Seasons
Fucking fall is here. Or so I would’ve thought in earlier years. These days I’m not so sure. I haw learned to appreciate the seasons for what they are. At least a little more.Our…
Why I Wrote “Master Sun’s Problem”
In my career, first as a mathematician and then as a math writer, I’ve read a lot of books that were written by mathematicians “for the general public.” And yet I have found very…
Homemakers
I'm a former homemaker. I spent about two decades as a full-time homemaker and I think my oldest child was nineteen when I got my first full-time paid job during my divorce. At some point, I read…
Notes and links from 20 Oct
Journal The last few days of computer action have been spent on the big blog archive project. I’ve been knocking the Art Pete blog into shape, fixing image links and reminding myself what…
Book Review(s): Ana and Din Mysteries
The Ana and Din Mysteries, currently three books starting with The Tainted Cup is a fantasy detective series that managed to tell both interesting detective stories and provide an interesting world…
A retro film for spooky season: “Gothic” by Ken Russell (1986).
The Frankenstein genesis legend gets a delightfully 80s-horror-film makeover in this semi-obscure classic.
The “Not Chronically Ill” Claim Is Ableist Bullshit
I have been angry about this for days.
"I've Got a Kid in New York"
We leave eaaarrrlllly tomorrow morning to go see Beatrix at Sarah Lawrence's "Friends and Family" weekend, and I was thinking earlier today about leaning into the identity of someone who goes to New…
Over-engineering makes you feel smart, but here comes the technical debt
One of the struggles I have come to know intimately over a career as a programmer is the tendency to over-engineer solutions. You constantly walk a knife edge trying to write good clean code and also…
What changes a coding agent's behaviour
Isaac Correa's study of eight months of his own daily work with Claude Code: the model mattered more than the rules he wrote, guards filtered without teaching, and his supervision moved from…
Quo Vadis, Academia?
After the recent announcements by OpenAI et al., I am often asked whether there is still a future for researchers in academia. I think this is an important question—but I believe an equally…
Enchainments – Canada
In mountaineering, the idea of climbing 2 or more mountains in one trip, which may often cover multiple days, is nowadays called enchainment. By one trip, I mean in one push. And by that, I mean in…
"Coding" is Largely "Solved"
Supplements advertise boosting your immune system because it's not a medical claim.
How to start a movement
Derek Sivers brilliantly explains in under five minutes what it takes to be a leader. Not all TED talks deserve your attention, but this one definitely does. And Derek Sivers himself too. After his…
Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
One of eMudhra's certificate authority private keys is the number 4.Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and…
Crate Digger’s Gold: Houston Person – Wild Flower
I was in Chicago, stopped by Dusty Groove, and found this album in the “new used” crate. With tenor saxophonist Houston Person, the provocative cover art (by Hal Wilson), the Muse label, the sidemen,…
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following... Continue reading →
The Hidden Cost of Java Virtual Threads: Deep Stacks, GC Pressure & CPU Cache Locality
A practical look at what happens when you push Java Virtual Threads in the wrong direction: how unmounting copies stacks to the heap, triggers OutOfMemoryErrors, pressures the Garbage Collector, and…
Hydrogen At Scale
Hydrogen remains one of the most exciting applications of clean , renewable energy. Its production has been demonstrated on an industrial scale. Today the price of hydrogen is at an all time low of…
From Spaceframes to Cloud Architecture: The Day Pentech Took on UCT at Meerendal (1999)
🛠️ The Year is 1999. Meerendal Wine Estate. If you clean out your old desktop folders long enough, you occasionally stumble across absolute gold. The photo above takes me straight back to the winter…
BICEP – Gas / Ultra / Equarium
BICEP – “Gas” ft. Lauren Duffus & SOARR BICEP – “Ultra” ft. Eartheater & Saskia BICEP – “Equarium” ft. Kehina The post BICEP – Gas /…
Faversham revisited - Pt. 2
Next up was the Anchor, a pub that wasn’t on my original list, but I’m pleased now that I took a punt on this lengthy oak-beamed building that is over 300 years old. Situated close to the quayside…
Big Squint
I first heard of Squint back in 2022, when they released their Feel It EP. I'm pretty sure that I got the tip from No Echo on the band... back when I was paying attention to this kind of thing. I…
Other Mommy
"Can I go into your heart?" A girl (Arabella Olivia Clark) is targeted by some demon that tries to take over her heart by shapeshifting into her mother (Jessica Chastain). As the family realise what…
Mountains calling
Mountains calling
How cushy did those Boomers have it compared to Gen Z, really?
How cushy did those Boomers have it compared to Gen Z, really? Posted by Ed Folsom, October 20, 2026. (Revised 10/22/26 9:15 a.m., to correct faulty median home sale price numbers for 1985, 1987,…
Bringing AI to the LoRa Mesh: Building a Smarter MeshCore Bot with Ollama
I’ve been experimenting with LoRa mesh networks, AI agents, and running local LLMs with Ollama. At some point, it occurred to me: why not bring them together? Both Meshtastic and MeshCore…
Dynamics N5 Resources
Resources for the N5 Dynamics Topic. Let’s start with a couple of videos to get you ready. I can’t condone where the guy places his hands in the first video but it is a good song.…
Tu 20 October 2026
A few weeks ago I linked to Rich Hickeys Gist-Post about open source. Yesterday, Konstantin pointed me to the CultRepo-Youtube-channel and their playlist Documentaries for Developers. Concidentally,…
Mark 13:32: Can We Choose What God Already Knows?
Jesus knew who would betray him and who would deny him, yet said he did not know the day or the hour. What that tells us about free will. Giotto di Bondone, Kiss of Judas, fresco, Scrovegni Chapel,…
XSS in yarr
xss in the rss reader yarr
Response to Paolo Pedercini's stance on AI usage
I'm stepping into Da Discourse again
Record: Omul Cu Șobolani - Distopia (Povești De Adormit Părinții)
2026 • LP, Red, Gatefold • Cassette • CD To see all 8 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at:…
Goodbye, Lara ★★★★☆
In the opening scene, when Lara is being born, her sisters already know that she’s going to be a princess, but argue about if she will be a blue or red, as if mermaid gender is colour-based, and her…
Experts: Before You Can Increase Revenue or Impact, Stop Making This Mistake
A few years ago, I was having coffee at a conference with a friend and fellow speaker, when someone approached with a question."Jay!" she said. (A fine opening, I thought. For that, dear reader, is…
Post-It Dungeon for October TWO !!!
WE'RE DOIN' IT AGAIN!!! This dungeon can be either standalone (in which case there is an area for a potential entrance marked with a large E on the map above) or it can serve as a lower dungeon level…
From the Human Gut Archaeome to Marine Salterns: A 0.21 Å Dark Proteome Structural Lock Across Halophilic Families
How pg_bio's autonomous Swarm expanded to 139,601 edges and uncovered a 0.207 Å RMSD (0.982 TM-score) DUF7538 structural ortholog shared between human gut archaeon Haloferax massiliensis and marine…
Currently
I drill cork strips into the exposed studs in our cabin and hang a cross-stitched goose wearing wellies into the first. I fill the rest with nature drawings from my children, weekly composer and…
6FPS V8#1: My Year Without Chocolate
The January issue of my monthly newsletter is out!
6FPS V8#2: Not a Diet
The February issue of my monthly newsletter is out
Why aren’t we talking about growing the economy?
The UK’s political conversation is almost entirely focused on how to find money and how to spend it. We debate taxes, borrowing and public service budgets while neglecting the economy that generates…
The Second Explosion: Why Multi-Agent AI Defies Traditional Engineering
I have worked in software engineering for more than thirty years and witnessed several combinatorial explosions firsthand. The AI-driven explosion now under way is different, and that distinction…
Cocktails in Jaipur: The Good, the Bad and the Overpriced
Updated: 20 October 2026 From inventive Indian flavours to questionable service, a few years of Friday nights in Jaipur’s cocktail bars. My cocktail arrived in a delicate floral china cup. The…
Just a Lot of Multiplication: What's Actually Inside an LLM
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C.
Boredom
[YouTube embed] Kya writes: “Parents think this is boredom. Parents think infants need all the toys and colorful stimulation. They don’t. ” * This video was not created by me. It...
GLM on an A100, in Vx
The decoder of GLM-5, a mixture-of-experts model of about 750 billion parameters with sparse attention and 256 experts per layer, runs on an NVIDIA A100 through 28 GPU kernels written in Vx and…
DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, the Engine Behind Its Models
DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, the inference framework it uses to serve its own models, under Apache 2.0. What it does, what it leaves out, and why it matters more than it looks.
stagehand
Samson Dauda, 2026Just to start off with a concrete example, there was a disembodied stagehand’s hand backstage that reached up and helped the center stage doors close almost every time a…
(18+) I played Saya no Uta for the first time
MASSIVE Content Warning. This is an adult visual novel with gruesome imagery, and mature and unsettling themes, including sexual violence and suicide. (Also, this review does not contain any major…