Over the last week I've been chatting with some folks who are looking at integrating AI more into their development work. I shared a couple of things that we've found have worked well for Renovate, as a codebase that takes a lot of human (and since mid-last year, AI) contributions. Although I've written about this a bit in my reflection on the last year, this naturally deserves its own blogumentation. Before we did anything to explicitly optimise the codebase for AI agents, we ended up finding…

We didn't know it when we awoke to the beauty of Bluff Lake, but we'd end up at an even more beautiful location - Tamarack Lake - by the time the sun was setting again. First though, we had to get there. And that meant getting going toward our summit of the highest peak around, Mt. Eddy. First light. When you want to be on the waterfront. So peaceful in the warm glow before sunrise. With an eight-mile hike ahead of us, @mrs.turbodb got breakfast prepped - cereal and the last of our home-grown…

General still trying to get back into the work mind space, not very effective so far xd surgery recovery is also still going well the earring that got inflamed last week is mostly behaving itself besides occasionally getting itchy and taking all my resolve not to fuck around with it... Reading [NL] Wie profiteert van de rellen in Frankrijk? on the myth that the french riots somehow directly strengthen the right Voting is Not Harm Reduction (archive) an indigenous perspective on "voting for the…

I walk in on him wanking, that’s how this fantasy starts. I’ve just got out of the shower, hair tousled and body lotioned so it’s nice and smooth with a slight slippery residue that makes everything shine. I open the door to the living room with half-formed notions of asking him to touch my tits […]

In the past, I’ve linked to some of File770‘s coverage of genre goings-on. It’s the dude-with-a-blog form of genre press, literally grown out of a physical fanzine, but with a variety of contributors. That means the coverage has been quirky—a long post on playing with Masters of the Universe action figures can sit next to a recap of a James Bond movie can sit next to a link to a Bluesky thread can sit next to a detailed rundown of upcoming business before a Worldcon meeting—but there could…

It has been two weeks since Pook-Emu Bee Links. To be fair, I have had a good amount of work and have been fairly productive in New Leaf Journal publishing. But neither offers a perfect excuse for neglecting ECS, so today I get things back on track. I photographed this puddle in Brooklyn on the evening of October 16, 2026. I do not remember exactly where it was, but I suppose that is not too important in this case. Old Tech 1 | PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet…

The boys had Friday off school before the half-term break, so we beat the holiday traffic to travel to Belgium. We were staying at Center Parcs De Haan again (again). The journey to mainland Europe was a little hairy: Storm Austen was battering the UK, and we had chosen the ferry option for a change. The waves were fairly choppy, but thankfully no guts were spilled. We could hear car alarms blaring, but when we reached France, my car was thankfully where I had left it. We had opted for the…

19th October - 25th October I have been considering the purchase of a new pen this week. I'm in the awkward minutæ of sizes; the new pen comes in 14cm or 10cm. My usual pen is 12cm, so I'm weighing up the choice before I make a decision. And, yes, I'm even boring myself with this conversation. Related: my handwritten notes are coming along well. I have a good format which is easy to set up each morning while the kettle boils. My handwriting has much improved since I started this in earnest. The…

Earlier this month I wrote about forgiveness of sins – specifically the question: how can I know when I have been forgiven of sins by God? As I have continued to study, pray about, and reflect on this question, some insights about how Latter-day Saints approach this question have become clearer. I think this question really has another question implied within it. It's not just about whether we can know if we've been forgiven, but also about whether we can know if we have truly repented. Even if…

I’ve started putting together a music playlist…

After having this Iris keyboard for three and a half years, it took a shoulder injury that painfully prevented me from rotating my hand flat, to finally try it out on an angle. It worked well enough that I finally got a nice and proper stand from keeb.io. (Shoulder is improving, too!)

(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories – and in posts like this one, sometimes not particularly enjoyable ones.) In October 2004, a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft crashed on take-off in Halifax, Canada, claiming the lives of the crew of seven. A YouTube channel Mentour Pilot walks us through the complex set of events that led to the crash: The story is presented more thoughtfully than the thumbnail would make you believe, and went into places I did not…

Creative Commons in the AI Age Introduction A few months ago I made the decision to drop my requirement for Creative Commons licenses1 on The CerebralRift: So, I’m not sticking to Creative Commons licenses. That doesn’t mean I am abandoning them, I will always have a preference for CC licensed works, but I just won’t draw a hardline when it comes to the licensing of artistic works. The reasoning behind this decision was that I don’t think that artists and creators looking at AI are as willing…

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links: Read: — Bungu LA Vol.2 in La La Land (The Penguin Post) — Running Our First Stationery Event: A Retrospective on the "On The Paper Trail Live in Nashville" Weekend! (The Gentleman Stationer) — A…

Trying to be good about the weather and the dark and not freak out about winter. I say 'autumn' cosiness but as far as I'm concerned it's basically winter now. Things that are going to make me feel better: Keeping things tidy. Slow cooking. Writing dumb and soppy things. Practising my handwriting and other little hobbies. Turning on lamps. Hot water bottles. Pampering - I call it 'pampering' but it's literally just putting on hand cream. Listening to a song but like just listening to a song.…

Lately, for some reason, I’ve been interested in mapping the addr:neighbourhood tag, which I use to represent Indonesia’s RT-RW addressing system.To me, the RT-RW system is both ubiquitous and mysterious at the same time. I use it every day whenever I want to send or receive an address, yet all this time, I haven’t even known where to find the official map showing the boundaries between neighbouring RT-RW areas. Rumour has it that government officials might have access to such elusive maps.…

This week’s newsletter from Culture.pl contains several articles about Poland’s connections with Asia. I know that Japan has many Hawaiian hālau hula, but I never knew that it also has a group so focused on Polish folklore. Here are some excerpts (minus photos) from Sylwia Niemczyk’s (2025) article (translated by Adam Zulawski) on Dancing the Kujawiak in Fukuyama: The Japanese School of Polish Folklore: In the 1980s, Yoshiaki Oka came to a Polish village and recorded a performance by a Polish…

Ink swatching at On The Paper Trail Live in Nashville! Ink swatching at On The Paper Trail Live in Nashville! Recap: On The Paper Trail LIVE in Nashville (via Well-Appointed Desk). I had to lead with this one, didn’t I? Many thanks to Ana & Bob for joining us in Nashville at our first ever live event. 2026 BunguLA - A Brief Sunday Visit (via Pen Addict - Kimberly). I totally would have gone home with one of those Hachimonjiya original gradient Pilot Decimos.Choosing the Right Work Pen, Part 1…

LLM APIs typically charge more for output tokens than input tokens. As of October 2026, I’ve found that output tokens for models by Anthropic, OpenAI, and other providers are roughly 5× more expensive than input tokens. Why is that? I recently started learning about LLM inference and this seemed like an interesting question to dig into. I timed a small model on my laptop, measuring the time spent processing each input and output token. In this experiment, I found that one output token can take…

There was a restaurant across the street from city hall. Dad dragged us there all the time, ostensibly because it was cheap, but really because it was always packed and Dad loved nothing better than to hold court in a roomful of people he seemingly all knew. Today it struck me that we rarely entered through the front door. We’d walk in through the back, weave through the kitchen, and pop into the far corner of the dining room. Then a waitress would notice us and lead us to a table ahead of the…

On Saturdays I meet up with the UO Noon Running Group, which really does not meet at noon anymore as most of the runners are retired now. However, we do meet up on Saturday and have a route that takes us over the Autzen Footbridge across the Willamette River. On this run yesterday, the fog atop the water was beautiful as the rising sun captured it. I also walked, instead of run, as my knees have been giving me some challenges lately. I walked with Paul Slovic, the founder of the group (from…

The sign of the long-closed El Gordo’s Restaurant in Downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. The post At the Re t ur t appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

UpdatesSunday afternoon of a bank holiday weekend here in Ireland, and the clocks have fallen backwards signalling the arrival of what feels like real winter. We're also in the middle of two storms, and from my window I can see a fairly choppy and grey Killiney Bay. This week, I've been pushing on with preparation for my (big) small business launch on 2nd November - mostly administrative tasks, but important to get ticked off. My biggest win was recabling and resetting my desk layout to be a…

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Finished reading: Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer 📚 What a delightful read. As someone who still struggles with childhood trauma, I’m really inspired by how Paul has grown as a person and comes up with love for those who caused him pain. It’s also very funny.

A Whitetip Reef Shark zips close by. This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Scary Animal of the Month.’ See more responses here. I’ve dipped into the archives for this one, which is mostly water shots. What else did you think I meant by the headline? Captions on the photos as usual. A Devil’s Scorpionfish has poisonous spines and flashes colorful fins to warn off predators. Great Barracudas still give me the willies sometimes. They just look mean! They’re big and scary-looking, but Manta…

A fun and warm week (25ºC) after last weeks rain. I’ve enjoyed breakfast and evenings on the balcony every single day. But the clocks have gone back and it’s looking like awful weather for the foreseeable so I was glad to make the most of the sunny weather, including: Failing to watch the AEK game On tuesday my local team AEK were playing manchester city away in the champions league, so I thought I’d pop down to my favourite bar right outside the stadium to watch it with the locals at 10pm.…

What if the attempt you’re about to give up on is the one that finally changes your life? I genuinely believe life is all about chances. I’ve probably given myself over a million chances to lose weight. I’d start, make some progress, fall off and then tell myself I’ll start again on Monday. And guess what? Monday would come and I’d do the exact same thing loool. Fast forward 6 years and the chance I gave myself a year ago today actually paid off. I’m finally down 30kg. Same thing with 75 Hard.…

lazy I don't feel like writing in German today. I've been on a roll, averaging one English journal post per month. Well, today I'm breaking it. Bye bye, roll. I can't express myself as freely in German. Which is fine, for the most part. The Sunday entries are more like a recap of the week. But there's not much to recap this week. I just feel like whining and it's harder to do that in German because first I need to write and then I need to correct and then rewrite again. One paragraph takes me…