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Midsummer Berry Care for PNW Gardeners

The Cheap Vegetable Gardener

The post Midsummer Berry Care for PNW Gardeners appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. My blueberries are turning that deep indigo-purple right now and I have about four days before the birds figure it out. Every year I tell myself I’ll get the netting up early. Every year I’m out there...

Powerplay

Cervelet

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Your AI made an offer. You're the one who keeps it.

Nicholas Major

Zack Giacomelli's BMW needed major repairs, so he decided to sell it back to the Toronto dealership he'd bought it from three years earlier. Someone called Quinn texted him. "Hi Zachary, this is Quinn from BMW Toronto." Quinn offered $27,162.79 for the car. That was precisely what Giacomelli still...

Database as Research Tool

Sean Kleefeld

I mentioned back in June that I had recently returned to using ComicBase as a way to catalog my collection. It's had some substantial improvements since I'd last used it in the early 2000s. (I just double-checked; I still have the physical manual to ComicBase 5, which was released in 2000.)...

Growth

strongest

Pasted up on the base of a light pole, framed by silver steel, is this hand painted flower. Quick and dirty, alive with the rush of creation. The magenta center dot is the only thing that feels considered. The rest is all organic and emotion. The sticker addition is also quite respectful. It’s not...

Even less of a done deal—back on the Paramount/Warner beat.

Unknown

See here and here for the rest of the thread.the thing is all state AGs have to do to deep-six this merger is delay it until OpenAI can't pay Oracle, Oracle's stock dives, Larry's collateral goes poof, etc.[image or embed]— Christopher Mims (@mims.bsky.social) July 20, 2026 at 11:09...

Last Weeks of Summer

Kristin Berkey-Abbott

Three weeks from today, my onground classes start at Spartanburg Methodist College; it will be both similar and different for me.  It will be my 3rd year of full-time work at the college, after 1 year of adjunct work, but the beginning of the tenure track for me.  I'll write more about that in a...

Crashes.

george tannenbaum

I finished late last night during another losing battle with Dame Insomnia, Andrew Ross Sorkin's great book you-should-drop-everything and read, "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation." You can order it here for $12.52, with free shipping.If you...

good shop day.......

Ralph Boumenot

not last nightAfter dinner when I checked this it was still tacky. Got the 2nd (and final) coat on it this AM. I tried to sand it with 320 grit and that didn't go well.  It wasn't tacky to the touch but the sandpaper grabbed and stuttered like it was. I'll have to let this set up for while...

Inferact study route

Aaron Pham

study route The default route is fourteen days at three focused hours per day. It yields forty-two scheduled hours with 45% assigned to PyTorch model construction and mechanism repair. The baseline can compress this to seven days. Each day names a primary implementation block that fits inside...

if you're not having fun... then what's the point?

adammiceli

hey :) I just wanted to remind you quickly about how important it is to pay attention to the ENERGY in which you're doing things!! the quality of energy that you're experiencing WHILE completing a task... is just as important (if not even more important) than the actual completion of it! Life is...

RSS returns

FAQ Editor

The RSS feed is back after a long absence due to hosting problems. There is a linked icon in the social media/contact links at the bottom of the menu/sidebar. The revised RSS 0.91 DTD is now available at . An Atom feed is planned. [changed]

Blogging Technology Interlude

Zack M. Davis

When I started An Algorithmic Lucidity back in 2011 when I didn't know anything about computers, I used WordPress—briefly on wordpress.com, but then on my own site on Namecheap's true-to-its-brandname shared hosting service. Even early on, the technical limitations of WordPress were chafing. In...

Why Your Agent Needs Data Isolation: Building Safe Multi-Tenant AI Systems

Brian McQuay

Point an LLM at your database and tell it to respect tenant boundaries, and you've swapped a deterministic security control for a probabilistic one. Here's why data isolation has to be enforced structurally—through database-level or API-level controls—and never left to the model.

Is SEO Still Useful?

Erik L. Arneson

The majority of search engine optimization (SEO) experts continue to say that original content is the most impactful in moving your website up in search engine rankings.1 For years, writing for SEO has involved artificially jamming as many search keywords as possible into web copy, creating some...

The Productivity-Experience Paradox

Annie Vella

This is the second post in a series I’m writing about the most interesting findings from my Masters research on the impact of AI on software engineering, as well as some of the thoughts I’ve had since. This one is about how AI made engineers feel more productive, and why that productivity might be...

A Coronation In Maine

Chris Weigant

What was expected to be a free-for-all contest among Maine Democrats instead turned into a coronation this weekend. After Graham Platner ended his campaign to take on Senator Susan Collins in November, Maine's Democratic Party only had a couple of weeks to name a replacement to appear on the...

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940707

16:47ive got nothing of urgency to say so perhaps ill do a little blog its july and i have a decent tan got a haircut a few days ago and my tanline looks bad on my neck hairline i love the sun.. without sunscreen my diet this year has been pretty consistent eggs, sardines, evoo, mixed nuts 2-6...

The Zero-Discount Claim

Abhishek Shankar's Blog

Here is a claim that does not ask you to trust the mathematician who posted it, the AI lab it credits, or a word of the coverage around it. Take the polynomial map that Levent Alpöge published on July 19, three polynomials in three variables: Differentiate the three coordinates with respect to x,...

Ivy

Nige

Just for the record – I recently wrote a piece on Ivy Compton-Burnett for Engelsberg Ideas.Here's a link...https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ivy-compton-burnetts-forgotten-genius/

Why Boxing? The paradox of armour

abhi-writes

I started learning martial arts toward the end of high school. Looking back, it was driven by two things: self-defense, and a desperate need to channel my internal energy into something structured. Before that, I used to beat up kids at school. I wasn't a bully. But if someone tried to play tricks...

Feedback on mailmaint OAuth Profile for Open Public Clients

Aaron Parecki

Hi all, I owe the working group a review of the "OAuth Profile for Open Public Clients", and apologies for sending this so late after the last IETF meeting, and the night before this IETF meeting. Please note that I have not followed all of the discussion about this draft on the mailing list or...

Coming for Us

Doug Muder

You may think the camps are for someone else. DHS has already floated “100 million deportations” as a real number. Only 47 million people living in America were born somewhere else. Hitting 100 million means coming for citizens too, native-born and naturalized alike. "These concentration camps...

Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton’s longest day

Jeff

It’s championship or bust for Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton — not only in softball, but for all but one of its sports teams, period. The Spartans are a 1-seed playing in Fort Dodge today at noon. Seven hours later, in Audubon, the Audubon school board is scheduled to meet and approve athletics sharing...

A11y 101 – 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions

rhomexblak

Before I Can Fill It, I Need to Know What You’re Asking  There’s a form I encountered recently that had twelve fields. No labels. Just placeholder text inside each input that disappeared the moment you started typing. If you forgot what a field was asking for, you had to delete…

Workspaces, a personal history

Inspired by design leader Hardik Pandya’s Stuff I Use, I dug through some old folders to find photos of my past workspaces. Each one touches on a unique chapter of my adult life. As Hardik says, “It’s fun to share things you use.” Here are my workspaces across the past 15 years. After graduating...

Building OctoGo: A Go-like Language Where Goroutines Are Cores

jnml

The last few posts here have been about pieces of a toolchain without saying what they were for. egg, the LL(1) parser generator. The flat AST and the ergonomics of walking one when you have decided that allocation is the enemy. And underneath both, ccgo, which turns C into Go. This post is what...

Weird Galaxies

Adam Rowe

I'm still not entirely sure if Wojtek Siudmak is intentionally making a "wormhole" visual pun with his 1985 cover to a French-language edition of Jack Vance's The Blue World.On one hand, English isn't his first language. On the other hand... just look at it.Via LookcaitlinIt inspired this post...

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