I’ve been thinking about this comment on and off since reading it months ago:“The entire problem of search is that the user has the wrong data and wants to use it to receive the correct data.”– User…

Peter Thiel says evil is “maybe kind of good.” Curtis Yarvin says Hitler was a genius. And the mainstream press has barely asked their intern, JD Vance 1 , about either. – Gil Duran, Antichrist,…

A long time ago I remember people talking about one of the things that made star wars great was the thought that went into little things like, the X-Wings were dirty. As in this was a rag tag bunch…

On October 15, 2026, the US Treasury reported in its Monthly Treasury Statement (and xlsx ) for September that the federal deficit for FY 2025 ending September 30, 2026, was $1,99 billion. Here are…

Replica of “first thing ever printed in Worcester.” Replica of “first thing ever printed in Worcester.” Recently author Caroline Linden & I paid a visit to the American Antiquarian Society. I’m…

So many things have changed since the last time I posted 17 days ago. Grandma has been in the same UTI Factory since getting released from the hospital. She is set to be released on Tuesday and will…

Down toward the bottom of their November ballots Austin voters will find eight proposed changes to the City Charter. Seven of those propositions were placed on the ballot by the City Council and City…

As a huge fan of the Friday the 13th franchise, I was looking forward to the new Crystal Lake series. I was especially excited that they were not only going back to the roots of the original film,…

This collection of Parasite Eve interviews originally appeared in various magazines (Dengeki Playstation, Hyper Playstation, and The Playstation) from 1997-1998. The post Parasite Eve – 1997…

When faced with difficult times, you must develop the ability to transcend the trouble around you instead of giving up or assuming that nothing can be done about your situation. Keep your wits about…

Introduction I have two locations, which I affectionately call SiteA and SiteB . Both run UniFi Dream Machines. Years ago, I drank the UniFi Kool-Aid, and now I'm so deeply invested in their…

Posted 13 October 2026 While working on my new ‘vision-enhanced’ robot project, it became apparent the the OAK-D Lite camera was not the best tool for handling a ‘stuck’…

The location of the Lymansk bubble in Stalker 2. Plus some information on the DLC locations in Stalker 2.

Manthan which means churning is a 134-minute 1976 film was a transposed narrative of the origins of a dairy cooperative movement that transformed India from a milk-deficient nation to the world's…

It's our third day in Athens. V. is just jumping into the shower, and I'm sitting at a small table in the kitchen. I won't have much time to write, I just want to account for the things we've done…

Apple celebrates some of the Mac's most useful utilities. Trying to build the next one can lead to an unexpected problem.

isPaid works until a payment is pending, refunded or half paid. Why one status column with a CHECK constraint beats a pile of boolean flags.

Tonehole crescents are (in my opinion, a last-ditch) method for altering the intonation of the note coming out of a tonehole by non-permanently altering the tonehole’s size and location. You…

How open source enables effective use of AI agents in government

When timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities

I just reworked how the caching of prime paths works in zcov. Computing the prime paths can be quite expensive in both time and memory, so GCC limits to 250 000 paths by default. This limit was…

🦸 Community Superhero Our community superhero this week is Eyal Estrin, VP of Cybersecurity at JPMorganChase. Eyal is a prolific writer, having published two books on cloud security and dozens of…

Arundhati Roy on why artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination.

Unrealized potential isn't inert — it accrues a carrying cost, and the most expensive position is not failure but sustained non-reckoning with what you chose not to do.

When an authentic want is too costly to pursue, desire substitutes a proxy that works at first — then doesn't, because the original want never actually closes.

AI is exposing a divide between developers who love writing code and those who love building software.

My home server is a small mini PC running Debian. It holds the file shares, Time Machine backups, Gitea, a music server and a few small apps of my own. Like most home servers it grew by hand over the…

I built a system that writes scoped business plans and produced ten of them before dinner. The shortlist I made afterwards was the wrong output. What I should have written instead was a kill rule.

This is a passing thought I had last week. I don’t have any answers yet, but I wanted to record the question.

“Hackpacking” – a portmanteau of “hacking” and “backpacking” – means working on side projects on the go, perhaps assisted by an AI coding assistant. As a lifelong…

Health has a memory. Too often, healthcare does not. When people move between clinics, hospitals, laboratories, or even cities, important parts of their medical history can be left behind. A test…

An agent on your laptop is yours. An agent in the channel is the team's. How Polygon's non-engineers ship code without opening an IDE, and what it took to get there.

Build an interactive drawing editor with Java and TeaVM, using HTML Canvas, browser pointer events and JavaScript interop.

Two layers Git doesn't have are checkpoints below the commit and provenance above it. ghf captures every agent edit as restorable worktree state, and GitStory binds cited rationale to the commit that…

Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway puts a pay-per-request wall in front of APIs and tools using x402 and HTTP 402. How the exchange works, what it costs to set up and who can use it.

For my birthday this year, I’m giving myself the gift of trying something new. I’m sharing my thoughts on the topic of the impact of artificial intelligence technology on the computer programming…

Accepted NeurIPS paper on implementation-local geometry beyond accuracy. Paper details and discussion are available on OpenReview.

Are LLM agents solving all known math problems from low to high complexity consistently now or are LLMs "only" synthesizing solutions for ripe problems given humanities current math knowledge (by…

gtucker.io https://gtucker.io/posts/2026-10-19-lpc-testing-mc/ -The Kernel Testing & Dependability Micro-Conference was back again at Plumbers this year, in Prague and with a wide variety of…

Before saying goodbye to José Ortega y Gasset's book What Is Philosophy?, I'd like to offer one more quote:...

I have been thinking about computer science. What it is, where it comes from, and what remains when you start taking it apart. It may sound like an odd thing to wonder about for someone who has spent…

Alchemy 1.41.0 adds shape drawing, area templates, and a token tray to Tactical Mode, a Select tool with undo, and automatic armor math for Daggerheart sheets.

It’s true, anyone can lead. In twenty years I’ve watched people grow into leaders, helped a few get there, and grown into the role myself. How far each of us got depended on the trust, backing and…

Your coding agents repeat mistakes you corrected last week. A gardener reads what your team accepted on recent pull requests each week and proposes a lint rule or a sharper instruction when the…

The use of JSON can be powerful in your PowerShell functions and processes. JSON is naturally a machine style language that is easy to use for storing settings and other useful elements throughout a…

Building a site has never been cheaper, but making it fast still costs attention and your user's resources.

A step-by-step guide to get Claude Code to drive VoiceOver on a Mac, using Given, When, Then scenarios to describe what a screen reader user should hear.

Why your confidence in accessibility could be a sign of how little you know

Decision models are built to answer one kind of question quickly. You give the model a prompt and a fixed list of options, and it returns a probability for each option. That makes them a good fit for…