We are rewatching The Good Place, a sitcom that ran during the first Trump administration, this time with our tweens. It’s a show about moral philsophy and what it means to be a good person, but it’s also a show about the absurdity of quantification and scoring systems. It’s made me want to re-read my notes from C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game, show creator Michael Schur’s book, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, and maybe Dante’s…

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Johnny Garmon and the Shadows issued three singles for Garmon's own Missile label, which is listed at Rockin' Country Style unlocated. Billy Miller and Miriam Linna of Norton Records have included three of their sides in their "El Paso Rock" volume 4.. Therefore, as I trust the always reliable Billy and Miriam, we can say that the Missile label was located in El Paso, Texas. Johnny Garmon and the Shadows the six sides and labels

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If you're building a Jev-style "System One" model, please add prompt caching or reusable question sets to your API 🙏. This would make batch use cases even more efficient, so you could amortize the cost of many questions asked over the same input. (This was also proposed in typesafe-ai/typesafe-sdk-js#10.) TL;DR: after a week of tweaking my Jev calls, my questions are ~88% of the input tokens. I'm asking 54 questions of ~1.1 million documents per month. Jev makes certain types of classification…

Interesting thoughts on the value of learning to code — when in practice we rely more and more on AI for it. This article explores whether learning to code is still necessary in the age of AI. Drawing on survey responses, teaching experience, and personal reflection, it examines how AI coding assistants are changing software development, the skills future technologists will need, and the importance of maintaining technical understanding in an increasingly automated world. The Question: Should…

Once again I am happy to share with you all the secret that I mentioned a couple weeknotes ago! I was in yet another podcast! This time I was a guest in James’ wonderful show: Wonders of Web Weaving #21: Joel The podcast is a fantastic show where James interviews different bloggers and writers that are active on the IndieWeb scene. There have been many wonderful people there already, such as Marisabel, Rachel, Mike, and some more. There’s only about 20 episodes so far, so give it a listen if…

This is a blog post that accompanies the most recent bonus pod! You can listen to the first 15 minutes of the bonus pod below, but you’ll have to subscribe on Patreon to get the RSS feed of the full episode (as well as access to our Discord). Honestly, at this point, the topic for our bonus episodes comes up on the fly— literally as we are in the middle of recording an unrelated episode. I apologize to any listeners (all five of you) who constantly suggest films for us to cover; we’ll get to…

When I saw this in my Facebook feed I was really excited. I use Maya Kaimal simmer sauces constantly – I’ll take some chicken, bell pepper, and sweet onion and get that all going with a touch of oil then dump in the jar of sauce and let it simmer for quite awhile and have it with rice or mashed potatoes for dinner. I usually let it hang out with a black cardamom pod as well. This however is different. This is what you call ‘desi Chinese’ which is Chinese-Indian fusion. Let’s give it a try – it…

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. echo 😠 i blame charli xcx and kiikii for this mess. abd 😊 okayy im liking this grls 😊 even though it shouldn't this does move me a…

Lower Jaw Teeth of IndricotheriumImagine a rhinoceros tall enough to browse among the trees, with no horn and an appetite that must have kept it chewing for much of the day. Meet Indricotherium, a name often used for the giant prehistoric rhino now generally placed in the genus Paraceratherium. It lived in Asia during the Oligocene, tens of millions of years ago, and was among the

Watching Widow's Bay and the return of Slow Horses makes me think about one of my frequent criticisms of all TV and films. It's just not funny. Life is inherently funny. In an absurd way if nothing else. People are funny, even in - perhaps especially in - the worst of times. The only person in the whole world I can always rely on to get my jokes or laugh at the same things I do is my niece. Likewise, I think she is hilarious and she never fails to make me laugh. I don't know how to put it but…

New high temperature record beating previous record of 23.5 degree in 2011.

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2026/06/22/usb-hdmi-adapter/ I came across Herman Õunapuu's post suggesting these things, and after finding multiple uses for this ~$5 object, I wholeheartedly agree. Terrible video quality. Incredibly versatile. Currently I'm setting up another home server in its new location. Normally I'd have to do this at my desk, clear the clutter away to make a spot for it, reach around the back of my monitor, unplug a bunch of crud, etc. and eventually get to the point where ssh…

20 years ago today I took receipt of my first Mac. The next day I blogged about it. I loved everything about that Mac, apart from the mouse, and 20 years on I wouldn’t swap to Windows or Linux despite some of Apple’s missteps. I’d bought an iPod in 2003 and almost since day 1 and experiencing iTunes on Windows I hankered after a Mac. I’d used Mac’s at Glasgow Uni and looked on enviously at some of the Mac apps at the time with their skeuomorphic designs and large indie developer community that…

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. i see you 🤬 just put me out of my misery man this sounds like something off that v8 album 360 😡 not feeling it and this chorus is so…

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/become-worthless-to-tech-companies Cory D's post hits all the right notes for where I'm at right now with technology. If tech companies don't value you, why provide value to them? If they back political positions hostile to your interests, why not return that hostility? I'm not arguing for boycotts, I know that people are bound to different platforms for different, compelling reasons. What I am arguing for is that, given the opportunity, you try and reduce the…

Confession: I got nerd-sniped by Sam Henri Gold’s request for my icon galleries: I'd like to humbly request artwork-level searching in macosicongallery.com What follows is a train-of-thought blog post as I play with what an implementation might look like. I’ve actually long-wanted something like this, e.g. let me search for “coffee” and show me all icons that have some depiction of coffee in them. Similarly, I’ve wanted some kind of “related” representation for icons. I have this today via…

There is a kind of Christianity the world is perfectly willing to tolerate, the kind that stays quiet, asks nothing difficult, blesses whatever everybody was already doing and never becomes serious enough to interfere with anybody's plans. you can believe in God as long as belief remains another private preference, you can wear a cross as long as you never mention what happened on it, you can speak about love as long as you never speak about sin, repentance, judgment, obedience or sacrifice,…

For the last two weeks, everyone has been talking about a new AI model from a company called TypeSafe AI, which spent two years building what it markets as a new type of AI model: a "System One model" called Jev. You send text like with any LLM, but Jev doesn't return text or images in response. Instead, it returns decisions and probabilities. It's also very fast (TypeSafe claims 40 to 200 times faster than frontier LLMs) and a lot cheaper as well. This makes it a perfect choice for anything…

Here’s a mistake that I made as a programmer and how I recovered.

This morning I woke feeling exhausted. Before I stayed up last night to watch the shit show that was the Eagles game, I was tired to begin with. I woke up on about 5 hours of sleep. For a second or two I thought I could go back to sleep, but then a wave of wakefulness shot through my brain. The game was a waste of my time to watch. I want Howie to give my my time back! I guess the Phillies eking their way into the playoffs used the Philly sports juju up for this week. I drank my coffee and sat…

I really wanted to make friends with this board. It has a lot of neat features. But a lousy configuration program has doomed it to the give-away pile. Features: Hall effect, with 3.5mm travel North-facing LEDs Comes with back-illuminated shine-through keycaps, which are OK as far as plastic caps go, but have not much in the way of feel Clicky, not thocky. Crisp bottom out. ASUS Gear Link is the web configurator. Comes in fancy padded case. 75% Only 12 3/8 inches wide Issues: Individual key…

By Stephen Greenblatt. This is a historical, occasionally speculative biography of Shakespeare, with particular attention to how overlooked features of Elizabethan England can help us understand Shakespeare's work. It's excellent. Other reviews (e.g., this and this) overstate just how speculative it is. Just about anyone who reads this book ought to become a better reader of Shakespeare. This reminds me of Abe, David S. Reynolds' biography of Abraham Lincoln centered on American culture of the…

Many of you have been writing in to ask if Roterfaden still makes the Taschenbegleiter in the smaller A6 size, and it turns out they do. While they no longer make this size available in every color and finish, I managed to secure a batch of the Taschenbegleiter BS_20 covers in this gorgeous dark brown/cognac leather, in both A4 and A6 sizes. We also have stock of the Taschenbegleiter LTD 038 in A4, which appears similar but features a beige elastic and sand felt interior as opposed to the…

One of the earliest programmes I featured on Curious British Telly was Mop and Smiff, a BBC preschooler's show from the mid-1980s. The reason it featured so early on was because, back when I was first starting to watch television, I was a huge fan.I also managed to get in touch with Mike Amatt, one of the show's stars. This allowed me to find out more about the series was produced, and Mike had plenty of memories to share. Accordingly, this is why I've chosen to feature Mop and Smiff in my…

One of the retrospective embarrassments I have with Rip It Up and Start Again is the non-appearance of "Sex Drive" by The Embarrassment.But then I had never heard it when doing the book. Indeed had barely heard of The Embarrassment, nor been given any reason to think the Kansas (post?)punkers were worth chasing down.Not sure how they actually swam into my ken but eventually they did a few years ago. I became quite addicted to "Sex Drive", their debut single, in particular. Particularly love the…

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is a fall freebie, and it’s been a while since I looked at book covers… so I’m going to dig out some fall-themed covers to enjoy! Some of these are set in fall or around Halloween, or have creepy Halloween-y vibes; some are just orange/red colours. Bit of a random mix, and not all books I’ve necessarily loved, but I enjoy the colours and had fun getting a chance to really look at and think about book covers again — it’s been a while! I know there’s another…