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One of the highlights of my Twitch streams is the opportunity for viewers to make me ink up any pen I own with any ink of their choosing, via a channel points redemption. It allows for unique combinations, and gets me out of any...
Down with a cold at the weekend, but still, it seems, in remission from the ME. I continue to have some autonomic dysfunction though and some other bits I’ll be talking to the GP about. But intend to make hay whilst the sun is shining....
Last evening and today, added a few more elements to the site’s CSS: Keyboard keystrokes now stand out more with a small drop-shadow effect and the code font Red arrow (same color as footnotes indicators) points to external links
I used to write down my thoughts about an old tree that stood across the street from my home. This was years ago and back in another life that seems like it is ifetimes away.There was an old tree across from my home. This was not a big...
Edward Kennard Rand (1871-1945), The Building of Eternal Rome (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1943),p. 6: Some will look back with amusement from our age of boundless terrestrial spaces and teeming populations at these operations...
One of my epiphanies when I left Big Tech social media in 2020 was how the timeline had come to dominate my mind. The (little) writing I was doing at the time was dictated by the topics discussed in my timeline. Freedom from the timeline...
[Oh, the points you could earn!] Though the recent email sent by Massachusetts was suspicious in the extreme, the registration on my car will indeed come due in a couple of months. After I verified that, I figured I ought to get it taken...
Among the towering dinosaurs, enormous marine reptiles and other spectacular fossils at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is a much smaller creature that tells one of evolution’s most extraordinary stories.It is a fossil of...
From The Jump? by Robert Paterson:In the summer of 1993, I was on track to end up at the top of the Canadian banking system. This had been my dream since I left school. But instead of being happy, I was utterly depressed. Something was...
Mr. Meyers carves a wonderful wagon and horse team using only a jackknife and an awl Real Photo Postcard collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
# Is your model smarter than a 5th grader? I saw a post about [LittleLearner](https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/), a scale-up study where Qwen3 dense models are pretrained on a corpus filtered down to U.S. K-5 material...
A great, deliberate approach you can take towards learning new skills.
Alright, so picture this: you look at my online profile somewhere, maybe Mastodon. I appear to be an AI skeptic. Quite vocal about it, too. Post by @drakonic@wetdry.world View on Mastodon You hit follow or whatever. [Read more...]...
2 Mello's lyrics are pure poetry. Blaugust week 3 prompt: Top five (or 10 or 20) musical artists. I'm just gonna do one. I pick: ◀◀ ◼︎ ▶︎▶︎♫ 2 Mello Since trying to move away from streaming platforms, I've been trying to listen to...
A developer experience and quality control measure I take on programs I’m building, even small ones, is always to write at least one test.