TF RAID
My hobby: following GOV.UK to look for interesting announcements. Today was an update on the MOD’s Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce which was previously announced in June during London Tech Week. I…
Breaking WP
Ignoring this site for as long as I have has led to it being broken for a couple of months. If you’re seeing this post, great! It works again. What happened? Well, my site’s been running…
Migrating a Forum from VBulletin5 to Discourse
Scripts and instructions for migrating a VBulletin5 system to Discourse
The Pecan Crunch Oat Latte
I don’t usually, but did today. I stopped at a Starbucks I used to frequent because I had some time to kill. I figured if I was going to sit for a while, I would be a considerate person and…
Engineering Theatre
There's a term I like: 'innovation theatre'. It's used to describe when a business does things that look like innovation but really aren't. Hackathons with no real meaning,…
In London On Hiroshima Day
“ Peace is not something that we passively wait for. Peace is something that we must seek out and cultivate. ” 1 ~ Michiko Yagi Just before lunch on the 6th of August, 2026, I left my office and…
A Little Time Out Of My Day (Poetry Sidebar: Vol Seven)
It's time to decide what this art means At least to me Is it tugging heart strings Or an echo chamber for hollow screams That never reach Practice what I preach But I'm too empty to fill these cups…
I bought an unreleased Teenage Engineering audio toy
Teenage Engineering SP-1 Stem Player I know very little about this device and only recently even heard that it existed; however, what I have learned is that at some point Teenage Engineering and…
Joining the OSM US Charter Project program
Big announcement! An exciting and important update: I’m very pleased to announce that OldInsuranceMaps.net is now officially a Charter Project of OpenStreetMap US! OSM US is a US-based…
WELCOME HOME STALIN
August 25, 2026 I’ve been all over the world and have seen both its good and sordid countries. One of the best run, most decent and honest nations I’ve seen is Canada. As George Bernard Shaw noted,…
How technology is transforming the modern Esports experience
Esports has become a thing - and with it a whole industry branch around it.
Memory ordering in CPUs
I frequently see statements about differences between strongly ordered architectures (like x86 or SPARC) and weakly ordered architectures (like ARM or RISC-V), with the confident assertion that…
The future in the 1990s - Psion and Palmtop Magazine
I have scanned in lots of 1990/2000s "Palmtop" magazines and list some of the articles within them, and their future predictions: "Do you remember when you didn't have a palmtop computer? Life was so…
Talking About Water Tasting on the News
I was the guest in the newsroom at KTVU, based in Oakland, CA, to talk about my Water Tasting Classes. The segment went super fast, but I overcame my cringe to watch it and I think I did pretty good!…
Wrapping up in Cherington
My last harvest of the 2026 season with Glorious Grasslands on a rescheduled day due to heavy rain forecast later this week....
Photography
I’ve never been too far from a camera. Ever since my parents gave me a Miranda Sharpshooter for Christmas at the age of 8, I’ve had a succession of different cameras. As I reached my late 20s and…
Party Planning 4 Bubble Wrapp, Library, & Mod Gallery*~⋆｡‧˚ʚ🎪ɞ˚‧｡⋆
Everything in my lyfe is going to get a little more enchanted over the next couple of months and I can't wait but also I can because tbh I need to take it slow and enjoy summer because it's sooo…
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i'm still smiling, in spite of it all the ache in my chest doesnt quite go away, but it's balanced out by the golden sparks crackling along my ribs butterflies in my tummy orbiting their ball of…
Preview Environments That Actually Promote to Prod
Overview Last week’s post closed with a promise that was really four promises: preview environments per change, release trains where stable and canary share a namespace, weighted traffic…
reminder on sovereignty
when people can’t control you, you may witness them try all tactics and throw all kind of drama at you. when people can’t influence you, they may get very angry at you. when people can’t overpower…
Daily Thoughts 25 August 2026
Thoughts 💭 I saw a YouTube video titled "Gen X aren't burnt out, they're done." I absolutely feel that. I'm done with the crap. I'm done with the endless struggle. The endless and ever…
An enabling environment for online regulation
In a previous post ( The Vibe of the ECHR ) I explored ways in which a regulatory policy agenda could acquire the halo effect of association with the European Convention on Human Rights. Whilst that…
I have a new fanfic up: Illogical Assumptions About Names
Illogical Assumptions About Names (421 words) by ilzolende Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek , Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply…
A training cluster for this economy
First, a modeling progress update Since my last post about interesting machine learning challenges in Magic: The Gathering, I’ve made some really promising progress on training a modified…
Oh, yeah. I need to do that today too, don’t I?
I didn’t even have a chance to forget that awful runoff today. I went to my allergist for a shot, and as I was leaving… there was Henry. Also waiting for a shot. I stopped to say hi, and…
mi tu li pali ala #789 - jan wawa
Full transcript Page 1 Panel 1: A woman with short spiky hair, jan Aki, is walking down the street. Panel 2: jan Aki: "seme?" Panel 3: The panel shows a second person, jan Mamolu a tired looking…
Héctor Puente Sierra - Revolution & Counter Revolution in the Spanish Civil War
In 1936 a revolutionary movement swept the Spanish state. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the German Revolution of 1918/1919 it was one of the most important workers' revolutions in history.…
New things for regular expressions in PostgreSQL (pg_tre and pg_re2)
Well, truth be told these are not all that new (couple of months), but I finally have gotten around to research it. So, let's see what's what. For starters I need some test data. Luckily, I have…
Humans are terrible programmers 2026w20
Collectively speaking humans have always been terrible at programming. Let's look at some real examples
September
At last, September is coming. The summer is officially ending, brats are going back to school, parents are going back to work, there are less and less insects attacking you in the forest, you don't…
On the leaky roof
Nothing makes me miserable than a leaky roof, I seldom thought of this when living with my parents. At first I was defeated, it was just “broken”, in reality nothing exist in a binary…
Lady Bird
It was around noon on Friday and I was sitting in my office at work. My boss had left about an hour earlier, and my side of the building had turned into a ghost town as it usually does on Fridays and…
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing the World's Climate
Adam McKay, director of Don't Look Up, points out what should be obvious but is easy to ignore. Like all grand lies, “we have more time” takes many different forms, often focus-grouped. There are the…
You Are Not Special and Wonderful Exactly as You Are
In my posting, "Entitlement" , I described a guy who treated me with nothing but dehumanized contempt while expecting me to lavish kindness on him (ironically missing the kindness I actually lavished…
M5
M6 supports up to 32GB of unified memory to multitask across demanding apps and run LLMs on device for secure and private agentic tasks. It also provides up to 170GB/s of unified memory bandwidth — a…
This Is When Everything Falls Apart
To succeed in this racket one has to have at least one favorable genetic trait or predisposition. I have none of those. I am prone to an adult ADHD-like conditions, have very narrow attention window…
ColecoJam Learn Guide
ColecoJam is a Colecovision emulator running on the Adafruit Fruit Jam. The ColecoVision was a second-generation home video game console released by Coleco Industries in 1982. It became one of the…
THE IMPERFECT TRANS ALLEGORY OF KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, part 3
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! We fight and we struggle to do the work to accept... The post THE IMPERFECT TRANS ALLEGORY OF KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, part 3 first appeared on Tilly's Trans Tuesdays.
There is No AI
I've searched with little success for ideas about how we can handle AI so that it benefits rather than harms society. Here is a suggestion from Jaron Lanier. It was published by the New Yorker in…
The Two Types of HOA Leaders: Community Servants vs. Power Seekers
An HOA title doesn’t create a leader. Character does. If you’ve lived in an HOA long enough, you quickly learn that there is a tremendous difference between someone who serves in a leadership…
That Time I Was Almost a Vtuber
I was almost a vtuber. I figure if I'm going to publicly degrade myself, I may as well get that out of the way early. The world of vtubing is a loaded subject, so strap yourselves in because this is…
Let It Go(?)
I'm gonna tell a story. It's not a story where I'm the hero and it's not a story where someone else is the villain. It is, however, a story about how bad it can feel to carry something for a long…
Provocateur Agentique
<Aside label="Note" It's only an agent if it comes from the region of San Francisco in California, otherwise it's sparkling AI ... 🤮 </Aside Like many people, AI is now a significant part of my job…
Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain
Écrit par Jorge Cham et Dwayne Godwin. J'ai beaucoup aimé et je le recommande si tu veux mieux comprendre comment fonctionne ton cerveau. Le livre est très facile à lire malgré la complexité du…
Killing the fear inside
One of my long-term goals is to remove self-doubt from my life. I know. A big goal that I'm sure that a lot of people can sympathize with, but little know exactly how to do it. Do I know how to go…
Visual Velcro 58
Bibio & Dorian Concept – “Shame” Jason Calhoun – “what we deserve” Eric Angelo Bessel – “Pathways” The post Visual Velcro 58 first appeared…
What makes a radical?
It took several months, but a copy of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young , the autobiography of Zayd Ayers Dohrn, the son of late 1960s Weathermen Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, found its way to me…
Video games log 017 (A ghost called Gambette)
It's been a while oops \ castle idler Half incremental/idler, half tower defense game It was an alright game. There's a bit of strategic thinking with the unit placement, but I felt like the two…
Fiber Follies
As with any potential toxic exposure, the dose and duration of exposure of asbestos matter. And these factors matter varyingly in connection to specific outcomes of interest. By 1930, virtually…