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This week’s group post asks us about our motivation to blog, and Krikket gives us a set of prompts. Here they are, with my answers. Q: What tricks do you use to keep yourself motivated when something feels impossible? Bricolage. Roughly...
What is this?! Third grade?! I don’t need THAT MUCH validation. *Sighs* • You like a post: ACHIEVEMENT! • You create a post: ACHIEVEMENT! •You break a daily posting schedule: ACHIEVEMENT! And so on… And furthermore. I am over it....
We didn’t have a bumper crop of plums this year, but the ones we got are plump and juicy. I made a plum pie, and though Jae loves plum pastries I find them more tart than I care for. I do like plum bread, though, and plum sauce, so I...
It’s been six years since I visited with Lane Winslow and her neighbors in King’s Cove, British Columbia, where she settled after WWII, hoping to find a peaceful place to rebuild her life. She has been partially successful: she is living...
This is a post about a simple concept. In .NET, I want to know how many processors exist on a host/VM. However, as far as I can tell, there's no APIs for that in modern .NET. If you need that information, this post shows the only...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Fantastic Mr. Fox The first time I finished reading a book that I...
Translated from French into English by Mark Hutchinson. This book isn't out yet, but will be in November 2026. I received a digital ARC from the publisher (thank you!). I was excited to read this title after having read "A Leopard-Skin...
My interest in LLMs has increasingly shifted towards smaller models, small in terms of size and their ability to run on modest local machines. For some time now, I have been using models with fewer than 40 B parameters on my machines in...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC says: Neal.Fun has another interesting site: Constellation Draw. See what you can design in the skies for the Daily Create...
I was in Denver last week for work. I managed to get out to Red Rocks on my final morning. It was fantastic during the day—I can only imagine what it would be like seeing a gig there at night. 🔗 ∙ Tagged in My Photos, Travel.
"The Flight 93 election" was a term used by conservatives in 2016 to justify voting for Donald Trump. The basic idea was that, even though Donald Trump was essentially everything we, well, knew he was -- a racist, an idiot, a wrecker --...
Our post last week prompted some interesting comments and responses, including a couple which suggested that the market ought to sort it out. Kien Tan is a retail consultant and analyst and one of the most interesting people we follow on...
Here are images from the second roll of Ilford HP5 Plus I shot at the car show. I used my Pentax 645 and my 75mm f/2.8 SMC Pentax-A 645 lens. I developed in Clayton F76+ 1+9. I liked how these rolls of HP5 Plus turned out in Clayton...
OTD in 2008, I began blogging about family history. I was a decade into my genealogy research and my first blog post was about great-grandpa Meyer Elias Mahler (1855?-1910). In the 18 years since that initial post, I learned lots more...
I have just finished reading Seething Lane by Jack Jewers, a novel in which Samuel Pepys is reinvented as a sleuth, swashbuckler and firefighter, acting on behalf of Charles II to investigate the murder of a libertine aristocrat. First...