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Two notable things happened this weekend:I received beautiful an email from a reader of the blog telling me that they’d spent a week reading through the archives here, and providing a lovely summary of my zeitgest. It warmed my heard....
Passage Qaqortoq → Cartwright Distance 576 nm (190 nm under engine) Duration 5 days and 7 h (44 h of engine) Wind B0 B2 B4 B6 B8 B10 Calm Storm Comfort 🌫️ 🥱 🐋 🐦 🌅 🙂 44 hours motoring. This was the first long crossing of its type for us....
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
CUDA is a giant for GPU compute, which includes machine learning applications. So far, CUDA supports x86-64 and aarch64 CPUs. Now, Nvidia is looking at extending CUDA support to RISC-V. This move opens the door for RISC-V CPUs to feed...
Let's be clear about something. Large media consolidation is always harmful. There is no real debate. There's 50 years of indisputable evidence that massive U.S. media mergers always result in mass layoffs, higher consumer prices, and...
Having a miscommunication can be annoying, or even cause some real tension, but rarely does it lead to something as severe as losing your life. Author Carolyn Ives Gilman is taking the miscommunication trope and putting a life-or-death...
As is our annual tradition, Myke and I have published a Q&A to mark Relay’s anniversary. We took on listener questions about podcasting in general, changes at Relay over time, and whatever happened to B-Sides.
Why, regardless, of what chud intellectuals may be telling you, you probably should go to college.First. There’s this common idea that the elite education is going to become ‘irrelevant’, ‘because of AI’I am expecting the oppositeWhat is...
In preparation for teaching my Japanese Empire module this fall at St Andrews Claude Code and I put together an online interactive map of the Japanese empire. I hope it may be useful to others as well. I made use of various GIS sources...
Someone recently asked me what advice I’d give to a young developer today. My answer had surprisingly little to do with code. Here’s what I’d focus on: Learn How to Build Products Even if LLMs write most of the code, there is still a...
A cartoon coded in CSS from comiCSS.
Chocolate gravy was a success! My uncle mentioned it recently. When he was an older teen he was not required to go to Saturday night church (like he was on Sundays) so he would sneakily make himself chocolate gravy while the family was...
Another fave 80s fusion album this morning, this one's drawing from the disco side like the Fruitcake album I played the other day. Been awhile since I last played Kangaroo here.
Before the Internet things were different; this was the First Age. If you wanted to get your message out there you needed either a lot of money, fame, or power. Usually you needed some combination of all three. Barring that you needed to...
Having spent the time since the release of their debut album 27℃ last Summer touring, touring, and more touring (all in Asia of course), Hammer Head Shark have finally taken the time to release their first new music of 2026....