As I mentioned in my recent post, I’ve turned a corner with AI. Maybe not the corner, but my perspective has certainly changed. I used to see AI mostly as a tool to do basic Q&A and help me…

The Philips CDI 310 EMC/EMI Testing Unit is a transportable CD-i player with an integrated floppy disk drive, showing multiple signs of being a pre-production unit built for EMC/EMI…

Ferrets, Cultural Festivals, Garlic, Pizza, Dragon Boats, and more. Welcome back, festival fans. It’s a weekend of Cultural Festivals (Greek, Lebanese, German, Egyptian, Hungarian, Dragon…

1. Have a setting, as to write the rules around it. Do not be as lame as to make a generic ruleset and then put a setting over it. 2. Evoke the setting. Make it as tangible as possible through…

Small one today. No big announcement, no build I've been sitting on for weeks, just a thing that happened in the homelab that I want written down somewhere because it made me stupidly happy for about…

You've worked your heart out building your startup. You’ve convinced the smartest investors to pour millions into your vision. You’ve recruited a dedicated, world-class team. Your…

I run a Claude “chat” project I mostly use from the Claude mobile app, and it needs to keep certain files up to date. I’d already run into this same problem with mail and calendar,…

TL;DR: Blast radius means how much unrelated traffic is affected when one messaging resource reaches a limit or stops making progress. If every event type shares one Azure Service Bus topic, a…

Fun story today about that time I tried to make my company's program comply with the Vista requirements. Spoiler alert: it's literally not possible to comply with Vista requirements. At the time I…

We still don’t have a decision on whether the Scottish judicial review of Palestine Action can proceed. Lord Young is thinking about it. Last Thursday’s hearing went about as well as it…

A few days after posting Getting lethal with things , I did follow my own advice. I had written Getting lethal after a petty bank transfer of 186€ from my account with online bank A to my account…

We can see several mountains from our backyard deck, and the highest one is Table Mountain, 10,223 feet sea level. It's the highest point in the Highland Mountains, and also the highest point in…

Last year Nathaniel Lockhart, host of The Memory Machine Podcast, assembled a roundtable of video game and computer historians to answer the question: What is the first personal computer? This week…

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Last Friday I ran a session of Frydheld sector that was just kind of frustrating and didn't really match the expectations I have for myself. It's been some time since the session so I wanted to write…

I started writing a piece about "5 lukewarm programming takes", but I started to really hone in on this particular topic, and realized it might in fact be a hot take, and not belong in my…

Mandla J. Radebe, The Lost Prince of the ANC: The Life and Times of Jabulani Nobleman ‘Mzala’ Nxumalo, 1955-1991 (Johannesburg: […]

Coalplating

My wife and I switched from Facebook Messenger and RCS to Signal almost a year ago for all our messaging needs. We have no plans to stop using Signal , but to be honest, Signal kind of sucks as a…

This is not a trail. It started years ago on the bluffs at Devil’s Lake State Park, when someone decided that rather than walking down to the trailhead about 50 yards away, they could cut…

Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto…

Developing a framework for a Patients' AI Bill of Rights for hospitals and medical centers that patients can understand as a standard of care.

Running document containing notes on deploying a development PostgreSQL 16 container using Docker & Docker Compose.

Sundered over on his blog asked to hear about others' methods for coming up with the names featured in their games, even being so kind as to call me one of the good name-finders. Since what I do is…

I have been a fan of Third Wave Water (TWW) for several years now. Their espresso profile mineral treatment gets me pretty close to the coffee I used to make at the cafe we owned for a few years…

Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. In 4th year of school we had to write…

Writing Less Ever since I started working, it has become harder to put thoughts on the page. Writing less, in retrospect, is a warning signal. I keep track of my journal word counts assiduously;…

The Aestheticization of the Left

Good luck with the kids while I’m in space, dear!

Admittedly, both Sharpee and Chord are still very young and cranky. I continually find seams in both through working with Chord. In my latest set of activities, I started to port my old Textfyre…

Sunday I woke up at 2am CST, had a lyft scheduled for 3am CST and started making my way home from banana ball in OKC. (That post to come, but it was easier for me to knock...

To keep myself off my phone, I print articles out (reader view, four-pages-per-sheet, double-sided), fold them twice and stuff them in my pocket for later, then onto my shelf if they were…

It is a well-established law of homelab physics: if a task can be automated, it will be automated—until it violently consumes your entire digital existence. In our Night-Tower setup, our self-hosted…

I had my doubts, but it seems that as long as we have both people and the internet, the former will never stop blogging. Topics evolve and morph, blogs themselves are started and then abandoned,…

There are many examples across Scotland where landowners large and small are continuing to frustrate the ambitions of individuals, businesses and social enterprises through the exercise of the…

Apple Unveils New Mac Studio and Mac mini →Apple has just announced their new line-up of Desktop Macs. There’s a new Mac mini with M6 or M5 Pro chips, and a new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5…

🍦 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 12/? posts. In my quest to try all soft serves from a local bakery , today I got their August Raspberry and Lemon verbena flavour. (Note: this was in the…

A Fu reminds me of Maya Fey... Wen Ko-Hsin's little :3 face is so cute 😭 Mr. Ginger is only one 🥺 Learning that the Philippines was instrumental to the prohibition of opium:

I’ve been telling you for years that data about you is being accumulated and sold by tech companies, data brokers, retailers, law enforcement agencies, telecom carriers, financial…

Source Datafinnovation are out with more impressive research described in a blog post entitled Losing The Blacklisting Race and a paper entitled Enforcement Speeds In DeFi: Limits to a Race Against…

In 1918, before the end of WWI, and in reaction to the huge number of American servicemen who had sexually transmitted diseases, two Congressmen came up with a law that allowed law enforcement…

Privileged take - I need to stop following people that are Internet Warriors. I just don't care. There's enough drama everywhere else - I don't need it in my Internet.

I try to not look at Reddit too much nowadays, but I still end up there more often than I'd like to. One of the subreddits that keeps showing up in my feed is r/AestheticWiki , probably because I've…

At every gathering, there’s someone on the outskirts. Maybe by happenstance, maybe by choice. Some mourn this, being sidelined. But doesn’t it grant you a fantastic view? Best seat in the house. The…

I’ve been revisiting trying to run NetBSD on Wrap030, my 68030 homebrew computer. In the process I’ve been running into some truly strange behavior. I’ll change a kernel compile…

The boy appeared on a Thursday, which was collection day. Danny Toal had taken over the corner of the big shed from Micky Breen two years before, and he still thought of the week in terms of who…

This is the official video for the song All my friends are heathens by Twenty One Pilots. My oldest son who is frequently assumed to be ASD by people who have barely met him had that song on repeat…

At some point today, I'll receive a call from the funeral home to let me know my dad is ready to be picked up. Like my pretend child that does an after school program, only it's my cremated dad. I'll…