Globs sort filenames character by character, so numbered files often come out in a surprising order, with 10 before 2. Zsh has a neat fix for this: the n glob qualifier, which applies a “natural” sort, treating any run of digits as a number rather than a string of characters. I found this feature useful when building a PDF from multiple files.n I exported my multi-page document from Inkscape to one PNG per page, named Page 1.png, Page 2.png, and so on. I then stitched them into a single PDF…

Met someone attending OpenAI's DevDay 2026 yesterday and who, after friendly, knowledgeable (and intriguing) conversation, gave me a GPT-Pro subscription — free for a month, and worth $100. It was intended for one of his team members but he felt I could put it to more worthwhile use somehow. Was astonished at this vote of confidence for a random person one just met. I also guessed he had enough of these Promos to give around. Thanks, E! So thoughtful and gracious of you to gift me with this.…

Watch more of my art + sign up via https://art.justadandak.com/ A bunch of things I’ve found on my digital strolls in the past month (which I added to my Tumblr although for a few weeks it was terminated so not everything appeared there) for your eyes / ears / brain to spend time on (as no longer active on Twitter or on LinkedIn much). READ “Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an…

I am very privileged to have grown up in Finland and I wouldn't change it for the world, but one thing I "regret" about not being born in the UK is that I would have loved to have been here as a young music nerds as all the incredible artists I was falling in love with were releasing singles. I've made it very clear in all my posts here and elsewhere that CD singles are one of my favourite formats, and the 90s and 2000s were a true golden period for them, each bite-sized selection of songs…

“The Honor Magic 9 Pro Max launches in China on September 28 with a directional “shotgun” microphone, ARRI cinema color, and a lens mount that takes a 500mm teleconverter. If you shoot video on your phone, the mic may matter more than its two 200MP cameras, and it hints at where flagships go next.” Very interesting, as my last few phone decisions rested very much around the camera abilities. Most of the other stuff is pretty much the same, or there is enough of it anyway. A 200MP 1/1.28-inch…

People here often ask me what part of England I grew up in, which isn’t a particularly easy question – I was born in the north, but then lived in South Wales and then various place in the South all of which were west of London. Oxford is sort of familiar to everyone (though not my part of it), Aylesbury to no-one, and Slough… well, on Friday the person I was chatting with stole my usual line, which is “The British version of The Office is set in Slough, and that tells you a lot about the…

Mothman has cultural influence as a omen of disaster. Sources on the Internet have used the Mothman framing of sighting a weird thing before a tragedy to spread stories about events worldwide including a manufactured story about a black bird seen before the Chernobyl meltdown. Flying harbinger of doom Mothman is one of the world’s most popular “cryptids”. The weird bird-man thing with red eyes is known across the globe because of the media content created about it. Mothman, the legend, was born…

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending what would have been my late friend Om Malik’s 60th birthday celebration. Sadly, Om passed away in June and wasn’t there to celebrate with us, but I got to spend time with his friends and family, reconnect with some of the passions, interests, and people he loved, and meet others who had been touched by him or were getting a glimpse of who Om was.I had the opportunity to say a few words about Om, and I thought I’d share them here since he was such an…

Deep North's new spot in Exhibition Park proves that cafés don't have to be boring 🌳

from SWALLOW (2021)This series of poems was originally released as a videopoem chapbook you can find on YouTube HERE.

As a person with wanderlust, I am constantly thinking of other places: landscapes to experience, things to see, opportunities to learn culture and history. However, since I’ve started taking photos earlier this year, I’ve come to appreciate places nearby in my own city. By my count, I’ve spent time in at least five new spots in the last four months. I want to share one with you today. Richmond, Virginia, has two train stations. Like most locals, I’ve always used the squat and dingy Staples Mill…

Some links I saved today from my News feed and wanted to pass them on with some a comment Does being bored make you more creative? – “Most of us don’t like being bored, but could a little boredom from time to time actually be good for us?” I do write things when I’m on ... Read more Source

So as of yesterday, I'm on sick leave for burn out because of the situation at work. Part of how this manifests is being clumsy and also just not being as emotionally stable as I could be. So suffice it to say, when a piece of seitan plopped into the pan, spilling hot oil onto the underside of my forearm, it did not go well for me. I think I'm going to need more than one week.

Time for the Sepender edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee Links. Subway Stories 1 | These salvaged relics in a Brooklyn subway station are the ghostly remains of old New York buildings (Ephemeral New York. Sep. 28, 2026.) I wouldn’t call this being restored to their former glory, but it’s something. 2 | MTA axes G train shutdowns planned for December after outcry from small businesses (Kirstyn Brendlen for Brooklyn Paper. Sep. 28, 2026.) Fun fact for non-New Yorkers: The G train is…

The creators of the hit comic book Saga have spoken out after fan criticisms grew with no new issue in the series for over eighteen months, despite repeated promises to have new material released this year.Saga was created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples, with the first issue published in March 2012. The comic was an absolutely massive success, and for a long portion of its publication it was the biggest-selling western comic in the world. The production rate for the comic…

We are super close to hitting our goal for St. Jude this month, so it’s time to UNLOAD ALL THE GIVEAWAYS to push us across the finish line!This giveaway is for a Skogsy Pens Agave 14 Fountain Pen in a swirled resin by Bandito Pens. It is fitted with a Medium Steel Jowo #6 nib with their Cactus logo, and includes a Rickshaw pen sleeve. Huge thanks to Skogsy Pens for donating this pen to help us raise money for the kids! One note: this, and all other St. Jude Milestone Giveaways will run until…

An unexpected delight at last night’s True Mountain Laurel gig at Trailside Music Hall was opening act Lia Pappas-Kemps. This is her song A Thousand Times Over, recorded from too far away; go find the real deal online for full fidelity.Her opening few songs were reserved, but as she got going she opened right up, and by the time she joined True Mountain Laurel on stage for her new single I Want It Easy, she was there.

A cheaper, less charming machine arrived. The incumbents diagnosed it correctly. Two thirds of them lost their jobs anyway.On Christmas Day 1969, Seiko put a watch on sale in Tokyo called the Astron. It cost roughly as much as a modest car, kept time to within about five seconds a month, and contained a small vibrating sliver of quartz instead of three hundred years of accumulated Swiss judgement. The Swiss watch industry looked at it and reached a verdict that was, on the merits, entirely…

A detail from In the Dark Woods, 2019, from my Acid Renaissance series. I recently read, and greatly enjoyed, Alan Moore’s latest novel I Hear a New World, the second instalment in Moore’s Long London series, following on from The Great When. I’m not here to review it, but I would highly recommend it and its predecessor. I picked my copy up from my local Waterstones, unaware that this chain of bookshops are apparently the sole stockists of an Exclusive Edition with painted edges, end papers,…

Jill Lepore on the current legal landscape being very behind with respect to artificial intelligence. In the study of law and technology, this is known as the “pacing problem”—the law, a tortoise, can’t keep up with technological change, a hare. […] If the Hugging Face hack was a final warning, it was a warning not for tech companies but for governments and for voters, and especially for legal scholars, judges, and legislators. Because, until the law learns to bend, robots as actors will remain…

Honestly there is no reason to be intimidated by the Homeric classics. I've just finished reading the Iliad that I started sometime in July. It's been a while because I got burnt out a bit. I was grinding through it a bit too eagerly, but I made it to the end. Do I reccomend it? For sure. In one moment you have beautiful prose: an ancient commentary on the inner world of these characters, sometimes godlike, sometimes mere people who happen to be caught up in an endless war. And on the tail of…

If someone recommends you a book you already read, it’s time to reread it. Last week I asked a friend for a book when you want to slow down. He’s the kind of guy who needs a separate truck for his books when moving out. Of course, he had something for me. He told me about the author he had in mind. When we met, he returned one book I lend him and showed me his recommendation. It was Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, a book I already had and read. A perfect excuse to pick it up again. Yes,…

I've done a bit of everything today: singing, playing guitar, chopping up sound waves, moving parts of songs around, deleting, cutting and pasting. And panicking, too. What if something happens to my computer before I've finished? I can remember everything I've done and could reconstruct it all if I had to, but...Then I began to edit the community radio pilot show till I realised that I'll have to write a script to link the interviews, and that really felt like a job for tomorrow. The project…

I saw these ads during the football games last weekend, and wondered how in the world they were approved with the words “Paid for by the US Government” in bold letters at the bottom. And nobody says anything about them. The White House claims they are public service announcements, and they were paid for with DHS funds.

2005 replica of The Golden Plates made by Stephen Pratt for the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s birth, photographed at the LDS Museum of Church History and Art, via wikipedia The news that a vast nuclear-powered AI data center being proposed for 9,000 acres of public land in eastern Utah comes cloaked in Mormon language feels like the latter days. In June, Project Beehive debuted a small test version of its modular nuclear reactor, which it calls Ward 250. The flaky startup behind Project…

Robert Kirkman and his imprint Skybound Comics (a subsidiary of Image) have reported on the enormous sales success of their Energon Universe project of interrelated comic book series. Three years and three months into the project, cumulative sales of individual comics and collected editions have reached a very impressive 7.6 million.The Energon Universe is a collaboration between Skybound and toy company Hasbro, and involves new, original characters and Hasbro's existing properties coexisting…

I recently wrote that Bible apps should think harder about what “streaks” and catch-up mechanics are actually forming in their users and readers. FaithTech’s new Playbook names this thoughtfulness stewardship: the ongoing responsibility to care for what has been created, attend to its fruit, and remain accountable for what happens next It also names the danger: the people affected by the product are left to carry whatever consequences emerge I had nothing to do with the new playbook, but it’s…

You know how there's that thing of the two guards, one always tells the truth and one always lies, and you have to figure out who is who? What if you just ask like, what is 2+2? Like does that work, or would they just be upset with me cause that isn't in the spirit of the puzzle? Or is it a situation where I am compelled to ask a more useful question because I need the answer to progress, like asking if the next area is safe? I just don't wanna rain on their parade, but if I can min-max my one…

After making the decision to attempt a monthly review type of post it occurred to me that I should probably start keeping a notebook, or at least a list, of things that had occurred in the month so I wouldn’t forget anything important. I believe that this was ultimately a very good idea and I wish that I’d actually done it. Unfortunately I am instead sitting here trying to remember what’s happened in the past month despite the fact that I can barely remember lunch from two days ago. I finished…