One of my favorite passages from Atlas Shrugged is this one, when Cherryl is beginning to have second thoughts about her marriage to James Taggart: It was his sudden, angry "so you don't trust me?"…

I can't remember when the last essential American 60s garage rock compilation was issued... sometime in the early 00s with the ace Teenage Shutdown cd series and those seven volumes of Fuzz, Flaykes…

Portable power stations are incredibly useful when you need electricity away from home. The problem is that for many of us, once the camping trip, holiday or day out is over, that expensive battery…

The very influential and quite entertaining article below was written by, and belong to, Dominic Humphries, the CC copyright and attribution and link to the original are at the bottom of this post. I…

I looked, and it seems like there aren’t enough LLM evals out there!

youtube • video ID: hNI_Qx3cspEclick image to load player It takes a generational talent to take a song like “House of the Rising Sun” and make it in your own way. RIP This article was…

On the 23rd of September we will come to San Jose to run the We Are Developers World Congress North America and I am dizzy with planning and excitement. 10k attendees, 600 speakers, tons of content.…

Learn the fundamental principles behind OOP and how they connect to the syntax of Python. Introduction Welcome! This article will teach you the core ideas behind object-oriented programming ,…

In this post, Andy Warfield explains how databases like DuckDB are enabling a new way to build with data, why they matter right now, and how they complement the work we’ve been doing in S3 (e.g., S3…

youtube • video ID: nAa-ij2TAokclick image to load player Been a while since I gave you a song from someone who’s not dead. This article was originally published at:…

How much information is too much? Is there an element of timing in that question? For instance, is the amount of information that is ultimately enough (and not too much) subject to a schedule?…

I recently posted some code snippets for tabbed content containers that easily drop into bearblog pages/posts. I’ve had some pretty good reactions to this, and I really appreciate it! I’ve received a…

My site – this site – was exploited due to an unpatched vulnerability. The wp2shell vulnerability. The very same vulnerability I patched for many client sites just a few weeks ago. This was also…

I have spent a year of posts poking at small UNIX commands on three systems: macOS, Debian and Ubuntu. Along the way Ubuntu swapped its coreutils for a Rust reimplementation, first in 25.10 and now…

I've been enjoying making dumb joke zines of late.

Miykon Vintage Tank-Style Watch Introduction This is possibly one of the stranger watches in my collection. It was a total impulse buy on Amazon. It has some unique features that are completely…

There's a scene in Apollo 13 where Jim Lovell, played by Tom Hanks, asks Houston control to check his calculations, which they do using a slide rule. My father told me that when he was in college…

Wouldn't it be nice if you could power on your Raspberry Pi 4, smash that Del key, poke around in the settings, and install regular old Linux?

An article in the New York Times (August 26, 2026) titled “Under Threat, Saudi Arabia Reroutes Oil Exports Yet Again”, describes a couple of different routes for Saudi Arabian oil since…

A FIY to watch out when you clear your throat.

Folk songwriter Willi Carlisle brings his best to tintype at Arkansas Momentos. The post Silver & Song: Photographing Willi Carlisle’s Peculiar, Missouri appeared first on Arkansas Momentos.

Recently I made the decision to bite the bullet and purchase an iPad. I'm not an Apple person, so this could be considered a big deal. I am an Android user through and through. It just feels better…

nikitonsky: An Italian energy company puts a black overlay over their website and claims to be “saving energy” this way. Thanks @FaviFake for the picture #Overlay #Energy #Bullshit

Copper Giloth Presentation July 20, 2026“The 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artists Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art is given to Claudia Hart in recognition of her decades-long,…

If you learned WordPress performance five or ten years ago, some of what you learned is now incomplete. Not because it was wrong, but because WordPress itself has evolved. Over the past several…

There's lots of history for people to draw analogies from, but people have been doing so poorly. Before I get going I need to lay some facts down. They're not fun facts, but they are facts. Lots of…

Why does time seem to speed up as we get older? A look at the science behind it — and how a hobby like amateur radio can help slow it back down.

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General anesthesia does not switch your brain off. It dissolves the conversation between its parts, and you can watch consciousness leave on a monitor. What actually happens when you go under.

Today's Drop discusses three neat CLI tools to enhance shell skills, tame code, and manage system processes. Witr identifies the lineage of running processes; zcomplete corrects shell commands based…

Most of the conversation around agents is still about making more, faster.

A partner named exactly how HP would lose, four years early. HP quit. Apple didn't. Here are the four failure patterns behind both calls.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) Level 3 specification as a W3C Recommendation, meaning that it now a completed standard. While remaining compatible…

Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) v18.6 just added an awesome new adjustment: glow. If you’re a fan of the “Orton effect”, you’re going to love it. It actually offers three different…

The newsletter is online which means there must be a podcast: It’s an even month which means I’m revisiting past topics, which this month is my Japan Times article on incomplete sentences from May…

At Hot Chips this week, OpenAI presented Jalapeño, an inference ASIC co-designed with Broadcom.1 The architecture slide circulating since the presentation frames a request pipeline split three ways:…

I’ve been running this blog on Hugo for a long time, and like most blogs with real history, it’s accumulated some tech debt. Some of it is my own fault. This blog started on WordPress,…

Finished chapter three of my book, hurray! 🥳

creative practice as barrier & breathing ecosystem

A medical researcher shares insights from medical studies that show that prayer in beneficial for our brains. Source

Project Zomboid recently released their long-awaited Build 42. I set out to see if I can discover any vulnerabilities in the multiplayer component of the game. I ended up discovering three distinct…

That is the difference. A component library gives builders reusable parts; a design system makes recurring decisions about structure, behavior, and user interaction canonical. When those decisions…

From 1894 to 1967, an unusual San Francisco pier served an unusual purpose.

mountain skies and good chocolate my sister’s long breath out

Teng Haibin was supposed to be the future of Chinese gymnastics. In 2003, at just eighteen, he helped China win the world team title and unexpectedly took the pommel horse crown, as well. Coaches…

We have a few clients with larger e-commerce (WordPress + WooCommerce) stores hosted on UK servers via Cloudways. Generally speaking, the service is fine and the cost is decent for what we get.…

I have returned to podcasting. My new show is called Friends of Griffin. Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Spotify, etc. The first episode is out now, my first guest is…

Sitting, a proposal, feline cover songs, two decades of car technology, and line graphs.

In early 2026 I made a sort of reading plan. Since it’s “Staying Motivated” week in Blaugust, let’s see how that’s actually going. The reading plan had two main parts: follow Jared Henderson’s 2026…

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