Round 3 Results Die Roll: 2 Cards: 5 Clubs 9 Spades Prompts: Intriguing, Coffee in an open air Cafe I was not sure what to do with this one at first, in my mind Jon is not the type of person to…

For years, visiting the redwoods of Northern California sat near the top of my travel bucket list. I’d seen photos of these towering giants... The post Wheelchair Accessible Redwoods: Your Guide to…

If you want to run a marathon (I don’t), you need to cover 26.2 miles. That’s hard work and there’s no way around it. But you can hire a coach, join a running group, hydrate well,…

UFO 50 #6: Mortol (Perry, 2024)For subscribers only, I’m working my way through UFO 50, in “chronological” order, posting one article a month until they’re all done If you’re interested in reading,…

We recently achieved a major milestone for my project Tinyauth, it's now an OpenID Connect certified server!

A developer I was chatting with recently raised a question I’ve been hearing more and more: Since we can produce code so fast now, does the code actually matter that much? Assuming the code…

Robots have gotten good at stringing words together. So what?

A new thought post about a meetup with a neocities lover!!!

A little post about a mantra that has been making me a better person, and I hope will keep doing so.

Finn offers me poppers at his birthday party, I take them, holding one nostril down and pressing the bottle against the other. I inhale, and my body becomes loose, my veins relax, expand, even. A…

Day 2 of the hackathon. I used the Grafana gcx debug-with-grafana skill with Claude to find the root cause of failing and slow services from metrics, logs and traces, and monitoring Claude’s…

Google offers a really strong startups program, which includes >$100k GCP credits and a handful of other goodies like 12 months free of Workspace Business Plus (normally $22/user/month). While not a…

I thank the American institute of physics for organising their monthly Physics of plasma webinar series and for giving me. a chance to interact with some of the leading researchers in plasma science.…

I recently attended a church conference, and during a roundtable discussion titled "A Christian's Guide to Authenticity in an Artificial Intelligence World," I made the following observation: Let me…

In Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious , Jim wrote: I often look at my own posts and think, “There’s nothing novel, or important, or deep in here at all — is this even worth saying?” How can I…

This post compares how Clang, MSVC, and GCC optimise a small integer division routine.

Week 26 of 2026: heatLast week was very hot and ended in a thunderstorm that flooded our bike parking and the rest of the ground floor of our building. But cancelled plans lead to other plans and…

As I wrote many times, I use pdf-tools as main pdf viewer. I thought that one thing that would be nice is being able to open pdfs in it from outside Emacs. For example, texdoc could use it instead of…

That's prompting your VC. You're not asking me to take your word for anything. You're telling me exactly who to call and exactly what they're going to say. When I make that call and the answer comes…

A busy week meant no episodes. But now I’m home again. Transcript

Armonía (Harmony) by Remedios Varo (1956)A peer-reviewed paper I co-authored with collaborators at the University of Michigan is published in the current edition of the Journal of Statistics and…

This weekend, on the way home from a drive-in event at the mighty Mahoning (largest screen in the US! only 35mm projecting drive-in left!), the Simulwatch crew and I stopped off at Timeline Arcade in…

Shooting a parade is hard. That is why I try to shoot around it, not the parade itself.

social.lol Mastodon server upgrade It’s time for an upgrade! The server that powers our social.lol Mastodon instance is approaching its capacity, so we’re going to do the little…

20cm x 15cm (8"x6"), oil on board...

The all-you-can-eat AI coding era is over. So what do you do on the 22nd of the month, when the token budget's gone and there's over a week of work left? Here's a local coding agent (Pi…

I think it was the semester's first career fair, during my sophomore year in college. A Microsoft recruiter, screening for computer science majors, pulled me aside and asked me what my…

This bookshop receipt was Left Inside a copy of The Wallet of Kai Lung that I purchased many moons ago from John Chandler's long-lived but sadly now defunct bookstore Bookman's Corner on Broadway and…

DailyDogo 1676 🐶

iamspeed.dev now supports 10+ LLM providers, a head-to-head Race Mode, and a community leaderboard backed by Amazon DynamoDB. Find out which LLM API is fastest for your use case. The post Which LLM…

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. - Aristotle Onassis The coding agents revolution is taking the world by storm and we are right in…

New job, new apartment, new city, new quests

~1089 words. ~5 minutes. tags: emacs programming debugging Or as I would like to call it, GLORIOUS Unified Debugger. This is my submission for June's Emacs Carnival, Underappreciated Emacs built-ins.…

I love it when a romance book becomes more than just about falling in love. Caught Up may not have the most unique plot but the heart of this story is something that you rarely find in just any book.…

Why AT URIs are not valid under IETF RFC-3986, what the impact is, and some possible ways forward.

Emmett Rensin, writing at Los Angeles Review of Books: But if it is childish, if any of this—the outrage, the horror, the belief that something must be done—is childish, it is only…

Napster returns as an AI music generator, letting users co-create tracks with chatbots. But questions about copyright and creativity remain.

Trying to prod myself a little into reading more carefully.

A new Tradecraft Garden and Crystal Palace release is available. This release introduces a proper install script and consolidates its commands behind a cpl [verb] CLI interface. I’ve also added an…

Programming note; this is the 150th issue of NULL BITMAP, and NULL BITMAP will be going on a hiatus for a while, maybe just for the Summer, maybe indefinitely. I think I need a bit of a break from it…

Brief Biography: David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and the founding Director of the Institute for Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he also founded the…

overall - what a fun day! had fun, no IT band pain post tri / no cramps on the run. finished on la crema vineyard with wine + pizza from diavola :D other thoughts - tris are tough for partners cause…

Every major shift in software changes the unit of engineering. I believe we're watching it happen again.Software engineering has always evolved through abstractions.We rarely notice the…

Windows blanked, end wall cornice added, gaps puttied, corner bevels adjusted. Ready for stucco. The arcade is coming along, but that'll get its own post.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is a cozy fantasy novel that follows Linus, a caseworker for a government organization that runs orphanages for magical children. As a cozy novel fan, I am…

While Anthropic and OpenAI have massive valuations, the ROI from enterprise AI is coming from applications and data, not the model itself. It’s not unlike the relational database market, which…

IDK how long this entry will be, but regardless it IS an entry! To put short, not much has really happened in June, aside from me going to watch the Backrooms movie and seeing TADC finale. The…

Investors instinctively turn to past performance when choosing funds. But new Morningstar research on 6,003 European funds finds it is far more reliable as a warning sign than a buy signal.

There are dozens forged or cast parts, like the one below, in an aircraft. Forming their shapes with polygon meshes and Bevel modifiers is difficult, because of their complex, rounded edges. Usually…

How I built Tinkerfont, a browser extension for inspecting and swapping fonts on live websites -- Manifest V3, content scripts, and a Firefox port.