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Fremantle2026 August 29 (Saturday), 8:44PM· wikis · I have various wikis, into which I dump stuff as I think of it, or digitise it, or find it, or whatever. It's mostly a good feeling of eventual organisation, like things can be safe for...
This morning I finally made coffee for my wife after a long time1, using my brand new kettle for a drip brew. A technique that any purist would probably shudder at, but no purist were in the room when I made it so I'm ignoring that2. As...
Being a text editor (among other things), Emacs has quite a few tricks up its sleeve for making writing not just easier but also fun and seemingly magical. I call this section in my config “Wordcraft.” Emacs Dictionary When we need a...
Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack. That report had one key new piece of information, and some good prosaic steps OpenAI will be taking to strengthen its alignment, training, supervision,...
Life I built a bunk bed. It was a ridiculously tight fit and a severe ballache, but ultimately I was pretty happy with having made the absolute best use of the available space and the kids seem happy. We moved back into the flat. By...
After a very busy week, it’s time once more for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further twelve papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 189 and...
Here are some notes—nothing groundbreaking, but things I want to remember later—on Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya’s Ursa Major (Большая медведица, 1870–71). In the previous post, there is a list of characters and plot summary. Fonvizin disease...
As If my heart is evaporating, now I no longer yearn to fear, the future stays there, as it always was, determined by the collisions of dust, so long ago, time had barely been invented, and now I sit empty, rotting away, every second...
Motivation For around half a year, I've been going all-in on agentic coding. There have been a lot of hurdles, but the productivity increase is magnificent. I've been building the most ambitious and largest projects of my professional...
The idea about an “SBOM-first” or maybe even “SBOM-only” workflow already teased earlier still appeals to me. In principle I don’t see why it couldn’t work, but I haven’t put it in practice, yet. My thinking is mostly CycloneDX-centric...
I’ve taken to annotating my code so that if I got an AI to do a code review, it would understand what I am doing and what is left to do. The result is slightly better code (because I don’t want the AI to do the easy bits) and much more...
Finished the first draft of my first play, yesterday! I know it will need a lot of work, but for now I’m basking in satisfaction and caffeine fuelled joy. It would be a dream to see this performed one day!! I went to Carnaby Street to...
I finally made my dish! I first learned of the Small Web Potluck via Aid's post. It was started by Skep, and this year, Myrtletribe is a co-host. This year, the theme is yellow, so I decided to make my favorite egg dish: Egg & tomato...
How I Met Your Mother 2005–2014, Carter Bays, Craig Thomas My rating: I like it This is my third time watching this, and it has become a comfort series for my wife and I. Its highs are really great and its lows are fine. I think it’s the...
In May of 1980, the city of Miami was rocked by three days of rioting, described by Dan Rather as "the Nation's worst outbreak of urban disorder in a single city" since 1967 in Detroit and Newark. The riots broke out after the death of a...