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Just received a wonderful gift from a good friend of mine. Looking forward to diving into the classics! Thank you JP! Swords Against Darkness volumes one to five: Books one to four of The Elric Saga—Elric of Melnibone, The Sailor on the...
After about seven months of buildup, the Freedom 250 weekend is upon us. For those that have been living under a rock, this event was designed to be a one-time event to be run as part of America 250 – the year-long celebration of the...
I can’t remember the last time I was actually hot. It’s a thought that keeps looping through my head as I stand next to a children’s play structure in a Greek all-inclusive waterpark. The sun is beating down on an international community...
While looking for more information in old newspapers about the timeline of road and bridge construction along the National Road/US 40 near Reelsville, Indiana, I found a terrific article in The Brazil Times on July 28, 1914, about a...
I’ve been doing some work for an upcoming talk on Kubernetes Multi-tenancy security, and as part of that I was thinking about one of my favourite topics in Kubernetes security, SSRF. As I was doing that I realised that applying a known...
Based on a talk delivered at the AI & Algorithm Seminar hosted by the Dutch Data Protection Authority on 25 March 2026 at ECC Leiden. I am a postdoctoral researcher in Knowledge & Intelligence Design at TU Delft. I study how AI systems...
Hey there. Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week: #1. LLMs have changed how coding looks. Here are 10 rules for agentic coding (5min). #2. Before it was TLDR. Now it is AIDR: AI;Didn’t read (3min). #3. Glasses,...
Since reading The Help, which was published in 2009, it’s been a very long wait for Kathryn Stockett’s second novel. The Calamity Club finally arrived earlier this year, after a seventeen year gap, and I put it on my list for the 20...
It has been a busy week here with some new commissions starting but slow progress on the existing ones mixed with GCSE results and planning for a week off next. It felt, putting this together that there was less to share, but I’ve...
More coding with Jez and Andy. We're continuing working on our gunzip clone: we know we will need to be able to look back while we are encoding at recently-written bytes, so this time we're writing a look-back buffer. We could use a...
10:05 - Got rejected from a bakery/cafe I really wanted to work at. I'm sad. Was gonna go there today to study but I'll go somewhere else. Too fresh.
Ridgeline subscribers — Hi, I’m Craig Mod and this is Ridgeline, a newsletter about walking — mostly in Japan, but this time in NYC. Elsewhere: The Things Become Other Things fine art reprint is now in stock. And I’ve been using Claude...
2026 fantasy novella in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as Chalion). A hedge-sorcerer is dying, and the Temple has a use for her demon, if the demon agrees. Meanwhile, a blinded cavalryman comes seeking healing…
A showery day. Some sun. Did all the mowing. A bit wet for it. Went with Bill Edwards to the Harp and the Oak. Very heavy rain at night.
Shot by Duncan Rawlinson. Duncan Radwlinson photographed this black-and-white aerial view of the 1000 Islands region in Ontario, Canada. Dark water winds between snow-covered shores and small wooded islands, their conifers heavy with...