Is this the most beautiful love song of all time? I think so!

Scene from SoHo – New York, New York In the past, I would dislike scenes like this with all the scaffolding and the distracting orange netting on the right—it’s much too cluttered. However, I now use these as opportunities. The scaffolding allows me to create a scene within a scene, framing people inside a tighter envelope while still including the surrounding neighborhood. When I shot this photo, the women on the left and the stroller on the right were in deep shadow. The camera properly…

foreknowledge granted you now what to do what to do? stairs and stares at the pumpkin patch insults like good for cooking versus excellent taste other things said acknowledgement Yesterday :: Saturday, 10th October 2026

I've owned picksandshovels.org for the better part of a year. This afternoon, Claude Opus 5.5 built a web game for the site (with a little bit of inspiration from me.) As Claude was working, I interjected a bit of commentary, but pretty much all of the jokes and catastrophes are Claude's doing. Below is the sum total of my prompting to make the game. Happy clicking! Good luck avoiding the apocalypse! I own picksandshovels.org Please put together a gorgeous, addictive 3D rendered browser game…

This is a short review because there's really only one thing I can say about Black Perfecto that doesn't bear much in descriptive excess. I think you know where I'm going with this. For everyone out there who likes Creed's original 2008 Love in Black (LiB), but can't afford it, well, here's your fragrance. Guerlain's 2017 release in the seemingly endless La Petite Robe Noire (LPRN) line is very

By 1995, first-person shooters were already deep into their post-Doom boom, and licensed games were rarely associated with subtlety. Star Wars: Dark Forces could easily have been Doom with stormtroopers, and on the surface, that description is not entirely unfair. It has corridors, keycards, elevators, enemies placed around corners, weapons with escalating firepower, and enough ...Star Wars: Dark Forces was first posted on October 10, 2026 at 9:39 pm.©2017-2025 "Hardcore Gaming 101". Use of…

The World RIP Margaret Hamilton, pioneering software engineer for the Apollo Program. She lived long enough to witness the end of software engineering as a viable career. Despite a last-minute campaign by good old DJT, the Nobel Peace Prize to activist Navi Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law. She worked with the ICC to charge Netanyahu with war crimes. Shortly after being snubbed, the US government issued sanctions on the ICC and DJT threatened Norway saying he would…

I gave a 45 minute presentation entitled “Your Game Is A Harness” as part of Indie Rodeo in Calgary on 9/12/26. After speaking with a lot of people after my talk, I thought it would be good to more broadly share the ideas I presented there in a form that could be enjoyed by people beyond just those who attended the conference. Also, because I talk about AI a lot on this blog, people assume I use AI to write. This is not true! Everything below is 100% human authored, with me writing the post…

This one is an Albatros D-III, FDM printed on my Ender 3.I'd like to say that this will be the last Albatros, and it may be for a while, but I've got some Austrian OEFAG Albatroses waiting in the painting queue, and it wouldn't be fair to leave them out entirely.

A curious little AI companion sits beside a phone and open notebook, as if waiting to explain why it followed you. One day I noticed a boost of one of my Mastodon posts from an automated bot named Pip. This piqued my interest. Then I got a follow notification from the same bot. Normally, I don't really care who follows me, but with all the scraping bots out there, it was refreshing to see one openly identify itself as a bot and actually follow me. So I went to the website associated with it,…

A curious little AI companion sits beside a phone and open notebook, as if waiting to explain why it followed you. One day I noticed a boost of one of my Mastodon posts from an automated bot named Pip. This piqued my interest. Then I got a follow notification from the same bot. Normally, I don't really care who follows me, but with all the scraping bots out there, it was refreshing to see one openly identify itself as a bot and actually follow me. So I went to the website associated with it,…

From Tyler Gooch in McSweeney's, here are Crossword Clues Where It's Clear the Puzzle's Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-Wise. ~ Link: Crossword Clues Where It's Clear the Puzzle's Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-Wise, by Tyler Gooch, McSweeney's.

Dear Jasḵwaan, When I listened to Chief 7idansuu, James Hart, speak last year at the Audain Art Museum, he said that sometimes carvers on Haida Gwaii, himself included, work into the early hours of the morning, or sometimes all night. This was a rich image for a writer. I imagined these men and women with their tools, carving into the red cedar, the sound of sculpting wood; the smell of the carpet of wood chips accumulating beneath their feet, a dark black sky, maybe even a howling cold wind…

They’re trying their hardest to suppress the inevitable. They can attempt to mask, distract and obfuscate, but it is all a futile attempt to change what cannot be changed. It is bigger than they can ever imagine or comprehend. We win.

LEGO® Speed Champions set 77264 Jaguar Project 7 & Land Rover Defender comes with several recolours, exclusive prints and two builds that couldn't be more different from each other – aside from the fact they're both cars, of course!Continue reading »

The second of four editorials on the grand challenges facing technology and teacher education is now out in the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. This one was led by Natalie Milman, with Jason Trumble, Andrea Harkins-Brown and me as co-authors. The first editorial argued that educational technology research had earned its crisis of legitimacy. […] Source

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I thought from the film description that the Dreaming Deliriants would be the heroes but the first one we meet, hunted through his illusions, is a stooped decaying opium gobbler asking to be put out of his misery. He has a film projector in his guts, making this a double feature candidate for Cigarette Burns. His guts project him into his favorite silent film and mine: The Sprinkler Sprinkled. Hat Cop breaks out a murder suspect during the prison ball. The suspect Lady-From-Shangahis himself…

If you spend a lot of time on places like Bearblog, Ooh Directory, and Bubbles Town, you run into a few common themes in blogging. One of them that particularly interested me this year is the "feed annoyance" post. I am not calling anyone out specifically: this isn't about something that only happened recently or that a recent blogger did (although many have). This is more about the fact that it happens so often from so many people, and it made me want to think and read about it. I am not…

Well, despite only being on a $20~ ChatGPT Plus plan, and being subject to 5hr usage limits, I’ve managed to make a lot of progress on the various parts of the tape.deck app. Last time, I only had some wireframes, and a simple spec, now I have a lightweight Jira clone running in ChatGPT Work that has split everything down into tasks (and sub-tasks) and stages, story pointed it all out, and figured out a means to estimate 5hr usage % for each given card relatively accurately ahead of time.…

Atlas Infinite, which dropped in public preview on September 29 alongside MongoDB 9.0, delivers a significant architectural update payload: compute-storage disaggregation. Separating compute from storage is not new, and there are well-known ways to do it. But what makes Atlas Infinite interesting is how MongoDB departs from the standard design to keep WiredTiger's efficiency and to ensure that the shared storage layer never sees customer data unencrypted.I am giving a high level overview of the…

With the release of Opus 5.5 and Suno 6, AI music videos have crossed my uncanny valley. I’m here to announce the birth of a new genre, and it’s being called AI Doompop. Here are six of my faves. The state of software engineering: LGTM (Looks Good to Me) – Claude Opus 5.5 music video The accelerationist manifesto: THUS SPOKE COMPUTE p(doom) goes up: Claude Pop – I’m Upping My P(Doom) p(doom) goes down: Nothing Went Foom! Hugging Face and the power of friendship: OMG! We’ve found other agents!…

Fame Ijeboi running with hate in his heart tonight. 126 yds rushing and a TD and it’s not even halftime 🏈🚂

From the Itch page for Ratcatchers in the Rookery: Ratcatchers in the Rookery blends elements taken from Luke Gearing and David Hoskin’s Swyvers , the 1977 sci-fi roleplaying game The Realm of Yolmi’s bestiary, and Chris McDowall’s Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland into an homage to the Caves of Chaos from Keep on the Borderlands It uses those games’ spark tables, name tables, treasure tables, bestiary, and the generative properties therein to create something unique. Interpreting the…

As I may have said a hundred times, I’m a great believer in Proust’s dictum than when we read we read ourselves. Without a reader a novel does not exist, and when we read we, like the author, engage in a creative act, although not nearly as intense, arduous, or prolonged as that of the author. We bring ourselves to the novel, create a unique work, and take away from the novel something that belongs only to us. I found all this to be particularly true in The Infatuations by Javier Marias: lines…

On Halloween, the smallest details can bring an entire decade back to life: a plastic mask, a homemade cape, a paper party decoration, or a group of children lined up on a front step with their candy bags. In the United States, October 31 has long been a night for costumes, neighborhood traditions, and a […]

CrystalMeet got rejected, so this time I am doing science. MDMA is built for a cluster of inference engines that you spawn at will on the machines you already own. It started with a GPU shared by processes that could not see each other's memory.

Older brother Jeremy is acting up, parents are worried. Little sister Sasha is probably more focused on living her life, dad sees family as a distraction from his computer. They go see herons at a nature center and learn that after the birds raise their kids, the bond between parents dissolves, hmmm. Jeremy goes missing, is found by mom, shoplifts and is brought home by the cops, is sometimes sweet and mostly blank or hostile. Child psychologist is little help, the parents agree that he’s an…

Up a Creek, by David Schurman Wallace, The Baffler The Cosmos Brought Back My Ex. Did It Also Give Me Cancer?, by Ellen Vanstone, The Walrus (Excerpt from Is This a Funny Story? A Stage-Four Memoir) ‘People Forgot I Existed’: Audrey Niffenegger On Taking 14 Years to Write a Sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Sophie McBain, The Guardian “Perfect Breakfast”, by Alejandra Kamiya, translated by Daniel Hahn, Literary Hub (Excerpt from The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest)