Examples of Undefined Behavior Related to Type Accessibility in C++
From C++ standard: The first basic example illustrating this principle: UB in our develop branch An example demonstrating what we do in develop branch in our project: After a long spam discussion we…
Loading from tape
After some time off-line due to a disk failure, the CPCWiki Forum is back online. There is a thread to “show off your Amstrads”, so I used the excuse to do some gaming with the kids and my 464. I was…
Do you even Lichtenberg, bro?
In which I proudly list every project of mine, real or imagined, that exists in the realm of Lichtenbergian TASK AVOIDANCE…
Out of Amber
A Trip With My father
work is overrr + projects i've been up to
I accumulated enough vacation days to take a week off, so I did. It was a pretty great summer experience (and by great, I mean, I think this is the best it's going to get). My team was really nice,…
Chef Gruel on How to Eat Better for Less
Lots of good advice here . I follow nearly all of it.
Reading Wednesday 26/8
Recently read Cyteen , by CJ Cherryh. (c) CJ Cherryh 1988, Pub 1995 Warner Books, ISBN 978-0-446-67167-9 He, she and it , by Marge Piercy. (c) Marge Piercy 1991, Pub Del Rey 2016, ISBN 9781473529724…
linkding is the best!
linkding is one of the best self-hosted apps you can run. Stores links forever, API/full control over your data, tags, full snapshot exports if you want them, FF extensions, iOS apps. Less fussy than…
ND Filters for DJI O4 Wide from RunCam & Flywoo – Surprising Results
ND Filters for DJI O4 Wide from RunCam & Flywoo – Surprising Results Although the new DJI O4 Wide camera is largely based on Flywoo’s Wide Angle lens for the O4 Lite camera, the…
August 2026 Open Post
This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no profanity, no sales pitches, no trolling, no…
The Kraken Busters 83
<< First | <Prev | Next > << First | <Prev | Next > It’s important to me that you know: this comic has always and always will be made entirely…
I Quit My Job After 20 Years to Bet on YouTube
After 20 years in a nine-to-five job, I left it to give YouTube, Automate Like Pro training, and our community my full effort. Here is why I made the change and what happens next.
Meat Inside The Machine 📖
Suggestion: instead of Rage Against The Machine, I should like to form a society named Meat Inside The Machine. An altogether more accepting bunch of humans, conscious of our role in a digital…
The 2.1.1 “specific timings” Clause
Many simplified, intro, or “plain-English” WCAG re-interpretations frame Success Criterion 2.1.1 Keyboard as ensuring a control or widget or thing can be operated with a keyboard. Some go…
They Can Never Be Separated
This is a work of fiction. Deep thanks to Claire, Paul and Pete at Good Day Mockingbird, for the prompt that provoked this story, and for their enormously helpful editorial review and fact-checking…
The end (of summer) is near
The perhaps last picknick?
Journal: 2026/08/26 Wednesday (Misc)
2026/08/26 Wednesday So practicing a continuous line, trying to do a minimalist drawing, like it was so popular in the '60s and '70s among upper-class intellectuals and artists to show how…
Glucose and Sleep — The Connection Most People Miss
Aug. 25/26I used to think of sleep as the quiet part. Nothing happening. The body idling until morning. Then I started pulling up the Libre 3 graph after a bad night next to one after a good night,…
When Productivity Turns Against Its Purpose
The AI boom promises abundance, but without a fairer distribution of power it may deepen the poverty, dependency, and cultural depletion it claims to overcome.
Online Video Game User Expression Highlight Reel Patent
In 2018, Teatime Games, Inc. had a bold idea: why not make video game highlight videos based on user expressions?
Movie theaters are so back
Prior to this Summer, I can’t remember the last movie I saw in the theaters. Dune 1, maybe?1 I’ve probably averaged one in-theater movie every 18-24 months. BUT! Between mid-June and…
I’m an introvert. I just know when to get over it.
Introverted project managers can be strong leaders. The key is knowing when to speak up, when to listen, and where to spend your energy.
Challenge code and UI almost done!
So…I am still working on the online multiplayer(asynch) code and UI and UX for Ridiculous Space Battles, but progress has been pretty good, and certainly way quicker than the first time I…
RFK Jr.’s Latest Bit of Lunacy: Opening the Door to Untested Peptides for everybody
On July 23–24, 2026, the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee considered seven peptides. It recommended that six be eligible for pharmacy compounding: It rejected the seventh,…
The Necessary Chaos of Life
I have been thinking a lot about creativity and failure. The messiness and joy that both evoke, through feelings and difficult learnings. And how neither can be experienced by AI (or those who use it…
It has been so long...
It has been so long since I have posted. Alas I was part of a layoff recently so I am looking for a new gig! See my too long resume here…
packet loss
I am eating fruit snacks right now, they are okay. I am also drinking an energy drink, though a bit later than usual. It's done by now most days, but work has been busy. I'm working earlier this week…
AI Broke the Assumptions Behind CI
CI conflated two jobs: executing verification and coordinating merges. Agents change the equation. If you can verify before the PR opens and fix failures in context, why should CI discover them first?
Reading List 361
(Last Updated on 31 August 2026) Crikey, it’s been ages since I posted a reading list, so here’s every tab I had saved in my “Reading List” Vivaldi workspace. Apologies if…
Determining if your branch is part of a GitHub Stacked PR
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 Since the availability of GitHub's Stacked PRs finally landing for repositories that use a Merge Queue, I've been "kicking the tyres" with…
Learning Data Science, Day 1 – Introduction to Data Science
Where I decide to jump into data science and learn how to create a table, turn it into a CSV, clean it up, and analyse the data, all using Funko Pops, action figures, and Python.
Beliefs-values mismatch
Required reading: https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/levels-of-belief-reprise-via-rory-miller/ Giving good advice was already hard before social media. The most common way to give bad advice…
The Grift Also Rises
Ed Zitron’s latest overly long missive about the AI industry and its misdeeds includes this: “LLMs Are Built To Help Grifters and Imbeciles Do Impressions Of Work.” I’m sure…
Leidenfold: Leiden Community Detection for Elixir
Leiden community detection for Elixir, powering Arcana's GraphRAG.
Entry and stuff
Hello I'm so sleepy. 🧫Added a new journal entry (a life's worth in numbers, being judged, incarnating sanity, clear water, summer's end, Orion, the future) 🧫Updated the books page 🧫Updated the about…
Til Delete Do Us Part
Can a person marry AI??? Before we get to that, in July 2026, my wife and I celebrated 18 years of marriage. She loves telling people that our story actually began in the first grade, when I…
Meet Utterson, my Jekyll blogging helper
Back in 2019 I wrote about dealing with Jekyll post URLs, where I shared a tiny command that spared me from having to remember the exact file name of every article I wanted to link to. That command…
"So You Don't Trust Me?"
One of my favorite passages from Atlas Shrugged is this one, when Cherryl is beginning to have second thoughts about her marriage to James Taggart: It was his sudden, angry "so you don't trust me?"…
Teenbeat Mayhem - Slipped Thru The Cracks
I can't remember when the last essential American 60s garage rock compilation was issued... sometime in the early 00s with the ace Teenage Shutdown cd series and those seven volumes of Fuzz, Flaykes…
Trojan Cows
Today marks my 1.5th year living in San Francisco. It feels like ages since I moved here from the peaceful suburbs of Northern Georgia to chase my lifelong dream of building the final AI harness for…
DJI Power 2000 Review: More Than Just a Portable Power Station?
Portable power stations are incredibly useful when you need electricity away from home. The problem is that for many of us, once the camping trip, holiday or day out is over, that expensive battery…
Linux is NOT Windows
The very influential and quite entertaining article below was written by, and belong to, Dominic Humphries, the CC copyright and attribution and link to the original are at the bottom of this post. I…
Indirect Experimental Constraints On The X17 Hypothesis
A new analysis constrains the properties of a hypothetical X17 particle using experimental measurements of muon g-2 and electron g-2. It does not rule out the X17 particle hypothesis, although it…
Lockstep
I looked, and it seems like there aren’t enough LLM evals out there!
Invermark Estate appeals 3-year General Licence restriction imposed after evidence of raptor persecution
Earlier this month, NatureScot announced it was imposing a three-year General Licence restriction on Invermark Estate in the Angus Glens, relating to the discovery of a Peregrine with shotgun…
Quickie: Dolly Parton - House of the Rising Sun (Live)
youtube • video ID: hNI_Qx3cspEclick image to load player It takes a generational talent to take a song like “House of the Rising Sun” and make it in your own way. RIP This article was…
Coming to San Jose for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 23rd of September – get tickets half price now!
On the 23rd of September we will come to San Jose to run the We Are Developers World Congress North America and I am dizzy with planning and excitement. 10k attendees, 600 speakers, tons of content.…
Why OOP exists
Learn the fundamental principles behind OOP and how they connect to the syntax of Python. Introduction Welcome! This article will teach you the core ideas behind object-oriented programming ,…
DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics
In this post, Andy Warfield explains how databases like DuckDB are enabling a new way to build with data, why they matter right now, and how they complement the work we’ve been doing in S3 (e.g., S3…