Awhile ago I moved this blog to an AWS EC2 instance and, to try and reduce load on the instance, put the blog behind Amazon CloudFront, since CloudFront makes a decent front-side cache and has a free…

Gram release 3.0.0 Hi everyone,I hope everyone in Europe and everywhere else where it's unusually hot (or usually hot for that matter) are doing OK despite the heat. Even up here in the mideast of

Hi I'm back because I'm finally done with my exams!!!! I did a lot of stuff: 🧫Added a new journal entry (the night(s) before exams, wildlife, walking lightly on earth, ode to childlessness, sins,…

Team Ratings for Round 18 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season.…

Team Ratings for Week 18 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season.…

I’ve lived in Japan for three years now, and today is the first time I’ve had a tamago sando from 7-Eleven. I go to 7-Eleven often. Maybe a few times every week. That's a lot more than I used to go…

Back in 2023 I started another collection whilst on holiday in Florida. Having never having been interested in buying Metallica records on vinyl, I got sucked into trying to collect the Walmart…

Suck on This Rusty Lollipop, Metro For years, if you used React Native, you bundled with Metro. Or… eh… Cough… Cough… Repack, but that is a story for another day. Here is a quick refresher on what a…

Random compilation of (n)vim tricks I picked up over the years You can pipe input to vim.

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether Nikola Tesla .

tl;dr If you do not need stable instance ordering, call SetRemoveSwap() on InstancedStaticMeshComponent to massively speed up instance removal.

Calculating the position of trajectory lines is fast, but strings are slow.

This week’s AI Engineering World’s Fair just posted my talk on the agony and ecstasy of voice in, visuals out agents . It’s a challenge to get model responses that feel immediate, but when it works,…

vibe: iced ginger tea cuz i feel sick and i know the hot water would help but i want to chew ice when i'm done with it. nick is sleeping so no music, but lately obsessed with ozzga gas was $5.70 this…

Plaintiff, a TikTok creator with roughly one million followers, makes his living livestreaming on the platform. After an anonymous Reddit user posted a 27-second clip of one of his livestreams…

Watched: Jun 26, 2026 Richard Gere as Jesse reminded me of Tony from Looking for Mr. Goodbar : sleazy, horny, and dangerous. Jesse is so off-putting at first that I almost bailed on the film. I’m…

So the Supreme Court issued a pile of decisions this morning, including one in which the only good part was intellectual honesty about being disingenuous (of which more in the future). It is that…

the tale of a full technology migration so i don't have to edit 12 files to publish a single blogpost

Unpacking a database of unknown type

I have a copy of SICP, or as it is also known, The Wizard Book. This book is widely praised, but I can’t take the time to work my way through all of it. Instead, I’m going to occasionally…

Contents A stable decision and a stable patient are the same illusion The paper survives, the ground does not A short story about a tool that was right until it wasn’t The role that keeps decisions…

Chromebooks, iPads, and other Silicon Valley devices are infiltrating public school classrooms. Nicholas Smyth, professor of ethics and technology at Fordham University, interviewed 30 parents about…

    BACKGROUND For the next six months, I intend to fulfil a long-standing aim of mine to visit each of the properties on the London Monopoly board. This will encompass 22 streets and 4…

The extraction class media will spend all summer and fall telling you that very ordinary and popular public interest reforms are the very worst form of extremism.

It was a slower week. I enjoyed catching up with new CSS features through reading articles, watching videos, and working through a tutorial. The post Weeknotes 26:26 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.

A follow-up to the split Cursor workflow: install Ollama on Manjaro with CUDA, pull coding models, wire up Aider and Cline for scoped local work — with honest limits on tool reliability, privacy, and…

Math is wonderful, and there are so many different ways to play and experience it. I enjoy having conversations with other math lovers and sharing ideas, puzzles, pedagogy, and questions. In one of…

Within the history of cryptography, the tale of how Bletchley Park broke Germany’s Enigma cipher has been told many times, in both print and on screen. With so much emphasis on the…

Season 1 · Episode 4 Good morning, Capital Scholars friends and family! This week we are on Chapter 3 of 7 in our book, How to Change. Today's topic is procrastination. This post is one of a few…

Suppose you need to run 15 miles (24 km) in the next week. You can distribute this volume however you want, both within and across days. Your goal is to cover the requisite distance in a way that…

I started freelancing this year. This has meant jumping between unfamiliar codebases and getting productive as quickly as possible. A year ago this process entailed scouring through READMEs and…

Every time I tell someone new that I'm a writer, they pause for a moment, then ask the same question: "So, what do you think about AI?" This question has been sapping my motivation to write for years.

Season 1 · Episode 3 Good morning, dear readers! We have now been in DC for around a month; four chapters into our reading assignment, and four weeks into our internships. As we close in on the…

This article considers the use of human-generated data by Artificial Intelligence (AI). More specifically, I am concerned with what I call “spontaneous data,” under which Instagram photos and TikTok…

Chas Glatzer, fellow adventurer in nature photography and someone I’ve been with on trips multiple times over the years, has passed after being involved a three-vehicle collision on Interstate 85 on…

thanks to those who left recent doodles in my drawbox! love the cute cat and the smiley face :D i dumped some art i did recently, mostly silly stuff, but putting it on here anyway!

In my time time scrolling through the Discovery page, a detail that I sometimes make a mental note of is if someone's blog is under their IRL name. This makes me think about and sometimes question my…

powRSS will start listing the blog carnivals happening around the indie web.

CJ Chilvers: Before influencers, there were bloggers. Before bloggers, there were TV stars, rock stars, and movie stars. Call them whatever you want, but individuals have always been the drivers of…

So funny story on the topic of non-alcoholic beer, we had my in-laws over for dinner once, and my wife picked up a six-pack of beer for her father. Except she mistakenly grabbed O’Douls, not…

Over on powRSS I’m putting together a list of blog carnivals happening around the web. Send me an email if you are hosting or participating in another community's carnival! IndieWeb Topic: Masks,…

I’ve traveled to Graz to for once *not* speak at the Frontend Graz meetup, and instead be a regular attendee who can simply enjoy the show. By the way, this was the tenth edition, because we include…

Enjoy a 1-minute video celebrating the MATH and POETRY of Omar Khayyam This Mathematician Solved Impossible Equations While Writing Poetry -- YouTube This blog posting -- from long ago in 2011 --…

Imagine a love letter to the lost skill of paying attention. That is this book complete with 131 bite-sized exercises that wake you up to a world you see but don’t notice. The Art of Noticing…

On the feedback loop that AI’s democratization left behind What happens to a technology once it stops being the property of the few who understand it deeply and becomes available to the many…

A quick guide to help users set up account backups on their iOS devices

The Living Reading Room Gazette Hexagram / Matter vs. Spirit 2026 55gsm Newsprint, folded and unbound 8 pages 350mm x 500mm Digital Black printed by Newspaper Club Edition of 200 This publication was…

(pretty awesome) image from Gematsu On we go to the works of Toaplan! Like Emerson Lake and Palmer, Toaplan was a video game “supergroup” comprised of the best designers from Crux and Orca. Okay,…

I was enjoying Benn Stancil’s latest column1 on generalized vs specialized models (his typical, punchy, link-ridden screed) until this paragraph jump scared me: And that’s the turn nobody…