More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into their context (or MCP servers) but to just use more scripts. Most importantly I wrote that Code Is All You Need and I wrote about that MCP needs code. With Pi 1.0 we now added MCP support via Codemode which in some ways is a long time coming, but then also maybe somewhat surprising to some. So I want to share some updated thoughts on this blog on what this all means. What Are Tools When a harness…

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is about books that conjure up happy memories, and I’m sure I can find plenty of those! Let’s have a think. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. I read the start of this more than anything, because I rather liked the opening with the cosy nook behind the curtains. I mean, that doesn’t work out well for Jane all in all, but still; I often read this while I was curled up on the sofa under my high sleeper bed, with a sheet down over the opening, so I had much the same…

Clicks, a US startup about to launch its first phone, told Mobile Time [pt_BR] that it is working to expand its presence in Latin America. The message was delivered to the Brazilian publication by Clicks co-founder and CMO Jeff Gadway, who also said that “[we’ll have] more news to share in early 2027.” The Clicks Communicator, the brand’s upcoming phone, can be used as a “companion” to your main phone or as your only phone. It has an interface built around text messaging, created in partnership…

trentemøller – “Swerve” Eric Angelo Bessel – “Book of Astrology” Melissa Weikart – “L’amour se construit” The post Visual Velcro 62 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Having seen many social media ads, I finally succumbed to watching Seeking Persephone (2026). And

If you could give beginning philosophy graduate students just one piece of advice, what would it be? I know that some readers will want to jump in to say “don’t”—either as a wisecrack or as sincere guidance. But as humor it’s clichéd, and as advice it’s not helpful. All graduate students nowadays have heard some version of the warnings most of us know to give undergraduates who tell us they want to go to grad school in philosophy, and they’ve decided to go anyway. So let’s offer advice that…

hmm.......Yesterday the handle was still tacky as were the top inside edges. Three days after the last coat went on it was still not dry to the touch. I soaked a rag with alcohol and rung out until it was almost dry. I wiped down the handle and the inside top of the long sides. When I checked it today, there was no tackiness anywhere I checked. I'm beginning to think the cheap shellac I bought wasn't the idea I have ever had.white wood 2x4Made a run to Lowes in the AM and bought a 8 foot 2x4…

We'll transform Walker to be a floating window instead of a layer so it can be focused and moved around like any other window.

☕ Trader Joe’s is one of the Great Wonders of Capitalism, up there with Costco, ⊕ [Note: It is worth remembering that capitalism of Adam Smith has, in fact, been a great net good for humanity. The problem of our time is not capitalism. It is greedy dumbasses doing stupid shit for ever-more money. ] but the only coffee you can buy there is an over-roasted mess. Last week was the third time I bought a bag of medium roast beans — different origin each time — and again, the beans were shinier than…

Woohoo we’re getting close to .NET DeveloperDays in Warsaw. I’m really excited to be there, so let’s talk about what you can listen to from me.

I went out with a fellow empty-nesting friend the other day and she commented that she had themed her months so far; September was concerts, and October was friends. That's always a highly successful technique for me and I realized I had done so as well, with September being home projects and October bring friends, with an overlay of travel.So in the transition between the two, I bring you paint time!We went out to a stencil night at MetroNOME last week after neighborhood Patio Night, where we…

The vibePretty busy, with a lot of my attention wrapped up in Trayage.Between the launch and trying to get it into Apple’s review process, it felt like there was always something else to get ready or follow up on. I got quite a bit done this week, but there was plenty still on my mind when I moved on to the next thing.Highlights🚀 Trayage launched on Product Hunt on Friday, October 2. Getting the listing ready, putting together the images, and talking about the app took up a fair amount of the…

I’m deep into Season 3 (Silo S3E7, Radio) and I have thoughts. This post contains minor spoilers if you haven’t watched the show, which also means please don’t ruin this for me if you finished season 3. One issue I have with Silo is the cliché they’re selling back to us. It’s not that the show does a poor job at it — quite the opposite. It’s still a great show and I enjoy each episode intensely, with each episode giving me more of the lore in a way Fallout didn’t. What bugs me is that it…

25~28 September.It was back on the 31st August (I was out on one of the many trips to Saltoun) when the news came through from Mary. Her mum had died. While it is never a bolt from the blue that someone aged 98 has crossed the rainbow bridge, it was still a bit of a shock that Margaret Hunter, the Migster, Meg O' Monymusk, Maggie Billing, Mumsie, had finally succumbed.It felt like having dodged so many bullets over the last ten years, that she would just go on for ever. Despite being…

The coldest morning of the autumn so far, but no frost. Pileated woodpeckers yammer in the distance as the sun climbs through golden leaves toward the moon’s thin grin.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy Costigan in The Departed (2006) Vitals Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy Costigan, undercover Massachusetts State Police trooper Boston, Fall 2006 to Spring 2007 Film: The Departed Release Date: October 6, 2006 Director: Martin Scorsese Costume Designer: Sandy Powell WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background The Departed was widely released 20 years ago today on October 6, 2006, days after its September 26th premiere at the Ziegfield Theater. William Monahan adapted the material…

I often hear complaints about mental models and their resistance to change. Yes, we are trying to influence and change mental models. But we must also recognize that this is a long process. Mental models should not change easily. It’s a species survival mechanism. We are blasted with so much information that if we changed […] The post Mental Models Don’t Change Easily … and They Shouldn’t first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

This cookie cake is the visual equivalent of cruising down a smooth, freshly paved highway... and having your front tire fall off: Oooh. So close. This one's more like tripping and falling in front of a bunch of people, then getting up like nothing happened and limping off with a whistle just to show you meant to do that: Bad news, Moms-To-Be: you're about to experience painful contractions. Ahh, but nothing, NOTHING compares to reading this last cake aloud: And that's how you sound like a…

While I may not Hobonichi SZN myself, I always get excited to Hobonichi SZN for you! I have a planner and cover pairing for one winner this week, which includes the 2027 Hobonichi Techo A6 Planner and the A6 - Folio: Ocean Blue. Read the rules below and enter away! 2027 Hobonichi Techo A6 Planner and Ocean Blue Cover Giveaway

Carl Jung’s copy of an alchemical hoax, purporting to detail the discovery of the Philosopher’s Stone.

Background I have a USB zigbee controller that needed to be unplugged/replugged on a Raspbery Pi 4b. The problem was it was a 4 our drive to get there. After some poking around I found uhubctl which allows you to manage smart USB hubs. As luck would have it, most all Raspberry Pi support this! Installation On my Debian/RaspiOS it’s a simple command sudo apt-get install uhubctl See what hubs are supported sudo usbctl Current status for hub 2 [1d6b:0003 Linux 6.18.50+rpt-rpi-v8 xhci-hcd xHCI Host…

2026-10-06Hello!More extreme ISO after yesterday's monochrome image. I think the digital noise is less obvious in this photograph because it's taken outside with oodles of sunlight, rather than the dark innards of an old piano.In this case, the noise is intentional to experiment with the limits of my camera. But I would have a hard time running noise reduction to give a clean image; post processing only works so far. In fact, the camera failed to produce a raw file of data to go with this…

Last month I went to the launch of Taj Ali's excellent and timely new book 'Come what may, we're here to stay: the story of South Asian resistance in Britain'. The launch took place at Marsh House in Luton, the town where both Taj, like myself, grew up. The book gives a fascinating overview of South Asian activism in the UK, starting with anti-colonial fighters for Indian independence in early 20th century London and working through the workplace struggles of migrant workers to the fight back…

Ben P. wrote me about his project Global Data Tracker (link), which is a website where one can pull data about countries. In particular, Ben asked me to take a look at the section on forest area. The chart on the right side has the feel of something that came right out of the box. The forest-area series runs from 1990 to 2023, and yet the time axis stretches back to 1960, consigning half of the plot area to empty space. The horizontal gridlines find themselves at awkward levels such as…

Just a quick note to say that I am alive and well, and desperately trying to find a way back to writing here on the blog. Several readers have reached out to see if everything is okay, given that I’ve gone dark since July. I’m touched by the concern. But really, everything is okay. Life is just busy at the moment, consuming enough mental energy to make it difficult to write. Since we last met… I was writing about ark, the personal archive I’ve been working on. I started building ark on March…

Just proofed the complete GHOST DRIVE STATION and I am stunned at what Lordess Foudre has accomplished. The joy of making comics is not in the sales and the release and the grind of getting a piece done – it’s seeing what your collaborator has made of your work, and the transcendent object they have turned it into. That miracle of your thoughts being elevated by an artistic mind never, ever goes away. OPERATIONS: my to-do list fills an entire index card. Already knocked off the rewritten W8…

On Sunday, November 26, at 3PM, I’ll be at the Ann Arbor Public Library with Zig Zag Claybourne, Sylvia Hubbard, and Katharine Sweet, sharing the secrets of my success. I mean, I blab those secrets to anyone who will listen, but it might be nice to let them all out at once. If you’re in AA, stop by and say hello. I’ll be there a little early in case anyone wants a book signed.

Well the bike ride started well but ended in defeat. I got lost and.... Even writing that is making me feel some kind of way. I ended up having a cussing fit and took a look at myself and said this is having the opposite effect that it was supposed to and realized there was a train station a five minutes ride away. In less than an hour I'll be back home where I can have a little cry and pick myself back up. Im not ready to go back to work Thursday.

I was very inspired by this post from a few days ago, and decided to have a go at something along those lines for myself but for macOS and my Paper Pure. What is it? Inkbridge is a small terminal tool that turns the reMarkable into a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet for your Mac, over USB or Wi-Fi. It supports pressure, tilt, hover and the eraser end, and works in Photoshop and other apps. You can tune the pressure curve, area mapping and so on live in the terminal while you draw. What even is…

Act 2: Scene 1November, 1989.Everything was about to change All the leaves on the sides of the mountains changed from green to orange and red. Most of the leaves fell in the beginning of November, but some of the remnants of autumn had yet to let go, despite the upcoming moments of winter.It had snowed a few times. The view was spectacular, but where I was at the time was more for a legal and therapeutic reaction to a sentenced and legal response. It is a colder place in the Upstate mountains.…