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At the start of 2026, I made an all too brief visit to the historic, seaside town of Hastings, a settlement situated on the sunny south-east coast of Sussex and famed for a battle that took place 960 years ago. The Battle of Hastings...
Yael Grauer on being told to "ask Claude" when seeking trusted advice:→ String Literal
In preparation for my jaunt to a Greek island, I figured it would be good to have some Greek-adjacent reading material with me to peruse on the beach. So I scoured the shelves of my local library to find a modern retelling of a Greek...
This is a simplified, (more so) narrative focused approach to character creation in the Forgotten Realms setting. Ideally, players will be unconcerned with mechanical choices or min-maxing their class/background/species combinations and...
[Sure, it used to be a multiplication sign, but now that tiny × shall be known as the “collab x”.] Today, please enjoy some litter I picked up while out on a run. As I passed it, I actually did a double-take, because I couldn’t believe I...
My company laid off 230 people and closed 6 radio stations Tuesday morning. Tuesday and Wednesday were understandably frustrating days; first was shock (Tuesday) then frustration came (Wednesday). But I'm not here to talk about that....
My last day at British Telecom was the 2nd of July. Truly I can say that nothing substantive happened in the two years I was there. I changed a lot, though. My biggest worry is that my focus skills, my determination to do work, my...
Saw Command Line Interface Guidelines today. Need to give it a closer read. But, I’m glad to see someone working on actual standards in this space. Could make for a good agent skill…
After having such a great time last year, expanding my coverage more than ever, I decided to go all-in on the BBC Proms once more. It’s another enticing schedule, although at this point I’m not completely sure what the underlying themes...
Enough things added up that this week is getting split into two parts. Then on Monday, if all goes as I expect, we’ll cover OpenAI’s Sol, aka GPT-5.6. OpenAI also gave us an upgraded voice mode, which I haven’t tried out but early...
There are only two things you can say with certainty about token prices: we’re in a supply crunch, and this is unstable. All of the variables are in play, and the market will get shaken out over the next few years to arrive at a new...
Back in May, I signed up to host the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival, and kicked it off with a prompt: sticks and stones will break my bones.I'm incredibly late with my roundup: just as soon as I'd kicked it off, life became chaotic in a way...
Several years ago, we had a scare while on a field trip. A boy, racing to the bus stop, attempted to get around one of the adults by shooting for a narrow gap between her and the roadway. While both his feet were off the ground, her hip...
My whole life, I've worked into a headwind because of my looks. It's not that I'm particularly horrible looking, but more than one woman has informed me that I'm not in "their league" (actually true, though not in the way they thought),...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...