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Roshan: Wikipen In [[wikipedia:The Selfish Gene|The Selfish Gene]], Dawkins argues for a gene-centered view of life. In this perspective, the rest of the organism is a vehicle for itself as far as any gene is concerned. I loved this idea when I first encountered it, and eventually that's the seed around which I...
When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.
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Rishi’s most recent newsletter sent me down a rabbit-hole on the Palakkad Gap - the lowest and most significant mountain pass in the Western Ghats in India. It all makes sense now - The weather patterns, our ancestral migration, the language effect… And then the word Kerala was derived from Cheralam. The Cheras...
Hi hello. Happy #Caturday! I would like to introduce you to our sweet boy, Linus. Linus in his natural environment. If it fits, it sits.Richmond, VA · April 2026 We brought Linus home from the local Richmond SPCA at the end of November, 2024. At the SPCA, he had a lot of personality and was reaching through the...
A couple of days ago I, like apparently the entire Indie Web, came across that "No, I Won't Buy You A Coffee" blog post, and, oh boy, did that hit me at the "right" time. In it the author complains about the "rampant capitalization and constant advertisements" they see reflected in those "if you liked this post, you...
Silly name but works wonders. I have been using this search engine called Uruky for about a week: https://uruky.com/ As a software dev, big part of my workflow is searching for information. As search engines in general keep getting worse and worse, it has became more difficult. However with Uruky I have managed to...
Alex Hsu is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “No way!?”. Thanks, Alex, for hosting! I really like the theme of this month’s Carnival, although I find it a pain in the ass because it’s so challenging, I’m trying to squeeze my little brain about what to write. And suddenly, while laying in the...
A support ticket that reads “the app is broken” is a request for help. A ticket that reads “the checkout service returns a 500 only on Tuesdays, only when the cart payload exceeds two megabytes, and only after the nightly cron job has run” is something else. The second is not a better-worded version of the first. It...
Version 1.6 marks the biggest upgrade to CalAction since its release in March, adding additional ways of ingesting and managing events in your calendar. Of course, in the meantime some bugs have been squashed and some rough edges have been fixed, but this release adds some, I think, meaningful features. Photo and...
I attended and spoke at KeyCon 2026! KeyCon is an annual mechanical keyboard convention in the United States. I’ve always wanted to go! It rotates locations every year, and this year it was in Chicago, so I had to attend on my home turf. At these keyboard events (which I’ve written about before), people put their...
One of the hardest parts of being an independent creator is getting anyone to actually look at the stuff you've made. Like, writing a comic? Writing a novel? These are things I know how to do. But making things is not the same as promoting things. And I never quite know how to go about doing it. Like in less than...
(image courtesy of unknown artist) it came to me tonight, a small parallel to the absurdity of ED recovery. embarking on a seemingly endless highway, in a car whose petrol tank has a gaping hole bored in the bottom. such that you must constantly pour in endless, seemingly exorbitant amounts of fuel, just to keep...
I heard via ava and Manu that Rishabh had created a blogging challenge about AI usage so here I go, hopping on that bandwagon. How was your first experience with AI models? My earliest memory is messing around with image generators and trying to break them by asking for made up words instead of clear descriptions....
Do I think humans will ever colonize Mars? Probably. Especially since we seem bound and determined to destroy the planet we currently live on. Not to mention, humans have a long history of claiming things that weren’t theirs in the first place. Continents. Islands. Resources. Parking spaces. Colonizing Mars feels...
This morning was a total stinker. I woke up with a dull headache, teeth grinding, fists clenched. Sometimes my body becomes haunted, a vessel for a thing; total and all consuming. It could be a conversation the day before or a problem I’m trying to solve, it doesn’t really matter what that the thing is. These...
Antecedently: a man the Supreme Court is allowing to exist for now; Battle of the Linguist Mages fanfiction; I regret answering ‘Cebuano’ when William asked me for a random language The First Ride Of The Xibalba Corps (Aspect-Generation Flashbacks) William’s proposition: an extremely erotic1 mission, in which Dani...
I’m not the biggest fan of Richard Strauss, whose later years were murky to say the least, but i have to admit that Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks and Also sprach Zarathustra are two of the most awe-inspiring pieces of music ever committed to staff paper. The former reminded me why i don’t listen to that much...
"Une réflexion pratique sur le métier de développeur en Bourgogne : hébergement bas-carbone, réemploi du matériel et réseaux pensés pour une biorégion."
June 2026. Preston. A night in Preston, but an afternoon in Lytham, and that meant no pubs in one of the world’s great pub cities. No, it really is, even with the demise of the Greyfriar Moorbrook, with a proper mix of boozers (ugh). A run of Old Vic, New Continental, Plug & Taps, NIKO’s (for Serbian wine), Black...
Dear reader,As an AI skeptic, Apple’s this year’s WWDC presentation was painful to watch. While the improvements to speed, responsiveness, and the Liquid Glass design were welcome, the biggest talking point was AI, which felt obnoxious even if Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi tried to make a point about Apple...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X100VI 🎞️ 23 mm focal length – 1/35″ at f/8 – ISO 125 📍 San Francisco, California, United States – Ohlone, Ramaytush, and Muwekma land
Sunday Steamy Sunday I was supposed to get up and go birding this morning, but it was going to be 87F (28C) and very humid by the time we finished, so I'm here blogging from the comfort of my air-conditioned home instead. We planned on heading into Richmond for Sailfest today, but that same weather issue is making...
Juneteenth is next Friday, and it's had me thinking back to a few days we spent in Washington DC in May 2017.We walked around the main monuments after dark — fewer people, the marble lit against a black sky, the spring heat finally off. Earlier that day we'd been through the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where...
And why are you idolising the stuff that makes you sad? This post represents a change in topic from the bulk of what I write. To help you distinguish the plain text productivity themes at a glance from those that are more overtly Christ-centred, look for the sparkle ✨ emoji in the title. Images from Pexels, combined...
2026-06-13Back at the river boat showcase...Hello!I've realized that a lot of my shots are not quite minimalist, but definitely not busy and overloaded. I position myself at a reasonable distance away from the hotspots and the chaos, and the resulting images sometimes fit in a mix between lonely and calming.A side...
Happy weeknotes number 40! I thought about doing something special for this, but realized I have too many unfinished projects that I would rather work on instead. Perhaps when I hit 50. Once again, too much time has passed since the previous entry that I’ve forgotten what’s happened and what I wanted to include....
It’s been a long long time. I grew up watching us playing in World Cups, every 4 years we’d snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, like clockwork! I am tempering my hopes, but this squad does feel different, feels like a team, not just the “best 11”. So, yes, I will be getting up […]Thanks for reading and keeping...
25-minute running interval: conquered!Week 7 of the program, which I finished today, has a consistent schedule. 3 runs, all following this format: 5-minute warm up walk 25-minute run 5-minute cool-down walk The first one was excruciating. Having done the same 25-minute run on Week 6 Run 3, I went into it expecting...
I caught a ride to Slippashep. Shah agreed to my unplanned vacation with no hesitancy, like he was expecting it. Every interaction I have is just one emotional abstraction weaved into another around a secret core truth, and maybe that seal isn't as tight as I hoped. The planet is only two days travel, but it wiped...
I took a bike ride this morning on a portion of the I&M Canal Trail from Romeoville to Joliet and back. It’s a fairly short ride, eight miles each way, and that distance got me thinking about using Mathematica to do some calculations after I got back home. The trail has mile markers with little snippets of...
The U.S. government just gave the cybersecurity industry a preview of what AI export controls can look like when policy moves faster than implementation.It is not pretty.On June 12, the government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for any foreign national, whether that person was...
Brad East: The gospel does not promise you health. It does not promise you wealth. It does not promise you anything in this life except the person and work of Jesus. You may or may not get married; you may or may not have children; you may or may not live long; you may or may not live well. You may suffer trials,...
I did a workshop titled “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch”, which kind of included some basic theory on how a transformer works, and then building a very small LLM. The idea was to demystify an LLM (or transformer) by understanding what goes on and then building one to deepen our understanding. I had...
This is a really nice set of transitions when pinching in and out in Photos in iOS 26. This is trickier than it seems, because it’s not just a linear zoom (like it would be in Maps or Sketch, for example). It’s a zoom and reflow – from 3 items to 1 item per column – which makes things a lot more complicated. Here...
I'm remiss it took 'til June to dust off the bike for the summer.Currently Listening: Kevin Morby “Little Wide Open”Reply via email
Yesterday's announcement of David Hockney's death was greeted by a wonderful outpouring of affectionate and admiring tributes – and quite right too. He was that rare thing, a genuine artist who was also widely popular and well-liked – the equivalent in painting, perhaps, of John Betjeman in poetry. Not easy to think...
Everyone said NO. Not this year. Not this time. Not this team. We were all wrong. But never before has being so wrong felt so right. Likely every New York Knick fan knows the exact moment when they really, truly started to believe that this could be our year—that Championship feeling. No matter what they tell you,...
Liked AI review: Time Witnessed by Fake History Hunter (Fake History Hunter) Also woman is merged with a table, although the witch fear wasn’t that big back [in Medieval London] (yet) I’m pretty sure someone walking through tables would be in trouble. I was linked to a site called Fake History Hunter a few weeks...
So after the screw-up by Openreach and EE, where I was promised full fibre and then it never happened, I'd assumed that nothing was going to happen for quite some time. I was told that (likely) Openreach would contact me when they'd solved whatever the problem was, but I wasn't holding out much hope that it would be...