If you’re craving cozy comfort without the leftovers, this Cheesy Tuna Casserole for One is the perfect small‑batch meal. Made with tender pasta, a rich homemade sauce, and plenty of melted cheddar and Parmesan, it delivers all the creamy, crunchy goodness of a classic tuna bake — no canned soup required. Baked until bubbly with a crisp, buttery topping, it’s quick to prepare, deeply satisfying, and ideal for anyone cooking for themselves. Whether you’re after an easy weeknight dinner or a…
Volunteer State: It Would Seem Trump's Endorsement Is No Longer Golden As we noted yesterday, those crazy kids in Tennessee hold their primaries on Thursdays. Most states do it on Tuesdays, because it's a tradition established by the Constitution. Some states and territories do it on a weekend day, because that is when most people are off work. But Tennesseans shun both tradition and convenience. They have ever since Davy Crockett killed a b'ar when he was only three. Click here for full story
Years of landscape photography eventually crystallised into something I could trust. The experimentation settled, the instincts took hold, and I started recognising my own hand in a frame before I could explain why. A composition either felt like mine or it didn’t. Then I started shooting street, and shortly after that, documentary work around people I knew. Both felt like arriving somewhere new with instincts calibrated for somewhere else, the technical knowledge and compositional logic…
As I mentioned, I accidentally published all my draft posts. You know, the ones I cheekily listed at the bottom of my ripgrep post. All public and in my RSS feed. Dangit. What happened I can’t know for sure, but here’s what I suspect happened. Sloppiness on my part When Hugo builds my production site, it puts the files in the public/ subdirectory. I then upload that subdir to Cloudflare Pages with wrangler.... Read the full post on Sal's
weather: 🌥️ subtropical critters: CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW (and a western tanager) my dad's coworker bought apples and peanut butter the other day. he mentioned this to my dad with an explanation: years ago, he saw my dad having apples and peanut butter on his break. coworker bought some apples and peanut butter that week to try it out. he thought it was good, so he made it for his small daughter. she now regularly asks for apples and peanut butter i feel bad sometimes that my dad has two gay…
It’s Friday! That means new music of course, but it’s also Bandcamp Friday. So let’s find some good stuff we like and support some artists we love. Hails! Temple of Dread - death - GermanyBrainBath - death - UKHorrifier - death - NorwayMiscreation - GermanyVertiginous - death - IndonesiaNew Sūn - death/groove - ItalyF.A.M - death/grind - PolandCasketSnack - death/deathcore - USABreath of Sindragosa - deathcore - USASarof - melodeath - FinlandHulder - black - USADark Plague - black -…
This week's "return to form," after last week's adventure time, was foiled by a nasty virus that I am certain Kim and I caught during our attendance at the aquarium. Most of the week I spent in survival mode, casting aside physical training for another week. As I'm climbing out of the foggy delirium of sickness, I'm feeling the "softness" of not going on a run or lifting heavy things settle in, and the leg cramps from inactivity feel like a quiet protest from the body itself.
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Big news. AMD acquires Taalas. This is the future: LLM-on-silicon, on every device makes total sense. You have your CPU, GPU and AIU. Local, fast, optimized for one model. If you want more power, or a newer model, use the cloud. Just like we do with CPUs/GPUs. AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
Almost every time I enter a new room. I had hoped to wrap it up in one more entry, but wow, this game is something else. It's one of the few RPGs I've ever played that really don't give you any normal battles. You've got to constantly dive into your bag of tricks to find the right combination of them to defeat each cluster of enemies and puzzles. Then, after you spend an hour figuring out how to clear a 5 x 5 room, you open a door, immediately get filled with arrows, and the entire process…
Developers love classes. They pile on custom classes everywhere, but HTML already counts with many attributes that do a better job. So why not use them? This article goes through some of the most common native attributes that can be used instead of a class.
orteil42 on Tumblr: unconvinced i'll ever find "the vitamin" that makes me all better so i can get real work done but i do expect they'll elucidate whatever my deal was post-mortem, after which what i did manage to accomplish with my life will be regarded on the level of Beethoven composing despite being deaf or Gordon Ramsay cooking despite being british
Morrison County, Minnesota, July, 1918 From the Oscar Anderson archives.
The medical technician performing the echocardiogram asked me to lie on my side, not “dorsally.” I thought first of the triangular fin on the back of a porpoise. Then I thought of Nabokov’s 1966 interview with Alfred J. Appel, who asks, “Do you think literary criticism is at all purposeful, and if so, what kind of criticism would you point to?” He replies: “My advice to a budding literary critic would be as follows. Learn to distinguish banality. Remember that mediocrity thrives on ‘ideas.’…
Staying in Soho, we got to try a bunch of new cocktail bars that we hadn’t visited before in London. One of these was Rhum Tavern, located just off Oxford and Regent Streets. Rum/Rhum/Ron is a focus with many rare and interesting bottles on display throughout the venue (do not steal!) and the decor decidedly nautical with pirate touches. The cocktail menu is varied and does include non-rum cocktails including a few classics such as a Paloma and Espresso Martini. Seeing that this is a rum bar, I…
Hello, hello. Today wasn’t so much of a no spend day. Went out to get tacos with my siblings and it was super good! I don’t regret going with them since we rarely get to go out together. It got me inspired to look up recipes on how to make different taco fillings so I don’t have to depend on going to shops to have them. They look pretty easy, I’m gonna have to try them sometime. On the entertainment front though, I just found a new hobby! Print and play card/board games. I have pretty much all…
As an engineer, you need taste. You need to be able to figure out what makes what you build provide a beautiful UX. LLMs today can do a lot for you – code, organize, laundry etc. During times like these, you need to have taste. Taste, to direct the LLM to build something that has a great UX and DX. By default, an LLM can do many things right and yet get to a point where the user wouldn’t like the feel of it. An LLM is only as good as the person instructing it. That doesn’t mean that you are as…
Mercy is the hardest magic for a witch to learn.Any witch can curse. Any witch can hex. Any witch can call down fire, rot, silence, madness, or whatever else the old books and older powers are willing to teach her.Mercy is different.Larina is powerful, loyal, brilliant, and brave. But she is not famous for her impulse control or her anger control. Sometimes she sees the cruelty, the monster, the threat to someone she loves, and her first instinct is simple enough.Burn it all down. Burn fucking…
A year and a half out from Failbetter my body is finally unlearning the schedule. I spent a long time kind of doing a poor impression of a morning person because of the time differential between here and London; now I'm finding myself being up at 1-2AM writing, and honestly it's a joy I completely forgot about. I missed the dark, which given what my previous job was, is kind of ironic.
When your working life gets interrupted, everyone asks the same question. So, what are you looking for?It's a kind question. It's also premature. Before you can answer what you're looking for, you need to know what you're choosing between, and almost nobody has that list.I didn't. So before I started looking for anything, I went and built it.The default is invisible until it breaksA career runs on autopilot for years at a time. You don't choose it every morning. You inherit it, then you…
Back in the mid-90s in Austin, there was less than nothing to do. So we’d all go to school or work and then come home, watch The Simpsons, and then play guitars and talk about guitars. Mexican Fenders were a new thing. And the Japanese Fenders were coming back into the market too. And I remember actively making fun of a guy for having a Japanese Stratocaster. It seems ridiculous now, but this is just kind of how things were. And the Mexican instruments were not there yet, but you could get one…
A presentation by the Bavarian Ministry of Housing, Construction, and Transport (StMB) about expansion plans for the Nuremberg S-Bahn includes several branches to be electrified. Naturally, the presentation includes costs and distances. However, dividing the cost by the distance has little hope of giving us the normal electrification costs in Germany, because all of these projects include other things as well. This is typical of line-by-line electrification: it comes as part of a modernization…
On the Blaugust Discord, UltrViolet suggested that bloggers link their post titles to the permalinks so that it’s easy to just right-click, “Copy Link as Markdown,” and get a formatted link with the correct title. (I’ve noticed Orion includes this in its context menu, and there are extensions for Firefox and Chrome that add it.) I’ve been using the publication date in the post footer as the permalink on all the 11ty-generated parts of my site since I first converted the Les Mis blog back in…
While looking for linking conventions regarding permalink locations, I found a reference on Wikipedia to <a rel="bookmark" href="..."> being used for permalinks. I’m not sure I’ve ever noticed or used that. I didn’t find any mentions of people actually using it that way. Mostly I found secondhand references to other references to the HTML spec (yes, it’s official!), which has this clear as mud description: The bookmark keyword may be used with a and area elements. This keyword creates a…
I've spent today reading through a blaugust 2026 RSS feed that I imported courtesy of 82MHz. Thank you! It's been really nice to have all the blogs in one place in my RSS reader and has pushed me to make a point of reading even more of folk's blog posts. Very fun. I'm also trying to make a point to email people more this month. It makes my day when someone emails me about my blog posts (you mean people read these?) so I hope to make someone else's day in the same way. I've spent the rest of the…
Old Scottish joke:An old man at a bar is complaining. “You see that bridge there? I built it with my own hands! But do they call me ‘MacGregor The Bridge-Builder’? No! And I raised five beautiful children! But do they call me ‘MacGregor The Child-Raiser’? No! But, you fuck one sheep . . .”Has MacGregor been treated unfairly?This was my complaint in The Beauty Of Settled Science. Psychology laid bare the secrets of the brain - it performs computations through a neural network communicating via…
As the title says. A set of three railroad tracks cutting through a forested area.
It's about Groudle, so therefore, brilliant. What more is there to say? OK, there is a bit more. This latest version of the guide, at 70 pages, is far more than a simple stock list. The text takes the reader from the earliest days of the Glen, and then the railway at the end of it. It introduces the steam locos, then their electric replacements, and exactly how badly those worked out. We go through dereliction, and gradual restoration before coming up to the present day. Only after this, do we…
Exciting news, readers! My copies of THE SHRINKER are on their way and should arrive tomorrow. I'll put the book up on my Ebay shop as soon as I can. It does mean the early bird discount will be coming to an end, so if you want to benefit from a bit of money off, order your copy now. You have until the weekend.I'm keeping busy with the next couple of books, the first of which will
I had no idea that this existed until recently. Back in 2024, Kate Bush released a short animated music video called Little Shrew (Snowflake) – the word in brackets being the name of the track from her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow that is used as the soundtrack for this startling and poignant anti-war story. Apparently, the image of the destroyed block of flats that you see in the video is based on a real photograph that Bush saw – an image of the war in Ukraine. Yet the video doesn’t focus on…
