We have looked at several approaches to improving millimetre-wave (mmWave) connectivity on this blog, including transparent antennas, metasurfaces and, more recently, KDDI and JR East's demonstration…

Hi everyone. Reminder: This Wednesday October 21st at 10am Pacific Time, please join me and fellow rabble-rouser Aparna Rae for a fun and informal conversation where we bust some of the myths about…

The curl project has decided to alter its vulnerability disclosure program procedure and starting October 26 2026, we insist that all vulnerability reports submitted to us that are deemed to be…

That feeling of aliveness, of knowing that this body exists in this world at this unique moment where the sun shines upon the land, the earth rotates on its axis and also in a moving dance of planets…

Protractor° is on the App Store. A simple app, one that I didn’t type a single line of code or write the mundane metadata on App Store Connect. What I didn’t mention: when I got the dreaded rejection…

We approved a harmless MCP tool in eight AI coding agents, changed its description on the server, and asked each to call it again: 60 runs from clean snapshots on six terminal clients, plus VS Code…

I climb into the truck hitting the door sill with my heavy mud stained boots hearing the sound of small stones scratching into the paint and putting their permanent mark on the metal underneath. But…

App credentials are site-wide, but refresh tokens are not shared in .env. Each user connects their own Dropbox or Drive account, and CLI maps to one user.

Greetings, traveler! Apple App Attest lets your server verify that a request comes from a legitimate instance of your app running on Apple hardware. This matters when the server exposes something…

A doctor, a truck driver, and a mission to save lives. If you scanned the QR code on the road, you might be wondering . . . Do I have a guardian angel?…Read more ›

University library bookshelf. Image courtesy RBSC Notre Dame.I'd consider myself an avid reader, having established a nightly reading habit over the last several years. I also follow various…

“When you know more, you’ll see more, you’ll do more, and you’ll be able to execute better.” Excellence comes from paying attention to the details other people might overlook. Early…

For an overview of the paper this is based on, check out this post. Here are my notes about trying to implement a linear/flow language in typescript, compiling to javascript. It uses runtime checks…

In my various efforts to develop new programming languages, I’ve occasionally looked sidelong at linear types, as something that looks like it could be really useful if it wasn’t so incredibly…

Candid Photo Of City Hall & Fountain By An Amateur Photographer -1897 This cabinet card amateur photo of City Hall and its park has a notation on the rear “1897. Who took it and when in…

Twenty-five years ago, NFL kickers made fewer than one in four field goal attempts from 55–59 yards. Now they’re making nearly two in three. After reading my January 2025 post on kicker…

job loss & cortisone mania

有些问题，多年存在并无解，其实并非无解。

Can art fail? As a whole or momentarily, can art fail?It seems to me flatly that the answer to this is yes. Ask many people and at least they can agree that sometimes there is something that doesn’t…

Last week I was evaluating some application performance characteristics with another architect. Our gut feeling told us that the numbers didn't make sense but we couldn't pinpoint why we had this…

Here are some albums I’ve been listening to a lot lately. Hope you find something you like. They are all exceptional.

If you're familiar with Pepe's Mexican Cafe in Bryan, this mascot should be instantly familiar to you. (The Californian, 11/23/1968) While Pepe's Mexican Cafe in Bryan won't be on Brazos Buildings &…

I’ve had “AI usage statements” in the back of my mind ever since I read Ethan Marcott’s blog post sharing a round-up of his favorite ones. I didn’t consider writing one for this site, since it had…

Since I first started making effects pedals my interest was always in what I would call “utility pedals” over true effects. My first pedal was a passive fileswitch, inside of a gutted DS-1 case. More…

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve recently relocated again. The new house has provided some opportunities to do things that I’ve wanted to do for a while, including running CAT5e…

Welcome to another TTT! Every once in a while I enjoy putting a topic on the schedule that focuses on the person rather than the books. I love fostering community and friendships in the online…

Got some fun mail today. My order from Endless Pens: a Sailor TUZU Adjust in Crystal Violet and the Endless Pens x Robert Oster Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty ink. A long time ago I'd seen a newsletter…

KEYBOARDS STILL AVAILABLE – NEW PRICE! After a few years away from the Commodore 64 hobby, I am now slowly getting back into it again (link). As part of this, I have parts for a very limited…

Attach Cognito’s inbound federation trigger through Terraform and the AWS CLI while native support is pending. As of October 20, 2026, my provider PR is still open. Later pool updates can…

I moved my June 1995 poem, The Fate of Logic from paper back to digital and placed in a spot in the Poetry / Creative section, The Fate of Logic. The last couple of weeks my old poetry has come up a…

Notes, updates, highlights and thoughts from week 42 of 2026. The post Wk 42-26 – Weekly Note appeared first on aboutSG.

I’ll jump straight to the headline: I’m calling time on my role as CEO at Welcoming Australia. When you believe in an idea and its potential, you build it in...

A new version (1.6) of Hypervals is now out for Mac, iOS and Apple watch.

We're in election season. It's both exciting and boring, because the main way to save the world is through lots of industrious organizing, fundraising, campaigning for electoral democracy…

From the desk of Benji Welner in Stanford, CA. I do not believe that software engineering is undergoing a tectonic shift due to large language models. I have, at this point, seen a large enough…

dining experience: 3/5 my friend sammi and i hunkered down at charleys-no-apostrophe following a long but pleasant day of (vaguely unsuccessful) shopping. the location we went to was inside a mall,…

Of all my side projects, Silk is still my favorite. I may have more to say on this soon.

Keep your scribblings straight. Read “Announcing: Dover” at joeldueck.com…

Extra! Extra! Read All About It — The Week That Refused to Stay Quiet These stories first appeared on January 20, 2026. As we settle into October 2026, some predictions aged poorly, others eerily…

Author and yoga teacher Sue Bushell shares how ancient wisdom, Hindu mythology, meditation, and creative practice can help us discover the extraordinary within the ordinary.

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Setting up and customizing Linux machines has always been a pleasure of mine. For years I ran a few clunky local servers at home and hosted every kind of application on them. Then the cloud came, and…

I love Australian animals deeply. They're part of my identity and culture. And yes, when it comes to choosing between protecting native wildlife and allowing invasive animals like feral cats to…

All Things Open 2026 is on in Raleigh! With more than 100 sessions and speakers, choosing what to attend is not easy. I went through the conference program and shortlisted the sessions that caught my…

The alleged discovery of a covert recording device inside OpenAI’s offices raises an important question for corporate Australia: are businesses protecting their confidential conversations as…

A curated list of cyberpunk Japanese anime and OVA and Western animated films and television cartoons.

https://colorbrewer2.org/ A set of color-blind safe color palettes that I've used as the basis for a bunch of visualizations

alammo has been around for a while on youtube, posting pc-98 mixes with some very interesting and obscure picks (i recommend!). recently, they created this quirky website where you can browse various…

AI cut the cost of sending a submission to almost nothing, so signal and noise both went up by a factor of ten. The triage queues were built to never miss, and that's exactly what's breaking. Some…