Read the full post at - Window Into Big Frog Wilderness Looking north from Hemp Top Trail into the Cherokee National Forest’s Big Frog Wilderness.

This surreal result from Tuesday has all the American historians agog, and for good reason. [ in progress... ]

After ten thousand years of a balmy interglacial, during which humans learned to till the soil, smelt metal and write down their history, the next glacial period got started around the time of Christ, built gradually over two thousand years, and then was brought to an abrupt halt in 1960. Technically, we’ve been in the same Ice Age for tens of millions of years, swinging between glacial periods (what most people think of as an Ice Age, with ice sheets over Canada and Northern Europe) and…

New-to-me sidewalk chalk art by Kal Zakzouk at 20th & Irving: a lady and a dragon contemplate each other. Sidewalk chalk art invites the viewer to contrast black chalk vs a patch of chewing gum on the ground. Which is darker? The chewing gum, by a mile. Yet you will never find it in art supplies.

Rejoice! You have transcended the shackles of android. It's grandma's time to shine. My experience on getting my linux systems around 500mb on idle is going to pay off finally. But to give your pc a better chance, if you can upgrade the ram to even 4 or 8 gb, it would make a world of difference. Used laptop ram sticks should be okay. You might even find an additional ram slot on your laptop, so adding in more ram should mean you don't have to replace the existing 2gig stick. If you still end up…

I’m on Substack, so I see this on Substack Notes (their in-house social media feed) quite often, people crying about the “death of text,” and how “I don’t want short form video.” It’s like complaining about traffic while sitting in traffic. Being mad that so many people are at the popular destination you’re at. If you don’t like seeing things on a particular platform, you’re shit out of luck because the platform controls what you see. That’s the whole “algorithm” thing at play. Don’t like…

Slight (ok medium-sized) pet peeve here.Vibe Coding isn't using AI to make things.Vibe Coding is making things where you have no idea how it works on the backend. Where the inner workings are a complete mystery to you.📚 Andrej Karpathy coined the term in February 2025, for code that "grows beyond my usual comprehension."Engineering is the opposite. You know exactly how everything works.So you could be using AI to write 100% of your code and pushing dozens or hundreds of features/products per…

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), Waste Books E.76 (tr. R.J. Hollingale): A sure sign of a good book is that the older we grow the more we like it. A youth of 18 who wanted and above all could say what he felt would say of Tacitus something like the following: Tacitus is a difficult writer who knows how to depict character: and sometimes gives excellent descriptions, but he affects obscurity and often introduces into the narration of events remarks that are not very illuminating; you…

Pakistan International Airlines is Pakistan’s national airline, operating from three airports in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad. It was state-owned until 2025 when it was privatised and is now solely owned by the Arif Habib Corporation. But before all of that, the airline had its own works football team, appropriately named Pakistan International Airlines FC (PIA FC). The club was founded in 1958 and were based in Karachi until it was disbanded in 2021. In that time, PIA became Pakistan’s most…

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Your blog is mine! It's almost time for us mere bloggers to step into the arena again, break billiard cues in half, grab whatever improvised weapons we can find, and battle to the death. There can be only one. It's BLOGGIES time! So celebrate with us! Find your favorite blog posts of the year. Read them again, share them, recommend them, caress them, love them. This is the time for everyone to stop what they're doing and read three random posts whenever the clock strikes the hour. Following…

Tabitha was at school all day (like 7:45am - 5pm), so Charlotte and I went for a mooch around Brighton and Hove.149 words · 7 images

If you are looking for a special gift for the Twin Peaks or David Lynch fan in your life, I’ve compiled the Ultimate Gift Guide for 2026. This round-up of wonderful and strange items will have your loved ones shouting, “Hot damn, that gift is good!” SHOUT “GO STEEPLEJACKS” WITH ITEMS FROM PARAMOUNT SHOP “You’re a jack... The post Ultimate Twin Peaks and David Lynch Gift Guide for 2026 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Day One in the historic Hakata district of Fukuoka. Fresh off his victory in September, Yokozuna Onosato will look to win a title in Kyushu for the first time. It is fitting that his first bout this tournament will be against Yoshinofuji, whom he finally managed to beat on his path to that title. Prior … Continue reading Kyushu 2026: Shonichi Preview

DC's Absolute line is getting lots of attention lately, but the, "Main," universe hasn't been slouching either! That's especially the case with two newer horror-focused titles that both happen to feature a sole individual as the writer and artist! The books are, "The Demon," by James Harren and, "Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death," by Michael Walsh. "The Demon," is full of mysticism, following Jason Blood as he struggles to contain the power of Etrigan the Demon and stop a supernatural threat…

I'm still drowning in code review. Getting to ~16% auto-approved and merged PRs helped but it's not enough. How can we do 60%? 🤔 I don't think 100% is feasible. Some things are high risk, need coordinated deploys, or just more feedback before they're ready. And you wouldn't want to miss the mentoring opportunity with more junior team members. Continue reading →

As part of celebrating the final year of my 40s, my family and friends bestowed bountiful gifts. In this post, I’m sharing two from some of my favorites: Lego and Apple. Japan Postcard This Lego set is from my wife. She sneakily bought it while we were browsing inside the Lego store at a mall several months ago. Nice. I love the small details in this diorama, showing a Japanese landscape. We’ve got Sukura (cherry blossom), Mt. Fuji, Himeji castle, bamboo, and more. No Koi though! But you can…

Foggy days. Looking west across Hitchin from Windmill Hill. Bright sun beginning to burn off the haze. The Chiltern Hills beyond receding into mist.

The Ninth Circuit struck down two more TOS formations this week. In both cases, the panels applied exacting standards when reviewing the screens. You’ve been warned about this risk (many times). Morrison v. Yippee Entertainment, Inc., No. 25-7161 (9th Cir. Nov. 5, 2026) In 2025, the Ninth Circuit held that Yippee’s TOS provided reasonably conspicuous notice, but that decision did not resolve if consumers manifested assent to the TOS. On remand, the district court said there was no assent. On…

A Wizard of Earthseaby Fred Fordham, Ursula Le GuinGenres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels Pages: 270 Rating: Synopsis: Ursula K. Le Guin's timeless and revered A Wizard of Earthsea is reimagined in a richly expansive graphic novel by acclaimed artist Fred Fordham, creator of stunning adaptations To Kill a Mockingbird and Brave New World. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets…

There was an interesting post on Hacker News recently: What’s your current AI agentic setup? I posted a short reply there, but I was thinking to maybe post a slightly longer version on my blog as well. Isolation# Some time ago, I wrote how I isolate claude code. Since then, Claude Code became much more reliable and is less likely to rm -rf /. But it’s still a machine, and it still is unpredictable at times. And with CVEs being published every Monday and Friday, I prefer not to risk the only…

A few years back I shared two cool tips I learned about Postman ("Dynamically Creating Variables in Postman" and "Creating Visualizations in Postman"). At the time, I noted that these were both well documented features in Postman and if I had bothered to actually spend some time in the docs, I would have known about those features already. Obviously after I wrote those posts I made the time to do that. Obviously... right? Of course not. So what follows is something that probably most of you…

Ep #258 The Future Called. It's Using CSS2. Robbie and I sip Chicken Cock small batch bourbon (bubble gum, I swear) and talk building a mobile app with Claude, MySpace coming back, 2026 being 2006 but way more expensive, CSS infinity, Prop for That, whether to yell at your agents, the death of human code review, and why skull.style might be the future of passive income. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple Presented by Mailtrap

About a year ago I came to the equally earth-shattering, and unimportant discovery, that the way that I make my way through the world is very different from the vast majority of the population of Earth. If you’ve spoken to me recently, there’s a reasonable chance that I have brought up Aphantasia. Growing up, I would hear phrases like ‘picture in your mind’, and assumed it was a turn of phrase. I never actually understood that lots of people are actually seeing things. Pictures (and sometimes…

TIL: Powkiddy now makes… pickleball paddles? Still a handheld device I suppose.

On the 4th of November the Rails security team shipped 8.0.5.2 and 8.1.4.1, and it is a big one: 21 security issues in a single release. One of them is rated critical, GHSA-f3w6-w445-fwh9, “Possible arbitrary file write and read in Active Storage image analysis”, with a CVSS score of 9.8.

Long ago when getting on the internet meant tying up the phone line, images on the web were simple. You would upload a jpeg or gif and move along. Webpages took forever to load. Things were simple, but insanely slow. Later on the png appeared and compressing images server side became popular. CMS tools like […]

“...and the fungus slowly grows in the frog’s brain.” Mrs. Peach makes biology both more interesting and frightening than any class I’ve ever had. “… involuntary movement.” But I’m tired and I just want to go home. “Is it Tuesday?” she looks down at her watch, puzzling as the sirens go off. The skies are clear, no sign of a storm. She checks her phone, buzzing on her desk. Our phones are on silent, but she gets to have hers out. She looks scared. It’s not our first tornado drill, what’s the big…

Maybe it's okay that we have agents now. The interesting hard part about programming, where you'd get in a flow state and stay there, keeping the problem in your head for hours, I think that time is gone. But I think what's more interesting is that now we can be more ambitious. And really drill down on things we want to. Even things we don't know, we can use the agent to help us learn about them as we build. We can also worry about the little things, the details, the last 10% that takes 80% of…

As we approach Remembrance Sunday I am reposting this sonnet about the two minutes silence, which was first published in my book Sounding the Seasons. I’m posting it early so that any one who wishes to, can use it in services or events on this Remembrance Sunday. So here is how it came to be written. On Remembrance Day I was at home listening to the radio and when the time came for the Two Minutes Silence. Suddenly the radio itself went quiet. I had not moved to turn the dial or adjust the…