I’ve said in the past that I find posts written all in lower case to be hard to read, and I stand by that. I need a few capital letters here and there to get my bearings. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have an appreciation for lower case. In fact I downright prefer it. Capital letters have a boring lack of variety. They’re all the same height and they’re all kind of blocky. Sure they should be used, but sparingly. Lower case letters have so much more diversity: half height (like an a, c or e),…

Daly BMS is Bricking Older Products! Just the Facts: Two 100 Ah BTR Power batteries W/ Daly BT BMS’s Batteries Manufactured in late 2019 Daly updated the app software that bricks 2019 and earlier BMS’s They have no fix or solution If you see LFP batteries that use this app: Do Not Purchase! These days the number of OEM’s that use Daly BMS’s has shrunk dramatically, but they’re still out there, so be careful! Inquiry sent To Daly June 2026 If this back & forth with Daly does not amuse you, I…

Specifically, the world in which the game I played as a kid is allowed to disappear because there's no commercial reason to keep it alive anymore.

I haven’t been following the news all that closely, as I just want to get through the midterms with the hopes that the country will regain some baseline of sanity. I’m really tired of the insanity, hence, I don’t care what Mango Mussolini says or does these days. In my reality distortion field, the guy is irrelevant. But that’s not really the case, is it. Apparently he banned a few news channels from the White House, which goes completely against the First Amendment, but the courts have to have…

As a red ink aficionado, I often get asked for a “Top 5” list of my favorites. I’ve deferred publishing any sort of definitive list since there are simply so many good ones out there. But since we’ve launched our own ink collaborations this week, I thought it made sense to revisit this question and offer up a “best of” list based on the red inks I find myself using the most. Top 5 Red Inks, in order they appear on the list below. Inks are swatched on dot grid Tomoe River 68g paper. Joe’s Top 5…

What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done? Nice try, but I’m not turning my blog into state’s evidence. If I were to recount the most spontaneous things I’ve ever done, this post would read less like a casual musing and more like a tell-all memoir. We’re talking about the kind of decision-making that makes my current self stare at my past self in absolute disbelief that I managed to survive into full adulthood. Back then, “spontaneous” meant deciding at ten years old that because I had…

A diary entry on amnesia and it worsening since I've come back home

General methods that scale with computation will inevitably displace hand-engineered domain knowledge! Sutton’s Bitter Lesson hangs like a Sword of Damocles over all of us. This paper, which just dropped, applies that lesson to data agents, and says that as LLMs improve, they will quickly absorb the agent scaffolding researchers have spent the last few years painstakingly building. It argues that researchers should instead work on building curated contextual information about the data…

Regular readers will be aware of the superlative work of Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project and the book we published last year celebrating their achievements. Now the existence of the Project is under threat as Hackney Council are proposing converting the mosaic workshop on Hackney Downs into a cafe and displace the Project. Tessa Hunkin explains the position below and I urge readers to sign the petition and spread the word. CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION Playground shelter with mosaic by…

Reconnected with Namara Masara.We tried them during the pandemic, then they went out of business, not sure exactly whenAnd while I was walking around the neighborhood recently, I noticed they were now operating from a house.So, Satoshi and I went to check them outThey share a space with a beauty salon This time around the owner explained what this spicy condiment was.Satoshi said it wasn't

I talked with The Floor showrunner Anthony Carbone, who answered all my questions about how the Fox game show works behind the scenes.

phobia. phobias. thalassophobia. arachnophobia. ornithophobia. agoraphobia. xenophobia. megalophobia. claustrophobia. no, not claustrophobia. that one's half Latin. phobia comes from Ancient Greek, you know? from φόβος, meaning fear. an abstract idea, an emotion. or a god, if you so please. the Greeks had a tendency to do that sort of thing. make abstracts into gods. makes sense to me. fear can be greater than the human condition, you know? we don't want it to be, sure. but it is. and it will…

Conservation grazing has become a familiar sight in nature reserves.

My daughter and I headed into town this morning, hoping to get the truck worked on, even though I hadn’t received a message back from the garage with a time. I had my suspicions, but my daughter had something to do in town after, so I knew it wouldn’t be a wasted trip. Oh, my. … Continue reading Our 2026 Garden: a single bean, and a little harvest

If you have also been waiting for a way to play this game without involving yourself in the Microsoft ecosystem, the time is near Ok so to catch you up; Young Suns is the latest game from KO_OP, creators of Goodbye Volcano High and so many more. It's an ambitious, multiplayer life sim that is set in the orbit of Jupiter following a socialist revolution where players take on the role of "Sundogs", living free of corporate control for the first time and exploring what rebuilding society looks…

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My frustration with typing on my keyboard reached a tipping point, and I decided to buy a new one. I’ve had a couple of specific annoyances with my most recent keyboard (the one I found in a charity shop for £5.50). First, it overloads the keys in the bottom right to work as cursor keys when you tap them, but modifiers when you hold them. However, it isn’t fast enough to keep up with the speed at which I use one hand to tap Shift-; to get : or Shift-/ to get ?. Instead, it would interpret this…

Tenho percebido que diversos restaurantes estão miguelando guardanapos. É muito comum sentar para comer e ter apenas um mísero guardanapo, frequentemente aqueles bem tosquinhos. Achei que pudesse ter tido alguma forma de inflação de produtos de papelaria, mas os preços desses itens até recuaram em julho, segundo o IBGE. O que tem acontecido que guardanapo se tornou uma commodity rara em alguns lugares?

Robert Pattinson plays TV personality Chris Hansen in Primetime, a movie built around Hansen's To Catch a Predator, an NBC Dateline segment that ran through 2007. Dedicated to exposing and shaming pedophiles, Predator piled up huge ratings, even as some critics found it sleazy and exploitative. The always adventurous Pattinson becomes the wobbly centerpiece of a story that portrays Hansen as an ambitious, sometimes tormented careerist. Eager to attract viewers, Hansen pushed the taste envelope…

I have put off writing this eulogy, as I knew it would be difficult to write. Will Murray was not a close friend, but he was an acquaintance whom I regarded with a good deal of warmth. There is no doubt that Will was the foremost expert on Doc Savage and the heroic pulps in general. He was also a prolific writer of fiction, writing everything from many The Destroyer novels to Doc Savage novels to works featuring characters from The Spider to Tarzan. Comic books fans may know him as the…

In this post, Pascal Kahlem provides advice based on his experience writing and reviewing European Union grant applications. As Research Whisperer editors, we like his approach. In our experience, his advice holds across all research funding schemes, not just European Union funding. I write European research proposals for a living, and I also evaluate them. Sitting on the assessor’s side changed how I read my own drafts. When you score proposals against a rubric, at speed, alongside a dozen…

Having recently read Nudge and Sludge, this New Yorker article on self-storage was particularly interesting. Annual revenues are estimated to be more than forty billion dollars. […] Last year, two professors from Stanford and one from Texas A. & M. published a paper in the American Economic Review in which they conclude, based on transaction data from a large payment-card network, that “cancellation frictions roughly double seller revenues on average.” […] Cancellation frictions are a boon to…

Eight years, and doneby Bryce WrayA departure post from Bryce where he talk about his exit from blogging and his motivations for doing so.Read post ➡ It's always sad to read these kind of posts. Yet another blog has fallen by the wayside, but I understand Bryce's rationale. I've been quietly following his blog for a few years now, so I'll be sad to see him gone from my feed. Bryce, if you're reading this, all the best and thanks for many great reads. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is…

18:32 If you judge me by the books I read, I am one of the dumbest people. Because I read what interests the present me. And he is not the same every day. So, don’t. 20:14 I have been struggling recently to decide on anything. Fatigue is real. Reply to this post

Another HE board. 67 keys Wired only Hall effect A bit over 3 mm travel Four profiles North-facing LEDs Web configurator CNC aluminum case, hard anodized Bare version tested; comes with switches, but no keycaps No knob No side or back lighting Compact: only 12 ¼ inches wide Comes with a nice padded case I installed a set of Awekeys caps, which pretty much block the north-facing backlighting. Feel is crisp. Sound is more clicky than thocky. Sure sounds different from the same keycaps on a…

Heard about Andrew W.K.’s new album (allegedly we’re calling this jazz-noir) in, of all places, a marketing email from Blackwing. Darcy Smyth describes it perfectly: This is lounge music for a room that might not exist, all smoke and red curtains, the kind of piano that sounds like it’s remembering something it can’t quite say. Total Twin Peaks Roadhouse energy, like Lynch left the lights on and wandered off. Been in rotation for days now.

A somewhat moralistic tale of the earth’s population exiled to vast space arks (one thousand of them) in order to teach humanity the folly of destroying its environment and the evils of capitalism. All is well until we encounter what Iain M. Banks would call a “smartmatter” outbreak. There’s quite a bit of horror (which Squeamish me didn’t really like) and Gareth is not afraid to kill off fairly major characters and millions of innocent bystanders. The origin of the “smart matter” is quite a…