Inglês Alguns blogs são feinhos. Fato. Mas não tem nada de errado com isso! Nossos blogs são formas de expressão, dos textos à aparência. Às vezes, alguns não são tão… esteticamente agradáveis? Digo…

The song of the day for Wednesday, August 26, 2026, is “This Is All I Ask.” About This Song “This Is All I Ask” was written by Gordon Jenkins in 1958. Jenkins was not only a…

We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but…

Here’s an article I found quite surprising: “U.S. Muslim Brotherhood authorizes $140M annually to help Muslims take control of American government.” Welp, the Muslim Brotherhood is…

Main Points: Buffy/Devil May Cry Chapter Summary: Lady and her new allies mount a rescue. Word Count: 2140 Rating: Teen ( mounting a rescue ) comments

by Jeff Calaway If you’ve ever struggled on how to organize components in your project, then this is well worth the read. This article goes into the Atomic Design principles (+ some extensions of it)…

Defendant was stopped for speeding, and he was arrested for drugs based on unidentified pills found in his lap when the officer looked in. That might have been reasonable suspicion, but it wasn’t…

Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of all sorts to the best possible outcomes & help everyone around you have a better…

all these mysterious peppers have me governed they do not deter me from themselves i notice. and i would not mind - not at all - were they not consumed other things said question Yesterday ::…

Yahoo via Tom’s Guide quotes Dr. Dre on AI in music production: “I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating,” he noted.…

A few times in the past few years, I have felt the need to cite the passage in his memoirs where Isaac Asimov explained why Mensa and other high-IQ societies were not useful places for him to spend…

Tickets available for The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Spitalfields this Saturday and for The Gentle Author’s Tour Of The City Of London on Bank Holiday Monday. Click here to book for all The…

We tried a new (to us) place called Restaurant Savy's they have mainly counter seating and one or two tables in the back of the restaurantI tried their tomato omurice...delicious! 1000 yen (tax…

A HeadRush Flex Prime is $819 at Turramurra Music right now. It’s a compact box with a 4in touchscreen that you could hide under a pedalboard and forget about. It loads NAM A2 captures…

I’ve written before about how my team at work has adopted a variant of the Mikado Method for software project planning. We started this in 2023 and have evolved the process a bit since then.…

A lot of the time when I've been writing posts for this blog, I've felt that a diagram would really help. But they're a pain to produce well, and I think I underuse them as a result. I wanted to fix…

Wow, I don't think I ever went this long without writing a blog post since this blog exists. What happened? Nothing in particular I think. I'd say it's ...

EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! EVE Online has been one of the most interesting case studies in Python at scale for over twenty years now. They've been running on Stackless Python since…

📢 I gave a talk about Go-Landlock and Multithreaded Policy Enforcement with LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_TSYNC at the Zurich Gophers Meetup on 2026-04-23. The video should eventually appear on the Zurich…

Dolly Parton passed away today at the age of 80; earlier this year she was having a number of health problems. A great country music singer and an even greater songwriter, she has been one of the…

And as a fitting tribute to Dolly, one of my favorite bands of all time cover Jolene.

where are all the self-serve stations?

This one started out as an experiment to learn how to use the new sky, sun and clouds settings in Cinema4D.   As you may know I am still looking for alternatives to create the types of…

In which the crew weighs their prisoners, cooks omelets, and considers blackmail.

Goodreads is yuck. Too many options, functions, and animations. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I like lists. Simple lists that I can bring with me wherever I go. Not held preciously in a app, but dumb and free.…

Game of Thrones: War for Westeros , the latest attempt to bring George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire novels and their HBO TV adaptation Game of Thrones to the video game sphere, has received a…

Christina Solis Caron played the role of Baby Doll in the cult classic movie Mi Vida Loca (1993). Mi Vida Loca is a groundbreaking film in the history of movies about Chicanos, as it follows the…

Teaching folks how to use AI includes conveying the scope of what aspects of problem solving can benefit from use of AI. The following list is not exhaustive, but is sufficient to help newbies…

Seven months ago President Donald Trump praised himself for starting the giant Alaska LNG pipeline project. “Launched a massive Alaska pipeline project to export natural gas to Asia. We made a deal…

Thanks to everyone who viewed, commented on, or reposted my Ruby Ridge videos I posted on Facebook and Twitter/X the last few days. The number of views on my posts is roughly 70,000.…

Metro 2039 , the fourth game in the long-gestating Metro series, has received a new trailer. The Metro series is set in a post-apocalyptic Moscow, where the survivors of a nuclear war in 2013 have…

I've been having too much fun with the new home watershed AI models. But the cutting edge sometimes draws blood, and on Monday I had to disentangle a model from a task that it simply could not…

I am really annoyed with my job. but who isn't?

(4 Feb 2004) – Season 3 Episode 14 (Serial 166)

How to design agents as a graph, run them through a harness that keeps them reliable, sandbox them because you can’t just trust what they do. (This is a follow-up to AI Writes Code, You Own the…

Original available here. I drew this in 2014, but colored it digitally. Have had the lineart sitting around since then, and finally colored it traditionally. The first go-around, I added some lineart…

I made a mistake in my table earlier today regarding the base price of the M5 Max Mac Studio , but my mistake was because of a rather sneaky design in Apple’s purchasing flow. Apple’s web interface…

Attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities faster than most organizations can safely patch. Defenders need an emergency response model that contains exposure, hunts for compromise, deploys fixes, and…

What are the most commonly believed conspiracy theories worldwide? The list includes everything from the assassination of a royal to claims that global warming is fiction.

Sweet potato does not build muscle by itself. Its job is more specific: measurable carbohydrate, food volume and micronutrients without turning lunch into a caloric ambush.

Guiding like a lighthouse It's a place where you'll be safe to feel our grace 'Cause we've all. made mistakes If you've lost your way And I will leave the light on

And the ocean taketh away The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of […]

A chatbot that agrees with you is annoying. An autonomous agent that agrees, writes the assumption into memory, and executes it is an engineering failure. The fix belongs in the harness.

I watched a bunch of videos from this week’s World Humanoid Robot Games in China. This segment on YouTube is an okay place to start. These robots are advancing more quickly than I was…

Among the things HSI undercover officers surveilled when hunting down the left were three photos claiming Alex Pretti had been murdered, and a labor meeting described as "a lot of voting on stuff…

Part starch, part salad—great for when you want both but don’t feel like making both.

C++26 is generous with new containers — we’re getting both std::hive and std::inplace_vector. In this post, we’ll look at the latter. Until C++26, the standard library had no vector-like container…

Oberbozen is situated above Bozen, and you get a nice view of the Dolomites. Bozen, however, didn’t convince us as much - we should’ve returned earlier to Lago di Caldaro to swim some more.

Since I take many notes in [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Emacs]] with [[https://orgmode.org/][org-mode]] and [[https://github.com/protesilaos/denote][Denote]], I tend to instantly invoke [...