Every holiday season, I get nostalgic for ’90s television. I blame all those network programmers who spent years filling October with themed episodes, Halloween specials, and holiday programming blocks because they clearly got their hooks into me. Even now, it doesn’t really feel like Halloween until I’ve spent a few evenings revisiting some old sitcoms. My recaps are pretty simple. I provide a spoiler-free synopsis, talk about how well the episode actually embraces Halloween, and then give it…

This is a fun “Ask Hank Anything” episode with Aabria Iyengar (@aabria.bsky.social) and Hank Green (@hankgreen.bsky.social). Frenetic and lots of sci-fi ideas.

I read this post and found myself thinking: …and then what? Don’t get me wrong, I completely understand the reasons people are leaving, and I think many of those reasons are entirely valid. In fact, if you’ve been paying attention here, you’ll know that I’m one of the people considering such a move myself and for similar reasons as stated —“Someone spent years somewhere, it changed under them, and now they’re packing up”— but I’m not sure the reason for just leaving a service/system is always…

I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the previous one started with “Wow, has it really been 7 months since I did one of these?” and that was in December 2023. Maybe I can make it a more regular thing. Anyway blogging itself has become a more regular thing of late so there is quite a lot to report just from last month. In 2007 I described Naomi Wolf as “very smart”. I have retracted this description. My article from January about crooked…

Thirteen cadets attempt to bond with a dragon or die trying. A collection of short stories detailing how various riders from the Empyrean series experienced the day they bonded (or not) with their dragons. Not particularly interesting, and there are no stand-out stories. No doubt completionists will need to read this, but it wasn’t very engaging, nor particularly illuminating. Kinda meh tbh.

Another episode of I Saw This And Thought Of You has hit the airwaves with the esteemed Julia Whitney. Come for the RISD nostalgia, stay for the metrological eyebrow raising.

AI;DR – Implementing this feature and writing this blog post were done mostly by Claude Code. If you don’t want to read “AI slop”, stop reading now. With all experts enabled, the GExperts menu had grown so long that on some smaller screens it needed one or more “More” submenus to fit. Back in 2019 Stefan Glienke suggested restructuring it (feature request #87), and now this has finally been done. The experts are now grouped into submenus: Editor: Uses Clause Manager, Code Proofreader, Comment…

And here we go again; another month has passed, and the year is flying by. Now that it’s getting colder again, even though there were a few warm days in between, I’ve only gone on my bike a few times. Let’s see if I can use all my cold-weather cycling gear again soon. Instead, I’ve dedicated more time to my tech passion and bought some new equipment. After buying the DJI Mic 3 in August, I made two more audio-related purchases this month. First, I bought the soundcore AeroClip (first…

A video by the Syntax team on why they're using GPUI across more and more of their work. It offers a practical look at what makes GPUI appealing for modern tooling.

Sunflowers greet the rising sun on a sandy beach in Galveston, Texas. The post Dune Flowers at Dawn appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

A little over three months ago, I added ATproto integration to my blog. Unfortunately, like most things cobbled together by hand, it broke. So today I have been fixing and improving things.

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Recently had a chance to rewatch Good Will Hunting, and thought Robin Williams’s heart-rending speech to Matt Damon on the bench in the park is something we could also recount to AI, and to ourselves so that we remember what AI really is, and have it be mostly true. Transcript: Thought about what you said to me the other day about my painting. Stood up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me. I feel into a deep, peaceful sleep and I haven’t thought about you since. You know…

The first Weekend Reading every month can be read by anyone on the Monevator website. Subscribe for free to our email newsletter or become a member to ensure you see the rest. I thought it notable there wasn’t more pushback in the comments last weekend, when I cited a growing consensus that something must be done about the pension triple-lock. A few of you raised thoughtful questions, mostly about what really drove the convergence of pension-age income with that of the rest of the population.…

[It] basically looks like a baby [rattle]. – Katie Seaborn Creepy Coppers (#1568) It’s likely that flashing is the least of his crimes: A[n Oregon cop named]…Luis Rivera…e[xposed himself to a woman at a gym and was rewarded with a paid vacation]… Walled Garden (#1625) OfCom is trying to rob corporations for being unable to do the impossible: [The UK censorship bureau] Ofcom [is trying to bleed] Pornhub owner…Aylo [of £18 million, using the excuse that]…the site’s new age checks are [not 100%]…

I have just completed one of main subjects for Associateship of Asian Institute of Insurance (AAii) Level 2. I still have four more subjects to complete. The papers are not as straight forward as Level 1. Each subject requires 2 written test, 1 assignment and 1 exam. Each subject takes about 4 months to complete but time is never enough when I have to factor in both business and family. As soon as I completed the recent exam, I immediately signed up for the next subject. Deep down I wanted to…

It's my favorite game. I'm a very slow gamer, especially if I want the game to last forever.I think it took me over 4 years to finish the main game from Witcher 3. I finally got through the first DLC, "Hearts of Stone" last year. Daniel's the opposite of me. He usually speeds through the main quest and ignores everything else. In fact, he only played 2 hours of Witcher 3 and decided it wasn't for him. That was when I picked it up and fell in love. It was quite a landmark event, because up until…

Today’s TDC says Make a paper plane and show it to us. Either make a photo of it, or film it in full flight (extra applause for a plane that flies well). Straight away I heard the Quo singing in my head, so I found it on YouTube (see bottom of post). Now, I know how to make a paper plane, but I wondered about making a fancy one. I found instructions from the Glasgow Science Centre and followed them … to discover it’s just the basic design I usually make. Oh, well. Paper plane flickr photo by…

8702/21621I am delighted that my kids have very good comedy taste - where did they get that from? Oh their mum.Because kids love to repeat view/listen to stuff, which means you have to ingest it too and so if something they like is bad then (I imagine) that makes your life Hell.Phoebe loves Flo and Joan, as you may recall and I think I may have heard some of those songs more than Flo and Joan have. But they stand repeated listens.

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It’s finally time I go crawling back to Node!I’ve been using Node heavily this month on a SvelteKit client project. When did Node get so good‽ Deno has been my go-to runtime for so long I forgot how to Node. Now I’m back, I find all the ECMAScript† sugar is supported and the old annoying APIs have been replaced or modernised. Most importantly, I never have to see require().† Doesn’t seem like that Oracle trademark dispute will see a positive end :(Package managementThe official Node docs…

It has been quite a while since I did any mucking around with MorphOS. It doesn't mean there hasn't been any activity in the world of MorphOS - just I didn't have the time to focus on it. Indeed MorphOS 3.20 is now released in 2026 and I wanted to try it out!In addition there is some interesting new software available for it I will try out here on MorphOS 3.20, like the Papio Office suite, Claude & OpenAI client, Momento Photo manager, Wayfarer web browser and Iris mail program updates and…

Hermes 3000 (2010) STATUS: Installing and uninstalling software on my Mac WATCHING: "Furious" LISTENING: Lots of Led Zeppelin on Vinyl READING: "Theo of Golden" by Allen Levi The best part about being on a Mac is that there are a lot of great apps available that can't be found anywhere else. That might also be the worst part of using a Mac. I can't stop playing with software. Somebody said, "If you can't hold it, you don't own it." They were right. Read this somewhere recently: "I'm not aloud…

Tried to connect to my Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones on Arch Linux KDE, it would try and connect but fail with The setup of WH-1000XM3 failed. I have a UGREEN USB Bluetooth 5.3 Adapter adapter, which contains an Actions ATS2851 chipset. Apparently this is a known chipset quirk with Sony headphones and this adapter. Attempting to connect manually with bluetoothctl would just stall out: bluetoothctl]> scan bredr SetDiscoveryFilter success Discovery started [CHG] Controller F4:4E:FC:77:8F:36…

Yesterday I drove down to Columbia, SC to meet my parents so that we could all go to the James R. Crumley Archives banquet. In years past, I've seen pictures of the event, and I've always been curious. This year, schedules aligned, and we could go.Each year, as far as I can tell, the banquet is held at a different place. So far, the Archive has not had a permanent home. That's about to change: Newberry College has donated land for a building and now the capital campaign begins. We heard a bit…

Today I am being take out for dinner – it’s ‘a date’! And I turn to where I am in my current re-reading [Sophie Strand’s ‘The Flowering Wand’] and read: ‘Am I a man? A woman? Both? Let us wait before we answer. Answers tend to end stories…. Perhaps, freed of the stories we thought we were bound by, we will stumble on more fertile narratives about what it means to embody the masculine.’ I'm definitely up for a fertile narrative! It feels rather cool: free from expectation or any agenda. Perhaps…

We had the pleasure of discovering Eve Aouizerate in “Vous avez les mêmes en en 38 ?” at the Théâtre LE POCHE last Thursday.

(If you’re a book person and haven’t already discovered the delightful Marlon and Jake Read Dead People podcast featuring my old boss, Riverhead executive editor Jake Morrissey, and bestselling author Marlon James, check it out. Marlon James is Marlon James, of course, and Jake is an epic conversationalist. When I was his assistant, we’d spend the first half hour of every workday chatting in his office. Well worth a listen.)They say, “be vulnerable.” Actually, forget the anonymous they. I tell…

Best of the blogs ▷ Google’s built-in AI assistant can get unnervingly personal, as Sancho Panza has found. Read When did Google get so f-ing weird? ▷ David Farquahr tells the story of video-game developer Activision. I remember the kerfuffle back in the day over it making games for the Atari 2600, which Atari intended to be a closed system. Read What happened to Activision Minolta Maxxum 7000i, 35-70mm f/3.5-4.5 AF Maxxum Zoom, Analogue Wonderland Wonderpan, Rodinal 1+25, 2023 Cameras and…

A colleague made a suggestion this week that I’ve been thinking about since: the Git platform should keep the prompts we use to write the software. We were talking about what development becomes as more of us work with agents, and this struck me as something I’d want when picking up somebody else’s code. We keep the resulting diff, perhaps a commit message and a pull request description. The corrections and unsuccessful attempts often stay in someone’s local session history, even when they…