Info Date: 2026-10-11 Distance: 38 km Elevation Gain: 990 m Moving Time: 2:57:13 Elapsed Time: 4:49:53 Surface (OSM estimate): Paved 33.4% · Gravel 28.3% · Dirt 6.5% · Unknown 31.8% MTB downhill (public route): No tagged grades · tagged 0/13793 m (0.0%) Downhill trails ridden: None identified MTB uphill (public route): No tagged grades · tagged 0/14130 m (0.0%) Uphill trails ridden: None identified Map Tap map to interact Description Lepa nedelja v Vipavski dolini!

This is sort of a continuation of the post about what generative AI boosters are missing about art, where I expressed an opinion that even if generative AI eventually becomes capable of creating legitimately beautiful texts or images or musical tracks, people would still treat generated works as “slop” and not want to engage with them. I believe that the opinion I expressed there is, overall, a harsher opinion than the one I hold on AI-generated software (which I dislike, but can tolerate in…

Bad ideas will consolidate if they circulate inside a group of people. Individuals will fear losing their membership in their group. An idea does not stand for itself. The identity of the person plays a big role in keeping a specific idea at the center. If you would overthink this idea from a neutral standpoint, you would probably come to a different conclusion after some time has passed. But because other people repeat the same points, you keep on believing. You don't want to sacrifice things…

Ten minutes now saves you a weekend in April Picture next April. You sit down to do your taxes, and the form asks what you spent last year on electricity, trash, water, and gas. Four companies sent you roughly twelve bills each, and all 48 sit scattered through a year of email. Digging them out by hand costs an afternoon, and a missed bill puts a wrong number on your return. Today your bills land in your inbox with everything else. After the work below, each bill files itself into a single tax…

In my household are four licensed drivers and four vehicles. Each vehicle has two sets of keys; my wife and I each get one. My two driving teens borrow them regularly. Keeping track of the keys is frustrating. Enter Apple’s AirTag. AirTag the keys, you must. I only have one AirTag for now. Maybe some new AirTag 2s will be gifted to me for Christmas this year? The one I have was living in my wallet, which never moves or changes hands. My car keys though? They frequently move and change hands. We…

Its true. In a manner of speaking. If LLMs had not reached Fable / Mythos tier of marketed intelligence, I'd probably still have a job with the place I used to be at. For a short while.It wasn't that Fable was better at my job. As the last engineer, Fable was cheaper than my compensation. Evidently, it gave enough confidence to the last vestiges of leadership that they could coast until M&A.I've been through layoffs driven by budget cuts. I had to mechanically justify "I need this person…

Pete Millspaugh has a lovely article over on WIRED that peers into the world of domains. (If you’re as interested in the esoteric details of domains as I am, follow Pete’s writing at Dot Com Press.) You should just read the article, but here are a few things that stood out to me. The .com Registry Did you know who the registry for .com is? I didn’t. The registry that owns .com, Verisign, makes a billion and a half dollars every year just by keeping the lights on. To Verisign’s credit, the…

There is something extremely funny about watching people use AI to rebuild the software they are tired of renting. The promise was that these models would make other people’s expensive expertise available on demand. Writing, illustration, programming: describe what you want and the machine will produce something resembling it. Now people are asking for the applications too. Photoshop. Illustrator. Word. Excel. On my own computer, with the source code, please. Brandon Thomas’s Crafting Apps,…

Twin Peaks arrived on UK television screens on Tuesday 23rd October 1990 at 21:00 hours. The UK’s oldest listings magazine, Radio Times (1) devoted its front cover for the week to a portrait of Sherilyn Fenn under the heading “Bad Little Rich Girl”, and inside the publication’s chief film critic Barry Norman introduced the series.... The post How many UK viewers watched Twin Peaks (1990-1991)? appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

👤 Personal {#newsletter}1️⃣ First things first, the hero image of this edition is the default wallpaper of the upcoming iPhone Duo. It's one of the best iPhone wallpapers ever selected by Apple. 2️⃣ It's still hard to keep up with this newsletter, but I still like to put them together. I think I finally found the right structure and visual style.🗺️ Discoveries {#discoverability, #digitalcreation}1️⃣ This is my little dot. Pixel Area is a novel discoverability tool. You can filter by topics. →…

After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled daily links. Speech 1 | Foul Call: New York Times Calls for Canceling Sophie Cunningham in The Athletic (Jonathan Turley. Oct. 11, 2026.) I largely agree with Mr. Turley. But more material to Ms. Cunningham’s immediate future career prospects, I suspect the WNBA largely agrees with The Athletic. 2 | Reform supporter arrested after comparing Tory councillor to ‘rent boy’ (Robert…

Most exploratory questions against a large table only need a rough answer, but without an index on status, even "roughly how many shipped orders" costs a full scan. On the two-million-row orders table, Postgres has to read every single 8 kB page, all 18,085 of them (141 MB), just to count matching rows. EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) SELECT count(*) FROM orders WHERE status = 'shipped'; Aggregate Buffers: shared hit=18085 -> Seq Scan on orders (actual rows=500000.00 loops=1) Filter: (status =…

“AI code review tools” pulls around 720 searches a month, mostly from engineering leaders trying to figure out whether these tools are worth adopting or just another subscription that sits unused. As a Principal Engineer who runs most of my work through agentic AI workflows daily, here’s an honest answer: it depends entirely on what you’re asking it to catch. What AI Code Review Is Actually Good At The strongest use case, by far, is the boring stuff a human reviewer’s attention tends to skip…

Star Wars Galactic Racer. A modern game, for once.Included with Luna Prime, if you happen to have Amazon Prime too.First impression: excellent.Worthy successor to Episode I Racer on N64? We'll see.

Hi all, just a quick note: I finally started regularly reading blogs on my WordPress Reader, and am endeavoring to check out what everyone is doing and like as much as I can! With that in mind, if there’s anyone following me who is writing a fun blog, particularly about science, fiction, or roleplaying, and I’m not following you yet, drop me a comment and let me know! I’ll do my best to follow along. Time to bring back blogging! … cause social media is kinda terrible these days.

I’m back in Essex for a few days, having carried the book scanner across the country on annoyingly full trains, in order to scan as many of Dad’s diaries as I can. Maybe I’ll finish them this trip, or it’ll be too slow or drive me mad before I finish. We’ll see. Made good progress so far though. Odd to be back here, as ever. Each time I come I feel more like a ghost haunting this place. So strongly tied to it for so long and yet also wanting to be free. Little else to report. Went to the gym…

The OpenAI math thing is still the biggest story now. I want to wrap this up. On the 6th of October, Scott dropped his rebuttal, “An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI.” The article initially went viral, with the general online consensus agreeing with Scott and accusing Pinker of being out of touch. But 12 hours later, OpenAI dropped its math proofs, completely eclipsing Scott’s reply. So OpenAI bailed Pinker out by sparing him a response. Meanwhile, Scott’s opportunity to lay out his case was…

One good trick when trying to look for ways to optimize software is to stay away from areas that are very likely already quite well optimized, and instead focus on areas that might have been overlooked, either because they are too obscure or don’t show up during regular profiling sessions. This tactic worked well in the past, as shown with my optimization of tooltip creation, or the loading of editor localization files. This was also the reason why I mostly skip over any functions that contain…

A few years ago, I wrote about the launch of The Children's Channel in 1984. Available only on cable television at the time, it was Britain's first channel dedicated to children's television. While it featured numerous American imports, it also contained plenty of homegrown programming.One of these programmes was The Alphabet Game, produced by Thames Television, who also contributed Funfit and Bits and Pieces for the channel. It ran for 30 episodes from the launch of the channel and was hosted…

What with one thing and another over the last month, I didn’t get a chance to book on any of the walks in this year’s Dursley Walking Festival. So I was very happy to join Helen and Nigel for a short walk this morning through the valleys of Lasborough and Bagpath. A good crowd turned out at the carpark at Hunter’s Hall. Among them was Andy, which meant we rattled on about Discover Dursley for the first 30 minutes or so, completely missing the landscape we walked through. Helen and Nigel were…

All these screenshots are a couple of weeks old – I took them while my personal laptop was still holding out on 15.8, when reproducing something I had encountered on my work machine which had already been forced into macOS 26’ ugliness. The header photo above is a bonus bug which I only encountered while trying to reproduce the actual problem I wanted to highlight here. I can’t say that I encountered this again since, but what a bizarre stroke of “luck” that exactly when I specifically needed…

Working on the Founders Brewing beer garden (2013)Most of my blog posts are short enough that I'm thinking the distinction between /posts and /notes is kind of unnecessary. For some reason, I don't want to give up the /notes though. ✍️ Reply by email

The other day I was reading Dan Luu's post on speeding up his site by 50x. Not bad, Dan, I thought. But as someone who is essentially running a hand coded static website (generated by my home made static site generator) I thought I'd have him beat in terms of page size. Even with a bit of styling! I totally didn't. And it was never even close. Nevertheless, when I loaded up the network tab of dev tools, I was horrified to see that my home page had ballooned to 123 kB. That might not seem like…

When you run yt-dlp -F on a YouTube video you will see lots of entries ending in mp4_dash, webm_dash or m4a_dash. I thought at first that this is a new format, so I started searching. As my current filter would complain: "No video formats found!" The short version DASH stands for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, also known as MPEG-DASH. It is an international standard (first described in ISO/IEC 23009-1) for streaming video and audio over plain HTTP. The same protocol your browser uses to…

I know we’re famously bad at predicting things, including recessions. So let’s treat these predictions for AI in 2030 as ideas I’ve pieced together from private conversations about where AI is going over the next 3–5 years. 1. AI models will become commodities We still argue about which lab is ahead: OpenAI versus Anthropic, Opus versus whatever just came out. Then we spend another week arguing about the benchmark. I expect most of that to disappear from the customer’s view. For ordinary work,…

After spending some of the morning reading a piece on biodiversity by Simon Barnes in the Observer, I felt properly primed for the second of Evan Parker’s three matinees at Cafe Oto. Simon, an old colleague at The Times, was writing brilliantly about species diversity. His special subject is birds; he can tell the song of a willow warbler from that of a chiffchaff, just as I can (I hope) tell the sound of Fats Navarro from that of Clifford Brown. Whereas the dawn chorus around my suburban home…

The three college kids had a long weekend, so they are home and we’ll take them all back to school tomorrow. While they were home, I made appointments for them to get flu/Covid shots. Except that wasn’t the first step. The first step was I texted the three of them, saying “I wish to make you appointments for flu/Covid shots while you’re home.” Then I waited. This tentative approach comes from their ages: Henry is 19 now, and the twins are 21. It’s not just that they’re legal adults: if, when…

Charlotte and I went for a lil hike whilst Tabitha played badminton. Very beautiful ramble around the downs.51 words · 5 images

I’m trying to determine what the next step that I want to take will be. It feels like I’m just sitting her waiting for life to make the choice for me. Sometimes it works out, but most times it doesn’t. The horrible part is that it’s my brain telling me that it’s because I didn’t make the decision, it’s not my fault. This is a fallacy. Not making a choice is a choice.

A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Motheringby Elinor CleghornGenres: History, Non-fiction Pages: 416 Rating: Synopsis: Mothers make history. For centuries, motherhood has sparked social and political change. Yet the acts of growing, birthing and nurturing children - and the power they hold - have been pushed to the margins, overlooked in our narratives of the past. In A Woman's Work, Elinor Cleghorn reveals the mothers, othermothers, midwives, activists, and community leaders…