It was the fourth time I’d had to tie my shoelace in the barely three hours since I left my house. Frustration had me cursing at my shoe, mostly because it was better to be mad at it than at myself. Still, it got me thinking about my inadequacies, particularly the minuscule things I’m grossly incompetent at. Earlier that morning, I had watched Daan tie his shoelace most fascinatingly. I’d probably need to watch YouTube videos on repeat and practice for two months to pull off anything that good,…

The Best Maker YouTube Channels feature the work of some of the most noted Makers. If you are looking to be inspired and perhaps learn something new. Check some of these sites.

My pal Jesse Jarnow had me back on his essential Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast to talk about a show I saw in the summer of 1985, at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, and the best by far rendition of “Shakedown Street” I ever saw live or have ever heard in a recording.

Back in March, I wrote about JSSE, a JavaScript engine an agent built from scratch in Rust. It was correct, but slow. In May, I wrote about making it faster without touching its architecture, and promised that post was not about bytecode. JSSE v0.9.0 was tagged on September 23, so it is time to take stock. In this post, I will go through where JSSE stands six months after its first release, how it compares with other engines, and the guardrails that allowed an agent to make it faster without…

Reply to IndieWeb link sharing – which method do you prefer? by “I notice there are two main ways people tend to share links.” What about “reply to” posts that some do that gives your point of view to what the post was about and I am doing individual posts but maybe multiple links at ... Read more Source

Farmhands pledging $1 or more over on patreon got to read this a week early! Howdy, Farmhands! I need to level with you for a moment. This post is going to be me telling you about Donkey Kong lore for multiple paragraphs, with a small chart at the end that isn't terribly gameable. You are going to read it anyway because you love me and want me to feel appreciated. You wouldn't make a 35 year old man cry, would you? No? Thought not. We will get through this together. During the Gamecube era,…

I didn't know who Shelley was before watching this, but this was the doc I needed to see right now. It's a well made movie of a fascinating, impressive, and tragic person.

Some places are worth visiting for the games they offer, while others turn the experience into something much bigger. Around the world, casino resorts have become destinations in their own right, combining gaming with spectacular architecture, restaurants, entertainment, shopping and some seriously impressive hotels. From the bright lights of Las Vegas to the grand surroundings of Monaco, these physical gaming destinations have made a lasting impression.For anyone looking for a casino…

Whenever a new version of macOS drops, I find myself archiving the new app icons for my macOS icon gallery. In the past, the work to do this was a bit tedious. First, I’d find the app in the “Applications” folder (or elsewhere on the Mac), right click and choose “Get Info”: Right-click the app icon in the Get Info pane and choose “Copy”: Open the Preview app and go “File -> New from Clipboard”: This gets me the app icon file with a variety of sizes (the 1024-pixel version is the one I want).…

To round out September’s Patreon posts I am taking a look at an author new-to-me, George Dyer. In particular I am reviewing the first of his three mysteries which centre on the Catalyst Club. This club is filled with various professionals who have decided to flex their amateur sleuthing muscles and unravel cases going on in and around San Francisco where they live. Dyer’s novel is not the first to feature such a club as Frank Froëst and George Dilnot, Carolyn Wells and Anthony Berkeley wrote…

Screenshot of Marian Goodman Gallery’s IG post of Night Seascape, a felt banner made in 1966 in an edition of 20 + 2 AP by The Betsy Ross Flag & Banner Company, which is on view at Independent 20th Century. At the Independent this weekend, David Platzker’s Specific Objects and Marian Goodman Gallery are showing a selection of artist banners from the Betsy Ross Flag & Banner Company. Additional banners are at the gallery in Tribeca, and there’s also a print publication where Platzker pulls…

In one of my earlier blog posts, I mentioned that I have become more routine, more protective of my time, and indirectly more productive since becoming a parent. That continues. I totally get how Parvathy feels in this video. I am still not a proper morning person. I wake up around 6 AM. That said, I pay close attention to how I feel physically and mentally, and I also pay close attention to rest. Most of my awake time goes into what needs immediate attention and being nice to my future self.…

One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender has first-hand knowledge of your book and your bio, and is really impressed with both–is “How are these things created? How do they get so many of the details right?” The answer, of course, is generative AI, which makes it possible to scrape authors’ data from the internet and regurgitate it in…

I was lukewarm on this, but not for the reasons you think. Woody Allen (who wrote, directed, and stars) is “Miles Monroe”, a former jazz musician and health-food restaurateur who was cryogenically frozen when he suffers surgical complications from an ulcer. It’s now 200 years later, and he’s been thawed out by members of a rebellion fighting the current dictatorial leader of the United States; they are gambling that since he has no kind of biometric record, he can more easily infiltrate the…

6:30, blanketed in fog. Put on the wool sweater and foul weather bibs. A teasingly light wind as we sail off the mooring, ghosting out of the cove.7:15 a little more wind, 1.8. Making 2.6, then 4.1 tacking against the tide, listening to a lobster boat somewhere in the mist. Then less wind, tide carrying us toward the rocks, motor sailing.8:45 rounding Stinson Neck. 9:10 at red marker "2", sailing north at 1.6. Pass Green ledge to starboard, Crow Island ahead to port. 2.4 with wind over…

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), Almansor, lines 243-244 (tr. Hal Draper): Where men burn books, They will burn people also in the end. [W]o man Bücher Verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen. Related posts: A Pungent Smell of Smoke Burning Books Written by Epicurus An Official Book Burning Burn Me! A Curse

I’m not yet ready to release it but it’s a good time to tell what I’ve been working on (and intend to keep working for a while). There are many valid QT MOV files on discmaster that are not decoded (or recognised for that matter, probably exactly for the reason they cannot be decoded). Looking manually into them often shows some exotic content not understood by any program (not even by QuickTime itself these days): Flash, MIDI, PDF, PPT, QT version of Flash aka sprites and so on. And in order…

So the good news: the film of the longest train journey in the EU is out, and you can watch it here:Or directly on Youtube here.The deal essentially was this: cameraman Rick Minnich would follow me throughout the trip, we would get all the footage as swiftly as possible to the Youtube channel Simply Railway, and then a share of the Youtube earnings from the film would then pay Rick's wages having followed me.The first version of the film went online on Friday 18th September, and had to be…

Quanto mais você avança no livro de Cory Doctorow, o brilhante "O Guia do Centauro Reverso Para a Vida Pós-IA", mais a indústria de IA faz sentido – não em termos de negócios ou utilidade, mas em termos de construção de expectativas.É normal se sentir em conflito com IA generativa: muitas pessoas que usam e tiram proveito dela (como eu e outros que conheço) também esbarram em contradições gritantes com os problemas ao redor desses sistemas, desde direitos autorais a uso excessivo de recursos…

Roll a D6.If you rolled “1”:Read the article.Find and quote the weakest sentence. Must be tangential to the main thesis.Say “This makes me not want to read the article.”If you rolled “2”:Do not read the article.SF Bay Area humble brag: “This reminds me of the time I met Steve Jobs...”If you rolled “3”:Open with “I have a doctorate in point-set topology. This is utter nonsense.”Fail to explain the concept correctly.If you rolled “4”:“You no longer need to pay for software. I just spin up an…

Went down this rabbit hole during lunch: The Guardian: Our lives and identities have moved online - and it's driving us insane Eugene Healey: Post-luxury status symbol #1: connected privacy The New Yorker: it's cool to have no followers now I have long said my hidden superpower is my ability to predict trends. I started noticing this superpower in fourth grade, when I got mocked for my extremely "uncool" outfits. The same outfits everyone was wearing by the middle of fifth grade. That pattern…

On September 24, 2026, me and my friend Sieg started playing a Star Wars duet using Primeval 2d6. The starting pitch is that it has been a year since the Confederacy of Independent Systems established itself and the Clone Wars is in full swing. I start the game as a young Padawan whose master didn't come to my graduation ceremony and instead asked me to meet him somewhere else, and so I have. Play ReportsSession 1 (Sep 24, 26) - Covered in Mud

8694/21613A reminder to everyone planning to make a cumpkin this Halloween: Please use appropriate protection to ensure you don�€t create any human/pumpkin chimeras.Look at this poor child. Shunned by humans, shunned by pumpkins, living in a pumpkin patch and living off the pumpkin corpses of her family.Making a cumpkin is for life, not just for Halloween. I am entering the period of my life where I am just a full time, unpaid taxi driver for my children.

A chute on the exterior of a disused grain elevator in Downtown Sherman, Texas. The post Orange Slash appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

As I was scrolling along yesterday, a post about the lovely Professional Elite typeface popped up in my feed on Reddit. It linked back to Tom Fasano’s website, so I read the original there. I noticed a syndication icon at the bottom and stopped dead in my tracks! Had I run into a fully featured IndieWeb website in the wild?!? I peeked at the code and saw a Webmention endpoint hiding in there and nearly fell over. Webmention is a web standard that allows any website to talk directly to any other…

I’ve been having a blast experimenting with Codex… except for the constant nagging around five hour and weekly rate limits, and having to navigate resets, etc. Granted, I shouldn’t complain since I’m on a free month trial at the Plus level (normally I think ~$20 USD), but it is giving me the impression that to build the tools I want to build and execute what I want to execute creatively, I would need to go up to the $100 or $200 plan (which might be on hold still, I haven’t checked). I…

It's that time of year again: All the quarterly and annual appointments piled up in a relatively short window. It's sort of like ripping the bandaid off instead of slowly and carefully peeling it off — hey, wait, there's another insurance form for that? In a rather short, sharp shock to the underlying meme of the fine arts — that "the original" is The Only Thing That Matters, meaning that to

I just listened to Avery Trufelman’s podcast Lace and Labor. What a banger. An absolutely thrilling episode for all sorts of reasons. For a start, I loved the idea that just as the machines came for hand knitting, they have come for podcasting. So Avery Trufelman got two smooth-talking faux-hosts to talk about the history of knitting. No idea what kind of prompts she used, but the results were both fun and indicative of the vast distance between Trufelman’s own art and a stochastic parrot’s…

Since my last post a week ago, a lot has changed again and I am honestly a bit overwhelmed with everything that has come to pass, especially as we close in on the final handful of hours left before what was one of my biggest goals this year: running the Berlin marathon on Sunday. On Wednesday, I was finally invited to become German, and this time next week, I suspect I’ll need to spend a bit of time documenting this journey for this who are German-curious, and for my darling nephew(s) who are…