Lichtenstein changed art by re-creating images drawn from comic books and advertising. His use of these images was, he explained, “not to reproduce it … I do it in order to recompose it”. His…

Women have been so thoroughly written out of art history that a survey of Renaissance-era female artists is full of revelations. Their work was commonly attributed to male artists. Once corrected,…

In 2024 I invested $1500 in Evee and Broad Radio via Birchal's crowd funding platform and not much has happened since.

This blog post is only incidentally about AI.

Most military shooters make you feel powerful. They give you a weapon, point you toward an objective, and encourage you to turn everything between you and victory into a pile of bodies. Gallipoli…

(You're looking at me) looking at myself looking at art (on the internet).

Control 10 , 100 , 1000 many computers. Or control 2071 computers, like Jussi did on a earlier course. Or handle 7 different operating systems and OS versions with a single master, like Matias. Best…

A free tool that walks you and your stakeholders through Mager and Pipe’s performance flowchart, before anyone opens an authoring tool. Here’s a made-up request. You’ve seen one…

A small home battery can reduce your electricity bill, even without solar panels. But saving money each day and recovering the purchase price are two different questions. Before buying extra storage,…

Do you want to know how you are doing relative to your peers financially? Then this is the article for you. The Federal Reserve recently released its 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, the gold…

Why I log every board game I play, where MyLudo fell short, and how a homemade MCP server lets me log plays just by talking to Claude. Read the full post on the blog.

Sectoral Financial Balances for the UK as a % of GDP, smoothed over a year

The number of people in the UK without work that want it

Within a month of Jev by TypeSafe AI, hyperscalers, AI labs, data platforms and open source projects shipped their own decision models. The request schema became the standard, the model became…

DAZ 1516 is a 1994 Volvo B10M-16 with an Alexander Q body. Entered service with Ulsterbus as fleet number 1516, now preserved at the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum.

Don't let AI be the master of everything you do

A soap film reflects a spectrum that is a single cosine in the reciprocal of the wavelength, so its color is a fixed white minus the cosine transform of the CIE color-matching functions, evaluated at…

A cheap Chinese action cam with a hidden Android, a bad flash that bricked it, a 40-byte loader that brought it back, and a software finger that presses OK at boot.

Being welcomed into a community is one thing. Feeling free to be yourself within it is another. What happens when acceptance comes with unspoken expectations, and how can we build communities where…

Journal article abstracts have been getting harder and harder to read over the last 60 years. Make it easier on your fellow researchers.

“Ahhh! I have a headache, fever and feel achy all over,” groaned Susan. Neil went into the bathroom returning with ibuprofen and water. “Here take this,” he said handing it to Susan, “then I’ll get…

A 1999 Lupo and a 2026 Tesla speak the same language. Why CAN bus refuses to die, and how I built CAN-Lab to learn it…

Last week I was in Brisbane to talk about Amazon's new EventBridge Custom Bus. This post is a recap of my presentation for those who didn't make it to AWS Community Day Australia. Last month AWS…

Two Haze tasks show when direct implementation is enough, when planning earns its place, and which checks still matter either way.

This is part of a series as I document the life of a dress worn and lived in, in one real life, in the Highlands of Scotland. Object 003: Highland Mess Dress It's the Tattie Holidays here.…

The Grindadráp, Tassie fishing rules, use it of loose it, and are the pontoons deserted?

PictureCorrect has a fun photography challenge where you take your shots using a 1/10 second exposure time without a tripod. This comes at a time when I’ve been looking for more photo lessons…

.post .post-content { margin-top: 0px; } .post hr { margin: 10px; } I always liked building things. I built mazes (from decommissioned punched tape). Then LEGOs, and robots made of LEGOs. Then I…

Learn how to set up playwright-webext, put tasks into extension storage, and check that a todo list popup displays them.

At the recent Open Source Summit Europe in Prague, the Linux Foundation / TODO Group just released the 2026 version of their State of OSPOs and Open Source Management Report: Expanding Open Source…

Last year, after spending a few years establishing the habit of writing and sending out a post every month, I designed and built a theme of its own for Trema , which I publish with Ghost . I wrote…

In this part of my event sourcing series, we take a quick, pun intended, look at how fast the projector we saw in the last post actually runs. The projector gets a list of events as input and…

Alamedin gorge. The tent goes where the ground is flat, not where the view is. Nothing required those to be the same place. As far as I'm concerned, Bazel is the best build tool you can pick today,…

TL;DR: This blog has moved from https://andrea.corbellini.name to https://andrea.corbellini.blog. Please update all URLs pointing to this blog, and sorry for the inconvenience. Me and .name Back in…

Today I am part of the blog tour for I Was Watching You by Chris Westlake. He is going to share about himself and the novel! This one looks to be right up my alley of interests, so goes another one…

A session cookie is a bearer token, which is a polite way of saying that whoever holds it is you. Copy the cookie, replay it from another machine, and the server happily serves your account. Nothing…

Anyone who has put a customer support agent backed by a large language model in front of real users has, sooner or later, watched it cheerfully write a Python web scraper or summarize last…

I’ve been playing around with map visualisations a fair bit again recently, both using JS libraries like D3.js for interactive ones, and the R Project for non-interactive static ones. I’ve also been…

This month’s Dystopian Book Club selection is Sherri Tepper’s 1988 post-apocalyptic novel The Gate to Women’s Country. Set three hundred years after a nuclear war, it describes a…

New blogpost has been added to the journal page: Alegria Jazmine Mary Janes: Product Review A product review of the Jazmine Mary Janes by Alegria!

The Success of Open Access Open Access is in my view a success story. It seems to be fashionable to flagellate ourselves about failures to reach 100% or bumps along the way, but over the course of…

Learn cyber security. Link birds-eye view to hands-on. Master's level course. Course name and code Cyber Security - ICB705AS3YE -2 (study guide) Timing 2026 period 2 late autumn, w43-w50 ECTS Credits…

Writing software for a 30+ year old platform that nobody uses... Welcome to MCVT - a VT100 terminal emulator for the Psion MC400

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The city is divided on State Street. The car-free vs pro-car debate and following referrendums has left the city fatigued. But everyone I have spoken to in the city is united on a few fronts. They…

I have been building my own workflows, working in tandem with AI, for over a year now. Like many others, I started by giving Claude Code access to my existing Obsidian vault, and did a lot of things…

Listen to this episode here. Further Reading Beyond the Pale, Tannic, Landmark, Hidden, Secret Socials Amanda P. on Bluesky and at Weird Wonder Sam on Bluesky and itch The Dice...

just me gushing over an ai-free, ad-free streaming platform that i think you should take a look at! plus now i have comments available on all of my diary entries if you'd like to have a chat <3

Mutual Funds Decoded As investors, we buy mutual funds(MF) from various platforms and receive units. But have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes? How do these funds operate, function…

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