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…

A little while back we took at the first season of The Lost Stories, Big Finish’s endeavour to take the scripts and concepts of Doctor Who serials which were worked on for television but never quite made it to the screen. That first season was a bumper batch of Sixth Doctor stories, many of which were markedly better than the ones Colin Baker actually had in his televised run. Given that several of them had been developed for the original version of Season 23 before the 18 month hiatus led to a…

March 2018 Today I have a long walk planned owing to the lack of public transport in this area. However I am hoping to take a more coastal shortcut than the official path and I can always cut off the headland of Mynydd Cilan if I run out of time and come back to it another day. I also have a deadline of sunset as it is March and sunset is hence quite early and I don’t want to be walking cliff tops after dark. For this trip I am staying at the Premier Inn in Caernarfon. It is a good hotel and…

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), by Katsushika Hokusai , Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 10 x 15″ ( 26 x 38 cm), from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is one of the most famous art images in the world. For some reason, I was particularly in the mood to enjoy this today. For more of my comments about this print, see my post on Katsushika Hokusai…

There’s an old joke at blind wine tastings: if you’re having trouble deciding on your ranking at the end of the tasting, look at the wine levels in your glasses and rank the one with the less wine left higher. It’s bogus because so many other things than enjoyment of a particular glass can affect how much you drink. If you’re having trouble identifying the mix of grapes, you’ll go back and retaste. Same if there’s something amiss, but you’re having a hard time identifying just what that is. Or…

Refereed by Chaoclypse Players: Fateman, probability mage from Longshot City (me) Wallopus the Seen, Chaos warrior (oldhawkeyes) Abirongian Blue, sorceror of the College of Friends (Griffiana) The following was downloaded from the brain of a space-carrier-pigeon, formerly belonging to the probability mage, superhero, and Chicago native, Dennis Fêteman, a.k.a Fateman. RIP, go Bears. It had flown multiple space-leagues out of an uncharted section of the Hump-Backed Sky and showed evidence…

Yesterday I discovered that the Amazon Kindle app on my Viwoods AiPaper Mini had been updated and now supports handwritten annotations. It looks like this update is currently only available on Android and is due to Amazon’s recent release of its Alexa tablets. The functionality appears to be the same as has been available with the Kindle Scribe. The Kindle app has long supported highlighting and adding notes via the device’s keyboard. Notes are typed into a small window that, when closed,…

In making one of my occasional visits to Lynne Murphy’s blog Separated by a Common Language, I was directed to a decade-old post on frowns that begins: A 2010 blog post from the Prosody Lab at McGill University was pointed in my direction last week, and judging by the reaction when I tweeted it, I’m not the only one who was surprised by the should-be-evident-but-nearly-invisible difference between British and American it reported. The post is by a non-native speaker of English, ‘chael’ (who I…

Just off the Strand and missed by most is one of London’s most unusual streets: Lower Robert Street. Off York Buildings is a dark, vaulted passage. Head down here and you find a sloping, winding street. It then takes a sharp turn to the right, passing a large underground garage and a series of storage […] The post London’s Mysterious Underground Street: The Story of Lower Robert Street appeared first on Living London History.

Well Donald, you couldn’t lie, cheat, and bully your way through this one, could ya? I don’t care much for politics or party lines. While I tend to vote Democrat, I’d vote Republican if they put up a candidate I truly admired (and if the rest of the party could grow a spine). But Trump is about as far from that ideal as I could imagine. So, putting aside red versus blue, I’m happy that the American people made it so clear what we think about Trump’s bullshit. I hope the Republican leaders who…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Truong Tran’s memoir How to Exi(s)t is brilliantly inventive in form and powerfully told. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “Vietnamese American poet and visual artist Tran (Book of the…

Adding in some calf raises because my bot coach is trying to coach me to get rid of my Achilles pain. The calf raises felt so good. Only pain today was some in my knees on the weight of the front squats, but most everything felt fine. Unknown location (probably inside)

Across my past articles on agent readability, none has attracted so much attention as Chunking your content for agent readability. This is because chunking presents many challenges to tech comm that are difficult to solve. One acute issue I haven't yet explored is how to propagate top-level page notes, such as deprecation status, availability, release status, version numbers, etc., that are noted in a top-level banner in later chunks. Chunks that are disconnected from the page notes will likely…

The Melbourne Cup was earlier this week. I was aware it was happening, but I wasn’t in a hurry to watch it. Josh Butler, one of my favourite Australian journalists, reported I was hardly alone: Support for the Melbourne Cup has been sliding consistently for a number of years, but the Guardian Essential poll found just 9% of Australians said they had high interest in the race now – nearly half the proportion in 2025. “The race that once stopped the nation is now just white noise for many,” said…

Data generated by defunct companies is becoming increasingly interesting as training material for AI companies. Demand for defunct companies’ data emerged suddenly last year, as AI training labs hit the limits of public and synthetic datasets. […] This past August, as part of Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy, Google outbid the AI data company Mercor to buy the carrier’s decades of data, including 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages, and 176,000 employee records. The price tag: $10…

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Most people in the UK are at least vaguely familiar with the story of the Home Guard in World War 2. Admittedly possibly from the comedy Dads Army, but the much maligned men (and indeed women) of the Home Guard stood ready and able to fight against any invading army as well as their actual documented work of assisting with the war effort here at home. Less well known is the story of the secret Auxiliary units. A far less documented home based force, made up of tough men who knew each corner of…

I made a list of contributions and achievements in the past year. I did a quick market research. OK, by research, I mean I asked Gemini. I came up with a range and an anchor point. I reached out to an ex-coworker to ask how he asked for a raise. I reread the chapters on negotiation from Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth. I wrote a script and had a “what would you do in my shoes?” line ready as fallback. I texted my “boss” asking for a time slot to discuss a raise. I was expecting to jump into a…

La Pharmacie Anglaise, an neogothic style building from 1898 Took an NS train from Schiphol Airport Station to Brussels Midi (which is their south station). Unfortunately something happend on the HSL-line (high speed) that caused us to sit idle in Rotterdam for a while, before we were let go, with the caveat that we had to take a detour, that eventually would take 40 minutes extra. Luckily we had nothing planned, so after having some drinks when we arrived, we went for dinner at an Italian…

There's a particularly tricky hill start on my drive home. When I was learning to drive it was the bane of my life; I would stall every single time for a good couple of turns of the lights much to the chagrin of the people queued behind me. It was very demoralising and I thought that, once I cracked it, I'd feel a great sense of achievement. But I didn't. The hill start isn't difficult at all now I've been doing it for a few years but I don't feel great about it. It's just something I can do.…

“A monastery built to last a thousand years.” Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Thanks, @JohnBrady

With Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming film that shall put an end to his Dune trilogy, I have been meaning to read Dune Messiah for quite a while. I was planning to read it with a friend but I was utterly forgotten and she read it without me—don’t worry we are good lol. In any case, I ended up choosing this as my last read for October given its relatively short length and that the film is coming in a bit more than a month by now. While I read the original Dune after watching the movie, this time I…