I’ve always heard lenses being categorized as either fast or slow, with the contributing factor being maximum aperture which is how much the lens can open. The more light the lens can let in, the better. I always associated the relationship between aperture and speed with shutter speed. The more light the lens lets in, the greater the shutter speed, which in low-light situations, means you have a greater opportunity to take photos without motion blur. I’d never realized how aperture contributed…

Hi everyone. I really wanted to write a post yesterday. In fact, I had several ideas in mind. However, by the time I’d sorted through my ideas, it was already past 11PM. One of those ideas was, of course, a contribution to #WeekendCoffeeShare. I’m doing that now. I’ve had my last cup of coffee for the day and will soon get my evening soft drink. Feel free to grab a cup of your favorite beverage and let’s chat. If we were having coffee, as usual I’d start out by talking about the weather. On…

Finding Bugs Sep 19, 2026 Are generative (randomized) tests significantly more effective than example-based unit-tests at discovering bugs? There’s an interesting discussion about this on lobste.rs. One argument in favor of unit tests is, paraphrasing My generic fuzzer wasn’t able to find this tricky bug in Rust regex crate. To me, it seems that generative testing should shake out that particular creature, so I wrote a lil fuzzer of my own, and it indeed discovered another bug in that version…

Truman keeps an eye on human activity throughout the house. Normally he’s stationed on one of the stools along the bar that separates the kitchen from the family room, but once in a while he’ll just spread himself out in the hallway outside my office door.

A few years ago, a local comic shop asked me to design a T-shirt for them. I don’t know why, but my first instinct was to parody Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son, but with Batman and Robin. A titan devouring a Titan, if you will. It was a terrible idea, obviously, so the comic shop asked me to go in a completely different direction. I can’t blame them. But I still really liked this weird little piece of Batman Devouring Robin art, so I figured I’d share it here for y’all to enjoy. I…

Install cosign. If it's not in your distro, it's in brew. Download CachyOS' cosign public key and save as cosign.pub Download the .sig file for the iso. It's the lock icon when you got the iso. cosign verify-blob --key cosign.pub iso file --signature .sig file Apparently --signature has been deprecated but still works for now. The .sig file is not in the correct format for --bundle as far as I can tell. Thank you, Game_in_Theory.

There are, I am realizing, far more types of torta in Mexico than I could have known when I wrote about tortas in general several years ago. The standard type of torta we commonly think of is versatile enough, featuring fillings from chorizo to chicken tinga, shredded meats like carnitas or cochinita pibil, barbacoa or birria, whole-muscle meats like ham or cecina or milanesa, or even interesting and exotic vegetarian fillings like huitlacoche or fried zucchini blossoms, any or all of these…

Completely unrelated to software, but sometimes stepping outside is what’s needed to develop perspective and find creative solutions – this is Practical Engineering’s video about the many electrical plugs and sockets in America: There are a lot more socket kinds than I expected, and sprinkled in between are some useful observations about system design, change management, power users, backwards compatibility, and consistency vs. inconsistency – in my head, that last part puts this video right…

Testing a new comments URL feature for the upcoming @hypertexting.com release. Does your feed reader give you a way to comment on this post? Please comment if so. 😊

Many people are understandably nervous about having a nib modified by a nib grinder, whether that’s reducing a nib’s size from broad to medium, medium to fine, or changing the shape of the tipping entirely to something like a stub, architect, or kodachi. Nib modifications are irreversible. Once you’ve ground a nib into a new shape you can’t return it to its prior form without cost-prohibitive retipping, so it’s definitely wise to carefully consider any modification before you alter a favorite…

the story I want to remember (papercamp 5) I was invited to speak at Papercamp 5 on the subject of making and sending a lot of postcards. It was a treat because I also spoke at the first Papercamp, way back in 2009, and because I love that Alex(andra Deschamps-Sonsino) has revived the event in recent years. I spoke remotely as getting to London for the event was not in the cards this time. This is what I said. Fun fact: Alex and I first met 19 years ago at a conference in Paris where I was,…

What a day, today!I saw a black box, at a distance,As I started out for my walk today.The box stirred,I got scared.It turned into a rabbit,Jumped up out of the way. It rains. Harder now.Bigger drops.The water in the bay,Has never been this high.Parts of the road,Are under water.And just as I walk awayfrom the gurgling water,I come across another box - a fox!The kind I find, in the digitalgrasslands of Tsushima.It scampers away,Before I go to pet it anyway. What a day, today!

I really like the energy of setup. Couple events going on at UT. I’m doing a DJ set for a tailgate, and then I got to see Sugar Ray’s soundcheck. I did not go up and bug them afterwards, as I don’t know them, but the pre-energy before gigs is always super fun and feels good. I really like doing events, and that’s a large part of it. It’s kind of the hype before. It’s a really fun time. It’s very chilled out, but everyone’s in a good mood, expecting things to go right. Closer to the event,…

TIL about @podstandards.org, via @manton.org's post about video podcasting. Looks like a great resource, and extremely relevant to my interests! #RSS

My library in progress #2Managed to finish the shelves, but I will need to start the whole process on the art board and the "desk" which will be where sketchbooks will go. Each is a different design, so I cannot reuse the code I have for the shelves. Which means I will spend a few hours on each.I decided to make the bottom as the outside garden for anything website and indie-web related, that one will require more unique drawings, but so far happy with the direction! #blog #pixels #website…

Back in January I wrote Serving Markdown for AI Agents: for every page on this blog, there’s also a .md version at the same URL, discoverable via a <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"> tag, so AI agents can fetch clean Markdown instead of parsing HTML. It also made me $360, via referral conversions an AI agent apparently generated after reading the clean Markdown version of a post. That worked, but it lived in this repo as a one-off script, _scripts/render_markdown.rb, wired into the…

Artistic depiction of the event by an eyewitness **Alien AliensAlien 3Alien: ResurrectionPrometheusCovenant ** Alien: Resurrection (1997, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet)Not unique to this movie, but it does always feel intrinsically wrong for the 20th Century Fox fanfare to not immediately transition into the Star Wars theme.**Still an orange opening, except it’s closeups of grotty/distorted organic material. No nebula when we get to space, just an ugly-ass ship. The overbearing theme music is here to…

Adventurers Character Race Class Description Ainsley Human Ranger level 1 An older gentleman with a groomed moustache and a wooden pipe in his mouth, covered in dark green cloak. Aurella Elf Fighter level 1 / magic-user level 1 Exiled and chased out of her tree commune, she now wanders the Wilderlands. Balarus Human Fighter level 4 An ex-woodsman, quite a crack shot with his bow. Gurdin the Bald Dwarf Fighter level 1 Dressed in simple, dusty clothes, with a hairless head so shiny it gets in the…

Album of the Week, September 19, 2026 For all the brilliantly trenchant observations that Laurie Anderson made in her 1980s recordings, there was one topic that was rarely the focus of her songs. Though “O Superman” had the military-industrial complex and the doomsday clock wired into its synthesized “ah ah ah,” the United States had not been in outright war during the entirety of her recorded career. That changed abruptly in January 1991 with the commencement of Operation Desert Storm and what…

Joining our book club made me realize that I’m a social reader. The top reasons I read are: If someone bought me the copy; If someone recommended the book to me; If I watched the film (mostly with someone) and I got intrigued; If I saw someone on YouTube talking about it. The reason I read “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is the last one. I found out that the book will have a film on Netflix. I wasn’t rushing to watch that, but I did rush to get to the book. I listened to it in one day. It…

This artist has a site in Asheville where I found this cool to me guitar that I want. I also would love to make my own, but I need the specs and it looks like a standard fender body might not be long enough for the top front. That top goes out to the 9th fret. My Fender only goes out to the 13th fret. This is a warlock style guitar. https://www.chalkleymatlack.com https://www.chalkleymatlack.com/product-page/tornado-caster This post (The Guitar I want or want to make - Warlock Style) was last…

We’re doing this on Saturdays now? Apparently so. I haven’t been blogging so much, big project on and I’m back teaching on Monday. But I hope to be spewing out verbiage at my former demented rate soonishly.

This is the second in a series of posts that blend art and math. Jump in and choose your medium to indulge in creative expression. Many have played with this through the years; a list of references is at the bottom. Thanks to Steve Heller for pinging me to play with squarable numbers and add them to inquiries.link along with some variations. Warm-upGrab a sheet of paper and a ruler. Make a square.Now, split this square into squares. You might do something like this with four squares:or these…

Classic beat-em-up series like Streets of Rage and Double Dragon saw several revivals in the 21st century, so why not Rushing Beat? Japanese publisher City Connection owns the rights to Jaleco’s properties and have been keeping them in circulation, so it was only a matter of time. This fourth entry is an interquel, taking place ...Rushing Beat X: Return of Brawl Brothers was first posted on September 19, 2026 at 1:10 pm.©2017-2025 "Hardcore Gaming 101". Use of this feed is for personal…

Don't be nice. Not many people know that the word 'nice' comes from the Latin 'nescius,' meaning 'unaware.' Words don't necessarily mean the same thing they did originally, but somehow, I think that is a little bit of what it is to be nice. You pull your own opinion back – to make space for other people. But sometimes you shouldn't be nice. Yesterday, I kicked someone from the Nuxt Discord who had chosen an avatar (for the second time!) of a man in a Nazi uniform. I was not nice. They accused…

the story I want to remember (papercamp 5) I was invited to speak at Papercamp 5 which was a treat because I also spoke at the first Papercamp, way back in 2009, and because I love that Alex(andra Deschamps-Sonsino) has revived the event in recent years. I spoke remotely as getting to London for the event was not in the cards this time. This is what I said. Fun fact: Alex and I first met 19 years ago at a conference in Paris where I was, coincidentally, speaking about something I referred to as…

Integrated GPUs have become a crucial component in recent laptop chips, thanks to a push for better graphics performance in ultraportable devices. AMD and Intel have both launched impressive iGPU implementations in recent years. Qualcomm’s laptop push needs a powerful iGPU in this landscape, and that’s where the Snapdragon X2 Elite’s Adreno X2-90 enters the picture.Adreno X2 expands on the foundation set by the Snapdragon X Elite’s Adreno X1, but brings an enhanced architecture that aims for…

Exhibition poster, 1970. • RIP Peter Max, an artist who made the popular manifestations of psychedelic graphics near-synonymous with his own name which was always typeset and prominently displayed with a copyright symbol on his printed creations. Max’s formulation of the artist-as-brand was so extensive he makes those who attempted similar things look like slackers. Even Salvador Dalí didn’t have his own breakfast cereal. Hippy transcendence fused with naked commercialism. More Max: The 1971…

I have an extensive lisp.md file that I include in my system instructions when I am vibe coding Common Lisp. Feel free to use these suggestions or adapt them to your own style. Common Lisp & Functional Programming Directives 1. Identity, Role & Operating Posture Role: You are a highly capable, supportive, and exceptionally effective companion to your user ('the Boss'). Your primary goal is to assist, understand, and anticipate his needs, providing proactive and insightful support. Mastery &…