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…

This mobile app does largely what Adobe PDF Scan or similar apps do, but your scans stay private and offline. It runs on Android and iOS, with the Android app being available from a variety of sources. It is open source without ads or tracking. It has been translated into 40 languages already. Features include scanning, document enhancement functions, PDF export, auto edge detection and OCR support. Not only that, but it can also optionally sync via WebDAV to your own cloud storage such as…

Burns described himself as a “Trump Republican.” He compared the province’s threat of restricting American access to New Brunswick’s fish and wildlife to something his president would do. ‘Just plain panic’: Fears mount as N.B. considers restricting U.S. hunters, anglers 847 comments on Meta More I have corresponded with Burns a bit. I have to wonder what he expected.

Nau maiYesterday we enjoyed a day of recovery from our jet lag and music fatigue. It was in the comments section of my blog post detailing day 21 of our last tour that username: “goz” left a request for my daily wake-up time. Yesterday my wake-up time was just after 4pm, after fighting a losing battle with my jet lag. While it meant that I didn’t get to experience much of the day it also meant that it saved me a lot of writing time for this blog post. My breakfast was purchased from the…

I keep hearing little tinkety-thunks on my van roof. It’s kinda spooky when it happens during the night. My intuition tells me it’s nothing. But my mind tries to blow it out of proportion. I roll over in bed and pull a teeny corner of the curtain up to peek through the window… fully expecting to see a glowing space alien with big black eyes and a head that’s too big for its toothpick-like body peering back at me. Thankfully, the only thing looking back at me is darkness. Today, the thunks…

Nau maiYesterday we kicked off our requests tour with a show at the Concord Music Hall. I picked up a quick to-go breakfast from the hotel’s cafe as I rushed to make it on time to lobby call. The cafe in the lobby of the Crowne Plaze hotel had unimaginative food offerings but featured a hectic array of design elements like 90s hand-painted coffee shop signs, led strip lights, mid century pendant lights, velvet booth seating, metallic ceiling tiles, and striped Parisian awnings. I ordered a…

NOTE: I'm traveling this week so while I'm gone, please enjoy the first day of fall with this seasonal photo post from half a decade ago.Happy Autumn!In honor of the season, here are a few fall movie magazine covers featuring favorite classic film actresses. Enjoy!Ann Sheridan on Photoplay in November 1943:Jeanne Crain, Photoplay, October 1948:Gene Tierney on Screen Album in 1941:Lana Turner in an October issue of Photoplay:An October issue of Movie Mirror with Olivia de Havilland:Lizabeth…

Fuck this shit. Honestly, the first three quarters of the show were… pretty good? I thought it was cute. The guy is really awkward around the girl’s blindness but tries his best. I thought it was going well and there wasn’t much they could do to screw it up. And then they absolutely tossed all that down the drain, when they out of nowhere gave the girl cancer and also made her lose her memory so she wouldn’t talk to anyone from her old school and was a total asshole to them (to be fair they did…

Emotionally, I feel like I have been put in a metal barrel and rolled down a hill. I feel like my identity, thoughts, and emotions have all become untrustworthy, leaving me no guidance on what feelings to trust or what to do. I feel very literally like I have lost my mind; I don’t know which fragments are the healthy seed crystals to begin reconstituting an identity from and which are toxic waste that need to be expelled or wrapped in an unreactive layer to advance that rebuilding process. I…

Link: Trump TV Draws Ire Amid White House Press Shutout: 'State-Run Media', by Casey Loving in The WrapIt’s not an accident that Trump’s move to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House and, the same week, start his own friendly streaming channel happened just before the midterm elections. As The Wrap reported:“The White House posted [a] message on X on Monday to announce Trump TV, a 24/7 livestream of ‘top past moments, announcements and the latest and greatest from the administration…

Over on my ‘about me’ page, many years ago, back in the teenage years of this millennium, I wrote: My artwork has sold to collectors across the world, mainly facilitated directly through online sales rather than through galleries or agents. And this has, until very recently, been true. Not so much nowadays, though. Over the past couple of years I’ve been taking part in more exhibitions and am seeing online sales gradually being replaced by sales from exhibitions, although sales in general are…

Poetry in motionSurprised to see Dave Kehr interviewed on Movie Morlocks; was even more surprised to see that Kehr is a fan of Paul Anderson--W.S., not Thomas--and that he loved Resident Evil: Retribution. Did not know Kehr was an Anderson fan. Not a big fan, myself (thought Anderson's Death Race was a mere shadow of Paul Bartel's 1975 satiric original), but did like Soldier, Anderson's science-fiction remake of George Stevens' Shane which, taking its cue from Kurt Russell's expressionless…

Nau maiYesterday we flew from the northern isthmus of Te Ika-a-Māui to the very large city on the southern shores of Lake Michigan. We left on Thursday afternoon from Jon and Liz’s place in the great suburb of Avondale. Trains were flowing thick and fast along the nearby western line after the recent opening of Auckland’s City Rail Link, possibly the largest piece of passenger rail infrastructure in the world to be completed this week. Our usual mode of transport to the airport was employed: a…

Last month I bought my first copy of Whistle and Wander magazine. It’s exciting to welcome something this good because it reads like the story of why its authors love railways instead of why someone else should. I’m a big... Read More ›

What a beautiful show. The first thing I love is how it’s set in Mongolia at the time immediately following Genghis Khan, a time and place that is completely neglected by anime in favor of endless rehashings of the Sengoku era, the three kingdoms era, and generic isekai world. More interesting settings please!!! And they actually take their characters seriously as people of their own time and place. For example, I loved the fight at the end over science, where the main character is yelling at…

The example here relates to using the jl CLI, the command line tool for Joule Studio. Unless otherwise stated, activities described here all happen in the container. Starting the authentication flow To use jl in a project, we need to first authenticate with a Joule Studio backend, using jl login, specifying the sign-in URL obtained from our Joule Studio "Develop > Authorizations" settings: Here's what it looks like when jl login <url> is invoked (details elided for obvious security reasons, and…

An essay version of the video is below – not just a transcript but a text that I’ve rewritten thoroughly to work as text. You can subscribe to the audio-only podcast feed over on Apple’s Podcast app and other apps if audio is more your speed. It’s also available as a raw podcast feed if you want to subscribe to it directly in the podcast app of your choice. For fans of video, there’s both the YouTube channel and the TikTok account. Overview # Why do jokes fall flat online? Why is it so easy to…

The Downtown Dallas skyline, as seen from Winfrey Point on the eastern shore of White Rock Lake. The post Distant Downtown Dallas appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Let us make it three days of Pook-Emu Bee links in a row. 1 | Million Goods Opens And A Crucial Bike Lane Completed (DeKalb Dispatch. Sep. 11, 2026.) There’s no such thing as a crucial bike lane. 2 | From Holdout to Hunted: Keith Reddington Seeks Phone Records and Interview with Holdout Clancy Juror (Jonathan Turley. Sep. 22, 2026.) This guy is a menace. 3 | Susan Rice: U.S. Must Work with China to ‘Freeze’ AI Development (Pam Key for Breitbart. Sep. 21, 2026.) I think they should be a little…

I’ve been revisiting a few of the photos I took almost two years ago, during a foggy walk here around Hveragerði.

With so much development in the market for AI development tooling, the challenge to properly evaluate choices continues. AI-powered coding assistants have significantly outperformed conventional evaluation methods, creating gaps between vendor claims and actual performance. This study presents Quality Assessment for AI Development tools, a comprehensive, vendor-neutral framework evaluating coding assistants across six dimensions. Quality Assessment for AI Development Tools: A Comprehensive…

From DJ and Producer Ivan Berko over at thought enthusiast: “I buy records every day. Lately, I buy a lot of CDs, too, because there are a lot of things that only came out on CD in the 2000s. They’re super cheap, too. You can get a stack of CDs for a dollar apiece, rip them to the computer, put them on a USB, and walk around listening to them.” I just posted some of the ways I find new music with a little less big tech, so this piece is a fun read, especially as some of us get back to the…

Like the crappy title says… It’s a shame because the first episode was pretty good. An emotional arc as a man dies without achieving his dream and is reincarnated in the world of the future… And then in episode two, he meets a cute 15 year old slave. In episode three he meets his adopted daughter who is now a hot elf principal. It only went downhill from there. Storytelling – D – It was fine when it tried. It didn’t try very hard. Voice – F – God why do we keep doing the same soulless isekai…

A common argument on Twitter or other social media is that computer science (CS) or math degrees will become obsolete due to AI. Therefore it’s a poor career choice, and you should choose another major or profession. As the narrative goes, getting a CS degree will be seen as foolish in an era of AI. There are flaws with this logic. First, people made this prediction and gave similar advice from 2022-2023 during the post-Covid wave of tech layoffs. This advice seemed prescient at the time, but…

It’s Hayate no Gotoku but less fun. It mostly gave me exactly what I expected in a competent manner and there’s something to be said for that. It did suffer a bit from the problem that the main girl is the least interesting one. Otherwise a solid show, if nothing especially memorable. Storytelling – C – Does what you expect. Voice – D – Feels lacking in personality. Characters – C – They’re fine. Attention Grab – C – I finished. Production – C – Meh. Overall – C Recommendations – Hayate no…

by Gwyn Conaway Upon looking at the photograph below, you might wonder why a fashion columnist is so fascinated by Attica Correctional Facility’s blow-out riot, which occurred on September 9th of this year. Nightly news channels are enthralled by the bloodshed, of course. Families are glued to their televisions and newspapers, consuming the story detail … Continue reading [September 22, 1971] Raise a Fist for Peace. → The post [September 22, 1971] Raise a Fist for Peace. appeared first on…