I feel like everyone's treating their harnesses kind of like a garden.They're so different from each other. And so personal.There are some problems with the analogy though, because while we're getting extreme pleasure from tending our harness gardens, they also have a purpose that can be done more or less efficiently.I'd like for us to be able to keep this dynamic, though, even as the bitter lesson eats a lot of the work we've done with scaffolding.Notes🤖 AIL 1: Daniel wrote this post. I (Kai,…

I don’t know how I’m going to find time to play this but it looks so good!

Ogawa Coffee has a very long history, first opening in Kyoto in 1952, and more recently (since 2020) expanding to a number of stores in Tokyo as well. They even have one store in Boston! Although most of their branches are named “Ogawa Coffee”, there are three with the “Coffee Laboratory” moniker in Tokyo where I suppose they are going for a different sort of vibe. For their Shimokitazawa location they describe it as an “experience-based beans salon”. Well, whatever that means, it for sure is…

Spike Fuck “Getting Sober” “Getting Sober” is a type of boogie rock song that was old fashioned back when Marc Bolan and David Bowie made it the basis of glam over 50 years ago. It’s foundational rock music – groovy and flamboyant, sexy but silly, tapped into cultural roots but unapologetically artificial. There’s a lot of glam pastiche, but I think what Spike Fuck is doing here is a lot more sincere and heartfelt than straightforward genre emulation. They’re tapping into a tradition in the…

If October is Peak Apple, this coming holiday weekend is peak agroturismo at orchards in the Northeast. (Photo:Part of the crowd lining up to order cider donuts and other treats at Shelburne Farm on Saturday.) ¶ Come for the apples...but also the donuts, hayrides, goats, corn maze, musical performances, and other delights. Resources below, but also a report from last weekend.

Crucial Track for October 8, 2026: “Move” by jesse saint john What’s a hidden gem or underrated song you love? ∞ via Crucial Tracks

I don’t usually make tech predictions on this blog, but let me cook for a sec: I predict Apple will open up iOS/iPadOS within the next 5 years to allow apps that: Do not need to be approved by Apple Do not require a Mac to compile/develop Do not require a $99/year developer fee Essentially, Android side-loading. Not because of the EU, but because of the other two letters. I spent the past week developing an Android AI chat app that can modify itself. It can ssh to my laptop via termux, edit…

A ristra in the kitchen, slowly disappearing.Back from a post-fire holiday in Taos County, New Mexico, where I encountered the Ristra Riddle, namely, how old is that ristra?Ristras are strings of chile peppers, garlic heads, hung to dry, typically under roof eaves or portales (porches). And that is where they often stay. I will bet that more ristras are sold in the Southwest for home decor than for consumption. Not that consumption is hard. You pick the dried peppers, put them in a bowl, pour…

I've had this on repeat for most of the week. The lead single from their upcoming new album Dopamine Chamber. If you go back and listen to their first album, you'll see just how much their sound has evolved over the years. Could be divisive for hardcore fans, bu this strong lean into synths is just chef's kiss.

Filmed on October 26, 2024, at the Novomax in Quimper, France, Mediavolo’s intimate return to the stage brings songs separated by years into bodily proximity. Guitarist and band composer Jacques Henry, keyboardist Fabrice Duhamel, drummer Lionel Prigent, and bassist David Carquet give compositions that invite solitary absorption in the studio the immediacy of people listening to one another as they play. Older material absorbs the experience gathered since its creation, while songs from Away…

Read the full post at - TIL about America’s National Grasslands On my summer trip through the Dakotas, I stopped in Wall, South Dakota. Most people know Wall for exactly one thing – Wall Drug. And yes, I stopped. And yes, it was terrible. It was so over-the-top, so relentlessly tacky, such a pure distillation of tourist trap that it looped all the way back around to awesome. It’s like Las Vegas – so trashy that you just have to respect it. I respect Wall Drug. It’s still terrible. It was…

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 8th August 2006 It seems fitting that as I write this in 2026 that we are seeing the rebirth of California’s technical deathcore legends All Shall Perish, rising from the grave to bring us back to the halcyon days where techdeathcore was actually pretty good, like on their 2006 record ‘The Price of Existence’. This was the first album I remember hearing that sounded like this, not old school death metal or even more modern technical or brutal stuff. No this…

dried artichoke, in india ink

It's taken a while, but I've finally got around to painting my 1:144 print of the Roland C-II Walfsch (whale).This has been one of my favourite German WW1 two-seaters ever since I built the Airfix 1:72 scale kit of it way back in the before-times, the 1970s I think.There's an interesting optical illusion here: the Maltese crosses on wings and fuselage are exactly the same size, but the fuselage crosses look much larger.

by Cláudio Alves Sometimes, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that TIFF is a Canadian film festival. It’s the biggest Canadian film festival, to be specific, and, as such, it bears the responsibility of celebrating and helping launch local talent, voices and, indeed, Canadian film. By defining Hollywood-made movies as ineligible for the International People’s Choice Award, unlike UK- and Ireland-based projects, TIFF blurs the line between itself and the American film industry, perhaps as part…

ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE – February 1968. Overall rating: *** STANLEY ELLIN “The Last Bottle in the World.” Novelet, A story that wine lovers will really enjoy the most. Ending a bit weak, but Ellin stands high above every other writer of the suspense story, (5) DOROTHY L. SAYERS “A Matter of Taste.” First appeared in Lord Peter Views the Body (Gollancz, UK, 1928, as “The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste”.) A test by wine tasting, but it is obvious who the real Lord Wimsey is. (2)…

We needed to get outta town. And it had been a very long time since we'd been on a real road trip—anything longer than a couple of hours qualifies these days—and stuck a pin in our Oregon map in Baker City. Granted, it's not new territory, especially for me, since most of the family on my mother's side still lives on the eastern side of the mountains and I grew up accompanying my grandfather to work at his cattle ranch in North Powder. The most indelible memories for me were riding the ranch's…

today was pretty good, another nearly perfect fall day. nice and cool in the morning, a little warmer in the afternoon. i biked to the station in the morning, and took the train into the city as per usual. this morning, as i looked out the window of the train, the sun was rising in the most beautiful way, beginning to fill the sky in varied peach tones. its sad that i didn't see anyone else looking out the window at it. i wish more people would notice the small things like that. i think having…

In 2018 I wrote about Your Version Number. A few months ago I made a website for it (including a work edition). Then I thought “I wish I got my version number in email” and what if you could add notes for each version! Release Notes This is brand new today. Let me know what you think!

The HuntIn the skies above the Strangereal, I dive and flip and turn. There, below — an enemy F-14, flying low. I center my view, and I watch the drag of my own jet's nose reticle smoothly lock into position. They're flying too slow. They don't see me yet. I press a button and loose a missile from under my wings. It darts ahead of me gracefully, a pure-white trail of smoke behind it. I skim the water, trailing behind my own deadly barrage. The missile sinks home, plunging into the target's…

Walking through a changed landscape after a fire. Read More ... Continue reading Bearing Witness: Fire, Flood, and a Changed Landscape at PMags.com.

Today is the one year anniversary of Superpowers' initial public release. To celebrate, we're releasing Superpowers 7.0. The biggest change you'll see in this new version is a completely rebuilt brainstorming experience. Superpowers is now much, much better at helping you understand and explain what you're making. It's also much happier to get out of the way when you know exactly what you want and just want your coding agent to cook. I've been making software since elementary school. I think…

Check out As in guillotine... for more. I grew up reading comics purchased from newsstands and bodegas in the Bronx in the 70s, and experienced firsthand the birth of the direct market via Moon Knight. One of my first jobs as a teenager was a Page at the Mt. Vernon Public Library, mostly shelving books and exploring varied interests, including my introduction to Stephen King’s and Ian Fleming’s earliest novels. Back then, comics and libraries weren’t a thing yet, except maybe for comic strip…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 17th April 2026 The next instalment of my ‘oh shit, how far behind am I on Transcending Obscurity releases this year’ leads me to Mexican black metallers Muerto and their new record ‘Eclipsed Realms’, released back in April. A three piece, female fronted outfit, their sound is described as doom/post black metal with a real sense of atmosphere and darkness, which all sounds ideal for 2026 black metal. This is their third full length, and I am currently…

Selfie a day for a year, day 45: Oct 8, 2026 edition. I’m just waiting for my dinner, pizza, to finish cooking.

We had a provincial election here in Quebec earlier this week, coverage of which served as a reminder that the Quebec government officially does not recognize the province’s border with Labrador—a border determined by a… More

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Aaron Horwath implements AI for a living, and in a good essay for Noema he asks why so many knowledge workers are losing faith in their careers: In coffee shops and in the low-lit corners of bars, professionals are sharing dreams of “disappearing” or “living on a farm somewhere” or “going off the grid.” These aren’t fantastical daydreams; they are visions of escape shared in a tone that betrays an underlying existential angst, a fundamental doubt about work and careerism inspired by a seemingly…

Did you know that just a few days ago (6 October 2026, a day that may live in infamy!) OpenAI published hundreds of mathematical manuscripts in one fell swoop, crediting these works to an internal frontier model it has not named and has not yet released? (See here, here, and here, for example.) On this note, check out the Association for Human Mathematics (AHM)’s Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents: https://ahmath.org/statements (hat tip: @pickover). Some of the…