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Thought my Emacs init file needs a bit of cleaning - it contains configs from maybe 5 and 6 years ago. It’s a nostalgic learning experience. More fun than I thought. More to come soon 🤓
With the advent of modern coding agents, many visualization projects that I had proposed in the past, but dropped due to the time and complexity of the coding portion of the task, have now become relatively feasible, in that a reasonable...
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Ghoul Daze. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where he is challenged...
Wonderful words by the ever erudite Adam Turner. Konformer come from Nuremberg, a city steeped in all kinds of history. The three piece band – synths, bass and drums – make music that recalls the culture of West Germany in the late 1960s...
When a French man-about-town falls for a Russian aristocrat in exile, he will do anything to be near her, including posing as a waiter at the hotel where she resides. Home Media Availability: Released on DVD by Grapevine. Start the...
When I was at Medium, over a decade ago, I really enjoyed going deep on typography. People seemed to generally enjoy what we did. Writers really loved automatic em dashes and range dashes, discovered the beauty of hanging punctuation,...
Not an F-24 (a bit faster), but relatable. [Note. This was generated by a velocity prediction program, not testing, so that is that. Typically, they are optimistic, assuming flat water, perfect sails, an empty boat, and glass-smooth hull...
My last 5 books - July 2026 edition This is a new feature in which I will copy and paste my recent book reviews from my books page These are the last 5 books I have read. I will update in a month or 2 when I've read 5 more. I'm Starting...
Norman Conquest 2.0 The British Museum in Bloomsbury, seen on a rainy afternoon a while back (when Britain still could make the rains run on time). From today it’s the temporary home of the Bayeux Tapestry which depicts events leading up...
I was out early this morning to water and weed the garden before it got too hot, though at 6am it was 21C/70F and increasing quickly. We all stayed indoors for most of the day. My brother, however, was back out there, working on his...
Minecraft lets you define your own world border, which limits the world to a specific size. This is helpful for sysadmins to limit the growth and file size of a map. For players, it keeps the map more compact, which also potentially lets...
From Jakub Krehel, a new blog post about self constraint in the era when AI makes it easy to ignore constraints altogether. My caveat is that the post doesn’t fully come together for me – jumping from AI to animations and then back to AI...
»> go to watolls «< I live in Washington State. Whenever I am rushing to get to a meeting or needing to get somewhere fast, I sometimes take toll roads to get there faster. As I took them more, I noticed that I didn’t know what time to...
Eight years ago, I started with a challenge called “100 Days of Algorithms”. My main goal was to reinforce my algorithm learning from my CS career by taking Princeton’s Algorithms I and II classes taught by Robert Sedgewick, by...
Postcards from Montréal, 2026 We were in Montréal recently. I made some postcards while we were there. This is the story I want to remember. I had hoped to do more half-time sketches like the ones I made during the 2024 Euro Cup but...