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I spent some time polishing my Inconsolata fork into something I would actually want to use every day: coding ligatures, a slightly narrower variant, rebuilt font artifacts, and a small live specimen site. The demo is live here:...
On June 22nd, I gave the opening keynote for the 2026 Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (aka CAPAL-ACBES)...
The Ramanujan challenge Ido Kaminer shared with me the following information about The Ramanujan Challenge for AI, and I am happy to share it with the readers of this blog. The challenge page is at...
Had a bit of a home networking collapse a couple of months ago when I finally accepted the inadequacy of the now-12-year-old computer I was using as the "service-box" for my home network setup (*arr stuff, jellyfin, anything that...
The Tordre, from D Squared Arts. I’m back from the 2026 St. Louis Pen Show and dish all of the details on what was an excellent time. I also share one of my most random stationery purchases ever made, and give my initial thoughts on the...
Early morning Gruga walk. 👉 View 3 more images
There are situations when one owes solitude to other people, if only not to bother them. But more than this, the multitude needs solitaries as it needs postmen, doctors and fishermen. They go out and they send, or bring, something...
Recently I found myself in a waiting room, and while there, waiting, it occurred to me that someone should write an essay on waiting rooms. Since I always have a notebook at hand, I took some notes, and here they are, for anyone who...
Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to the SigmaWest science camp and then STOC,...
Nothing works... (comme d'hab), Small parcels to the EU, Earth is a death world.
It’s a new month (yikes) so it’s time for another fresh batch of links. A varied mix of fun stuff this time around.Now that your newsletter is AI-generated, I’ve UnsubscribedThe title kind of says it all for this one.Datatype — variable...
I saw this going viral, Democrats rail against corruption after Trump financial disclosure: Democrats are accusing President Trump of improperly profiting from his and his family’s cryptocurrency ventures after he reported more than $1...
“Effective today, June 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM, all Forest Service lands, roads, and trails within the Monticello Ranger District of the Manti-La Sal National Forest (San Juan County, Utah) are temporarily closed due to the Babylon Fire. “...
Well it's more like six and a half really - with everything going on these last few months, my half bearthday went whizzing past. But we're close enough still, so let's see how things are going. The most important thing is that I'm still...
Everything looked good for a trip to the shallow beach, an off shore breeze and a late evening high tide and as I hadn’t been there for a while, I couldn’t resist. My target fish tonight would be Rays, for some reason I don’t catch many...