Back in December 2025, I added myself to a GitHub repo called, Awesome-Yellow. This repo acts as a list of websites that host Datenstrom Yellow, a flat-file CMS. I like using Datenstrom Yellow as it's for people who make small websites. My website has evolved a lot over the years. The repo README.md states the following. This list showcases websites and projects that were created using Datenstrom Yellow. The aim is to demonstrate what you can do with the CMS, and to inspire other users. Here's…
June 26 to 28 in Castlemaine.The hook for this one was Secret Mall Apartment, the documentary film that tells the story of a group of artists in Rhode Island who built a hidden apartment inside a huge shopping centre and kept it undetected for four years. Of course, it happened to be the final film of the festival, so once again we thought, why not just go to the whole festival?As I have mentioned previously, the beauty of going to an entire film festival is that you are no longer selecting…
Nau maiYesterday we played in the northern tip of Kentucky in the city of Newport. I continue to try and innovate in the field of breakfast presentation and yesterday I again used bright colours to make my plate of food look interesting. At the bottom of the plate you can see a sliced and toasted everything bagel topped with a cream cheese and scallion schmear, and at the top a line of orange quarters dipped in the bagel debri left on the cutting board. I squinted at this photo for a while and…
Crucial Track for July 2, 2026: “The Middle” by Kelty Greye & KidMotel This cover of “The Middle” plays in the new Supergirl movie. No spoilers, but it’s playing during an intense action scene. Same idea as what they did with “5 Years Time” by Noah and the Whale in last year’s Superman movie. via Crucial Tracks
Hi Crowd! Almost 7 years ago I co-wrote a book about philanthropy and the importance of open. Open principles, open source, and generally building, failing, and learning in the open. 7 years feels both too long and too short when I think about it, so much has changed since then and so much is exactly the same. The book, 50 Shades of Green: Reimagining Philanthropy, was part of the work we did with the Shuttleworth Foundation, which has since shut down but 2/3 of the directors have continued on…
Barnacles All Closed Up One of the most interesting and enigmatic little critters we find at the seashore are barnacles. They cling to rocks at the waters' edge, closed to our curiosity, their domed mounds like little closed beaks shut to the water and the world. They choose their permanent homes as larvae, sticking to hard substrates that will become their permanent homes for the rest
Using Forbidden WordsIf you were to ask the folks at Estée Lauder, I think they'd say "jungle" is not politically correct enough to include in a fragrance name. Synthetic Nature was once called Synthetic Jungle, but a decade after Lauder's acquisition of Frédéric Malle, one might suppose that a combo of market testing, possible trademark infringement (Kenzo Jungle), and distaste for the
I enjoy driving long distances alone. One of the benefits is that it gives me time to catch up on podcasts and audio books, so there’s the bonus. Even though that doesn’t come close to making up for the current high prices of gas or driving through summer road construction. My wife is in the final weekend of a production of Always Patsy Cline at Hope Summer Repertory about three hours away. This morning I left Chicago before the crack of dawn to avoid the current heat wave baking our glass…
What the title says. I got new Scarpa Golden Gate ATR 2 trail runners. They are size 42, which would normally be Bigfoot++ sized, but Scarpa is a European company and they sensibly use European measurements. It’s equivalent to a size 9 here, and the shoes seem to be about that, maybe just a tiny bit bigger. They look nice, have oodles of good reviews and seem to hit all my requirements, so we’ll see how they feel. This has nothing to do with my surgery, which is a good thing. Surgery did not…
A equipa da Amália disponibilizou o seu modelo mais recente no HuggingFace. O nosso primeiro-ministro indicou que ainda não responderia a perguntar, mas a versão mais clara é que o modelo está disponível para cada um correr no seu computador — o estado não disponibiliza para já servidores que corram o modelo. Mas para alguém mais familiarizado com linhas de comando, poderá simplesmente correr (graças ao Duarte Carmo) o seguinte comando: llama cli -hf duarteocarmo/AMALIA-9B-0626-SFT-GGUF:Q4_K_M…
I went to see Supergirl at the movie theater today. No spoilers first, and then spoilers below. (I tucked them away.) Milly Alcock’s portrayal of Kara is excellent. A+ Overall story, I would say it’s 4 out of 5 stars. Great for the most part but some things feel off. Okay, so spoilers – ▶︎ What I did and didn’t like
i bought a bunch of music in philadelphia. don't ask where i'll never blow up the spot. i also saw a world cup game. they love the song "bulletproof" at american sports stadiums. i wishthere had been more ghanaian fans because their section was really lit. its so hot today. sometimes i feel like if i dont make something immediately with my recordings ill never end up using them. heres this while its fresh on my mind.
As I've been spending more and more time with agentic development, it's more and more important to me that sessions run somewhere other than my laptop. For the last few months, that has meant running my coding agents in tmux on either a remote Mac or a remote Linux server. The most frustrating thing for me has been that the clipboard or paste buffer on those remote hosts isn't synced to my desktop. So, if I copy something inside of a coding agent, I've had to play games to get it to my local…
I visited my eighth and final Louis Sullivan jewel box bank yesterday morning. The Purdue State Bank (now a Chase branch) is in West Lafayette, Indiana. As a graduate of the University of Illinois, I have thoughts about Purdue University and its substandard engineering program, but I will keep those thoughts to myself and focus on the bank. This is the north side of the bank. The thoroughly incompatible stone addition to the building was (according to Wikipedia) built in the 50s, but I must say…
“To develop a complete mind, study the science of art; study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.” — Leonardo da Vinci For years I have called and considered myself a generalist. Good at a few things, not exceptional at anything. It felt honest and the best way to describe how I’ve managed to carve out a career by bringing together diverse ideas, disciplines and people. The problem with generalist is that it describes a knowledge base,…
As is the case for many people working in the security industry, the last few months of my life have been focused on dealing with people wanting to use LLMs everywhere. From an enterprise security perspective that’s not an inherent problem - what’s more of a problem is that people want those agents to have access to resources like their calendar and email and so on, and now we have somewhat non-deterministic agents that seem very enthusiastic to achieve what you asked whether that’s a good idea…
Mismatched high school couples fall in love. The couples are cute, and I really liked the art style (felt more cartoonish than what seems to be in style now). I think the main problem might just be that I’m old. These high school love stories don’t really do it for me anymore. It was very serviceable and well done, and I think I would have enjoyed this much more a decade ago. Storytelling – C – It was cute sometimes, not really funny though. Voice – C – It’s a popular topic… Characters – C –…
Enemies to lovers, learning about different cultures, and just a touch trashy! It was enjoyable, if pretty predictable after the first episode. Decent sense of humor, and I did appreciate the trashiness. Very plausibly deniable. Enjoyed the visuals as well. Storytelling – C – Simple but entertaining. Voice – B – I do like the setup. Characters – C – Decent but very simple. Attention Grab – C – Kept my interest. Production – B – Looks pretty great? Times like these when I wish I knew something…
Really fun and more emotional than I expected. Ace cast.
The first recording today starts with the end of Arthur. There’s an episode of Newsround. There’s a trail for My Life: My Dad In Prison. Then it’s Barney’s Barrier Reef – Best Friends. There’s a Clownfish. A Pygmy Seahorse. A Boxer Crab. A Mantis Shrimp. A Cardinalfish. Glass Shrimp. A Remora. A Pistol Shrimp. Twinspot Goby. A Napoleon Wrasse. Media Centre Description: Barney Harwood and Gemma Hunt discover the world of Australia’s Barrier Reef. The ocean world is full of fantastic fishy…
When you type a sentence into an AI, how does it figure out what you mean? In "Do lions roar?", how does it know that "roar" goes with "lions" and not with "Do"? This post walks that whole path with no heavy math. We'll follow "Do lions roar?" from raw text all the way to the model deciding how each word relates to every other word in that three-letter sentence. Along the way we'll turn words into numbers, picture those numbers as arrows, measure how "close" two arrows are, and finally use that…
Matt Growcoot, PetaPixel: Despite the technical difficulties, there are photographs of Canada in the 1860s — including one taken of the historic moment the proclamation of Confederation was read out at Market Square, Kingston, Ontario. I had no idea there was a photo taken when this proclamation was read. ⌥ Permalink
Pascal Bideau is the musician / composer behind Akusmi. On his third album, “Terra Incognita”, he uses the alto-saxophone to lead the listener through 7 soundscapes that blur and blend the traditional musics of Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and Eastern Europe. Describing the instrument as “half narrator, half explorer”, the decision to take us on an “adventure without borders” can only be viewed as a political statement in these tragically increasingly divisive days. “A Waking Dream”…
Toured the gallery of NSW on a perfectly gallery touring sort of day. That is, fairly chucking it down. Paintings from the Archibald Prize entries were on show. At its heart, the Archibald Prize is about storytelling. Who are the people our artists have chosen to paint and what do their portraits reveal to us? In this exhibition, Australian and New Zealand artists use portraiture to share the beauty and complexity of our times. — Art Gallery of NSW. My pick for the peoples choice was the…
When we bought the 2015 Jeep Wrangler, one of the things I liked about it was that it had the basic offering of a radio for a Jeep Wrangler at the time, which included a CD player. The radio was identical to the one I had in the 2011 Rubicon many years ago, and I had fired up my CD burning skills so I could start playing music in an old school way. Unfortunately, the radio in the 2015 Jeep Wrangler didn’t work right and before it was replaced, there were many things on that Jeep that didn’t…
I returned to Kyoto to explore more of the city. For this photo, I arrived at the shrine at 04:30 to catch the sunrise.
A ten-year update to the original 2016 article and its 2021 follow-up, highlighting the apps we currently use for our outdoor jaunts. Read More ... Continue reading There’s An App for That: 2026 Edition at PMags.com.
Not the kind of lottery that makes a fellow rich in Trump meme bitcoin. On our second try, we won the lottery for a Grand Canyon National Park Backcountry Permit. Looks like we may be hiking down to Bright Angel Campground sometime in November.Time to get our backpacks out this fall and do some training. Julia has never backpacked before.
I traveled to Amsterdam to see the Graduate Show at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie art school.
