Coffee and Halves onlyMy morning in Westminster finishes bang on ten. Now for a pub crawl. Yes, in London, it's possible to start this early - and without visiting Timbo. Although your wallet will have wished that you had.Joolz is my guide - and I have to say, the pubs seem secondary to a fine Mayfair walk, which brings to my attention various locations that my recent walk failed to highlight. Scanning the QR code in the guidebooks redirects you to an entertaining video, which hardly mentions…

This book digs deep into a wife’s relationship, life and emotions. It starts with domestic violence, guides you to what lead to this situation and what follows. The story unwinds slowly and carefully while still maintaining your attention. It doesn’t directly tell you the conclusions, but unravels everything piece by piece until you see, understand and feel the conflict. Really enjoyed reading this!

Apple: Visual productivity apps receive a new generation of intelligence features for subscribers, including an intelligent assistant, built on Apple models and OpenAI, directly within Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The assistant understands document context to help users accomplish more without leaving their work. In Keynote, the intelligent assistant helps with designing, animating, and refining slides. In Pages, it drafts, restructures, and fine-tunes written content. In Numbers, it…

Fingers crossed macOS 27.2 fixes Mission Control and Spaces.

One night.One hotel.Zombies.A good part of my summer was spent wrangling this into something coherent with its strange overlapping timelines..you can read a free e-version of this brand new play @ https://heyzine.com/flip-book/58ed6ddd68.html

The rugged landscape of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park as seen from Many Parks Curve. The post A Rugged View appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

"We worked with outstanding naturals, chosen for their purity and depth." So says Olivier Cresp, master perfumer, of Armaf's 2025 Club de Nuit Maleka, gesturing to what looks like crushed olibanum, pink pepper, and orris root on a table while violins play in the background. This perfume is "refined in every detail" and clearly aims for aristocratic women, despite being poured into a cheesy

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Devon Halliday’s novel To Stay, To Stay, To Stay is filled with masterful storytelling and memorable characters and is one of the year’s strongest debuts. David Haynes wrote of the book: “In…

Just a quick post to round off October, a month that has seen its usual share of contrasting moments, and I’m not talking here about the weather. In case anyone has been wondering what I’ve been up to, it’s mainly boring stuff, although some of it is quite important, especially sorting out my various pension pots, ahead of my forthcoming retirement.The latter is looking like the beginning of March, next year, although that’s provisional at the moment. One thing what has definitely come to light…

This list features all of the drum transcriptions currently available on my website. If you prefer your lists in audio form, I’ve made playlists on Apple Music and Spotify featuring all of the songs.For occasional updates on new transcriptions, sign up for my free newsletter. Arctic Monkeys505ArabellaI Bet You Look Good On The DancefloorR U Mine?Snap Out Of ItBastilleWHAT YOU GONNA DO???BeckDreams (Colors Mix)The Black KeysGold On The CeilingLonely BoyBloc PartyHelicopterBruno MarsLocked Out Of…

Page 1 preview Page 1 preview Download Transcription (£) Transcription notes…The fast offbeat groove in the first chorus (bars 29 to 36) is probably the trickiest part to play.Pay attention to the D.S. al Coda at bar 51. It returns to the sign at bar 21, then jumps from “To Coda” at bar 44 to the Coda at bar 52.The drummer uses multiple crashes. For ease of reading, I’ve notated only one crash. If you have more, use your own judgement on where to use them.The middle 8 features a tom groove…

I been noticing more smarter AI in customer service these days. A recent example: I docked my BIXI but the thing glitched and the ride didn't terminate. I only realized when I tried to get my next bike out. In the past when this happened to me, I just called up BIXI support, went through a short phone menu, and explained the situation to someone on the phone. They verified my identity and manually terminated the ride so I could go on my way. Basically, the ideal phone-based customer support…

The Our Gang theatrical shorts, retitled The Little Rascals for rerelease in theatres and on television, were among the most successful theatrical shorts in cinema history. The series of shorts began in 1922 and lasted until 1944 when the final one, "Dancing Romeo," was released. The shorts centred on a gang of neighbourhood children and was known for portraying children materialistically and realistically. The shorts were also unique for the era in showing black and white children interacting…

Just a short note that Maksym Radziwill will be giving a hybrid talk on the quasi-Riemann hypothesis at Courant tomorrow.

I framed the title of this post in the form of a Betteridge Headline, because the answer is almost certainly no. Here comes the proverbial posterior prognostication: but… it still has me thinking. It was conventional wisdom in the Before Times™ that storage prices were falling, and would continue to fall, in the following ways: Solid state storage was becoming exponentially denser and more affordable, to the point where it was feasible they could overtake hard drives on a cost per byte basis.…

For the longest time I was content. That is the only way I can describe what I was experiencing. My relationship, my feelings, my experiences, I was happy with them, I felt satisfied. The confusing part is that it happened so fast. There was a comfort level between us that was almost unimagineable, as if we had known each other for years. At 5 months into our relationship I felt the same sense of safety as I did at 2.5 years. In the beginning it felt strange and unwelcome, kind of like a "is…

It is 3am A Waymo quietly parks The sick dog goes poop

the forest breathes out a sigh of relief I am still here, still here home of lichen and moss soft and green and full of life quiet, but full of life watch your step and you'll be welcomed

I had a wave of nostalgia recently and found an old Hell Fighter binary that I haven’t played in easily 20 years. Hell Fighter is an old freeware space battle simulator from the late 90s / early 00s era of PC gaming. I remember playing it on my mom’s old Windows 98 PC I had set up in my bedroom. I might have gotten it from one of those old 100-in-1 shareware discs that were popular at the time. Where I first learned of it is lost to time, but the game was awesome. It featured a fancy battle…

Back in July I compared Bitwarden Secrets Manager to Infisical [https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/comparing-bitwarden-secrets-manager-to-infisical/]. Since then we've been running a self-hosted version of Infisical which, after a bit of setup, has been quietly providing our secrets ever since. Before committing to anything, we had a couple of requirements for whatever secrets manager we picked: * It shouldn't add mountains of setup or extra commands for our developers * Client servers…

I was importing a new song into Navidrome, when I got this error: Turns out I’d somehow removed ffmpeg in a software update, which was referenced in the config file in my FreeBSD jail: $ grep ffmpeg /jail/suisei/usr/local/etc/navidrome/config.toml ==> FFmpegPath = "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg" $ file /jail/suisei/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg ==> [..] (No such file or directory) I installed ffmpeg again, restarted the services in the jail, and refreshed the page on Navidrome: # service -j suisei navidrome…

Ian Tattersall’s NYRB review (October 8, 2026; archived) of The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, by Jessica Riskin, is full of fascinating ideas and details; it begins: In the eighteenth century, human knowledge was not as compartmentalized as it is today. Indeed, the boundaries between intellectual disciplines that we now view as distinct remained tenaciously blurry until remarkably recently. To give just one example, your…

I got to take major leaps toward who I want to become in the last week of my six-year job. It's as if the path has been laid out for me. I guess it feels kind of like when I lost my job back in 2020 because of the pandemic. As a non-horoscope-subscribing Taurus, I feel like a true one today. I'm happy and still on stable, comfortable days, but focused and headstrong when there's a red cape in sight. There's no room for doubt this time. Only plans. Ironically, the path feels more paved because…

The ended with one open item: while audio played, the window used about one core, mostly drawing the animated connections on the canvas. I wrote that it deserved its own measurement before anyone touched it. This article is that measurement, plus what came out of the long runs I did afterward. Eve…

This long New Yorker profile of Barnes & Noble CEO and longtime bookstore tycoon James Daunt was fascinating if you’re a bookish nerd like me. I wrote about Daunt before in the context of B&N’s positive turnaround, but this piece was more about its place in the ongoing discourse about the supposed “decline of reading”. Here are some bits I found especially noteworthy. Shoutout to Bill Nighy, a real one: Daunt Books grew for years as a quiet shop with a devoted following. “You felt the people…

From Wednesday 21 October to the end of the weekend, I was patching an old VPS and moving a handful of sites onto a new one. PHP2Shell finally made the decision for me. This blog carried on regardless, because it’s just files. The sites I’d built with a CMS were another story. I was a WordPress person long before I was a static site person. It ran my blog, and then a number of pub and company websites I built over the years as Marmalade & Jam. I never used off-the-shelf themes. I built…

There's a post from Dan Luu that is currently going around titled "We should be more ambitious with the software we build". I really like the sentiment. I believe that we could all do with pushing a little further than we think we're capable, especially when putting things out into the world.In parallel I have noticed that there are now lots of people building lots of things. Some of those things are very big and full of features. In some ways that makes them ambitious but I think there are…

Per norm, the clews keep dashing in. Jeopardy! S43E28. October 21. First round. For $600 in the category Tales of the City: “(Sam) Spade paid his fare and left the taxi cab”; this city’s “night-fog, thin, clammy, & penetrant, blurred the street” Contestant buzzes in: “What is San Francisco?” Ken Jennings: “That’s right. The Maltese Falcon.“

An hour of Claude Code on my Raspberry Pi added native HomeKit support to the RuuviTag firmware.

Don’t start writing a book by writing a book. It’s tempting to start your book by creating a new Google Docs and throwing words into a page. You’ll doubt every step in the process. Start by writing about your book subject months or years in advance: You’ll validate your ideas even before they become your table of content. You’ll grow an audience to sell your book to. After writing Street-Smart Coding, my first coding book, I write almost all my books backwards. That’s what I learned from a book…