The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 1979, Douglas Adams My rating: Decent I remember loving this book when I was a pre-teen so perhaps this rating is a bit unfair. I was looking for some light reading before bed and landed on this one, but I guess the humor doesn’t work on me anymore. Some good quotes here and there, but most of it felt like an adult’s attempt at saying things kids would find funny. It probably works for a lot of people but I think I outgrew this specific kind of silliness (but…
I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops. — Boris Cherny Over the last months I have watched more and more people build something on top of coding agents that feels meaningfully different from just using a coding agent. Some of this happens on top of Pi which is cool to see for sure! The pattern is the same everywhere though: work is put into a queue of sorts, a machine picks it up, attempts it, stops, and then…
Nicola picks me up at 10, and we drive the 50 km or so to Ferrara, a small city filled with Renaissance buildings, many of them built by the Este family. As we drive Nicola tells me of some of the challenges of being in charge of much of the response to the pandemic. We stroll like flaneurs into the centre of the city. I ask Nicola if there is an Italian word equivalent to flaneur. Surprisingly, it seems that there isn’t. Ferrara is peaceful and has nothing like the frenzy of tourists I’ve seen…
I am moving to Substack. When blogs were a thing, I blogged. Now that Substack is a thing, I shall stack my subs. Those who wish to read my writing, whether motivated by pity, morbid fascination or nostalgie de la boue, can simply click, or press with your despairing finger upon this link.The Inky Fool advances confidently into the future
Sunday was the summer solstice which, in the northern hemisphere, is the day with the longest duration of the day. Many traditions of witchcraft celebrate solstices and equinoxes as a way of keeping in tune with the seasons, but where I live we don't really have the four "classical" season. The solstice is the longest day, which means that after that the night start encroaching again, but you would be hard pressed to notice it here. We have just entered the period when the sun sets but doesn't…
There is a recurring problem in modern activism and alternative movements, the attempt to remove the uncomfortable parts, everything has to be friendly, to be safe, to be acceptable. The difficult questions, the conflicts, the power arguments, the risks and the sharper edges get pushed aside because they are seen as “too political”, “too negative” or “too confrontational”. This mess is where the #dotcons culture creeps in. The same platforms that turned social interaction into engagement…
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There’s an interview with Simon Peyton Jones*I’m a huge fan of his trademark presentation slides set in Comic Sans I highly recommend watching. It’s full of interesting observations on type theory, Haskell, functional programming, and the future of programming. One quote at the end stood out to me in particular: If you could go back to when you just graduated from college and give yourself some advice what would you say? All of these people who you see, very successful, wandering around looking…
We are back once again with Engagement Farming, our ongoing playthrough of Fire Emblem Engage! It's hot here and work has been kind of a mess this week1, so I'm taking it easy with just one chapter. Let's begin! Elusia has raised up an invasion fleet to burn Firene to the ground, apparently (I assume the goal is to get us to show up and defend so they can steal our Emblem Rings from us) and Hortensia's retainers have abandoned ship to give her an Emblem Ring, for . . . reasons? They didn't seem…
I bought a new car yesterday. Technically it's 6 years old, but it is new to me. I went to one of those car supermarkets that seem to have sprung up on the country's industrial estates over the last few years. The deal with a car supermarket is that there's no price haggling. The price on the website/windscreen is the price you pay. It takes the hassle out of car buying, which is good. So I had the money for a full purchase and the will to buy. I was determined to drive away with a new car,…
a free verse poem Remington “Remy” Cornelius snuggled up next to Jernee’s pillow in what is now… his favorite chair. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt hawk’s eyes on mybackRemy stares at mymoving bodysnuggled next toJernee has he connected withthe spirit of my deaddogdoes he know…she must be speakingwords of wisdom toher younger long-lostcousin“keep an eye on her,will you?she gets afraidsometimes—doesn’twant anyone toknow.” he’s following instructionsdoesn’t shield his starewatches…
As I have been not well and not updating the blog over the last two-three months, you might assume I didn't do a lot with my Amigas during that time.Not so.First off, I have picked up a number of new release Amiga games in 2026 for starters...I am a big believer in buying and supporting new release titles for the Amiga, Mega 65 and C64 especially.First up is Tap Jewels and ARC4NERD I bought from Alinea computers, both work on a 1MB Amiga 500. Tap Jewels was originally released by Entwickler-X…
A stroll along the river with the Rolleiflex 2.8D and HP5.
Fuck you, Polygon, for spoiling the latest six-hour episode of Critical Role less than 24 hours after its release. Kicked you out of my RSS reader, what a dick move!
Ireland is on the periphery of the “Heat Dome” which is bringing extremely high temperatures (over 40°C) to mainland Europe and parts of Britain. Temperatures on the Emerald Isle are somewhat lower, warm by Irish standards, but bearable (though it is quite humid). To amuse my friends and colleagues sweltering under the Heat Dome, I thought I’d share this graphic from the Met Éireann weather app: No doubt it will cause some amusement to see red for danger for temperatures of 25°C! This type of…
John McAlinden is one of the most imaginative, creative, energetic, kind and hardest working people I have had the pleasure of meeting thanks to my love of music. AKA John McMustard and leader of Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5, John and his band bring colour, flair and fun times to festivals, towns and venues all across Scotland and beyond. They have done this for well over a decade and are going stronger than ever.You could say that Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 are the Brazil of Scottish…
It has been all about tall ships for the last couple of weeks. First, a week-long trip to Richmond on the Schooner Virginia for a three-day tall ship festival. Then, a day after returning from Richmond, Sail250 Virginia with dozens of tall ships on the Norfolk waterfront. Those ships are leaving today, bound for Baltimore. Yesterday I brought SPARTINA home for some much needed maintenance. The usual epoxy, varnish and painting, of course. Plus some rigging work. She has had a lot of wear and…
Psine.pl, a computer repair shop in our Kielce neighborhood, has some interesting word usage. The first item is the name of the company itself. Google translates psine as ‘doggie’. (It also translates Eng. doggone as Pol. cholera, which it translates back into Eng. ‘damn’.) Polish pies ‘dog’ has a very irregular declension: psy ‘dogs’, do psa ‘to the dog’, do psów ‘to the dogs’, z psem ‘with the dog’, z psami ‘with the dogs’, o psie ‘about the dog’, o psach ‘about the dogs’. Pol. szczeniak…
Nice little essay on Daoist ethics: … moral evaluation and its social and political mappability always presupposes a subject who could have done otherwise. For meritocracy to function and for inequality to appear deserved, people must be imagined as the authors of their own success and failure. However, the very capacities that make agency possible (such as education, health, time, stability, personal networks) are unevenly distributed before any cultivation can even begin. These conditions…
There’s a new, fun aggregator out there: bubbles.town. I think the pitch is “like Hacker News, but for independent blogs instead of Silly Valley hucksters”. So it’s got upvoting and comments and all of that stuff. Like Hacker News, it also has feeds. The feeds are nicer than on Hacker News — they have snippets of texts from the pages they link to: But it’s only a snippet, so I wanted to make a fuller feed, like I’ve been making for Hacker News. So here it is: Fuller Bubbles. The source code is…
Well, I was wrong about the daisies two years ago, because though there are only a few this year, my allergies still reappeared the night of June 1st and have continued since. Fortunately, I got help last year to figure out a proper over-the-counter meds regimen, so within a week or so I had it mostly under control (though my eyes were still bothering me pretty badly until the latter part of last week); I’ve stopped trying to figure out what exactly is causing it and just resigning myself to…
Are you as tired as I am from the digital noise and constant screen time that has crept into our lives? I’m taking some time off from that this summer. Ok maybe the title is a bit hyperbolic. I’m not prepared to stop using my phone or computer, but I’m limiting my interaction with screens ... Read more Source
This is the third post in the series: Exploring the .NET 11 preview. Part 1 - Running background tasks in Blazor with Web WorkersPart 2 - .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types🎉Part 3 - Avoiding ToString() allocations with StringBuilder.MoveChunks (this post) In this post I take a short look at the new StringBuilder.MoveChunks() API introduced in .NET 11 preview 5. First we'll described what the API does and how to use it, then we'll look at how it's implemented. Finally, we'll look at why this…
AI disclosure – this post was entirely written by myself. I know AI writing is still pretty cringey – so I get that people are quite opposed to it. For people like me though (academics promoting their work, more technical oriented) I would like to proffer a slight defense of (even cringey) AI writing. Having an LLM tool help you write a blog post is better than not writing at all. I have come to the personal opinion I just want you to disclose when you use AI. I am starting to get peer review…
I am back with Season 2, Part 3 of the Home Network and Devices track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are making file storage safer: encryption where it matters, snapshots where deletion hurts, and a restore test before confidence gets expensive.File storage sounds boring until it becomes the whole incident.The laptop dies. A folder gets deleted. A shared drive link goes to the wrong person. Ransomware lands. A cloud sync client helpfully spreads the damage everywhere.…
Beacons Four Tops. Essex family weekend. Hot and humid. Sonia, Sara and Me on the Diving Board, Fan y Big Walked the Beacons Four Tops (well, three of them to be accurate) on Tuesday with SSG and JP: Neuadd Reservoir car park – Gap Road track – Fan y Big (719m) – Gap Road Col / Bwlch ar y Fan (600m) – Cribyn (795m) – Col (680m) – Pen y Fan (886m) – below Corn Du (873m) because the wind was unbelievable – the ridge back round to the Neuadd Reservoir. Tea and cake in the Old Barn Tea Room on the…
Over this weekend Clare and I took a short camping trip down to Micalong Creek — a place dear to her and full of memories of camping trips with her family.So first of all, it was an incredible privilege to share time at a place that means so much and holds some fond memories!We arrived early on Sunday evening after a short ~1.5hr drive out of Canberra. The roads up were pretty devoid of traffic — which is to be expected on a school night (and in the middle of winter, and on the winter…
A nearly severe thunderstorm approaching Swindon, UK yesterday. I say nearly as I didn't see any hail, notice any strong wind gusts or read any reports to suggest otherwise. For a 'homegrown' UK storm it had a brief but somewhat photogenic shelf cloud for a while.
Feed readers and aggregators often permit the import and export of a web feed list. Typically in a single dreadful XML format. OPML - Outline Processor Markup Language <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <opml version="2.0"> <head> <title>Minimal web feed opml cluster</title> </head> <body> <outline text="pure garbage" title="Garbage collector" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://example.com/rss.xml" htmlUrl="https://example.com"/> <outline text="Atom is not RSS" type="rss"…
