Hexagon is a new preprint-style repository focused on research in mathematics and theoretical computer science. It launched in public beta around late September 2026 and…

It's not AI that will destroy mankind, it's capitalism's insatiable greed. It's the billionaire class that always wants more.

In this month's blog status update, I note I've shuttered my Instagram page; also, I look at Instagram alternatives. The post Blog status update (October 2026): The Instagram page is shuttered…

My wife and I were driving past CN's Symington Yard, en route to bird watching somewhere, when I spotted a Bessemer & Lake Erie locomotive on the loop track adjacent to Lagimodiere Boulevard.

Harley-Davidson (click to enlarge) Here are some recent random photos I made of subjects that simply caught my eye. Photos seem to be everywhere if you are sensitive to your surroundings. <a…

I'm old enough to remember darker times. When rock-ribbed Republicans would shudder upon hearing a restaurant patron requesting Russian dressing. When Senator McCarthy and his acolytes would hound…

Hey folks! Welcome back to another appointment with my Unpublished series! Did I say thank you for all your support already? I mean, you&#8217;re all awesome and I value the time you dedicate to…

Three walks and a Civil Partnership Party in Brum. Two visits to Winchester for tech support and dinner with Aunty A. Admin on Tuesday morning, plus MCS quality audit for the ASHP and CW dropping by…

Games and temporary worlds

There's a huge bias towards talking about people who were very notable or "successful" when young. So here are some interesting people who came through a little late.Kevin KellyI always admired Kevin…

so if the PQ-led Quebec government can shirk its constitutional obligations under the pretext Quebec never ratified patriation of the Constitution in 82, i should be able to refuse any of my…

Join over 900k others (goal is 1m!) in signing Open Doors Canada’s Arise Africa petition for the United Nations by November 2nd Hi friends, I hope the title of this blog/newsletter grabbed your…

Jim Rohn reckoned you're the average of the five people you spend most time with. Mine are my wife, three sons and a motivational speaker on YouTube. On learning by proximity, and why a chair is…

Lichtenstein changed art by re-creating images drawn from comic books and advertising. His use of these images was, he explained, “not to reproduce it … I do it in order to recompose it”. His…

Women have been so thoroughly written out of art history that a survey of Renaissance-era female artists is full of revelations. Their work was commonly attributed to male artists. Once corrected,…

In 2024 I invested $1500 in Evee and Broad Radio via Birchal's crowd funding platform and not much has happened since.

This blog post is only incidentally about AI.

Most military shooters make you feel powerful. They give you a weapon, point you toward an objective, and encourage you to turn everything between you and victory into a pile of bodies. Gallipoli…

(You're looking at me) looking at myself looking at art (on the internet).

Control 10 , 100 , 1000 many computers. Or control 2071 computers, like Jussi did on a earlier course. Or handle 7 different operating systems and OS versions with a single master, like Matias. Best…

A free tool that walks you and your stakeholders through Mager and Pipe&#8217;s performance flowchart, before anyone opens an authoring tool. Here&#8217;s a made-up request. You&#8217;ve seen one…

A small home battery can reduce your electricity bill, even without solar panels. But saving money each day and recovering the purchase price are two different questions. Before buying extra storage,…

Do you want to know how you are doing relative to your peers financially? Then this is the article for you. The Federal Reserve recently released its 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, the gold…

La construction de l'avenue Thiers a prolongé Grasse vers l'est et a catalysé la « colonie anglaise ».

Why I log every board game I play, where MyLudo fell short, and how a homemade MCP server lets me log plays just by talking to Claude. Read the full post on the blog.

Sectoral Financial Balances for the UK as a % of GDP, smoothed over a year

The number of people in the UK without work that want it

Within a month of Jev by TypeSafe AI, hyperscalers, AI labs, data platforms and open source projects shipped their own decision models. The request schema became the standard, the model became…

DAZ 1516 is a 1994 Volvo B10M-16 with an Alexander Q body. Entered service with Ulsterbus as fleet number 1516, now preserved at the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum.

Don't let AI be the master of everything you do

A soap film reflects a spectrum that is a single cosine in the reciprocal of the wavelength, so its color is a fixed white minus the cosine transform of the CIE color-matching functions, evaluated at…

A cheap Chinese action cam with a hidden Android, a bad flash that bricked it, a 40-byte loader that brought it back, and a software finger that presses OK at boot.

After we visited Japan in the fall of 2023, I started developing ideas that would eventually become designs printed on a series of T-shirts with a touch of Keith Haring. Here are a few of them. None…

Being welcomed into a community is one thing. Feeling free to be yourself within it is another. What happens when acceptance comes with unspoken expectations, and how can we build communities where…

Journal article abstracts have been getting harder and harder to read over the last 60 years. Make it easier on your fellow researchers.

“Ahhh! I have a headache, fever and feel achy all over,” groaned Susan. Neil went into the bathroom returning with ibuprofen and water. “Here take this,” he said handing it to Susan, “then I’ll get…

Two Haze tasks show when direct implementation is enough, when planning earns its place, and which checks still matter either way.

A 1999 Lupo and a 2026 Tesla speak the same language. Why CAN bus refuses to die, and how I built CAN-Lab to learn it…

Last week I was in Brisbane to talk about Amazon's new EventBridge Custom Bus. This post is a recap of my presentation for those who didn't make it to AWS Community Day Australia. Last month AWS…

This is part of a series as I document the life of a dress worn and lived in, in one real life, in the Highlands of Scotland. Object 003: Highland Mess Dress It's the Tattie Holidays here.…

The Grindadráp, Tassie fishing rules, use it of loose it, and are the pontoons deserted?

.post .post-content { margin-top: 0px; } .post hr { margin: 10px; } I always liked building things. I built mazes (from decommissioned punched tape). Then LEGOs, and robots made of LEGOs. Then I…

PictureCorrect has a fun photography challenge where you take your shots using a 1/10 second exposure time without a tripod. This comes at a time when I&#8217;ve been looking for more photo lessons…

Learn how to set up playwright-webext, put tasks into extension storage, and check that a todo list popup displays them.

At the recent Open Source Summit Europe in Prague, the Linux Foundation / TODO Group just released the 2026 version of their State of OSPOs and Open Source Management Report: Expanding Open Source…

Last year, after spending a few years establishing the habit of writing and sending out a post every month, I designed and built a theme of its own for Trema , which I publish with Ghost . I wrote…

In this part of my event sourcing series, we take a quick, pun intended, look at how fast the projector we saw in the last post actually runs. The projector gets a list of events as input and…

Alamedin gorge. The tent goes where the ground is flat, not where the view is. Nothing required those to be the same place. As far as I'm concerned, Bazel is the best build tool you can pick today,…

TL;DR: This blog has moved from https://andrea.corbellini.name to https://andrea.corbellini.blog. Please update all URLs pointing to this blog, and sorry for the inconvenience. Me and .name Back in…

Today I am part of the blog tour for I Was Watching You by Chris Westlake. He is going to share about himself and the novel! This one looks to be right up my alley of interests, so goes another one…