A bit cool today when the sun was not out but still a pretty good day. Martha and I drove the Honda CRV down Colorado highway 67 towards the town of Victor, Colorado. Back during the Gold Rush days,…

Interim President John Pelesko with Foundation Board of Directors Excellence in Research and Innovation Medal winner David Bader. New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) celebrated the achievements…

“Every fruitful minister in the history of the world has routinely been in over his head. Trust God and go . . . And when you have done all, and you stand before your Maker—cut, bleeding, grimy,…

In the past few months, I've been sharing my experiences working with AI, both in software development and in everyday administrative tasks. AI has been amazing at automating workflows and…

For years, I’ve been using Ansible to configure my homelab, blog, and workstations. After testing out Chef and Salt, I’m glad I happened upon Ansible. The tool has grown more and I’ve gotten tons of…

From software company Linear, a blog post from last year titled Why we committed to a zero-bugs policy : When we tell people that Linear maintains a zero-bug policy a common response is disbelief. It…

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I watched the first episode of the long-gestating and finally-released show, "Crystal Lake," on Peacock. All eight episodes actually dropped at once, but I've only had the chance to stream the debut.…

Nikon Z8 & LR Taken a few weeks back; you’re getting an old one today because, like Jasper, I didn’t touch a camera today. The surgeon today rocked my world a little bit. There is…

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This essay was originally written for and submitted to the Pragmatic Engineer essay contest in October 2026. At some point earlier this year I realized I was not enjoying work the way I used to. I'm…

That walk last night took a lot out of me but I was able to have a really good night sleep &#8211; as soon as my head hit the pillow I was asleep instantly. I had one of those sleeps where it was…

Yes, I like this particular shade of blue. It can be the sky, it can be water, it can be a watery sky.

On this episode of Focused, Mike and I review Q3 and talk through our plans for the rest of the year. We look at keeping a menu of opportunities without turning every interesting idea into a…

I got tired of trying to be Canadian. These days, I’m not even trying. The post Here or There, Who Cares? Canada and I Are Just Friends Now first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

Seventy-five years ago, the BBC realized that it needed to start broadcasting on VHF. The reason was simple: The mediumwave band in Europe was too crowded. But unlike America, which had been using FM…

I&rsquo;ve been sent the below internal email, which I&rsquo;ve been told is from Matthew Grant who is Executive Editor, Radio &amp; Audio Newsroom, BBC News. It suggests that the BBC World Service…

Meeting comes to order at 8PM exactly. 49 people are present. There are public comments. The arguments for and against adopting the SIC report have been heard before, many times. Martin objects to…

That’s a loaded concept. Not easy to deal with. I’ve got some thoughts about this, but not all the answers. I think of the mind like a cluttered desk. To find something, I’ll have to take more time…

Sheetmusic4J is a Java(FX) library to render and interact with sheet music. After MusicXML, MIDI, ABC and Guitar Pro, version 0.0.5 adds another format: LilyPond.

Exploring the benefits of creating an MCP server for AI agents and its potential for growth and distribution.

Find out how to stop automatic file tracking in VS Code's Explorer tab.

A dependency was built with a Kotlin at least two minor versions newer than your build's compiler. Raise the org.jetbrains.kotlin.android version in settings.gradle.kts to X minus one or later, or…

A peer sent RST_STREAM with PROTOCOL_ERROR for one request. HttpClient never retries it. Find which hop reset the stream, fix the request it rejected, retry only idempotent calls, or drop that hop to…

An autonomous loop is an expensive way to run a for-loop you have not written yet. Use agents to map messy work, then compile stable paths into code.

Domestic models carry the volume, and US models are kept for the hardest coding.

We’re safe from ω...for now

God knows, the finish line of human is not the stars.

I guess it's a good time for a new Rust Glancer version (BTW, if you're seeing this for the first time, Rust Glancer is a new experimental LSP that targets using no more than 100MB of memory while…

#243 — Updated installation guidance : Documented Mason and Scoop support, linked the merged Neovim configuration, and clarified how to install a newer server binary independently of editor…

A person is a seed and a few props. No .glb , no textures, no rig to import. Everything else falls out of that. Every game with a character creator ends up with the same pile of stuff. A base mesh, a…

Roden Readers — Hello from the other side of hiding in Europe during Japan&rsquo;s extended summer / record-breakingly rainy September. It is I, Modo-san. I was working on a book in London. And then…

As a lifelong fan of marginal programming languages, I've spent my fair share of time wondering why they don't get more use. I would really have liked to use more Clojure over the last fifteen years.…

Paulblish turns mermaid code blocks into diagrams, and until now it used mermaid.js to do it. It worked, but the diagrams always looked a bit off next to the rest of my site, and on a phone anything…

The hardware and software I currently use

Why, oh why? All too often you often hear people say "I'll rewrite this." The rise of agentic coding makes the rewrite easier (but it's not always perfect, and you'll have to sand down the rough…

Holy shit, I didn’t know what I was missing out on. The other day I was setting up a new home-server for a friend, they’re technical, but I don’t think they will tinker too much with the media stack…

I'm such a bad loser...

This morning was enjoyable and I decided to sustain that with a stop at an old favorite for a final coffee. I used to come to Time Coffee just about every day. It was here I met my friend Russell…

Been thinking how good a bagel would be. I really like everything bagels with cream cheese and a hit latte. So when tomorrow becomes today I will head to New York Bagels just a block or so from the…

I now follow three websites or feeds whose authors write in French; in at least two cases, the authors write in both French and English. When I see posts in different languages, I use Firefox’s…

Dynoxide 1.4.0 is a smaller release than 1.3.0. There's a community contribution, a new way to stop an embedded server, and another round of fixes that bring updates and scans closer to DynamoDB.…

Flagpole is a feature flag service built on kit, where every HTTP standard is there because the domain needs it. Building it found four bugs that kit's own tests never caught.

LinkLane sends every link to the right browser and profile – work links to the work profile, personal links to the personal one. Why I built it and how it works.

As you may have noticed, September was a productive writing month, while October seems not be; you would be mistaken, for I have taken upon the challenge to write my Sunflowers story more thoroughly…

A new package to add hearts, reads, reader highlights and a stats page to your own Astro site

In 2026, Bun moved half a million lines of Zig to Rust in 11 days, Ladybird ported its JavaScript engine in two weeks, one GitHub engineer and a fleet of agents rewrote the Copilot runtime, and a…

Coding agents are writing more and more Rust, and someone has to read it. Rust from zero for Python and TypeScript developers: variables, functions, structs and enums, ownership and borrowing with…

My glossary of terms, the documentation library behind org-special-block-extras' doc: links.