Omniscient POV might be resurging, thanks to some recent bestsellers. To use it well, remember three C’s: clarity, consistency, and control.

I woke up at 7AM. I have to on WFO days, if I want to beat the traffic. Woke up. Checked Slack. Was automatically logged out of Slack. And I knew. Shit. Shit shit shit shit. Opened email. "Action…

Recently at work (on my last day), I dealt with a SQL query that got pretty complex because of new features making the business logic increasingly involved. The query ended up quite lengthy, but it…

A major atmospheric change is about to start, as the latest oceanic data confirms the 2026 El Niño is intensifying below the ocean surface. New … The post Atmospheric Code Red: 2026 Super El…

Friend of the newsletter Sam Jeffers from WhoTargetsMe has, for his sins, been monitoring the online campaign ahead of today's local elections in Britain. Reform has taken a fundamentally…

On the road, as it were, right now, so this report will be updated with the necessaries when possible. Highlights of the month: Published a link to Photographs on the main site Seedlings still having…

Everyone needs a tracking URL shortener. Why tracking? I want to know if they opened my email and clicked the link. Why shortener? I want them to know what the link is about. For example,…

The tide has turned. The seasons have shifted. The dandelions have popped. The penny has dropped. It is time. So the Beast has been released. I say Beast but it’s really Beast II, Son of the…

Low-code and AI are now giving you the opportunity to adapt your chatbots to better fit the profile of your different users

Merch hasn’t died – it’s just taken a darker turn.

The new search engine, introduced in beorg 3.39.0, gives you a much more expressive syntax for finding what you need. Not only is it a more powerful syntax, but beorg now gives you the results almost…

You’ll go down to the basement after you’re done up here, the Director says in our language. To […]

This month featuring: a wodge of 80s nostalgia, a trip to Manchester to see one of my very favourites, and a last minute chance to see one of the rarest shows in town. Princess Julia, Electric…

  Most CFOs treat lead time as an operations problem. I did too, until I started noticing what it was quietly doing to our working capital, our headcount, and our margin. It turns out flow…

See below for an explanation of this image. Will Powers work on Post-Finasteride Syndromes (PFS) has generated a lot of interest. It would be easy to misread the responses. This post asks people with…

In a previous article , I explored building nested forms with Stimulus. But what about when you need to edit existing questions, remove ones you no longer need or reorganize them? Let’s extend that…

The Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) document sitting in your governance folder is one of the most useful tools in the business. Most orgs never use it that way. They treat it as a compliance box…

Lalela, the LO-Def Film Factory and GaudiLabs teamed up to co-run a workshop where participants learned how to build their own solar-powered devices, and learners were invited to think beyond solar

We are excited to announce the release of The qPocketPCR; an ultra-compact, open-source Real-Time PCR thermal cycler designed for portability, accessibility, and versatility. About the size of a…

In my previous post, I said that I live a very sedentary lifestyle and wanted to change that. So this is roughly 3 months of hitting the gym. Truth is this isn't my first three months in the gym, but…

The Hidden Infrastructure Problem Nobody Talks About. India has talent. India has ambition. India has capital. India has one of the largest pools of engineers in the world. Yet India still struggles…

I have recently had the domain renewal notice for skryblans. It is set to auto-renew annually anyway, it's just they let me know a couple of weeks before that's due to happen. Even though I haven't…

I've ported Intel's ASTC compressor (in ispc_texcomp) to pure C for benchmarking and discovered this gem during the process. The swap() utility function for float values, located near the top, has a…

This week's action-packed Commando set includes the epic conclusion to the Valiant Stormers Forlorn Hope series, a race against the clock for SAS Captain Hulke, and some old crackers too. Issues…

The pub on the corner Corner sites are favourites for any business that relies on walk-in trade – shops of course, but also pubs. I passed this glowing example on a recent walk from New Bond Street…

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I was working on a design doc recently with the help of AI when it generated a sentence that immediately made me stop. It described another team’s system as “legacy infrastructure that should be…

once i woke from a dream. i opened weary eyes and limply grasped a bright and burning seeming. but, the seeming went— as easily as it came— into base gray matter, dissolved, and washed away.

I rewrote I/O Riot. The old version, written in C and SystemTap, dates back to 2017. The new version (called `ior`) uses Go, C, and BPF via libbpfgo. It runs on Linux and is primarily a TUI dashboard…

Making the Gauge StockEpisode three is out on Woodworking Masterclasses if you want to go that route too, but all of the details are below here as well for those who like text and drawings. Here is…

April has been another month balancing work with everything else. Despite project deadlines, I’ve mostly kept on top of things – although a lack of sleep towards the end of the month got…

One of the joys of working in-house is seeing the cumulative buildup of your efforts over time. You’re able to invest into something bigger than individual projects; you can build a body of…

This is amazing!! And thanks for the super detailed steps. Could this be my first « DIY » project?

Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.

The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.

THE SCHOOL SEMESTER IS OVER!! I AM FREEE

There are three main engines: Businesses for Wealth Creation. Politicians for Tax Collection. Monks for Allocation of Collected Taxes. But the power dynamics are in reverse. Monks sit on top of…

I don’t use A.I. for my posts; I prefer the human touch (and if you suspected I did use it because of em-dashes, I can point you to a snapshot of my blog from 2015 where you can see that I averaged a…

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I read the book Principles of Neural Design recently. It’s extremely dense, which you’d hate or love depending on how much you’re in awe with how our brain works. I totally loved it! The…

90 days into her job at the Bureau, Judith is woken at 2AM by Janet Garcia to come in for a sitrep for not one, but three cases that needed attention.

In the previous post talked about why the GitHub Copilot SDK matters: it gives you a production-grade agent harness out of the box, so you can skip building the infrastructure and focus on your…

Jason Kridner returns to The Amp Hour after his first appearance 15 years ago to talk about the BeagleBadge and Zepto boards that showcase new capabilities in the Linux and Zephyr space. The…

What looks like a motivation problem in software work is often the cost of entering the next step - context load, cross-system design, LLM drift, verification, and re-entry. The fix is not more…

The Saturday night supremacy of CBS in the seventies has finally ceased (how’s that for alliteration?). This would be the final year for both The Bob Newhart Show and The Carol Burnett Show ,…

The Flourish is our swang song in eurorack. The best after a decade in the business. This month we are making 20 Flourishes, 9 Geometric Anomalies, 20 NextTuesday expanders and 20 Switches. We still…

Sometimes it seems as if the universe is warning us against something. Or, perhaps, it is just measuring our determination. Testing us. In “The Once and Future King,” the fine telling of…

In this post, I argue that hexcrawls don't need to have a key for every hex, and might even be better if they don't. 1 My perspective on this is influenced by my experience running Antarctica jam. 2…

孩子，是上天給我們這些破碎、愚蠢的大人最珍貴的一堂課。 是的，連那個摔門、滿嘴藉口、只有錢花完了才肯跟你說話的青少年，也是。 但幾乎沒有父母真的從孩子身上學過什麼。這堂被擺在他們眼前、最大最珍貴的課，他們眼睜睜錯過。 因為社會已經徹底洗腦他們：為人父母，就必須背負起責任和義務，去教導、糾正、獎勵、懲罰。他們把孩子當成一件需要被修理的半成品，而不是一個帶著天賦、優雅與單純來到這個世界的存在。…