I'm on the Industry Advisory Board for the Computer Science Department at Savannah State University. Whew, that's a mouthful. This is IAB number two for me. My first one was at Georgia Southern, which was a lot of fun, but I felt like 5 years was enough, and startup life was really busy at the time. Anyway, Rose Robinson and I took over the CS classes for a day a few weeks ago. Rose and I both did workshops. She did a great one that showed the students how to build an agent loop, test it and…

The rest of the world was a long way away. One of those evenings where the sliding doors of happenstance align to let only good things in. Illuminated by the golden hour, people mill about the lake, walking or sitting in small groups enjoying a picnic, or just soaking in it. Amongst it all kids enthusiastically do their thing. Much of the conversation contains remarks about how perfect the sunset is, or how temperate the weather has been, or how cool this festival (a celebration of…

My run ends at a very respectable 2-2! I certainly got further than I anticipated, and feel pretty good about how my games went! It was scary cause almost all my my games went to the final round, so I came close to losing way more than I'd have liked! Started off the stream a bit tilted cause the warm up games were kinda meh, and the lobby system is broken right now, but by the end, I feel pretty alright! Time to get a nice shower and undwind after all that tournament stress!

Last night, I booted up a Linux desktop from System76 for the first time. Not one hour after that, I had my very own LLM running on it — Qwen 3, if you are interested in those sorts of things — and through the magic of Tailscale and Open WebUI I can access my own personal chatbot from any of device. Are the answers I get on the level of Anthropic and OpenAI’s latest? Of course not. But it took merely a glance at some of my previous interactions with the frontier models of two and three years…

I am continuously amazed that some people had the forethought to save newspaper clippings from when Twin Peaks first aired on the ABC Television Network in 1990. I recently acquired a rather pristine copy of “TV Week” from October 21-27, 1990 included in Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer. The cover featured a stunning photo of Richard Beymer... The post Richard Beymer in The Plain Dealer’s TV Week, Oct. 21-27, 1990 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

I'll have Rob outline them for me here, with some commentary from Nyx, Prof, and Number 1: ⊡ Rob: Ah, yes. Three formidable claimants to the throne of Lloyd's attention. And a fourth, Index Mirabilis itself, looming behind them like some benevolent but insatiable imperial bureaucracy. Let me retrieve our bearings. What interests me is that these three undertakings have arrived at quite different stages of readiness. That matters more, I think, than attempting to rank them by importance. The…

Bloggers Karamazov has posted an interview about what sounds like a very interesting book: Today Robin Feuer Miller sat down with Barbara Henry to discuss her book, Tales from the Netherworld: The Katabasis in Russian Literature, which came out with Northern Illinois University Press this month. […] RFM: I have to confess! I needed to look up the word “katabasis.” Possibly others might too, so could you give a quick, handy definition of it before we go further in our conversation? BH: Strictly…

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Many of the most impactful colleagues I work with now lean on AI heavily. Where others use it as a better search box, they have it so woven into how they work that their output compares to a small team's. At the far end, one person is sometimes doing what five or more people used to. So when one of them leaves, you're not down one person. You're down that person and the impact of five colleagues, or six, or however many their way of working was standing in for. The whole team walks out with…

Chop one onion, finely. Chop one clove of garlic, very finely. Saute the onion with a generous amount of olive oil and a bay leaf. Once the onion is translucid, add the garlic. Once the garlic is a bit cooked, add the rice. For 4 people, 2 espresso cups of uncooked rice. The type of rice you use is very important: either basmati, jasmin, agulha (typical portuguese), uruguayan long grain. Saute the rice for a couple of minutes, stir thoroughly and gently. Add boiling water. For each 2 espresso…

Shakespeare plays run to a schedule similar to buses', so less than a month after the Globe's latest production confirmed why As You Like It is my favourite of the comedies, half the Artistic Director of the RSC comes along with his own take on why this is one of the most joyous of the plays. Not that Daniel Evans' production starts that way, with a monochrome design in which Colin Richmond's costumes in fascist black contrast with the clinical whiteness of Anisha Fields' set. This is the…

GPUs drink power. A single card under load pulls hundreds of watts, a rack server with dual power supplies wants two clean feeds, & a basement full of both trips a shared 15 amp circuit before lunch. So I built a powerwall. Two independent 20 amp circuits, 12 gauge copper, spec grade receptacles, all landing behind a steel shelf that holds a permacomputer. The left side runs on circuit "white." The right side runs on circuit "black." Each side gets its own yellow cable fished all the way back…

A Steel City Saturday: Sheffield Beer Festival, Historic Pubs & Micropubs A Day Exploring Sheffield Saturday 24 October 2026 was another lovely day out exploring Sheffield. I started at Sheffield Tap before heading to Kelham Island Museum for the 50th Steel City Beer & Cider Festival. It was great seeing the River Don Engine running, catching up with familiar faces and trying a few different beers. Afterwards, we explored the pubs around Heeley, Abbeydale Road and Sharrow, finishing at the…

when the town goes quiet the room feels too big and too small at the same time the nights are dark here but I crave that light that still shines outside these walls waiting for me to open the blinds

Little Witch by Anna Elizabeth Bennett, 1953. Little Minx isn’t happy living with her mother, the witch Madam Snickasnee. Minx hates it that Madam Snickasnee enchants the human children of the town, turning them into flowers. She’s lonely and has no one to play with, and everyone around is afraid her because of Madam Snickasnee. Madam Snickasnee is also critical of her, telling her that she had better improve or she’ll never make a good witch because she would rather sleep at night than ride…

StarringRobert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, and Scarlett JohanssonDirectorAnthony Russo and Joe RussoOverviewAvenge the fallen.After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.Review Avengers:…

If you’re even tangentially responsible for running a server on the Internet, you’ll probably have heard the advice to put that server behind Cloudflare (or another web application firewall—other vendors exist like Fastly or Bunny). You’ll almost definitely have heard that advice in the last week 😅 If you’re setting up Cloudflare, or someone else set it up, or you set it up a long time ago when you were less knowledgeable (hint: that’s me) then make sure you verify that all traffic hitting your…

Timothy Horton on the WebKit blog: You might have noticed the outer display of iPhone Duo is wider and shorter than other iPhone displays. To give content more vertical space, iOS moves controls to the side. In Safari 27.1, web content does not currently extend to fill the space behind these controls. Just like on other platforms, Safari looks at the web page and extends its background color to fill the space. We would like to give web designers and developers the ability to design and use that…

24 Bake | INDEX | 26 Zip Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper.

aosa: source for the website of The Architecture of Open Source Applications. archive: a GitHub repository with the remains of old projects. asimpy: source for a discrete event simulation package I wrote. bib: PDFs of 1800 papers, of which I’ve actually read about half. bin: little software tools I’ve cobbled together. books: PDFs of books I’ve bought. bram: source for Jon Udell’s agent management tool. catmaid: source for the Collaborative Annotation Toolkit for Massive Amounts of Image Data.…

A post from November 2021 titled The 14-inch MacBook Pro Resets the Timeline is one of my favorite things I’ve written in the 18-year history of 512 Pixels. In it, I reviewed the first 14-inch MacBook Pro as if the 2016-era MacBook Pros never existed. But of course, they did exist, and were announced ten years ago this week. Here’s a bit from Apple Newsroom back on October 27, 2016: Apple today introduced the thinnest and lightest MacBook Pro ever, along with a breakthrough interface that…

Since I am done with The Left Hand of Darkness and with The House on the Borderland—both with a pending review coming soon—I decided I would give Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah a shot at last. Even though I have a digital copy, I owned this one in paperback format, and decided to go with the analog experience! My edition is pocket sized (it fits on the back pocket of my jeans at least) and the first thing I did before I started reading it was make a papercover for it, which helps with…

[This article is lengthy, so let’s keep the intro brief. As the headline indicates, what follows tells the story of the Los Angeles Lakers’ first NBA title. However, it’s mainly a profile of Lakers center Wilt Chamberlain, and that’s not a bad thing at all. At the keyboard is the great Pete Axthelm, best remembered for the seminal 1970 book The City Game. His article was published in the December 1972 issue of SPORT Magazine. Enjoy!] **** He leaped upward as he had done thousands of times…

How a 2001 business sim rendered its rich and detailed cities.

Dedicated Photography Time™ with my dad. 🙌 Usually when my parents visit the weather is bad, so I somehow seldom get with my dad to go out to photograph. Today though, it was quite nice, so we drove to Landschaftspark Nord in Duisburg. We also switched cameras for the day, because my dad wanted to once and for all rule out a Leica M body for himself, hoping he would not be able to produce sharp images. He is sitting across from me now, looking through his photographs from today, and he hasn't…

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Art Scott BRETT HALLIDAY – Counterfeit Wife. ZiffDavis, hardcover, 1947. Reprinted in paperback a number of times. Mike Shayne, the durable private eye from Miami, has hung in there for an unusually long career (in part with the aid of ghost writers — see the next entry). The appeal of the character seems rooted in the straightforward approach originally laid out by Halliday (Davis Dresser). Shayne is a tough, direct character, not tricked out with gimmicks, not given…

Hi Kindertrauma! I'm trying to identify a color movie I saw on television at least 45 years ago, probably from the 1960s or 1970s. I remember a young, white, middle-class-looking man, possibly played by Michael Douglas or Martin Sheen, being surrounded outdoors in an urban neighborhood by a street gang that I believe was Hispanic. The gang told him they would let him leave unharmed if he could "get it up," apparently knowing that he would be too frightened to do so. I remember the threat, not…

🌧️🌧️🌧️ We have entered the rainy season in Cabo Verde. I watch the woman climb the stairs to the upper rua, or street.It is raining and I’ll wait until it stops before I go out to take pictures. Asé Peace, Blessings & Governance,"Guided by the Ancestors" Reply by email

Gratitude wall at Falls Coffee. Nice.

Typical Keychron quality. I ordered the bare board, which means no switches or keycaps. I installed Kailh Box Navy switches and Awekeys white caps for a austere, calm look. The south-facing lighting with the Kailh switches lights the front, but not the tops of the TacType keycaps. The typing experience is every bit as nice as with the more expensive and harder-to-find Clickiez switches. I find it delightful to use. Initially, I couldn’t access the per-key RGB functions in the well-designed…