DHH’s recent keynote talk, given at Rails World, has been all over social media: My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear itKeep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do pic.twitter.com/KKFUXfesFb— Scott (@scottstts) September 25, 2026 I’ve gotta say, I agree with him. It is over. The whole writing code by hand thing. And, probably like many of you, I’ve had a cavalcade…

Lol Michigan loses once again to their greatest rival: the game clock 🏈

Click here to book for my tours . Petticoat Lane Photographer Charles Chusseau-Flaviens came to London from Paris and took these pictures, reproduced courtesy of George Eastman House, before the First World War – mostly likely in 1911. This date is suggested by his photograph of the proclamation of the coronation of George V which took place in that year. Very little is known of Chusseau-Flaviens except he founded one of the world’s first picture agencies, located at 46 Rue Bayen, and he…

After the drought and the heatwaves autumn has become a mini growing season: some rain, still sunny, and warm rather than baking. For example Musk Mallow flowers in early summer and wilted in the heat but has been coaxed back into flower here and there.

I’m sitting in my newly thrifted camping chair from Kringloop, which I’ve repurposed for my balcony, and I’ve just finished the first chapter of the “Dear Comrade” section of A Little Life. The chapter details the aftermath of Willem’s death, and Jude pondering everything he would have done differently had he known Willem would die before him, which mostly involved stockpiling more pictures and recordings of him. Between hanging up photos of my family in my apartment today, reading that…

Michael Sleep is a middle-aged man living alone in his girlfriend's house, seven years after she went missing. With a dead-end job and having to support his elderly, confused father in an old person's home, Sleep's life is on autopilot. When his girlfriend's brother starts legal proceedings to have her legally declared dead so he can inherit the house, Sleep faces homelessness and hopelessness. But one of his father's stranger notions turns out to be more than a passing fancy, and Sleep…

Hello readers, life is rather tough lately. I'm doing things in the background but I fell away from the blogging and posting part of the hobby. I play Band of Blades with my group, we also plan some Delta Green and Urban Shadows in the future. I still tinker with things and I'll be back.

The crack team are almost at the vault door - although walls are closing in with steel spikes, the hero suspended above lasers. This glass tub of scorpions and hornets will explode if you don't guess the password but you do not speak or read Japanese and this glitching OS is obsolete. What happened to all the failed former teams? No movie for them. Forgotten, unmarked frames. They huddle just outside the shot lights sing low dirges for the ones left living - voices like waves breaking over…

A damaged silo at a grain elevator in Downtown Sherman, Texas. The post Bashed appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

! UPCOMING EVENTS! Saturday October 3 - NOVOTVAR FESTIVAL, Bratislava, SlovakiaConversation with Miloš HrochTime: 5pmLocation: V-klubFree and open to the publicTuesday October 20 - ROCK AND ROLL BOOK CLUB, Walthamstow, LondonConversation with Daniel Avery + Kitty EmpireTime: 6.30pmLocation: Walthamstow Trade Hall TicketsWednesday October 21 -

El Super (1979) is historic as the first American feature film to focus Cuban exiles. It centres on Roberto (Raimundo Hidalgo-Gato) and Aurelia (Zully Montero), two Cubans who have been living in New York City for ten years. Roberto is the superintendent of the apartment building in which he lives, and constantly put up with complaints from his various tenants. Roberto and Aurelia's daughter is Aurelita (Elizabeth Peña, in her film debut), who is thoroughly Americanized and whom they often have…

I realized I could probably get a data point I’ve never been able to from WT Builder: how long does it take for me to create the Weekly Thing? Turns out I can now answer that. Additionally, I can now evaluate features on how they improve my workflow and time required.

I woke up this morning and came up with the bright idea that I wanted to add the modified date to my posts. It was so damned hot in here, and just getting outside and stuff, I never really got started any further than thinking about it. I actually miss doing this sort of stuff, but I had a lot on my mind for the past several months. With that mind clutter, wasn’t able to focus as well as other times in the past. It’s been on the back of my mind, though. Today was the day I was going to get at…

Na, hier gab´s ja schon lang keine Schnittchen, Schneewittchen! Dabei mag ich diese Brotverwertung wirklich sehr gern und Du findest auch schon einige Rezepte dazu. Zutaten & Zubereitung für ca. 5 Scheiben Brot300 g Zwiebeln, Sorte nach Wahl, gern gemischt, in 1 cm großen Würfeln (ich hatte weiße Zwiebeln und Schalotten)2 EL Öl1/2 TL SalzZutaten in einer kleinen, beschichteten

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also…

How To With John Wilson remains indomitably good.

The utility cover with the blue paint splotch on the right side of the photo is what got me I had a good long run on the bike without a crash, but unfortunately my luck ran out last weekend after decideding to add a detour up into the Emerald Hills neighborhood — all hills and mostly narrow single lane roads that I’m only casually familiar with. I had made it through the worst of the uphill part (around 1000 ft of elevation) and was starting to descend, using a mix of memory and instinct to…

Daniel dictates almost everything he sends me, and he wanted two ways to do it. A quick tap to start talking and another tap to stop, for the long rambles. And holding a key down while he talks, for the short bursts.This week he switched his dictation app to Typeless, and it only does the first one.The problem Daniel's Typeless shortcut is Right Control plus J. Tap it and Typeless starts listening, and tap it again and it stops and types what he said. He'd been used to holding a key down while…

View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Partly clear and pleasantly cool. Due to waiting for a delivery yesterday (it was a no-show) and the absence of birding today, I opted to do a run! The watch was recommending a run of 54 minutes (!) at a pace of 8.3 km/hour. I pondered this briefly and rejected it, as I always do. But I was feeling a little frisky, so I decided to try for 7.5 km for the first time in…a long time. And I did it! My pace hovered around the six-minute mark the whole run and while I…

Listening to the latest The Talk Show, Gruber’s guest Andru Edwards mentioned he’d taken 46 flights this year, and that sounded insane. Then I checked Flighty, and I’m at 39. Maybe I am one of the crazy ones.

I challenged myself to write 30 notes and 4 posts in Substack, but it cost me my sanity. I chose Substack after being shadow-banned from Medium and, I have to admit it, I wanted some attention and book sales. But… In past weeks, I’ve gone throught an episode of stress and anxiety. My head has been rushing with ruminating thoughts and time traveling, and trying to hit a quota of likes and comments to get subscribers and followers only added more oxygen and fuel to the fire. I was so anxious I…

So hey I owe you all1 a larger update about several major life-events in the past two weeks but right this second we’re watching a movie called The End Of Oak Street (which is a BLAST btw) where, No Spoilers, it’s a Suburban Neighborhood in The 80s, Something Happens, and Circumstances Change Rapidly And uh Our power just went out, so Nice Knowing You All? Live from going to see what that noise was, I’ll be right back, — Ol’ C.W. strain This was actually the ultimate conclusion of Professor…

Hello everyone! Autumn is upon us, and I have found myself entering a depressive episode. Fun! I’m currently mainly focusing on keeping myself alive, I’m still struggling with severe anemia… I have a diagnostic hospital stay planned, but it’s in a month… Apart from health problems, I’ve been focusing a lot on trying to find a source of income… And on trying to finish up some projects I’ve started, before uni comes in and takes up all my free time. Oh, yes, I’m doing another Bachelor’s, now. I’m…

In celebration of John Coltrane’s Centennial birthday, this edition of Jazz Collection Live focuses on Trane’s ballad playing, featuring performances from Prestige, such as I See Your Face Before Me, Violets for Your Furs and more; Blue Note, I’m Old Fashioned; Atlantic, such as Naima and Every Time we Say Goodbye; and Impulse, including Alabama, After the Rain, Lush Life, I Wish I Knew, In a Sentimental Mood, and several more. Featured artists include John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy…

So for about fifteen years this has been my TV/movie watching sitch — I’m over here, and the computer that plays the stuff is over there *points at bookcase*. And I control this with this handy li’l keyboard. Now, when I first started this thing, I went through about half a dozen keyboards until I found this one. Most mini keyboards have a pitiful range — like a metre at most. But this one (which is not Bluetooth, but uses a USB dongle) works pretty well. That is, normally it has, like, a 98%…

I’ve written about backscatter before. (And so has USA Today.) And I’ll probably write about it again. Backscatter, at a high level, is deceptively simple.Somebody forges your domain.Somebody sends a bunch of junk email.A lot of that junk email gets rejected. Spam filters, unknown users, etc.The bounces go to you.It sucks.The end.But there’s more to it, and it’s been a while since I talked about it. So let’s look for the answers to these questions, through a 2026 lens: Why are you getting…

On whether LLMs and agentic AIs are a positive and beneficial invention, I tend to lean more toward optimism. Although they can certainly make mistakes and hallucinate, they are useful. Regardless of where you stand, we can at least acknowledge that there's an intelligence at work, which raises the question: are these AIs other minds? Intelligence is often incorrectly conflated with consciousness, but certainly the two are connected. As an armchair philosopher, I think that they're probably not…

If you run a public company and someone steals your customer database, the standard public relations playbook requires you to announce two things. First, you announce that your organisation was targeted by a sophisticated, highly coordinated nation-state adversary. Second, you announce that they used an unprecedented zero-day exploit.This framing is immensely comforting to everyone involved. It suggests your engineers fought valiantly against foreign intelligence operatives before being…

I came across a post recently from a person I've side-eyed for a very long time. For obvious reasons, I won't be linking to the blog owned by this particular weasel as to not grant them even more attention than what they clearly so desperately didn't get from their family, but IYKYK. If this gets de-listed, then so be it. I've aired my bitch to this blogger before, their main blog last I talked about it was basically just regurgitating some lukewarm event and then asking 'wElL wHaT dO yOu…

there is a lightness under my skin fighting the familiar dark the corners of my mouth turning upwards despite the hurdles despite the hurt