Her er opptak og slides frå eit foredrag eg hadde for Klima- og transportkomiteen i Naturvernforbundet i Bergen (NVB) 29. september 2026.

Omicron is the smallest thing I could build for catching ideas before they vanish. Tap a complication on the Apple Watch, talk, tap stop. Soon after, the iPhone has a cleaned-up note with a title,…

At 04:22 UTC one morning, Sentry saw its first Invalid signature error from a Stripe webhook in Sirv Studio. At 04:38 a pull request existed that fixed it. Nobody asked for that PR. A switch to the…

So like, it’s intelligent to be able to combine all human knowledge? Huh.

SCENARIO: The year is 1950, and a brand new Turing machine, the first of its kind, has been installed at a research facility. Lots of people want to use it, but the machine has just one tape. A…

The supply chains for chips, robots, and power can probably be scaled up fast enough that none of them seriously delays post-AGI growth.

Ask AI about something you know very well, and count the mistakes you catch.

After Cloudflare acquired the Deno team and announced that Deno Deploy is shutting down in six months (with the Deno runtime itself only guaranteed a year of maintenance), we migrated the backend of…

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Illustration of a binary neutron star merger just as the two stars make contact. All neutron stars have intense magnetic fields. The typical magnetic field of a…

For a while I’ve been fascinated 1 by “claudeisms”: the little idioms that claude reuses constantly. Claude is not the only one who reuses idioms like that, corporate speak is full of colorful 2…

a tiling-first, aesthetic linux distribution

Prediction markets have priced California's Proposition 40 for almost a year, and a fund of California municipal bonds has not moved with the odds by any amount I could detect. Before November 3, I…

I found out a few days ago, that regardless of your permission settings on connectors, Claude auto-mode is able to use them. This violated my expectations, and exposed me to the lethal trifeca of AI…

What months of radon readings found in our Wicklow home, why summer looked different, and why no one minds if the invisible man comes to dinner. Read more →

I’ve been updating trunkbaseddevelopment.com for coding agents, with Claude doing much of the typing. One section is now about AI coding agents committing straight to the trunk . That’s what you get…

A technical exploration of the Apple Vision Pro's 3D spatial pinpointing realization.

Stroppy 6.2 is out. This release is mostly about the work around a benchmark:

tl;dr: Shuffle lands on Alice in Chains’ MTV Unplugged, a master class in pain bleeding into a microphone.

I’ve been embracing the full circle of life recently- instead of struggling to balance both sides of something, I’ve been accepting that both sides are part of the same coin. It makes it…

On the blog this week, we’re talking about useful advice as well as the other kind. Share your wisdom here. Friendly mid-month reminder: The audio book edition of A Gentleman in Pursuit of…

grlesque:Cap that says “I missed the eighteenth chord change of the Sankt Buchardi church performance of John Cage’s As Slow As Possible in Halberstadt, Germany which occurred on August 6th 2026, in…

Today’s ink is Pennonia Hajnal Dawn from the Standard collection. You can find this ink for sale at most retailers including Vanness Pens. The color: Hajnal Dawn ranges from a medium blue, almost a…

Swag and badges from Gamehole Con 2026. We were only home from New York for two days before Stacy and I turned around and drove to Madison, Wisconsin for Gamehole Con XIII. It was one of those things…

The Brass Junkies is back! For the first interview on the show in close to three years, I was incredibly honored to be joined by Gail Williams. You can watch the full episode on Gail’s artist…

do-it-yourself product management therapy

Right then . You dragged your asses all the way out to the middle of shitting nowhere, Montana. You broke into the billionaire’s bug-out complex. You managed to do all that without a scratch or…

Figuring out how to write more, a makeup and hair trial run two weeks before the wedding, and what I've been up to lately.

Sometimes a contractor or service-provider will ask if I’d rather pay in cash. The implication is that a cash transaction can be done without tax – and either or both of us can…

I like Apple laptops, but that self-satisfied “Made in California” vibe is just too much. When they started forcing people to watch aerial shots of the Sonoma Valley every time they log…

There is a long tradition in American women’s popular music performance of using lyrics about romantic and sexual relationships as metaphors for bigger-picture social issues. As Angela Davis writes…

A frog in a pond, just in front of my house. September 2026 I'm writing this almost at the end of October, and as it seems now usual for these notes, the past 3 months have been full! Canada I've…

Introduction I came across a neat little puzzle from Quentin Gallea on LinkedIn last week (Gallea 2026). Take a marketing mix model with two channels and a third variable, X. X is a confounder for…

AI removed most of the effort of learning a technical tool, and with it two filters, knowing how software fails and knowing what the business actually needs. Two anecdotes from the last few years,…

Last night in France, in Provence to be exact, unless flights are cancelled due to thunderstorms and heavy rains. Above are pumpkin (potiron) soup, followed by roast lamb, potatoes, and zucchini.…

Contents Copying what you can see is a rational move, and it fails anyway The incentives reward adoption, not results A case: eighteen months of visible activity, and nothing underneath The…

HOMO SAPIENS, HOMO FABER, HOMO LUDENS? (Our dear dog Ronja couldn't care less...) In 1927, Richard Buckminster Fuller, who was thinking further ahead than most, decided to do the following: “I want…

Something funny happened a little while ago: I read about FreshRSS, and it sounded nice, so I installed it on a server and started using it. That would not have happened a year ago, but then again, a…

Finding out what makes a JPEG XL encoder good - Despite it being a very busy period, lately I have been spending a bit of background time thinking about how to improve cujpegxl, the GPU-accelerated…

This is one of my most prized musical possessions. It’s a rare 1996 released of a live set of music from Starflyer 59 covering songs from the Silver and Gold...

By FARHA GUERRERO This hourglass-shaped word collage gathers the remarkable range of subjects I’ve discussed over the years on Prof Talk and The Blue Hour , my radio show on CiTR 101.9 FM , with some…

If there were doubts about Reform's political character, ITV's undercover documentary has put them to bed. In encounter after encounter, its reporters were witnesses to unprompted, off-the-cuff…

. As an outsider, European-based, I used to regard Moby Dick as a curiosity, no longer relevant in our time. The little reading I did years ago – it must have been in the 1970s – a few pages into the…

Into Ontario the Oswego runs, to ever flood the inland sea that swallows every day the sun, which every day resumes the play. The current that carried Onondaga trappers, traders, and Hiawatha to an…

Prescott native Ruby Loy Jacquemin computed Arizona’s vital statistics during the 1920s. What was her background, and what did she do?

SOC Tier 1 shift start and handover review: practical checklist for open incidents, ticket ownership, priorities, next actions, and escalation.

I've made a terrible mistake. I've been scrolling and posting on Reddit. I know, I know. But I was bored one day. And I've learned my lesson. No more Reddit. In order to not lose all of my incredibly…

Orange jelly spot (Dacrymyces chrysospermus) is a bright orange jelly fungus that forms wrinkled masses resembling a brain or a cluster of petals. It is widespread across North America and grows…

I recently slapped NetBSD on my Raspberry Pi 5. Mostly because NetBSD is cool and I want to use it more. But also because I want to slowly escape AI and projects using it, and Linux isn’t safe…

Before Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop and print-on-demand services, “desktop publishing” meant stencil machines and spirit duplicators. Mostly known by their brand names such as Roneo…