Hallo, ich lerne seit 15 Jahren aktiv Deutsch und lebe schon seit 11 Jahren in Deutschland. Deutsch ist, wie ich in anderen Beiträgen mal erwähnt habe, keine Fremdsprache mehr für mich, sondern eine…

What a good engagement actually leaves behind

Portrait in orange. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2026Finished this work in 2026, my first complete portrait in oil (background in acrylic). Not pictured: sketching, painting the background, then (photo…

A lot of owners are watching AI reshape their industry and quietly wondering if they’ve waited too long. The search traffic isn’t what it was. The team still runs on manual processes. The…

These are notes from the third day of the BlueDot AGI Strategy Course. Days 1 and 2 covered what a good future might look like and what’s driving AI progress. Day 3 asked a harder question:…

“The game on the field is changing, my competitors are raising bigger funds and so I need to as well.” I hear this from legacy and new VCs all the time. It’s true but insufficient…

The National Institute of IT and Communication Technology (NICT) in Japan has been diligently working for many years on dramatically increasing fibre optic bandwidth by using a wider spectrum range…

WORRYING CAN HELP YOU PREPARE ✦ Me cuesta tragar pastillas igual que me cuesta escribir aquí; pero la alternativa es peor, así que toca tragar y escribir, aunque lo haga mal y sin ganas ✦ Hokum★★★½ ✦…

Following Robert Birming’s lead, for the month of June I’ll be maintaining a list of posts that I’ve enjoyed. I’m shooting to have a list of 30 by the end of the month, but…

“May you live in interesting times,” they say. Well, here we are: OpenAI disproves a central conjecture in discrete geometry. The pope writes an encyclical on AI. One of the co-founders…

I’m writing mostly about landscape art photography, though the idea applies more broadly. It applies less well to documentary photography and photojournalism, where success often depends on being in…

Notes from two weeks in Italy, March 2026: Venice: A shop crammed with velvet gondolier slippers, tiny glass snails and mushrooms and dachshunds (saw dachshunds everywhere). Old wells around every…

When I started work on the Willamette theme for Bridgetown (a Ruby-based web framework), I knew I wanted to provide the user developing their new Bridgetown site the ability to choose a single…

I've gone back and forth for a while on whether my main website cactusdan.com should be a professional website or a personal website. So for years it's been in kind of a superposition of both, not…

Disclosure Drama, OpenClaw in the Enterprise?, Misunderstanding Next Token Prediction, New AI Security Order, Thoughts on AI Adoption Speed, and more...

I lapsed on my No Vape streak today. This is an accountability update. I’m not proud of it. https://edleeman.co.uk/since/ You're getting this because you follow my global (everything) feed — if you'd…

Progressive Delivery is not brand new. The pattern is older than software. What is new is that software teams need to find a way to do this while operating at faster and faster rates of production.

AI Adoption is a Trust Problem

Tracking your performance in Google’s AI Overviews & AI Mode Google is giving us brand new information within our Google Search Consoles to tell us how our content is being used in AI Overviews,…

Ever the performer, President Trump has lately been putting on a show of indifference. …..Beneath all that bluster and makeup, he’s sweating. - Frank Bruni The NYT sees itself not as a defender of…

How many students feel pride in the work they are made to do for school? My guess is very few. Pride if anything comes from the final grade not the work itself. The work too often is just meant to be…

I'll examine a QGIS-based Aviation Map template that can be refreshed with current data from the FAA.

A magazine asked me for the 3 most futuristic moments in music, from the period circa 1987 to around 2020. There are so many! One would be Phuture ’s “Acid Trax”, from 1987, and standing in for the…

But does it matter? — I don’t usually say that sort of thing here. I try to be more measured, less personal. I’m talking about the police face recognition vans obviously. This might not…

i think i have accomplished what i set out to do. what else is there, really? aren't you satisfied with what you've done? thats always been your problem. always wanting more. always wanting to be…

"What trifles constitute happiness! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music life would be a mistake. The German imagines even God as a songster." "I would believe only in a god who could dance. And…

The AI singularity The LLM (Large Language Model) AI revolution has forced the hand of the IT industry on the question of semantics in data, because now meaning is now consumed by machines as well as…

Ben Nadel applies the transactional outbox pattern to this ColdFusion blog, ensure at least once delivery for all of his comment emails....

The only constant is change "the only constant is change" as a math-y expression, where k represents a constant, which is equated the delta symbol representing change After the latest Google I/O…

Just an incredible podcast/video episode . The Rewatchables is a great podcast to begin with. Great idea, great execution. Especially if you grew up in the GenX era of 80s and 90s film. Or if you…

This puzzle has traveled. Originally bought in the United States, I took it to Mexico last summer when I met up with my mom. I know she loves owls and I thought it would be a good bonding activity…

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1149/the-potatoes-quest

Walking out of this into a mostly empty cinema in the hometown I effectively abandoned 20 years ago was a perfect and unsettling postscript to this excellent film. I go on about how sensorily flat…

Uneed Residency 🥳 Plus, all the week's best indie startup news

Spangled Cotinga Had lots of fun with the camera at the San Diego Safari Park with my sister. So many cool animals and fun scenes. It’s not every day you see a man walking an aardvark or a zookeeper…

Welcome to the 252nd Carnival of Mathematics! This post brings together submissions and other posts from the mathy web. Thanks all for participating.Let's start with the number: 252Divisors: 1,…

The Rt. Hon. Mark Carney, P.C., M.P.Prime Minister of Canada The Hon. Evan Solomon, P.C., M.P.Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Dear Prime Minister Carney and Minister…

It’s been two and a half months since the last update. Some of the changes made during that time include: Refactoring libdesktop, libgfx, the desktop environment, PS/2 drivers, and more.…

A better concept model and more efficient tools for editing spoken word audio.

In this post, I’d like to talk about some power user tips for OpenCode - an open source, model agnostic harness that more people should be using. Hopefully some of the advanced use cases…

Version 5.6 of the speedata Publisher is out. The last stable release (5.4) was at the end of February, so it has been about 100 days of work, 25 small patch releases in between, and quite a few new…

和過去的告別 最近在搬家，打包收拾的時候，經常都會觸景生情地哼唱起《喜帖街》。雖然不是像歌中描述那樣要結束一段婚姻，但眼睜睜看著墻上挂了差不多八年，而在新家卻無處安放的婚紗照拆下那一刻，真的會有點眼眶濕潤地唱起： 裱起婚紗照那道牆及一切美麗舊年華 明日同步拆下 1…

I had a fun time this week coding a simple SVG map using CSS animations and thought it would be fun to share. This is a simple background animation as the map itself has no interactive elements. The…

hand not obeying brain handwritten letters uglier than imagined small patch of raw, presumably red skin on my septum the first scratch on a shiny new thing the first grey hair trails of water running…

<p>I have recently published <a href="https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critical-infrastructure-studies-and-digital-humanities/section/f4451084-a3bd-4a36-860d-f3a14e17ad0c#ch06"&gt…

A practical tour of compression in Go web servers: static assets, dynamic content, shared dictionaries, training, and streaming. Benchmarking brotli, zstd and gzip.

Life is a party that one day ends; and you are my unforgettable dance. Who writes like that? Who writes about a lost love like that omg? It is from Bad Bunny. I remember in the pandemic I had a…