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Book review for Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance. I rated it 4 stars Hillbilly Elegy is a memoir written by JD Vance who is, of course, the current vice president of the USA. The book was published in 2016, at which time Vance was not yet...
A few weeks ago I was stuck in the white-hot edge-of-suburban July, back in my hometown and struggling to hold on to my sense of reality. My hometown and the surrounding areas within which I used to romp are not inherently bad places....
Walked up Grouse mountain and back down to the parking lot. It took a long time. I walked there from my hostel. My Apple watch died near the top of the mountain. Hope it recorded the workout. Doing hard stuff like that makes life more...
I put up my course web site for History of 20th Century American Popular Music, which includes an assignment due the first day of class: read about Stephen Foster and “Old Folks at Home”, listen to recordings of the song by Al Jolson and...
The Pine Time is a $27 smart watch that runs open source firmware. I’ve had one sitting in the back of a drawer for a year or two. When I saw @steveruizok’s Tweet about hacking on ESP32 devices with Claude, I found some inspiration to...
Unsurprisingly, PyTorch's own built-in GELU function is faster than the hand-rolled one I've been using to date. But I was surprised at how much faster using it made things when training my models. I discovered this accidentally just now...
Tuesday August 18, 7pm — it felt like the meeting of a secret society. Always fun. Eddie Muller of TCM’s Noir Alley sent out an invite to a private screening in the 4-Star on Clement for his new documentary Dangerous Citizen: The Life...
🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few things I’ve built: Kerouac, a...
Naming things remains one of the great unsolved problems in computer science, despite the advent of generative AI. Don't believe me? Try actually reviewing the code your agent is writing. In my experience the results range from "there is...
After some good old hand-coding, I'm offering an RSS feed with titles and links, along with a JSON Feed feed with full text.You know, I'd never considered feeds essential to a Web home, since the main purpose of building and opening...
Camera: Fujifilm XT-5 | TTArtisan 35mm lens.Location: ///moves.aims.loft The origins of the word park is from the 13 century parc which referred to an “enclosed wood or heath land used as a game preserve” and later, an “enclosed lot in...
This man talked so fast, it was hard to get a non-blurry image of him - but here he is! Doesn't he look familiar? Possibly....possibly not, depending on if you saw this movie...As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the...
Women, stop me if you’ve heard this one before: You’re at a tech conference, one that you are attending as a tech professional with interest and expertise in the subject matter. You’re standing talking to a man – perhaps he’s a speaker...
A "short" "adventure" "about" a printing press, a very loosely fulfilling Sundered's prompt for Glaugust 2026. Acqua DolceA hexcrawl inspired by Renaissance Italy and Sweetwater County, Wyomingby PhloxThe SituationThe map covers the...
StarringAnya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, Clifton Collins Jr., Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Timothy OlyphantOverviewWish her luck.When a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways, con artist Lucky is forced to go on the run. Pursued by both...