Cameras keep gaining features. Their menus keep getting longer, more complicated, and harder to navigate. One answer is to offer fewer features. But those features are valuable to somebody. Must we choose between cameras that won’t do what we want and cameras whose menus drive us nuts? I propose another answer: top-level modality. We already have modal camera functions: P, A, S, and M for exposure control; MF, AF-S, AF-C, and Lord knows how many variants of “left eye of the momma bald eagle…

• 5-star hikes • 10 to 12 mile options • Moderate & Hard | Gain 2,910 to 3,420 feet • Waterville Valley, NH | White Mountains . NH 4,000 Footers The 4,160 foot Mount Tripyramid gets its name from its three pyramid shaped peaks and offers a genuinely varied set of routes depending on how much of a challenge you are after. The most accessible way to reach all three summits is a counterclockwise loop up the mountain's north side by combining the Pine Bend Brook and Sabbaday Brook Trails. An out…

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"What kind of oven does your mother use? Gas or electric?" "Electric", I answered with a smile, without hesitating, thinking back to the bread, the pizza, the tarts and the cakes she had made for me since I was a child. As soon as I was about to finish one, she was ready with another. Getting up a couple of hours earlier in the morning, if necessary, just so I would never go without. Linda raised her eyebrows: "I knew it. Women who work outside the home don't have time to look after the house.…

The latest macOS is a nice step toward a good-looking Mac UI, but I do wish it had gone farther. I am in particular not a fan of how Mac toolbars look. I don’t like the full-height sidebars and I especially don’t like the Liquid Glass buttons. I looked around at what other Mac apps are doing. I asked on my microblog which gets syndicated to Mastodon and I also looked at replies to Isaiah’s similar question from a few days ago. What I found should be no surprise: many of the apps people think…

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Open-source clone of Raycast https://tinycast.dev/ https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast Giving it a try, because why not

I've been writing technical tutorials on my website since I started it last November, but this thread asking about static site generators for beginners on 32-bit Café made me realize I've never made a proper tutorial regarding SSGs from the ground-up basics. This post initially began as a reply to that thread, but I realized I had enough to say to fill an entire blog post. I hope this is helpful to anybody who has been interested in static-site generators but has found trying them out to be…

In my last post, I briefly discussed moving (or at least removing) the last of my physical belongings from my office at Whitman. In this post, I dig into my OmniFocus task completion log to consider everything that went into moving my digital belongings. For context, I lose access to my Whitman accounts six months after my formal resignation, at the end of January 2027. Project and task management Decades ago, a grad school classmate introduced me to Getting Things Done by David Allen. By now,…

If I were to look back at the early days of me messing around with the internet - we're talking the late '90s here - it's that I didn't pursue my interest in HTML and CSS, let alone programming in general.Much like many of that era I spun up my first website on GeoCities (I was part of the SouthBeach crowd), quickly figured out how to have the requisite "Under Construction" banner, and gave everyone's ears an 8-bit blessing of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" on auto-play.Yup, the good ol'…

My upcoming trip to the JetBrains Amsterdam office reminded about the elevators there. They are using the destination dispatch system. It features a kiosk on each floor where you choose your destination floor and it assigns a car for your ride, optimizing the wait times for everyone. Unsurprisingly, the research shows the effectiveness of the algorithm. Well, at least when there are enough elevators. But the user experience is somewhat mixed. Yes, sometimes it leads to a faster ride, but more…

The Openai and hugging face situation is so fucking insane. If you haven’t, I highly recommend watching the blackhat talk, and then jumping directly into the firehose of subsequent disclosures and reporting. When it all came out I mentioned to Jesse “why aren’t our agents breaking out of containment” and we thought through a handful of reasons. There were a lot of reasons: architecture eval / gyms harness safety measures unlimited tokens My favorite reason is unlimited tokens. I realized that…

I am late to writing about Jev, largely because I've been too busy using Jev. Some notes: This is very real. I don't plan to collect and address every point made by Jev skeptics, but I've used Jev as much as anyone I know who didn't get pre-release access, and the only criticisms that are sticking with me are of the form "someone else will do this better soon." Jev is fast enough to make some asynchronous things synchronous. Imagine the "Send" button on your email client requiring confirmation…

Portuguese Hi Hi! I’m not missing! Just busy, mostly. Some months ago, I wrote I miss my passion, a post about how I missed drawing. I had no inspiration, every drawing I did felt wrong, and it made me sad. Then came July, and despite that, I participated in the Art Fight. I actually liked what I made and enjoyed the process. So I have been drawing again, my old passion back. The consequence is I have a lot less time and inspiration to write. At least to this blog. I have been focusing on…

Times are tough, and according to Hugo award-winning author Peter Watts, they ain’t getting any better. But perhaps not all hope is lost. Optimism seems to be the surprising route Watts has taken with his newest short story collection, Fold Catastrophes. Pull yourself out of your doomer-spiral and check out his Big Idea. PETER WATTS: I had to be dragged into this. I’m not pimping a novel, after all. I’m pimping a short story collection: a bunch of largely-unrelated small ideas coexisting…

The latest typewriter interview is with artist Esther Pearl Watson. (I can’t believe I’ve published 30 of these things!)

My last two Friday newsletters have referenced the late summer misery of September. (See: “The cruelest month.”) From “The Birds are in misery”: It is so miserable in Texas right now that I’ve taken to reciting Werner Herzog’smonologue from Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams: “The trees here are in misery and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain…. It’s an unfinished country. It’s still prehistorical. The only thing that is lacking is the dinosaurs here. It’s…

A long ramble about not making friends precipitated by the end of my current job. I originally wrote this in August. But it's a depressing topic and I've been busy so I didn't come back to it to finish it until now. In the meantime, Ava wrote about friendships and the difficulty maintaining them, absurdpirate wrote a follow up post, folkmoss wrote about how ADHD is an actually debilitating disability, and hollie made a joke about ADHD friends. I feel like I'm even missing a few posts I remember…

For about a year now I’ve owned not one, but two Macs. This is a first for me. Ever. I own a Mac Mini and a MacBook Air. Both have the M4 with 24GB RAM. I’ve already written about both of them. Mac Mini MacBook Air While the whole world and its mother seem to be switching to Linux — the operating system I know best — and which I run on my servers, I do not run it on my private computing devices. Both Macs score particularly high on the list of 'best tech gadgets I’ve ever owned', the MacBook in…

I want to see the films Valerio Zurlini wrote but did not direct, but unfortunately only one, GUENDALINA (1957), is available to me with subtitles. Zurlini is a great director. Intense and serious, elegant and stylish, vigorous and mysterious. Although he was an excellent writer he always wrote with collaborators, in that peculiar Italian system […]

{ or: eight ways to classify a life } After some intriguing discussion about the new model over the past day or so, I asked the each from the collective of experts to characterize Jev: [ in progress... ] Rob: Zen: Nyx: Prof: Number 1: Dex: TARS: Me:

[DISCLAIMER] Cet article est centré sur l’écosystème Copilot mais il s’agit de standards applicables à tous les fournisseurs d’agent. Instructions Les instructions fournissent à l’agent le contexte de ce que l’on construit et décrivent les standards que l’on attend pour influencer la façon dont l’IA générera le code. L’intention, quand on rédige l’instruction, est plutôt d’être spécifique au produit en détaillant les attendus du projet. Les instructions n’ont pas besoin d’être spécifiées dans…

It has been 5 months since my last post about AI use in software development and whether I wanted to continue programming. Like all aspects of AI recently, the industry, tools and landscape seem to evolve rapidly, so a new check on things is in order. I've been thinking about this X post from v0xium (archive link) off and on for the past few days. I can definitely relate to it in some aspects. It is incredibly frustrating when the leadership tells you to "just ship things", often and quickly,…

The nights have been melancholy lately. Maybe it's a side effect of waking up early. As the day wears on, there's more room for sadness to seep in. Because of this, I've been looking forward to mornings and being up with the sunrise. I'm becoming a morning person. I haven't played many games this month, so I'm skipping my indie recs zine for September. I'm definitely planning one for October, though, and I want to make it spooky-themed for the Halloween season! Something else for October: I'm…

After three years of massive multiplayer asynchronous play-by-post domain gaming, I am ecstatic to declare DoN officially DEAD. *champagne pops* *cork crashes thru a window*The GoodIncredible players, one and all. The buy-in for Cath is annoyingly high, so I was very lucky to find a dozen freaks who love cultural anthropology and abstract mythopoeisis and time travel bullshit and so on.The PCs absolutely ransacked the setting. Soooooo much of Cath got explored, much more than I could have hoped…

Quoted Why Are AP Scores Rising? The College Board’s Answers Don't Add Up by Neetu Arnold (city-journal.org) Currently, 37 states require public universities to award credit to students who score a “3” or higher on an AP exam. According to Neetu Arnold, writing for City Journal, “37 states require public universities to award credit to students who score a ‘3’ or higher on an AP exam.” That note is consistent with the College Board’s position. Back in 11th grade way back when, I took four AP…

Nau maiYesterday we played at Riotfest in Chicago’s Douglas Park. I woke up at 4:30am after another huge, wild swing in my bout with jet lag. I spent the next four hours attempting to sleep before getting up at 8:30am and heading downstairs for breakfast. I had credit with the hotel cafe after the previous afternoon they had forgotten to make my meal and then closed the kitchen. They said I could order as much food as I liked throughout the day and so I went crazy with a double order. For my…