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There is a little known truth or fact about me and my life, which of course is true because why else would I tell you?There is something about me which is as true as anything else in this life. I am more than one person and more than...
AI made code generation cheaper. The part that still matters is whether a human can understand, verify, and own what the agent produced.
Flare now supports log collection for Laravel and PHP apps, with real-time filtering and search in the same polished interface. A nice overview of what logging adds and how to get started with the new SDK release. Read more
Over the weekend we went to a theme park. Our sons got a coupon through school and, as exams are upcoming for the bigger children, a discount was offered to those that would still visit. So off we went to Bobbejaanland. I'd never been...
In Maputo and Kinshasa, musicians and entrepreneurs turn oil drums, jerry cans, and fabric scraps into instruments, art, and livelihoods. The idea underneath: nothing is finished. How creative constraint became a climate solution, a job...
Make it look convincing, people are watching
Apple now ships seven Xcode agent skills that can be exported and used with other agents.
I recently finished watching the final season of Hacks. Though the premise of the show didn’t interest me when I first heard about it, once I finally started watching, I was completely hooked– so funny and smart, with great characters,...
A small poem.
From Lenin’s Asylum: Two Years in Moldova, by A. A. Weiss (Everytime Press, 2018), Kindle pp. 193-195: Riscani’s town birthday, a day festival called hram, fell on a Tuesday. Only a handful of students had come to school; none of …...
June 9, 2026
Increasingly, rifles and shotguns would appear to be the last-ditch C-sUAS (counter-small unmanned aerial systems) answer. Ukraine is buying thousands of 12-gauge shotguns from Turkey (which makes “Turknellis” of all sorts), and American...
Some 85 years ago, a bit of calm before the storm. Official period caption: “British and Chinese troops on exercise in rubber boats, Hong Kong, 1941.” Note the M1928 Thompson SMG on the bow of the leading boat and SMLEs at the ready. The...
There’s a piece of writing advice that I run across a lot (I’ve even given it). It’s excellent advice, except that it isn’t. Which doesn’t make much sense even to me, so I’m going to try to unpack it a little. The advice? It comes in...