The market is flooded with so many accessibility overlays that it’s impossible to keep up. I’ve written about the biggest players (plus some also-rans) and provided enough technical details that most readers should know how to quickly evaluate their false claims and poor technology. Never mind their ethical failures as business models. So today is a two-fer, with no more free consulting telling these companies how to improve their products. They have not followed any advice I’ve offered over…

I’m hiring security engineers to join me at Factory, and you should apply! Factory is an exceptional place to work. The team is brilliant, customers love the product, and we’re growing quickly. We’re also early enough that new hires will have real influence over what we build and how our security program develops. Whether your strengths are in pentesting, application and product security, cloud security, corporate security, or compliance, I’d like to hear from you! I’m looking for people who…

Depression is so cruel. it's agonizing, when you think about it. when you've gotten this far and realizing you have wasted your youth so thoroughly thanks to this common but horrible disease that your prospect for the future is bleak. No money, no job, no nothing. just you and the ashes of every plan of being more productive, more disciplined, more proactive, left as ashes that once held a lot of dreams. it's genuinely tiring, to have one slip up ruin your mind like that. That this condition…

When people ask me how to learn software, I often say that: They're probably overrating books and underrating experimentation; They're probably overrating tutorials and underrating non-tutorial projects. Generative AI is making these even more true. You can experiment with a huge range of possible projects, with all sorts of cheap or free tools and deployment options, and with the help of better and better always-available tutoring in LLM form. I do this when I'm trying to learn new tools: I…

Nothing much to report today. Bit of a fuzzy head so a rest day, all in all. Not overly happy with my link-notes below. Can’t seem to get the phrasing right, but also my judgement might be off and it’s all fine actually. I will publish and be damned. 🎶 John McCowen - Pressure Chords feat. Lucy Railton, Weston Olencki (Full album is on subscription streamers) — Came across this while listening to a new-to-me Radio 3 show, Unclassified, for new composers who haven’t found a niche. It’s a bit hit…

I'm what I'd call a "Link Hoarder." You see I often come across articles that move me, tools that I think are cool or might be handy to me at some point, and other such content online - all of which I add to my Raindrop.io "For Consideration" category.And just like that box of cables many of us have stashed away, they get considered and those that get assigned to the next category (the "virtual box") often never come out again. Typical link hoarding behaviour if you ask me.Today that…

The classic car show vibe in a photo. It’s fun talking to people about their weird obsession with whatever paint colour they chose for their Commer Camper van. Bonus points if it’s in a place with a ridiculous name. This is off the back end of my first roll with a Canon VI-L I got off eBay. I like it a lot, despite a slightly cloud viewfinder and maaaaybe issue with infinity focus I need to look into. Again the car show vibes are strong here. It was bloody hot that day but people were…

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AI;DR – The investigation described here was done by Claude Code, with the model Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) at the effort setting “medium”, and this blog post was written mostly by it too. The prompts I gave it are at the end. If you don’t want to read “AI slop”, stop reading now. While testing some DPI fixes for the GExperts message boxes in Delphi 13.2 32 bit, I closed one of the IDE instances used for the tests and got this: Application Error Exception EAccessViolation in module…

Für einen Kreativ-Kurs, von dem ich zu gegebener Zeit berichten werde, arbeite ich mich gerade durch ein Buch, das schon in der Einleitung mit zwei kurzen Passagen mein Herz gewonnen hat. Echter Dilettantismus darf nicht verachtet werden, denn jede Äusserung wirklicher Lebendigkeit muss in dürren Zeiten, wie den unseren, geschätzt werden. Ein Verlangen nach echter Lebendigkeit, dürre Zeiten … das klingt doch nach den 20er Jahren des 21. Jahrhunderts! Der Autor schreibt weiter: Wir arbeiten mit…

Weekly cleaning and home improvement series, with some thoughts in between. I'm starting later and later each week. But at the same time, it's not like I have anywhere to be. I get out of bed around 10:00 now. I used to get up at 9:30. I also have my language exchange today, so that will take up an hour of the afternoon. My stomach still feels weird. I had cake again for breakfast, because I want to finish it. But rather than a coffee I'll have tea. Yesterday, drinking coffee made me incredibly…

I’ve been thinking a lot about the joy of finiteness. I made this connection between joy and finiteness in the most peculiar way. I’ve been a YouTube enjoyer since the late 2000s. Back then, YouTube was simple. Search for videos. Click on one. Watch. Liked the video? Check out the channel that posted it. Like the channel? Subscribe to keep up with the channel’s new videos. Easy. I fondly remember coming home from school — excited to check out what my subscriptions feed had in store for me that…

Joscelyn Godwin, The Mystery of the Seven Vowels: Yet I will add, in all seriousness, that no animal would have served better as a hidden symbol of Iaô than the patient and unmusical ass, which cries as best it can the name of the Unknown God. I was not expecting to find a joke–much less a funny one–in this book.

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Politicians are often frankest in their first (and last) speeches. Listen to those to hear their background, their interests and acknowledgements to the people who helped them win their seats. Another time where MPs can veer off the limited agenda set by their parties is in the reports they must submit if they go on parliament-funded overseas study trips. Not only do these accounts describe what they saw overseas but they also discuss lessons and applicability for here. Failure to adequately…

Before we started on The Brothers Karamazov, my wife and I were reading Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet (see this post), and I had meant to write about one of the most remarkable Anglo-Indian words I learned from it, which occurs in the sentence “Then something went wrong with the camp bandobast” (p. 323 in my edition, p. 332 here). The context is no help with the meaning, so I went to my trusty Hobson-Jobson: BUNDOBUST, s. P.-H. — band-o-bast, lit. ‘tying and binding.’ Any system or mode of…

A short compilation of links to end September. Finished my last shift at work on Sunday and didn't get home until late, and then was exhausted. But I am officially unemployed again and definitely need some recovery time. This week should be relatively empty schedule-wise and I'm hoping to hear back from the job I interviewed on Friday. commetchat a matrix chat client (and therefore requires hosting a Matrix server to be used) Meet the pardoned delete mechanic who wants to stop your car from…

Monday, September 28, 2026 - 12:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project If people today -- with the availability of modern medical understandings of sexual development and variation -- can have such difficulty fitting intersex people into their understanding of the world, just imagine how much more confused pre-modern people may have been. Though pre-modern people had the advantage of allowing for types of causation that had no actual biological basis. This chapter of DeVun reviews several of the…

This is my Filofax Clipbook personal size. I thought it would be fun to show you what’s in it, mostly because I love to share how I use this for both planning and creativity. This is a special kind of filofax with the rings sticking through the cover and a wide spine, which means you can fold over this Filofax to write in, which I love. You can add charms etc to the rings on the outside, but I can’t stand the noise they make lol In the spine I have a Faber Castell Avori Dream Weaver with a blue…

It won’t last past tomorrow, so I thought I’d post this today: According to the Book of Revelation (Chapter 13 Verse 18): Here is wisdom: Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six. Does this mean that the Open Journal of Astrophysics is officially a beast?

Self-hosting is something I’ve been playing around with for a while, and I think I’ve finally got everything laid out the way I like it. This post will detail what I’m hosting and how I’ve got it set up, as always, on the cheap. My self-hosting set up is centered around streaming, because we like to watch things at home without ads. I’ve talked about my physical media collections here and there, and this is one of the ways I’m utilizing it, by ripping stuff to an old hard drive that’s hooked up…

It looks like public perception of how 'intelligent' current AI models are varies widely. Back in 2022, a Google employee already thought their AI model was sentient. Today in 2026, it seems like every other week there's a new article …

I probably should have waited until I hit the 500th edition for this but I was messing around with Claude and looking at the data from the 483 editions of my newsletter that I still have copies of (a few were lost, some were in…lets call them ‘experimental’ formats…and a couple got mangled in the export from Tinyletter). Turns out that comes out at 4925 vacancies over just about a decade of doing this. Now obviously this data is iffy as it is all based on the 10 vacancies I pick each week so it…

Greetings from late September. I’m writing this from several different airplanes and airports, traveling back from the University of Alaska’s second AI Symposium. Aircraft wifi has been uneven, dropping in and out, and once tried to double charge me. Another time United actually apologized for not having Starlink yet. Today’s post takes one of my future of higher education scenarios, Health Care Nation, and adds some more to it. If you haven’t seen it before the idea is that allied health – the…

Three Days of the Condor is commonly cited as one of the best spy films ever made. I watched on a flight back from Germany, and I’ll concede that it’s very, very good.Robert Redford plays Joe Turner. He works for the CIA in New York under the cover of a “literary historical society” that reads books all day, and feeds them into a computer to determine trends and possible terrorist plots.One day, he goes out to pick up lunch, and when he comes back, everyone has been shot dead. From then on,…

Recently I was working on my work PC in my home office and wanted to do something with my desktop Mac. While VNC can be an option, the screen sharing experience from the PC leaves a lot to be desired. This gave me an idea. What if I could create a web interface, accessible on my local network, that would allow me to complete some basic interactions?

I noticed some co-workers weren't aware of the existence of gdu. But they should, because gdu is amazing. Indispensable even. From the manpage: gdu - Pretty fast disk usage analyzer written in Go Yes, this is correct, but this is not really selling it. gdu allows you to quickly analyse a directory and sort on size from the terminal. You get a very clear -- and very fast -- view which directories are eating your all your precious storage space. No more messing around with find or awk commands to…

Read: The Ghost of the Mountains by Kulbhushansing Suryawanshi ★★★★ 📚 Our review of the world’s studies on snow leopard populations had found that less than 10,000 of the estimated 3 million square kilometres of the snow leopard distribution range had been surveyed by researchers using rigorous scientific methods. The total snow leopard habitat in the state of Himachal Pradesh alone was 25,000 square kilometres.The largest area to have been surveyed was a mere 1,500 square kilometres in the…

The season changed last week. The wind kicked up, the clouds blanketed the sky, and our subtropical summer briskly gave way to seasonally and historically appropriate temperatures. It’s colder on the top floor of my pre-war apartment building where the wind howls through the stairwell and the breeze breaches the windows, and so I feel in my bones that it is time to go apple picking. It is time to get tickets for Hanif’s annual show. It is time to listen to History Books and make chili. It is…

Charmingly, last year, I fretted over having published my annual review a mere one and a half months late; alas, here we are, half-way through the following year. Maybe these annual reviews will become like Ramadan, shifting slightly each year until it eventually makes it back to its starting location of ‘being on time’. Methodology ¶ Last year, I highlighted my unimpressive average success rate over the past three years, and thought that part of the problem is that I’m not very consistent in…