Alexander Opalic
For most of us, I think the picture is obvious. The job we did for years, picking up a ticket, opening Figma, digging through the codebase, typing code into a file, adding a test, debugging the test, jumping to Stack Overflow, getting in the zone, and grinding on a single task for hours, those...
Blog Author
I had a comment in a C++ codebase explaining why a particular cast was written the way it was. The comment kept growing… and eventually it was longer than the code it was documenting. So I did what seems like the obvious modern move: I asked Claude.ai to turn it into a blog post I could link to...
after
I admire them stubborn readers, whose reading goals aren't centered on juggling and finishing as many books as possible but about maintaining focus, one book at a time. I only have a small sample, of course. The few I've met and got to know, it's like they chose a book to read as the one thing to...
Chris Weigant
Rahm Emanuel has apparently launched his 2028 presidential bid. A wonky story about him appeared prominently in today's Washington Post, on the subject of his ideas for fixing education in America. He also recently tossed out a different provocative idea during a recent speech, which further...
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
Pain Point: Finding The Right Combination Of Parameters This is a story about using a cloud LLM agent to tune a local LLM setup. If you do not care about the story, jump to the general pattern. I had a local large language model (LLM) setup that worked well enough to use: llama.cpp running on...
Unknown
Odds and ends in town today, let's start with a new tick, Flight Club:Behind the modern frontage is an antique-style bar on two floors. Dark woodwork, leather upholstery and even a fake brick arch create a pleasant ambience. The quirky lighting strips add to this.At half one on a Friday there were...
airscapemag
I started the other day berating myself over the time it’s been since my last post. Maybe I’m still exhausted from the Merlin Mustang story – it’s not over yet, by the way – and it’s not like there aren’t more stories in the pipeline… In fact, the current iteration of my schedule includes a...
Laura
"To all who come to this happy place, welcome!"Those words were said by Walt Disney on July 17, 1955, and today thus marks the 71st birthday of one of my very favorite places, Disneyland USA.As is the case most years, I was blessed to be able to spend several hours at Disneyland on its anniversary...
adrin
Twice in the past year, installing an update from the Arch User Repository (AUR) could have handed your machine to somebody else. In July 2025, three fake browser packages were uploaded which pulled in a remote access trojan (Chaos RAT). They went up on July 16 and were removed on July 18; about...
Blacksteel
So I've spent most of the mini-time over the past week building the Armageddon set minis that I want to use for the new (ish) Dark Angels force. I built the Captain, the Ancient, and half of the Intercessor squad. I also started digging through what I have floating around various marine armies in...
jnack
Crossing (virtual) paths with the JibJab OGs after 25 reminds me to belatedly share some tangentially America 250-related Friday fun:
Weblog on jvalol
I added browser push notifications recently. Then I replied to one of my own posts from my phone, looked at my laptop, and saw nothing. The reply was on the site, everything else worked, like the inbox badge, notification email, etc. Just the browser push notification did not. It's a timing thing....
Abhijit Bhaduri
Your best people aren't lazy, they're just too busy to think. They settle for "good enough" because they have no time to pause. Here's the habit one company built into every single meeting to fix it.
Hels
Born Nigel Neill in 1947 in Omagh, Nth Ireland to an English mother and a New Zealand father serving in the British army. His family moved to Christchurch N.Z in 1954 where Sam went to school. He became Sam because there were several Nigels at school, saying “I moved more easily as a Sam”.Sam...
jjezzick
All One Kind of Movie Makes J a Dull Writer
Brad Warthen
Of course, one of them — the Tom Holland we know better as Spider-Man — has a vested interest. And the other Tom Holland is an enthusiastic classicist, and co-host of my fave podcast, “The Rest is History.” The latter is particularly a fan of The Odyssey, and had been looking forward to Chistopher...
S. Brady Calhoun
Aye gods what a flick. So much to unpack here and despite the jokes about spoilers for a several thousand year old story — that most of us were taught in school — there will in fact be spoilers in this review. First, I joked with a friend before seeing this movie that if Sir Christopher...
adventuringalone
Round 3 ResultsDie Roll: 4 Cards: 4 Diamonds, Queen Spades Prompts: Long Overdue, Letter From a City Official This is a bit of a shorter one this time around. I may update this post with the next entry, I'm not sure yet. Character SheetName: Jon Smithson [x][ ][ ][ ] Day 16: A Letter from the...
John Connors
Words: Chris ArnsbyJakki Brambles: “Hello, good evening and welcome along to Top of the Pops on BBC1 and you can hear us in stereo on Radio 1FM. Well, it’s an all star line up on tonight’s show. We’re starting off with a lady who’s knocking ‘em dead on both sides of the Atlantic. Will you welcome,...
Robert Denerstein
Erika Tracy is a Los Angeles art star. Just ask her. As played by Olivia Wilde, Erika becomes the driving force in I Want Your Sex, director Gregg Araki's satirical look at a conceptual artist who hires a floundering 23-year-old college graduate (Cooper Hoffman) as a studio assistant. Delighted to...
Archimago's Musings
Aaron Winborn
The moment you share your work, the opinions start flooding in — and not all of them deserve a seat at the table. Learning to separate useful critique from well-intentioned noise might be the most underrated skill a creative can develop. Here's how to protect your vision without becoming defensive...
thekelvingreen
Reverse Medusa. A rejected image from an upcoming project. #KelvinDrawsThings
jen-guardiner
Returning to writing once more, I have also found that my ideas have moved on from 2019, when I first started The House of the Mind. New ideas have been inspired and old ideas have percolated for longer and developed in new directions and reached new depths...
Southern Fried Science
How the Trump Administration has yet again hobbled the Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration has officially finalized a rule stripping habitat destruction from the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a joint announcement by the Department of the Interior and...
Alkaid
Obsession I don't usually edit my notes before sharing, but did flesh out some of my thoughts at the bottom. Looking back now after letting the movie sit with me for a few days, there are a few things I noticed in retrospect. I also took far less notes than usual but it's a very straightforward...
Leon
A collection of upcoming CFPs (call for papers) from across the internet and around the world. The post Call For Papers Listings for 7/17 appeared first on Leon Adato.
4gravitons
I don’t think people who argue about reductionism are really arguing about reductionism. Reductionism is the idea that the behavior of big, complicated things (people, economies, ecosystems) boils down to the behavior of their smallest constituents (molecules, atoms, subatomic particles). It’s...
The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
The post 17 Zucchini: What to Do Before They Escape appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. It’s July in Redmond and I have a problem. Specifically, I have seventeen zucchini on my counter, three more hiding under leaves the size of a kindergartner, and my daughters have stopped making eye...
Jeff
My look at this year’s RAGBRAI route might be light on highway content, but it is heavy on ranting about infographic design and map directions. Among my concerns is how static maps were not updated when a late change in the route was made.
Aeoli Pera
Re: https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/barriers-to-training/ Chat GPT’s elaboration in the comments.
nolitethoughts
Join me on my journey to fight a seemingly never-ending writer's block and rediscover the joy of writing through one short fiction at a time.
anarchaeopteryx
A short update after a trip to visit family ft. more sci-fi, movies, and Zelda. Took the trip to visit my family over the weekend and now am back and getting back into normal routine. It was a filial piety visit, but for my own enjoyment I had a few goals while I was there that I managed to...
Timothy S. Brannan
Good morning from EGG Con III in hazy Lake Geneva!Hope you dressed for the 80s!
J D Lowe
From left to right: 6", 5" (the HO equivalent of the tightest TTC curve), and 7" radius curves.I'm having some trouble settling on a design for my Taronna layout. There are numerous problems. One significant one is figuring out what the minimum radius curve I can use that will not cause a problem...
Adam Rowe
Alex Schomburg stands out for the sheer length of time he spent as an active science fiction artist: His first work for the genre was in 1925, and he kept creating new art up until the mid-80s.
namvastum
Sean Kleefeld
So a bit of news from Marvel yesterday, right? Stephen Wacker will be taking over as editor-in-chief, C.B. Cebulski will begin overseeing a new division of "APAC-originated graphic fiction and manga, based in Japan," and the Marvel Comics headquarters is being moved from New York City to Burbank,...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; We never gave our daughter chores to do around the house when she still lived with us. This runs against the current of most of the parenting counsel out there. Her school officially recommended it for all families. Even our pediatrician...
Mr. Karswell
I promised you something cinematically different for today's post, and here it comes, via the April 1939 debut issue of DC's Movie Comics #1-- Basil Rathbone! Boris Karloff! Bela Lugosi! Lionel Atwill! And Josephine Hutchinson in-- SON OF FRANKENSTEIN! This is a fun, condensed photo comic...
kristoyanova
A little bit about the person behind the writing
Abhinav Bhatt
I recently watched the movie “Disclosure Day” (and also watched “Don’t Look Up” and “Project Hail Mary”) and also read the book “Contact” and here is what I feel about them. Not sure what is it with media content these days, one cannot remember it for a longer duration. Everything feels...
Undine
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!And greetings from the Strange Company mail room!A teenager who died in the American Revolution has finally been identified.An ancient Roman fossil collector.The strange case of the "Leavenworth Look-Alikes."The legend of what may have been the first underwater...
george tannenbaum
Not too many minutes ago, I got off the phone with a prospective client who had called me somewhat unexpectedly. Sometimes that's the best kind of call. Sometimes lack of preparation and background forces you to answer questions in a "reactive" or limbic way, the way your head might react when...
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Earlier this week, I went to the studio of a neighborhood friend. She wanted to make cards out of cut paper, and I was happy to try my hand. She had the supplies, including papers we painted earlier in the year for a retreat. If you look closely, you can see the hymnbook print behind the...
Ralph Boumenot
two of threeForgot that I had these. Made 3 jigs for holding stock to plane the end grain flat and square. The 3rd one I tossed because the stop had warped and flattening it would not have been worth the effort and calories.hmm.....Almost clear and empty. It had been a long time since so much...
Richard MacManus
This week I published 5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026 on Latent Space. As previously noted, I attended the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco earlier this month — where I learned that the state of the art in AI engineering looks a lot like the state of the art in...
Manuel Moreale
Kevin sent me a link to this email from Linus Torvalds the other day, and I found that to be a great example of something that has been bothering me for a while now. It’s about AI—everything is about AI these days, so damn boring—and, more specifically, Linus’ position when it comes to the use of...
kristy bowen
Almost two years ago exactly I was listening to T. Swift's Tortured Poets Department on repeat and it occurred to me, one line from "So High School" would be a great title for what was then just an amorphous and incomplete manuscript which included a couple of series that centered around the idea...
Dave @ Accidental FIRE
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #176 Here are some things I really like and that you might too! Financial Independence/Work Life/Retirement Articles & Content It Just Got Harder to Make a Financial Complaint (And Get Relief)... The post T.G.I.F. Friday: Volume 176 appeared first...