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Now you can track Flock surveillance cameras and other automated license plate readers. Why is there a cluster of them on every approach to Tufts University in Massachusetts? Automated Surveillance of Car Traffic There are these things called “automated license plate readers” (ALPRs). They’re basically a camera, a...
Summer 2026 saw us shunning foreign shores and instead spending a week in Derbyshire, beginning with a four night stay in the spa town of Buxton.After checking into our holiday apartment, we wandered through the Pavilion Gardens, complete with octagonal concert hall, John William's theme tunes played...
The Jehovah’s Witnesses (the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania) sought to unmask a Doe who uploaded an archive of religious texts, along with some associated linguistic parsing tools, to a website (https://jws-library.one). [That URL now says: “This site has been taken offline out of an abundance...
It's been just over a week since I deleted all my corporate social media accounts and, honestly? I've been loving the quiet and lack of notifications and decreased screen time. I'm sure I'm missing out on things, but those are not things I care about. What I care about is writing here, for you! This is exactly what...
Back in my brighter and chipperer student days, I became mildly obsessed with stories of Benjamin Lay. A four foot tall Quaker with a hunched back, "Little Benjamin" was an 18th century radical abolitionist and animal rights activist. I was introduced to him in studying Quaker abolitionists broadly — a pursuit that...
From The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris, by Andrea Wulf (Knopf, 2026), Kindle pp. 148-151: A week later, on 21 November, a group of Māori women paddled out and told the Resolution crew that they were worried. Their men, the crew learned, had left to attack their...
On Sunday night, Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge casually tweeted a surprisingly simple counterargument to the Jacobian Conjecture, a mathematics problem that has been unproven for over 80 years. Said counterargument was identifed using Claude Fable 5 and was quickly empirically validated which confirmed it was...
I finished reading Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers. It’s a great little book packed with practical wisdom. Every chapter is a life lesson. Highly recommended!
Since breaking free of my corporate shackles, I’ve gotten to experiment with a variety of approaches to AI-assisted development. After months of tinkering, I’m quite happy with my current setup, and want to capture and share it. Things are changing very fast, and I have no illusions that this will be a timeless...
Keeping it simple where it affects your code and your users.

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