It always feels good to do a fresh start. It’s the transition between old and messy, to new and clean. It’s exciting because you can do things differently now, based on the mistakes from…

I get asked this a lot, usually by students who are frustrated that food policy moves so slowly. The science on smoking was so overwhelming that it eventually reshaped laws, taxes, and norms around…

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"Retirement starts when you stop sacrificing today for some imaginary tomorrow." — Naval Ravikant I used to think retirement was a date. A number in a spreadsheet, a finish line you cross and then…

The recent Report of the Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Education says: Focus on the mission. In 2016, departing from its traditional emphasis on the creation and dissemination of knowledge, Yale…

After almost falling for a sophisticated scam, sharing the story on LinkedIn reminded me how much I need a community to go through this madness with.

Last updated: 6 days, 9 hours ago By Christopher Buehlman Reviewed By Oren Raynes Book 20 of 2026 The Writing I didn't mean to pick this one as a Halloween month read, but it works. The writing in…

Getting into my inbox should be a privilege. Strangers should ask first, every sender should get one line, and everything I keep should be labelled for me.

Slowing down in Hawaii In a few short weeks my odometer will turn over to 50 years and I will enter a new decade of my life. It's true what they say about how time progresses as we get older..."The…

When do we determine when to speak up and when to let sleeping dogs lie? When is it itching for an argument? And when is dealing with conflict honestly and productively?

Two people have recently used the phrase "self-imposed house arrest" to describe Bill's current situation and it made me laugh both times - not because it's inaccurate (it's 100% accurate) but…

Today I want to share my coffee station setup. My daily journal showed me a photo from five years ago, and it reminded me to write about this part of my morning routine. Disclaimer: I’m a…

Four months after Phrase Algebra and Sharpee 2.0, the algebra has grown from 13 kinds to 16. Two of my June examples were never valid syntax, and the Optional and Choice examples contradicted…

As a little girl, I fell asleep many a Saturday night nestled beneath guests’ coats tossed on a bed, listening to the strumming, plucking, picking, and bowing of familiar old songs.

This one was heard on the podcast All In with Chris Hayes, in a discussion about Bernie Sanders. It is a mashup of “put your thumb on the scale” (unfairly influence a process or outcome)…

Drawer adds a pair of brackets to your menu bar: [ on the left and ] on the right. Anything between them is in the drawer.

As I was preparing for my PNSQC keynote 'Better together: Humans, AI and the next quality benchmark', I went back on my social media timelines on the public notes I had taken, and two stood out in…

Don Valentine founded Sequoia Capital in 1972. He backed companies such as Apple and Cisco, recruited and taught legendary Investors such as Michael Moritz and Doug Leone, and helped build a Venture…

Generation got a hundred times faster and reading did not. What that actually breaks in code review, why spec-driven development collapses into a compiler, why clean code matters more when agents…

Between contemporary travesties of Ibsen or the Greeks, and the endless "assembled research" ‎efforts of James Graham, Peter Morgan and the like, so much "new" writing for the British stage these…

In practicing Judaism with MJ for over a decade, I had a passing familiarity with Sukkot, but much like Purim, it didn’t have much meaning until we had kids. Which is not to say they’re…

Alternatively, "I dont know C#". Making UNBEATABLE show what you’re playing on Discord.

In part one, we took a deep dive into the circuitry that makes the Marshall Guv’nor unique, in particular its “clipping core”. This week, we’re looking at the most notable Guv’nor-inspired pedals…

I think over the next few months we are going to start seeing a massive wave of new software releases. It's been a good number of months now that AI agents have been of a high enough quality that…

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There are only two types of startups now: 1) lifestyle and 2) sci-fi. Lifestyle startups should bootstrap. Sci-fi startups should raise lots of capital. Anything in the middle is what...

“As the extension, so the force”Hooke’s law, first published in 1676 as the anagram ceiiinosssttuv(Gourlay’s springs are Hooke’s law with a stop) ​The last few…

One man played outsized role in ending the Panic of 1907, and for many Americans weary of the power of bankers, that was unsettling. Five years later, Congress summoned John Pierpont Morgan to…

Bit of a wordy title, but since macOS 26.4 the rebranding options in both Jamf Auto Update and Notifier have stopped working, at least as far as the icons being shown in Notification Center for…

Really like the framing of this article. It uses some very visceral (or easy to understand) examples of how people vs. AI would approach the problem space, and my feeling is that this kind of…

Mode 3 from part 2 takes standing decrypt away from the token vault with KMS grants. The grant quota caps the whole system at 50 exchanges a second, and the attacker who actually shows up doesn't…

Wish you could learn how to see ghosts? These ritual games might teach you. Just be warned: Not all spirits are friendly...

Series: Standalone Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition Release Date: October 1, 2026 Publisher: Montlake Source: Kindle Unlimited Genre: Romantic Suspense A woman’s unexpected return to her isolated…

We’ll finish proving Theorem A.2 of Paper S6 in this post. Links to: index page, 10/12/26 (last post), 9/28/26, 9/21/26, 9/7/26, 7/21/25, the generalized binomial theorem. Next time,…

This month I'm very busy preparing my first commercial game for the v1.0 release in December. Additionally, I will also speak at GodotFest26 and SFSCON in November. For that reason this month's blog…

From the very beginning of Portable, logging is always a four-tiered simple idea: We assemble a formatted String with a designated log le

It seemed like this week was turning out to be quieter on the music gear front than the last few, but to my surprise, quite a lot has happened. Twisted Electrons opened preorders for an unusually…

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This post is part of Prismatic Wasteland's blog bandwagon on the topic of player advice . At the end of the AD&D PHB, just before the Appendices on psionics, bards, alignment, the planes, and…

I’ve been meaning to write something, anything , about my experiences over the last, like, five months–holy shit, it’s been nearly five months since I left the US. Holy shit! I thought just now,…

By Jeffrey D. SachsI wish to state my position plainly. I am a defender of Ukraine and of peace. I believe in the concept of indivisible security, meaning for Ukraine, Russia, and Europe.  Those…

The following poem -- "Fayetteville Junior High" by Delaware poet Fleda Brown -- uses mathematical terms in entertainingly describing a romance between two teachers: Read more »

As AI models improve, the engineering challenge shifts to agent harnesses, data quality, evaluations, memory and security. Here's what it takes to build reliable AI systems.

Event: Community Over Code 2026 Dates: October 11–14, 2026Location: Glasgow, UKWebsite: https://communityovercode.apache.org/events/glasgow-2026/ Community Over Code is the Apache Software…

Keep WordPress updated. Use reputable plugins. Download them from official sources. That’s familiar advice, and there are good reasons for it. But what happens when the official plugin package…

VMPal is described as “Virtual Machines built for Apple silicon and AI agents”. Straight from Apple, installed in minutes, with Metal on your Mac’s GPU. VMPal Tools add the clipboard and drag &…

My grandmother hated throwing away the boxes things came in. There was a mountain of them in the storage closet by the kitchen that threatened to topple over every time we needed something from the…

Every teacher who builds slides has hit the same problem. You need a particular shape or piece of clip art, and it isn’t there. As a science teacher, the one I want most often is a thermometer, and…

Jen, Jan’s friend from way back, served the Taiwanese beef noodle soup into the little upside-down cone-shaped bowls. A piece of beef, a pile of the hand-pulled wheat noodles, ladles of…

IntroWatch the video: The Marketplace of Alignment Last week, All-In Podcast E292 spent more than half an hour on whether Claude might be conscious. What does it mean that a frontier lab takes the…