These architectural abstracts were captured while I was walking thorugh downtown Grand Rapids in mid-August of 2026

📌 Overview We recently switched to version 7 (v7) uuid primary keys and saw significantly faster inserts for some tables. The databases were running Postgres 18.4 and mostly used v1 with some v4 uuid…

Early autumn is here, bringing lower temperatures, a little rain and that unmistakable change in the air. It’s my favourite season, and I welcome it. For me, autumn has always been the perfect time…

The stranger came into my home again. He seems to never come in announced. The stranger likes to whisper bad deeds in my ear. He seems to not care about how I feel. The stranger pays no mind to his…

Artificial intelligence is rapidly spreading across the enterprise. Employees are using AI tools to improve their productivity, companies are launching pilots across a growing number of business…

Freudian slip? #git #merge #merde #french #dev #code

"Neg-raising" occurs when a negation that appears to have wide scope (over some operator) is interpreted as having narrow scope. For example, (1) conveys not only the absence of a belief that pizza…

Some models impress you with their first answer. Others change the way you work after weeks of use. For me, GPT-5.6 Luna belongs to the second category. Over the last month, I have used Luna…

A bell to call for dinner rings through the old colonial house. If you follow the sound, you arrive in a dinner room. The table is set: the smells of Daging Rendang and rice, Sajoer Lodeh and…

The “fix-up” novel has a long and honorable history in genre fiction. The term refers to the practice of turning short stories into a novel, and the “fixing” is what has to be…

Chrome and Firefox are moving to two-week releases, making browser cadence part of how teams interpret RUM and plan performance testing.

A scanned PDF is a picture of a document. Your software cannot search it, query it, or pull a total out of it, which is why somebody ends up retyping the numbers by hand. Document processing turns…

There is a coffee joint down the block from me in Brooklyn. It’s in an old warehouse garage. The place is hipster heaven. Every person that enters has a one speed bike they leave outside. They’re…

I’m hoping you’ve noticed a great improvement in how the big buttonwall loads on the links page. The key is the page reloads a few seconds after it’s fully loaded... but only one time per session.…

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Starting with version 0.9.4, SATSAGEN can manage external mixers to extend the usable frequency range of supported devices. Unlike the Converter RX and Converter TX parameters, which have been…

Imagine being the author of a book. You put a great deal of time, effort, and passion into writing it. You eagerly await the reviews, only to find that people give your book one star instead of five…

Back in the Spring of this year, I visited the Netherlands where I took a look at a village bypass scheme , but this post is from across the border, just outside Antwerp in Belgium. As we cycled to…

Last week my feed was full of discussion about this JAMA perspective piece, which argues that AI won’t just assist physicians, it may soon replace them.The authors argue that for five core…

So as mentioned on my Now page, I headed to Scotland about a month ago for a wedding and a cross-country road trip that sung to my soul. Taking a trip north of the border just makes me happy, and you…

I've been using Uruky for a couple of months now and I feel I should write a bit about it. It's a "private search engine focused on personal search customization, not an ecosystem." Some people call…

Just as human-centred approaches as a whole have suffered from being flattened to a superficial layer, information architecture has suffered its own flattening. Ontology helps us deepen our practice…

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What are we not talking about anymore? I used to enjoy talking about the web, in many ways. I love the fact that it is for everyone, by design. And I used to love talking about the consequences of…

21 August in Melbourne, supported by Colbey.I think at this point I can admit that I like photos of my view when it's blocked by lots of people. In this case, I could have easily found my way…

Fifteen years ago I was doing everything the way everyone else was doing it. Standard American diet, standard American workout, standard American plan: grind now, live later, hope "later" shows up…

I don’t want to defend every thought I have.

Once a chat takes a wrong turn, the model gets lost and does not recover. Multi-turn performance drops 39% on average across 200,000+ simulated conversations. Restarting a conversation beats steering…

Hi folks. Today I'm going to demo my 2026 toolkit for writing rust, containing a dozen or so tools & packages that I use in every project, along with smart default config. I'll start with the single…

The models are so strong we're becoming less researchers and more triagers. August was my best income month ever, and it's making me question everything. This week: the bug bounty bubble, why an RCE…

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked on the Clojurians Slack in #cider why C-x C-e evaluated “the wrong thing”, I’d probably be writing this post from a yacht. The answer was always the…

The purpose of tear-water tea From Owl at Home by Arnold LobelAlt. textAn owl in striped pyjamas stands in his kitchen, holding a tea pot to his chest. He is crying and his tears fall in the pot,…

What do you do when you have an upcoming four-day long weekend? Do you decide to find solace in the comfort of your home, or do you have an inexplicable urge to go and explore a new city altogether?…

I wrapped search around a working agent and every time I let the search overrule it, it played worse. The experiment was built so a negative result cost zero rating, which is why I could afford to…

Sixty-five bytes is not a model. It is not even a header with something plausible after it. It is a GGUF magic number, a few counts, and a tensor whose second dimension is zero. Load it and llama.cpp…

What Happened On 7 August 2026, the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) disclosed that between July 2021 and June 2023, the ACRO Criminal Records Office suffered three separate compromises…

Since May, 644 support mails arrived and a model drafted an answer for nearly all of them. 16 replies went out the way the machine wrote them. I know this down to the keystroke, and that raw data is…

The Nilgiris Range are famously known as the Blue Mountains in India. Accessible easily over a night's worth of journey from major hubs like Bengaluru, Chennai and others, it makes for a perfect…

The Afterword To Embracing the Savage brings that particular journey to a close, delves into what the word 'savage' actually means, and ends up in an unexpected place: AI, by way of a Claude who…

I'm moving one service after another to European companies. The first website The first was an old website that I sort of inherited. One.com wanted 250 euros for a year of hosting. For a website…

I’ve been spending a lot of time writing Lisp code lately. It’s been fun to open Emacs and tinker away with Elisp, I’ve been doing that on and off for about a year, and that has progressively sparked…

In the past we have written about large language models (LLMs) and how these can be used in agent-based modeling . However, these previous posts only touched the surface on what is possible. One area…

Today marks the one year anniversary of my mother performing an excellent impersonation of Socrates; she drank poison in a process overseen by the state. No Queensland does not have the death penalty…

A few weeks ago I wrote about getting the full ARM64 Steam client running on an unrooted Android tablet. At the time it was a proof of concept. Steam opened, authenticated, downloaded games, and…

It took me seven years to finish my first book. (I wrote about this in The War of Art.) I couldn’t sell it. Couldn’t find a buyer. In fact, it would be twenty-one more years before a novel of mine…

What happens to relational practice when one side of the exchange structurally lacks a subject-locus.

The question of LLM phenomenal consciousness dissolves under analysis, while a conventional asymmetry between LLMs and biological subjects remains — and is determinate.

website called cloudhiker came to my attention today used for scrolling random websites thank god i love scrolling random websites now there’s a feature on there for the actual websites…

We are so excited to be invited to Cambridge to play QWIM! There are a whole host of different bands and acts there so there’s something for everyone. You can use the QR code to get your ticket and…

The most recent AI Skeptics podcast episode features Jacob Tsimerman, the current Fields Medal winner, who recently announced he is joining OpenAI to work in their AI safety division.