Hey there. Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week: #1. LibreOffice announced “no-ai” (2min) as a core feature and their downloads doubled. Not everyone wants AI and their hands on everything. I’m announcing “no-AI” on my posts, newsletters, books…just to see if visits and sales doubled. LOL. #2. What do you have in your CV? Languages, tools, job experience? What about listing any of these 4 rare skills (6min)? Which one do you have? I think I’m a polyglot. #3. AI won’t ever…

Alien Syndrome is a game that exemplifies what hardware differences used to mean. In the present, maybe there are differing frame rates with a game released across multiple platforms, likely some lesser graphical detail, especially if something that runs on the Playstation 5 also appears on the Nintendo Switch: fidelity and performance are the clearest differentiator from platform to platform, depending on its horsepower. In the younger days of the industry, though, with markedly different…

A Friday Hodgepodge 1. Alison Green asked readers for examples of how their jobs followed them home recently and posted her favorites at Ask a Manager. Best of the bunch for me is the following example:Back in the 90s, I volunteered at a zoo and I still scramble eggs the way the raven preferred them. [bold added]Yes. I searched the comments in vain for how the raven preferred scrambled eggs, but only found a cute short poem in the style of "The Raven." 2. For fans of my "smart" car updates, I…

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Before Denis Villeneuve brought the world of Dune to the big screen, before Frank Herbert wrote his famous book, there was another book called Erewhon, written by Samuel Butler in 1872. The Butlerian Jihad, a crusade led by free humans against thinking machines in the world of Dune, owes its name to him.Here is what Samuel writes in his essay published a little before the book:Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more…

Low risk is good for growth for a few years until the investments made in the quiet years turn out badly, growth reverses and a crisis becomes more likely. It can hence be used to forecast both crisis and GDP. By contrast, high risk is correlated with pending instability and recession, and not predictive of it.

Inside of it is a faith hugger— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2026-09-18T12:19:08.720Z I regret nothing. — JS

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One of the big double doors opened and a little old man in an old-fashioned black suit was there."Oh," he said. "Mr. Lovechild. Out in this inclement weather.""Well, you know me, Stokes," said Livingston. "It'll take a lot more than a raging blizzard to stay me from my appointed rounds.""Ha ha, yes, sir, and I see you have brought a friend.""I have indeed," said Livingston. "Stokes, I would like you to meet Mr. Beachcroft.""I am very pleased to meet you, sir," said the old man to Harry."I, um,…

Week #813 Monday was a public holiday in the US. That gives us a day to catch-up on internal tasks and personal projects. We’ve been deep in C++ for the ESP32 microprocessor to control the LED lights. After constantly hitting walls, back tracking and trying another approach, we’re finally in a good spot. Every light combination we need is programmed into the system and the firmware is firing on all cylinders! Wednesday we had both a Nintendo event. Which we are keeping closer eyes on and the…

It was hot. 31C every day, which is survivable if you can navigate your way through shaded areas, a bit more of a challenge when you are sitting in a grandstand facing the sun… I would visit Madrid again. It’s a fairly compact city and whilst I didn’t tick off any of the popular tourist spots, I still got to explore a fair bit on foot. Very walkable, with a nice park to get you away from the city centre. I don’t like being a tourist so tend to want to avoid the more tourist-targetted areas,…

Artificial Intelligence may or may not destroy human existence by 2030 or sometime in the next decade. Why waste the computing cycles and tokens when we’re doing a damn good job of beating it to the punch? After some dangerous confessions and warnings, along with continuing news of AI engines escaping their sandboxes, the leaders are calling out to slow things down, saying that they need to be regulated before what they are spending so much money on creating can become uncontrollable. Of course…

so, like all my fellow adhders, i have many hobbies; we're talking: crochet weaving yarn spinning loom knitting sewing kumihimo reading wax melt making blogging (hehe) drawing and, hear me out, i'm not saying i'm active and on top of all of these. daily: i read a few times a week: i crochet i blog (here or on folkflora) and that's about it? the others are... there. sometimes i get back to them. like sewing, for example, i got so excited i bought a machine, took classes and made a pair of…

so, like all my fellow adhders, i have many hobbies; we're talking: crochet weaving yarn spinning loom knitting sewing kumihimo reading wax melt making blogging (hehe) drawing and, hear me out, i'm not saying i'm active and on top of all of these. daily: i read a few times a week: i crochet i blog (here or on folkflora) and that's about it? the others are... there. sometimes i get back to them. like sewing, for example, i got so excited i bought a machine, took classes and made a pair of…

so, like all my fellow adhders, i have many hobbies; we're talking: crochet weaving yarn spinning loom knitting sewing kumihimo reading wax melt making blogging (hehe) drawing and, hear me out, i'm not saying i'm active and on top of all of these. daily: i read a few times a week: i crochet i blog (here or on folkflora) and that's about it? the others are... there. sometimes i get back to them. like sewing, for example, i got so excited i bought a machine, took classes and made a pair of…

★★★★: Extraordinary in its chaos. Zucker is the perfect (sort of) straight man amongst the other acts. Though I didn't love every one of them, everything moved so quickly that there wasn't time to dwell on any one of them. The camera moves really supported how frenetic everything felt. Decidedly earns its "nudity" warning, too. FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also, thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the indie web!

The weight of adulthood has felt extra heavy lately. Maybe it’s weird to say it that way, when I’m halfway through my 30s. I’m ok, without going into too much detail, it’s just that some things are taking up my mindspace while I try to keep it together. I jump around from game, to game, to game. Nothing feels quite right, nothing hits the right way, it’s like trying to eat while I have a cold and I still love lasagna, but I can’t savour it. I put the Switch or Deck away, I cuddle my dog, I talk…

Overcast and cool. A pileated woodpecker flies into the dead top of the tallest black locust in the yard, seemingly oblivious to a swirling conflict between a small flock of local jays and two migrant sharp-shinned hawks. A slow inspection of the treetop turns up nothing worth tapping for, and she flies off, leaving the tree to the jays.

This is the weekly sniff. A roundup of links (linkdump) from the optimistically last week but more likely last month.Best in showToo much effort for such a simple lifeThe life is too hard unless you were born into a priviliged environment. You have to work your ass off to have a simple life. A simple house, a simple car,…A downer but definitely have been feeling that way.Small web findsWhy I Left WordPress for BearBlogOr: How I Bought Myself Some Digital Immortality A bear sitting at a desk…

This is my second Clare Marchant book, following The Alchemist’s Secret which I read earlier this year. It’s also my favourite of the two – although I enjoyed both books, I found this one darker, more atmospheric and more gripping. Although I’m often critical of dual timeline novels (which this is), I thought that format worked quite well here as the modern day character has a well developed storyline of her own rather than just providing a frame for the historical thread. The first chapter…

For the past few years, the tech industry has kept pushing passkeys as the ultimate solution to logging in. Many Big Tech companies "helpfully" inform you every time you sign in how much easier and effortless passkeys are. The only way to make them stop is either to concede and set up a passkey or dig into the settings to find the off-switch. Google goes as far as to name the setting "Skip password when possible", and Microsoft advertises that you should make your account passwordless. Passkeys…

A computer from 2006 is old now. That sounds obvious until you stop and do the math. A machine from that period may have shipped with Windows XP, maybe Windows Vista if it was unlucky, or some version of Mac OS X that is now a museum piece by modern support standards. On the Linux side, it may have been running a distribution from an era when wireless drivers still made people mutter at their desks. Yet a surprising number of those machines still turn on. The screen may be dim. The battery may…

“The good news is that nothing has gone wrong with you. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it evolved to do. It has just been dropped into an environment that looks like Times Square had a baby with a casino and raised it on espresso and Xanax.” - Dr. David RabinHello friends! This week has been all about the hummingbirds and butterflies, so it’s been a good week, despite the craziness of the world! It’s so easy to take tons of photos with this camera, and I’m having to be faster and…

The 64-page Fall 2026 issue of Armor magazine (the Mounted Maneuver Journal) is available online for free (read or download). The cover article, “Indispensable Iron” by COL Bryan Bonnema, MAJ Aram Hatfield, and CSM Greg Swayer, describes the importance of the ABCT and cautions against the temptation to substitute lighter formation or standoff fires for the capabilities that the ABCT provides. Enjoy!

The end of an era, boys. The A-10 Thunderbolt II SN 82-0665 completed its final training sortie with the 66th Weapons Squadron this week, flown by Lt. Col. Ridge Flick, the unit’s commander. “The flight closed a chapter of providing graduate-level training in advanced close air support with the U.S. Air Weapons School,” as noted Nellis’s PAO. U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Alex Padilla, a crew chief assigned to the 757th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, conducts postflight maintenance on an A-10…

Emmanuel Shiu: “Freefall” (detail) Maxi spots the body. Look, she says, pointing toward the ditch on the edge of Mr. Anderson’s property. But Ben doesn’t look, not at first. His eyes are trained on the road beneath his feet. Twice around the neighborhood, the woman said. The faster they’re done, the sooner she’ll let them back in the house. Ben pushed back this time. “It’s really cold,” he said. “Is it even safe for us to be out there?” The woman chuckled at this. “Just bundle up good as you…

My reading has dropped so much in the last few years that I am inching closer to the average 8 books in a year (3rd paragraph), and that scares me. In my best years (admittedly when I had considerably less responsibility and a job where I could read while working) I was reading between 80 and 100 books a year. Last year I read 22 books. Which was technically fine, but so very few compared to what I used to do. Right now I have read 9 books, and there's less than 3 1/2 months left in the year…

Here’s something that people didn’t predict - Meta’s “Muse” agent seems pretty good. Friends in Meta, whose judgement I trust, are quite impressed by it and have shared some great examples like tax preparation, group travel planning, scoring World Cup tickets that they are quite happy with. It’s gaining appreciation from other vectors too I’m already on a tangent. I was trying to pay Meta a compliment after months of mockery. And it’s honestly a big one. Because I must say, Muse is pretty…

The 2nd week of classes.