I haven't painted in almost three years but now, more than ever, it feels so vital and important. Being a great painter has never been my goal. Whatever great means, very few people carry the label. Engaging with the canvas through paint and brush is so distant from the sycophantic grift of ai that it feels like freedom. From ai shills, I often hear this line: get onboard or be left behind. Artists have always used the latest tech. So, if an art practice involves ancient Japanese calligraphy,…

tall oregon grape! for real this plant is a winner if you have a large spot that a spiky shrub would work (I planted mine a bit close to a walkway 😬) The light was muted this morning so I decided to haul out the ol’ dSLR and take some photos in the garden. The sun came out so I went in for lunch, then I decided I needed to go back out for sunny shots! 😂 I keep saying I’ll pull out all the euphorbia but then it looks like this — this is a much more rule-abiding specimen, unlike the wulfenii this…

The absolute chaos of the move is now over, I can slowly start seeing opportunities of how to make the house better, to feel like an actual home. It will take a few weeks.

A software organization can generate competitive advantage in many ways: network effects, branding/counter-positioning, switching costs, etc. One historical way to build power has been creating leverage through engineering: an engineering organization that can generate value quickly or cheaply is better than one that can't. Gauging the efficacy of an engineering organization is, sadly, an unsolved problem, but three useful aspects are: speed stability cost These must be considered as vectors,…

I have the habit of sending quickly message and only noticed the tone a minute later when it was already read. already proved that TypeSafe AI's Jev model is fast enough to sit in a save-triggered loop for code review, so the next question was: could the same model catch a bad message before it goe…

Maybe things will change one day. :\

I sometimes wonder if we have, as humans, forgotten how totally inconsequential we are in the grand scheme of, well, everything. In Peter Brannen’s The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions, he places humanity within the almost incomprehensible scale of geological time.1 Brannen argues that humanity’s presence on Earth is almost imperceptibly brief when viewed against that scale. Human beings tend to interpret the…

Welcome to my third post on Gemini and the alternative Internets and smallnets! This is going to be my most helpful and detailed article on the topic yet—and it's something I'm excited to get into. If you'd like a history and explanation of what Gemini is, read my first post, "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My! Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS". My second article, "Oldnets and Altnets: A Guide to Building a Low-Spec Daily Internet Out of Gemini, Gopher, and Terminal Tools" was aimed more at…

The rubber hoods of my Gevenalle CX brifters had become worn and ugly. Replacing them would require unwrapping my tape and removing the levers from the bars. I asked myself if there was anything else I may want to do to the cockpit, as long as I was going through that trouble. And then I happened to look at Gevenalle’s website to see what they were up to, and I saw the GC Edition, which were shiny and chrome. I bought them. I bought them nekkid from Gevenalle, and ordered a pair of Rivendell…

I thought I knew these flowers, kinmokusei. I drew them before. But they’re a lot smaller in person than I ever even considered they could be. Honestly, it was their sweet scent that stopped me, and made me turn back.

19 September, 2026 Vintage Backups I've sunk deeper into to the world of retro Windows. This time it's a period-correct Pentium III machine to run Windows 2000. I use it for real work so I need to keep it running, which means backups. If something breaks, I want to be able to recover it without too much hassle. This system has placed me outside the reach of modern hardware. My board uses the i440BX chipset which means Slot 1 CPUs, PC100 SDRAM, and PATA drives up to 137GB at UDMA33. It has AGP,…

My favorite game to play is finding the artwork used to decorate the sets of Twin Peaks. This time, I located the framed art seen hanging above Ruth Davenport’s bed in Part 1 of Twin Peaks: The Return. It’s a public domain piece that created in 1802 by an English watercolorist and etcher. ARTWORK ABOVE RUTH... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – Artwork Above Ruth Davenport’s Bed appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Camera Camp Snap Pro Data 21/08/2026 Location Bruxelles, Belgium ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You can leave your comments by emailing me.

This year, I’m participating in FediZineFest, a project for sharing zines. As implied by the “Fedi” part, it’s based in the Fediverse—a network of social media servers (platforms like Mastodon, Frendica, PixelFed, BookWyrm, Ghost, and WordPress). But the main thing is the zines. I’m one of 25 people creating print and/or digital zines. Project backers can sign up to buy zine bundles. Zines will be delivered to backers in March 2027. So why not give Future You a present?

Nothing grows exponentially forever. What appears to be an exponential curve often turns out to be some sort of S curve, such as a logistic curve. Suppose you’re collecting data on the left side of the curve. If there’s even a small amount of error in your data, you won’t be able to predict the asymptotic value with any accuracy. But if you have data on both sides of the inflection point, you can make a good prediction of the limiting value. I’ve written about this before, explaining that the…

I think this book is my second-favorite of the Secret Novels (or Hoid novels), after Tress, and potentially tied with Yumi or just ahead of it. Like many of the Secret Novels you can get through most of it without knowing too much of the Cosmere, although, like many of the Secret Novels, portions of the climax and falling action might sound like nonsense to you if you aren’t caught up with The Cosmere. Although if you’ve read up to Stormlight 5 you’ve likely read all the rest of the Cosmere, if…

systemd nimmt einem Dienst einen großen Teil der klassischen Daemonologie ab. Ein Programm muß sich nicht selbst in den Hintergrund forken, sein Controlling Terminal verlieren, PID-Dateien verwalten und einen Syslog-Client einbauen. Es kann im Vordergrund laufen und nach stdout und stderr schreiben. Der Service Manager startet es, hält seinen Zustand fest und verbindet seine Ausgaben normalerweise mit systemd-journald. journald speichert nicht einfach Zeilen in einer Textdatei. Ein…

This is a game I have been keen to write about since I played it. In recent months, my to-do list of blog posts to write has been hovering around 15 to 20 items long. I generally write in a first-in-first-out manner, but sometimes some blog posts cut queue, for example when I write about exhibitions I attend. I have heard a little about Azure, and I thought it was just

So, Genius the Transgression I’m not 100% aware of the history of the World of Darkness games, but from what I gather, this game was created in response to a very specific beef the creators had with the brand-new version of Mage at the time, which I believe was Mage: The Awakening? I’m not talking about the mainline; I'm not gonna do any research on that. Specifically, the Technocracy (more specifically the Void Engineers) not being playable in the newest edition. So, they created Genius! A…

You’re not a urologist just because you took a squirt without hitting your slippers in the morning.

Grant Street2026 September 19 (Saturday), 8:28AM· Calibre · EPUBs · AI · Calibre have added an AI thing they're calling "Create your own adventure": a writing game, or "interactive storytelling with an AI managing the world you create." This is a little different from the usual run of calibre features. It started out as a way to test the AI backends in calibre but turned into something fun to use. As always with AI features its completely optional and not even loaded unless you explicitly run…

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When human beings withdraw into the silence of the wilderness—away from the noise of urban life and the incessant demands of social obligation—an alternative mode of reality begins to disclose itself. Nature, in its untamed and resistant form, no longer functions merely as a passive setting for human activity. It emerges instead as an active presence, one that addresses the individual directly. Those who spend prolonged periods living with little more than the earth beneath them, the sky above,…

3 days for the price of 1.

(Continued from yesterday’s post) Adam Smith’s private pupil at Glasgow, Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, became ill yet again in the fall of 1760. In a letter (dated November 11, 1760) to Fitzmaurice’s father, Lord Shelburne, Smith writes: “Mr Fitzmaurice being at present indisposed with sore eyes I write this letter to make his apology to your Lordship and to Lady Shelburne for his not having written so regularly of late as usual. He got cold at Inveraray [a small coastal town in Argyll and Bute,…

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DC has posted several preview pages from next week’s issue of Absolute Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features Wally reeling from Agent Zolomon’s attack last issue, and he receives a disturbing message from a very unexpected source. Check it out at the link! ABSOLUTE FLASH #19 Written by JEFF LEMIRE Art and cover by NICK ROBLES Variant covers by DENYS COWAN, STEVE SKROCE, and SETH MANN $4.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $5.99 US (cardstock) ON SALE 9/16/26 Wally…

I built a microVM sandbox service for coding agents in one evening. Booting Firecracker took ten minutes. Everything around it took the rest of the night, and the slowest thing in the system was a cp.

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