Corners of the Deep Dark is now listed on Indie Story Geek. Review copies (epub and pdf) are available to the site’s verified book bloggers. Any other site reader can add a review, too. While reviews of any sort are always appreciated, I find the Indie Story Geek spider webs an interesting alternative to stars. Reviewers move sliders to indicate their reaction to different aspects of the book: worldbuilding, plot, characters, storytelling, immersion, emotional response, thought provoking, and…

The tree removal continued today.9:40 - only one side remains11:20 - getting shorter, not just thinnernoon - nearly gone!1:20 - only a bit of the trunk remainsIt's now feeling very strange: there is a huge expanse of sky visible from several windows where before there was only tree.The young tree in our own garden that was completely overshadowed now looks a bit tall and spindly: it was desperately trying (and failing) to outcompete the other tree. We'll probably need to trim a few feet off its…

A few years back I was fortunate enough to be a part of a rescue mission that took a group of arcade collectors to France to remove multiple arcade cabinets from a run down building. If you missed that write up, check it out here. Suffice to say, the building was a health hazard, and we really shouldn’t have even gone into it, let alone drag cabinets out of loft and rooms with collapsed ceilings. Without rerunning the whole episode (but do check out the link above), I came away from that raid…

a dark thought gets shot down before it ever falls from my lips and finds stronger wings to fly on before I give it letters, words verses even shot down as only a shadow

After switching my Fedora laptop from GNOME to Hyprland, I started paying a bit more attention to what actually runs when I log in. Under GNOME, a lot of this was easy to forget about. With my new setup, I wanted to know which applications were starting with the session, which services were enabled,

On an upper floor of the library at Sam Houston State University, sprawled out on a faux-leather couch, metal bars digging into my spine. Through the narrow windows, the sky is a putrescent purple, the fading corpse of a lazy Saturday. To the subtle buzz of incandescent lights, I page through William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Only the occasional graduate student, a dreary-eyed ghost haunting the stacks, disturbs my solitude. The night ahead promises debauchery. Soon I’ll be…

I’ve been seeing a few folks around making posts about their laptop stickers, and thought it would be a fun little diversion to post about. I have far too many stickers in my craft supply…erm…collection (which is a whole different part of crafting), so you know I jumped at the chance to decorate my newest PC. One thing you probably can’t see if the picture that clearly is that before putting any stickers on this machine, I covered the top with contact paper. It’s a nice laptop, and I didn’t…

22:46 - I wore my Street Fighter jersey to watch the movie. It fucking slapped. I wanna watch it again. Gimme da sequel.

Yes! I was able to get a tour video done. Just a little one. No walker. No cane. Got out of breath easily, while talking and recording, but that’s it. I’m rather pleased. Enjoy! The Re-Farmer

SummaryIn which our intrepid explorers actually, you know, explore. Day ThreeI woke up early and went for a walk to watch the sunrise. Banff was quiet - just some folks walking to their jobs - and the sun hit a cloud perfectly. It was an incredibly peaceful way to begin the day.However, when I got back to the hotel room, I reached up to adjust my glasses… and they broke. The bridge snapped, leaving me with two half glasses. A trip (on foot) to a local optometrist was unsuccessful - she was kind…

Creating a file with ed and a here document When it comes to creating a new file with ed and a here document, there is a difference between "GNU ed" and "ed" on BSD. This is about creating a file, so we want to edit a file that not yet exists. Creating a file with GNU ed and a here document As an example we create the file /tmp/nofile: #!/bin/sh ed -s /tmp/nofile << EOF a one two three . w EOF This creates the file /tmp/nofile with the contents: one two three Creating a file with ed on BSD with…

A requirements-driven comparison of iA Writer, Typora, Calmly Writer, and MarkText for writing Hugo blog posts.

I noticed something odd while was running my streaming route: Task Manager showed the window using between 800 MB and 1 GB of memory. For an app whose job is to move audio from a microphone to Discord, that was high. The Rust backend handling the audio was under 30 megs. Nearly all of that memory w…

I wanna be the genius I thought I was growing up. From preschool until I graduated college, and even during my office days, there was always someone who’d call me a genius. Those interactions obviously fed my ego and subconscious, and they’ve put me in tough spots where I was unprepared for things I should have been ready for. Being called a genius didn’t incentivize me to “get ready” or “study,” because somehow it felt like all of that should come intrinsically to me, as talent. I became quite…

Journal The last few days of computer action have been spent on the big blog archive project. I’ve been knocking the Art Pete blog into shape, fixing image links and reminding myself what happened during a transformative period. I spun this blog off around 2009 when I started selling my weird photos at market stalls and it’s a nice accounting of how my idea of what “an artist” is changed over subsequent years. So much of my learning was done in public back then, which lends to a fair amount of…

The Ana and Din Mysteries, currently three books starting with The Tainted Cup is a fantasy detective series that managed to tell both interesting detective stories and provide an interesting world in which they happen.I am typically a bit of a sucker for good world building. I love back stories, lore and little hidden details. The world of Ana and Din provides plenty. Without spoiling much the empire in which they live is in both fueled by and threatened by sea dwelling Titans which emerge…

“The Greatest Benefit to Mankind – A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present” by Roy Porter was published in 1999. It’s a magnificent 848-page book that I’ve now read. Many people, I’ve discovered, own a copy but have dipped into it rather than read it through. I hope that I might do medical history, the world at large, students of medicine (surely all of us), and Roy, whom I knew and who died suddenly aged 55 in 2002, a service by posting extracts of his book on my website.…

We leave eaaarrrlllly tomorrow morning to go see Beatrix at Sarah Lawrence's "Friends and Family" weekend, and I was thinking earlier today about leaning into the identity of someone who goes to New York a few times a year.My dad drove me out to college my freshman year, and a friend drove me back to Minnesota after a short summer internship in Charleston. My dad drove me back out the next fall and my mom picked me up — it was the first time she had even seen Tufts. Junior year was in England,…

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I want to close every AI assistant and continue working. I'd lose speed. I shouldn't lose my understanding of the project, access to my sources, or the ability to run the tools that got me this far. My work involves understanding research quickly, trying things, and figuring out what my own results mean. I want frontier models helping with that, without making one company's app a prerequisite for understanding my work. This space is changing quickly. I'll be adding to and replacing parts of…

Sydney, Australia, based author and journalist Richard Cooke explores the inner workings of online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is his recently published book, The Last Best Place On The Internet: In this entertaining book, journalist Richard Cooke delves into Wikipedia’s fabled creation, its extraordinary success and its profound effects on politics, business, literature and society. He explores the site’s shifting role in establishing fact in a time of deep uncertainty about truth and authority;…

Now that the Cubs’ season is over pundits are writing about what they should do during the off-season. While reading these articles I find myself wanting to ask the writer, what in Jed Hoyer’s M.O. tells you he is going to sign a top free agent? I cannot get excited about the Cubs offseason as long as Hoyer is calling the shots. With him making the decisions, next season while be the same old, same old.

What if AI fills your internet bubble with generated posts and conversations until you're the only real person left?

Derek Sivers brilliantly explains in under five minutes what it takes to be a leader. Not all TED talks deserve your attention, but this one definitely does. And Derek Sivers himself too. After his successful musician and entrepreneur careers, he wrote several books. If I am to recommend one, that would be Your Music and People, where Derek reflects on those periods of his life. He also tells an unbelievable story about his conflict with Apple and Steve Jobs in this book. Besides that Derek…

Simon commenting on Jeremy Scheff's post: If you're a programmer who thrives on building working systems and doesn't care too deeply about the problems solved along the way, LLMs are the gift that keeps on giving. If directly solving those problems was a big part of your enjoyment, the loss is very real. — My obituary for programming, Simon Willison's Weblog Yeah I feel this both ways I think. I'm not sure which camp I fall into. I think it depends. For personal software, it's amazing, the…

Review of Blood Mercenaries Origins (book, 2021), by Ben Wolf, ISBN 9781942462347Finished on 19 October 2026. ★★★★☆ Rated 4 out of 5 This was the first Ben Wolf book I've read, and I enjoyed it very much. It's basically four origin stories in one, setting up the rest of his Blood Mercenaries series. It grabbed my attention right away, and I binged it over a couple of weeks. I liked how different each origin story was.

Autumn in South London.

A practical look at what happens when you push Java Virtual Threads in the wrong direction: how unmounting copies stacks to the heap, triggers OutOfMemoryErrors, pressures the Garbage Collector, and hurts CPU cache locality.

Landlock users in Go, by library Not using Go-Landlock yet? Landlock feature sets in use How to use more Landlock features If you maintain a software library, it is easy now to crawl code repositories for your users in Open Source and get statistics on who is using it. 👉🏻 Read the full statistics with interactive breakdowns and visualizations 💡 Landlock users in Go, by library These are Landlock-using programs in Go, broken down by the library that they are using to access it: First of all, I…