On the importance of not sacrificing engineering principles, when integrating AI into the software development process. The rise of “vibe coding” has sparked justified concerns about technical debt and code quality. However, critics misdiagnose the problem as a failure of generative AI rather than a failure of engineering discipline. The article also addresses the troubling industry trend of eliminating both junior and senior engineering roles, threatening the talent pipeline essential for…

How in the world did this get a sequel…? Is there still hope for AKB0048 season 3??? I quite enjoyed it. Pretty gripping story. It’s hard to capture the balance in a show like this, when you have characters who are very much the bad guys, but it still makes you root for them at least on a small personal scale while simultaneously recognizing how awful they are. I really enjoyed the story with the two generals in particular. They’re both truly awful while trying to do the right thing (as much as…

Wisconsin’s more Chicago than Chicago. -Fred Armisen (spoken in a nasal-y midwestern twang) Wisconsin! That’s where I am now, in Milwaukee, stopping for a coffee before continuing lakeside through Veterans Park to downtown and the Third Ward. This is not a travel blog (not that there’s anything wrong with travel blogs), but: 39 Indiana, 38 Texas & 37 New Mexico. And 41-50 still to come: Minnesota, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota,…

As I continue occasionally tinker on the redesign I've started (and often think "what's the point, current design is fine"), I wanted to share some of the problems I've run in to. Problems mostly for me because I'm not a designer, and I don't have the wiring to know what works. Mono fonts A mono font is fairly important to this blog because a large part centres around code (though, reviewing, I can't find any recent posts that included a wall of code… maybe that's good?!). I also decided early…

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...will not appear this weekend.The column will return on Saturday, October 3rd.For recent classic film news links, please visit my September 12th column.

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Into The Great Wide OpenGet It At DiscogsPetty re-upped with Lynne and reunited the Heartbreakers. The results are about what you’d expect: more retro-minded rock ’n’ roll songs presented with modern sheen and maybe a hair more oomph than fans got on Full Moon Fever. Despite the lack of monster pop singles like “Free Fallin’,” which became Petty’s calling card, Into the Great Wide Open isn’t an inferior sequel. Like so many entries in Petty’s catalog —…

Over the years, I’ve had many battles about accessibility ‘modes’, and why they’re a terrible idea. That’s another article for another day, but one thing ‘mode’ advocates often come back with is that we already have modes for things like colour and motion, so why not just add more? Our users have already told their operating system how they want things to work, whether that’s darker colours, more contrast, or less movement. We should respect those preferences as they browse the web. The browser…

I looked at my 50-ish signal messages and some like 30-ish fedi notifications and said "not today". But yes tomorrow. I always have message back up when I go on vacation.

When chaos engine Donald Trump met elected by his mates to lead the country Andy Burnham at the United Nations, social media naturally did what media does best and immediately turned a perfectly ordinary diplomatic encounter into a forensic examination of two men standing approximately three feet apart. Burnham, with his wonky glasses, slightly rigid posture and expression suggesting that somebody had just whispered "we need a word" in his ear, was soon being compared to Ronnie Corbett halfway…

This amazing footage of the extraordinary Chinese city of Shanghai was captured by China Photography and LaLin Photography and gives us a drone-driven close up of the city, perhaps the most Blade Runneresque on the planet. You can take in all the views from wherever you are – from The Bund – the historic waterfront promenade with famous colonial-era architecture and views across the Huangpu River to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, one of Shanghai's most recognizable landmarks, standing 468 metres…

Index The Life and Suffering of Sir BranteA visual novel of sorts, where you follow the titular character over the whole course of his life through the waning years of a brutal fantasy empire and its theocratic caste system. The mechanics, as they are, are fairly standard: make choices, choices affect your relationships and skills, relationships and skills influence what choices you make, cycle continues. The story and setting work for what they’re aiming for - fairly standard dark fantasy…

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A portion of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s “Bronze Crowd“, in the collection of Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center. The post Headless in the City appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Look how epic this little guy is! He is a crab — and if you asked him, the fiercest warrior that ever lived. While that may not be strictly true, crabs do have the heart of a warrior and will raise their claws, sometimes only millimetres into the air, to assert dominance over their world. Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the Phylum Arthropoda. In Kwak'wala, the language of the

Among our grandad’s papers was his memoir of his childhood in Ipswich, Suffolk. It had been typed up, double-spaced, with a preface and postscript by his son, our dad, John Gyford. I’ve added a few extra paragraph breaks and also included many related period photos. Most of these are from the collection of David Kindred on Flickr with kind permission. The dates of many are unknown but hopefully they aren’t too far from being contemporary with these memories. § Goodbye Victoria:An Edwardian…

I hope you're not tired of the 8087, because I have another article about Intel's floating-point chip.1 In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, making floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems. In this article, I look at the algorithm behind the chip's tangent instruction. One popular approach for trigonometric functions is an algorithm called CORDIC. Another approach is a polynomial approximation. The 8087 combined the two to obtain both high accuracy and high…

This is not really a hidden find or anything - PMG are very high profile and if you're interested in this stuff you probably already know this video exists. But I do think it's worth taking time to watch this! I also think it could be a useful thing to show to teenagers or young people in your life. I spent much of the early part of my career watching people entertain the idea that "powerful people" in games are somehow controlling what games say, or what the games media says. When they pointed…

I’ve been seeking medical help for the past two months. This week, things suddenly took a big turn. I finally saw the surgeon early last week; he agreed to fix me up. But the local hospital would not cooperate with me financially. Then I discovered a simpler path that looks promising — a bottle of liquor, a serrated knife, and…uh, yeah, totally kidding on that last part. Self-pay problem I was having difficulty with my local hospital’s financial department. It was willing to let me use the…

Hi, hello, how are you? It’s autumn and the moon is full. What more could you ask for? I have started bringing home pocketfuls of conkers and distributing them throughout my home for their well-established and indisputable spider-deterrent properties. This, of course, is Syzygy Business, your lunar-monthly newsletter miscellany comprising a bunch of unrelated things that have been on my mind. As always, if you want more structured thoughts, you can find some of those on the blog. Recent posts…

the night i shouldve met you i walked for hours and hours unaware i stood at the top of the causeway and looked into the ocean below at the moon above i was covered in dirt and grass and nicotine and i thought of you that night its ironic im not sure if i misunderstood or just failed some sort of test im still coming to terms with so much but i dont want something so important to me to be lost in passing like this id like to talk if youll accept m@hypr.moe

Jeff Atwood sharing an email response his piece on not being able to vibe code love, asserts some wisdom: Perhaps the LLMs are a reminder that we should make an extra effort to cultivate relationships with each other and form communities online – communities that belong to us, not some billionaire. Communities where we regularly stop to help each other, because that’s how we learn too. And if we do not stop to help each other… what do we become? I personally decided to stop cross-posting my…

Hello again from my Thinkpad. My secret Thinkpad. My wife doesn’t know I bought this Thinkpad. It hides in the visual noise of my office closet until I deploy it furtively when she’s not around. Someday she’ll discover it and inquire as to its presence in our home. The inquiry will take the rough shape of, “You bought another computer?” Depending on the circumstances of the moment, the inquiry could be lighthearted in nature. Or not. It’s not about the money, as this is a relatively…

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Spotlight can’t search Google Drive files on Mac. Learn how to enable indexing with a simple terminal command for seamless file searches.Google’s official client for Mac OS, “Backup and Sync” is no more. It has been replaced by “Google Drive” now. One problem is that the new approach exposes files as a Network Drive, which, for some reason, isn’t indexed by Spotlight. So, you can no longer search for the Google Drive files via Spotlight unless you re-enable the indexing. After jumping through…

By SJ Groenewegen Ball of Confusion, That's What the Cold War Is Today For people interested in Cold War politics, there are a lot of contradictory messages right now. To borrow the title of the Temptations' hit single from last year, we are truly living on a ball of confusion. Is truth stranger than fiction, … Continue reading [September 26, 1971] One Defector and 105 Expulsions (KGB booted out of London) → The post [September 26, 1971] One Defector and 105 Expulsions (KGB booted out of…

It’s always nice to see a turtle while snorkeling, but when the sunlight illuminates its shell, it’s a special treat.

I lean back in my chair, take a sip of my coffee and moan. “Bless the one who invented adding spices to coffee.” I inhale the scent and growl at the idiot in front of me, giggling like a madman. “What?” “Darling, you’re an addict. If they’d added lollipops to it, you’d find a reason to love it.” I giggle, “That sounds delicious actually, and I can think of a lot of things that would taste disgusting in coffee.” I wink and say, “Fish!” The idiot, also known as my husband, growls and says, “No.…

[This is a guest post by Ivan Corwin. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Mathematics and those mathematicians who guide its development have been central to societal advancement since antiquity. AI, like many tools that were invented by mathematicians (e.g., the abacus, slide rule, calculator, and computer), holds the potential to continue to advance this positive trajectory. Indeed, in each epoch of history where a new mathematical…