Tue Jul 28
The universe flees as fast as it can, stretching, expanding infinitesas we rattle our chainshungry to hurtle free of EarthIn the distance,black holes screamplanets combustbinary stars death spiraldesperate to escape our flesh-cursed-sentience,our haunted-haunting emptinessH.V. Patterson is a speculative poet,...
Artificial intelligence is relevant to so many philosophical subfields, and its increased presence in our lives makes it a ripe topic to cover in philosophy courses. [Book sculpture by Stephen Doyle]Philosophical writing on AI is at that stage where there has been an explosion of it, yet not enough time for the kind...
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “number chart go up” is always the desired outcome. Number chart go up is good because it makes other number charts go...
Vivo en un ático con una terraza algo particular. Tiene una pérgola de hormigón y entre la pérgola y la azotea del edificio hay una pared vertical de 1,50m aprox. El otro día observé un par de avispas en la terraza y se dirigieron al mismo sitio, cogí la escalera y conseguí ver qué pasaba. Me habían hecho un...
Every frontier lab runs the largest canon-formation project in literary history and calls it a data pipeline. Look at the actual operations. Crawl the written world. Deduplicate it. Filter it for “quality” — a value judgment wearing a lab coat. Weight the mixture. Sequence the curriculum. Then, at the end, write a...
"There's stuff in there that has been in there for years," I told J. I was moaning about not being able to fit anything into any of the three drawers that constituted the freezer compartment of our fridge freezer. That was about four weeks ago. Neither of us had got round to doing anything about it until yesterday,...
Breathe, Relax, Feel, Watch, Allow, Repeat mtift Tue, 07/28/2026 - 09:18 The first time I heard one of my Kripalu teachers say “BRFWA,” I thought it sounded kinda like a sneeze. Not the tidy acronym RAIN, which rolls off the tongue when you want to remember “Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture.” Most of my...
♠ I found drskill through Drew Breunig’s post about managing an agent’s loadout. Problem statement: lint skills bundled in a Claude Code plugin with drskill. Running it through uvx is easy enough: % uvx drskill scan --detailed drskill scan — 3 harnesses (10 more empty), 9 skills ... 0 errors, 5 warnings (5 new) ·...
In this video I provide an overview of the default interface for minibuffer completions in Emacs. This is an interface that has been improved considerably over the years. In Emacs version 31, this interface gets some nice new features which make it even more appealing to use. Below is the article I prepared for this...
Astronomers may have discovered the first moon, or satellite, outside the solar system, about seventy-three light years from Earth. Plenty of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, have been found, but this might be the first time a moon accompanying one of these bodies has been located. But there’s...
It looks very much as if the swifts have flown, from Lichfield at least – a notably early departure. It's been a strange, but ultimately successful, season, beginning with the newly arrived birds absenting themselves for long periods from the cool, wet weather of late spring and early summer (and who could blame...
Extra mese che però ci voleva per forza: progressive Metal con una voce grunge anni '90, bassone potente e assoli da stoner band? E synth da Nobuo Uematsu in carriola?
These were the go-to joke gift. Your grandparents had one, your boss had one, the shady sales guy at the car dealership had one. There was one in an episode of the OG British Office. If you haven't seen it, it's just a plastic robot toy fish covered in cheap airbrushed rubber that sings various songs while moving...
A quick little update to GopherMap. v0.2.0 greatly relaxes the validation of incoming lines, being a lot less fussy about missing tab characters and also about fully empty lines. In the first take on this I was being pretty strict but, unsurprisingly, there are sites out there with likely-malformed maps that should...
A few years ago, a Malaysian friend told me during the Twitter meltdown that she’s carefully cultivated a Malaysian safe bubble for herself on Twitter and she’s leery of losing that. Back then, I wasn’t very active on social media; I hung out mostly to drop brief comments on Twitter to people who talk about personal...
Driving UpdateTime really flies because I’ll be having the last two lessons next week, completing the driving course (9 x 1.5hr sessions). Although my instructor behaved increasingly unprofessional in the lessons—being on his mobile & tablet most of the time, replying to students’ messages via voice recordings (!),...
Part 1 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series moves from personal-device hygiene to a Windows baseline that can be measured, piloted, and supported.Hardening a workstation is not a contest to enable the largest number of settings. A control earns its place when it closes a...
2026-07-28Hello!I could not get a clear view of the sunset sky. Down Main Street, all I could see at the horizon were buildings, trees, and roadsigns. And power lines.I've come around to the opinion that the power grid is the most miraculous invention or bit of infrastructure in the US. It's fragile and needs...
As part of my Scottish road trip I mentioned on the Now page, I headed to Dundee as my partner had one thing she wanted to do (The V&A Museum) and I had one thing I wanted to do. To see the Lemmings Statue. The Lemmings Statue is a statue in a park close to the site of the home of DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and...
I'm walking in the cool mornings at the moment, as the problem with my right knee is preventing me from running right now, which is driving me bonkers. On the walk this morning, I listened to a couple of episodes from two great podcasts I'm subscribed to - Hansleminutes and Soft Skills Engineering. Knowledge...
Back last year, I attended my first Fleadh, Irish music festivals with a focus on competitions, as very much an intermediate tin whistle player. So intermediate in fact, that we had an accidental misunderstanding about what was meant by a slow air, which is a required element as part of the four styles of tune in...
NeoSearch este un motor de căutare axat pe confidențialitate, lansat de Bart Jellema, un antreprenor olandez care a cofondat anterior Tjoos, unul dintre cele mai mari agregatoare de cupoane de reducere, vândut ulterior. Din câștigurile acelei ieșiri, Jellema și-a asigurat independența financiară și a decis să...
“Patience, my young Padawan” is not actually a line used in any Star Wars movie. It is, however, something that seems to be in dwindling supply online. The prevailing culture is one of everything now. The technology train is leaving for productivity town, so hop aboard for the next update, the next feature, the next...
Its pretty old movie—thirty four years old, but its songs are still popular. So I must have heard it somewhere, and therefore decided to watch it. Since it was released three decades ago, it is for a different audience. The movie is about Pakistan invasion of India around 70s. There was a big conflict, and emergency...
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.” “Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped,” Carl Sagan urged in his beautiful and timely case for moving beyond us vs. them and marrying conviction with compassion. But what...
El viernes pasado fue un día ajetreado en Chicago. Nosotros fuimos a ver a Metric al Aragon Ballroom. Cruzando la calle, en el Riviera estaba Poppy, y un poco más allá en Soldier Field estaba Karol G. Imagino que también ocurrieron otras cosas en la ciudad. En el Riviera todavía tienen marquesina manual. Sobre el...
Currently, I need to familiarize myself with a lot of new technologies. I’m not fluent in Android or web development, and modern languages like C# are also on the agenda. Add to that the omnipresent topic of AI - I have opinions but little experience. So, I decided to start a project to change that.
Note: This is a rather spicy topic to do my JulyReply on, but there you go. This is just my personal take and nothing more. In reply to this post: I'm relatively new here, but I've been surfing the discover feed for a while now. Both Scholart's and Absurd Pirate's posts about meta-blogging and repetitive content...
Always fun when your bike runs out of electricity on the way to work. Note to self: connect the trickle charger TONIGHT! (Wife is on the way with my jump box to save me) Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
An interesting short story from Ernie Smith at Tedium, who ventured out to do the opposite of what we usually cover on this blog – disrespect his motor memory: Recently, I made a realization: I have been unwillingly addicted to Facebook for a long time, and it’s not even because I like Facebook. Rather, it’s because...
Every homelab reaches the point where you deploy a new service, it gets an IP, and then you trot off to the router UI to add yet another DNS record by hand. I did that for years. This is the setup that finally made me stop: Cilium announces LoadBalancer IPs to my UniFi gateway over BGP, and external-dns writes the...
Eu sempre amei ir aos fliperamas. Desde criança eu tive a oportunidade de visitar vários graças ao meus irmãos gostarem de jogos também. Mesmo sem ter altura o suficiente ou pior, coordenação motora pra certos tipos de jogos. Ainda assim visitar alguns fliperamas era uma experiência única. A minha primeira memória...
Dear reader,From time to time, I encounter people advocating for big tech products because of their asserted security advantages over smaller, privacy-conscious providers. ldstephens was the latest to claim this:By choosing to avoid Google, many people end up using less secure alternatives. They've prioritized...
Zine#55 嘗試才是罕見的 當下沒有特別想分享的音樂，如果你想找點音樂聴，去聴聴 天使音乐 (Hint Notes) 吧。 我寫 Zine 的習慣是先在一周里收集各種連結(大部分都來自我訂閱的網站)，然後集中一個時間去处理。有的連結讀起來會比較花時間，有的我一時也不知道怎麼總結，以往我會把這樣的連結放一邊，拖到最後才处理，或者先去干點別的放鬆一下，簡而言之就是先逃避它。除非我選擇舍弃它們，否則這些連結最終都是要处理的，逃避并不會有什麼用。在 Zine#53 分享過一篇 Write Your Way...
Conocer el espacio de trabajo o de ocio de una persona es entrarse un poco en su privada, es conocer a un poco más sobre ella. Al menos es lo que sentía cada vez que veía algún lugar de trabajo publicado en la web Workspaces. Si bien utilizo en mayor parte una Notebook que puedo transportarla por toda la casa sin...
A stop to look at the view on the Isle of Wight. We only have another couple of weeks together as a family before our eldest heads back to start his sophomore year at college in Texas. Our youngest finished school last week, so my wife suggested that I take the week off and do something with both of the boys. Now...
July 2026. Whitchurch. Shropshire. By law all blog posts must show where the subject of your writing is in relation to Wrexham. Well, Whitchurch must be close, as I had Magic Dragon’s beers in three (3) pubs last Thursday. A fourth was Joules from Market Drayton, practically the next town down, and the nap hand...
Loved the movie and made an audio recap for friends to feel better prepared to see for themselves.Currently Listening: Ludwig Göransson, James Blake, and Travis Scott “When I'm Home”Reply via email
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Llevo estos últimos meses metiéndole mano a mi sitio tras bambalinas y creo que llegó el momento de documentar todo lo que he ido agregando antes de que se me olvide. 😂 Ahí les va(ilongo): 💬 Reply context Si sigues mis posts recientes desde el home y desde el índice de mi blog, ahora vas a ver que cuando un post es...
Ecma International 65 years: A milestone celebrated. Nied, Earl. Royalty-free Licensing in Standards. 2026. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7080858 Why in Building Protocols, Like Code, Starting Over Is Dumb, by mt. Tigers, Giants Locked in Heated Pennant Race, by Yuri Karasawa. HSE’s head of gender healthcare to...
Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subagent is what it keeps out of that context. Subagents should be treated as a tool for protecting the...