Pipeline reporting One thing that I've been meaning to do for ages is look into automatically generating pipeline reports for a given run of one of the data-science pipelines I've built. These pipelines aggregate so much data and generate so much summary data that sits on disk that people only look at the final output raster typically, and only really dig into that data if there's an obvious flaw. Instead I want to make it easier to spot mistakes early, for example: did we drop half a dozen…

i guess if you've been keeping up with my media logs, there's been a lot of real housewives viewing this year. i started watching it probably the year before last, but very casually and not to the extent that i'm watching now (keeping up with seasons as they're airing, taking a look at online discourse, etc. i used to just binge watch a season and forget about it for half a year). reason for it, well, i can't really say. my best intellectual guess is coming off from suetonius' caesars, i need…

It has been a tough and often depressing summer year unit_of_time. While I have some ideas of things I would like to write about, I’ve also been feeling really unmotivated every time I try. A lot of it is the shitshow that is the world these days. I feel like it has sapped my creativity, inspiration, and joy that I usually get from writing or tinkering on this corner of the web. Still, the ideas bounce around and I’m not ready to quit. I’ll borrow from Sam Reich and just begin with some recent…

This might be common knowledge, but I only learned of This One Neat Trick today, so: I’ve got a bunch of gadgets with batteries that need to be charged. All of them are USB-C these days (thanks, Europe), so I’ve got a spiffy GaN PD (i.e., high wattage) charger with lots of ports that I use for that. But some gadgets, like the Sennheiser Momentum 3 wireless headphones, refuse to be charged by this (or any other) PD charger. But if I connect it to a real computer, it charges just fine. So what’s…

October 26, 2026 I was reading a forum thread the other day and noticed how many people are trying what I'll call third-party browsers: anything other than Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. The pitch is usually workflow: better tab management, split views, built-in notes. Sometimes it's privacy. It made me wonder: is the security of these browsers equal to Chrome, Safari, or Firefox, or do their users take on additional risk? So I asked Claude. Here's my summary. Short answer: generally yes, and the…

Huh, 300. Well here are some more shiny links from about the internet! For even more, try last weeks set found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch, delinked by request. Puzzle Dungeon shares Lair of the Lamb: One-Shot Edition Valeria Loves gives us I was Wrong about Hirelings Rise Up Comus shares What players want to know: 21 needed answers for session 1 Ladino's Rogue Thoughts posts Blogwagon - Be a Good…

The Fault Is Not the Whole Person![1] About thirty-five years ago, I called Tamal Krishna Maharaja to ask for a small donation. A friend of ours and his wife were in dire straits, and I thought I should take up a small collection to help them. He agreed before I could give him the caveat, “Do you know what that person did?” When I did tell him, he immediately replied, “Yes, but the fault is not the whole person. I love him!” What he said struck me deeply, and it has stayed with me ever since.…

Here we are, the last week of October, which down here in the Carolina's should be beautiful. For me, it will be a week of 2 Halloween events at work, which makes me so very happy. There will be a neighborhood gathering at a local brewery. Of course, there will be much more mundane events. On Wednesday, we find out if the fixer-upper house needs a new hot water heater or if it's a simple fix of lighting the pilot light. Later in the week, there will be a Zoom call for the Quilt Camp leadership…

Links from social.omgmog.net for Monday 19th to Sunday 25th October. It was a patchy week on my end, as I spent the latter half of it and the whole weekend patching an old VPS and moving a handful of sites and projects over to a new one. The php2shell exploit finally made me deal with a server I’d neglected for too long. Sharing carried on regardless, so there’s still a good pile of links below.

It’s been a tumultuous couple of months, between online-ing and developing VAAK, work, and deciding that I do want to dedicate more time to my OpenSim grid, I’ve been busy! Needless to say, I have some announcements that I should put into a blog post so that they’re more easily reachable/readable, for people who haven’t decided to act like I no longer exist for using current technology to make the things I want to do, faster, and easier, as a normal person with a full time job. First…

A farmer in American Samoa might know exactly when taro is ready to harvest, which banana varieties handle local conditions, or where to find fresh produce nearby. But when someone asks an online search tool those same questions, the answer depends partly on whether useful information about local farms can be found and understood. That is where Schema 101: How Structured Data Powers AI Search Results becomes relevant—not as a shortcut to better farming, but as a way of describing information…

Here’s a fun rabbit hole I fell into over the weekend, and that should make you wonder if William Gibson is a visitor from a future timeline–because Claudia not only echoes Idoru to a great degree but also might be somewhat of an inflection point. Just not necessarily because of the base content on the site: this pretty amazing French “slop core” video has been making the rounds in socials, and even considering it’s AI-generated, I don’t think you can just ignore it without appreciating the…

Birds, rose petals, seasonal foliage—there’s just so much richly detailed loveliness carved into the staircases leading to Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain. But amid these whimsical carvings are some creepier reliefs of a witch riding a broomstick, a jack o’ lantern, a bat, an owl, and other figures representing the dark side. You might think these sculptures were intentionally meant to represent Halloween. In the early 1860s, when Bethesda Fountain was undergoing construction, Halloween was…

A frost first thing. Nice and sunny later. Cleaned both the jets and saw lab T drain was running. Brushed steps and round bins. Cleared silage lab out.

A 95-year-old man walks onto a stage in Chicago with a band called The *uckers, and the first thing you have to decide is whether to be a jerk about it.I thought about it. Cynicism is cheap, and I've got a drawer full. A Star Trek captain, a famous old man, a metal record stuffed with guest stars, a label that knows how to package nostalgia. It reads like a pitch deck that got loose. Then I read what happened, and I put the drawer away.The Night in ChicagoPer AXS TV, Shatner played his first…

Book Review: Beyond LLMs Amazon Code on GitHub Sahir Maharaj on LinkedIn I was offered to read Beyond LLMs: The Next Frontier of AI by Sahir Maharaj in exchange for an honest review. The book is about the parts of a production AI system that are built around the language model: explicit state, memory, planning, agents with limited permissions, deterministic rules, evaluation, and cost control. Its main argument is that most production failures are architectural. In the opening story, a support…

I’m traveling this week, so there might be some interruptions in the ole blog, but I’ll try to keep them to a minimum. I’ve also cued up some tunes to enjoy on my flights and while I try to contend with jet lag. First, I’m super excited about the new James Brandon Lewis and Red Lily album, Calling Antonín which is a celebration of the music of Antonín Dvořák. Needless to say, this wasn’t on my bingo card, especially has his Red Lily offerings had tended to focus so deeply on the African…

In times of rapid change, the teams that perform best over the long run are neither the most talented nor the ones with the best plan. They are the ones that learn fastest. Talent is what a team brings today, and a plan answers yesterday’s world; the ability to learn is the only thing that compounds. Ordinary teams stall the moment they find something that works: they stop asking, stop trying, and slowly fall behind. That ability depends on what the person leading does. Teams that keep…

Cal Newport’s most recent episode of Deep Questions asked why big tech stopped building useful products. He contrasted the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 with a fake flying car everyone was sharing recently, and how there feels like this palpable shift away from making the present better, to “inventing the future” that almost certainly won’t happen. (His podcast site doesn’t show the most recent episode, but it definitely appears in my podcast client. This happens surprisingly often across…

Back to the boardgame café.

Previously: Server Setup Notes: Ubuntu, Nginx, Django, MySQL I spent some time last week trying to patch and update my rinky-dink little webserver over here. This was mostly because of the PHP-related vulnerabilities that kind of ran roughshod over the cybersecurity sector last week. For a more detailed discussion of that incident, I found this post useful. Anyway! I took some notes because I suspect in our current GenAI-powered dystopia this will not be the last such incident so I should get…

There is an old trick in the news/public relations business, where if you think something may not be received kindly – you release it on a Friday, near or after lunchtime. The thinking is that people are getting prepared for the weekend and they (hopefully) will not see it. By the time Monday rolls around, […]

Hello, readers! This Monday Pressing Concerns features new albums from Pet Fox, Female Gaze, and Porcelain, plus a reissue of Paper Jam‘s debut LP. Check them out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Pet Fox – Balance Release date: October 23rdRecord label: Exploding in SoundGenre: Math rock, 90s indie rockFormats:…

The 40mm f/2 Zuiko Auto-S is one of my top favorite manual-focus SLR lenses. I’m hardly a lens expert but I am a decades-long hobbyist who’s experienced a lot of gear. I know very well what I like, and this lens ticks an awful lot of boxes. When I’m shooting Olympus OM bodies, there’s an extremely strong chance that this lens is mounted. This is almost a pancake lens, and it’s quite light. Paired with a small and light OM body, it’s a kit that you can carry all day with no fatigue. Olympus…

New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more… . (If we missed something, let us know.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy New: ∅ Revised: Kant’s Transcendental Arguments by Derk Pereboom. Locke’s Moral Philosophy by Patricia Sheridan. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Andrew Baxter by David Bartha. Socratic Method by Dylan Futter. 1000-Word Philosophy ∅ BJPS Short Reads…

The other day I couldn’t come up with the name Jane Goodall. Of all the names, that’s not one I thought I’d ever struggle to recall. Jane Goodall!! I sat for a while, picturing Jane. Thinking about the amazing work she did with chimps. Remembering the criticism lobbed at her by scientists for giving her study animals names. Envisioning the famous photos of her as a young woman crouched alongside a chimp family, or with her hand reaching out graceful as a dancer’s to a curious baby. Recalling…

I want to get better at Greek. I know the end goal is a while off but if I continue practicing b continue learning I will improve. But my brain resists. I know “just do 5 minutes”, that initial start is the key. Just write one sentence, and yet starting is the hardest part. Remember that post about jumping into the water? As I write this, it feels like th same thing.

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