; all that is needed is an API key, and the rest worked automatically. I was interested in…

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once i woke from a dream. i opened weary eyes and limply grasped a bright and burning seeming. but, the seeming went— as easily as it came— into base gray matter, dissolved, and washed away.

I rewrote I/O Riot. The old version, written in C and SystemTap, dates back to 2017. The new version (called `ior`) uses Go, C, and BPF via libbpfgo. It runs on Linux and is primarily a TUI dashboard…

Making the Gauge StockEpisode three is out on Woodworking Masterclasses if you want to go that route too, but all of the details are below here as well for those who like text and drawings. Here is…

April has been another month balancing work with everything else. Despite project deadlines, I’ve mostly kept on top of things – although a lack of sleep towards the end of the month got…

One of the joys of working in-house is seeing the cumulative buildup of your efforts over time. You’re able to invest into something bigger than individual projects; you can build a body of…

This is amazing!! And thanks for the super detailed steps. Could this be my first « DIY » project?

Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.

The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.

THE SCHOOL SEMESTER IS OVER!! I AM FREEE

There are three main engines: Businesses for Wealth Creation. Politicians for Tax Collection. Monks for Allocation of Collected Taxes. But the power dynamics are in reverse. Monks sit on top of…

I don’t use A.I. for my posts; I prefer the human touch (and if you suspected I did use it because of em-dashes, I can point you to a snapshot of my blog from 2015 where you can see that I averaged a…

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I read the book Principles of Neural Design recently. It’s extremely dense, which you’d hate or love depending on how much you’re in awe with how our brain works. I totally loved it! The…

90 days into her job at the Bureau, Judith is woken at 2AM by Janet Garcia to come in for a sitrep for not one, but three cases that needed attention.

In the previous post talked about why the GitHub Copilot SDK matters: it gives you a production-grade agent harness out of the box, so you can skip building the infrastructure and focus on your…

Jason Kridner returns to The Amp Hour after his first appearance 15 years ago to talk about the BeagleBadge and Zepto boards that showcase new capabilities in the Linux and Zephyr space. The…

Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian report for MS NOW that the FBI director has ordered more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail, as well as others, to be polygraphed.

What looks like a motivation problem in software work is often the cost of entering the next step - context load, cross-system design, LLM drift, verification, and re-entry. The fix is not more…

The Saturday night supremacy of CBS in the seventies has finally ceased (how’s that for alliteration?). This would be the final year for both The Bob Newhart Show and The Carol Burnett Show ,…

The Flourish is our swang song in eurorack. The best after a decade in the business. This month we are making 20 Flourishes, 9 Geometric Anomalies, 20 NextTuesday expanders and 20 Switches. We still…

Sometimes it seems as if the universe is warning us against something. Or, perhaps, it is just measuring our determination. Testing us. In “The Once and Future King,” the fine telling of…

Bernie the Dupe by Jack Butler What is Mr. Sanders thinking? It isn’t the first time he’s found solace in a communist country. But there’s more going on here than that. The supposed model for this…

In this post, I argue that hexcrawls don't need to have a key for every hex, and might even be better if they don't. 1 My perspective on this is influenced by my experience running Antarctica jam. 2…

孩子，是上天給我們這些破碎、愚蠢的大人最珍貴的一堂課。 是的，連那個摔門、滿嘴藉口、只有錢花完了才肯跟你說話的青少年，也是。 但幾乎沒有父母真的從孩子身上學過什麼。這堂被擺在他們眼前、最大最珍貴的課，他們眼睜睜錯過。 因為社會已經徹底洗腦他們：為人父母，就必須背負起責任和義務，去教導、糾正、獎勵、懲罰。他們把孩子當成一件需要被修理的半成品，而不是一個帶著天賦、優雅與單純來到這個世界的存在。…

Every day we encounter a diversity of materials: liquids, glass, ceramics, metals, crystals, magnets, plastics, semiconductors, foams, … These materials look and feel different from one another.…

Hello, I wanted to do a deep dive into Next.js's structure and how it differs from traditional HTTP servers such as Flask, Express.js, and many other frameworks.As you know, Next.js is…

Turning 50 comes with a myriad of cliches: Not caring what other people think. Taking stock of what's really important. Focusing on health or other things that have been neglected for years. But for…

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Archaeologists racing to excavate the bones of a lost race of giants in a remote wilderness. Hints of a lost civilization. An attack by hostile Natives, and sensational dispatches from a reporter on…

I just finalized my itinerary for my upcoming international trip, and boy was it a challenge...I waited on hold for over an hour with Aeroplan today and over 2 hours yesterday. So that motivated me…

I mean, fuck Aramark, UK's food quality has been declining since they privatized out to them. But a... Continue reading →

My coding agent, sid has a compaction strategy I’ve not seen in use elsewhere; I call it, “Ask an Expert!”

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The Apology is Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial where he faced charges of impiety and corrupting the youth. The most important thing to understand going into reading this is the…

Intro If you're active at all when it comes to language model research these days, you almost certainly have an implicit mental model for what kinds of training have been useful for capability…

For the better part of my career I used 'find' incorrectly, or at the very least very naively. The '-exec' trickery eluded me for over a decade; I often relied on running child processes or _worse_…

Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars - YouTube Great explainer on how hybrid cars work. Non-hybrid gas engines use the Otto cycle. They are relatively inefficient because they waste energy at…

When a little black and white kitten fell from a ledge on Fifth Avenue, everyone who witnessed the event placed the blame on the ASPCA and the fire department. We’ll never know who was at…

In a technical talk from SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 on Gran Turismo SPORT, there’s a slide that reads: “ITU-R Recommendation BT.709 = Rec.709 = BT.1886 = sRGB” “Different names, same…

Substack: What I learned from vibe-coding “Every time Daniel Molloy comes on screen play SexyBack” in an hour with Claude Code valstechblog/molloy-detector on GitHub The motivating user story On…