I recently wrote about building a website in minutes, and now it's even faster. As in, literally 4 minutes and 22 seconds. Cloudflare released the ability for agents to deploy with temporary accounts. Using my example from the other post, that means you can pop open Claude Code and just type: Claude initially didn't know that the --temporary tag existed, so I gave it a little encouragement to try it anyway. And then it did: Since I was already logged in, I clicked the Claim Account link, and…
While IndyCar qualifying featured some interesting twists and storylines, in the end it was Alex Palou on the pole for tomorrow’s XPEL Grand Prix at Road America. If that sounds familiar, this was Palou’s fifth straight pole, and the sixth out of ten poles. In case you’re wondering, Palou still has a way to go […]
SumatraPDF is a Windows GUI application for viewing PDF, ePub and comic books written in C++. Lately I do a lot of my SumatraPDF coding with AI agents: Claude Code, Grok Build, OpenAI Codex. They’re good at writing code. They’re less good at knowing if the code works, especially for GUI apps. The problem: agents don’t drive UI well Say I ask an agent to fix a bug in PDF text search, or in the new feature that translates selected text via an LLM. How does the agent verify the fix? Surprisingly,…
i think wikipedia is the best learning resource any high school student can have if they know how to use it. wikipedia is not a source, ive never had a teacher tell me that only that i should never use it because 'its not trustworthy' 'anyone can edit it'. im not going to get into that debate of moderation on wikipedia. but what i will say is yes, wikipedia is not a source, but it is a resource. So what is a wikipedia article really? well... its an information report, with references, it uses…
If anything looks wrong, read on the site! I still can’t believe I was able to see Iron Maiden play Infinite Dreams, Powerslave and Rime of the Ancient Mariner live. Child me would only ever dream of seeing them live at all. Teenage me realized that dream, in 2011, after traveling 600km to be barely able to see my idols as small dots on the stage. I’d seen them two more times after that, in 2013 and 2019. Each time was amazing, a dream come true, and each had a handful of songs that I was…
Was ist besser als Tsatsiki? Tsatsiki mit Feta & Gurke! Dazu etwas Brot - Hellas, ist das gut und das findet nicht nur Dimitri Stoupakis, Austauschbandit aus Griechenland. Wir schweifen ab, vom Schuh des Manitu wieder flott zurück ins Greenwaycastle. Wenn Du von diesem Tsatsiki eine Schüssel voll zu einem Grillabend mitbringst, ist sie garantiert geleert, bevor das Fleisch einmal
Agents streaming UI is starting to happen by Peter Van Dijck Christine Vallaure wrote about a new protocol from Google in UXdesign. Basically, if the interface is generated fresh for each request and then thrown away, the unit of design stops being the screen and becomes the system that decides what screen to make — which is context design, not screen design. When I think about on-demand UI generation, I reach back to how working with computers are supposed to work in Star Trek (The Next…
Fragments on Eccentricity The concept of fomo has always alluded me. Part of the reason is a persistent need for eccentricity, for growing against the grain. That is not to say that I am persistently rebellious, but that there is a natural aversion to doing things “the way everyone else does it”. The word eccentricity has for me always evoked a relation to its meaning within astrodynamics1 — the amount by which a given orbit deviates from a “perfect” circle to an ellipse. For a spacecraft…
Great architecture. I love how this old harbour building got a new purpose and is now a museum. It's an interesting area at the waterfront in Rotterdam.
A while ago I migrated burningboard.net to a multi-jail FreeBSD setup: nginx, Puma, Sidekiq, and the database each in their own jail, with the host doing all the PF and routing. That post ended on the architecture. What it did not cover is the question that matters the morning after you put real users on a thing: is it actually healthy right now, and if it is not, will I find out before they do? This is the observability half of that story. I run a completely separate machine whose only job is…
Problem statement: the Keychron K2 (C3, stock firmware) disconnects from macOS after ~10 minutes idle — and there’s no way to prevent it. I spent some time looking for a fix. The usual suggestions: Disable Bluetooth auto-sleep in macOS? macOS doesn’t do that — the keyboard decides to sleep, not the host. Install a keep-alive app? The keyboard’s firmware powers down its own radio. By the time the app could send a ping, there’s nothing on the other end listening. Key combo to disable sleep on the…
I was a nervous wreck, but I got to meet Jimmy Pardo after his hilarious set at the Bell House just now, and got to thank him for his show helping me through hard times. He was incredibly gracious despite my blathering.
Just finished Apple’s Widow’s Bay and liked it a lot. Matthew Rhys is excellent in it (I was already a fan from The Americans) and, with Stephen Root and Kate O’Flynn, he makes a highly effective trio with lots of chemistry on show. There have been plenty of little-town america horror-mistery stories and series, it is a proven formula and in this case, although farcical at times, it works. It’s more mistery than horror, the jumpscares are few and far apart, the misteries instead just keep…
Former Germany international striker Pierre Littbarski played for Japanese side JEF United Chiba between 1993 and 1996, scoring 10 goals. The post Pierre Littbarski at JEF United Chiba (1993–1996) appeared first on Playrface.
I’ve written a couple posts lately on getting an LLM to generate code to solve chess problems. The first used Claude to generate Prolog and the second used ChatGPT to generate Prolog. This post will use Claude to generate Z3/Python code. The puzzle is one I’ve written about before: Place all the pieces—king, queen, two bishops, two knights, and two rooks—on a 6 × 5 chessboard, with the requirement that the two bishops be on opposite colored squares and no piece is attacking another.…
I haven't left the house today. K is taking his brother + fam to the airport. They're going to France, and then on a cruise around the Mediterranean. We're going for dinner when he gets back. I feel like Italian. Pasta, bread. And some wine. Listening to the record, Something Else by Cannonball Adderley. Yesterday, I went to BMV used bookstore to try to find a few books. I couldn't find anything, despite it being two-storey plus a basement. I felt a bit overwhelmed by its grandeur. There were…
While looking up which came first out of the Battle Athletess anime and videogames, I found something surprising: it was neither! It originated as a radio drama! Then, the Saturn game was released before there was an anime. That Saturn game, is, I believe, a kind of girl-raising sim in the vein of Princess Maker or Graduation, and has never been translated into English. I guess they wanted to go a little more mainstream for this Playstation release, though, since it's a much more accessible…
This article was originally (partially) a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Because I’m lovely and great I was given early access to the game ‘Sniper Elite 5’ for free but with no strings attached, so my review will be honest.A thread with a million screenshots and pictures of stuff nobody else but history addicts care about: Just in case you don’t know the franchise, it’s all about an…
Apple may never give us this answer to a long-standing itch; but, fortunately, someone else did.We macOS users have long been familiar with using Apple’s included TextEdit app for, as the name suggests, editing plain-text files. However, we macOS users who also like using Markdown have found TextEdit lacking — it can open and edit such files, of course, but it can’t do Markdown-ish things in them — and wished Apple would make it Markdown-savvy. While there’s no indication Apple ever intends to…
I am dog-sitting for a week, and it’s bringing me so much joy. Meet Remington “Remy” Cornelius. A splash of sunshine greeted my home, and I am so here for this. Photo Collage Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt Remy was extremely thirsty after our evening walk yesterday. I thought he was being a bit dramatic, but that’s a Yorkie for you. Lol. Video Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt I will have this little bundle of excellence until next Saturday. He has been hopping around and keeping me on my toes since…
When I designed my “Which HTML element are you?” quiz, I wrote all of the HTML and JavaScript required to make the quiz work by hand. It took a lot of work, but it was a lot of fun! I used that code as the template for my second quiz, the Blogger Archetype Quiz. With that said, I had to change a lot of values by hand. Working on the second quiz reminded me of my ambition to make a tool that others could use to make similar quizzes.Both the afore-linked quizzes provide several multiple choice…
Power Cat 2026-06-20 to be continued...
I lounge on the deck all day sweet drinks, a savoury snack sleepy dog at my feet just like you said the scent of roses still in the air a squirrel throwing pinecones the sun high in the blue sky but always behind a tree, a cloud the unrelenting heat never reaching where I rest even the wind offering relief the perfect summer day yet something is missing and I keep reaching for connection from a distance
With thirty-some tall ships in the harbor for Sailfest250, one can expect to find more than a few masts, figureheads, boats, portholes and anchors. Spent the morning in light air sailing from ship to ship, it was a treat.
Just a quick post, friends. In the midst of a lot of other things going on I wanted to join today’s climate change awareness event. To explain: some of you may know about the climate or warming stripes visualization. Created by climate scientist Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), this information representation arranges vertical stripes in a horizontal sequence. The X axis is time; each stripe’s color indicates relative temperature compared with the previous one. As Wikipedia puts it, the…
A few months ago, I took my gravel bike apart and put the frame up in the attic. I liked riding it, but I rode it less and less. Earlier in the year I'd been thinking a lot about handlebars, mostly as an aerodynamics thing. My gravel bike was about going fast(er) or at least far(ther) and we all know aero is everything. Seeing some recent hype videos about how higher drops are even faster I tried a bunch of high setups, since that could potentially be a win-win with a fast high hoods position,…
I have retained since childhood an essentially atheistic outlook on life. That is to say, I do not believe in the supernatural, have identified gods as belonging to that category, so do not believe in them. This is fairly uncomplicated; we live in a scientific age after all (at least in theory, and despite large segments of the world population either being scientifically illiterate or explicitly rejecting the findings of science for partisan ideological reasons). I have likewise mostly viewed…
A thought experiment on power, identity, and the future of the East Slavic world June 23, 2026 By David Henson | Citizen Octopus Most discussions about the war in Ukraine assume roughly the same ending. Ukraine survives, joins Western institutions, enters the European Union, deepens its relationship with NATO, and gradually becomes another European nation-state integrated into the Western order. But what if that assumption is wrong? What if Ukraine’s ultimate ambition is not to join the West,…
