I have been noticing a couple of disturbing trends this year outside of the AI/LLM bubble. Has anyone else noticed them? First, domain registrars seem to be raising domain name prices like never before. Every couple of months, I get an email from Porkbun or Cloudflare saying that the registry controlling a domain's TLD is raising prices on such-and-such a date. I can't remember the last time I saw domain name prices decrease. They only seem to go up. That is why I try to renew domains for more…

When I first saw the trailer for this show, I was all in: two women ‘of a certain age’ being the protagonists of an action adventure show with some comedic elements? Yes, PLEASE! I eventually binged all eight episodes, and while I liked it well enough, I had issues with a couple of aspects of the show. Beware: systemic emotional abuse of girls and women; fridge-ing the love interest; some nudity; some swearing; psychological torture on-screen. Spoilers ahead! ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ “Ride or Die” (2026)…

i imagined a tree today or maybe i saw one. i can’t quite tell the difference. it felt like all the possibilities had collapsed into one.

Yesterday, we made a quick grocery store stop on our way back from Spartanburg. At one point, I heard an announcement over the loudspeaker, so I went to the in-store Starbucks. I had heard correctly--they were giving out samples of Pumpkin Spice Latte--yum.For me, though, this season is really Pumpkin Sketching season. Here's my latest:Those of you who know me best know that I am often sketching pumpkins. But in autumn, it feels more legit--the way I am always drawn to autumn spices that some…

30 Sep 2026 Apple Pay is finally live in India - but what was the hold up? With Apple Pay going live in India today, good time to share my rabbit hole from last month, when I realised: GPay on Android allows Visa tap & pay, but GPay on iPhone doesn’t. US-issued Brex cards worked via Apple Pay on Indian POS terminals. But Apple Pay didn’t accept Indian cards. My Garmin watch wallet still doesn’t accept Indian cards. The timing is interesting too. UPI MDR kicking in 15 days and a potential…

As expected it was farewell to the venerable Mulberry tree at the music school. When it half fell over in a storm last month it was a foregone conclusion I'm afraid. [see entry dated 30th. August] Looking at the exposed stump the core had become quite rotten. Trees can survive with a mixture of living and dead wood to some extent but there are limits. Thick strands within the rotted wood show that mycelium have been at work. Hope springs eternal. I took a number of cuttings which I've potted up…

– Yerba Mate carries me through my mornings. After reading Atomic Habits, I’ve been more observant of routines that are positive towards my productivity. And I’ve landed on this morning productivity routine that makes doing chores, writing on this blog, and of course working at my day job a breeze. Note: This is my Morning routine. I haven’t yet found one for the evening, where I tend to need a power nap to go through the evening.

Woke up at 5:30am. I have no idea what time my body think it is, with my general circadian rhythms being thrown up all over the place. There are a few things that I definitely want to do differently in the coming months. I’ve had enough time to decompress and let my whole world relax a little following a mega stressful period. Time to settle into a flow and make small but meaningful steps across my life.

Caught up on lost sleep from monday today. I didn't roll out of the rack until after 0700. I found it hard to get motivated and spent most of the morning engrossed in You Tube. I started watching one vid and that led to another and another and another. By the time I had my fill it was after 1000. It didn't help matters much that I felt nauseous and tired too. I finally made it to the shop just before lunch to spend a few working on the tote. After filling the pie hole for lunch, I went back to…

Fun or interesting discoveries I came across while wandering the web this month. AI is hard to avoid innit? 😬 The FT asks whether AI is affecting what people choose to study. Hard to plan your career when nobody knows which careers will still exist by the time you graduate. Bryan Cantrill has been a big influence on my career. Oxide’s guidance on using LLMs is worth a read. He followed it up with the revolt of the reader, about how readers can spot LLM prose and just switch off. Daniel Susskind…

A rocky beach on the shore of Tutshi Lake in British Columbia’s Stikine Region. The post On the Mountain Beach appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

It was a beautiful day for football. Late September, sun shining, an engaged crowd in the largest American stadium. And then, in the final second, it all fell apart. Heartbreaking. Shot on the Canon SD750 point-and-shoot.

This was all new to me, a visit to an area that I had never been to before as we headed to the Sussex riviera in search of good beer and a win at football. Here's how the trip unfolded....I had maybe been to Sussex once before. I have vague memories of once catching a ferry back from Dieppe in Northern France to the small port of Newhaven but not much else, so I assume we didn't linger. And so, in terms of exploring the county, this visit was definitely the first proper visit I had made here.…

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My schedule has been a little too crazy to keep up with my CSA recaps from the summer, but I had to share a new favorite I made with the rainbow chard from a recent box: Andy Baraghani’s Brothy Meatballs with Greens! I love a recipe that takes a huge pile of greens (that I wonder if I’ll ever be able to finish) and cooks them down into a manageable amount. The chard wilts down into a garlicky chicken broth, and the pearled couscous helps make the whole dish feel like a complete meal. Any ground…

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Sketchbook pages from September 2026

(I've been using delphi tools to mess around with some mediocre film pictures I took in August (except the ones of my friend's kids which are beautiful and I won't be sharing on the internet, obviously!)) A little tasks update... I've watched "A Tale of Autumn" in Autumn and have now seen all of Rohmer's 4 seasons quadrology. This was described as his take on an American style rom-com, which I think tracks - there are a lot of funny/mad match-making schemes at play, which, as in most Rohmer…

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end. I bought this game back in 2015 for about 2 euros and never played it until now. I was in a city break and decided to spend some time with it, as I already had it installed on my SteamDeck and Hogwarts Legacy was running at 15 fps when…

Last month I shared that the State of Devs survey was going on, and now the results are out! I always love this type of surveys and the results are really interesting, even if somewhat expected. Lots of uncertainty in the industry, you might be able to guess why.

I have been using Miniflux as my feed reader for a couple of years now. As mentioned in a previous note, I have customized it to add custom sorting for articles. In the last note I added sorting by similarity. In this note, I add another method to it: sorting by signal. This post was originally published on abhinavsarkar.net. This post is a part of the series: Customizing Miniflux. Making a Two-Pane Reader Addding Custom Sorting Sorting by Similarity Sorting by Signal 👈 As scores of new…

Today’s TDC says The Strange Company blog describes a series of reports of ghost action in the early 1800s at an old mill. Talking ghosts? Eerie. Lacking any recently reports create some art – generated imagery, drawing or write a story that describes what modern haunting is happening there (real ghosts don’t just post other images found in google). I downloaded the image, drew a ghost and added it to make this gif:

Warcraft 3 was a mainstay in our house for a ridiculous amount of time. Whether it was at LAN parties with friends with copious amounts of Cheeto dust, solo campaigning at home or firing up a leisurely skirmish on a quiet afternoon, Warcraft 3 was running hot. I played it with my brothers, my mates and logged countless hours in skirmishes against my Dad. Let’s just get this out of the way… Source

I built SparrowMap to give…the watchers a taste of how it feels to be watched. – Matthew Montney Jr. Torture Chamber (#1461) I’m sure they’ll try to thwart the court order with delays & halfway measures: A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s…prison[s]…by the end of 2029…at [present only] a third of the agency’s 104 [dungeons a]re fully air conditioned…[despite summer] conditions in Texas prisons without air conditioning [clearly] violat[ing] the Eighth Amendment…

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I've always been fond of books, even before I could read. At the weekends when I was small, I would tag along with my sister and my mum while they did their shopping. My mum—bless her—would pick up a book for me so I could join in without getting in the way. At every major turning point in my life, I've turned to books. Stressed out? I picked up Återhämtningsguiden and Mark Williams' Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World. Looking to be more productive? I devoured Eat That Frog!, Getting…

this video was the final push to revive the long-buried desire within me to create fanart again !!! i am Living to draw these characters

Of Mice and Men 1937, John Steinbeck My rating: I like it A short and easy to read book that actually has a surprising amount of depth. While it took a while for me to get invested in it, once I did it really left a mark.

Seagulls are quiet birds, considered quite beneficial by agriculturists (they were credited with saving farmer's crops by consuming the insects endagering them). They are usually gentle creatures, exhibiting neither antagonism to not fondness for man.What interested Tom Wilson Weinberg about the seagulls was their behaviour or more precisely the behaviour of some seagulls : in response to a UC Irvine study of long term monogamous lesbian behaviour in seagulls on Santa Barbara Island, Tom Wilson…