it's like sewing with elastic thread - tangles await you and me? i was never even taught to sew straight had to pick up this and that thread for myself, and now, i'm sewing with elastic there's a knack to it - though you're pretty much done by the time other things said guess you'll know for when the other side goes Yesterday :: Wednesday, 7th October 2026

After a two-year absence from running a digital publication, namely Minimalissimo, I’m returning with a new project. Just when I thought I was out... Okay, no Pacino impressions. I definitely needed that break from curation and probably also from the constraints of minimalism for that matter. Over the past few years I’ve focused a lot on making digital tools and the odd experimental physical object. The latter still interests me hugely, and I’m casually working on a design for FFF, which I’ll…

What if you could build a complete, on-brand landing page from one prompt, inside AEM? That’s one of the demos in our new Adobe Developers Live session, where my colleague Martin Buergi and I introduce AEM Experience Workspace. If you followed my posts on DA MCP or our Summit 2026 lab, this is where that work is heading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8IeoY4SKBI What is Experience Workspace? #It’s the agentic evolution of AEM: one platform where authors, developers and AI agents work on the…

For no apparent reason, I wasn’t in the best mood for the last few days, but today I planned to do a bike ride, and it paid off, as it often does. Riding while the sun is already setting is nice. Interactions & Comments

So the Andon Cord is a vital part of the Toyota Production System (TPS). From what I remember correctly an Andon Cord is a physical switch you can pull whenever there is a problem on the assembly line which stops the whole assembly line and alerts the Managers about the problem. There are several benefits for doing this. Toyota believes in finding a problem as soon as possible which means not passing on the problem to the next station where it could possibly escalate into something more serious…

With this blog post, we will be taking Dave Haeffner's The-Internet, https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/, a ten-year old web app test site, fork it, investigate using Google AI how to modernize the server architecture, and port it over to a new home at Render.com. Spoilers: The original version, but with updated Ruby architecture: https://the-internet-8uaj.onrender.com/ (takes a minute to spin up the environment)It finally happened. Dave Haefner's The-Internet, a test site I have been using…

A fun little video by Bofner talking about how two Castlevania games on the original Nintendo Game Boy achieved a certain visual effect that wasn’t technically possible: What I really liked was this sequence of events: Game Boy introduces a special immovable layer to accommodate HUD/GUI elements within games (such as score displays or life meters), Castlevania programmers come up with a creative hack to use the HUD layer draw a movable spike wall instead, then, they use another hack to draw the…

Hey people! I thought we could do a Bibiel’s Brain-Pick today; a relatively simple one: What music album would be used as a soundtrack for a movie about your life? Bibiel’s Answer Me? I think it’s quite a difficult question really from a Bibiel POV. Like, just one album? All tracks from it? I don’t think an album like that exists. I low-key feel like either I would have to be a very normie person for someone else to have managed to create an album that fits my life perfectly, or this person…

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After a two-year absence from running a digital publication, namely Minimalissimo, I’m returning with a new project. Just when I thought I was out... Okay, no Pacino impressions. I definitely needed that break from curation and probably also from the constraints of minimalism for that matter. Over the past few years I’ve focused a lot on making digital tools and the odd experimental physical object. The latter still interests me hugely, and I’m casually working on a design for FFF, which I’ll…

Most days, I let the weather decide how I'm feeling. Probably too much. Sunny is happy, rainy is sad, etc. You can imagine how hurricane seasons usually are for me. But something happened recently that made me think a lot more about what I thought was just a sentimental attachment to the sun. My house (meaning: everyone who lived there except for me) went into a kind of crisis mode. Each of my roommates were dealing with their own personal problems which cast a metaphorical cloud over the…

It is always fun to observe streets I walk every day from another vantage point – the dermatologist's office in this case. I am 80% sure I shot (and posted) these exact two images before, probably two years ago when I had the last checkup, but I wasn't able to find them just now. 🤷‍♂️ 👉 View one more image

The media has told us there was a buzz around Conservative Party conference. Heaven knows why. Kemi Badenoch is riding a wave of positive press for keeping her party together, and the forced consensus is that Reform are finished. You can even pretend this is the case, as long as you don't look at the polls. Badenoch's leader's speech was an easy job then - give the press and political comment enough to meet their expectations and keep the hype train chugging along. And she gave them what they…

The plan is no plan. That is not the worst possible plan. But it is close. Since before the transformer, we have warned that the most suicidal thing you could do would be to ask your AI to do your alignment homework, and automate the process. Alignment is complex and interacts deeply with every aspect of the world, and is one of the hardest possible things for an AI to get right even if it means maximally well and is itself functionally aligned. Mistakes get amplified up the chain, you get…

There’s a short article on arXiv by astronomer Luigi Rolly Bedin with the title The Preprint Evolution: The Rise of Unreviewed Drafts on arXiv and its Implications for Astronomy and abstract: The arXiv preprint server originally democratized astronomical research by digitizing the circulation of early manuscripts and removing the financial barriers of journal subscriptions. However, a system designed for the lower publication volumes of the 1990s has fractured under modern research output.…

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Working on admin stuff today. Yesterday's cleaning day was really productive. Since I was successful in my achievements, I felt confident that I could take a break from writing another accountability blog post. The day was off to a normal start. I had breakfast while playing my game, but then I got really tired. Mind you, I slept over 8 hours. I decided to take a 15-minute nap, which ended up being over an hour. Sometimes naps are good. This one made me feel guilty. Long-form writing is my…

Earlier today, I announced that I'm putting a fair number of folk.zone services on hiatus. There were a few reasons for this. Primarily, it is due to a lack of capability to responsibly moderate and manage so many different services. Around two months ago I checked and found that the WriteFreely instance I set up had over 500 spam users and posts. Even worse than that, though, is that when I tried to deal with it, I embarrassingly ran a database query that removed not only the spam accounts,…

Back in the day, referrer spam used to be a means to trick a website publisher into thinking another website was sending visitors their way. It’s something I’ve seen often. I’ll be looking through my referrer logs, and see traffic apparently emanating from a website, usually one I’ve not heard of before. At first I’d be stoked. Someone had found my website and liked it enough to share with their readers. Awesome. And of course I’d fallen for the ruse and gone to the supposedly referring…

Of the handful of things I appreciate about Pax Playground, the most significant is the way it reminds me of recess. Its very existence is playful — this is, after all, a Pax game that lasts twenty minutes and bucks tradition by refusing to touch history with a ten-foot pole, let alone compose loopy footnotes about it. More importantly, David Masnato, who previously did the art for Matilda Simonsson’s Turncoats and Pax Penning, uses Pax Playground to reproduce the anxieties of childhood. Like a…

I don't know if you've noticed yet, but JetBrains reported a net loss for the first time in its recorded history. https://www.helgilibrary.com/companies/jetbrainsBefore we go into this, let's rewind time to January 2025, nearly a year and a half ago, when I penned these words.So, I've been wondering what the next generation of IDE looks like in this post-LLM world. Why do I need to have multiple IDEs open? What if we ripped out the "collaborate with humans" functionality from Zed and inverted…

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Catching a 747 landing while eating at Proud Bird by LAX I was super excited to be heading once again down to LAX to participate in Dorkfest and SpotLAX. Sure, a big chunk of the weekend was all about watching planes, but for me it was also about seeing old friends and making some new ones. I have to admit that I ended up missing more than one exciting aircraft because I was socializing, but that was not a bad thing (especially since we were mostly talking about airplanes anyhow). Extra bonus……

Okay, so I’ve topped up my AI subscriptions for the month, and got Muse to shoot out a kind of coherent statement about what happens after the SYMBOL SCAN skill explained earlier, in relation to my AI Lorecore books. Basically, what happens is that once books are converted and scanned, the process pulls out working narrative units, “symbols,” which taken together with their metadata form a “registry” which Muse explains adequately in the passage below: The registry is a catalog of everything…

All Hallow's Eve, Sat Oct 31 The Crow, Thu Oct 29 Why 2K, Fri Oct 30 Rocky Horror, Thu Oct 15 Project X, Sat Oct 17 Ravefurrest, Sat Oct 10 Gotham City Follies, Mon Oct 12 From Dusk `Til Dawn, Sun Oct 18 Hazbin Hell-Tel, Sat Oct 24 Lots of stupid shit going on lately, but let me try to talk about some good stuff for a change... It's October, and that means that Ribley the Skeleton is back up, and we have a full month of Halloween goodies for you. Let's do this kind-of out of order to hit the…

USER: Help me make a fix for issue #2032 GOD: Happy to help! Issue #2032 reports an increasing number of natural disasters affecting the tropical regions. To address this issue, we can implement a multi-faceted approach that includes: Early Warning Systems: Develop and enhance early warning systems to provide timely alerts to communities at risk. This can include weather forecasting, flood warnings, and earthquake— USER: No, I mean I want to fix the underlying cause not just create a…

This was actually a second-time watch for me, but I’ll get to that later. This was also a second collaboration for its creative team, reuniting Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill, who had all previously worked together on Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. This film also steps back in time, and back into illegal hijinks; Newman is “Johnny Hooker”, a small-time con-man in Depression-era Illinois. He and his partner “Luther” (Robert Earl Jones) pull off a highly successful…

over all it's going well! but it's not very... "even"? the mornings are good, i manage to scan through the social media quickly. if there's a youtube video i want to watch, i do so and leave it on in the background of later activities if it's longer. backgammon is also good, i don't think i overdo it. in fact it feels recently as if i'm playing less? it's now usually around 40mins (and my ranking reflects that downshift). if i wanted to stay sharp i'd have to actually review my games... and…

Dr Samira Allioui, Centre d'études internationales et européennes, Université de Strasbourg Photo credit: Alexas Fotos, via Wikimedia Commons On 3 September 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) delivered its judgment in Case C-798/24, Jautiva, addressing the compatibility of unrestricted public access to shareholder information with European Union (EU) company law and data protection rules. The CJEU ruled on the conflict between, on the one hand, the right to the…

Any substantial use of a system or solution will usually result in some sort of workarounds where users will try to get what they want if it’s not officially or adequately supported. Chris Siebenmann documented an example of users running heavy jobs on the university’s login server, something it’s not designed to do. This undesired usage was described by him as a desire path: In a university, what you get in practice is more like a field with a certain amount of desire paths in it. You can…