Grave Encounters is a found footage horror movie from 2011, presented as the last recordings of a reality TV crew filming a night of ghost-hunting inside a legendarily haunted asylum. It’s been at or near the top of Shudder’s recommendations for movies this month, making me think it was much more recent.1 But in reality, it’s just the perfect movie to watch during spooky season when you just want to see some good, old-fashioned trash. I have to be clear up front that I’m very much the target…

For those of you just catching up, Cat and I are having a dialogue about how teams are changing in the era of AI. Part 1: Where do AI norms and values come from? Where should people start?, by me.Part 2: How social identity is constructed, and how to defang the threat of identity loss, by Cat.At the end of Cat’s piece, she ended with a question for me and an observation of her own. She asked, “What gets us so stuck on believing we can’t have both high performance and good norms?”And observed:…

Let an LLM generate the questions to ask Jev for a given query. See how well that works as a reranker.

Someone needs to tell the weather that it's fall now! Get rid of these summer temperatures so I can wear my cute sweaters and scarves and stuff! I keep thinking about what I wa na wear for the draft tomorrow and I have to constantly remind myself that I will melt into a puddle if I even dream of wearing a turtleneck! Gimme cool and breezy weather, at least for Halloween!

This is a post for people who never drove an electric vehicle (EV) before. Imagine for a moment that for refueling your car you had to open an app to search for gas stations and filter them by whether they have Diesel, and then whether the pump delivers a decent stream of Diesel, or just by the drop. Next, when you found one, imagine you had to go to the pump's reviews in the app to estimate the odds that judging from the most recent comments there actually is Diesel. When you arrive at the…

🤖 tinydefrag 0.1 [155k] {S} Dependency-free C utility for macOS and Linux that defragments individual files or entire FAT12/16/32 and exFAT volumes. Inspired by Eric's fatdefrag and generated from scratch via Claude Opus 5.5 on Ultracode effort. 📺

It’s difficult to describe the process behind using AI to build a tool that you don’t quite know what it is, but now that you have the ability to do it, you’re compelled to continue and to find out. These things sometimes take time to reveal themselves though, and I think I’m starting to understand what this one is and how it functions, out of the other bits and bobs I’ve managed to piece together of the “grand idea” (more of an intuition) that is fueling the whole thing. For now, it’s called…

COGNITOHAZARD WARNING: This README is written by a real life meat computer but the rest of the project is 100% vibecoded https://github.com/jaydens-tasty-slop/iFlac I have a growing FLAC collection that I’d like on my phone, but I don’t want to have to boot Windows to use the Apple Music app or (shudders) iTunes. Had a friendly robot write this project to sync your FLAC files to your iPhone. Based off of: libimobiledevice and the approach ByeTunes It works by pairing your PC then injecting rows…

Samuel L. Jackson teams with Michael Kinnaman in The Beast, a political action thriller boasting ample explosions, gunfire, and ... well ... not much else. Under the direction of Renny Harlin, Jackson portrays a US president who finds himself on the run in his heavily fortified car when a rebel militia tires to take over the country. As a Secret Service agent wounded during an early-picture fight, Kinnaman remains dazed in the backsea as Jackson communicates with the central command that tries…

NOTE: The subject of this post was vibecoded, but this post is 100% written by a real life human being I have a Minecraft server with about 6 years of logs (covid minecraft server baby!) and I always wondered who has played the most and when, so I had a friendly robot slop together a little go app you can run on a cronjob to generate an HTML report. For a demo of the report, see here: https://jaydens-tasty-slop.github.io/minecraft-log-analyzer/ Here’s the repo:…

After using the same few image formats for 20+ years, I’m now on the WebP bandwagon. That isn’t something I thought I’d ever say. Now I’m wondering how soon it’ll be before I can use a couple more. When Google announced the WebP format in 2010 it was interesting, but only academically. WebP support was added to Chrome in 2011, 1 but other browsers took their time supporting it: Edge in 2018, Firefox in 2019, and Safari in 2020. Until there was baseline support, the format was only being used…

separate the art from the artist

I decided to try a completely new planner system and layout in 2026: the Wonderland222 “Core” system. I’ve experimented with other planner systems in the past, including both Hobonichi and Kokuyo Jibun Techo, but have never been able to find a specific layout that met all of my needs in a single volume. I instead found myself juggling too many planners and notebooks, which is neither convenient nor sustainable. Even with the year 3/4 complete, this A5 planner remains relatively compact and not…

Bigger(WARNING: plot twists and story discussed in explicit detail!)Digger for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is arguably his most expensive production yet ($125 million officially); for Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise it's September. The film has been described as 'obnoxious,' 'self-indulgent,' 'pretentious,' and-- possibly most hurtful-- 'delusional;' it's also been called 'brave.'I like 'indulgent.' Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki has lit and shot the film to look like the world's most…

I can’t say what I’ve been working on since the beginning of the new year, but we rolled out to a small percentage of iOS and Android users today. I will say it was a React Native Application that’s taken a year-and-a-half to complete. A full rewrite of the companies mobile applications as well as a redesign. I’m so happy to get this out the door. Now we have to fix some bugs, make sure it works with the iPhone Duo, and add some additional features to make the user experience even better. 💃🏻

After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubineby Liu Gou HuaGenres: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Light Novels, Romance Pages: 378 Series: After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine #1 Rating: Synopsis: A strange thesis becomes one professor’s reality when he’s transmigrated to the past and awakens as a doomed prince in this hit danmei (Boys’ Love)! When an outrageous thesis hits the desk of esteemed history professor Jiang Suizhou, his initial reaction is pure skepticism. Dubiously…

Om 2026, the federal government is on track to spend $7.4 trillion, and $1.9 trillion–about one-quarter of the total–will be newly borrowed money. It’s one thing to have deficit spending during a pandemic or a recession, but neither situation applies here. The accumulated federal debt owed to the public is now equal to 100% of US GDP, approximately matching the previous high set during spending and borrowing to finance World War II, and headed higher. Serious politicians would put some…

A slightly delayed monthly visit to the Swimming Spot with Graham for the riverfly check. In previous months we’d seen both low scores and counts, but last month we started to see signs of improvement. We very much built on that today. For a start, four bullhead fish were caught in the net which we photographed and put straight back. These will get recorded in iRecord and increase the county fish records. We then proceeded to scoop out numerous mayfly, as we did last month. But also tons of…

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OK, so at some point I have to pull myself away from writing about Mork & Mindy. I have unloved early 80s radio sitcoms to discuss, after all. But I thought you might all enjoy one final deleted dirty joke from “Mork vs the Necrotons”. Take a look at this clip, where Mork is thrown onto a torture device which features disembodied hands massaging him: Well, that’s a suspiciously large audience laugh for the innocuous line “Magic fingers”, isn’t it? And even more suspicious is the hand that…

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BB had his first blood draw today. We went through every step in detail, talked to him about how he absolutely shouldn’t look and we would talk about what ice cream we should get after. Still had a little freak out when the time came understandably, but the instant the needle went in he stopped. “Oh that’s not bad at all”, lol. Proud of him!

About a year ago, I was still running my live stream (Code Break) and my final three streams all covered one topic - building desktop applications with non-native code. I covered Tauri (HTML on the front, Rust on the back) and Flet (all Python). Recently I came across another option, tinyjs. TinyJS (technically the name is "tinyjs" but I can't make myself use the lowercase in my writing like that ;) is a lot like PhoneGap/Apache Cordova. Your application is the system web view shipped along…

Hyperfine 2.0 is out! It includes RAM benchmarking, which is a thing I've wanted badly. via Adam Chalmers

Logo and symbol for the band Fleshbrand from Bellingham, USA. Their music is a blend of hardcore and death metal with shades of industrial. The logo was sketched in pencil, then in ink and cleaned up and textured digitally. The brief was: ‘Industrial, gritty, and kind of imparts that old school Survival Horror vibe with the look, while also being “hard af” as the kids say and pointy.’ White logo on dark background White symbol on dark background Dark symbol on light background Dark logo on…

Logo and symbol for the small game publisher MVRMVRS, which curates adventure and RPG indie video games with lo-fi or occult themes. The logo was sketched in pencil, then in ink and cleaned up and textured digitally. The brief was: ‘Folk horror meets black metal in the forest for a D&D game’ White logo on dark background White symbol on dark background White alternate logo on dark background Dark logo on light background Dark symbol on light background Dark alternate logo on light background…

I’ve got an upcoming eye appointment, so it’s time to review. Remember: you can choose any of these routines. Trust me, they’ve never heard ANY of them. The one where you say you’re seeing spots in front of your eyes, and they say “Have you ever seen a doctor?”, and you reply “No, just spots.” The one where you ask if you’ll be able to play the violin after the cataract surgery and they say “Of course”, and then you say “Great! I’ve always wanted to play the violin.” The one where they ask if…

Working a little bit recently on restoring Pantheon desktop on top of OpenSUSE Leap instead of Ubuntu 24.04. Out of date version for both, but it was the most stable fix. Ultimately I hope to get the desktop environment of elementaryOS running on top of the rolling Tumbleweed, and have a rolling system that works and looks the part. Some photos: At the start, the pantheon pattern couldn't be installed on Leap 16, and after a manual install the login screen crashed, so you could never reach a…

I find myself in a very interesting predicament where as my two favorite hobbies often compete for the same periods of free time. I have done very nicely without much planning involved so far until the Summer Game Challenge, and since that worked quite well, I thought it may be useful to write down a list! For now it’s just for October, but we’ll see if it sticks. A while back I saw a fair amount of YouTube videos and advice on dealing with the backlog, and they kept mentioning how planning…

The long-used FreshPorts subversion repositories have been converted from subversion to git. The process I used is documented in https://github.com/FreshPorts/git-conversion. Today, I’m moving the working copy subversion checkouts to git working copies. The original code is retained and any local changes will be available for check-in / diff after the conversion. Here’s an outline of that process. FreshPorts left Subversion on 5 October 2026, but the hosts didn’t. The ingress code on each…