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Dedicated photography time with Daniel is always a delight. We took a longer drive this time to check out Hasper Dam. The surroundings were not super photogenic, or at least I wasn't super inspired. I still enjoyed being out with my...
Something that delights me in Taiwan is the ubiquity of unconventional (or outright wrong) English. As someone who works with words, these quirky compositions open my mind to new ways of describing the world around me.Like when I insert...
A month ago, this website moved to a custom engine that I built myself, one I call Jot. Why did I create it? Because I got tired of almost. Almost the right editor. Almost the right publishing flow. Almost the right feature set. Each...
Given the break in high temperatures overnight and 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence, I was excited to attend Plymouth, Michigan’s Fourth of July parade this weekend. And was delighted to watch local...
This week’s Sunday Stills color challenge theme is ‘Red, White, & Blue.’ See more responses here. Yesterday marked the 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America. This...
LLM reasoning has a simple appeal: give the model more room to think, and the answer should improve. That intuition works well enough in domains like math, coding, and planning that it is tempting to apply it everywhere. Machine...
I've given my website a bit of a refresh! There's a slightly updated layout if you're on desktop, plus I ditched the etc page and I've revamped my links page to be powered by raindrop.io. The minimalist theme is still minimalist, but a...
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Resurrected my Bluesky account, using my domain name as my handle. Testing my Drafts > Website > MicroBlog > Bluesky flow here!
My world map at the end of this session. Guest post from AlphabeticalAnonymous: I start this session with mixed feelings. On the one hand, The Search for Freedom continues to serve up decent CRPG fare: a main quest, equipment upgrades,...
Notice only one of the clocks is real. This day was potentially the highlight of the whole river cruise. It was, you see, the day with the most river cruisin’. We woke up cruising and went to sleep cruising. But in the middle there we...
We had a pleasurable 4th of July weekend with a visit from our nephew, Dan, and his family. Fireworks thundered all along the Strip and elsewhere in town; booms, snaps, crackles, and pops could be heard for hours. The night sky was...
The latest Recomendo newsletter recommends you check that your favourite brand has not gotten enshittified. How? By seeing if it is "Approved" here: Worse on Purpose rates 215 brands — tools, bags, apparel, eyewear, and footwear — as...
This week's bookshelf is a small one, and thus a relatively simple one. Here we move to a new wall, and start a new shelving unit, this one being one I found in my mom's house and turned into a place to hold books; I'm pretty sure it was...
Post by @carnage4life@mas.to The billionaire co-founder of AirBnB wants you to blame the babies of undocumented immigrants for starter homes being unaffordable.