I am fallible and see no reason to hide my minor flaws if they are part of my personality — no more than I feel the need to wear a wig when I have my picture taken or borrow someone else’s nose when I show my face. Almost all the book editors who read the draft recommended changes at the sentence level, to make my style better, and in the structure of the text, in the organization of chapters. I ignored almost all of them and found out that none of the readers thought them necessary. As a…

Dream Workby Mary OliverGenres: Poetry Pages: 96 Rating: Synopsis: Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems originally published in 1986, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver’s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness, so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive, continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the…

You can clear the backlog of your open-source projects with AI now. It’s really great at reproducing bugs, implementing reasonable features, adding the tests you never had time to write, and responding to user issues that have been open forever. Copilot and I worked through a dozen projects in the Mongoid organization on two 4-hour bus rides to visit my son in college (go Lions!). I picked the work, questioned the implementations, reviewed the results, and merged changes. The agent did all the…

I have been reading up on the auto industry since I was a young tween, going back to at least 1981 for my first-ever issue of Car & Driver. While I had forgotten the cars reviewed in that issue, I remember it being the magazine's debut of longtime auto journalists Jean Jennings (née Lindamood) and the unforgettable Csaba Csere. This was back when LJK Setright, a man whose life seems too preposterous to be real, wrote the back page articles for C&D. There's something to be said for being able to…

Some things are easier to change than others, that’s for sure. It’s easy to change the channel on TV or to change underwear. But when it comes to decisions in life, changes are much harder. We need more time and more energy to talk ourselves into change. At least I am like that. It takes me so much time to change something. Even buying something can take me weeks of thinking and ruminating. But on the other hand, when I make this kind of decision, everything else just goes smoothly. It feels…

I've been procrastinating one of my autumn jobs which is doing a houseplant audit. I thought also making it a blog post might help motivate me. There's no app or anything. I just have my own notes. An accurate list of who's alive and who's died. I also like to take progress pictures. I'm bad at remembering to note when I potted on or propagated. Ideally I'd log in spring and autumn but I think I didn't even do last autumn so there's some catching up to do. I like this little area. In the end,…

I think there’s no reason not to use Pagecord as your blogging platform. It’s simple yet flexible, fast, and looks great. And Olly, the developer, is incredibly friendly and helpful, and actively working to make Pagecord even better.

Bun v1.4.3 just came out, and it includes a new native bun check command that can replace TypeScript's tsc command to validate that your TypeScript compiles to JavaScript. I tested it on a side project. Yes, it's 2.6x faster. And 12x faster than tsc v6.

From “Black Women are the mules of the Earth” to Thriving and Refreshed (Video and commentary)“In this empowering video, we challenge the narrative that has long portrayed Black women as the "mules of the Earth.” We explore the rich, vibrant lives of Black women who are thriving, not just surviving. Join us as we share inspiring stories, celebrate resilience, and discuss the importance of self-love, community support, and unapologetic joy. Together, we can shift the dialogue and uplift each…

In macOS 27, this icon appears next to every text input.

The good folks over at Tatertot Comics & Collectibles have a fantastic store and know how to put on a great comic show. That is why I'm excited for, "Tatertot Con Year 3," this Saturday, October 17th! Held at the Fox C-6 Service Center (849 Jeffco Blvd, Arnold, MO, 63010), it will run from 12PM-6PM. Entry is only $5, with kiddos 12 and under getting in for free! With over 50 vendors, food trucks, and some snazzy guests, I'm pumped to check the show out in just two days! I encourage anyone in…

apparently you can just do things now so here's the 2010 twitter app for ipad (the one with the cool sliding panels) but turned into a pwa for bluesky: https://panes.ezhik.jp here's the source too: https://github.com/SilverEzhik/panes-for-bluesky y'know, ai slop still terrifies me. it was actually codex not gork like on one hand, this revives a bunch of people's hard work that was dead for like 15 years. on the other hand, what did i do? no woodworking here, i pretty much just said gork port…

Spoiled. Rotten. There’s no other reasonable way to describe the feeling that washed over me as Andre Lafferma guided the metallic blue Bell Jet Ranger II helicopter off the gravel bar, elevated into the cold, gray sky, and disappeared into the rain-blurred ether. Light three passengers and some fly-fishing gear, the chopper climbed to the lip of the river canyon, topped the spruce and cedar trees that reached to the slate-gray heavens, and, just like that, we were alone on a remote,…

Postcard: guess what I'm knitting This is one of my postcards: short, handwritten messages—from me to you. Thank you for reading this via RSS! View this article on my website. Replies: E-mail / Fediverse / Webmention

Python is known for fast packages despite being a slow language. The fastest Python packages are written in compiled languages such as C, C++, or Rust, with Python acting only as a glue. Python users usually don't even notice that, because PyPI (Python's package index) provides precompiled binaries. They are called wheels, and when you run pip install, it prefers them over the source distribution. For example, each release of my packages ships up to 90 different wheels. You need a separate…

Edit Xcode projects from the terminal with xcodeproj, xcprojformatter, and the new JSON format

We left off two days ago (because of the Farhad Tarash interlude) with the "wrong" ending of their love story, one we know didn't happen because we know when the two lovers lived and died. The idea that Khosrow's son kills Khosrow in order to marry Shirin, and Shirin killing herself to avoid this, does not fit the few facts we know.The fact is that the two were married. Shirin was a Christian, and her presence in his life was likely an influence on his tolerance for the various Christian…

You may or may not have picked up on the fact that I have done away with a traditional portfolio, in favor greater freedom. I now post whatever I want in whatever format feels compelling. That's what makes me feel at home in my little corner of the web and removes the mental restrictions that used to stop me from posting consistently. I believe that artists need to take back the internet from big tech, empowering people to explore the web using their own volition. I believe this so hard that I…

Have finally been hanging a few things on the wall, and this is a note-to-self about how best to do that in our current home. I’m more used to either plaster over masonry (UK) or more modern drywall and studs (US), but our apartment in an old Brooklyn brownstone is mainly plaster and wood lath over masonry. Very crumbly old plaster, surprisingly dense lath, and very little void space between the plaster+lath and the masonry. Hanging something is more art than science and requires a good…

Our neighbour's pyracantha, withour red leaved vine scrambling through it, makes a glorious combination in the morning sunlight.

“Fourteen ways to be a better girlfriend.”*People are right. Pinterest is infested with the cheapest, most rubbishy AI slop that’s around. Slop that’s so crude it can’t spell or count

We have quite a few tasty traditions in Sweden. There’s the fika and kanelbulle, of course, the semla season, and pancakes with whipped cream on Thursdays. Then there’s the lovely lussebulle season, and it’s just started. A bit too early, to be honest. Traditionally, it runs from late November. That’s the thing with most traditions these days, isn’t it? It feels like they’re getting stretched each year. In a few years, we’ll take midsommarstången down on the same day as we put up the Christmas…

A sub-series within Big Tech's War on Users Back in June I wrote Wait. Florida? because Florida had just become the first state to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT, and I had to read it twice. I said the broken clock was right, and I was still looking at it sideways. Yesterday it was eight more. Per Bloomberg Law, attorneys general from Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia and Nebraska each sued OpenAI on Wednesday, separately, in their own state courts. Bloomberg calls it a…

Gail Simone and company's story from the Summer of Supergirl anthology—which was collected in Supergirl Vol. 2: Hometown Horrors, a trade I reviewed in this column—was about the first meeting of the current version of Supergirl and the current version of Mary Marvel. Reading it made me curious about a previous story about the first meeting of a different version of Supergirl and a different version of Mary Marvel, 1997's Supergirl Plus. There weren't all that many Plus books, but I thought they…

{We continue with our fortnightly serial epic of the early years of the Beaten Generation. Please enjoy responsibly if at all…}They came to the end of the hall and to a door on which was painted in cursive gilt letters: W.C.Livingston pushed open the door and gestured for Harry to go first, and Harry did, entering a spacious lavatory of marble and granite, porcelain and dark wood, and at the head of a row of sinks to the left a tiny old Negro man in a white jacket sat on a stool reading a…

One thing that stands out is how capricious the Twitter right is about Trump, vacillating between supporting him and hating him. They cheer his deportations, then blame him for “affordability.” Some of these grievances are legitimate. Home prices, adjusted for inflation, are way higher than they were 30–50 years ago. Insurance, healthcare, and other expenses have also gone up. Nothing seems to have gotten easier as far as affordability is concerned. If you cannot get a good-paying job that lets…

This blog post is not about passkey attestation. I have no strong opinion on the subject that has inspired a controversy over the past few days. However, the controversy did inspire me to write about passkeys again, and passkeys do currently feel like a trap to me, for reasons other than attestation. Admittedly, my reasons may be specific to the Apple ecosystem, as someone who stumbled into a career writing software for Apple devices, with no financially viable alternative. Three years ago I…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***I think we all remember the joke that went, "Mississippi is a very long word but can you spell it?"And we never needed that joke more than we did, this week in 1976.That's because seizing the top spot on the UK singles chart was none other than Mississippi by Pussycat. How well I remember the video that went with that one.But what of the accompanying album chart?Its pinnacle was still…

A minimalist view of a broadcast tower in Dallas’ Deep Ellum neighborhood. The post Caster appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

https://mas.to/@cubicgarden/117445460318480585 When I bought my Framework 13 laptop while leaving BBC R&D, I was so excited to set it up I failed to add LUKS disk encryption to the system. I knew I should but thought I can do it later… (big mistake) So 1.5 years later, having dismissing the task to add disk encryption over and over again; then wondering if I should move the to do date closer while traveling across international borders. Then finally deciding to do it when Ubuntu 26.04 comes out…