On MacOS, the cmd tab keyboard shortcut only switches between apps, not the individual windows. I use apps like Firefox, where I have multiple windows open and so the MacOS solution does not work for…

I listened to the most recent 'The Students' episode with an interesting discussion on physis vs nomos.I wanted to write my take on it. I dont think I'm breaking new ground here necessarily but maybe…

The topic for this month’s Bearblog Carnival is “your favorite ______ in your niche hobby.” I’m a knitter and throughout the decade or so that I’ve been knitting, I’ve tried an impressive amount of…

So a week ago I added the human.json protocol to my site and wrote a quick and dirty script to load a ton of vouch links in it and added it to the links page and while I was at it updated my youtube…

There sure is a lot of noise out there about so-called “artificial intelligence.” (I won’t bother with the scare quotes through the whole post, but it’s worth noting:…

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I've had a rather pedestrian realization following Kami's post on the red button/blue button hypothetical. A few disclaimers; I agree with Kami on it being an…

The European Union took four years to draft the AI Act - with OpenAI shipping GPT-4 to a hundred million users in two months. By the time Brussels finalised its definitions of…

Pablo Picasso (on social media, anyway.) Quote Investigator says David S. Viscott, with a slight nod at Ralph Waldo Emerson. Picasso sounds nice tho. The post The Meaning of Life is to Find Your…

Google Mail Chatbot now supplies me with suggested replies to emails. Since I have to assume the emails I get were suggested by Goggle Chatbots, it looks like if I send the suggested replies, there…

it's just 9 am. i slept at 4, i don't know what I'm doing up already. i am adamant to open my laptop for work. I've just finished my honeymoon trip and i know how crazy everything has since i left. i…

Anglerfish are a deep-sea animal that uses its bioluminescent lure to capture prey and court mates. Along the way, as the males lack a phallus, they bite onto the larger female Anglerfish, which then…

Strickland, L. Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary? Math Intelligencer 46, 57–62 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-023-10271-9 PDF

I'm alive. just tired. hope you're having a great day!

A modular camera experiment

Time-blocking my way through postdoc life IV – my routine to plan my academic life This is a post about my planning routine. I promised to write about it and share my time-blocking…

March 1943. "Santa Fe R.R. train stopping for coal and water. Laguna, New Mexico." Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

This One Pan Tofu Couscous is bright, zesty, and so delicious! With crispy seasoned tofu, fluffy couscous, and an herby chimichurri, this one pan wonder is sure to become a staple in your dinner…

What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to…

Do it now Claude!

Posted on 2026-05-07 by Oleg Grenrus engineering Seven years ago I wrote a post about compatibility packages. It is now highly outdated, so let us revisit the matter. Recently there have been a small…

I am talking to a number of folks about documenting their MCP servers. Others about discovering them. Others about governing them. Generally, we are mostly talking about being able to just see the…

Jwt should not be persisted

How about some links that aren’t about computers? Or, not directly related. Mostly. On the enshittification of Audre Lorde. Landslide; a ghost story. Of course, here I am sharing a bunch of…

30 projects in 30 days using AI-assisted coding. Here’s what was easy, what was hard, what was unexpected, and where this is all going.

TL;DR: you may no longer use the content of this website for commercial purposes. In particular, you may not use it as training data for commercial language models. I decided to change the licence…

An AI-generated projection of React's public API, shaped around what a TanStack Start app needs. ~9KB client, 2–3× faster on our workloads. Powers this blog today; capable of running tanstack.com…

Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.

How about adding such letter on main Nozbe home page? Just to show the prospective buyer that the same tool we’re selling is the same tool we’re using and it’s reflecting our values and the way we…

I have been vibe coding a lot. Like, a lot a lot…. and it’s been leaving me feeling a bit conflicted. I’ve been committing hard, and feeling tremendously productive. But I also get this weird flash…

Let's say you are the maintainer of a Python library that depends on another Python library like “ urllib3 ”. Because you want to make sure users receive a compatible version of urllib3 you add a…

Academic reviewing used to be more fun. (As fun as it can be, of course.)

London's shape was decided by a Roman bridge at the narrowest practical crossing of the Thames around 50 CE. Two thousand years later, every commute, every property value, every neighborhood boundary…

Buying a second-hand 2020 MacBook Pro for twenty-five dollars, upgrading from Catalina to Sequoia, and identifying the problems with the laptop's non-functional screen and Touch Bar. Diagnosing and…

Something finally clicked for me. When looking at an ASCII table, you will notice that after the uppercase Z, there are a few other characters before lowercase a: Decimal Binary Symbol 88 01011000 X…

To-do lists are often touted as the solution to task management. It makes sense on the surface—what better way to keep track of what needs to be done than by writing everything down in a list? This…

I run NixOS on my laptop. I use Claude Code daily. Recently the two stopped getting along, so I sat down and fixed it. The official Claude Code installer (curl -fsSL claude.ai/install.sh | bash)…

I’ve seen the term “player-coach” now come up enough times that I’m going to write about it while I enjoy my morning coffee.

Every time you load a website, send an email, or update an app, you’re quietly relying on a handful of unglamorous services that route your packets to the right place: DNS to translate names into…

Part of the "FreeBSD on a Laptop" series. Disable password logins on the FreeBSD SERVER in favour of using SSH keys for authentication. Create the necessary SSH keys on a FreeBSD CLIENT that will be…

Almost all the algorithms/methods covered so far have been action-value methods (except gradient-bandit algorithms, Section 2.8). Action-value methods learn the values of actions and then derive the…

I’ve written not one, but two new things for school publications! First, I’ve written about The Sound, one of my favorite bands, in Firebird. If you were wondering why I’d dug up an…

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Every week I update a series of charts that help my wife and me monitor the health and performance of our solar panels. Each visual answers a different question, and together they’ve changed…

Banning a digit doesn't kill the cowardice — it relocates it. I banned 7s on my bake ratings, and the middle 6 inherited it. The rule is a lens, not a fix.

Hugo builds static pages; publishing determines whether deployed artifacts carry accurate cache validators and whether search engines receive explicit update notification. The implementation…

AI is finding bugs faster, researchers pile on the moment one drops, and registries ship malware by the hundred-thousand. Defenders are caught between two contradictory imperatives. The fix is…

Quick post with some life updates!

In The Last Programming Language Might Not Be for Humans, I argued that if AI becomes the primary author of code, the source language has to bend around that author. In What Comes After the Last…

Formula 1 Round 6 2026 recap: Kimi Antonelli wins in Miami; McLaren, Ferrari, and Red Bull bring upgrades and become more competitive, while Mercedes no longer has such a big advantage, and there is…