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AI-drunk companies love to trumpet their millions or billions of users. What they don’t tell you is that most are forced to use such features. Think of the AI overviews that Google Search forces on you, whether you asked for it or not....
The assay house at Marsk keeps no fire. Heat swells the brass, and a swelled beam reads long, so the arms of the great scale hang over a slate floor cold enough to ache the teeth of anyone who works there past the third bell. I was...
We are currently looking to get a new washing machine. Looking online at the usual big stores and every single one has an awful AWFUL website experience. These are large companies who are typically owned by a large conglomerate who...
La compra de un nuevo dispositivo electrónico siempre ha significado un nuevo comienzo en mi vida digital. A lo largo de mi carrera he usado el mismo tipo de computadora: una laptop. De joven optaba por la portabilidad porque disfrutaba...
Smartphones have made traveling immeasurably easier. And I don’t think that was entirely free. Almost 25 years ago I was in a city that wasn’t my own. I’d never been there before. I was there along with my best friend, who lived in a...
That is Vida Chenoweth; the picture was taken when she was in the second of her three careers. Her first career was as a pioneer of the marimba as an instrument for classical music. Chenoweth may have been the first person to play the...
In my memory it was always warm on my special radio days, and the back garden always bathed in sunlight. With my very white skin that would mean I would get a tremendous sunburn very fast. I had way too much experience with that.In July,...
The article you are currently reading has been written in a markup language of my own design, called JAMES. It’s a line-based language that borrows ideas from Gemtext (itself inspired partly from Gophermaps and Troff though it’s not a...
St Swithen Got up at the usual time not a bad day. Dot and Little Jane came about 10.30a.m. Spent a happy day with Jane. Nothing of importance to report.
Wie immer übernehme ich keine Verantwortung für die folgenden Wörter, denn nicht nur wurden sie sehr schnell geschrieben, mir ist außerdem (mal wieder) sehr warm. Einen Titel für diese Posts zu finden ist schwieriger – darüber habe ich...
Nobody gives a shit how many words you've written. Are they any good? Do they do their job? Quick, someone tell me a line I wrote five months ago. If anyone has put their work into an LLM over the last few years, I'm sure they've...
Hace unos días que me viene a la cabeza comprarme un nuevo smartwatch. La verdad el que tengo no lo uso mucho, como para decir que necesito uno nuevo. El que tiene ya cumple con lo que necesito, pero pongo excusas que avalen mi compra....
If we're being honest, there is only one thing people will be paying attention to this week, so we will knock that one out first and then get on to some pretty cool comics, shows, and albums that are definitely still worth your time...
On July 4, 2026, the United States celebrated its 250th anniversary, also known as the semiquincentennial (see Dictionary.com for an explanation of the nomenclature). In so doing, the United States continued its tradition of holding...
In my last post I wrote about how less code is better. That still holds. I also still find software valuable, and enjoy creating it, when I cannot find an existing solution that meets my needs. It is especially rewarding when I see...
Put Eric Block (Veloce), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Douglas McCombs (Tortoise, BASIC) in the same room, and you get Sick Gazelle. The name is weirder than the music — a thoroughly engrossing blend of...
On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous editions. Forty...
At reCAP this year, I am honoured to share a talk slot with Patrice Bender, a good friend and adjacent colleague from the CAP Compiler team, and cohost / copresenter on the Hands-on SAP Dev mini-series on the core expression language in...
Professor Graham was well-known for his work in philosophy of mind, psychology and psychiatry. Philosopher Eddy Nahamias at Georgia State kindly shared this obituary: After a long illness, George Graham died at his home in Birmingham,...
Setting up a new server with basic security measures and migrating a Docker based website from an old server to it.
How I added WebMCP tools to a static site, and how to inspect them in Chrome DevTools.
It's been nearly 5 years since Hara Shakti was craned into the Great Ouse at Westview Marina in Earith, 5 years of stress, anxiety, anger and bloody hard work (by Nat), but we're almost there. Next week we're travelling back to where it...
I wrote a post on the forums about whether people should disclose their use/non-use of LLMs (https://basementcommunity.com/threads/671). I'm conflicted: on one hand, it's nice to see a "no AI" disclaimer so I don't have to do my own...
Replied to An Opinionated Guide to Ranking Ethical NBA Championships in the 21st Century by Russell Samora (The Pudding) I believe there have only been five truly ethical NBA champions in the last 25 years: teams that don’t need an...
When the gears are getting unstuck each morning, wondering what the day will hold, I water flowers on the porch.Currently Listening: Labi Siffre “Bless the Telephone”Reply via email
'Imagine if we won the World Cup,' said my seven-year-old grandson yesterday. 'Ah, my child,' I replied, laying a grandfatherly hand on his innocent head, 'we have won before – and I was there.' Actually, of course, I made no such reply,...
Eu não contava em fazer outro review de algum álbum tão cedo, mas antes de mais nada eu preciso por o lado ruim antes de partimos pros elogios. Até o momento (Julho/27) esse álbum não tem uma versão física, seja em CD, LP, Cassete, MD ou...
I went for an 8km (5 mile) run this evening. I'm working my way up to 10km, but I think this was a little too much, too soon. We'll see how my middle-aged joints are in the morning... Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and...
A few weeks ago I decided to be bold and put out there that I had itches I wanted to scratch. It isn't something I normally do, as I usually reject myself before allowing others to do so. So, after the Wonders of Web Weaving podcast was...
A couple of tips and tricks I learned using Sublime Text to code my websites!
Please enjoy some camera focus adventures (and bonus flowers) This morning, one of the cats was sunbathing in the window and what struck me was the "golden hour" light that was hitting them; usually that's rad as hell and super...
Rogallo v0.7.0 is now available. The main changes in this release revolve around the display and navigation of links. The aim of Rogallo, as a "TUI" application, is that it is usable purely with the keyboard, and also very usable with...
A birthday, a funeral and a train journey that actually went just fine filled the week that was over faster than I could look around. Just like I mentioned last week, the current weather has a bigger effect on me than the one during the...
I’ve been swimming weekly for almost 2 months now, because I was (am) a poor swimmer and want to improve. The main things that were holding me back are common issues – it was hard to keep my legs up, and I couldn’t breathe comfortably....
For many years, what interested me most about photography were shapes and colours. People didn’t play a major role, because they didn’t fit the pattern. That has changed in recent years, and I very often press the shutter button when I...
“Talks are not merely communication: they are also a performance… So many talks that could have been successful end up flopping because they’re not serious performances.” That’s one observation about job talks from Daniel Muñoz. Dr....
A week ago, I had launched this site using QuatroSlab for page titles and Google’s Slabo for body copy. For those that have been around awhile and are familiar with SMACSS, you might recognize QuatroSlab from that site. I like the font...
The 80/20 rule says that 80% value come from 20% effort. What if we apply the 80/20 rule to the first 80%? So 80% of 80% of value come from 20% of 20% of effort. Or 64% of the value come from 4% of the effort. Apply it again and you’ll...
Paper train! I love GO merchendise, even if its for kids!
Oramai è parecchio che la bolla AI imperversa nel globo, e i vari modelli hanno fatto un sacco di strada rispetto alle follie generate da Midjourney o Centipede Diffusion solo una manciata di anni fa.
The Movie I Lost and the Software I Found mtift Tue, 07/14/2026 - 08:45 My Daughter’s First DaysShortly after my daughter was born, near the beginning of my year as a stay-at-home dad, I made a short video of her first days using iMovie....
Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI: Atlassian is changing its data contribution policy so that, starting August 17, 2026, it will use customer metadata and in-app content from Jira, Confluence, and other Atlassian...
The vibeLow battery week.Not bad. Not memorable. Just warm, slow, and a little foggy. I was not really feeling like myself, and most of the week had that “I am here, but not fully here” feeling.Highlights🌡️ The office was way too hot,...
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Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! Psalm 27:14 (NRSVCE) Though I wander in darkness I wait for the Lord Though my heart is broken I wait for the Lord Though I feel betrayed I wait for the...
Photos taken on a mobile phone can include metadata. I like it for various reasons. My various projects depend on metadata, such as date, location, orientation, etc. But more and more, the phones are removing that metadata when I...
I try not to be on my iPhone (hence my guides for automatically making it grayscale and not knowing your Screen Time code). The main tool for keeping tabs on this is Apple's Screen Time feature which, while limited in granularity, is...
(2026 – Narnia) Ya habíamos tenido la oportunidad de escuchar el álbum entero gracias a... The post Narnia: X | Recuperando El Terreno Perdido first appeared on Del Otro Lado Metal.Fuente: Del Otro Lado Metal
larp.website Not sure it’s a good sign I thought there was a chance this was real and not satire.
Judges Paved the Way For the Federal Government’s Deadly Occupation of Memphis, by Madiba K. Dennie. Garrett Bucks asks, Do you believe that everybody should have fun or that only a few people should have fun? (Via Kottke) I Bought a...
July 2026. Sheffield. The only problem with keg beer is that you immediately wish you’d had cask, but I wouldn’t admit that on the cesspit that is CAMRA’s Discourse at the moment. Anyway, I found I couldn’t walk past the Gardeners Rest...
2026-07-14Hello! No toilet humor today. I was considering recruiting someone else to write this article, but the scheduling didn't quite work out.This is a detailed image of a log in the forest. Its bark is textured in spots and blurry...
Coding agents are becomming more and more popular (well – I guess). Yet the dependece to LLM providers is pretty obvious: Starting in June, GithubCopilot changed to usage-based billing. In April and June Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5...
În timp ce citeam articolul lui Antonio despre cum citește articolele de la blogurile pe care le urmărește, mă gândeam la cum fac eu cu cititul articolelor. O perioadă bună deschideam articolele în navigator pentru a le citi acolo, nu...
Every weeknote and monthly summary, I list all the videogames I played. There are a few things that I do to help myself keep track of it all. Some tools I’ve mentioned here and there, but never all in a single post. I won’t really be...
AND IT WAS DONE. GO PLAY WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT! (That said, this post will be spoiler-free.) This game was a massive team undertaking, and I haven’t had to lead a creative team on something of this scale and complexity before. I’m so...
Two consecutive titles on the HN front page yesterday had a 6 in them. This means nothing. But it’s the sort of nothing that lodges in your brain until you do something about it, so what is the most popular number in Hacker News titles?...