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A while back I wrote about Jupyter notebooks and all the little tricks that make them pleasant to work with. They’re great for poking at data and keeping code, notes and plots in one place. But if you’ve lived with notebooks for long...
thunder roars in the distance the trees wrap their branches closer to their trunks prepared knowing the pretty pink hue in the sky is not of innocence not made of softness and calm but a sign of destructive power in an anticipatory lull...
Permanence 2026-06-30T20:58:00+00:00, by Emma Humphries, from Infinite Wishes 🏳️⚧️🚀 Yesterday, Bandcamp laid off most of the rest of the engineering organization, replacing it with an “AI Center of Excellence.” So that means the most...
J. HARVEY BOND – Murder Isn’t Funny. Mike Lanson #3. Ace Double D-301, paperback original, 1959. Published back-to-back with The Deadly Combo, by John Farr (to be reviewed here on this blog soon). J. Harvey Bond was the pen name of Russ...
It's probably fair to say I'm in a bit of a rut at the minute. Between my career and trying to find a house, things have been tiring and my creativity has suffered as a result. Thankfully, I've been through this before and understand...
I’ve directed a few shows in my time that were flops. Small audiences. Empty theaters. Never fun. Always embarrassing. Always a loss. We called flops and turkeys. I don’t think any of those experiences compares to the big show currently...
Politik is one of those games I wish were more fantastical, which isn’t a ding on the game but rather a reflection of the slow-motion dystopia we have come to inhabit. Designed over the course of more than a decade by Jonathan Klabunde...
This is an analysis of how Claude Code initiates web scraping requests. You might be surprised to find that claude code could scrape from an API endpoint, or from the host that’s running claude code. In this series, you will learn how to...
Over the last three or four months I have been on a bit of a quest. I have been looking for a private digital assistant. Not another chatbot or the latest frontier model, but something I could run on my own machine. Something that would...
Had a very productive Zoom meeting with Jeffrey Sauls at Energy Vanguard. To cut to the chase, I've abandoned radiant heating and cooling with the exception of heating the basement slab. So we will still use an air-to-water heat pump (so...
Last month, I was excited to share one of my straw hats appeared in the new Little House on the Prairie teaser. Well……. Little House on the Prairie premieres on next week……. and I am still excited! 😊 🤗 I do not know if one of my pieces...
Last weekend I went on my favorite Minnesota theater vacay - Great River Shakespeare Festival in lovely riverside Winona! But my 8th visit to Minnesota's only Shakespeare festival is even more exciting this year. It's the first time I've...
Bunny Yeager shot hundreds of women whose names barely survived their photographs. The story of Dinnie Sutton, Maria Stinger, Lisa Winters, and the women history left behind.
Status: Psychotherapy session today and while it wasn’t too heavy it did pretty much dominate the rest of the day. Managed to get a bit of reading done this evening but otherwise I’m not sure exactly what happened outside that hour....