Going down an IndieWeb rabbit hole

Adding a dark mode to this site last night turned up four colour-pairs that had been failing the WCAG AA contrast threshold since launch. I wrote about that yesterday. The way I found them was a…

Recently I bought KILLBUG , because it was less than two bucks on Steam (and will be until September 8th, 2026), and I'd been looking for something mindless and action-y. What I found was a ton of…

A little over eighteen months ago, I wrote a post where I talked about writing resources that I discovered while working on my first book that I recommend. Well, now I've written two books, I'm in…

I might look like death warmed up i n this video interview but I *felt* great, and the interview was lively. I had enormous fun! I hope you do too.

    Switching people management systems was a huge pivot. If you want the full story of that change, read "Not Just Code: The Hidden Realities of Overhauling Church Tech." For now, I just…

After some time off-line due to a disk failure, the CPCWiki Forum is back online. There is a thread to “show off your Amstrads”, so I used the excuse to do some gaming with the kids and my 464. I was…

A Trip With My father

I recently went through the laborious and frankly insane process of statting out all 151 original (Kanto region) Pokémon for Into the Oddish, complete with default movesets for each. I felt compelled…

Recently read Cyteen , by CJ Cherryh. (c) CJ Cherryh 1988, Pub 1995 Warner Books, ISBN 978-0-446-67167-9 He, she and it , by Marge Piercy. (c) Marge Piercy 1991, Pub Del Rey 2016, ISBN 9781473529724…

linkding is one of the best self-hosted apps you can run. Stores links forever, API/full control over your data, tags, full snapshot exports if you want them, FF extensions, iOS apps. Less fussy than…

ND Filters for DJI O4 Wide from RunCam & Flywoo – Surprising Results Although the new DJI O4 Wide camera is largely based on Flywoo’s Wide Angle lens for the O4 Lite camera, the…

This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no profanity, no sales pitches, no trolling, no…

<< First | <Prev | Next > << First | <Prev | Next > It’s important to me that you know: this comic has always and always will be made entirely…

After 20 years in a nine-to-five job, I left it to give YouTube, Automate Like Pro training, and our community my full effort. Here is why I made the change and what happens next.

Today I want to talk a bit about how a city shows you the expectations you should have about what existing in that city will be like. In other words, how do I see the built environment setting up…

Many simplified, intro, or “plain-English” WCAG re-interpretations frame Success Criterion 2.1.1 Keyboard as ensuring a control or widget or thing can be operated with a keyboard. Some go…

This is a work of fiction. Deep thanks to Claire, Paul and Pete at Good Day Mockingbird, for the prompt that provoked this story, and for their enormously helpful editorial review and fact-checking…

The perhaps last picknick?

The AI boom promises abundance, but without a fairer distribution of power it may deepen the poverty, dependency, and cultural depletion it claims to overcome.

From punch cards to print statements, programming has been a long effort to remember less. What LLMs add is not intelligence but retrieval without cost, and knowing that changes what you delegate to…

2026/08/26 Wednesday So practicing a continuous line, trying to do a minimalist drawing, like it was so popular in the '60s and '70s among upper-class intellectuals and artists to show how…

In 2018, Teatime Games, Inc. had a bold idea: why not make video game highlight videos based on user expressions?

Prior to this Summer, I can’t remember the last movie I saw in the theaters. Dune 1, maybe?1 I’ve probably averaged one in-theater movie every 18-24 months. BUT! Between mid-June and…

Introverted project managers can be strong leaders. The key is knowing when to speak up, when to listen, and where to spend your energy.

So…I am still working on the online multiplayer(asynch) code and UI and UX for Ridiculous Space Battles, but progress has been pretty good, and certainly way quicker than the first time I…

On July 23–24, 2026, the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee considered seven peptides. It recommended that six be eligible for pharmacy compounding: It rejected the seventh,…

I have been thinking a lot about creativity and failure. The messiness and joy that both evoke, through feelings and difficult learnings. And how neither can be experienced by AI (or those who use it…

It has been so long since I have posted. Alas I was part of a layoff recently so I am looking for a new gig! See my too long resume here…

CI conflated two jobs: executing verification and coordinating merges. Agents change the equation. If you can verify before the PR opens and fix failures in context, why should CI discover them first?

(Last Updated on 31 August 2026) Crikey, it’s been ages since I posted a reading list, so here’s every tab I had saved in my “Reading List” Vivaldi workspace. Apologies if…

🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 Since the availability of GitHub's Stacked PRs finally landing for repositories that use a Merge Queue, I've been "kicking the tyres" with…

Ed Zitron’s latest overly long missive about the AI industry and its misdeeds includes this: “LLMs Are Built To Help Grifters and Imbeciles Do Impressions Of Work.” I’m sure…

Leiden community detection for Elixir, powering Arcana's GraphRAG.

Hello I'm so sleepy. 🧫Added a new journal entry (a life's worth in numbers, being judged, incarnating sanity, clear water, summer's end, Orion, the future) 🧫Updated the books page 🧫Updated the about…

Can a person marry AI??? Before we get to that, in July 2026, my wife and I celebrated 18 years of marriage. She loves telling people that our story actually began in the first grade, when I…

Back in 2019 I wrote about dealing with Jekyll post URLs, where I shared a tiny command that spared me from having to remember the exact file name of every article I wanted to link to. That command…

One of my favorite passages from Atlas Shrugged is this one, when Cherryl is beginning to have second thoughts about her marriage to James Taggart: It was his sudden, angry "so you don't trust me?"…

I can't remember when the last essential American 60s garage rock compilation was issued... sometime in the early 00s with the ace Teenage Shutdown cd series and those seven volumes of Fuzz, Flaykes…

Today marks my 1.5th year living in San Francisco. It feels like ages since I moved here from the peaceful suburbs of Northern Georgia to chase my lifelong dream of building the final AI harness for…

Portable power stations are incredibly useful when you need electricity away from home. The problem is that for many of us, once the camping trip, holiday or day out is over, that expensive battery…

The very influential and quite entertaining article below was written by, and belong to, Dominic Humphries, the CC copyright and attribution and link to the original are at the bottom of this post. I…

I looked, and it seems like there aren’t enough LLM evals out there!

youtube • video ID: hNI_Qx3cspEclick image to load player It takes a generational talent to take a song like “House of the Rising Sun” and make it in your own way. RIP This article was…

On the 23rd of September we will come to San Jose to run the We Are Developers World Congress North America and I am dizzy with planning and excitement. 10k attendees, 600 speakers, tons of content.…

Learn the fundamental principles behind OOP and how they connect to the syntax of Python. Introduction Welcome! This article will teach you the core ideas behind object-oriented programming ,…

In this post, Andy Warfield explains how databases like DuckDB are enabling a new way to build with data, why they matter right now, and how they complement the work we’ve been doing in S3 (e.g., S3…

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youtube • video ID: nAa-ij2TAokclick image to load player Been a while since I gave you a song from someone who’s not dead. This article was originally published at:…

How much information is too much? Is there an element of timing in that question? For instance, is the amount of information that is ultimately enough (and not too much) subject to a schedule?…