Here are a few interesting things I came across this week. Tasted Whittaker's Nelson Pear and Manuka Honey chocolate for the first time. Amazing. Krish Ashok's video on how Omega-3 supplements are…

In honour of Pride, I’m releasing a queer film we created for KinoD in 2024. Ellie and Alex are in love. They’ve been together years. Sure it’s not the most exciting relationship,…

This article discusses the reality of AI hallucinations in chatbots, why they occur, and how to mitigate their impact. Understanding AI's limitations is crucial.

Introduction A Late Nineties PC Assessing the Damage Installing a Video Card and Keyboard Locked CPU Fan Replace the BIOS Backup Battery Replacing the Motherboard Capacitors Replacing the Spinning…

I’m happy to announce the release of Newspipe 12.1.0. This version brings a reimagined reading experience, a few features I’ve wanted for a long time, and a much smarter crawler under the…

Let the wear on your pen be your badge of honor. It reminds you that the magic isn't in keeping things perfect, but in the messy, wonderful, and fun process of getting things done.

This is a report of my visit to an intimate and very private chalkstream barely outside Greater London, in the county of Hertfordshire. So private that I was asked not to say very much else about its…

So, unfortunately, it dawned on me only about ten hours after getting home from the ED (i.e. after I had slept) that the condition my symptoms most match is a thoracic aortic aneurysm, and in the ED…

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I got an email this week from my online Japanese school that I’ve been learning from for the last 4 or so years. I had taken a class from the head teacher years ago and at the end of it, she…

Hello all. It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these. It’s been a while since I’ve posted much of anything. I’ve even stopped posting so much on Mastodon....

OK, yes that is an old joke, but I do have a slight mystery over the CO alarm. This first happened last year, and drove me round the bend. A chirp every 49 seconds. This is normally a smoke alarm…

Your weekly digest of Cloud-Native AI, Docker Sandboxes, and Model Context Protocol innovations.

Note: this has gone through a series of formal revisions from the original monologue written on October 25, 2025. Six months ago, I wrote this to those whom I lived out the gospel with— today I leave…

I’d like to get a Now post out every Sunday evening. Today’s will be shorter than Now, 21 June 2026. It was a week of Good work, with a lot completed and very little sense of time passing. By the end…

I've been sharing my art on social media for over ten years and many people have asked if I can create colouring pages with my floral pattern. I wasn't sure, probably a a control thing in that I like…

Observation #1: LinkedIn sucks LinkedIn sucks. At this point, I doubt anyone needs to be convinced of this obvious fact. AI slop content has largely taken over the site. The one-sentence paragraphs,…

This month's Field Notes flows from Formula 1 commentary to a Studio Ghibli stage adaptation to an elaborate royal dolls' house. What connects them all is craft, care, and people who refuse to cut…

The Birth of v5, 28 June 2026 (in which a tollway's idle question — could we build our own things on this? — came back as a republic in the north with a Monday; in which we cut a door into the...

Dit weekbericht bereikt je vanuit onze heerlijk afgekoelde achtertuin. Ik hoef je niet uit te leggen hoe het de afgelopen dagen is geweest toch? De afgelopen nacht voelde een kruising tussen een…

Last night we drove out to the coast with plans to try and capture lightning sprites from a forecasted MCS over the Netherlands. If the MCS went to plan, and we had clear skies in between us, then we…

This morning Alma and I made a smoothie together for breakfast. It came out quite well so we decided to write up roughly what we did. We didn’t measure anything so these amounts are all…

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk,…

Try as I might, the picture ended up being a flatlay after all. Technically, I wore a different top; that one, however, was a last-minute swap and this one is closer to the original vision. Headwear:…

Populated places are probably among elements of human geography those you can most widely find represented in maps in general. I here want to discuss a bit the somewhat peculiar situation of their…

Come on no one really thought I would do two models and stop did they ! LOL So eight years ago I joined in Forgotten Heroes and have completed models 6 times, so it's only fair that I do six models…

Here is this week’s selection of the fools from the past week. It emanates from a blend of religious Fundamentalism with right-wing politics

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Get Up and Go has entered my timeline. Here she is again, full of ideas and ambition. She arrives a few times a year and, when she does, everything suddenly feels urgent. Everything needs doing.…

I shared some thoughts earlier about building Moments . In simple terms, it’s like Bear Blog, but focused on photos. I expected a handful of people to get it. More did than I thought. Some signed up.…

Photo: © Stan B. None whatsoever, to state that we are dealing with an openly racist Presidential administration. The dog whistles and subtle code talk of yore are no longer needed and can no longer…

Summer best friends. Not a truly silent Sunday, but totally worth the low noise. #fan #heatwave #indoor #silentsunday

I wrote that AI leaves you with zero excuses and meant it as good news. The darker half took me longer. If the excuse is gone and you still don't move, it was never the excuse stopping you.

My web site traffic went up by a factor of 100 in 2025. It's crazy. It would be nice if my web page were truly so popular, but no, it's just that A.I. bots have taken over the web....

Baffled and a little scared about this cake that appeared in the communal fridge at the art centre Soolagna teaches at last week. Soolagna’s assistant teacher’s name is Maha, my name is David and…

Happy weekend! Here are some links to things I've been reading that you might also enjoy: 1. It's been a while since my last weekend newsletter. Below, two excerpts from each of my five…

How a 1940s design principle explains a 6 square metre hotel room in Copenhagen

“Why don’t you use WhatsApp?”

'[B]y the paradox implicit in achieved art', Brookner makes her protagonists' predicaments as satisfying as poetry: this was John Bayley's judgement on A Private View in the Spectator in 1994. Tessa…

Warning: There are references to slavery, and violence in this one. Round 2 Results Die Roll: 2 Cards: 9 Clubs 9 Spades Prompts: Shocking, A Visit to the Countryside Because two cards of the same…

Terry Tao on how university students should control AI diet

Basic Proof Techniques for Software Engineers

I've been through a host of ventures finding god. Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, yet, I found home where I was born. Hinduism. For me, Hinduism isn't just a religion. It's philosophy, it's art, it's…

What if the singularity already happened? And a neuroqueer cyberneticist from Germany has been engineering the gap for months?

"Evolutionarily, it seems implausible that children be so hard. You don't think it's.. suspicious?".

Three weeks at number one from 21st November 1987 If there’s one thing very few Smiths singles had, it was a touch of sleaze. They were often contemplative, yes. Weary, occasionally. Sardonic, sure.…

This site is a bit of a time capsule as it hasn't been updated for about 25 years. With reviews of various Gay & Lesbian books. If you are trying to find some queer media, especially order books,…

This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion of Sebastian Mallaby's The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. In the discussion, we talk about the…

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BumpPtrAllocator is LLVM's bump allocator (arena allocator): each allocation bumps a pointer within a slab, and everything is freed at once when the allocator dies. It backs Clang's ASTContext, lld's…