There was a new feature added recently I had been anticipating. I’ll take this opportunity to write about it and program configuration in general, as this was promised a while back.

…or, strange things I've found on fleabay. Jings & crivens! A bonus post with limited reach, I'd imagine. But for those of us in the know... genius. Whenever I'm really fed up, or ill (I'm talking…

How one architect’s ideas from a hundred years ago still shape the way we live, walk and cycle through Hamburg today.

Packaging model weights as OCI images makes them cacheable, but a freshly scaled GPU node still pulls tens of gigabytes before it serves anything. How to pre-pull model images with a DaemonSet that…

Despite being told to hurry, James Bond changes out of his three-piece suit and into a country outfit for a debriefing at the Blayden safe house outside London. While James Bond's superiors, M and…

Not long ago I stumbled onto Nene Royal, a young Thai guitarist busking in the markets of Phuket, tearing through metal and rock covers like it was the most natural thing in the world. She is so…

I have thousands of plugins installed on my computer — and yes, I don’t use half of them. This is why I built Audio Plugin Census. It scans every plugin on your system, including VST, VST3, AAX and…

At the conclusion of The Rats ( read my review ), London's mutant rat population had been eradicated by poison gas. Yet troubling questions remained. What if, despite the assurances of those in…

A pre-registered test of whether a codebase can be its own yardstick. The headline is mixed, the most useful part is where it fails, and one piece is still to run. Every god class detector I know of…

A poem about love.

💧 New purchase before winter: dehumidifier ♨️ After 8 years, another heat pump check 🗺️ A sneak peek at the next Bikerouter feature ✈️ The Internet Movie Plane Database 🔲 My personal…

The bike. This year, like last year, I am doing a cycle challenge for the month of October. Last year I undertook the challenge in the name of Cancer Research UK, and was successful in raising quite…

I’m not a fan of algorithmic tests as a first-line screening tool. As someone who didn’t study computer science and never made a point of memorising algorithms, I’ve always felt…

OOMWOO will be able to use an old Android phone instead of a Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5. Step one: ROS 2 in Termux - options, instructions and measured proot overhead on a Pixel 7.

Today, I was the retirement home called Green Oaks (which is not the city of Green Oaks, nor the Green Oaks park, that would be confusing). The Seniors who lived there were convinced the green slime…

Here’s what was happening to a Surface computer. You boot it up and it asks for BitLocker keys. You input the correct BitLocker keys, and then it asks for them again.

India has become central to how international professional services firms deliver their engagements, while their Indian member firms have grown into substantial businesses serving domestic companies,…

“The Lord doth require more from Friends than all other people, because he hath given more to them,” as George Fox wrote. The post The Lord Watches Over the Way of the Righteous appeared first on…

<p>Every now and then you come across some incredible engineering that you just have to share.</p> <p>This is one of those videos. Strap in and enjoy.</p>

I have a hard time resting.

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com I had a small moment of panic when drafting my latest mystery. It occurred to me that sharp readers might figure out who the killer had really meant to…

It’s been three years and at least once a week, I find myself saying aloud, I love Boston. There is some event, some moment, someContinue reading

If you teach or present with an iPad, avoid iPadOS 27. - A brief digression from my usual teaching posts to complain about a devastating regression in iPadOS 27. If you’ve followed my work up until…

The past three Saturdays I have run a fantasy adventure game for five rambunctious kids, ages 9 to 11, one of whom is my son (aka, the Ringleader). Now I hear there is a player advice blogwagon , and…

You are a teenage hoverboarder. A Slugblaster. You and your friends have discovered portals to other dimensions, a dangerous and exhilarating escape with a singular aim: explore strange worlds, pull…

We started attending Tucson Meet Yourself three years ago—before we even decided to move to Tucson. This year was the 51st annual celebration of Meet Yourself. Dozens of ethnicities and nationalities…

Living in a rural area there are often broken down vehicles that end up on the side of the road for a couple days at a time, and especially as the autumn days get shorter, they can pose a bit of a…

I really enjoy learning new things in my free time. Lately I’ve been studying this book on Static Program Analysis . The book is very good, but some of the formulas are quite dense so I like to try…

The reviews are in! My new book Amazing Astro Animals has been out in Australia and NZ for almost three weeks now – big thanks to everyone who’s shared a review so far. Amazing Astro…

Trajetória do senador inclui voto contra restrição de armas a policiais denunciados por violência doméstica e condecorações a homens posteriormente associados a milícias. O senador Flávio Bolsonaro…

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When Trump came to Kalispell, Montana, I got to see firsthand just how good a politician he is. Then I read the news reports that lied and distorted what happened to make Trump look as bad as…

The long-awaited AI security standard ISO/IEC 27090:2026 has been published. The new standard "describes various security threats and the exploitation of vulnerabilities that can happen when using AI…

Established products have a problem. They assume they’re the center of someone’s universe, and everything should feed through them. I’m going to call this a product-centric view. The product is…

Recreating an Orange Creamsicle drink from Jay Luigi in Tampa.

After many years of carrying big heavy DSLR cameras and lenses on hikes, dog walks, vacations, and business trips all over the world, I've decided to try embracing a smaller lighter option. I…

A close-up of a crane fly reveals its finely patterned compound eye, antenna, and bristled mouthparts against a coral background.

A close-up of a record needle reveals its pointed tip, fine scratches, and tiny particles clinging to the surrounding surface.

Welcome back to Word Alert, the series in which I look up definitions for unknown words encountered in recent reading. (I lapsed in my practice of writing these down for a few months, so most of…

October 18 2026 - 20:00 I need to watch You Can See Everything so fucking bad. I haven't anticipated for something like this since Deltarune probably…

Snow cover extent has been relatively stagnant across Alaska in the past two weeks, with somewhat less than half of the state's land area under snow cover. At valley-level across the interior, snow…

I went racing in the daily driver again.

It’s finally time to start building up the Zipp! Before assembly I had to figure out how to stuff a 1 1/8" disc fork into a frame with a 1" head tube. The steerer does…

vortexanomaly: praise cheesus

Peacemaking is an odd task: while everyone wants peace on the terms they imagine it, generally there is also some matter of justice or fairness behind a conflict. Who would accept peace at the price…

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Youtube search filter now only goes back one year. They wont let you lookup unloaded videos for instance between the years 2010-2015

Black median family wealth fell about 25% between 2022 and 2025, after inflation. That decline deserves attention. But the charts show a larger problem: a wide racial wealth gap that has lasted for…

I'm watching the recent Oasis documentary on the Live 25 tour which I was fortunate to attend when they played in Chicago. Similarly to how I was at the show, I'm tearing up while watching this.…

  Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets,…