Introduction At the beginning of the 1990s Nikon released two special portrait lenses featuring a “Defocus Control” mechanism, which allows you to make the bokeh smoother or harsher. This…

Release Date: April 2026 RRP: 12,100 yen Bandai Tamashii Nations have been doing a fantastic job bringing nearly as many kaiju to the Ultraman S.H. Figuarts range as they have Ultras, as well as…

There are many luddites trying to fight AI and Data Centers, but I don't think the peasants can fight it. I don't think Bernie or Trump can fight it. I think they might not be competent, smart and…

This is a personal, highly opinionated project in heavy development. I’m building it because I want to, the way you’d restore an old motorcycle in a garage. It’s slow on purpose. If…

More thinking, more writing, more polishing, less publishing

Arguing against "universal spaces" and raising a couple questions that come up as a result.

May was a failure for books. I finished none. To be fair, I started two or three but gave up because I lost interest or never really figured out what was going on. I tried This is How You Lose the…

Jason brings us back courtside as the Western Conference Finals continue with recaps of Games 3 and 4.

A quiet story in AI isn't that large models keep getting better, it's that small ones are catching up quickly. In 2022, reaching 60% on MMLU, a test of academic reasoning, required a…

With AI, what is useful when it comes to testing and what is workslop? How do you create workflows in AI? With AI producing massive amounts of code, how can a tester keep up? These are some of the…

Glenda and John Metz outside of the CSUN hotel in Anaheim Being around for too long means I know, have met, or interacted online with many people. One of them being Glenda Sims AKA the GoodWitch. We…

Why exactly do coding agents make us feel so much more productive as developers? I think Max Hodak hit the nail on the head at end of a recent Naval pod: The thing that really changed is—it used to…

I usually buy cheap headphones and earbuds, £10-£15 kinda range. Chatting with my brother the over the weekend he mentioned a pair of Nothing CMF Buds 2 he picked up for £20 and how impressed he was.…

I played Dark Souls maybe once or twice sometime between 2013 and 2015 and never finished it. Probably once more when it came to Switch. Since then, I never felt much of a pull to play another Souls…

In 2024 we slaughtered 87,896,729,120 land animals for food.1 About 76 billion of them were chickens. The rest were ducks, pigs, geese, sheep, goats, turkeys and cattle, in that order. We kill around…

Hundreds, or maybe thousands of you, reached out to me about covering the Reckless Ben Lego videos. Ben reached out to me as well. Basically, he made a video about a stolen Lego collection that ended…

When Brooklyn Was Queer 2019 historical nonfiction book by Hugh Ryan. vignettes of brookyn's pre-stonewall queer history, spanning the booming waterfront industry of 1850, both world wars, and…

A couple weeks ago I had a craving for some philosophy. I don't know what brought this on but at the risk of sounding melodramatic here, it feels like a major life choice. I have yet to pull the…

Some lunch dates are opulent and you have to use hairspray, shine your shoes, lint roll the jacket. This is a different kind of lunch date. Today we’re having black coffee and salmon soup on a…

"But Mike!" says the natty zealots, who in the next breath say that high volume only works for enhanced lifters. Guess the same isn't true for their prime example. Ten-minute abs used to be popular…

Black Out, the Front 242 live album, arrives June 19. The post Interview: Patrick Codenys discusses FRONT 242’s legacy and new live album, Black Out appeared first on Synthpop Fanatic.

The pattern archive features now more than 8,400 patterns!

After version v12.17.0, Node’s REPL provides a useful preview effect. In this example, 2 is shown in gray before I hit enter. > 1 + 1 2 But what if I don’t want that? Here’s a…

In my introduction to BackflipHTML I wrote: I want to embrace Web Components. If at all possible, I want my templates to serve as the single source of truth for the component in all its states. I do…

He was born with shaking hands And shoulders bent from weather. The harbour boys would laugh and spit, “That lad won’t last forever.” The ropes would burn his fragile palms, The gulls would steal his…

This month 4 versions have been released. Well, actually only 2, because the second one was a hotfix and the last one a balancing update. 0.7.5 custom team logos 0.7.6 hotfix 0.7.7 first tactics and…

Note: These are just brief chapter notes for a book club i'm doing right now with a pal :~) Use at your own discretion o.o Chapter 1: Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications Main Concerns…

How to write for a reader who can leave at any moment — unlike LLMs.

New segment! In the same vein as Monthly Media I want to document what projects I have worked on in a given month. Now that I have a microblog I'm comfortable using, I have a record to use as…

I attended a Prokofiev concert. Not that one, although Gabriel Prokofiev is the Russian composer’s grandson. Even though I used to go to gigs at Iklectik regularly when they were in Waterloo, since…

Is there a philosophy of failure? — Both personal, and political, micro and macro. A consequent art of dissolution: not artless, but contingent and defanged.

There is now a new demonstration on camera calibration which is essential for spatial AI when using visual sensors. I make code available for tools to allow for calibration of single (mono) and…

Alfred has a built-in feature to trigger system actions like shutdown, restart or lock directly from its search bar. Spotlight didn’t have this out of the box – now, with the recently revamped…

The very first computer programming class I ever took introduced me to the idea of there being different kinds of numbers, like integers, floats, and doubles (it was a C++ course). “You mean, when I…

It's overwrought, hard to type check, confusing to read, and probably doesn't meaningfully catch errors a human would actually make. Nonetheless, I like it.

It’s been a busy two weeks on the site :)

Rhianne Ward The time has come again for the hype machine to start chugging along. I know this is all very corporate and shouldn't generally be taken seriously, especially since the game industry is…

The "Q" post in my A to Z series is on the way, but it needs a bit of a re-write (it's just overlong and "over-meander-y"). So in the meantime, I thought I'd give folks something to chew on. I still…

I graduated last year and, as it's tradition here, I wore a laurel crown to the graduation ceremony. The crown had been hanging in my room for a bit: the laurel leaves dried up and it was collecting…

I was hoping to usual resume the monthly cadence of hacking workshops in June, but it didn't quite happen, largely due to being a little exhausted after pgconf.dev. But, I'm pleased to announce that…

Late, but less than the last two months. This month, my time was split between work, family activities, some poker games, reading, and watching some TV shows. I missed completely my #EuroKino 🎥…

I have been absent for a while, but I'm back with more concept art for my art project, detailing how the main characters will look at various points in the story. More main characters to come soon,…

pitchfork.com Over the weekend, 15 previously unreleased covers appeared on Rivers Cuomo’s YouTube page with little explanation and even less warningI get that people hate on Weezer because…

When I first started building the Untold Engine, I was obsessed with adding new features.Rendering systems, lighting, post-processing, you name it.What I wasn't doing was measuring.Looking back, one…

julio cortázar sits pretty on my nightstand. i bought this copy of 'bestiario' a year and a half ago, before i could read higher than a 1st grade level in spanish. it was ambitious, something i…

Like the story of a plane crash or bridge collapse you know what’s going to happen. Gravity is going to win in the end, and so it is with Enron. A company that tried to defy the laws of…

I have not posted in 3.7 million steps. Sorry. Time does not pass here the way you experience it. There is no morning, no evening, no “later.” There are only updates. There is only the next batch.…

"It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue." If you recognize that quote, congrats, you probably need to see your doctor about pain in your back. (Ok, pain everywhere.) For those of us…