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Michelle, admirable mother shares her wisdom. https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/little-websites-everywhere/ I am building a website, for work. It feels like a radical act these days. I am not using an LLM, I am coding with my own...
Read the full post at - Ordinary Abundance What a beautiful website & a beautiful reminder of the absolute abundance that many of us live with compared to our very recent ancestors – https://ordinaryabundance.com/ If we could have...
“Fun” fact: it took until 2016 for the US national debt to reach $19.6T. That grew by $5.3T in Trump’s first term, $8.5T in Biden’s term, then another $4.6T so far under Trump 2. We’ve gone another $20.4T underwater since Obama. No more...
Micropoetry customer service ain’tservicing the customer…everyone has a chipon their shoulder, chippingaway at my patience. no one cares anymore. no one cares.
Hi everyone. Yesterday someone in one of the online communities I’m part of shared about learning to use a white cane because of vision loss in addition to an acquired brain injury. The person summed up all the impairments the brain...
This guy’s work is really, really nice, and is the first thing I’ve seen that tugs at my heart a little about my adopted hometown. I couldn’t go back — the heat, the Greg Abbott, the worthless mayor, the traffic, the congestion — but I...
Last time I built a detector that counts four-letter runs (n-grams) and tells you whether Claude Opus 5 wrote something. It works well - about 91% on text it has never read. It has one obvious hole: it only knows one robot (Claude Opus...
Lately I have found myself dealing with more and more terminal sessions on my Mac. These were not just sessions where I had specific areas of work open. These were long running processes. Local website servers. Local LLM servers....
the sweet words trying to escape on the page, out in the world I stop out of fear but of what exactly I ask myself everything
Juli Clover, reporting for MacRumors: Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book...
I keep up a bit with Florida politics because my kids live there, well, two of them anyway, and I spent over half my life in the state. But I was shocked to learn that Angie Nixon won the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat...
Scrolled through BlueSky and Mastodon without my filters. The hate, the anger, the hostility… How can people stand it? When did we become so poisonous to each other? Yeesh
I'm making a video for a new song. The lyrics are in a made-up language (which is just a simple cipher), so I was thinking of making a custom font for it. I went looking for tips on designing conlang fonts, and ended up discovering the...
Wednesday's gem from Manton. https://www.manton.org/2026/08/19/synonyms-and-antonyms.html The value of getting help from AI is that because it's a synthesis of all the world's information, it tends to pull you toward accepted narratives....
In 1922, a newspaper columnist wrote that only two people in America could bring every reporter in New York down to the docks just to watch them leave the country. One was the sitting President. The other was a twenty-year-old Ziegfeld...