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Hello, loves! I have a bit of time where I can’t concentrate deeply but can probably do some easy things. A new class reduces DungeonLayout. Let’s see what we can find that might be useful. A bit of mess reduction. Here’s the code that...
Apple, in its infinite wisdom, buries a great many popular system controls three layers deep in Settings, or worse, leaves them accessible only via the command line. Luckily, we have a community of indie developers who are pretty good at...
Apple, in its infinite wisdom, buries a great many popular system controls three layers deep in Settings, or worse, leaves them accessible only via the command line. Luckily, we have a community of indie developers who are pretty good at...
I haven’t finished many posts lately, but I have been deploying small style updates the last few weeks. I had updated the background of the header/menu a while ago with this vector leaf pattern, and changed the highlight colors from a...
Got a little helper.
Found this at the new Y&Y Supermarket in Lynnwood, Washington. Was the only thing I got but there were quite a few other things I wish I had. It’s a big bucket maybe 15 orso inches tall, containing a lot of different varieties. $13 was...
This week the University of Chicago Law School announced a new policy regarding the use of AI in teaching law. The headlines read “AI strategy bans phones, laptops in class for first year students.” What does history say about this sort...
Status: Before the heatwave I ordered a cheap solar powered extractor fan. Today, as the heatwave enters its final stages, the fan arrived. (No problem with the delay - it’s hot out there!) But there’ll be another one along in a few...
I spent hours chasing down an issue in my 11ty a.k.a. Eleventy a.k.a. BuildAwesome setup, specifically during local development, which I thought was a caching issue, without knowing where: any time I would update a JS file, I’d have to...
Mist opportunities
I’ve been using the DayOne app for almost 15 years. Looking at the history for a particular day can be interesting. Here’s what popped up for July 11th. 2025: Two photos, a picture of a lake and another of a toad hunting bugs on my back...
Here’s my little thought: Humans find AI output to be subtly disgusting and avoid subjecting themselves to it. Because that seems to be the only reasonable explanation for stuff like this: Again and again we see people having an LLM...
I saw a debate once where Jordan Peterson was telling a group of people that if you minimize environmental differences (like rich parents) you maximize innate differences (like talent, passion, etc).Just thought of a really positive take...
Zachary Chase, Zach Hunter and I have uploaded to the arXiv our preprint Gilbreath’s conjecture: a Cramér random model and a deterministic analysis. This paper is motivated by a notorious conjecture of Gilbreath (also proposed eighty...