I've always been told you can't trust a weatherman. Forecasting has gotten dramatically better, but there's a reason most apps stop pretending after a week or two: beyond that, you're not getting a…

Gwen John, St Thérèse of Liseux and her Sister. Photograph from Wikimedia . Following an essay on the MusikFest Berlin performance of Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre , a report-essay on the world…

In the coming version 4.0.0 of Chord, I've added a type that allows the author to create oceans, large terrains, and open caverns with multiple visitation points. Also known as a grid or matrix,…

In this article, I talk about how I create and maintain a centralized, augmentable list of deserialization methods for resources used by ToyMaker.

The most interesting part of this interview was the brief discussion on the rate of diffusion of AI into the broader economy. It’s a fascinating clash of old-school economics perspective and…

The concept of You, Inc. is a direct application of the idea of self-motivation instead of externally-imposed motivation, self-discipline in place of outside discipline, self-reinforcement in the…

We’ve had several inquiries about our plans to drive the iconic Route 66 that we’d planned. So what happened? Hmmm… our plans changed is the short answer.

PHP ships an emergency security release today, October 21, 2026, at 14:00 UTC. The release fixes two critical bugs in PHP core. People already call them “php2shell”. The details leaked…

In Expert asterisks, Ned Batchelder asks knowledgeable people “to resist the impulse to add little-traveled tangents” when helping learners…

The fourth little pig’s house was made of wolf skulls. They aren’t very sturdy, but they send a message. From a Cartoon Depending on the [...]

Text of the day: “I might have put up with it years and years ago but I’m not putting up with it now.” The post Some Woman appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

Allowing an AI to write code that you then ship without considerate review causes some anxiety. How do you know the code works? How do you know it isn’t doing something strange you didn’t ask for? It…

In the previous post I described my process for creating a platform that lets me record and visualize personal statistics, such as how many free throws I hit, but I passed over the natural question…

Figured it was time for a fresh coat of paint~

Software job postings peaked before ChatGPT existed. A look at the real data behind the AI jobs fear, who profits from it, and what the real long term question is.

Machinists > Tailors Software engineers are turning into AI Engineers? No, we are turning into software machinists. Replacing handmade software with (increasingly) cheap, plentiful, machine-made…

Exit SlaveWorld: Training Camps And Men’s Retreats: Pittsburgh, PA, 5/11/26

It really does feel the Atlantic Ocean got much, much wider. As Europe struggles with riots and populism, financiers in the USA dismiss Yoorp as irrelevant, and think their economy is doing just…

Pull request #9111 "Build FirebirdSQL CMake+CLang" by Sergey Khalyutin was merged into the Firebird master branch on October 21, 2026. It makes it possible to build the whole Firebird project with…

Since 1.0.0 nspawn 1.0.0 came out a month ago. There were ten minor releases between that one and 2.0.0, and most of them went into making a machine do what docker run does with a container, so that…

If you are a software engineer, or generally work in the tech industry, there is a good chance that you heard about the eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise that was disclosed yesterday (October 20,…

Following the success of Simon’s Collingwood appearance at the The Fareham RailEx show earlier this month which included being awarded ‘Best layout in Show’ , Collingwood and its…

Microsoft Clarity is a useful way to see how people interact with your website. I’ve been using it since it first came out in 2020, but ignored or overlooked something that happened a year ago,…

How a 1994 SNES cartridge became a native PC program in ten days, one loop at a time.

Switzerland, a Prison? A few days ago, I came across a short video from Switzerland. Perhaps fifty seconds long. The first time I watched it, I was convinced the whole thing had to be staged. It was…

October 21, 2026 It’s time to bring out the bright colors, if you have them! The crowds these days are pretty drab (and I don’t really do much to help that, unless I’m wearing some…

I did this for hexes and planets , but what if I want to use this same system for giving an NPC some specific behaviour notes? Forget how they look, how do I give this NPC some life without doing a…

My work these days is in part focused on trying to ensure content is what might be called uncontaminated: that the cold clammy hand of AI is not only anywhere near it, but is seen and believed to be…

It's the time of year when German beer is that little bit more visible in the shops and speciality bars. There are the seasonal Oktoberfest variants, of course, but it seems to be an excuse for…

LFF, you do not have to say anything, yes plus time equals no. The post The half empty nest | weeknotes 21 October 2026 first appeared on Neil Williams.

Vancouver, British Columbia, is something of a conundrum. Why would the better part of a million people pack themselves in at 15,000 people per square mile in a province whose average population…

secure-iam-lint v1.2.0 flags SCP and RCP guardrails that never fire, adds baseline mode for noise-free PRs, and stabilizes SARIF fingerprints.

This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare by Katrina Manson, held October 18, 2026. Ratings ranged from two stars to…

Setting up a remote BirdNET microphone on a Raspberry Pi is a great way to pick up bird calls from the other end of the garden, but it's no use if you have to SSH in and start the stream by hand…

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Define preconditions, bounded retries, and escalation handoffs so an operational runbook stops safely when reality no longer matches the procedure.

Most parents of adult children have said that they lost sleep worrying about their kids when they were younger, but perhaps surprisingly, some stress and wonder nearly as much about them when they…

Testing AI-generated code without the noise: lint the patterns coding agents follow, share one test harness, and add tests only where a file leaves its pattern.

The world is still sad and annoying, let's talk about classic video games instead! Previously: SNES Games I finished ~30 years ago!, 30 NES/Famicom Games I finished as a kid, my list of completed…

Two Books. One Purpose. A Better Life. It was early afternoon on 10th May 1996. Rob Hall was leading a group of climbers toward the summit of Mt. Everest. Hall had climbed Everest several times and…

Remi’s repo didn’t have today’s PHP security fix, so I rebuilt his PHP 8.5 packages from source on a matching VM and shipped them to prod, with a rollback plan.

Last Updated on October 21, 2026 by Kay Thinking about visiting Rusutsu Resort in Hokkaido with your kids and wondering if it’s worth the trip? Better yet, what should you know before you go?…

My new ranching novel Grasslands, coming in April 2027, has all the elements that my readers love: a strong female protagonist who encounters adventure and romance on the Canadian prairie. But this…

THE STRUCTURE OF COMPULSION Lived experience is characterized by a non-optional dependence, contingency, and relationality—conditions that precede and exceed one’s individual control, conditions that…

I had a great idea in my early days at The Institute, which finished up creating a Dr Kavanagh, PhD, while generating some quite noisy [ ie useless] data about Lithium in the groundwater . There are…

I’ve been working long days to finish a new book, a memoir of being a contented 84-year-old, rambling around America doing stand-up and last Friday, sitting in an old library on East 79th Street, I…

One of the most useful business books I know is about eighty pages long, was first published in 1916, and spends a remarkable amount of writing on tinned peaches. On Obvious Adams, learning to see,…

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I started with a real task: let an AI coding agent containerize a Product Catalog app, and make it pick Docker Hardened Images (DHI) for its base layer by talking to the DHI MCP server at…

A capacitive dropper is one simple method used in some transformerless power supply circuits. In this method a capacitor is connected in series with the AC supply to limit the current going into the…