This week on the show: The Apple Watch is rumored to undergo some big changes, Safari is gaining MCP support, and the Rickies may have accidentally created a black hole.
I open the window just a little to let some light in terrified but tired of the dark
I spent some time polishing my Inconsolata fork into something I would actually want to use every day: coding ligatures, a slightly narrower variant, rebuilt font artifacts, and a small live specimen site. The demo is live here: https://vinitkumar.github.io/Inconsolata/ What changed The first pass added ligature glyphs, but I realized quickly that having them only under dlig was not enough. Most editors do not enable discretionary ligatures by default. So the rebuilt font now exposes the…
On June 22nd, I gave the opening keynote for the 2026 Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (aka CAPAL-ACBES)...
The Ramanujan challenge Ido Kaminer shared with me the following information about The Ramanujan Challenge for AI, and I am happy to share it with the readers of this blog. The challenge page is at ramanujanmachine.com/ramanujan-challenge; Here is the The full challenge paper, and a quote from Ido’s email. “The challenge launched today and will run until August 1, 2026. It consists of [ten] research-level problems on explicit formulas for mathematical constants, designed to test whether AI…
At FOSDEM 2025 I presented my (intentionally controversial) proposal how to keep copyright and licensing info in minified JS/CSS and asked for feedback, including from front-end developers. Two months later, I took the feedback from FOSDEM and held a small workshop session with a group consisting of OSPO leaders, FOSS lawyers and a handful of FOSS developers at LLW 2025. This blog post was finished1 more than a year after both, so I will not be summarizing my FOSDEM talk, and suggest you listen…
Had a bit of a home networking collapse a couple of months ago when I finally accepted the inadequacy of the now-12-year-old computer I was using as the "service-box" for my home network setup (*arr stuff, jellyfin, anything that required more grunt than a dedicated NAS and wasn't directly storage intensive) and gave it the proverbial Do Not Resuscitate badge - I backed up everything I could think of and waited for it to fall over again. About a week later it fell over, I gave a little salute,…
I’ve written about developing taste in art before, but I didn’t say how do do it. Taste is being able to discern why you like something, what about it spoke to you, why it worked for you personally. Once you know what you like and do not like, and are able to truly understand it, you are able to seek out things you like, and maybe even create some things too. Art is one of the best things about being alive, and I truly think that there is stuff out there for anyone, it’s just about finding it.…
I always see these posts about ditching smartphones and going back to flip phones that only call and this and that. I assume these people don't use auth apps or phone 2FA. If you don't need them to access work or have a non cellular device just for apps then maybe you can sneak past this. We just nuked a couple of streaming services in order to get HBO again so we could watch the Sopranos. (He watched all of it years ago but I've never seen it.) In order to log into the app on the TV I just…
The Tordre, from D Squared Arts. I’m back from the 2026 St. Louis Pen Show and dish all of the details on what was an excellent time. I also share one of my most random stationery purchases ever made, and give my initial thoughts on the Sailor Que Sera erasable gel ink pen. Show Notes & Download Links This episode of The Pen Addict is sponsored by: Pen Chalet: Check out this week's special offer, and to get your code for 10% off. Factor: Healthy, fully-prepared food delivered to your door. Use…
The action in agentic engineering has moved from prompting to operating. Autonomy isn't one ladder, it's two axes (agency and orchestration) and six levels you move between per task. The real question is what level a task deserves, and what verification makes that level defensible.
Early morning Gruga walk. 👉 View 3 more images
There are situations when one owes solitude to other people, if only not to bother them. But more than this, the multitude needs solitaries as it needs postmen, doctors and fishermen. They go out and they send, or bring, something back—even if they send no word and vanish finally from sight. The solitary is as necessary to our common sanity as wilderness, as the forest where no one goes, as the waterfall in a canyon, which no one has ever seen or heard. We do not see our hearts. I do not expect…
Recently I found myself in a waiting room, and while there, waiting, it occurred to me that someone should write an essay on waiting rooms. Since I always have a notebook at hand, I took some notes, and here they are, for anyone who would like to write the essay. 1. The Lit Review What have others written about waiting rooms? Not much, so far as I can tell. Plenty that is written takes place in waiting rooms, and much of that, I imagine, is read in waiting rooms–or at least, it used to be–see…
While houseguests come and go, we shift Edie's skyscraper of softness out of the spare and into the main bedroom.Currently Listening: D. Ellsworth “bloom”Reply via email
Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to the SigmaWest science camp and then STOC, there was much talk about a recent Trump administration action that would ban not only differential privacy, but essentially all modern techniques for preserving privacy in large datasets, for example in the 2030 US Census. I realize that many of us have “outrage…
Nothing works... (comme d'hab), Small parcels to the EU, Earth is a death world.
It’s a new month (yikes) so it’s time for another fresh batch of links. A varied mix of fun stuff this time around.Now that your newsletter is AI-generated, I’ve UnsubscribedThe title kind of says it all for this one.Datatype — variable font that turns text into chartsA really cool font that, as the title says, turns text into charts. Need to see if I can find a cool use for this one some day.A Wake Up Call | Brandon’s JournalThis is a very good blog post from Brandon about how one should…
I saw this going viral, Democrats rail against corruption after Trump financial disclosure: Democrats are accusing President Trump of improperly profiting from his and his family’s cryptocurrency ventures after he reported more than $1 billion in income tied to the industry. In his annual financial disclosure released Tuesday, Trump revealed about $594 million in income from World Liberty Financial, the crypto business he launched with his sons in fall 2024, and another $635 million that…
“Effective today, June 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM, all Forest Service lands, roads, and trails within the Monticello Ranger District of the Manti-La Sal National Forest (San Juan County, Utah) are temporarily closed due to the Babylon Fire. “ Update July 2nd, 2026 – The Babylon Fire grew to 79,795 acres Thursday morning with no containment as firefighters expanded indirect containment operations and prepared for a forecasted wind shift expected to increase fire activity toward Monticello and nearby…
Well it's more like six and a half really - with everything going on these last few months, my half bearthday went whizzing past. But we're close enough still, so let's see how things are going. The most important thing is that I'm still using it and I guess that's the best endorsement any service can have. I have a bad habit of getting excited about blogging, then a couple of months down the line I quit, only to resurrect it years later. Not this time! Having such simple functionality has…
Everything looked good for a trip to the shallow beach, an off shore breeze and a late evening high tide and as I hadn’t been there for a while, I couldn’t resist. My target fish tonight would be Rays, for some reason I don’t catch many Hounds here but I always hope. Whilst setting up I noticed someone in a gin palace had got it wrong on the way into the estuary, they were stuck on a sand bar for hours. I didn’t notice them leave, just looked over and saw the boat had gone but by then it was…
Dear Self, You visit Bubbles every day, and with good reason. You are finding new voices, interesting sites, and realising that the internet you loved all those years ago is still out there, you’d just forgotten how to look. It’s a great resource. And boy those upvotes are addictive. Thing is, you’ve lost your focus. You’ve let that little bump in your stats —the one you get when you’ve posted something new— go to your head. You are writing posts with half a mind on getting upvotes, rather than…
Yankee Candles Levels of Abstraction optional.is/required/…
“Five years ago, people bragged about waking up at 5am, doing cold plunges, having inbox zero, and working while endlessly Peletoning. Now it’s all about having 17 agents, not opening email, and AI running your business. It’s the exact same performance, just with different props.” www.elenaverna.com/p/please-…
It’s time for a Q2 progress review on Nic’s (Dragon Rambles) Law of Fives reading bingo challenge! I’ve now read 29 books for this challenge, with most of them counting… The post Q2 2026 Law of Five Reading Bingo Progress appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.
TL;DR - I built my own kanban and you can play with it. About two years ago I wrote about how I use 3x5 index cards for productivity. It was a lot of words about basically saying I use a little paper to write down a daily todo list and save the cards in an archive. I also designed a neat little monthly calendar to print out on a 3x5 card and keep on my desk. I still use that daily. Soon after, I designed a daily bullet journal to be printed on the back of my calendar card. I still use that…
I was looking for an alternative to Tinkercad to simulate building, coding, and running Arduino projects. SimulIDE Circuit Simulator seemed like an ideal candidate. SimulIDE is a simple real time electronic circuit simulator, intended for hobbyist or students to learn and experiment with analog and digital electronic circuits and microcontrollers. It supports PIC, AVR , Arduino and other MCUs and MPUs. I installed it from Flathub (SimulIDE). It worked well. It is easy to understand and work…
And here we are again, another half year has passed. Time to take a quick look back at my June. Well, not much actually happened … There was my trip to the office. I was in Schwäbisch Hall for a few days for the planning workshop that takes place every few months, where we discuss the topics for the next release. I took the opportunity to also have a look at the city itself on the Sunday before. It’s quite nice there. And then there was the first heat wave of the year in June. I was lucky…
Read the full post at - Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber I have an incredible relationship with my own siblings. They are the one people who have been witnesses to my entire life — the whole crazy ride thing — and that relationship is unlike anything else. And I think that’s true for all siblings – it’s such a fascinating relationship. So when I became the parent of siblings, I took it seriously. I don’t buy a lot of parenting books. One – I think they are generally overrated compared to…
