I’m often asked whether I prefer Claude or Codex, and honestly, I’ve never really shown any preference towards either. Both seem to have reasonably good levels of intelligence, so I’ll go with whatever is more affordable. For me, that has historically been Codex with their Pro plan. I work a lot with Codex, whether I want to or not. I prefer using it as part of my IDE experience, within a tool like PhpStorm using the integrations JetBrains has built-in to allow the seamless bridge between the…

Since I’m such a big fan of annotation when I work and read, I get asked a lot of questions about annotation tools, sticky notes among them. One common question is whether a fountain pen friendly sticky note exists. My answer? Sort of. Sticky notes seem simple but they’re not, at least when it comes to how they interact with ink. The adhesive applied to the back of the note bonds to the paper, and can affect how that portion of the paper behaves. Similarly, many sticky notes are brightly…

I am continuing in this current era to open up my blog to a broader range of voices on math and AI, with the majority of posts now being guest posts by other authors. My own views on these topics (which often overlap with, but are not identical to, those of the guest authors) are summarized on this page. I have also given a number of recent interviews and talks on these topics; I am listing some of these here for reference. “How maths underpins almost every aspect of our lives“, Instant Genius…

On Reitz LaTeX, an Obsidian theme where you write like iA Writer and read like a LaTeX paper. Your notes are drafts while you write them. When you read them back, they should look like they matter. That sentence is the whole reason I built Reitz LaTeX, a theme for Obsidian. It's small and opinionated. I want to explain the thinking behind it, because the thinking is really what it's about. The medium is the message McLuhan was right. How a thing looks isn't decoration on top of the content. It…

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Patreon is forcing some big changes to the Alexandrian. I started using Patreon all the way back in 2014. Since then, all of my patrons have transformed the site and made everything at the Alexandrian possible. It’s literally impossible for me to express my eternal gratitude to you. Since the beginning, I’ve used a per-creation option where my patrons support each creative post I make: I think this is fair and it’s also a great way to keep me motivated in creating and sharing new work. This…

John Linneman breaks down the brand new remake with all the historical context, comparisons, and keen observations you would expect. The level of detail Nintendo has put into this one is astounding. My jaw dropped when John sliced the bushes. John also surmises that this type of remake helps educate and enlighten the younger and/or newer members of the development staff. I feel like this is how you pass the torch from one generation to the next.

Added a very subtle icon picker today.

In 1994, with South Africa's first democratic election looming, I became eligible to vote for the first time. In the run-up to polling day, my right-wing father was determined to impress upon me the importance of exercising this newfound privilege. If you don't vote, he said, you can't complain. He delivered the lesson with considerable conviction.He would not have approved of the transformation that followed that watershed election. I suppose it is just as well he did not live to see how the…

After a sound has faded, it can take a moment for quietude to regain its force. The ear stays where the sound has left it, as though something might still be communicated. That is how I find my way into William Basinski’s Passing the Cup of Sorrows. He spaces his piano phrases with something of Morton Feldman’s patience, allowing a note to arrive late enough to change what one might easily mistake for an ending. Over the course of this single, nearly forty-minute piece, I grow attentive to…

The next global pandemic could be hatching in a mink farm in Utah. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th November 2026 Could this be ground zero? Could it be the spot where the next pandemic begins? It’s certainly a candidate, not least because the chain of events that could trigger a plague far worse than Covid-19 looks like the opening sequence of a disaster movie. A really bad disaster movie, in which the levels of carelessness and turpitude defy belief. A report by the…

Waking up to good news hasn't happened much, lately, so this morning's election results were a wonderful surprise. But, let's not gloat so much. Use that energy to fix things. I know, it's been quiet here lately. I'm having fun over on the wiki instead. ✍️ Reply by email

Tracklisting TrackLength43:37Cornish Acid2:14Peek 8245452013:05Fingerbib3:48Carn Marth2:33To Cure A Weakling Child4:03Goon Gumpas2:02Yellow Calx3:04Girl/Boy Song4:52Logan Rock Witch3:33 Twin Identities The Richard D. James Album is of course a deliberate and direct reference to the Aphex Twin’s actual birth name. The middle initial D for David is an effort to differentiate Richard from his older brother who coincidentally, if confusingly shared the same name of Richard James. The reason behind…

Well, I started today in a good mood. You see, I've written plenty of times about my views of Donald Trump, his fascist tendencies, and a GOP too scared of him to do anything. As long as Trump could be seen as, "Winning," and getting support, the Republican Party would put up with his outrageous statements, rude behavior, and so forth. Polls showed Republicans could be in trouble in many Midterm contests, but many people disregard polls as overly optimistic/pessimistic. I don't think many polls…

Hello again! It’s another day of Writing Month . I should mention, in addition to what I already said about my plans that I have no intention of posting every day this month. I have stuff to do. Today’s writing soundtrack is Answers by Casiopea . I know nothing about this music, I just clicked on a link in my RSS feeds. It sounds good so far. Thanks Egan . I have my drink at my side. A cup of Earl Grey tea, in honor of Patrick Stewart . It is also just tasty. It makes me think I ought to drink…

Flat Iron have made it to Birmingham and so the usual flock of camera rigs, lighting, and breathless adjectives have followed. Except, somewhat oddly, this opening has not been met with the usual superlatives, maybe because Birmingham has reached saturation on steak restaurants, but more likely that Flat Iron have opted to use their London PR over the one that does everything in Birmingham, leaving the invited stuck between a free meal and potentially jeopardising the next invitation if they…

No sooner have I caught my breath after last week's three documentary film panels, then next week's gigs, panel and interview are rearing their beautiful heads.I've approved the album masters too.There is always a spanner in the works though, isn't there? I found out that my 'sore finger' is actually a broken finger, and spent many of the daylight hours last week on a tour of Accident and Emergency facilities to end up with a customised splint and instructions not to remove it at all until it's…

Like many other folks, I love playing online games. Especially games that don’t require me to create an account or log in. Games I only need to take a few minutes to play. When the games are focused on one of my hobbies, like birding, that’s even better! I discovered two birding games this past month I’ve enjoyed playing. Blird Game Created by Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Blird Game encourages you to identify a mystery bird by revealing tiles of the blurred bird image. You have five guesses.…

I read Gordon McLean’s “Yes All Men” with a mixture of agreement and frustration. I hear what he is saying about harassment, intimidation, and the ways people excuse behavior that should be challenged. I particularly appreciate his concern about the example he sets for his son. Children learn from what we do, how we treat people, and what we allow to pass without comment. But I struggle with the way he takes those reasonable concerns and turns them into a judgment about men generally. This…

I've been thinking about the recent Door Monster video The Plot Armor Problem and I agree, because it's Kyle, and I agree with Kyle, that's just the rules. My big thing with plot armour is we know the character has Plot Armour but the characters don't. This, I think, ought to be a useful workaround for writers of books and shows but is less used. I've been catching up on Monarch, because I love big dumb monster movies, or big dumb TV show spinoffs of monster movies in this case. In Monarch…

My parents were in London for an evening event, so we met for lunch. I went to see The Standard of Living at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, starring Rory Kinnear playing something other than a Prime Minister. (Until L— reminded me, I’d forgotten that he was the porcine-compromised PM in Black Mirror as well as playing one more recently in the Diplomat). It’s funnier than you’d expect from a film about economics, and maybe a bit propagandist towards the end (though I approve of the message).…

So, I was initially excited about my acquisition of Doon the Watter, “A British Transport Film Classic,” a cheap second-hand DVD featuring three shorts, one of which, THE LAND OF ROBERT BURNS (1956), seemed to involve ace editor Stewart McAllister, Humphrey Jennings’ key collaborator and indeed his credited co-director on the masterpiece LISTEN TO BRITAIN. […]

Joan Barfoot, Constance Beresford-Howe, narrators – welcome to episode 155! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/tea-or-books-155-1.mp3 In the first half, we use a suggestion from listener Rebecca: do we prefer narrators as main characters in a novel or as side characters? The books and authors we mention in this episode: The Return of the Bookseller Diarist by Shaun Bythell Charlotte Bronte’s Life Through Clothes by Eleanor Houghton Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The…

It's that time of year again! Like the last few years, I've been a judge in this year's edition of the Independent Games Festival, and just like last year, I've brought you a set of the most interesting games I played this year. It's been a rough year for the game industry, so it's been refreshing to be able to take so much time surrounded by the work of amazing teams doing incrdible things despite it all. This year's slate has an especially strong showing from student games compared to…

Yesterday I wrote a short post about the local municipal elections and started with a phrase I’d clipped from somewhere: “What happens when harmful attitudes are expressed not by extremists on the fringes, but by perfectly ordinary people going about their lives?”I was going somewhere with that, but it was an emotional reaction, spurred by disbelief at the election results.So I sat at my kitchen table and tried to write it again, and again, and again.Charlottetown has elected a scientist and…

Bazzite 45 is here! It's based on Fedora 45 and it's got a number of highly-visible updates and some under-the-hood improvements built specifically for Linux gaming's bright future.DesktopWe all know Bazzite as a "SteamOS-like," where boot up the system drops you right into Steam's Game Mode. But another major component of Bazzite is it's desktop. And if you don't have an AMD GPU, the desktop is where you're likely to land by default, anyway.Bazzite ships with both KDE and GNOME, two incredible…

Absolute Superman #25A Rafa Sandoval Regular Release: Nov 04, 2026Cover: Jan 2027 THE FINALE OF GET BRAINIAC CHANGES SUPERMAN’S LIFE FOREVER! The oversize conclusion of Get Brainiac! Ever since he came to Earth, the Last Son of Krypton has been chased, tortured, and almost driven insane by the psychotic alien butcher known as Brainiac. Now comes their final confrontation, a showdown unlike any other! The shocking ending of this issue will send Superman into a whole new era…don’t miss it!…

Part of a recreated street of Ballycultra, the town area of of the UlsterFolk Museum. With a trip to London planned, I decided to fly to the U.K. a few days early last month to visit Belfast in Northern Ireland to meet Heritage Carpenter Peter Sloan and Curator of History Fiona Byrne at the Ulster Folk Museum. They are working together to document and photograph all the many chairs and other seating in the museum’s collection, and kindly pulled some for me from storage so that I could take a…

Unrelatedly, this morning I finally got to take my splint off! I’m cooling my heels in a patient room waiting for the OT to come in and show me how to have a bad time. (And craft a reduced safety splint for the next leg.) There’s a sink in here, and as soon as they left me alone I spent like ten minutes washing my hands to try and get the splint stank off. So much dead skin sloughing off, too. And there’s these nasty creases? That shit better not split on me, say no to trench foot. comments

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