Wed Jan 14
Read on the website: HTML is flexible and was shaped by generations of web practitioners. It has enough tricks up its sleeve to actually be nice to author. Here are some.
Despite being bullish on Quantum sensing applications, I have been known to be bearish on quantum computers for a few years now. This may be a bit of disillusionment from my undergrad research. Anyway, here is a fantastic bit of anti Quantum Propaganda that I missed from last year. Replication of Quantum...
Followup on The AI Engame by Adam Something Something that has bugged me for a long time is how accepting people are for monthly fees. I hate monthly fees, I have never understood how people seem to think its "cheaper". In theory, there is a market for renting or services, for example, I pay a monthly fee for...
Hey everyone. I've been seeing a chunk of posts about folks going back to physical and offline media these days so I thought I'd write up a few helpful posts on the matter. I'm starting with cassettes because it's the latest one I jumped back into, mostly due to affordability. As a kid our cars had tape decks, and...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weds 01/14/2026 - Dwebble I gotta admit, it feels pretty fucking wild to be posting about video game monsters when like, real world monsters1 are out there kidnapping people off the streets. BUT! There are things I can do and control and I'm very...
I vividly remember watching Dead Man for the very first time. To say I was impressed would be an understatement. I freaking loved it - it was smart, deep, had Depp. And then I saw it again, and initially, I hated it. The cinematography was ok-ish, the story was not working, the jokes were forced, and I was angry....
С Ильей Бирманом провожаем Алана Дая, вспоминая, в чём состоят достижения Мака, Джобса и ХИГа (но и Винду добрым словом тоже вспоминаем).
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that the winner of its 2025 article prize is Joe Stratmann, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor Stratmann was awarded the prize for his paper, “Autonomy without Compromise: Wolff, Kant, and the Grounds of Moral...
Deferential Realism isn’t a polite nod to reality—it’s a scalpel slicing through the flab of modern philosophy’s self-congratulatory bloat. The essay “Aesthetics of Alignment” masquerades as a gentle taxonomy of constraints, but its real work is demolition: it shreds the fantasy that aesthetics can float free from...
January 2026. Waterbeach. Thursday brought the threat of snow to Sheffield, so after one night shivering (broken boiler) I was pleased to catch the first train back to Waterbeach to see Dad (not at his best), and do my bit in the fight against Dryanuary. I head right to the lounge. “It’s warmer to the left, the...
I’m in Antarctica and yet I have been getting contact from journalists because Greenland is all over the press at the moment for all the wrong reasons. It’s reasonable I think to worry about what the various deranged threats towards Greenland will mean for us all also outside of Greenland. But I also think about...
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Meta is under investigation in Brazil for blocking ChatGPT and Copilot on WhatsApp (pt_br), G1. Holos. Join the fediverse (ActivityPub) using your own phone as a server. FOSS and...
Time is the book we fill with the story of our lives. All great storytelling has the shape of music. All music is a shelter in time. In these lives hounded by restlessness, trembling with urgency, we need this shelter, need a place still enough and quiet enough to hear the story of our becoming. Rebecca West...
You ever read one of those quotes that somehow doubles the size of the universe? This morning it was: “Transhumanism is about how technology will eventually help us overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human nature. Cyberpunk is about how technology *won’t*.” — Stephen Lea Sheppard of...
I don't like being interrupted when I'm deep in flow working on things. When my flow is interrupted, it can feel like my focus was violently stolen from me and the mental context that was crystalline falls apart into a thousand pieces before it is lost forever. With this in mind, being asked to do a "quick" 5 minute...
How Strongly I Recommend It: 9/10 How Likely I Will Gift It: 8/10 The Review & Summary It's a book that has gained a permanent place on my table. I'll be coming back to this book regularly to remind myself of the principles of stoicism when I feel down or stressed. It's a good book because it's short, actionable,...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been bothered by this little physics problem for a couple of days. It appeared on Rhett Allain’s Medium site on Monday, and he linked to it on Mastodon. Prof. Allain...
A star ☆ is an emotional circle ◯ On hiatus, from Meta, for a little bit. I’d like to start writing again with my hands–not typing. It’s not the same. Scratched out words, misspellings, the entire experience of journal stacks taking up space. The irony of sharing this, here — What is a friend, the other voice in my...
It’s now possible to ask questions to / chat with Gen AI about YouTube videos, directly on YouTube. Top #1 use case: “summarize this video”. This will save hours of time (per…day? week? month?). It’s much more effective than watching the video at 2x speed and/or skimming through it. Think of the likes of “10 reasons...
I’ve been gainfully employed every single minute of my life since I was 15 years old. For the record, that was 25 years ago. I started out bagging groceries, and then moved to making pizza, and then to another grocery store, and finally to a historical magazine. Now, I’m unemployed. I was pretty fine with it when it...
Neil Armstrong was 38 years old when he became the first person to walk on the Moon. He used his NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster as a backup timer onboard the Eagle, because he lacked confidence in the on-board computer. Nine months later, Jack Swigert was 38 when he used his “Speedy” to time a critical 14 s DPS burn...
Day 50, Write about a news event from when you were still in school and how it made you feel. News events in the 90s were a little different than now. You didn’t learn about them until you got home and turned on the news. Which is kinda slow. Probably the one event that impacted me the most, dating me a little, was...
January, the bleakest of months. A hazy, gray letdown after the holiday season. I’m coming to you today with a raging case of cedar fever (what the hell kind of plant has sex in the winter???) and a headache the size of Texas. And yet! My spirits remain as high as the pollen count. January may not be all that, but...
Let’s say you are in Reeder (an RSS reader for iOS), looking at the list of posts, and already from the title you know you don’t care, and you want to mark it as read. You can tap to see it and then swipe back the moment it shows. This is the slow path. There is a faster path. Reeder enables you to slide right or...
Returning to work on photo tools. Digital photography captured my interest as it started to proliferate into the mainstream around 1999 and 2000. Prices of digital cameras started to come down and you could buy a point and shoot camera for $200-300. I started with a Fuji Finepix 1300 (a single megapixel) in 1999,...
Last week instead of links I shared thirteen small life changes/improvements I made in 2025 and will be sticking with in 2026. Peter Watkins's strange and wonderful 1964 film Culloden is currently available to watch on BBC iPlayer. If you have access to it, I highly recommend watching it, as well as the making of...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR 🎞️ 47 mm focal length – 1/25″ at f/11 – ISO 125 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
Lately I've been thinking about people—their motivations, how we read them, what they do and don't do, what they say and leave unsaid. I don't have a finished theory, but I'm noticing patterns worth exploring. Careful observation gives you evidence of capacity and pattern. What someone can actually sustain in the...
Me he comprado el libro “Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley’s Web 2.0 Revolution”, por Richard MacManus, fundador de ReadWriteWeb y actual escritor de otro de mis blogs preferidos, cybercultural.com. Estoy deseando ponerme a leerlo, pero además acabo de descubrir que está publicado en su...
Here are the things I need to take care of within the next week: Schedule a sleep study File my quarterly business taxes Edit background video for Saturday talk Set up projection mapping for Sunday show Start working on specification for game dynamic soundtrack engine Take care of the major clutter piles in the...
Life, in twelve short lines, by the wonderful (and still with us) Dick Davis –A Mystery Novel Alone and diffident You enter what is there: The world that does not care For your predicament, For mysteries of who You must become, or what Your place is in the plot To which you have no clue. Turn pages; suffer time:...
Had some corroded battery contact points on an electric pencil sharpener. Went to the hardware store. ⊕Currently Listening: Trashcan Sinatras “The Best Man's Fall”Reply via email
Un escritor es un tipo que se quita los guantes, dobla la bufanda, menciona la nieve, nombra la guerra, se frota las manos, mueve el cuello, cuelga el abrigo, va más allá, y se atreve a todo. Si no se atreve a todo, no será jamás un escritor. Atreverse a todo incluye saber que no se trata, por ejemplo, de luchar a...
Eleanor Dickinson, writing for Mumbrella: South by Southwest (SXSW) has cancelled its Sydney event — which has been held just three times — citing a “changing global environment that is impacting major events, festivals and cultural programs worldwide”. Purely anecdotal, but one or two of the tech people on my...
My motherboard was dying and the Nobara project hates old GPUs, so I recently upgraded my middle-tier mid-2020 Prebuilt Costco Gaming PC for a middle-tier late-2025 Hand-Built Gaming PC! I mostly went with a pre-picked set of options that Newegg had suggested, removing the storage and RAM (I had fortunately just...