In the previous article , we made Go code faster by changing how it computes. SIMD lets one CPU instruction work on several values at once, and the simd/archsimd and simd packages give Go access to it. Our dot product ran about 9 times faster, but the code got a lot harder to read. At the end, I promised another route to speed, one where you don’t rewrite anything. That route is Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO). You record a CPU profile of where your program spends its time and give it back to…

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No, these are not J70s! This trio of small 0-4-0 trams are relatively straight forward conversions of the Rapido Y7 with 3D printed bodies and added detail, finished in three periods. They are, also, the start of a small collection of equipment I’m working on for a customer and it’s lovely to see them here today…The prints have been modified to lift this finish. The integral crude cowcatcher have been removed and replaced with an Rapido spare. Extra detail like handrails, lamp irons and…

Hari ini saya memasang halaman micro ini untuk tempat menulis notes pendek yang mungkin bakal sering ditulis dibandingkan halaman ‘posts’. Berikutnya mungkin akan di bagikan juga di utas media sosial saya entah itu bluesky atau threads.

What’s your favorite new track released this week? All hail the mighty Shazam! I listen BBC Radio 6Music (via my own little app) while I work. It’s a great station, with a mix of music past and present. Safe to say that virtually all of my new music finds come through this station. Shout out to Pitchfork and the Crucial Tracks Blog as well! With so much new music it can almost feel like a chore to keep on top of it, and I’ll admit I’ve sort of given up trying to. Happenstance is a much more…

Viva Let there be beer.

I started playing Message From Aliens this week, and I've been absolutely blown away. I love translation games and have played a lot of them, and the translation gameplay in this one is REALLY good. It doesn't have the thematic and artistic context that Heaven's Vault has, and it doesn't have the weird puzzlebox quality that Epigraph has... but it has a fuck ton of words to translate, an extremely compelling framing, and some GREAT aliens. The game looks like this: I don't want to say too much…

In modular software design, one key aim is to encapsulate processing so as to minimise the need for modules to talk to each other. This helps to localise the “blast radius” of impact when we make changes. The mantra “put the work where the data is” – or if you’re more outcome-oriented like me, “put the data where the work is” – is a useful design heuristic that helps us to package concerns more cohesively and hide details of how work gets done behind much simpler interfaces. A common modular…

One of the themes in 20thC Irish theatre is the tragic finality of emigration - however everyone feels about Gar going off to Philadelphia, going he is; and it's unlikely he will ever return to Ballybeg. we had a frisson of a memory of this loss when The Boy set off for New Zealand aged 29¾. What if he fell for a Kiwi girl, and never came back? It would be an awfu' schlep to visit grandkids in Auckland. It has turned out [don't ask me how] that, as a family, we're more proactive than "Home is…

Getting up to speed on a new project. It’s healthcare-related, working directly on a service. Hard work. And hard balance: listen lots, type quickly, prepare to be wrong, go again. Egoless. Work in-service-of. The background reading lurches wildly. Dry, alienating legislation rubbing shoulders with deeply personal and emotive testimonies. And the occasional moment where the two overlap: “Most of these people have since died”. That sentence sat over my shoulder for most of Thursday. It was…

AI but I was unaware of most of what it said.

Vänsterpartiet kommer rösta nej till Magdalena Andersson som statsminister om de inte får ingå i regeringen. ―Jag är väldigt förvånad att Magdalena Andersson låter sig bli utpressad, säger Ida Gabrielsson. Bristen på självinsikt från en av utpressarna är hisnande. Ni har inte mandaten. Folk röstade inte på er. Det står 176–175 om ni och Thand Ringqvist skärper er. Det är den snävast möjliga marginalen. Om V och C vill slippa varandra får dom bli bättre så det går att konstellera annorlunda. Nu…

I don’t think I’ve ever taken you, dear reader, so close in one of my projects. Counting from “Installing old Linux (2)”, which itself was a follow-up to an older post, this is the eleventh post in a series about installing old Linux versions on an old machine. And I just got the first one working. Not unsuspected, the project gives me little puzzles to solve and I’m having a lot of fun figuring them out with the limited help I can get from the books and the provided internal help. The…

My guestbook has been closed for the time being, because my Discord webhook that powered the guestbook widget on my website was compromised and deleted by an attacker. The messages my previous guestbook had received are archived on my Guestbook Archive page. I am looking into alternative guestbook widgets or services to replace the one I used previously.

Bears This is a game we should win which always makes me more nervous than the tight competitive ones. I'm very used to the Bears not taking care of business. Caleb looked amazing through the first, I think even if he retired tomorrow he's the best quarterback in Bears history. And yes, he's thrown two three four picks tonight but he's also been amazing. It's also incredible how one new player on defense can turn me from dreading defense to being excited. Jeffrey Simmons has been a revelation.…

Well, Haruka 3 certainly wastes no time. After being whisked away to another world renameable schoolgirl heroine Nozomi sees someone being attacked by an undead warrior and decides the only sensible thing to do is to pull the nearest sword out of the ground and run straight at them, the game then neatly tumbling into a basic battle tutorial that’s made all the more exciting for the lack of preparation and sense of safety. Unlike her gentler predecessors, she never lets go of that sword. While…

If you love classic French Pastries, this small-batch Bostock recipe is a must-try. Made with buttery brioche, fragrant apricot jam, and a rich almond frangipane topping, these bakery-style slices are crisp on the outside and soft in the center. Perfect for a special breakfast, brunch, or afternoon coffee break.This recipe is one of those hidden gems that deserves a place in every baker's repertoire. A small batch recipe this is an indulgent French treat made with day old brioche that is simple…

Last year someone drew a banana on a map of London and it went viral. The banana starts in Barnet and aims for central London keeping east of the Edgware Road. It includes pretty much all of Camden, Islington and Westminster, but only the affluent western slice of Haringey. It then swings southwest through Kensington & Chelsea and Fulham before crossing the Thames into (most of) Lambeth, Wandsworth, Merton, Richmond and Kingston. The eastern half of London doesn't get a look in. Initially it…

In our society, there are two deaths. In the past, in less enlightened times, we considered only the physical process of dying. The end of a life, where we ritually gathered — as we still do — to take stock of someone’s existence. But those ceremonies lack their central participant, who is already gone. Like a eulogy, which is always delivered too late to be of meaning to the person it’s for, we were too limited and too literal in our thinking. As we move through life, our path touches upon…

For the longest time, I was hesitant to pick this book up despite its acclaim. The title felt disingenuous and gave me visions of villian…

THE HUCKSTERS (1947), an MGM advertising drama with a terrific cast, was just released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection.I first reviewed THE HUCKSTERS nearly 20 years ago, in 2007, after watching it on VHS. The movie was later released by the Warner Archive on a DVD-R in 2011. We've certainly come a long way from the VHS recording I watched years ago to the Warner Archive Collection's sparkling Blu-ray! We're really living in the best of times in terms of high-quality prints…

A continued programming exercise using TDD with PBT. This article is one of a series on finding properties for a budgeting kata. I expect you to have read the previous articles in the series. The first property specified that a bill doesn't exceed the total budget, and that's all there is to say about the total budget. All the complication lies in how category budgets are handled. In this article, we get started on that work, which will continue for another seven properties. The code is…

I don’t know if you know this, but I am a middle-aged woman. Like, seriously. I’m as middle-aged as it gets. How middle-aged, you might ask? I go “AHHH” after a sip of water like I’m in a Mountain Dew … Continue reading →

The issue Institutions prize an independent voice for the credibility their own lacks, then cannot resist shaping it until it speaks for them. Why it persists Where every speaker is presumed to argue from interest, honest counsel is discounted as self-serving, and the only voices believed are the ones that cannot be traced to anyone. What follows A voice is credible not because its author is neutral, but because its author answers for it; the question for any board is who will bear the cost if…

Noi Cafe Down by Siem Reap River is this cafe. It’s a favorite spot to sit and practice doing nothing. For me, it’s a tuktuk ride. Today I found a discount coupon so got 50% off on the ride. It never matters. I’ll sit here until beer calls. That’s just down the street.

The topic for Day 9 of The Daily Dish is Favorite Noir. I’ll give you three chances to guess what mine is, and the first two don’t count! Without question or hesitation, Double Indemnity (1944) will forever be my favorite noir – the one I’ve watched the most, the one I can quote the best, the one I’d recommend to any noir novice. It’s just perfect, for my money. It’s got an opening that grabs you with a vise-like grip, standout performances from stars Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, and…

The Planned Parenthood Book Sale is held in September every year, and we have attended the sale for many years. The sale lasts ten days, and we go five times. This year, as usual, I bought far too many books. I noticed that the prices were generally higher this year, especially for more current books. That makes sense, but I was surprised. It did not impact how many books I bought; I consider the money I spend at the sale a donation to Planned Parenthood. In this post, I am featuring six of the…

A (not so serious) review of five fonts I had to install to write this review, and then uninstall again. The things I do for the fine people who read this blog. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-11-09.

As you know, I am in a race with the Grim Reaper, trying to read at least one story from each issue of Weird Tales before I shuffle off this mortal coil. My diet today consisted of peanut butter cups and corn chips, so probably today the Reaper is gaining on me, but I promise to eat yogurt and broccoli tomorrow.Most of the time, when I look at the table of contents of an issue of Farnsworth Wright's essential contribution to the history of speculative fiction, I see familiar names and can read…

caught a spectacular sunset at Ocean Beach in San Francisco What a week!!! Halloween 👻, time change 🕘💥, the election 🌊, two appointments 🗓️, two films in theater 🎥, and a trip to California to see my fam ✈️ Win of the week: blue tsunami!!!!!* So much better than I let myself hope for. Time for accountability: impeachment, corruption investigations, disbarments, I want it all. We let the elected official insurrectionists off the hook last time, afraid of appearing politically biased, and look…