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.
Visiting the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and FOAM.
Last month I posted about my journey migrating my site server from an old Ubuntu server to FreeBSD. Some people on Hacker News noticed that, when I showed the fastfetch result, I said I was confused with the RAM usage compared to btop and commented that fastfetch is probably more correct. I decided to enter that rabbit hole and try to understand why reporting free or used memory in a modern operating system is more complicated than it seems. Another user shared Linux ate my RAM, which provide a…
MongoDB closed to fight AWS in 2018. Elastic closed to fight AWS in 2021, then reopened in 2024 once the fight was over. Ghostty, tldraw, NetBSD, and QEMU closed in January 2026, and there's no company to make peace with this time. Two different closings, two different endings.
Parts 1 and 2 were about people who at least pretend to contribute. This one isn't. Cloned repos, faked commit history, blockchain-rotated malware C2, and a takedown that got re-squatted within a day. The impersonators don't want your codebase. They want your reputation.
curl and Jazzband and Ghostty didn't close the door because of an abstract "AI problem." They closed it because of specific people. Eight archetypes, all real, all currently in your notifications.
My dinner for June 27 was delivered by a courier bubbling over in delight about the coming Fourth of July, which he identified as my national day (adding that he was Peruvian and his national days came at the end of July — surprising details below). I suppressed my complex reservations about American Independence Day (some of which I will unload later) and chose not to add that we were at the eve of one of my people’s celebratory days — Stonewall Day, June 28 (the tank top I was wearing had a…
IF YOU MAKE A POST BLOG THAT IS ONLY A THEORY OR A NEW COOL RULE OR CLASS OR A SORD OR A THEORY AND WHEN I READ ITIT MAKES A SNIKT SHINK SOUND, YOU HAVE TO PROVE TO ME THAT YOU'VE ACTUALLY TESTED IT AT THE END: PU´T A PLAY REPORT TELLING ME EXACTLY WHEN WHERE HOW AND WHY YOU PUT THAT IN A REAL WORLD GAME THAT REALLY HAPPENED – AND IT CAN’T BE JUST A "Oh I played it in a one-shot" IT HAS TO BE DETAILED CLOSELY AND IN A REAL ACTIVE CAMPAIGN. IF YOU DON’T TO DO THAT YOU AUTIMATICALLY LOSE THE…
I had my first jury summons arrive in the mail a couple of weeks ago. I got them once when I was in college but I was able to defer as I was a full-time student. So now, at my big age of 28, I didn't have any way to get out of it. Last Friday morning, I promptly made my way to the location on my summons. Here are some observations I made and thoughts I had throughout the day. There's over sixty potential jurors here. Hopefully they've picked jurors and sent the rest of us home by noon so I can…
The Beeline Imagine how attractive these flowers would look if you were a bee. According to the invaluable Plantnet app, it’s Verbascum chaixii ViLL. Which is ‘Nettle leaved Mullein’ to the rest of us. Quote of the Day ”The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” John Kenneth Galbraith Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news J.S. Bach | Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring | Leo Kottke Link I once heard him play this live at the Cambridge Folk Festival…
I probably own more than a thousand game CDs, cartridges and floppy disks and yet I’d be hard-pressed to tell you the last time I physically touched a piece of game media. My gaming nowadays is nearly all downloaded – most frequently through Steam, Gamepass and the iOS store. So my thoughts on the news that Sony is probably ditching the physical disk entirely elicited me a general reaction of ‘well, that was bound to happen.’ Anyway, here are twelve things I think I think about the news –…
Shoreditch is about 45 min away from where I live and is the part of London I can access quickest, apart from the City of London. I enjoy making photographs there too: walking along the high street, past Boxpark, and down Bishopsgate offers excellent opportunities for street and documentary photography. Some would tell you the original, trendy Shoreditch crowd can be found in Hackney now. In any case, walking along that route northwards brings you to an unassuming alley past a few…
I recently bought a pair of $30 binoculars from Amazon and it’s become one of my favorite ourchases in recent memory. I’ll frequently head up to the roof of my apartment and look out across the bay at Alcatraz, at the fog rolling over the hills, at buildings in downtown FiDi, container ships lumbering and ferries zipping across the bay. On warm days I like to look at the sailboats and the seagulls and small green parrots flitting about the city. I’ll take the binoculars with me to the office…
We just released Perfetto v57 and I wanted to share the new things I’m most excited about. This is something I wanted to do for past releases but I just never quite got round to it. It’s also something I plan on doing more of going forward: there might even be dedicated pieces if I think the feature deserves it! PyTorch traces reliably work! What I’m most excited about in this release isn’t a feature but a bugfix. If you used the PyTorch profiler and opened the resulting trace in Perfetto,…
A big thank you to a donor from Instagram for this – she sent two varieties of Chun Noodles after seeing my initial review. Taiwanese dry noodle is truly a favorite of mine – let’s cook it up! Chun Noodles Spicy Peppercorn Noodles – Taiwan A distributor / import sticker (click to enlarge). Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). Looks to be meat free but check for yourself. To prepare, cook noodle for 6~7 minutes. Drain. Add in sachets contents. Finally, stir and enjoy! A single pack.…
The annual prediction market conference was earlier this month. This was the year prediction markets went from an obscure hobby to a multi-billion dollar industry; from semi-illegal to having the President’s son as an advisor. I can’t remember if anyone talked about any of that. It didn’t even register. All eyes were on the AI superforecasters.I met an AI superforecaster startup founder who told me his AI had turned $35 into $2 million on Kalshi over seven months. I met another who said they…
In the fall, I’m teaching a new music history class at NYU on 20th century American popular music. This is not a history of rock. When the department says “20th century”, they mean the entire 20th century. We don’t get to Elvis until after the midterm. The most difficult part is going to be the beginning, because I regret to tell you that for the first several decades of the twentieth century, the most popular form of entertainment in the US was blackface minstrelry. Let me give you an idea of…
# No work today, and most likely tomorrow, due to a bad migraine. I've had a nagging headache all week. It started getting so much worse in the early hours of this morning, forcing me to get up and take some pills. I've been popping them all day. Any further changes to the site have obviously been postponed until my head clears, and there has been no work on any of the in-progress tracks. I have dummy arrangements in place for all three, just waiting for the attention they need.
July’s here, so it’s time for a look back at June! Which was a bit of a weird month, but I seem to have said that last month too… June in general: Mostly the thing that sticks out about June this year was how hot it was, in the UK. I’ve had cause to be very glad that we have a couple of portable air conditioners, and even our bunnies ended up having to chill out in an air conditioned room… We rush ordered a pen so they could hang out in comfort, given the rooms with the portable air…
Click here to book for the Gentle Author’s Tours After he photographed the end of the trams in 1952 at the age of twelve, photographer Colin O’Brien became fascinated by recording the ‘last days’ of vanishing aspects of London life. Thames Embankment, 1952 “When I was twelve, the trams stopped running forever so I took this picture with my box camera while the driver posed for me. I loved going out with my dad on Sunday mornings for a ride through the Kingsway Tunnel and out on to the…
Evert Duykinck, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsAs of last year, I had a gaping hole in my reader knowledge. I had not read a single Jane Austen novel! I could probably blame not having taken BritLit in high school. They just weren't on my radar, honestly. Then something hit me: Jane Austen's novels are part of the absolutely wonderful public domain! This means not only that I can use the characters creatively if I want to (looks over at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), but it also means…
In December 2025 I wrote about my retirement from live streaming, which was once a valuable and very enjoyable part of my career in developer relations (DevRel). Since closing that chapter I have redesigned my website, launched a new side project, released some new music, and made a lot of space to reflect on the last five and a half years I’ve spent in DevRel and ultimately, my place in the technology industry.On birds, nature, and being carefreeI recently spruced up my garden with a…
Gelatle's (apparently they combined the words gelato & turtle) blood orange shiroan gelato was more like a sherbet.This had blood orange juice, shiroan (sweetened white bean paste), and also used some kiyose honey....different but super refreshing!FYI: Kiyose is a city in the northern part of Tokyowe kinda woke up to watch "parts" of the Japan vs Brazil soccer match...the broadcast was at 2:
[And yes, this will absolutely lead to arson.] Speaking of wildfires, don’t bet on them. Let’s all be better than that.Link: https://www.hcn.org/articles/people-are-betting-on-wildfires-should-they/
