Machinate Me a Sandwich

Indians demonstrate the correctness of Murphy’s law repeatedly: if something can go wrong, it will. If it, miraculously doesn’t, we will find new ways to screw things up. While this is an…

spooky spooky empty spaces

Well I’ll be! The shared path crossing traffic lights on Neerim Road have been commissioned. Let me see, they were installed in … January I think … so it’s only taken VicRoads four months…

I have been running multiple coding agents at the same time for a while now. Sometimes I have Claude Code working on one feature, Codex reviewing a plan, Gemini CLI exploring another direction, and…

Though I understand the sentiment I cannot help but laugh at the idea of "profound loneliness" The idea that my missing you is poetic meaningful even remarkable When in reality it feels like a cruel…

A recollection on my first birthday alone

This is the culmination of a couple of thoughts I’ve had in my head the past few months. I think I’m not alone in some of these ideas. I just wanted to get these down to help articulate…

In this week’s Mid-Week Mini Episode, we talk about the bizarre history of “Hidden Mother Photography.” I was looking at an old Victorian photograph the other day and it felt…

Gosh I hate marketing/advertising my business in 2026. It used to be that we would send money to local wedding fairs, expos, magazines, blogs, directories. Now those dollars have a terribly low ROI.…

I've always had difficulties with writing in English, mainly due to a lacking vocabulary. Generally I have no problem reading English articles online, or having a casual conversation - I consider…

Fedifriend and fellow vim-addict Hyde is hosting what's called a "Vim Carnival", where someone sets a topic and encourages others to blog about the subject at hand concerning vim. With permission,…

In which the party escapes the ruins of Mal-Aqat, loses a friend, and gains another.

Today, I give you some excerpts from my live chat conversation with scholar Robert J. Monson. We speak together some about the desert elders, but also about Robert’s work at the intersection of…

Smarter way to pair program - Internal tool for Shopify.

Type LATE​X Overview Type LATE​X is a typing test site designed for practicing LATE​X and math expressions. Filter by length or difficulty and compete for the top spot in the leaderboards, or…

I didn't finish this book because life kicked my ass. Main thesis, though: Feminism is not necessarily free from harming others, depending on the branch. There is such thing as imperialist feminism,…

TL;DR: Policy gradient RL, self-distillation techniques like SDFT, and Pedagogical RL can all be viewed as optimizing the same objective , just with slightly different optimization procedures. The…

Table of Contents Overview Agentic Functionality pi-subagents pi-agent-flow Search pi-web-access pi-kagi-api Integrations pi-mcp-adapter rpiv-args pi-chrome Observability pi-kanban pi-bar Human…

Archives de Bevaix by Service intercommunal d’archivage The Wayback Machine is (usually) good at preserving web pages, but it’s not always good at helping you find your way around what’s been…

Here we go with a brand refresh for Sniffnet! Back in June 2023, this website was first published under the domain name sniffnet.net. The domain was chosen in a hurry, and as time passed I grew more…

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A short story, published in Nature’s Futures series, that retells the Book of Job as the trial of an exemplary machine intelligence named Cron Job. Book of Cron Job was originally published by Jordan…

This is the most exciting news I get to announce so far in my open-source tenure! If you follow the Python packaging ecosystem closely, you may have seen hints to this proposal. It’s finally…

In a voiced utterance, the opening and closing of the glottis produces a pressure wave. This is referred to as the voice source. Then this pressure wave goes through the vocal tract and mouth. The…

I started my day with news surrounding Martin Scorsese's endorsement of AI and how he's going to utilize it in the "storyboard" process. Funny enough, Scorsese was one of the few directors who were…

There’s a groundswell of negative public sentiment towards digital technologies at the moment, and AI is part of it. In this article I’ll look at where GenAI sits in the current techlash, and suggest…

Every year, I try to visit my local “Arts College” – OCADU – to see what creative young people are up to. This post is the first time I’m highlighting the people…

Sony ILCE-7RM6 Photographic Dynamic Range.

I’m much looking forward to joining the the Book Society collective for a talk about Public Data Cultures as well as my broader research, practice and collaborations. The event will take place on…

I often say on here that genocide is the worst crime that human beings have ever invented. But that’s not really true. There’s one worse. Omnicide: the killing of everything. Unfortunately, omnicide…

Amazon just messaged me that my latest Kindle title was now available. “Morning Man” is a 6,300-word short story with an interesting history. It’s about an AI DJ at a small farm-town AM radio station…

From Pascal’s Pensees (60 in the Lafuma numbering) with the Penguin translation. Plaisante is too rich to ever translate satisfactorily, but I think the rendering here could do better at…

A little whimsical, perhaps — but this is a thought worthy of perusing and perhaps implementing as a […]

Sassy Classy Top, and Thoughts about Pattern Design Finished the turtle neck part. I’m not a big fan of the pattern writing to be honest. Some part reads very confusing. For example: the Round…

We spent summers in Egypt when I was a child. There wasn't much to do besides watch television. When I'd run out of books and my iPod was charging and I'd exhausted my brother's patience, I would sit…

When did you last spend some time with yourself? Not by yourself, or alone, but with yourself? Like, time getting to know yourself as a friend. Recently, like many people nowadays, I've felt a desire…

Editor's Note This is a reproduction of a post by Martin Sustrick that was on 250bpm.com before that blog was wiped and replaced with a new blog hosted on Substack. The author did not migrate their…

Middle-of-the-pack, typical romcom.

Hot on the heels of the release of Fit Arabic, I am incredibly happy to announce Fit Kannada, designed by Taresh Vohra and released today by Mota Italic. I am not a speaker of Kannada or a reader of…

In my last post I talked in a round-about way about reconstruction. My post garnered a few comments from friends saying that reconstruction was a new idea to them, so perhaps it’s worth a few more…

I was feeling a little nervous. Maybe more than a little. I’ve been like this for the past month. I went through a breakup. The worse one yet. And I’m in my 40’s. A this age every breakup takes a…

I’m getting caught up on the State of Play and this God of War spin-off game seems cool, the combat looks better to me than the two most recent GoW games but I don’t know if I want to…

Deconstructing risk can help focus where we should be spending our time and money to reduce risk. Most security controls in OT reduce the likelihood of a cyber incident that causes an impact on…

David Friedman’s essay on the power of rhyme: The Best Thing About the Satanic Panic. For readers too young to remember, the Satanic Panic was a widespread moral panic in the late ’80s and…

I stumbled on an old map to Marineland from 1962, with Crenshaw running through the landslide zone to the coast. Wait, did it really used to connect? When? And what happened? I assumed the shifting…

Scott “Biff” Grant of The Monolith Monsters yachts through a glitter cloud, his wife (of I Was a Male War Bride) unaffected since she was in the cabin. “People actually decrease in…

A bird that appears to be a Say's Phoebe was jumping from fence post to fence post ahead of me and Joie while we walked, until it finally flew onto a nearby bush, on a Mid-Spring morning. It kind of…

Think of all the people you once knew, but no longer see. Regardless of how much time has passed. The 80/20 rule describes lots of phenomena. 20% of words account for 80% of word usage, 20% of music…