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...
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...
Timothy S. Brannan
The Satanic Panic and the Secret Appeal of Forbidden BooksI am currently reading Manly Wade Wellman for my Witches of Appendix N. He has a lot of occult investigators and talks a lot about dangerous occult texts. There is a strange magic to being told a book is dangerous.Not real magic. Not the...
the-quiet-journal
Sean Kleefeld
We're in the back half of July, which means that we'll inevitably start seeing some people making note of the anniversary of the Fantastic Four (and therefore Marvel Comics in general) on August 8th. Supposedly, this is because many people claim August 8, 1961 as THE day that Fantastic Four #1...
beyondborders
Your environment shapes how you feel every single day more than most people realize. Small, thoughtful changes to your surroundings can quietly support better mood, energy, and well-being, making healthy days feel more natural and satisfying.
jimmy
Books take forever and the waiting is *not* the hardest part. – Just for fun, Audrey Vernick and I started writing together about 10 years ago — we bonded over our love of James Marshall’s “George and Martha” books. We worked on and off and, though we finished more than a dozen stories, never...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; We were all afraid of Mr. Turner. He was the principal at Meadowfield Elementary in Columbia, SC, and, it was rumored, he had a wooden paddle in his office with "holes drilled in it" so he could swing it faster. Even as an...
Adam Cooper
I've written before about running GitHub Copilot coding assistant with local models on Windows and Linux. Autonomous agents let us take a step up from working on a task in collaboration with an agent to allowing one or more agents to collaborate on tasks while you do something else. We can use...
Daniel Roy Greenfeld
The future belongs to countries that make electricity abundant. I've believed this for years. If you talk to me long enough, at some point I'll start talking about the use of increasing electricity generation to reshape economies, strengthen national security, and address climate change. Working...
Aaron Winborn
Every time you scroll through a curated feed of other people's brilliance, something subtle happens to your own creative instincts. The influence isn't always obvious, but it accumulates—and eventually, you stop making your work and start making a remix of everyone else's. Here's how to catch it...
Alessandrina
One of the many differences between automated machine-knit transfer lace and hand-knit lace is that the alternate direction of transfers in machine-knit lace occurs after the first is completed and followed by knit rows separating the eyelets, so there is always a slight shift in horizontal lines...
robotkinz
The first of the present day scenes for chapter 4. The title of this chapter is Between the Lines.
Unknown
Ed Zitron has a new epic post out, massive post out at Where's Your Ed at? To be honest, it's probably a bit much unless you've already fallen deep into the AI bubble rabbit hole. New comers may want to start with his Better Offline podcast where he regularly talks with some of the sharpest AI...
Undine
Some people make it into the history books by becoming world leaders. Some do so through acts of daring or heroism. Some do so by creating immortal works of art. And some, like the hero of today’s post, do so by eating an entire sheep in one sitting.It’s a funny old world.About all we know for...
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
We have had a stretch of farm stand eating. You may say, "Of course--it's July--it's how we're all eating." But I spent 24 years in South Florida, where summer is not a growing season, where growing any sort of vegetable during any month takes planning and good fortune and is likely to end in...
EI3LH
The CW key you never needed, now in Calculator form! Picture the scene. What if you are out operating portable and you suddenly realised you forgot your straight key, your paddle or your bug!? Goodness me what a palava! What to do?! Luckily, you always remember to bring your Casio Pocket...
Paul Wallbank
Recently I launched a little social media experiment, The Comms Minute. The accounts – on YouTube, LinkedIn, Tik Tok and Instagram – are quick sixty second (ish) clips on my thoughts about comms, media, management and business. Each one is pretty much a hot take on my part as I’m walking around –...
Aurel Manea
I created Me, the Puzzle from a deeply personal place. I live with bipolar disorder, and one of the ways I experience it is through a fragmented sense of identity. […] The post Me, the Puzzle — Reassembling a Fragmented Reflection appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art.
george tannenbaum
Toward my waning days at Ogilvy (and when you work for a holding company, your days are always waning) I was asked to help out on a pitch for a passel of Johnson & Johnson products. After centuries as J&J, J&J changed its name to Kenvue. I think they believed this would help indemnify...
abumarkey
It's a bittersweet feeling, going to another country. Am I going to do alright? I'm very happy to move. I've been feeling restless. I left the old country again in 2011, and fifteen years on, I feel I need something new to excite me. I've been in the same few places too long. It's a country I've...
dignitybydesign
Ralph Boumenot
last step120 grit to flush the putty on the back frame. The next batter was picking a paint color.nopeThese are the powdered dyes for milk paint. I thought of mixing up a batch of milk paint but the frame was all I had to paint. Most of it would have been wasted.the final threeBlack was my first...
Alexander Chukovski
This is a post about subtle and not-so-subtle AI hallucinations and how they can impact our lives. I will first share a personal experience, then move on to some business-related examples.I fell for an AI hallucination for the first time in my life, and it cost me 2 hours of wasted time. Last...
The Passing Tramp
"Ay, ay, ay, ayCanto y no llores(Sing and don't cry)"--"Cielito Lindo," Mexican folksongCornell George Hopley Woolrich was born in New York City on December 4, 1903, eleven months after his parents Genaro and Claire wed on New Year's Day at the Episcopal Church of the Archangel in Harlem. In the...
TomCat
Some years ago, while reviewing Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage (1930), I claimed the biggest difference between the Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple series is that the latter never produced a genre classic or even a great detective novel – like Murder on the Orient Express (1934), The...
Alex Kirk
The appeal of having WordPress take over more responsibilities than public websites is to reduce dependency on other (web) services that each have their own agenda. Each service starts off with a vision and the desire to fill a need. But then often economics need to be dealt with and thus...
Challenger Tom
Laton is a small unincorporated community in southern Fresno County which was founded by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in 1890. Laton functionally serves as a continuation of the ghost town of Kingston which was located on the south bank of the Kings River in what is now Kings...
Luigi Guarino
Dietary diversity, food security, and development projects in low- and middle-income contexts: Findings from 24 countries. Development projects are most effective at improving dietary diversity and food security when they bring together agriculture, nutrition and local communities. Enhancing...
Ben
Michael Hanscom
♿️ The work week was pretty standard, with the most excitement coming either from the continued work on remodeling an old meeting room into office space, which we keep peeking through the windows at, or when an unusual summer storm system came through the Seattle area, when five or six of the...
fuzzyrants
★★★★☆ (4/5)A selection of my favorite passages • From late summer to early spring the next year, I lived at the Morisaki Bookshop. I spent that period of my life in the spare room on the second floor of the store, trying to bury myself in books. The cramped room barely got any light, and...
Manuel Moreale
This is my review for July's IndieWeb Book Club. You can also read Ege's review on his site hypersubject.net, and Sara's thoughts on her site sarajaksa.eu As I mentioned in my IndieWeb Book Club post, I first read Fromm’s book more than 20 years ago. I was in my early high school years when I...
miquel-tort
Cuando una estrategia fracasa una y otra vez, el sentido común indicaría que hay que replantearla. Aquí ocurre justo lo contrario.
Mert Bulan
Nowadays there are many ways to get around Hamburg. You can take the U-Bahn or S-Bahn, use HVV buses, ride your own bike, rent one from StadtRAD, book a MOIA, or use one of the shared micro mobility services to rent an e-scooter, e-bike, or even an e-moped.I really like that we have so many...
Mithat Konar
I lived roughly the second half of my 11 year stay in Istanbul out of a brand new two-bedroom home in a brand new development that consisted of maybe 30 buildings, each having at least 12 stories. It was a huge, sprawling project built on a combination of bedrock and landfill. I was, I think, the...
4th-magenta
Buddy and the old man's friendship (the unspoken connection they shared and the fascination/narrative Buddy created) Seymour's diary entries about his relationship with his significant other (the perspective of how the bride's family viewed him vs his internal conflict/reality)
jlmc
Abhijit Bhaduri
Some goodbyes don’t get the ending they deserve. Messi stood there, second place, and you could see the disappointment. That was not how he would have dreamt of the World Cup. I wanted Spain to win. But watching Messi lose that final wasn’t a win for me either. It was […]
Neil Pasricha
You drive to the park, you walk to the gate, you get your hand stamped, you run to the line, you move up, you grab a hot-dog, you move up, you check your watch, you get to the front, you jump in the ride, and then the big moment finally arrives: the screechy cars start moving, there’s some rumbly...
Laura
My recent viewing of French film noir led me to try a new release from Kino Lorber, VERTIGO FOR A KILLER (1970).Known as VERTIGE POUR UN TUEUR in its native France, the film interested me as it stars Marcel Bozzuffi, who appeared in SPEAKING OF MURDER (1957) and MAIGRET SEES RED (1963). One of...
alecm
The “right to repair” folk will be upset, but here’s a further thought: If “water resistance” is legitimate grounds to sidestep “right to repair”, perhaps “hacker & abuse resistance” can be valid grounds to sidestep “interoperability”?...
Jack Shear
Since these guys have popped up a few times in the current Krevborna campaign, I thought I should add them to the world-building blog posts. If it wasn't obvious from what follows, the cauldronborn are Krevborna's answer to the idea of "orcs." CauldronbornAs a last-ditch tactic in their war to...
Brad Warthen
Matt Damon did a good job of humanizing Odysseus. Beside him is the unprepossessing Athena. Wow. That was quite an experience, seeing “The Odyssey” last night. It’s one of the few times I’ve been at a film that the audience applauded at the end. I joined in. Christopher Nolan really accomplished...
Alex Zhang
Modern post-training has become a brute-force paradigm of curating ever more environments and ever longer training horizons. In large part, this is because frontier Transformers are still poor at compositional generalization, the ability to solve unseen problems by composing familiar ones. Unless...
Dilip | Zororg
I've had enough and Consumed enough these days. From past days (…months actually) I've binged alot media and consumed so many free contents (just because they're free?). Movies, TV shows, Kdrama, Light Novels, Blog posts, Reviews (Movie/Books/Product), Comments on Reddit, Doom scrolling forum...
Peter Fitz
These 3d printed doors are some that I found on some site some time in the past, and I don't recall when or where or who the designer was. I printed them at 0.2mm layers on my Ender 3, and painted them with some home-made washes.The tall one in the middle is the original design, but I enshortened...
Ammar Najjar - Blog
A technical walkthrough of every layer that powers this website: Astro for static generation, Bun for tooling, Cloudflare Pages for delivery, and all the smaller decisions in between.
Wildeng
Ruby is a beautiful and expressive language that gives developers a great deal of flexibility. Along with that flexibility come a number of lesser-known language features that can sometimes produce surprising results. Let’s have a look at some of them: Operators Precedence Ruby operators...
Laura
A few years ago I bought CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955), available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber and Cohen Film Collection, when I spotted it in a sale. The impetus for my purchase was the chance to see another film starring the marvelous British actress Margaret Lockwood.As so often happens, until now I...