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Based on this totally scientific, absolutely guaranteed to be accurate poll that I ran on Linkedin for the past week or so, DMARC is almost universally loved.A couple of people got a bit snarky in the comments, pointing out the “social...
The counter to the perennial argument that "humans have seen their work automated before". https://filiph.net/text/2026-08-21-11am-no-we-haven't-seen-this-before.html
There is a message on Voyager 1 and 2, space probes that have been sailing away from the planet Earth for almost 50 years. The message is cut into a 12-inch gold- plated copper disk and contains 115 images and 35 sound recordings of life...
It’s a Sunday morning, and Michelle and I are wandering through an upscale shopping complex. As far as we can tell, we’re the only people here who possess any body fat whatsoever. Also I am the only male. All the other people here are...
There was lots of media coverage of Virgin being granted paths on HS1 and into St Pancras from 2030 (see this in The Guardian for example), but the crux is this: if Virgin can get its trains delivered and running to schedule, then an...
Foggy and cool, the spring still loud with yesterday’s rain. A murmur of voices from the other house—a radio tuned to the news. Somewhere up in the woods, a tree crashes down.
Dave LarryMy Confession to You(Dave Larry, Barkip Music Pub.)B'n KC 102-B1963 Cash Box, March 30, 1963 *The tiny B'n KC (meaning?) from California had only one other release (101 Dave Cullen : Bye Bye Blackbird). Thanks to Klepsie at...
This morning, I looked for a sketchbook with blank pages to doodle some stuff. I had to look through my old sketchbook stash for that. Even if I want to keep this blog apart from my art making persona, here's a glimpse in my sketchbooks,...
#OurWorldIsAwesome – Edition 25 | Context on this series – we live in a beautiful world and National Parks are akin to the crown jewels of this planet. These landscapes remind us of the fine balance and complexity woven into the fabric...
Yesterday I attended my last two Examination Boards for the year at Maynooth University. one for graduating MSc students and another for undergraduate repeat students in Engineering (which I attend because I’m teaching a mathematics...
As people grow older, they grow wiser, or at least they think they do. Then it becomes their duty to impart their accumulated wisdom to the younger generation. Leslie Lamport made his name in distributed systems and fault tolerance. For...
This is a detailed examination of the various senses possessed by animals. Some will be intimately familiar to you - like sight and sound - whereas some will seem strange and uncanny - like magnetic detection and electro-sensing. Some...
We've recommended Brown's videos before. They are nothing special from a presentation point of view -- you can pretty much just treat them as podcasts -- but he's an extremely sharp and articulate software veteran who has become one of...