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Orktober is on the horizon so I thought I’d give you a wee glimpse into my plan of attack. I thought the Orky half of the new Armageddon release as they’re some seriously cool looking Orks in there and I just couldn’t resist. This is...
A week ago, when I was working on my project for HTML Day 2026 I stumbled upon this passage from an essay on blink and marquee tags: At the time, there was a new breed of web professionals proudly labeled “webmasters.” Part designer,...
Photo by Pontus Wellgraf on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few...
E.J. Kenney, review of Rudolf Hanslik, ed., Sex. Propertii Elegiarum Libri IV (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1979), in Classical Review 31.2 (1981) 200-202 (at 202): Hanslik follows a practice in which he is by no means alone, but to which...
Writing this from Orania Hotel in Berlin, sipping a negroni and doing a little people-watching as people ride, walk, scoot, and drive past the floor to ceiling windows. It’s a nice hotel, fancier than I could justify booking for just...
removing overengineered memory translation, hardening and new table driven armv7 instr decoding
At last! A cool, cloudy day. The lawns and meadows at the music school are well and truly browned off.
Rating: Rating: 5 out of 5. I am pretty politically naive, but as I become increasingly disillusioned with our world right now, I find myself looking for alternate pathways to a better future. My initial views of anarchy is that it is a...
Read on ign.com · View original Mastodon post Here is another example of what I was talking about in a recent blog post TV Isn't What It Used to Be. According to IGN, the first season came out 3.5 years ago. That is a long time to wait...
Read on ign.com · View original Mastodon post Here is another example of what I was talking about in a recent blog post TV Isn't What It Used to Be. According to IGN, the first season came out 3.5 years ago. That is a long time to wait...
Phil Gyford writes about renting a “skip” (a dumpster, for us American folks): I’m increasingly aware of the psychic weight of belongings and disposing of stuff that is not and will not serve any physical or emotional purpose lifts the...
A little over a week ago, at the warehouse where I work, I had to get a spool of wire from the top shelf of an outside rack. I brought it down with a forklift and ran it into the warehouse to measure the wire. When I went to prep the...
AI inference costs are something I've been writing about for a while. It's clear that for many companies this is becoming a huge problem: AI spend per employee per month. Source: Ramp AI Index via a16z, 12 August 2026. I've heard from a...