Sometimes, an innocent question can lead you deep into a rabbit hole, teaching you interesting things. Diagrams are like maps. Maps omit some details and exaggerate others. For example, on a road…

I’m on a VPN setup with several friends that, obviously, includes a VoIP network. I also have an old magicJack adapter and a deep and abiding need to use hardware in ways I should not. There…

Ingredients 2 c heavy cream 1 c whole milk 1/2 c white sugar 1/4 c brown sugar 1 Tbsp vanilla extract pinch of salt Directions Combine all ingredients into a bowl and mix. Pour into two Crea

How to DIY your way to usability.

While at Zapier, I remember PMs asking me about using Bayesian statistics in our A/B tests because Bayes makes the experiment “run faster”. This idea, that Bayes somehow makes experiments run faster,…

Statement of Ashley M. Gjøvik, Charging Party, NLRB Case 32-CA-282142Five years ago, when I raised concerns about toxic chemical exposure in an Apple office, Apple's managers and "Employee…

In October, a new movie will be released based on one of my favorite books, Klara and the Sun.

My mother will never die. Find her perched on her flaking front porch swing holiday mug in hand, folgers french vanilla, doting on her hummingbirds, thanking her god for crafting such soft creatures,…

The last time I owned a personal MacBook was in 2018. I have owned work MacBooks, and I got an iPad two years ago, but it's not the same. Then, I was updating my website because I'm sponsoring the…

Like millions of her fans I'm mourning Dolly today. For me what sticks out is how she lived. She was a humanitarian. She was a religious person that I looked up to. If there's one church…

Recently I revived my old project, “machine to be a cursed other”, inspired by this incredibly cool VR-powered body swap experience. Back in 2017 I was still a student and was trying to recreate a…

Three Los Angeles songwriters say they wrote it first. Steve Cooper, Jon Sandler, and Greylyn Johnson sued HYBE, Big Hit Music, Artist Publishing Group, and writers of BTS hit “Swim,”…

I never, (and i mean NEVR) infantilize myself. it's so cheesy. But right now I feel like i need to talk to a trusted adult. I've landed in Taiwan. Everything went smoothly up until getting into the…

Watch the behind-scenes video of Fdoo's development and features.

Here’s a code sample from a project I am working on. Positional Promise.all const readAsset = (relativePath: string) => readFile(join(options.assetRoot, relativePath), "utf8"); const…

OK, I know that’s kind of a bummer headline, so note that I also shared with you the evening’s best news: Red Sox win! Again! And it’s all summarized there neatly on my lockscreen.…

A new release of the exepack program, with support for a new EXEPACK compressed format.

This post gives you a set of project instructions that turn any major LLM into a surprisingly competent Bible study tutor rooted in traditional, small-o orthodox Christianity. It is a companion to my…

I think I was halfway through a five-hour drive when my mind, keeping itself awake, took a strange train of thought. I’ve joked over the years (maybe not on this blog, but…) that if some consider…

मलाई “केहि काम गर्न आउँछ” भन्नुको मतलब मलाई “त्यो काम बेच्ने बिजनेस गर्न आउँछ” हुँदैन !  

I’ve always wanted to understand electronics a bit more. Mostly so I can repair them. We’ve been using a battery powered fan because we have no power to our house (intentionally, see this post here…

John Woo (Hong Kong) early avant-garde films e.g.

Recents Q: From Where Do Our Primal Instincts Originate? A: MTV!, Portraits Of Tracy Hound, hey, nothing Blue Island, Ravyn Lenae U, underscores Sweet Fortune, Ryan Beatty Ode to the Greyhouse,…

Thoughts all over the place. Anxious. Angry. Confused. Frustrated. Exhausted. Burned out. Sick and tired of all the things happening around you. You’re not alone. It’s a human condition.…

It look a few years of living in East Tennessee to fully comprehend what Dolly meant to the people. Shortly after Eleanor got accepted into graduate school at the University of Tennessee in…

Answer If you expect your machine to boot with a GUI and it doesn’t you might need to look at which Display Manager (aka dm) you have installed: dpkg -l | awk '/^ii .*dm / { print $2}'…

We have read many stories of the ancient sages who achieved enlightenment by sitting in silence for long periods. A similar kind of advice is given by the neo-sages {not sages in true sense but still…

This one hurts like hell. This planet has lost so much with the passing of Dolly Parton that it’s difficult to even find a foothold for the grief, a place to begin to process all that she was and all…

I love furry cons. The first time I went to a con was two years ago, in 2024. My friend Kodu was visiting Europe for the first time, and having a very American sense of scale, he suggested I fly…

Thoughts and commentary on the times we are living in

That's morse code for the letter B, by the way. (Click to expand)

This year two young men sent me their self published photobooks. The serendiptious timing made for a unique pairing- one, “In Class” is by a British student’s time studying abroad…

What happens when senior leadership ships a "soft launch" to production without architectural review - and why every architect needs a battle-tested framework for saying no. Background A…

This semester, I am giving four lectures in a third-year undergraduate course on statistical mechanics. Last year, I gave a guest lecture on the Ising model. The first thing I want to emphasise is…

The Timeline That Breaks the Illusion I can end most of this argument with one rule. PUT EVERY GOD BACK […]

I’m at home, experiencing both FOMO and vicarious joy as I see pictures of Django friends reuniting at DjangoCon US this week. And I just read that Dolly Parton passed away. I immediately listened to…

There's a new update in Clovenglade- from now on, every card you obtain will be saved and can be viewed in the Library. Furthermore, all horses you befriend can be interacted with at the Stable! More…

2026, it's turning out to be a year for many changes as forks in the road of life have become evident. The TW200 had become unreliable to me for quite a while now. Yesterday, she started to have…

After nearly seven years of conducting boba reviews, I have built up a decent ability to predict if the boba will be good or not. I will always get a drink so I'm not merely judging a book by its…

The 1257 eruption of Mount Samalas triggered global climate upheaval, indirectly leading to the death of Möngke Khan at Diaoyu Fortress in 1259, the fragmentation of the Mongol Empire, and the…

A long-time reader asked if I have any wisdom to share about getting one's first set of hearing aids, and I don't. Maybe some of you do?He just had a hearing test showing hearing loss – almost…

Hello, hello, hello, I'm back. I know, I know, not the most consistent, but I'm pretty happy with most days. Anyways, these days I've been watching 2 shows, avatar the last airbender and pokemon.…

The GATE research programme charter cover page I think at this point, the public has become quite tired of the debates about AI "consciousness" and the PR games being played by major tech companies…

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I read two blog posts this morning almost back to back that got the exact opposite reaction from me. The more I thought about it, the more I needed to reconcile that. So, here's me trying to do that…

AI rollouts fail as procurement exercises. The research on why — and the few weeks of planning that separate volume from value.

TLDR I am not working full time right now, which means I have free time which is dangerous. You start by reading one V8 blog post and somehow end up trying to make Google’s Chrome open…

What makes a video element accessible is captions, descriptions, and a transcript. When those are out of reach, what are the remaining options for giving a video element an accessible name?