If you are able to see one of these you will not regret it. Adam is a wonderful writer and publisher and he is doing this tour in a way that I found incredibly inspiring. link to East Coast dates (through mid Oct) here

Originally posted at Three Quarks Daily It’s not intimate, it’s philosophy. That sounds like something ChatGPT would say but there is truth in it. Philosophical writing is seldom intimate. When philosophical writing styles are discussed, Nietzsche is usually trotted out as the example that avoids the calculated, dispassionate, heavily qualified tone of philosophy. But intimate? No. Nietzsche was too busy shouting at the reader to achieve intimacy. One achievement of Scott Samuelson’s To Taste:…

Today I am diving back into Japanese crime fiction. The premise of A Game of Cat and Killer caught my eye, as the blurb, cover, and title all indicated the presence of a reoccurring feline character with a sleuthing role of some kind. This is an early, although not the earliest example, of a cat occupying such a position in crime fiction. This kind of a role for a cat is something readers are probably more accustomed to seeing in cosy crime fiction, yet from the opening pages, this book is far…

With which universities have APA Presidents been affiliated? Joshua Paschal, a recent philosophy PhD out of Indiana University Bloomington, took up that question, gathered the data, and discusses it in the guest post, below. It’s a look at one kind of the institutional history of philosophy in the United States, one that may inform or complement our understanding of the sociology of the profession. James Edwin Creighton and Frank Thilly A History of U.S. Philosophy Via APA Presidenciesby Joshua…

The 2027 new year is about 90 days away. I know many have goals and plans for the new year. Instead of waiting for the new year, you can start today. Work hard for the next 90 days to build up momentum for the new year. If you want a strong healthy body, start now. When new year comes, you will have an awesome body. You just need to keep up with the habit and maintain your body in the new year. The same applies to learning new skills and new habit. There is no need to wait for the new year.…

Currently reading: Mona Lisa overdrive by William Gibson 📚

The full essay version is below the overview and embeds. You can subscribe to the audio-only podcast feed over on Apple’s Podcast app and other apps if audio is more your speed. It’s also available as a raw podcast feed if you want to subscribe to it directly in the podcast app of your choice. Video # Audio # Software developers are not okay Download audio Overview and references # People in the software industry don’t seem to be doing too well at the moment. There has been a spate of “I’m…

Finished reading: Count Zero by William Gibson 📚

A friend and I were talking about organizational behavior recently, and one of her observations stuck with me. Public markets are unforgiving. When performance slips, the market notices, and that pressure, assuming reasonably mature leadership, tends to force a culture of accountability. Take that pressure away, and the opposite tends to happen. Without real consequences for weak performance, culture drifts toward the performative. More politics. More energy spent covering yourself than doing…

This week's fad over on the socials is My 9 Albums. I am a hopeless joiner-inner so did throw one together fairly quickly over a cup of coffee, but have had a bit more time to think about it and come up with a new list. It's so daft, really, as this doesn't even include any Beatles, or Quadrophenia. I could just think of a different 9 each time I try to do it, but that seems pointless. So these nine are all properly important to me and would be very high up on the list of records I had to save…

I saw this: Link to Reddit post here...and it stirred me into writing this article. The question was simple: “Why do you think open-source games never took off?”My first instinct when reading a question like that is that the poster is more interested in the free (as in cost) part of FOSS than the open source part. This is a common thing, and it appears much stronger in the gaming community than the general Linux community.The free in FOSS has always been freedom, and it was never about cost.…

The combination of scaffold and netting makes it look like the picture is slightly out of focus. This is Building T in 2019. I had no intention of taking an arty photo, but sometimes the subject speaks for itself.

Anticipation. "Where are they? When will the parade start?" (click to enlarge)I live in a relatively small town. About 9200 of us live here. The town has been in existence since 1752. Just a bit older than me. As you would expect, the town has a lot of history. I grew up in a city not too much larger than this town. A smaller city or town feels like home to me.Three things I like about smaller towns and cities are the culture, traditions and relationships you develop with the people you see…

8705/21624If present day examples are anything to go by, Jesus going all-in on Christianity in his 30s makes me wonder what the Hell he'd been getting up to in his 20s. There may be a reason that none of the Gospels talk about it. Over to Hertford this evening to do a Q and A for Alistair Barrie's renowned stand-up comedy course. It must be a while since I was last at Hertford Theatre because it's now called BEAM and has had a major refit.

Yes, you need an eSIM for Croatia — even though it seems like everywhere has wifi! From cafes in Split to apartments in the hills of Dubrovnik, it seems like the wifi card is just about everywhere. But that only gets you so far. You will likely also need data in Croatia when road-tripping along the coast (did I mention that Croatia is one of the best countries in Europe for a road trip?), exploring natural wonders like canyons and lakes, and in city squares when the public wifi happens to be on…

It's chilly out there. Saw the Moon and Jupiter and thought it deserved a shot. Banking this morning, then maybe I'll get the power supply out of the IIe. ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 06:49 Tuesday, 6 October 2026

This is the first essay in my series about “metagames.” I wrote it in preparation for publishing Mousetrap: An absurd game-within-a-game about getting trapped inside an RPG and Violent Delights: my chess-based RPG about Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.I want to talk about metagames — in the broadest sense, games that are about games, games that examine what it means to be a game, and games that draw attention to the fact that they are a game. Although there are already popular metagames in the…

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Nix is phenomenal. Nix makes hard things so easy that I'm astounded anyone is doing it any other way. There are whole classes of problems that you just can't encounter on Nix. I first dipped my toe in the water 4 months ago and it's been bliss. Nix and NixOS have lots of different tendrils that impact different kinds of work. Here are the problems that they have solved for me. Roses Per Project Dependency Mangement Each software project relies on slightly different environments. My site builder…

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“Head of Female Worker Seen Over Office Cubicle, Standard Oil Company of California, 1976–77” by Chauncey Hare. * Escape with the best of them by reading New Escapologist Issue 19.

There There, the helpdesk we're building at Spatie, is a project of learned habits. Twenty-some years of writing Laravel apps has taught us which patterns pay off and which ones quietly rot. One that keeps earning its keep is a custom exception class for every domain error. This is a small pattern, but it's one of those things that makes a codebase nicer to live in. There There is in private beta right now, and you can apply for early access at there-there.app. Exceptions that explain…

I don’t know if you can predict the winter by woolly bears but I do love seeing them. Also, I would be part of any club called “The Original Society of the Friends of the Woolly Bear.”

visconti-sforza and the polish tarot beautiful pip decks with completely different vibes. visconti-sforza is the one i already used and loved plenty. old gold, muted reds and greens, the most classic deck there is, in a way. matches the changing colors of autumn and the feeling of impermanence, things fading away - like the powerful families that commissioned these early hand painted masterpieces. i admit i was influenced to buy the polish tarot. i don't really keep up with polish publications,…

The long-abandoned Dallas Power and Light East Substation—originally built in 1920 to power Dallas’ streetcar system—decays in the city’s Cedars neighborhood. This photo I shot ten years prior to this one helps highlight the location’s decline. The post Abandoned Powerhouse appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

LLM-based software engineering keeps pushing the threshold of implementation down. Small tools I would never have built, because building them cost more than they were worth, now take an afternoon. I describe what should happen, and the code gets written, run, and corrected. It is still programming. I just do it in a different language: I describe the behavior, and the model translates it into a language the computer runs. AI coding took off because the tooling was already there, and now that…

Yesterday was an afternoon of purchases and vaccinations. My witch hat (with a veil!) was the most fun:My school will have a week of various Halloween activities in late October, and I had been thinking about a witch hat, the easiest costume. I thought about making one--after all, I have a lot of fabric. But after seeing the prices on Amazon, I ordered one for less than $10.00.Our other afternoon purchase was much more expensive: 2 mattresses for our fixer-upper in Spartanburg. We have bed…

End of a roll.A couple of weeks ago, I moved all of my Denote (Org mode) notes into Bear app on my Mac. I was feeling trapped by Org mode. I was tired of always having to convert from .org to .md and back again, so I made the call to go all-in with Markdown, via Bear. Then I changed my mind. Instead, I changed Denote to use Markdown rather than org-mode. That's better. ✍️ Reply by email

Thanks to Gavin and Chris over on mastodon and their recent blog posts about owning your music, and owning it for life, I have decided to have a go myself. Which albums would you choose to accompany you to the grave, albums you just can’t be without and more importantly need to own and touch and feel? My physical media of choice happens to be vinyl LPs. I have waxed lyrical (no pun intended) on why this is before, here and on mastodon, so I won’t go into the reasons for choosing this format.…

I have long struggled with predicting when peace will occur. Actually, I’m struggling with predicting anything relating to war, but let’s focus on when peace arrives for now. There are two such questions in the current ACX 2026 competition: Will there be a cease-fire in Ukraine in 2026? Will there be a cease-fire in Sudan in 2026? When I entered my forecast for these questions, I did it based on Laplace’s rule of succession, i.e. as a function of their duration only. This is sort of justified…