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After reading Flamed’s post, I took James’ quiz too about your character as a member of the blogging community. Here are my results: You are a Author You love writing and have a growing backlog of posts on your website! Words are your...
After several years of buying _Pixel_ phones and a _Pixel Tablet_ solely because _GrapheneOS_ runs on them, I've come to the conclusion that _Google_'s consumer hardware is really bad.
I’ve been moving our CI off GitHub-hosted runners onto our own arm64 hardware. The plan was straightforward: a pool of ephemeral runners on a dedicated CI box, and each test shard spins up its own MySQL, Redis, and ClickHouse as service...
From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 151-153: Up to that point, developments resembled those of previous Cossack uprisings, but Khmelnytsky changed the familiar pattern. Before...
There were two clients who basically were paying for ChatGPT…to argue against itself. – Rob Freund My friend Chester Brown, the well-known comic book artist, plays Merlin in this video from Sook-Yin Lee‘s new album. The links above the...
Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. The Ford Motor Company releases a slick whitepaper making the alarming claim that they’re concerned their popular F-150 ... Read more The post Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling”...
Rajasaurus narmadensisIn the humid, fern-thick forests of Late Cretaceous India — about 67 million years ago — a flash of red moves between the tree trunks.Think oxidized iron and dried blood — deep crimson-orange broken by pale white...
Reposting my interview from Over/Under
It’s 9.16 on Monday 22 June 2026, the day after Midsummer’s Day, and everybody is expecting Keir Starmer to resign as prime minister. The excitement has caused me to reflect on my personal links with British prime ministers. Winston...
This weekend, I attended my first artist expo at Jackson’s The Sparks summer open house. Jen Dixon from my Artists In Jackson 2 project asked me to join. A free table around a bunch of artists and community members provided a great...
Reposting my interview from People and Blogs
lamentations on peering deeper inside
I wouldn't say that we have reached anything resembling AGI (or whatever the catchword is these days) although these tools are remarkable, today.