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The Czech version of this article was published on 18th April 2014. Somehow, I forgot (or was too lazy) to translate it. But now is the time to remediate this mistake.Those were bloody times. What was strange, though, was that everyone was smiling – and they kept smiling even as they were struck down and dying. They took such delight in their unreliable and inaccurate muskets, and didn’t mind in the slightest that they all stank like an elven brothel.read more...

268/365 Findhorn Beach flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

To start things off on the right foot, this morning, I woke up feeling good but a bit tired. I fell asleep quickly but woke up early. I almost always wake up early, so it’s actually nothing new. My brain just says ok time to get up! I drank my coffee and then did stuff on here while finishing my coffee after Molly left for work. I was thinking I wanted to get a WOD in earlier this morning and see how my leg felt. Last evening, like any normal visually impaired person, I didn’t see something at…

I’d been trying for years to make this happen, and the other day, it finally did: Neela Vermeire, of Neela Vermeire Creations, came into my virtual studio for her first interview on the channel, during which she discussed her latest release, Neith, as well as her thoughts on the current state of the industry and […] The post Live Interviews With Neela Vermeire and Valerie & Remi Pulverail of Les Indemodables appeared first on .

English summary: this post is in Polish and contains hints about origami paper, with a special focus on papers you can buy in Poland. Originally intended for print, it didn’t make it into the planned publication, so I’m now publishing it on my blog. You can use an automated translation tool built into your browser to translate into English. Przedwstęp Niniejszy tekst został napisany z myślą o publikacji w rocznicowym numerze Biuletynu PTO na początku 2026 roku. Ponieważ ze względów…

I made it to Stafford yesterday. Lovely weather, a few hiccups in travel on the way but nothing major…My first time at the exhibition and I was generally impressed with organisation. Venue is spacious too, and suits the feel - but connection to the station left a little to be desired with the courtesy buses breaking down and suffering from overcrowding and long waits. The young Scouts helping out on the door and around the snow were polite and courteous and I enjoyed the variety of layouts.…

Kitanowaka of Hakkaku-beya won the Juryo yusho. He defeated Kagayaki in regulation to force a play-off. Kayo joined the play-off as he beat Tamawashi. Kitanowaka then defeated Kagayaki and Kayo to claim the title. What works once must work twice. Rinse and repeat, no? The Makushita to Juryo promotion queue will be interesting. There’s precedent … Continue reading Aki 2026: Senshuraku

This is the eighteen-month recap: the talk I gave on day two of AI Engineer Singapore. A lot has happened since the six-month recap in Melbourne. The recording is below, followed by an edited transcript with the slides.Welcome back. For those who were at the party here last night, he actually came on for a couple of sets and DJed as well. So who is Geoffrey Huntley? He's an independent AI researcher known for doing unhinged things with AI. He's the person behind the Ralph loop, which is now…

Hey, Bear. I always loved rains. Looking at them or walking in the rain. Although here, in a dugout it is a total mess. The stairs in generally hard to use, because they are very narrow and you need to squeeze in. When they are wet it is a challenged, the stairs becomes a slide, which you need to use twice a hour. The mice is everywhere. Annoying. If you put a candy on the bed place, next to your head, they will eat half of in minutes. There was 8 mice poo in my cup just after a night. Our…

It’s common to compare the current AI takeover of software engineering to the rise of AI in chess. Chess AIs went from much weaker than serious players to much stronger than even the strongest humans. Between those points, there was a middle period dominated by “centaurs”: human-AI partnerships that were stronger than unassisted AIs or humans. Lots of people think that we’re currently in a world of software engineering centaurs. According to them, coding AIs are not yet capable enough to…

Previous: PurplecthulhuNext: Good question.It is a strange sort of mask. The outside is a featureless dome of unlacquered hardwood, stained dark by years of handling. The inside, however, is contoured to a human face and lined with mirror-polished silver- viewed from the right angle, its convex face would appear as the uncanny un-face of the viewer. The mask is sewn into a length of undyed linen, intended to be wrapped around the entire head like an all-encompassing turban. Worn by any other…

I’ve been pining for a Switch on and off for years. My financial situation at home has made it difficult to prioritize such an expense; it didn’t feel like a “productive” use of my money. It’s taken an emotional toll on me, as I’ve watched countless YouTube videos of people with these devices, making me feel like I’m outside on a cold dark night peering into a warmly lit coffeehouse. I’ve been dabbling into emulation for a while now but my laptop wasn’t feeling like a proper gaming laptop. I…

What do you think the world has too much of, right now? There are probably a lot of answers that come to mind. Too many bills, too much being asked of us, too many stupid and dangerous people in politics, too many plates we need to constantly keep spinning. We are overwhelmed by how overwhelmed we are, and we are exhausted by our exhaustion. We are sick and tired of being sick and tired. A few days ago, I shared the thought that You need to build what you think the world needs more of. Everyone…

This week was also uneventful. On Friday, I published the final case study on my portfolio. Now, I will keep refining / working on small updates to my folio. I am quite happy that I was able to get all the content in. (The first version anyway.) In terms of my side projects, I made some progress on a generative art project involving typography (and posters!). I might post some updates here if I make something. Also, there’s been constant loud music playing due to Ganesh Immersion in my area,…

Tailwind is awesome. I like having the styling next to the markup. I can read a component and understand its layout without jumping between files. But there’s a huge gap between using Tailwind and automatically verifying that code follows a design system. This becomes especially obvious when AI agents write the UI. An agent can produce valid Tailwind while ignoring the tokens and component variants already in your project. Telling it to follow the design system gives it instructions. It also…

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string augmentation and analysis. (Note that this ends today.)

When I scanned in a full issue of the short-lived School Fun not long ago, I promised a closer look at its great survivor, the Tom Paterson-drawn School Belle -- who continued after the merger with Buster, obviously, outstripped all the other stories in the comic by several years and appeared in its new home until near the end (although much of Belle's appearances in the nineties were reprints).The above strip is from the 20/04/85 edition of Buster, at which point School Fun was still being…

Yesterday I spent some time scanning, developing film and printing in the darkroom. While I was taking notes, I took the opportunity to re-evaluate my analog workflow. Lately I’m more and more tempted to cut reliance on external services for developing color film. As for now, when I have color film, I send them to a lab, but the rolls consistently come back scratched. It’s a recurring issue: I’ve pointed it out to them before, and their response is always that it’s Kodak’s fault. That’s hard to…

Adventurers Character Race Class Description Ainsley Human Ranger level 1 An older gentleman with a groomed moustache and a wooden pipe in his mouth, covered in dark green cloak. Ambros Human Cleric level 7 Follower of Aniu, Lord of Time. Balarus Human Fighter level 4 An ex-woodsman, quite a crack shot with his bow. Hedwig Hogwarts Elf Fighter / magic-user An always alert owl masquerading as an elf. Ivor Human Cleric level 1 A young, soft-spoken worshipper of Umannah with thick black beard. Tam…

What’s the first song you’d play at a party? I’ve already suggested the track that popped into my head for this prompt. That’s how it starts, we go back to your house… And to be fair you can’t really go wrong with LCD Soundsystem to get things started (literally). Casting around for other ideas, I asked my wife who, without pause, suggested this ABBA track. For me, it’s a middle of the evening one, a pick up, a reset to get people dancing, but that’s my old party DJ head at play. Her reasoning…

About a year and a half ago, Nikhil showed me Nathan's blog post about IndiaFOSS 2024, we ended up going in September 2025 and it was cooler than the blog post made it out to be. This was about a week or so after we founded ATLAS, and we had such an incredible time there. Talented and passionate people everywhere, students just like us and communities that were so aligned with everything we wanted ATLAS to be. IndiaFOSS 2026 had such a bizarre contrast compared to last year. Over the past year,…

My friends at Radix Co-op are debuting THE SOLAR GRID box-set at Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair as we speak. If in New York, swing by MoMa PS1 and check it out. Front cover preview until I get glamor shots of the actual box in all its glory. #work #tsg #comix

I've cut down my Mastodon use a bit this weekend, which has made my mental health a lot better already. The current state of my corners of the net makes it hard not to think about AI all the time: I've been trying to not take a side in the current schism, but trying to be evenhanded in the midst of what is feeling like a war provokes its own kind of stress. Looptober is coming up so I've been concentrating spare-time technical efforts on getting my SuperCollider granulator up and running. I'm…

Finished reading Good Bye: Leading change better by attending to endings by Lizzie Bentley Bowers and Alison Lucas. I completely agree with the authors that paying attention to endings and ensuring that they are well-marked is important. There are some useful anecdotes and exercises in this book for anyone in a leadership position to read and reflect on endings done well, and endings done poorly. But overall, it felt as though it could have been an article. Stretching it out into a book, with…

a metallic collage cranes twist from the water to the sky look in dogpatch a man goes off the dock with a plastic bag a disheveled face wish him home as you walk through windows keep count stranger faces promise love the world is ending but go to a warehouse a room a broken glass no one has been but you feel how odd it is to shatter so small inside us split our twin bodies against alabaster noumena all we have to see all that all dies with us the sun is so bright today I can only see you the…

Today at a workday at the local school, one of the volunteers thinned the society garlic (Tulbaghia violacea) plantings. They were threatening to crowd out some plants added to the beds by students (not pictured in the photo below). Society garlic plantings in the school beds from an earlier day. The one plant that gophers leave alone. I’d heard from another volunteer that society garlic are edible so I asked to grab some. The clumps with better roots, I planted in a pot. The rest I brought…

There have been scores of Sunday blog posts featuring Jungle Cruise Snoozles; I've explained why before, and I always feel a little bit guilty taking it out of this beloved ride. But not-great photos are NOT GREAT. Or barely even "good". The only thing going for these is that they were likely taken within the first month of the park's opening - possibly even within the first two weeks. They were put into cardboard mounts by somebody who didn't care if they were flopped or not. And with these,…