by Nathaniel R Andrew Scott stars in ELSINORE Hot on the heels of the Gotham nominations here in New York, London follows with the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) nominations. Elsinore, hotly tipped to land Andrew Scott an Oscar nomination (finally) leads the field with 12 nominations while Clio Barnard’s I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning is a distant but still impressive second with 8 citations. Because these nods are overseas AND independent, I’ll attempt to explain some of the…

Buffered output typically comes in two flavors: fully buffered and line buffered. If output goes to a terminal then the implementation automatically selects line buffering, flushing its buffer when a line is completed so that it reaches the user immediately. Otherwise it fully buffers, holding output until the buffer is full or an explicit flush event at some arbitrary point in the future. Line buffering is a common bottleneck in non-interactive terminal applications such that it’s worth…

Sometimes a person needs to spend time with a good ol’ fashioned movie. The Incredible Journey (1963), from Walt Disney Productions, is such a flick. It’s a ludicrous yarn about three pets who travel 480 km (300 miles) across the Ontario wilderness to their home. It’s quite a trek, made all the more difficult by their avoidance of populated areas. … Continue reading →

# Not broken, just different Yesterday was a BIG day: I had my assessment for ADHD and received confirmation of what we suspected, that I do indeed have it. I had assumed that I just had the inattentive type, but various behaviours I hadn't considered mean that I also exhibit the hyperactive type. The resultant diagnosis is, therefore, Combined ADHD. Over the past couple of years, I have reframed a lot of things from my earlier life through a neurodivergent lens, but the assessment yesterday…

Sometimes it’s useful to check how a Hugo site looks on a real mobile device before deploying. That requires serving the site on a local network so other devices on that network can access it. Here’s the command to serve a Hugo site on a local network: hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0 --baseURL <local-IP-address>Then open http://<local-IP-address>:1313 on your phone. The site should load and work as expected. The --bind 0.0.0.0 option is necessary because Hugo binds itself to 127.0.0.1 by default,…

Jess Bidgood and Catie Edmondson, reporting for The New York Times: A new political era opened in Washington on Wednesday, as Democrats vowed to use their sweeping majority to check President Trump’s power, while prominent Republicans blamed their midterm wipeout on his agenda and party leadership. Democrats were on track to secure at least a 50-seat majority in the House and solid control of the Senate after notching seismic victories around the country, in deep red House districts and…

Today’s recording is The Sarah Jane Adventures – Death of the Doctor, Part 2. The Doctor and Clyde keep swapping places, and they run from the Shansheeth. They find a room to hide in, lock the door without letting Colonel Karim in, and the Doctor takes Sarah Jane and Jo back to the planet, with Clyde returning. The planet is the Wasteland of the Crimson Heart. Colonel Karim is working with the evil Shansheeth. The kids are rescued by the Groske. The Shansheeth have the phone box! The Doctor and…

It drips with sex and camp and the fast jokes fall like rain. The framing and camera movement make you feel dizzy and high with the characters and the classic storyline still hits. I would have loved to be in the crowd for that Beef concert! Chop off MY arm!

I’m a huge fan of Chris McDowall’s work; not only has he created some of the most famous lightweight fantasy roleplaying games, he’s also filled them with referee advice that’s often missing from more mainstream games. Despite his many excellent takes, there is one line of advice in Mythic Bastionland that I cannot disagree with more: When faced with a question not answered by rules, notes, or procedures, you improvise. Anything too beneficial or too harmful creates the feeling of an arbitrary…

Jamal Khalique of the Taj Stores is giving an illustrated talk telling the tale of ninety years of trading in Spitalfields at 7pm on Thursday November 12th in the Hanbury Hall, Hanbury St, E1 6QR Click here to book a ticket Please note that tickets are free on the door to all Taj Stores customers The gentleman on the right is Abdul Khalique, standing with his shop assistant, in the early nineteen-fifties outside the very first Taj Stores in Hunton St (now Buxton St). Abdul Khalique’s brother…

When I moved back to London, after 3 years at Leeds University, I caught the tail end of the extended Second Summer Of Love. I didn’t know anything about house music, except for the things that had hit the charts – like Steve Hurley’s “Jack Your Body” and Farley’s “Love Can’t Turn Around” – and a hastily acquired comp, “House Hallucinates”, that I’d picked up in an attempt to get up to speed. Inner City’s “Good Life”, Kaos’ “Definition Of Love” and Lisa M’s “Rock To The Beat” were among the…

Bill will be back in court Thursday (November 5, in person in Lindsay Courtroom 3) for his first appearance(s) on his fresh charges (obstruct justice, failure to reply with release order, and 2x failure to attend court while on release order). Additionally, he'll return to appear in front of Judge Wannamaker on November 13, the purpose of which is listed as "To Set A Date" - presumably for sentencing. That's it! That's the whole post.

There have been several recent announcements about formal verification of software and hardware, both using AI and for AI systems: Harmonic announced last week that they are using their agent Aristotle for scalable verification of both software and hardware. For example, in a C library for big-number arithmetic, it was able to fix bugs and prove that a faster version was equivalent to the original. The person whose work I particularly follow in this area is Satnam Singh, who has worked on…

Elke Sommer, who appeared in such movies as A Shot in the Dark (1964) and The Wrecking Crw (1969), died on October 28, 2026, at the age of 85. Elke Sommer was born Elke Schletz in Berlin on November 5, 1940. Her father, a Lutheran minister, died when she was 14. When she was 17 she worked for a year as an au pair in London. It was while she was vacationing in Viareggo, Italy with her mother that she was declared the winner of a beauty contest while sitting in a cafe. Her picture appeared in the…

Canadian kids have snow days, I had accidental pain au chocolat days. The post The World Is One Giant Bakery (I Checked) first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

Jeffrey C. in an email: Don’t […] post politics. Volt Slovakia: BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA (25 October, 2026) — Volt Slovensko candidates were elected in four municipalities across Slovakia in the local and regional elections held on Saturday, October 24, 2026. Running for the first time in municipal and regional elections, these are the first electoral successes for Volt Slovensko, which was registered as a party less than four months before running in the 2024 European elections. SBS News: Brazil…

Book title: We Burned So Bright Author: TJ Klune Rating: 4/5 The first book I've read by TJ Klune, and yet I feel like I know his entire life philosophy after finishing it. It's a good book. Some characters are weird AF, while others are beautifully written and have some beautiful things to say. I unfortunately guessed the twist pretty early on. Also, the larger overarching storyline felt somewhat unnecessary to me. A bit shoehorned in, really. Notes & Highlights “Do we live to be remembered?”…

A large variety bag of links this week. I'm going to try to keep the weekly digest coming out on the same day, but links posts might become more erratic with this job because, well, the job is pretty erratic. I get my schedule at the start of the month, but then swapping and picking up shifts from other people means I've already changed my schedule for this coming week twice. There is also a great variety of start and end times for shifts and the shop is open 6-7 days a week so there is no way…

The Bristol M1C Monoplane, nicknamed the Bullet for its relatively high speed for the time, made its maiden flight in July 1916. It suffered from an institutional distrust among the British hierarchy of monoplanes, and just 130 were built, of which only one went to France, probably for evaluation purposes only. Most of them were sent to Palestine.Of the many criticisms levelled at it to keep it out of front line service, only one was really valid, and that was that it had too limited an…

I just did something that feels so magical and futuristic, because it saved me so much time! Recently, I’ve been using Borumi to edit my videos. Not an ad, I just really love it and it’s super easy to use. For one of my newsletter sponsors, I said I’d do some extra video ad reads. They wanted them in both vertical and horizontal format, and they also wanted captions for each of them, and a “short version” for each of them, so I ended up having 16 total videos of combinations of horizontal…

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries. The Eye of God by Ludwig Bemelmans – I didn’t manage to get this novel about life…

Karri Saarinen: Someone behind the software: I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work. You might not know who those people are, but you can feel their perspective in the product. … So eventually the products develops a character through what its makers pay attention to, what they decide not to do and what they keep working on after it technically works. I sometimes think of this as the soul…

A John Deere tractor and hay rake on a foggy day near Chambersville, Texas. The post Fog Rake appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Apple, in a support article published yesterday (emphasis mine): When you share content that’s stored in iCloud, such as a photo in iCloud Photos or a file in iCloud Drive, you can choose to Share a Link or Send a Copy of the item. If you choose Share a Link, you can either share the item with “People you choose” — only people you invite or approve — or with “Anyone with the link,” which makes it accessible to anyone who has the link, including Apple. Starting in version 27.3 or later of iOS,…

East coast friends: Today I wore a tshirt, jeans, wingtips, and a sport coat to the San Francisco office. Multiple people asked me why I’m dressed up today, and a couple complimented my suit. Yes, west coast is definitely more casual.

Godzilla Minus Zero is a big deal. Big deal, as in available in IMAX, stocked with large-scale devastation, and offering a much-anticipated continuation of what began three years ago in the widely praised Godzilla Minus One, an Oscar winner for its visual effects. Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, who brought One to the screen, the movie continues its bravura display of visual effects and returns important characters for a sequel that begins in 1949, two years after the first installment concluded.…

Reference to Monsoon deck and Reference to RWS deck. Mostly for my own use, but you might use that too if you want!

11.3 is Bunka no Hi (culture day) (cool art at JR Ueno station)I think all the museums have free admission on this daythe special exhibits still require admission, but you can see their permanent collections our first stop was the National Museum of Western Art, right outside of the JR Ueno stationIt was quite packed, so instead of hovering around the art pieces, I was more interested in the

Let me set the scene: Friday night, after two weeks of fun security issues. A pile of leftover Claude tokens burning a hole in my pocket. A vague feeling that computing as we know it is fundamentally broken. That’s when she walked into my office. Trouble, in a red dress. She had legs for miles, and an HTTP request that went somewhere it shouldn’t. Uh, sorry, got a bit carried away there. So, anyway, I thought maybe I should try throwing Claude Code at some security audits. I’ve had LLMs do it…

Recently I've become obsessed with vibe-coding. And I mean obsessed. This is coming from someone who's always wanted to build software but never had the technical knowledge to actually do it. With the help of AI, it feels as if I've gained a superpower. I can actually build software now. A few months ago I launched an iOS app called Ponder. It had been a dream of mine for a long time. It took me a few weeks to build Ponder with the help of Claude Code, but I spent hours and hours in those three…