Bubbles
Latest Posts
Eric von Hippel taught me that innovation comes from users, not manufacturers. My premise: all future end-user software innovation will come from the user, and the machines will build it.
My husband and I are watching the long-running (14 seasons!) show Vera on BritBox. If you haven’t seen it, the star is a curmudgeonly detective in her fifties, no longer svelt, with a brusque style and an unusual wardrobe. Out … Continue...
It’s cloudy today, but a few days ago I went for my first “real” post-surgery walk and touched trees and such along the Brunette River. Here are a few shots, taken on my Samsung Galaxy S26. I have again used the cheesy Polaroid theme...
My experience of setting up the Pi coding agent with DeepSeek, installing packages, and using it for side projects and experiments.
I spent most of 2025 pretty high on Tokyo’s The Floatings and their debut album Flowering so it was kind of bittersweet when they pre-empted the big news of making my year-end list by announcing that singer re:caco was leaving the band....
Still very cold wind and very little sun. Cleaned the moped and did all the mowing. Dot and Jane came for an hour in the afternoon. Very nice.
At the start of 2026, I set myself some reading goals for the year: 1. Read 2,400 pages of physical or digital books - I have hundreds of paperback and...
Link roundup of books, X-Files, and the usual
(Continued from my previous posts on the game.) I was trying to push to the end, but I still must be missing something fundamental. At the least, I can say (checking the list of rooms in the machine code) that there isn’t much more for...
flavorcountry:ALTALTALTALTALTALTI keep a running list of phrases that would make good album titles and I just realized what else they’re good for Some (but not all) of these would make good Culture ship names. Neither Animal Nor...
I miss doing presentations.Standing up and presenting stuff to people I don't know.Pre-COVID I did them a lot and I used to really enjoy it. It was an opportunity to think about things, to craft an argument and to see how it landed with...
Introduction Not many Virtual Private Server (VPS) providers consider FreeBSD a first-class citizen, and few encourage you to encrypt your hard drive from inside the VPS. Though encrypting a VPS hard drive does not protect against...
With this matter, I hope I actually shan’t have more to write about. But this thought needed to be written out (only if to unload it from my head). For some reason the current state of affairs around “AI” reminds me a lot of alcohol....