You were great to me this year. Can't wait to see you again next time. In response to my mood shift with the Halloween season passing, I decided to give this place a little renovation. Thanksgiving and fall are in full effect, and I think that I've created a cozy little nook to house my thoughts for the season. Aside from that, I've changed the now page into a snapshot page. Always loved the idea of a moblog from back in the early days of the internet, but was too young to be able to afford the…

The Crab Nebula

One of the ways I help get myself into the spooky season mood is with horror movies. I'm still working my way through the list of classic 80s (ish) horror movies that were suggested to me some years back. Slumber Party Massacre 3/5The whole movie I was just thinking about how dumb that big drill was as a weapon. Other than that, it was pretty much exactly what the title suggested it was going to be. Plenty of nudity, plenty of death, and a serial killer suitably demented. Nightbreed 4/5Clive…

At some point during a bakery phone order, you really have to ask yourself:"Why's it taking this guy so long to write my name down, anyway?" And for future reference, I actually prefer it "with just won 'N' in Orange." Still, the important thing is that I know I'm your one and only. Or...that. Also, you should know that of all the variations my name is subjected to, the worst of them all, without a doubt, is "Iffer." I said, "one F!!" Jenn M., Lisa W., & Krista K.? You have been…

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else. C.S. Lewis, "Is Theology Poetry?" (Oxford Socratic Club, 1944; in The Weight of Glory) The lens by which we see everything. All of Christ in all of life. Our faith is not just a part of our life, but the whole. For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light. Psalm 36:9 ESV

2026-11-03Hello!In what has become the unfortunate tradition for me as of late, I am running to catch a train.This time, it's to go vote. It's Election Day in the US, and all my other tasks have been pushed to get to the polls.Not much else to say today. I photographed this model at a photo session the day before Halloween.Finally, measuring the tallest tree in the Czech Republic. The YouTube video is in Czech, so please go in with an open mind and make the effort to understand what the…

🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 I've recently been using Amp a bit more, given you can now use your Claude subscription with it. In a similar vein to Adding Pushover notifications to Claude Code, I've been wanting to get notified when a given session is waiting for input. Although I wrote a very small CLI, claude-hook which I'd wondered about extending for Amp's usage, I found that Amp's Typescript-based plugins are much more powerful, and avoid me needing to create a wrapper…

This is wild! And so cool! Youtuber colsto uses the doppler curves of flights in the background of videos to determine the accurate geolocation in videos. Just… wild! Source: YouTube

Last halloween, Google decided to kill XSLT. That was not a unilateral decision mind you, Google said “jump” and other browser vendors said “how high?”In response, I published my Intent to Deprecate and Remove Google Chrome. A performative declaration of course, I don’t install spyware.Fearing my parody lacked seriousness, I created XSLT.RIP to ensure the developer world was informed of Google’s death note. This did the trick, although a few commenters believed it was satire. There is subtly to…

Image of Word-Smith’s Organizer and History Chart Shorter update for today. I knew that I was going to have a couple of days right at the beginning of the event when I wouldn’t be able to make as much progress. But, I wanted to be certain that I didn’t fall behind. So, I’ve managed to stay ahead of the curve by ~820 words. That might seem like a lot. But tomorrow I’m going to have even less time to write than I did today, so the more I can stay ahead the better. Now for the remainder of tonight…

How do futurists turn research into a clear map of the future? In this video, I put on my HAT. The Houston Archetype Technique is a method that plots archetypes across the Three Horizons framework. It’s a practical tool you can bring to your own work, whether you’re doing strategic planning or exploring a topic […] The post The Houston Archetype Technique (HAT) Explained first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

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October 2026 Hosepipe ban, and where the water goes We’re very lucky here in Essex, Thames Water is only tasked with removing our sewage, water supply comes from Essex and Suffolk Water. So when we developed a leak in the pavement outside, a man arrived in under a day. He thought a lorry had caused the fracture whilst performing a three-point-turn. The man put in an official log for repair and marked the area with blue paint. That was the month before last; now it’s much worse, and we’ve been…

I have a problem. Well. I have many problems. But I’m specifically referring to this one: I have too many TTRPG PDFs. Not “too many” in the “I wish I owned fewer” sense. I came by these honestly. Through backing so many Kickstarters that they sent me both the T-shirt and the coffee mug. What I mean is “too many” in the “how am I ever going to find the one I’m looking for” sense. To make the problem worse, they’re spread across a few different distribution platforms. Because crowdfunding. My…

If you have read my blog a lot you will be aware that I am totally schizophrenic about whether or not Ridiculous Space Battles is a big professional game project, or a hobby to keep me busy as I ease into semi-retirement. I still have no answer for this. When I speak to other devs, it certainly seems like I spend at least as much time developing it as a full-time dev, but then I am also trying not to take it too seriously, and definitely trying to avoid any stress related to it… Anyway, I…

The White Rose Cluster

The day start out fairly chilly early this morning but that is reasonable and seasonable for early November. We did a bit of if shopping. We came home and put the food away and decided to walk over to our local polling place to vote. There was no line really which is sad but convenient before us. Everyone should vote. To make things interesting I almost signed in the wrong box in the book. damned visual impairment. Once that was done we came home and put shorts on to get out to find a few…

William, yesterday evening, bringing up plans for this evening (the night of the U.S. primary elections, which could change the course of history in numerous ways): “Mom, I’m assuming your plan is ‘Sleeping Pill at 6:00pm’? That’s probably my plan.” That had NOT been my plan, but now I’m thinking maybe it’s my plan. Let’s find a distraction, other than emailing my high school boyfriend, which I also did. I would like to talk about How Our Parents Stock Their Showers. I could work on that title,…

Previously, I mentioned that support for incoming RFC 9421 signatures was added to Irwin for inbox deliveries. A week ago, I finished implementing outgoing signatures for both inbox deliveries and “authorized fetch” GET requests. So, how does it know whether to send a legacy signature or a new RFC 9421 signature? In general, the double-knocking technique: First, try generating or verifying an HTTP Signature with one version, ideally (but not necessarily) the latest. If the remote server rejects…

A "depressing elimination and mediocrity on the dance floor" during DWTS 35's Disney on Broadway but Only Kinda week led Marshal Knight to analyze what's actually getting attention this season.

Cloudy in the east at sunrise, as the moon’s sideways smile fades overhead. The plaintive piping of white-throated sparrows is interrupted by a song sparrow’s cheery warble.

Molly White / [citation needed]: A notorious North Korean cybercrime group has stolen around $6.4 billion in cryptoassets from multiple hot walletsa belonging to Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and still controls around $3 billion of it after stablecoin issuers and other protocols froze what they could. Molly continues to be the best writer regarding the cryptocurrency markets.

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I started developing Aeon back in 2018 as a playground for program synthesis. Holes (?x) are valid expression in aeon (def f (i:Int) : Int := i * 2 + ?x compiles successfully and, when ?x is evaluated at runtime, it opens a repl asking the user for the right expression). However, the main advantage of holes is when you run the aeon compiler with "--synthesizer", it tries to find a suitable expression for the holes in your program. This blog post covers the different methods you have to describe…

✅ Voted Selfie a day for a year, day 61: Nov 3rd, 2026 edition.

I decided not to do #NaNoWriMo this year. Part of that is because I’ve never done it. Never even attempted it. Don’t even want to. Writing a novel is a life goal of mine, but cramming it all into one month isn’t for me. November is impossibly busy. But I do think it would be cool to have a big excuse for avoiding all those obligations. “Dave, come to this holiday party!” “Sorry, I’m writing a novel.” “Dave, come work at the school’s fall carnival!” “Sorry, I’m writing a novel.” “Dave, pay…

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Between seeing Taipei's solid Rocky Horror Picture Show performance, visiting my favorite bar, and joining new folks to hit up fun DJ sets, it was a helluvah Halloween. Time to ride this autumn out!

The Owl Cluster

It’s so easy to encounter people battling depression. It’s so easy to hear someone say “I wanted to kill myself” or “I felt my life wasn’t worth living.” It’s so difficult to hear someone say “I’m getting happier every day” or “I’m excited about my future.” Why is that? Some say we are born to suffer indefinitely. Some say, living in this materialistic society as laborers and consumers, we can’t break free from the race to prove our worth by accumulating more wealth. I look around. Even monks…