A while ago, Trevor McKendrick asked what people are using AI for these days and I answered him. Here's a follow-up. I've forked a WebAssembly fork of Helix, my favorite text editor, and I'm hosting it for my own use on the Web. This is going way better than I expected it would: I can port only the features I need, AI is great at fixing bugs, and latency is low. There's much more to say about this project, but for now: I'm actually using it, it actually works as intended, and it's magical. I've…

Today’s selection is frustratingly and literally topical, but hopefully just briefly and temporarily. Collapse release this is a digital standalone single in February 2021 with Yuki Ishikawa of My Dead Girlfriend guesting on vocals. A banger of a track, if there’s an upside to this it’s that I haven’t listened to this song in ages […] The post Collapse -『Vertigo』 appeared first on Space Echo.

You’re a hobbyist musician and programmer, and you want to make a full album using only vibe-coded tools. You start by vibe-coding a DAW, the digital workstation software where all the work happens. Then you vibe-code an FM synthesizer plugin, where you’ll actually produce the sound of your music. To help you create harmonies, you vibe-code a plugin that shows harmonic fields around the chord you’re playing, suggesting possible progressions. You request a feature to add color to the chords,…

The latest in my run of techy book reviews — this time an old classic: Getting Real by the team behind Basecamp. This too, has been doing the rounds at Automattic and has been recommended by a colleague. Unlike the book on typography, this is absolutely the kind of book I’d ordinarily read, and thus has stiffer competition from the likes of The Lean Startup, Zero to One, and Hackers \& Painters. Showing its age The first thing that struck me about the book was that it feels dated. In the early…

Turns out Cybertrucks are like a rock. No, not like that. Like, they sink to the bottom never to be seen again.

I’d planned to be more on top of my blogging, but I’ve been caught in a frenzy of life and due dates. So to make amends, I’ve decided to attempt a daily-note blog stream habit. Both as a way to keep some accountability and to gather my (increasingly scattered) thoughts. These notes will likely incorporate some more personal ruminations and will almost certainly be significantly less polished than the norm. Feel free to skip them! When I get some time, I’ll probably siphon them away into a…

I cannot possibly imagine what it means for Nespresso to partner with Swarovski (beyond this very shiny box), so obviously I ordered some. I’ll report back if I ever figure it out.

Ladies and gentlemen of the board of directors, today I⁠— what’s that, Wilkins? There are no ladies on the board? You waited until now to tell me? Ahem, sorry, about that. Incompetent underlings, you know how it is.Right, yes, so… Gentlemen of the board of directors, it is my great honor to introduce the latest, greatest, most amazing invention our corporation has ever developed. Prepare to be astounded! Remember this moment! And feast your eyes upon this fully functional prototype! I present…

I probably get more satisfaction from rearing my own queens than any other aspect of beekeeping. Furthermore, I've probably learnt more about bees and beekeeping by rearing queens than from producing tons {{1}} of honey over the years.When I use the term queen rearing here I'm referring to an active process in which I introduce larvae of the right age to a prepared colony (the 'cell raiser') and rear multiple queen cells simultaneously. Typically, I'll do this by grafting 'day old' larvae.Once…

Last week, OpenAI announced they tackled a longstanding problem in mathematical physics: the existence of quantum Yang-Mills theory. Since one of this blog’s first posts was an explainer about what Yang-Mills theory is, I figured I should probably comment. In 1954, Yang and Mills wrote down a type of theory that would turn out to describe three of the four fundamental force of nature. Electromagnetism uses the simplest version of the theory, while the two nuclear forces are more complicated.…

I love static sites. Pre-rendered files are usually faster, lower maintenance, easier to secure, and more. Static site generators let you create these sites much more easily, which is fabulous. But I believe most static site generators are weird. SSGs like Jekyll, Gatsby, and Hugo require you to learn their special way of doing things. You have to answer questions like: How do you write HTML templates? How do you manage CSS and JavaScript? How do you deal with images and videos? How do you…

She continues to grow and light up our lives. For whatever reason, going from month three to five felt incredibly long. Almost longer than going from zero to three months. I think it's perhaps because life was a bit busier as we had more visits with family, doctor visits, holidays, and the like. Our little girl is growing incredibly fast, something I'm sure every new parent says. Her gummy smile is what gets me. All it takes is just one of those and I just fill up with love. We are heading into…

These have proven weirdly popular, as I assume we are all at point in our gear journey where we don’t bother having people buy us stuff. I imagine we have all experienced something like this conversation: Partner: “Do you want a knife for Christmas?” Reader: “YES!” Partner: “Which one?” Reader: “Well…it might be hard to find, but I want the Spyderco Native 5 Trout handle Sprint Run in S90V.” Partner: “Is that a knife? I don’t even understand what you just said. Please go buy that yourself.” But…

The site has been a passion project of mine for sixteen years now. I like writing this stuff and I like interacting with readers. I like the folks in the gear industry and I love the design aspects of gear. And so I write this because I love it.But it can be expensive. And I have taken steps that I believe increase the integrity of the site that make it even more so. About a year ago I decided to eliminate “return to sender” review samples. I feel limited in what I can do and how I can use the…

For thousands of years, cartographers have been mapping more than just the known world. Medieval and early modern maps often mixed observed geography with religious beliefs, folklore and mythical stories, placing legendary cities, lost kingdoms and biblical locations alongside real-world places.Mythical Tours is a fascinating narrated journey through this imaginary geography, using centuries of historical maps to track down the locations of places that many people today believe exist only in…

A blogging prompt from the mind of Robert Birming. Robert writes: Knowember will also be a recurring event, with a couple of new questions each year. Nice. I like these types of surveys and prompts. It reminds me of the email chains we used to forward each other in the late 90s. A photoI share photos of my mug pretty regularly, so rather than show another one, here's a picture of Boba being the tiny babby gworl that she is. She's around 6 years old! Not a kitten. But still a baby. Name or…

Dave has shared a demo of the markdown-web browser that he is developing. I very much like clean text on websites, so I find this approach appealing. Something work keeping an eye on.

I've talked before about how it's possible to filter a set of elements, in response to user requests, using only HTML + CSS. But did you know that you can also sort a set of elements. And it's pretty easy! Sortable animals Here are some animals for you - Sort animals by:IntelligenceAggressionSpeedStrengthSizeBeauty Highest first 🐐 Goat IntelligenceNot so smart Aggression6 Speed6 Strength6 Size7 Beauty4 🦋 Butterfly IntelligenceStoopid Aggression2 SpeedSlow Strength1 Size2 Beauty14 🐕 Dog…

I saw some bloggers and friends participating on this prompt/challege, which—of course—originates from Robert Birming’s mind. Even though I’m one of the ones who feels like the about page I have covers pretty much everything, I decided to contribute with my own entry anyway. A photo You can find two pretty faithful pixel art recreations of me on both my home page and my about page. These will do for most situations. Here I decided to share a picture of one of my dogs, her name is Lana and she’s…

Is near the end of a car that wasn’t that good anyway, of not going on fire RIP Cybertruck Tesla will stop making the Cybertruck in 2027 Elon Musk appears to signal the end of the road for Cybertruck Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets In other tech news How accurately did science fiction stories predict AI? Britain’s Online Censorship Law Now Comes With a Crisis Plan for Your Posts Dutch ‘idealist’ bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including…

Last night I had some free time, so I fired up PCSX2 on my Macbook and played a round of MVP Baseball 2005, Blue Jays vs. Brewers. My goodness, I hate those 2000s Brewers jerseys. I have to earn a lot of points to unlock classic jerseys (I miss my PS2 copy so much). It's still a very fun game to play; ignoring the dated graphics, the game mechanics function very similarly to modern baseball games. In fact, I changed my control scheme in MLB The Show 2026 to mirror MVP as closely as possible. I…

My latest piece at Cinema Sugar: Gone with the Wind and Sinners are Twin Visions of America. I rewatched Sinners earlier this year, and thinking about its 1930s Southern setting triggered a lightbulb moment about Gone with the Wind, perhaps the definitive (for better or worse) movie about the South that was released rather than set in the ’30s but brought a lot of the views of its time into its depiction of the antebellum South. That led me down a rabbit hole where I discovered more surprising…

A speculative collab between the William Morris Gallery and the NHS I was thinking about paper again but in the context of digital fatigue and how we might still raise awareness of screening even when they don’t have a digital tool around. It always seemed strange to me that the NHS has no merch or official museum (the 2015 Sportsbanger t-shirt doesn’t count). Not because it should spend money on toys and mugs, but because physical objects and cultural institutions give an organisation a…

Hi! Everyone knows how a Minecraft font looks like, but have you took a closer look? The problem is actually deeper than you think. Visuals and alternatives are included.

From The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (Harper, 2013), pp. 278-279: The loan had become a dangerous tool wielded by the alliance blocs. This weaponization of international credit was nothing new, but its deployment in this instance locked Bulgaria into the policy of the Triple Alliance, just as Serbia had been integrated into the political system of the Entente. What was happening in the Balkans was nothing less than the reversal of the old pattern of…

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Somehow I managed to finish rebuilding the caboose without getting too many photos snapped so here's the conclusion of this project.While all of the window glazing showed signs of age, glue and paint to varying degrees, the cupola was by far the worst offender. The glazing had popped loose and was nearly falling out when I removed it from the roof. Using the old glazing as a tracing template, I cut new glazing from plastic packaging. I glued these pieces into the cupola using Testors Clear…

Apple charging guide updated with the Fall Updates: latest Duo data, the new iPad mini fast charging, and the fancy M6 MacBook Pro with that 70W charger. The Apple Charging Situation · randsinrepose.com

In one of my previous articles, I said how I migrated from plausible to Liwan to Umami. But in the spirit of vibe-coding, I have decided to ditch Umami to a custom-made analytics. In Rust. It runs on DuckDB, uses 130MB of RAM, and ingests non-stop my caddy access log. So now, I get to see not only JS verified visitors, but also all the bots (in addition to RSS subscribers). Neat! I turned on rotating Caddy logs around June 2026, when I was playing with GoAccess, and since then I have recorded…

Four sketchbook shoutouts for my $10 patrons, as always some really fun requests! Always happy to draw my boys Mikael and JP for folks~ $10 patrons get a request like this every month! Requests are open until the 25th of each month. You’ll also get access to my entire archive of either SFW ($5) or NSFW ($10) art, comics, and… over 100 sketchbook PDFS?!