§ The return trip from Chicago was even more uneventful than the drive there. Caroline and I feel emboldened to do more traveling with the baby in the near future. § On Monday we picked up a nice…

THE YOUTH WILL TALK SHIT ABOUT OUR GOVERNMENT (YES THEY HONESTLY SUCK) YET WILL COMMIT BLATANT HYPOCRISY IN FRONT OF YOUR VERY OWN EYES AND PUT OUT THE BIGGEST SMILE ON YOUR FACE. I AM HONESTLY…

Many people engage in "Vice Signalling", where they will intentionally do actions which are considered to be bad according to some social norm or morality system. Recently this has become a…

We've lots one of my earliest blogging idols, just when we need him most

This Part 2 of our article on our sailing ship pilgrimage to Scandinavia takes up the story as we commenced our Swedish/Finnish itinerary in southern Sweden. Sweden is a very maritime nation and…

L’intelligence artificielle de François à Léon XIV.

After getting sick of no reliable, token-efficient way to collaborate on docs with agents and humans alike, I built my own.

I keep my recipies on my website, and like most of my website it grew over time instead of being designed. A couple years ago I added some progressive enhancement that puts checkboxes on the…

MELBOURNE | The variety of Mexican food available in Melbourne has been slowly expanding in recent years, thanks to restaurants like recently opened, Chabela. Husband and wife duo, Harry…

"Junk journaling" has been a trending term on the internet crafting space for a while. As you can infer from the term, "junk journaling" is the creative practice of collaging with materials that…

An interesting news item this week is that BioNano Genomics has appointed Alex Hastie as Chief Scientific Officer. Hastie is an obvious choice for CSO, as for many years he was very much the public…

Cepceros Podcast is a podcast in Spanish that started in 2018 and that follows a simple but effective formula: the host has a chat with a different guest every week in which they discuss two Amstrad…

This comic strip by Crumb, published in 1987, serves as a grim complement to “Death of a Salesman.” HOBOKEN, JUNE 28, 2026.  Great art, like “Death of a Salesman,” always speaks to us, but what…

May 7 - June 28 It's been 3 weeks since my last blog...been super busy... Exercising Not running as much as I wanted for these weeks, I mainly blame the weather (it's my first winter in the southern…

Starting is free now, so I start everything and finish nothing. On the compulsion loop of agentic coding — and why stopping and resuming are _the_ skills to play with now.

I should maybe create a Thinkpad category. NYCBUG’s having a social meetup on July 1st; stories about BSDCan will be told, I’m sure. When Dystopian Sci-Fi Ruled the Cola Wars. This seems…

stain our pane in streetlight

I grew up on the outskirts of one of a major city in Ukraine. We lived in a 2 bedroom apartment, that was literally a 2 room apartment. There was a small kitchen, shower and toilet rooms, small…

We often talk about LLMs in terms of reasoning and generation. I have found it more helpful to think in terms of transformations and semantic layers. There appears to be some general principles that…

Tears Before Bedtime I Can’t Stand the Silence The new single from Tears Before Bedtime makes its intentions clear from the moment you hear its haunted, dark vocals and the thumping drum track that…

An analysis of free software from the perspective of Rousseau, his views on property, and the politics of societies.

Surrender as a life strategy, democracy's bullshit, AI doomers, tiny experiments in uncertainty, Vonnegut's life advice, and rest in peace Om.

Welcome to our weekly study! Each week, our reading plan will take us through three different parts of the Bible: a psalm, a passage from Proverbs, and a few chapters from another book as we journey…

On Friday, October 13th, 1944, TF 38 was conducting strikes off the coast of Formosa (now Taiwan). It was the second and final day of an operation to wipe out Japanese air strength on the island in…

Sometimes my tmux sessions will crash. This is super-rare and seemingly random so I just accept it. Today I figured out why and resolved it.

Three ways to do it, and the plumbing that's reshaping all of them.

When someone says "write it in POSIX shell for portability," they mean well. POSIX is a specification. Not a program. The thing that actually runs your script is bash, dash, ash, ksh, yash, or one of…

smallfawn sells JD.com login tools to other reward-farmers. By design, the buyer cannot log a victim in without calling smallfawn's own server, and the plaintext passwords are relayed there three…

My 2004 doctoral dissertation, The Reality Effect of Technoscience, is now available as a free PDF from my own site. The author-maintained source for the dissertation, its citation metadata, and the…

I try to do my best with my technology stack, by ensuring it meets my own morals and standards for life. But it is not easy!

Just a quick note wishing Carl peace wherever he is now and to send my best wishes to Becky and… Continue reading “Vale Carl Wilson, Digital Preservation’s Indie…

As a forward-deployed engineer (FDE) my job is to manufacture customer-product alignment.As Nina has pointed out, I love documentation, guides, thinking in procedures, and systematizing relationships…

A Blender issue #152467 (“File Browser thumbnail cache broken with large amount of images”) reminded me to write this up. This particular issue is a (documented) surprise that when you…

In this post I like to describe the current dilemma of using JSON Schema for structured AI outputs and how TypeSchema can be used as a clean, alternative data-modeling layer to generate both native…

Saturday morning, on the 27th, I asked r if she wanted to interact with people today. We were still in bed, a bit cool from the rain in the middle of the night, and she said no. I was kinda hoping…

It's a webring! And a website!

I just finished Richard Langston's superb new oral history of The Clean, In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul (I had a tear in my eye at the end). I always enjoy shoehorning into this blog stuff I…

GAMA-1 Technologies is yet another company to blacklist. Even if you aren’t a member of the Software Contractor’s Guild, I’m going to share this with you. What makes it worse is the…

Stars Reach - the new MMORPG project of Raph Koster - was first announced to the public on the 28th of June 2024. That Raph had founded a new company and was working on something, had already been…

Recently I’ve been experimenting with local LLMs for coding. Up until a couple of months ago I was a happy GitHub Copilot subscriber. I’d been quite satisfied to let other companies take on the cost…

This is Part 4 of The Great Balkans Road Trip. If you’re new to the... <p>The post The Great Balkans Road Trip: Sofia (Day 4) first appeared on Jane Stuart - Writer.</p>

Have you ever heard, maybe when watching a swimming event on TV during the Olympics, the commentators say that it’s a fast or slow pool? I was baffled! How can a bunch of water be fast or slow? But…

Sunday Asides #101 The Obamas have been outside lately with the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago this past Juneteenth weekend, and I gotta say, seeing them and hearing them…

Two of Scott Turow’s three most recent novels tell the stories of the final legal cases of two characters who were introduced in his first novel almost forty years ago. Presumed Innocent (1987) was…

[Nicked from a later comment to the previous one.] Other OSes I've used with no CLI -- Psion EPOC 16 (x86, Series 3); EPOC 32 (Arm, Series 5); Symbian; PalmOS; NewtonOS; and on the desktop,…

The root cause In the 1990s my father’s health deteriorated as a result of what was later thought to be some immune system related disease. He found out that living in warm climates with little…

Your system can be scalable, secure, and beautifully designed. And still be the wrong thing to build.

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One of my friends led me by the hand through the crowd That sounds like an insignificant detail but it really wasn't It was Nightmass at Dark Mofo and I was there with two friends (S and F) who are…

Various examples of thumb loop transfers in the string figure literature.