I had hoped to post this review back in July; alas, my brain made a different decision, and for the second time this year, I found myself unable to read new-to-me books, or to write about…well, anything. Things are looking up for the moment, so here I am, back with my Game Changers/Heated Rivalry nonsense. Beware: clinical depression; suicide of a loved one in the past; parent suffering from Alzheimer’s, in the past; death of parents, in the past; homophobia; swearing; quite a bit of explicit…

Two scheduled agents turn my meetings, inbox and calendar into one daily note that keeps me focused and knows who I owe what. Here's the setup and every prompt.

When I started The Simple Catholic, I simply wanted to share my love for the Catholic faith and help make its beauty a little easier for others to understand. Over the years, God has opened doors for this little corner of the internet in ways that I never could have anticipated. That is why I … Continue reading The Simple Catholic Recognized as a Top Catholic Blog in 2026 The post The Simple Catholic Recognized as a Top Catholic Blog in 2026 first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The post The…

warning: this is a rant to get shit out of my head I talked about it before. At 28, I went back to school to learn a new job. It wasn't really a career switch because, huh, I never really had a career to begin with. About halfway through the program, I quit. After I resigned, I experienced a quick depression, I applied to unemployment and disability benefits, but it was shady. I applied to an online school to finish my degree, but they didn't answer. I became pregnant. Just before September, my…

A small Safari extension, Jev, three probabilities and a bouncer. This is starting off as, possibly, one of the lamest jokes ever but I’ll try to keep it together. jev # If you have been around X a bit or similar (sorry about that), you are probably familiar with jev and the hype around all of that other train. My feed won’t shut up about a model that won’t talk, funny. I shipped already Shortless and wanted to slap jev into it, as cool kids usually do 😂 –> Slop Patrol was born 👮 Slop patrol…

Copy Editor is a local editor for writing and revising prose. Write a draft, ask for an editing pass, and work through the findings beside your text. Suggestions, questions, and notes stay attached to the passages they concern, and you decide which changes to make. Why I Made It I enjoy writing, and I don’t like AI-generated text. But I can’t deny that AI is a phenomenal tool in many ways. It can help me spot a mistake, question a claim, or notice where a sentence gets in the way of what I…

I let it cookI resisted the urge to play with this after supper last night. It is better I let it cook because it it only held together with glue.why not?Decided to spray shellac the entire base. There are still a lot of tricky drip and run spots for brushed on shellac to go nutso.lid separatedDid the lid on the tablesaw. I don't know how but I got a step on one of the short sides. I had to plane and sand it flush more than I wanted to. thankfully I had more the enough depth to give up.cherry…

This was the book selected for me in the recent Classics Club Spin. For once, I’ve managed to finish my book before the deadline (4th October). The Kraken Wakes was published in 1953 and, like most of John Wyndham’s other books, is a classic science fiction novel. It’s narrated by Mike Watson, who works as a reporter for the EBC (a fictional rival to the BBC). At the start of the novel, Mike and his new wife Phyllis, also a reporter, are on their honeymoon on a cruise ship in the Atlantic when…

Two handmade paper doll sets early 20rh Century from the book Antique Children’s Drawings of the 19th and early 20th C. By Jim Linderman. (225 pages, available from Blurb.com) Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

This isn’t really that surprising, but sometimes you’ve just gotta point out the obvious stuff, you know? Anyway, Crystal’s global type inference can be easily manipulated into doing arbitrary computations at compile time. Of course you can do whatever you want with macros, but this doesn’t rely on a single syntax macro, and only lightly uses macro methods for convenience. The usage of macro methods can be removed, which I’ll explain at the end. The rules of the game are that we can’t use the…

Welcome to the Monkey HouseI'm taking massive liberties with this stage of the Cakes and Ales guidebook. Again, the author wants a very lengthy walk - 15 miles - and to introduce a big hill. This time, Bredon Hill. It could be argued that I have recently walked over Bredon into Pershore. The real reason for the massive diversion is that I am near to a place that I have wanted to go to for a long time and that is only open on Fridays and Sundays. Most of the blog will be dedicated to the Cider…

to me, it's very interesting that some latin american folk are not politicised. like, what d'ya mean you grew up in a colonised place that underwent at least one military dictatorship, and you're still not studying history, not learning about politics and voting, VOTING, for far-right ideologies? are you trying to be a fucking gringo, caralho?

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Over the weekend I did my first longer row at 5k, and I posted about it. My plan is to get at least a couple of these longer rows in a week and slowly ramp up the time/distance and the pace. At the same time I am trying to get stronger pulls, which, in my experience, will certainly come with time as my body finds efficiency. A side effect of that is the stroke rate will drop. My original plan when I got changed and went downstairs was to do the five thousand meters again. I was going to push it…

Many years ago I printed off some tiny [half postcard sized] mini-newsletters as a subscription based paper way of sharing six poeticals. It was called 'Six Small Sips'. It ran for two months, made a loss and was another fail in the 'tales and fails of a tea poet'... But I like 'small sips' and I like the bloggers here who occasionally share 'small sips'. Today I read a quote which seems mighty apposite in the artificial intelligence doom etc. Yet it goes back to 4th century China! So here it…

Photo: Northerner, Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0 A bit of a catch-up from recent weeks today. I recommend the two Book Overflow episodes about The Pragmatic Programmer and with Uncle Bob. The long post from Charity about Slop is also worth a read. Quote of the Week Another benefit of writing a test for every logged message is that it’s painful. Sometimes pain is a good thing. Agile Java™ Jeff Langr Leadership Managers Are Catalysts - “Your job, as a manager, is lowering that activation…

To understand today’s topic, you need to know about GTA. “GTA” stands for “Grand Theft Auto,” which is a video game.Since the average reader of this Substack tends to be hundreds of years old more mature, you may not be aware of what a modern video game looks like. You may be, like me, more familiar with the games that were popular when video games first appeared, back in the 1970s. Remember those? Remember that electrifying moment when you first experienced the thrill of interacting with the…

Theatre 'The Frieze' reviews Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave. One of the pivotal moments of the 1984/85 miner's strike was recreated in the style of medieval re-enactments. A heritage day out and social commentary all in one: "Any rail passengers staring out of the window as they sped through south Yorkshire on June 17th would have had the double-take of their lives: 800 or so miners and policemen, in period jeans and uniforms, could be seen slogging it out in a field as if no one had…

By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Psychosomatic Research (JPR), an official publication of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM), has long served as something of a promotional organ for members of the biopsychosocial (BPS) ideological brigades. That’s not surprising, since some of the field’s leading lights—including such well-known grandees as the UK’s Michael […]

The resultMove from Opus 5 to Opus 5.5 at any effort level from low to xhigh and your Claude Code bill drops by roughly 40-50%. Instruction following doesn’t get worse. On my suite it got a little better.Then turn the dial to max and everything flips. Opus 5.5 at max wrote 70,320 output tokens. Opus 5 wrote 10,267. Opus 5.5 took 10 minutes 54 seconds where Opus 5 took 3 minutes 6 seconds, and it cost $2.51 against $1.13.Same ten prompts. Same effort setting. Two very different effort…

1858Sept. 19: Decided, that one must love and work, and that's it. Sept. 20: Tired. Didn't love and didn't work. — Leo Tolstoy Per E-Mail antworten

Most of my own recipes were developed in the ’90s and Oughts, when I was typically cooking for 2-3 people, which means now that I live alone they are usually good for two meals, one fresh and one as leftovers. But I’m also trying to adapt some other recipes to one or two servings, and simplifying them while I’m at it because even though I love cooking for those I love, cooking for just myself sometimes seems like a chore. Furthermore, I now have a lot more eggs on hand because Grace is no…

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“Virtually every Android device comes with the Play Store preloaded, but there are other ways to get apps. F-Droid bills itself as a community-driven source for free and open source Android apps, but its official app store has gone 10 years without a major update. That’s finally changing: After a multiyear effort, the team has just announced F-Droid 2.0 is rolling out. The new F-Droid client was redesigned from scratch in Kotlin Compose, which is the standard for modern Android apps. This makes…

I love restaurants of all kinds. All budgets, all styles, all cuisines, whatever the location and whatever the level of ambition. I can be equally happy ordering a mixed grill at Tayyabs as being cossetted by the world class service at the Ledbury. There are many different ways to enjoy the talent in kitchens here and elsewhere in the world, and it seems silly to restrict yourself to any kind of comfort zone when there's such joy to be found in discovering something new, or going out of your…

Algebraic Matroids are Undecidable Tobias Boege and Geva Yashfe have posted a remarkable paper, Recognition of algebraic matroids is undecidable. It brings together matroid theory, algebraic geometry, model theory, and undecidability. An algebraic matroid abstracts algebraic independence in a field extension . If the elements of are represented by elements of , the rank of a subset is the transcendence degree over of the field generated by its representatives. In characteristic zero, Ingleton…

Scanned in (almost) all of the postcards in my collection, and am sending them out for World Postcard Day! Give me your address so I can send one to you too!

I love this — this is what I’ve always been thinking, but said better: What’s important is what’s on the page (the prose with novels, the art and prose with comics), and the rest of the stuff is merely secondary. Which is why I find 97.4% of reviews so frustrating — they talk almost exclusively about plot, characters, psychological insight and form, but not actually about the reading experience itself. I do think that this lines up with what a lot of people are interested in — I sometimes get…