🪰 Persistent fly at home. Bugging us for the past few days with its noise and not willing to leave or get killed 🤬

The Opus 88 Harmony is a mid-sized fountain pen with a JoWo No. 6 nib that comes in a wide array of colors. This week we finally get to introduce two new brands to our newly redesigned store! We are happy to welcome Opus 88, famous for their Japanese-style eyedropper fountain pens, as well as Retro 51, known for their Tornado-series rollerballs and ballpoints that are available in a wide variety of themes and finishes. Stay tuned as we completely revamp the shopping experience here at T.G.S.,…

Happy First Day of Fall! 🍂 The first song I listened to today that always reminds me of a cozy fall day: Jacob Collier's "Little Blue." A cozy poem read and shared by my friend Joe Chambers: "The Patience of Ordinary Things" by Pat Schneider. I'm going to buy a bag of candy corn later today and share with my son. My wife reminded me today that for the past seven years I've always gotten candy corn during fall time, and every time I kind of regretted the decision saying the candy wasn't really…

https://github.com/open-noodle/gallery A friendly fork of Immich, here's their comparison doc https://opennoodle.de/noodle-gallery-vs-immich/

https://immich.app/ https://github.com/immich-app/immich Quality open-source photo gallery

📷 238/365 - Special architecture

This will be a quick one - but as I think more about TypeScript and how I'd like to learn (and play, and build silly demos), I naturally thought it may make sense to look at how I'd use Alpine.js with that stack. Alpine's been my go to library for web apps that reach the level of complexity where I'd like some help with DOM manipulation and such. I don't always use it, because (imho) the default stack should be as vanilla as possible (obviously I'm going a bit off ranch with these explorations…

Another month, another agent-shell update. If you missed the last post, have a look at the 0.73 update. As usual, this post showcases highlights, but please check out the full list of changes if you're after the nitty-gritty. What's agent-shell? agent-shell is a native Emacs mode to interact with AI agents powered by ACP (Agent Client Protocol). New supported agents Two agents join the family, available as usual via M-x agent-shell, or explicitly as follows: Antigravity (Google), #795 by…

The phrase “if it hurts, do it more often” has bee applied variously to software teams and processes in the last fifteen years, and is a means to improve team processes and efficiency, but must be wielded carefully! This post covers my application of, and experience with this idea during my time leading Ubuntu Engineering and Charm Engineering at Canonical.

Kicking teh tires of jev for a very basic query understanding task

A researcher switched off a BYD Shark 6’s headlights while a journalist drove it at night. The same investigation demonstrated remote location tracking and access to the cabin microphone. Those are substantial capabilities to lose control of in something you use to get your family home.The demonstration, covered by Security Affairs, came from ABC’s Four Corners investigation. Researcher Dan Hreszczuk had the vehicle for two weeks before the test. He said the access he used lacked a password,…

Audible and Higher Ground LLC are sponsoring the podcast series A Great Book With Barack Obama. Our former President will discuss books which have been important to him, and by extension he believes to us all. The line up for the six podcasts is: Episode 1: Tom Hanks (Uncommon Type) on Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Episode 2: Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) on The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Episode 3: Jill Lepore (These Truths: A History of the United States) on All the King’s…

The Boys in the Boat (2023) is about as feel good as they get these

On September 17th, I gave a talk at Stanford Law School based on my article, Technology and Constitutional Rot. My thanks to Michael McConnell, Jud Campbell, and Duncan Hosie at Stanford's Constitutional Law Center for the opportunity. Here is the video:

Red pandas may look like a charming mixture of fox, raccoon and teddy bear, but they are none of the above. The red panda, Ailurus fulgens, is the only living representative of the family Ailuridae—an ancient branch of the carnivore family tree with a fossil history stretching back millions of years.Fossil ailurids first appeared during the Miocene Epoch. Their remains have been found

The best thing that happened this week Better late than never, I finally got around to writing the notes for last week. On Friday night I had a look at the App Store Connect dashboard and noticed CalAction suddenly had a lot of downloads. Turns out some German company pushed the app to their employees which I think is absolutely bonkers. I have no idea how they found the app, who the company even is, or why they decided to push it to all their employees, but it's a really nice surprise either…

IF YOU THINK I DIDN’T BOOKMARK THIS FOR LATER REFERENCE, I’VE GOT A BRIDGE TO SELL YOU: The Top 24 Gen Alpha Slang Terms of 2026. What can I say — I’m old. Kids these days, get off my lawn, and all that.

I had the opportunity of trying Devin and its suite for the first time. By suite I mean its desktop app, CLI tool, SWE-2 model and the Fusion mode.In this post, I'll share my thoughts and observations after using it for approximately 1 week. I noted them down as I went along and I kept them raw for genuine feedback.Desktop app and the CLII'm not sure about the history behind it, but I think the old WindSurf got merged with Devin.As a result, I see my old WindSurf chats in Devin under the…

Academia, Travel I have spent the last two years living and studying in Siena. While this was a valuable experience with many personal highlights, I cannot in good faith recommend the experience to others. Before I start, let me say that I by no-means think the university of Siena (nor the city itself) is terrible. In fact, for many people, in many places, Siena might be a massive improvement over what is otherwise available. My perspective is one where Siena is compared against the other…

GDoC is a yearly virtual conference I love to watch and I highly recommend buying a ticket to watch the talks happening and support the conference. I’ll let the website describe GDoC since it does a better job than I could “Game Devs of Color (GDoC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to amplifying and empowering developers of color in the gaming industry. Since our founding, we’ve focused on elevating talented creators and their innovative work, providing platforms and opportunities that…

This week in US Pop History class, we are talking about early jazz, and that means talking about Louis Armstrong. If you are not deep into 1920s music, your relationship with him almost certainly begins and ends with this: Bob Thiele and George David Weiss wrote the tune specifically with Armstrong in mind. He recorded it in 1967, four years before his death, and many decades after his period of peak cultural relevance. It wasn’t a big hit in the US, though it did top the UK singles chart. The…

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Snippets reflect the transitory experiences we have when passing through scenes, places, and times with people that are fragmentary and atomistic pieces of a great whole. Snippets of Warsaw was created over several days in July 2026, during a European heatwave. It was my first time vacationing alone in more than 20 years, and I was moving through a city whose language I could neither speak nor understand. That separation shaped how I photographed: I often held back, placing people within the…

Ash Adams The Art of Leaping Out of Planes to Fight Wildfires Heidi: How did this assignment first come about, and what did you know about smokejumping before you began? Ash: New Yorker photo editor Gabrielle Farina reached out, and I’m so glad she did. I was familiar with smokejumping in advance (from in and outside of Alaska), and I was delighted to work on this. Was there a particular image or idea you wanted to pursue from the outset? I was most interested in documenting days-in-the-life on…

Today’s TDC says: Make a waving Gif Flag for DS106 or something else. This started as a response to #tdc5337 . Use one of the DS106 graphics or upload your own and edit the text. I made this

In the world of fountain pen inks, is there any better collaboration than Kobe and Vanness Pen Shop? These two recently worked together to produce Vanness Hummingbird, a wonderful Emerald Green ink, exclusively for Vanness. I have one bottle to give away this week, so read the rules below and enter away! Kobe Ink Vanness Hummingbird Green Ink Giveaway

In It May Be Possible to Improvise A High Grade Bioshelter, Adin Richards discusses the possibility of improvising defenses against an environmental threat such as mirror bacteria. He gives an exploratory overview of why it might be possible to apply materials and equipment people often already have in their houses to pressurize all or part of a house with filtered air. It would be great if this were possible, but with all the ways for an improvised system to fail I'm pretty skeptical. I…

Two months of smart-plug data from my home mini PC: 22 kWh and CA$3.08 in August, priced against DigitalOcean, Hetzner and Oracle's free tier in 2026.

I think this is what our grandparents call "a senior moment." The best part?THEY WROTE IT IN ALL CAPS. [sad face here] "Sprinkles All Over Momther" is the name of my Cake cover band. Ahhh, NOW you're speaking my language.(The language... OF WRECKS. [eyebrow waggle]) In a word?NO. Thanks to Lani T., Donna C., Patrick L., Anony M., & Rebecca P. for keeping those lines of communication nice and squiggly-like.