Tue Sep 29
Well, I said I had plans to come back here to talk a little bit about the 2XKO stuff that happened like a month or something ago now. To be honest, this wasn't something that I was hoping for with the game. As someone who enjoys fighting games, the more, the merrier. To be honest, the only fighting game that I've...
Attachments, Good and Bad mtift Tue, 09/29/2026 - 08:43 I subbed a Tuesday morning class at The Marsh last week. I’m not usually up and teaching at 6:45am, but another teacher needed a sub and I don’t have any “conflicts” at that time. Except, perhaps, my own yoga and meditation practice.The class went well....
I haven't blogged for a while. This is mainly because I am very tired. Why am I very tired? Well, let's see if we can work it out. I have MS. Part of the symptoms for that are having a decent helping of fatigue, which can manifest itself as an all over the body, general musculature weakness, and a foggy brain that...
It’s my mother’s birthday today. I know the year she was born. I know she’s sixty-six. I know her Chinese name, her English name, and the nickname her sisters called her. I know she needs to turn the tap on and off, on and off, on and off before she goes to sleep. I know she cried when Princess Diana died, and again...
★★★★☆ A new confession: I struggle with a lot of accessibility writing. I am not necessarily saying this to blame people writing in this space, whose work I respect even if it’s not resonating with me. I think it’s more of a recognition of how difficult it is to talk about accessibility and disability. Advocacy is...
Thinking About Myself; Yourself A 2007 anime called Myself; Yourself came up in one of my recent email exchanges. The anime was an adaptation of, or companion to, a PlayStation 2 visual novel of the same name, which was released exclusively in Japan in 2007. The anime, which was produced by studio Doga Kobo, made it...
The “Growth without Striving” chapter from What Works by Tara McMullin contains a recommended method for identifying which values are most important to you. Notes Identifying and defining our personal values is a vital step towards working out what’s meaningful and important to us. We may have had values imposed on...
2026-09-29Hello!I designed my Philadelphia street photography walk to hit two points, with wandering in between the endpoints in case the wind takes me somewhere. This was one of those points. Well, this and City Hall.I like giving myself a set point to go somewhere, otherwise I'll be wandering the city for hours...
A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might include things like “use version control”, “separate UI logic from domain logic”, “automate deployment pipelines”. The term “sensible...
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You may wonder whether I sometimes go a week or so (a week in this case) without publishing Pook-Emu Bee links because I lack links. Not so. I collect links every day. That makes getting back to Pook-Emu Bee all the more urgent. An out-of-control link backlog is a scary thing. AI (or SI?) and Tech 1 | Daily News...
Most of this month we spent at the Polish seaside, with family and friends, chilling at the Baltic Sea, playing cards, grilling fresh fish and enjoying a poor internet connection. The rest of the month I spent trying to understand the madness that happened at work during my absence. But I managed to read some of the...
“Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? A: Living in fear.” In the 1880s, long before he claimed his status as one of the greatest authors of all time, teenage Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871–November 18, 1922) filled out an English-language questionnaire given to him by his friend Antoinette, the...
[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.] This short video appeared in my YouTube feed last week. It’s from Hannah Fry, whom you probably know from her appearances on Numberphile and other STEM-oriented stuff. If...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...
Judgement is the assessment of deeds relative to a standard of performance. It can come from another person such as a relative, friend, colleague, or figure of authority, or it may be embedded in the rules of the given action as a criterion for self-evaluation. Interpersonal judgement comes in the form of receiving...
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A computer you do not control can receive your private messages while the encryption works exactly as designed. Link that computer to the account, and the messaging app has another device to deliver to. The security problem is how it became a recipient.Bruce Schneier’s September 29 post draws attention to this use...
Roshan: Wikipen These are things that I didn't think of but that it struck me may matter at some future time. This felt like it mattered because I read the following Twitter reply thread: {{Tweet | name = Kelsey Piper | username = KelseyTuoc | replyto = Laneless_ | text = With that said: Write down, for your own...
“Der Zug hört nicht auf, durch mein Leben zu rattern. Aber es fällt leicht, einem Zug zu verzeihen, er ist ja nur ein Zug. Im Gegensatz zum Auto fährt er an der Rückseite der Welt vorbei. Die denkmalgeschützten Häuschen in der Nähe der Bahnhöfe sind mehr oder weniger Bruchbuden. Aber den Verfall sieht man nur von...
Casio lanzó recientemente un nuevo modelo de reloj que parece un híbrido de varios. Es el Casio W738H, el segundo modelo de Casio que posee alarma por vibración como el W735H. También hereda de él los 10 años de batería y su botón frontal para encender su luz LED ámbar. Su diseño es una mezcla entre el modelo W720...
I mostly love the town I live in, except that I really miss living in a more urban area with good walkability and transit.I also love being in the Seattle area, except that everything feels so far away because of the transit situation. And when I do end up in the city I get so fed up with the constant presence of...
Once again I am happy to share with you all the secret that I mentioned a couple weeknotes ago! I was in yet another podcast! This time I was a guest in James’ wonderful show: Wonders of Web Weaving #21: Joel The podcast is a fantastic show where James interviews different bloggers and writers that are active on the...
I appear to have misplaced my mojo. I’ve not lost it completely. I mean I know roughly what it looks like, and it can’t be far cos I had it up until recently. I just can’t be bothered looking for it. I know I know, it’ll be the last place I left it. Thing is, it isn’t. I checked. I looked back a few weeks in my...
Part of my cookie series. This is for September. Read about the introduction and idea of this project in the inaugural post. Over the summer, I took a break from baking cookies because it was very hot. Our apartment doesn't have air conditioning and it didn't seem worth it to increase the heat in the building. That...
Has this ever happened to you? You check your private messages and emails and have one that says: Your site doesn’t show up on Bing! “Hmmm… that can’t be true”, you think to yourself, but when you check… It is, in fact, true. You’ve been de-Bing’d! Oh, the shame… Well, folks, don’t dispair. I’ve been where you are....
September 29, 2026 In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times. In response, OpenAI executives...
Felipe De Brigard, professor of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience at Duke University, principal investigator at the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab, and core faculty of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, has been selected as a 2026 Fellow by the MacArthur...
Confession: I got nerd-sniped by Sam Henri Gold’s request for my icon galleries: I'd like to humbly request artwork-level searching in macosicongallery.com What follows is a train-of-thought blog post as I play with what an implementation might look like. I’ve actually long-wanted something like this, e.g. let me...
.au Domain Administration (auDA), the organisation that administers top-level domains in Australia, is proposing changes to the rules governing the registration of .com.au and .net.au domain names. If the changes are adopted, people wishing to hold a .com.au or .net.au domain name will need to have a registered...
Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share the good stuff I encounter on the web. ❧ Talking Watches: Pusha T On Why Rolex Is Worth The Wait – Let’s be real, I’m sharing this video mostly for the perfect coffee brand name Pusha T is launching with Lavazza (and promoting in this...
The premise is deceptively simple… What's your favourite movie from the year you turned 21? Are you sure…? Easy-peasy — "Bring It On"! Oh, no, wait… "Memento" No, "The Cell" Ah, no "Requiem for a Dream" "American Psycho"! "Best in Show" Ooh, no it's "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Ah, "Pitch Black" No, no, it's...
From a book I'm reading for review (of which more in due course, no doubt), I learn of a surprising business venture undertaken by Daniel Defoe, a man full of bright ideas but entirely devoid of commercial nous. Finding himself broke and heavily in debt in 1692, having run through his wife's considerable fortune and...
I met the artist Jill Ross through an online journaling group offered by artist Vonda Drees. That feels like a very different time and world, and in a way, it was, back in 2018. We were journaling our way through Joyce Rupp's Open the Door: A Journey to the True Self. I first blogged about the experience in this...
The secret to interstellar travel was eventually found, not in the laboratories of Washington or Beijing, but in the riverbeds of eastern Tasmania. The planet Earth’s ultimate ambassador to the cosmos was not Homo Sapiens, as many had predicted, but Ornithorhynchus Anatinus, a winningly eccentric species known, to...
♠ Problem statement: how can I catch up JIRA when pull requests have already (been) merged without tickets? I wrote a local /backfill-jira skill for my AI harnesses. It compares recent merged PRs with existing issues before it creates anything. This is its structure; internal projects, repositories, queries, and...
If you're building a Jev-style "System One" model, please add prompt caching or reusable question sets to your API 🙏. This would make batch use cases even more efficient, so you could amortize the cost of many questions asked over the same input. (This was also proposed in typesafe-ai/typesafe-sdk-js#10.) TL;DR:...
September 2026. South Anston. South Yorkshire. Obviously I’m not actually aiming to complete the Beer Guide again; not sure I could afford all those helicopter flights and ferries in the final year anymore, never mind the stress. But I’m still visiting as many new Guide pubs as I can, and a bit more conscientous...
Overall, it’s an enormous leap in efficiency and precision. It’s a personal assistant, a second brain, a ChatGPT of your own life. You just have to will yourself to use it. After 19 years of performing the unlock-phone/open-app/search routine, you’ll need some time to acclimate. But once you’re used to it, you see...
Despite my best efforts to prevent it, another month has come and gone. Here’s all the cool stuff I’ve found since… well, if we’re being honest, it probably includes content since August, since I never did the August version of this post. I just be like that I guess. I was looking into the abbot of a zen temple...
Hi, I’m experimenting with short-form audio The sound at the 45-second mark is NOT my wife snickering, it is my cinnamon waffles popping up in the toaster, THANK YOU VERY MUCH I famously get a little antsy about my site names after a few years; I’m considering switching to ‘Bit And Run’, which I recently adopted for...
Coyote in Saguaro National Park - September 12, 2026 (iPhone 16 Pro) Last September, my nephew and a few of his friends from college visited Arizona for a college football game. On our way to Tucson, we drove through Saguaro National Park so the "Kansas kids" could get a feel for desert flora. It was pretty hot, so...
We have a nice kitchen vent hood over our range. We had it installed in 2018 as part of our kitchen remodel. I’ve been cleaning out its grease trap from time to time, but I’d never removed the housing and cleaned the actual blower until last week. I didn’t realize I was supposed to until I saw it mentioned...
Been a while since I posted anything over here. Developing software has changed a little bit since. Here's some prose, instead. Blogging has always been a way for me to share what I learn in my day-to-day as a person who builds software, whilst hopefully improving my writing. Naturally that meant targeting software...
Looking over Abalone Cove and Portuguese Bend on a warm sunny day. ブルー・パシフィック 暖かく晴れた日に、パロス・バーデズのアバロン・コーブとポルトギューズ・ベンドを見渡す。