The main links you need: Stephen Hill’s wonderful page of links, and Natasha Tatarchuk has added the content from this year’s Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course to our…

(CW: mentions Lindsay Clancy so if you know who she is and don't want to hear anything about this, I recommend turning away) So usually I stay away from more topical stuff, and political content. Not…

Today marks month four of the first and only break in my entire software engineering career. I've been working remotely for tech startups ever since COVID hit during my sophomore year of college.…

In the speakeasy of my mind, your merciless reticence echoes down the halls. Capturing me without objection, Secrets your body holds yell to me More than what they mean to you, And they fill the…

Another book I’ve discovered via the excellent Book Club podcast, and one about which I can’t quite make up my mind. It’s set in Italy – specifically Sicily – during the…

Weighing in on two very different shows at SummerWorks, as well as a whimsical As You Like It sequel

You might think that the USA must change deeply over the next decade, which will unfold 250 years after the decade in which our republic originally took shape and will include the first eight years…

Talking about ACOTAR and its R rated inspo, The Black Jewels.

I remember seeing a post 1 a few months ago about Moments , an indie web photo blog site. I thought it looked nice, I like looking at pretty pictures, and I have been doing a lot of cloud photography…

$185,000 bought this house five blocks from me Charles L. Marohn Jr. and Daniel Herriges, Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis. Hoboken NJ: Wiley, 2024.…

Psychologist Dr Nezhat Farnoody sits in her well-appointed office in Irvine, an upscale, modern city about an hour and a half south of Los Angeles. She and her daughter, Nelly […] The post Meet…

Resumo Nesta semana, acompanhei uma discussão sobre inteligência na rede X.com e, como li um volume considerável de Howard Gardner e Daniel Goleman no primeiro semestre deste ano, senti-me estimulado…

This is not a new project, This is a recounting of events that took place five years ago. It’s late July, amidst the pandemic. We were all home, surviving. I was fortunate that no one close to…

A friend asked me to make a couple of bowls for a fundraiser to benefit a good cause. I agreed. I had just acquired some 8 1/4” x 8 1/4” x 3 1/4” Walnut and so I decided to make both bowls out of one…

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Summary This week, I followed a discussion about intelligence on X.com and, since I read a considerable amount of Howard Gardner and Daniel Goleman in the first half of this year, I felt compelled to…

What started as a simple revisit to a summit we liked turned into an adventure we won’t forget. A wrong turn led us onto an overgrown path, once a vehicle track, now a struggle through thistles,…

ASML vertical wen? aschkrjqntmuhe Further reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV26V1UvkJw

All-Access Passes, pt. 1Charlie Haden: All-Access Passes, pt. 1. With or without lanyards.

Separated at birth? The post Separated at birth? appeared first on Playrface.

On a certain style of punditry and scholarship.

Every once in awhile something comes along that is completely unnecessary, accomplishes nothing, but is too delightful to not check out. Since the earliest builds of Mac OS X, modern macOS has…

Think about the last time you learned something from someone who was clearly better at it than you. Imagine a senior engineer narrating exactly how they'd chase down the bug, or a musician showing…

I've been looking at my old domains from about 2005-2012 on the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, and I am honestly surprised at how little about me has changed from 20 to 40, even if the…

Pixel Art Studio is a Blender add-on for pixel perfect pixel art texture painting. It supports drawing and painting pixel art inside Blender, in the 3D Viewport on top of the model (in Object and…

Good morning my fabulous readers. This will be a quick post as I just wanted to share something cool I built with Cursor over the past couple of days - a LEGO screensaver. I'm a huge fan of "show me…

New batch of music reviews posted, it includes all of the reviews I've written since the last one.

I'm teaching an intro computer science course again this year and I knew I wanted to revamp how to introduce kids to writing code. Last time, the overhead of learning all the new tools at the same…

The “gauge group” of the Standard Model of Particle Physics is a Lie group U(1) x SU(2) x SU(3), modulo Z_6 to get rid of unwanted central elements. As far as I can tell, the only…

„That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness.” -- Bhagavad-gita…

An interesting video about the realities of the Amazon rainforest.

In conversation with another engineer, we were starting to lament that certain skills are atrophying as a result of ai-assisted development. Though, the thought occured to me partway through: For…

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I have a legal esthetics room in my home. In 2024, I cut back greatly on clients because my reading business was taking off. This year, it just died. I haven't done enough readings this year to…

In light of Sony killing game discs, I couldn’t help but reminisce about the days when CDs were the dominant physical format for all forms of media. One of my greatest regrets apart from…

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1168/the-minions-of-avian-intelligence

An inconvenient part of GPU driver development is the fact that GPUs can crash and hang for various reasons, just like CPUs. Really, this can happen on any operating system to GPUs from any…

What do I bring that others don't? I haven't been able to get a straight answer for what I have that others don't. A selling point if you will. I see others interact with their friends and everyone…

Understanding, Not Permission, on August 26, 2026 I don’t want you to walk away from this opinion piece with the wrong idea, so let me state this very clearly up front: There is no ethical usage of…

Some people are talented at creating a relaxing and inspiring atmosphere - surroundings that offer visual pleasure in whichever direction you look. I am not that person. But I am very sensitive to…

I used to wake up to the sound of the iPhone Crickets ringtone/alarm, you know the one that’s the sound of chirping crickets, so now the sound of cicadas engenders some stress. Home. There are some…

This is a working document. Microsoft SQL Server Sites I Find Helpful Brent Ozar Unlimited Performance Reports / Queries This is a variation on the built in report “Top Queries by Total…

This just popped up on Amazon (no commission on this link): I’m probably not ordering one because I’d never use it — too many other radios in the box already. I’m trying to…

Something big is happening today. It's pivotal in the next steps of... everything. I'll hear the news in a Teams meeting. I'll know as the other person is speaking before they say based on their eye…

i realized i’ve been making a fatal mistake. i have been day dreaming about the end result of my labour vs the labour/process itself. its easier said than done - they always say enjoy the process not…

Under a sunlit fingernail We set our intentions For another rotation Consume less Listen more closely to the dog breathing Move more Notice the orange flowers along the creek Break open like a baby…

Ok, I’m just going to give it to you straight. No beating around the bush, you came here for the DuckDB Labs bought by AWS news right? Wondering what that means? What does it mean for DuckDB?…

Visiting the office today.

Modern ProductionOrigin Myths and Armchair ExpertsIt has become common amongst educated pu’er drinkers to read deeply into the processing of tea, intuiting the definition of the class by its…

Learning to Be Soul Conscious   Through body consciousness and the pull of the senses, it is very easy to be drawn to people and things in the physical world. The practice of soul consciousness…