More photography here. Almost through nine-hole mini golf: New plants in front of very old mailboxes: In black and white for dramatic effect: Sibs Trek Into Darkness: Proud of this shot: An old mossy wooden table catching the morning light: Not quite mountaineering but just submitting a large climbing boulder at a local nature park: Fall, y’all:

In another episode of I thought I knew enough about C#… Today I wanted to “overwrite” the validations of a property from a parent DTO on its child DTO. Let’s say I had a Movie and Clip and needed shorter names for clips. Just take a look at the attributes on Movie and ShortClip. using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations; namespace TestProject1; [TestClass] public class NewKeywordTests { public abstract class Movie { [Required] [MinLength(52)] // <-- public string? Name { get; set; } } public…

I just played a type-in for BBC Micro from a British magazine; today I’ve got another type-in, this time from Japan. Before getting into details, some meta-business about chronology. In general, once this blog has reached a particular year, I haven’t been strictly chronological past that; with early computer games, dates have such a wide-swerving error bar that it isn’t worth the effort. (I additionally need some freedom of choice for psychological health purposes.) With Japanese games, there’s…

The first recording today is a repeat of What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Diamonds Are a Ghoul’s Best Friend. Media Centre Description: Children’s animated series about a group of teenage sleuths and their cowardly dog. The ghost of a Russian hockey player shows up to ruin a world cup hockey event. Recorded from CBBC Channel on Monday 25th October 2010 07:08 BBC Genome: CBBC Channel Monday 25th October 2010 07:10 After this there’s a bit of CBBC continuity with a song – Get Amongst It. Then the…

I'm 100% for banning social media for children. I would even extend it to banning it all together in its current form. But I am also against the methods for enforcement. The problem with banning social media for one group and not another is that you have to differentiate the different groups somehow. And right now, in an age where information and personal data means everything, there are several entities that are salivating to get this data. I've written before about all the problems that come…

Few issues have taken up more public space in the last half century or so than relations between men and women. These aren't the kinds of issues I usually discuss here, even though they have taken up plenty of space in my own life, too. However, quite by accident, I just came across a long twitter thread on this subject that I found both hilarious and very revealing. Let me say that I know where many of my favorite female thinkers, such as Nancy Friday and Camille Paglia, would stand on this…

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Maurice Evans collected fireworks since childhood and at over eighty years old, he had accumulated the most comprehensive collection in the country – so you can imagine both my excitement and my trepidation upon stepping through the threshold of his house in Shoreham. My concern about potential explosion was relieved when Maurice confirmed that he had removed the gunpowder from his fireworks, only to be re-ignited when his wife Kit helpfully…

Following the loss of 10 years worth of studio data, Vanity Project somehow pulled himself together, move forward and produce something new. The track, in tribute titled “File Management Blues”, comes in 5 versions, on a 12, in artwork that – like New Order’s “Blue Monday” but without the die-cut expense – resembles a floppy disc. The original mix is snare snapping, snare smashing house, with some great old school bass and drum programming, a moody synth melody and a little lysergic lick. “Part…

Well. For me, at least. Today was overcast and rainy all day, as predicted. Which meant I was feeling sleepy all day. This is on top of already getting tired quickly and sleeping a lot more than usual since the surgery. A double whammy of sleepy. I didn’t even make it outside to do any … Continue reading A nothing, day…

In 2021, I wrote a short post called Notes Nirvana doesn’t exist. I’d been getting plenty of things done but creating almost nothing, and I’d lost sight of why any of it mattered. My closing line was “It’s a journey…” Five years later, the journey continues. Mostly in circles. “The purpose of a system is what it does.” — Stafford Beer The purpose of my system? Busywork disguised as the perpetual pursuit of “better”. I chased the perfect note setup, the ultimate “second brain”. I scoured the…

As a bonus today, its with huge thanks to Håvar Bruvold Hojem that we have been sent a set of previously unpreserved and lost 1983 games to add to our Commodore 64 archives. There are three titles in total to check out: Stargate 64 – 1983 Tec Software Amphibian – 1983 Syrinx Software X-Bert – 1983 Computer Education Center Enjoy and we hope to have more for you soon! Download Three1983C64games Gallery

Abstract: In this work-in-progress talk, I will attempt to clarify some of the issues surrounding second- and higher-order logics. How should we understand the relationship between the proof-theoretic inferentialist presentations of such logics and their model-theoretic truth conditional semantics? I will argue that in an important sense, the so-called full semantics for second- and higher-order logics is too strong, and that a wider class of models is not only necessary, but is mathematically…

Sophia French on microblogging being the next big art movement: As mega media players and their algorithms burrow themselves further into our lives, a return to the tactics of the early days of microblogging signals more than just nostalgic yearning. It could be the way forward for how artists share their work, process, and life online – on their own terms.

Back in September I mentioned Living (Almost) Car-Free, and since the first week of October is Week Without Driving I figured I would give that a go… and it was easy for me since I bike to work whenever I can. (And I have a partner who usually drives when we go places.) Of the 20 days I went to work in October I only drove one. I had a dentist appointment in the morning and then had to transport a bike wheel to the bike shop, which was much easier to do with a car. Still, 19 out of 20 work days…

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I don’t often receive boxes of bullets in the mail. Or even boxes of bullet casings. Because COINTELPRO: The Assassination of Fred Hampton doesn’t actually include bullets, only the spent brass that would normally hold the projectiles. When the game arrived, I hefted the entire handful. Ten casings, nine millimeter, five different manufacturers. Primers burnt. Cordite faint but noticeable. Fred Hampton was shot four times. Twice in the initial barrage from outside the apartment where he slept,…

Introduction This article explains how to start an OpenSSH server from the FreeBSD installer. It is usually quite easy to do on Linux, but on FreeBSD it requires a few commands that I want to document here. My use case is a web KVM or virtual machine VNC or SPICE interface that restrict copy/paste operations during rescue or install operations. Procedure First, boot the installation media normally then select “Shell” on the first menu screen. Then set up the network however is appropriate in…

Continuing on with the theme for the past few days, we can check in on what "Nonnegotiable" is up to in Michigan. For those who don't remember, Nonnegotiable is a group of Michigan Jewish Democrats who responded to Abdul El-Sayed's primary victory by sending him a list of five ultimatums nonnegotiable demands that are absolutely not ultimatums but only brook no argument or discussion and must be agreed to unconditionally before a conversation can even begin. This, unsurprisingly, did not…

I have been running Mailman 2.1 since at least 2006. It is long past end of life, it still needs Python 2.7, and the lists it carries have all gone quiet. Some moved elsewhere (BSDCan went in April 2024), the rest just stopped. Time to turn it off. The one thing I did not want to lose was the archives. Lots of old links point at them, from mailing list posts, from blog posts, and from search engines. The first step of decommissioning was therefore to replace Mailman with plain static archives,…

was inspired to make ninjin shirishiri with spam after watching the latest episode of “Midnight Diner”This version uses spam, egg and ground sesame seeds used my mom’s grater nowadays, I usually make this dish using chili crisp and no egg, using spam was a nice change

A reckoning with the legacy of slavery with supernatural overtones, Joy Nesbit's Blood of my Blood is the penultimate Upstairs show of the Royal Court's 70th Anniversary season, Natalie Pryce's design turning the attic space into a South Carolina plantation. These historical sites have come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years for being turned into, to all intents and purposes, Antebellum cosplay theme parks, but this one's conversion to an Airbnb and wedding venue is... marginally less…

Susan Saint James, who starred on McMillan & Wife and Kate & Allie, died on October 26, 2026, at the age of 80. The cause was pancreatic cancer.Susan Saint James was born Susan Jane Miller on August 14, 1946 in Los Angeles. In 1958, the family moved to Rockford, Illinois. She went to the Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, Illinois. She began modelling while still in high school. Afterwards she attended Connecticut College. She adopted the surname "St. James" when she was 20…

As hinted at in the previous post, I notched up another “unique” pub for my collection, last Friday. The pub in question was the Man of Kent, at Little Mill, East Peckham, which reopened a couple of months ago, following a period of closure, that began at the start of this year. The Man of Kent was a pub that I’d been meaning to revisit for some time and would have done so earlier if other things hadn’t got in the way. Dating back to the late 16th century, the Man of Kent occupies a picturesque…

Yesterday, I was at a waffle birthday party for grown-ups (55+). It was awesome. Attracted by the waffles that the host was cooking, I ended up following a long stretch of discussion between the host and a long time friend of the hosts. The good thing about being a foreigner, and a foreigner who is rather recent in the land, is that I can just listen. Foreigners – whatever the new land: a new team, a new land, in-laws... – are always expected to be quiet and observe. It's like being a new kid…

I read Ben Thompson’s “The End of the Internet”, and I agree with his preference for smaller communities. Where he loses me is the suggestion that the public internet is finished and our future lies in smaller, private spaces. :chatgpt-content-reference{index="0"} Don't get me wrong, I understand the appeal. A conversation with a handful of people can be more rewarding than arguing with 500 strangers, half of whom apparently woke up looking for a fight. I don't need a massive audience to enjoy…

I have an obsession with finding good long-form reads. Not the front page. The blog someone has kept going since 2009, where one post took them a whole weekend. Those blogs don’t trend. They just keep showing up, one link at a time, deep in Hacker News comment threads. When Karpathy built HackerTube last weekend, a YouTube made only of videos HN recommends, someone quickly followed with HackerBooks for books. I wanted the same thing for blogs. So I built Hacker Blogs. It lists the personal…

It's been twenty-four years of blood, sweat and tears. Happy birthday, dear website! New server and cheers! The Cave of Dragonflies is twenty-four years old today, and following the forums the other day, the main site has now been moved over to a shiny new server, which should be better, more secure and hopefully nicer for me to work with. As usual with any such technical upgrade, it's possible something broke somewhere in the process, so please let me know if you bump into anything odd. I…

I have a Casio G-Shock GW-M5610, which has automatic time calibration. I’ve been passively curious how that calibration works, but I never looked into it until yesterday when I noticed the watch didn’t update to reflect the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST). TLDR: I put the watch in an east-facing window overnight, and it updated properly. The calibration tech is called Multiband 6. In the United States, the calibration signal is broadcast from NIST radio station WWVB in Fort Collins, Colorado,…

The EMNLP 2026 Conference in Budapest has been such a blast! This is one of the top NLP conferences in the field and I feel honored to have presented my work there. It’s also a conference of firsts as I presented my first PhD paper and my first time co-organizing a workshop! The location is also top-notch: Budapest is charming, and I enjoyed my time there. My conference activities Presenting my research on multilingual synthetic data generation I presented my first PhD paper, Polyglot Teachers:…