Hyperion Cantos is a four book set. Hyperion gets a lot of press because of its device of a Canterbury Tales structure: tales of the main protagonists as told by themselves. As a single book that is…

An easy no-bake Eton Mess sundae made with strawberries, vanilla bean whipped cream, and crunchy (store-bought!) meringue. This easy Mother’s Day dessert is simple, fresh, strawberry sweet, and…

chiefmartec.com and team published “2026 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic: Peak Martech Achieved! (Maybe)“, 5-May-2026: Download a hi-res, clickable PDF of the full martech…

I turned 31 this year!

The MSM narrative seems to be that superpowers like US and China are about to crack down on AI. www.wsj.com #

I’m working on something I’m very passionate about. I’m learning and doing things with WordPress I never imagined. Do you want to know what it is? I think you’ll find interesting, even if just to see…

Ingredients 2 chicken breasts, sliced lengthways into thin strips 1 red pepper, sliced into strips 1 medium red onion, sliced 1 tbsp smoked paprika 1 tsp ground cumin Juice of ½ lime Black pepper…

I’m moving into a new role at Node4, as a vCTO (the “v” is for virtual). It formalises the type of work I’ve found myself doing more of over time — working with clients to…

here you go i wonder if I’ll ever be someone who wants to watch TV or films but so long as youtube exists i doubt it. the only tv show i am prepared to watch is the pitt. do not ask me how many…

I’ve been canvassed more in the past month than for any other election I can remember, whether Scottish (like this […]

A field guide to making coding agents useful without pretending the agent is the whole factory.

Yesterday, I wrote about a compilation video featuring 1 second from every episode of Malcolm in the Middle. Today, I have a video featuring 1 second from every classic Simpsons episode (by the same…

New Diary Entry!

A fake CEO voice, gift cards, urgency, and secrecy almost worked. The defense is simple: break isolation, verify through known channels, and never treat voice as identity.

AI is a sword for cutting through blockers, not a shield to hide behind.

A small zsh function on top of just that renames tmux windows, falls back to a global justfile, and shows project + global recipes in one fuzzy picker.

Tonight, the role of Dave will be played by ChatGPT. What is ChatGPT wearing today? ChatGPT is wearing a charcoal gray cardigan over a perfectly neutral blue button-down shirt that somehow…

Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X.…

I have a Raspberry Pi that's been sitting in a drawer for years. Pulled it out recently, popped in a fresh SD card with the latest Raspberry OS, and decided to actually do something useful with it.

Wearables arrive with the kind of confidence that two-decimal precision allows. They are describing one substrate, not the whole organism. This post is about how to demote the watch from judge to…

Added Uldren Sov shrine.

Do you struggle with interviews? You're not alone! You can have the best interview notes in the world, but when you start having that vocal conversation, you might end up a deer in the…

Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers.

Since about three years past time immemorial, the RSS feed for this site has been very anaemic. It had article titles and dates, and that was it. Many readers have requested that I include the full…

A professional transition, twelve months of ALG1, a MacBook Pro, and the open-source immune system for the post-AI internet. Every word is true. And it’s AI slop.

The retailing business is growing slightly more quickly, up 18 sites to a total of 110. Part of this is we pushed a fundraiser with one of our fundraising partners, and part of this is…

This is a transcript of Lex Fridman Podcast #496 with FFmpeg & VLC. The timestamps in the transcript are clickable links that take you directly to that point in the main video. Please note that…

I got to really put my recently-practised and newly-learned system administrator skills to the test again, mere months after my my last update about migrating the server that hosts my websites. Why’s…

This is the seventh chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you! Starting…

Through time, we have glorified conquerors and empire builders in politics, civic life and business, from Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan to the tech titans of today. That is no surprise, since…

Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublicaI’m honored to share that I am officially a Pulitzer Prize winner.Our series on unscrupulous towing…

An event of two halves. I was only there for the first as it's been a long few days and I needed some downtime afterwards. Some notes on the first half.IntroDave West, CEO of Scrum.org, on What…

Here is what we got as new Jetpack artifacts this week!

Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti: Tools created through AIs hurt my brain, I decided, because they’re often devoid of three fundamental qualities of good tools: reach, sociality, and finish. In a way, thanks…

Simon Willison on the nuances of vibe coding vs agentic engineering. simonwillison.net #

For some reason I want to get a bicycle now. It's been a while since I last used one consistently but I figure it would be fun to get some physical activities going on outside!

Since the project began, taskman has run in S-mode — the RISC-V supervisor mode, shared with the kernel. It was kerlinked into the kernel address space at boot, called kernel functions by name, and…

Some scattered thoughts after a visit to the Resistance Museum and Anne Frank's House in Amsterdam

Checklist that I followed while moving from US to India

If you have been on invent.kde.org lately you might have seen some merge requests about “Install Qt metatypes” and wondered what that’s all about. When defining QML types in C++ the buildsytem tries…

Hi, I’m Lena, and I’ve been off of instagram for 462+ days now. This could be a thing you know? And if you think I’m poking fun at it, I really am not. After ‘quitting’…

(writing this instead of studying! >. I have always said and will continue to say that Koreans are the truest, most biblically accurate looksmaxxers. I used to think it was mainly a K-pop thing,…

In my opinion wondering round charity shops searching for books is one of the best ways to spend time. The weekend just gone I picked a copy of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, Next to Nature by Ronald…

AI is reshaping what technical leaders are for. Six patterns of response — buyer, vibe builder, depth-seeker, evangelist, governor, abstainer — each delegating the thinking somewhere different. The…

Photo by Oleg Solodkov on Unsplash I wrote Release Manager because I needed something to build, sign, notarise, package, and ship every Jorvik app from one window. I wrote it in Swift because Swift…

This is an interesting article. The author argues that AI alignment should not be understood as “making AI maximize human preferences.” The mainstream approach to current AI alignment…

Reading Time: 2 minuteson the first of May. I am always grateful to have been born on Labor Day, and grateful for a life I live contingent on so many hands who have built for me, as distant as the…

Utilities Are Good For You Every week, I participate in Winlink Wednesday. I do my check-ins with pat. Once a month, they as for a weather snapshot to go with the check-in. This isn’t…

I grew up hearing about places various places inside the town's industrial sites. My dad's job is literally going to all those places and checking if their stuff still works. So he knows his way…

For the past two years we, meaning all five of us, have taken a two-week road trip in the summer. Driving around our beautiful country that is Norway 🙂 First year we rented Airbnb’s —…