"Eddy Went to Spain" by Kate Jacobs Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's a song you discovered in an unusual way? Eddy Went to Spain by Kate Jacobs A couple of years before his death, Senator John McCain wrote an admiring obituary for an American communist who fought for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. This sent me down a rabbit hole and one of the things I discovered was this song about the great-uncle of this songwriter, who also…

It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to use it too if you would like! This week’s prompt is about designing a bookish escape room: If you designed a book-themed escape room, what puzzles would be part of it? I have no idea about anything specific, but I’d steer away from using details of specific…

The trend is definitely going towards a smaller Engineering and a bigger AI section. I don’t like that. This week, have a look at John Cutler’s Feature Factory Retrospective and the No Man Is an Island post. If you want a podcast and like engineering, check out “Building resilient systems”. Quote of the Week And that’s the deciding factor. We can’t win against obsession. They care, we don’t. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman Leadership TBM 445: The…

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This is my reply to Jame’s Food Questions Challenge🧑‍🍳 A good pause from writing my story (clarifying my lack of posts this months). I almost never use pictures on my posts, this time it is a must! All images are from google. What was your favourite food growing up? I was a very picky kid. As any picky kid, my diet consisted of white rice, chicken and pizza. But if I could recall a favourite meal I always rejoiced about was: “pollo guisado con arroz blanco y amarillitos”. In English: Puerto…

micropoetry cold snap’s on the way“beasts of burden’s” ready to attacksweater weather–at my door

Microsoft has decided that Linux desktops need a hug from Redmond. According to recent reports, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is officially expanding to Linux workstations, currently sitting in public preview for distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, and others. If your daily driver is a Linux machine and your employer happens to run in a Windows-heavy ecosystem… Source

I was pointed towards this film on the official Talgo YouTube Channel:It claims Talgo's trains for DSB are "Reliable".The truth is these trains are the least reliable in DSB's entire fleet. This is not really bullshit, but more like gaslighting.Sometimes it is better for a manufacturer to say nothing at all. This should be one such moment.

I’ve written on a number of occasions about how one of the pleasures Grace and I derived from watching classic TV shows was recognizing actors we knew from Star Trek or other classic shows such as The Twilight Zone; back in February I wrote (of The Fugitive): “in this show I’m also recognizing musical cues in every episode, because the show drew on the CBS music library and featured many of the pieces Bernard Herrmann and others wrote for The Twilight Zone.” But in one of my current shows I’ve…

I'll confess, I haven't been following local politics as much as I should. Like many, I'm frustrated with the gridlock and dysfunction on the city council, which seems to be a majority view (though of course, fracturing badly on the "who is to blame" question). But I don't have big opinions on many of the local issues of the day. And since everyone is a Democrat (at least at the municipal level), I don't even have that heuristic.So I'll do my best, but I'm still quite persuadable. Have at me in…

One of the foundational texts of my early studies in ancient history – one of these days it might be interesting to think about which of the things I read as an undergraduate had the biggest influence, or that I can actually remember – was Paul Cartledge’s ‘Rebels and Sambos’ piece*, which was on the reading list for an essay on Greek slavery. I remember it being a right pain to get hold of, published as it was in a Festschrift of which there seemed to be only three copies in Cambridge when at…

(This is a guest post, written by Jeremy Avigad, Kevin Buzzard, Johan Commelin, Rémy Degenne, Kim Morrison, Oliver Nash and, Adam Topaz.) Mathematicians’ reactions to last week’s big OpenAI release range from excitement to frustration, but one thing is clear: AI has become remarkably good at proving theorems, both formally and informally. The successes in the formal realm have led AI enthusiasts to declare that now is the time to formalize all of mathematics as a legacy for future generations.…

A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk! Have at those stickers! is what Dracula would say when encountering my now completely screwed up laptop. In fact, his image—including the iconic quip—is placed prominently in the middle. What started with just four stickers, mostly Emacs (Lisp) related quickly spiralled out of control after the arrival of my Redbubble order. I’m sorry, I tried neatly arranging them, I really did. But the end result is, as my wife called it, chaotic1. But in…

I have to say, Peter Steinberg (aka lobster man) is absolutely brilliant. He was so ahead of his time with OpenClaw. I remember when he first tweeted about it last year, and when it turned into utter lobster madness at the beginning of the year. Heck, I even ran OpenClaw for a bit, but I couldn't really see the value because I didn't want to maintain it while the lethal trifecta problem remains unsolved. Categorically, this is a billion-dollar problem, perhaps more. So here's the thing. I kind…

Yesterday evening I was at the first Thought Experiment, a new series of informal evenings on how "AI is changing the way we code, find vulnerabilities, and prove theorems". It was held at the Paris School of AI, which turns out to be a few hundred metres from the Tarides office, and it was cheerfully organised by Caterina Urban and Karthik Bhargavan, with whom we are sending formally verified post-quantum cryptography to space. Message sequence charts for agents Benedikt Bollig (CNRS, LMF)…

The average developer needs to accept that the latest tier of foundation models writes better code than them. Most developers who think they are above average are not. It’s time to learn how to be effective writing code with AI or be left behind.

Hello, dear readers! Here are Siri and Selma reporting from Gladstone’s Library in the little Welsh village of Hawarden, where we are spending a few glorious days with Dina and Klausbernd. We are rather proud of ourselves for discovering this extraordinary place: Britain’s only residential library, home to thousands upon thousands of books, housed in ...

When we met, my wife had one non-negotiable: the beach. I had one too: Estonia. She followed me there that first time the way you follow a friend into a restaurant with no English menu: trusting yet aware of the exit. Now, she may love Estonia more than I do. Our travel system is simple. Estonia every year, plus a new country every two or three. This year the new country was Ireland, which had sat atop both our lists since our honeymoon. We'd see the west of it by campervan, for the first time,…

I never seem to find a good way to create slides for presentations. I struggle with both the process and the outcome. Should I start by creating the slides, or by writing script for what I want to say—and then do the slides? Or do I make an outline for what I want to talk about, then the slides, and then write down the script? Skip the script, and only do slides? Or the other way around? And for the slides themselves: How much text is too much, and how complex can my charts and diagrams be? How…

Deer, wildfowl and starry skies, and Purdey's early morning wake-up calls

In Illinois, the National Road appears to be one of the earliest roads to be improved at the dawn of the automobile era. I’ve found pavement on this road dating to the 1910s, for example. In 1913, Illinois chartered a State Highway Department and gave it funding for road construction. Interestingly, it wasn’t until 1918 that Illinois began assigning numbers to the highways it was building. If you look at the 1917 official Illinois highway map at this site, you’ll see that the map shows named…

I have a full Norse mythology tattoo sleeve. Within it are a valknut and three runes: O, D, and M. They’re part of how I connect to my ancestors, and having them on my skin makes that connection feel personal in a way that reading about the mythology never could. But some of those marks also carry associations with people whose beliefs I completely reject. Racism, white supremacy, and Nazi ideology have attached themselves to parts of the same visual language I’ve chosen to carry. I find that…

We do have lack of open spaces in the capital for reading .. may be the center just wants a designated site for inculcating the reading habits for its pulp-fiction series. And occasional deep-listening to educational podcasts like “He-Man ki baat”

Very interesting idea! It could have been a little less… verbose, maybe? But it’s a very good thriller indeed! Rating: 👍Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!

“Didn’t you already say goodbye to Deno? Get new material!”I know, I know, but not even a week after declaring my friendship over with Deno they actually killed Deno! The runtime is going away, and sorry call me pessimistic, but I highly doubt a community fork of any value will survive for long.We will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates. After that year we will end our development of the Deno runtime.Deno is joining…

Mt Tate (立山, tate-yama) is one of the most-visited peaks in the Northern Alps of Japan, popular with hikers and sightseeing tourists alike. It's known as one of Japan's Three Holy Mountains (along with Mt Fuji and Mt Haku) and was a place where pilgrims would come to pay their respects by climbing up to its 3015m peak. These days, the hike up Mt Tate is made much easier thanks to the Kurobe Alpine Route, with a combination of buses, ropeways and cable cars taking hikers straight up to the…

Last year I finally ditched my Humax Freeview Recorder for a shiny new Manhattan T4-R – the latest iteration of their own recorder, and I’d heard good thinks about their past devices. However, reporting issues to them has been a combination of frustration and rude responses. Everything is your fault, not theirs. And it seems I’m not the only one with this issue. Bad Wi-Fi. Bad engineer. Just a few months after buying the Manhattan I was experiencing an issue with the Wi-Fi connection, which I…

This is my third and final book for this week’s 1949 Club, hosted by Simon of Stuck in a Book and Karen of Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings. Whichever year is chosen for the club, you can almost guarantee Georgette Heyer will have had a book published in that particular year – and 1949 is no exception. The novel begins with Arabella Tallant, the eldest daughter of a Yorkshire vicar, being invited to London to stay with her godmother, Mrs Bridlington, for the season. On the way, her carriage breaks…

From the Daily Mail‘s “US Science & Technology Editor”, last month: High in the mountains of Turkey sits a mysterious boat-shaped formation that some researchers believe could be the remains of Noah’s Ark. …Now, an international team examining the Durupınar Formation near Mount Ararat claims it has ‘100 percent confirmed’ that the mound is not a natural geological feature but a ‘man-made object.’ …Independent researcher Andrew Jones, the founder of Noah’s Ark Scans who has investigated the area…