Allan MacGregor
Last week, I asked Claude to scaffold a GenServer for a rate-limiting service. The code it generated used patterns from a 2020 blog post. Every line compiled; every function worked. Try that with React. The AI generated a class component. I needed a functional component with...
Ahmed Nadar
A city already owns the data. It could plug a new tool into what it has in an afternoon. And it won’t, because a contract signed three years ago says the work belongs to a vendor whose product was current the day the ink dried. I build civic software, so I see government technology from the side...
Addison Crump
In 2024, I attended ICST in Toronto. I went to attend the first "Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing" workshop (AIST), where I gave a tutorial on a potential competition and participated in a panel (which, turned into a roundtable discussion) about the field. Our concerns at the time were...
AaronHertzmann
Over the past eight years, I’ve given many talks to computer science audiences, arguing that computers will not be considered artists. And very often at least one person says that I’m wrong, because: The human brain is just a computer, or A human brain can be simulated in a computer, by...
Alexandre ZANNI
🔍 Master Shodan Like a Pentest & Bug Bounty ProAre you a pentester, bug bounty hunter, or OSINT enthusiast? You’ve probably heard of Shodan—the search engine that doesn’t crawl websites, but scans the entire internet for connected devices. But do you truly know how to harness its power to...
Mark Rzepczynski
Chairman Warsh has announced the members of his task forces for review of Fed policies. I am impressed by the choices and the seriousness with which you are trying to provide fresh perspectives on some key problems. This is not an internal review but includes both business and academic thinkers...
eestebo
Y sin darte cuenta, ni saber cómo, una mañana te ves delante de la puerta de casa, agachado a la altura de un metro, intentando convencer a tu hijo de ponerse una visera para protegerse del sol en el patio del colegio.
Arthur Turrell
The triple lock is in the news again: the UK’s cost of living tsar, appointed by Sir Keir Starmer, recently said that it was “mathematically unsustainable and”profoundly unfair.” The OBR estimates that it will cost £15.5bn more a year by the end of this parliament than it would have under average...
Laura
THE FRIGHTENED CITY (1961) was my second film to watch from the Kino Lorber Brit Noir Collection I, following CAGE OF GOLD (1950).THE FRIGHTENED CITY stars Herbert Lom and Sean Connery in a tale of the London crime underworld.Lom and Alfred Marks play Waldo and Harry, mobsters who come up with the...
Nat
The famous San Diego Comic-Con is just a couple weeks away, and if you were hoping to go but don’t have tickets yet, well, you’re far too late. These sell out months in advance. (But if you happen to be in San Diego during this time, keep reading, there’s some information for you.) Information is...
Amorphous
July 12, 2026 I participated in the Toxic Yuri VN jam last month, and just released a new visual novel, Damnatio Memoriam. Beyond that, life has been fairly straightforward. I continue to work at Figma as a graphics programmer. Upcoming Events I will be visiting DC from July 31 - Aug 2 for...
alobbs.com
Hackers hijacked Argentina’s football federation email account to demand “justice” for Egypt over a controversial World Cup loss, escalating sports disputes into cyberattacks. Separately, security researchers exploited a critical SQL injection in Apple’s Book Travel portal to achieve remote code...
Agam Brahma
The following is within my Leuchtturm1917, A5, 80gsm
Mike
I've been trying to make some time for Open Source projects again. I've been using LLMs for much of the coding because the vast bulk of it at this point is just grunt work. First up is PyOpenGL. The tests the LLM produced turned up a bunch of bugs in the core that have lain dormant for years...
Mike Farley
Now is the only moment we will ever know. Our memories of the past are experiences in the present. So are our thoughts about the future. So when we talk about not being present, we mean our attention is not on the present moment. It is focused on thoughts about the past or future. We can be...
Jacob Wren
. “We were trying to make a very public society, but no one paid attention, so it ended up being a secret society.” “In the end we thought maybe our manifesto could be a manifesto of questions.” “There are so many injustices in the world, you could speak out against them twenty-four...
keeperofsheep
jesusrrodriguez
Nadie mira el mundo tal como es. Entre el ojo y el objeto se interpone una biografía entera, silenciosa, que decide qué vemos antes de que sepamos que estamos viendo.
Gavin Anderegg
I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope I never have to use Adobe software ever...
Brad Warthen
What a sad and tragic epitaph for a once-wise man: ‘and Staunch Trump Ally.’ I’ve called Lindsey Graham a stand-up guy here before, and I’d really like to have reason to do so again. — me, Dec. 1, 2017 The saddest thing, to me, about our senior senator’s sudden death is that I never got to say...
CLM
I made good progress on my 20 Books of Summer in June: eight read and reviewed, and I am in the middle of the ninth. My favorite books this month were A Place Beyond Courage by Elizabeth Chadwick, a historical set in England and Normandy during the 12th century, and I, Spy by L.M. Kemp, about an...
John Connors
This overlooked, light hearted film set in 1995 is about two closeted Irish teenagers, Eddie and Amber. Tired of the homophobic jibes they have to endure, they conjure up a plan to pretend to be a straight couple. While initially this eases the pressures on them and also means they are meeting...
turbodb
There are so many things I've loved about my Tacoma since the first day I got it. Nowhere on that list has been any of the stock lighting. Over the years, I've taken care of the most prominent offenders. My first mod - back when the truck was still just a truck - was disabling the daytime running...
acim
Here is a difficult, counter-intuitive thought: what we call me does not exist. There is no objective, independent body with a name that each of us thinks of as me. And the key phrase is "thinks of." The whole concept of me is a thought. It isn't real. Try this. Picture a pink unicorn riding on...
beyondborders
There is a special kind of uplift that fills you when you step into a new culture with genuine curiosity. Approaching a place with open hands and an open heart turns ordinary travel into something deeper — a living conversation with the world. Small observations become doorways, and simple moments create lasting connections that stay with you long after you return home.
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Jim Fenton
Sunday, June 21, 2026 This morning the Sea Cloud II passed through the Strait of Messina separating Sicily with the Italy mainland. We disembarked nearby at Messina, and took a one-hour bus ride to the town of Taormina. Like Erice, Taormina is another city situated well above the coast for...
Nige
Last night I found myself watching Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums again. I say 'again' but I hadn't seen it since I watched it, in a cinema, when it was released, all of 25 years ago. It was the first of his films I'd seen (I only caught up with Bottle Rocket and Rushmore later), and I...
Aurel Manea
Ani la rând am văzut aceeași naivitate în discursul public: impresia că poți pune „căluș” unui AI într-o zonă – să zicem, să nu genereze porn sau chestii sensibile – […] The post Taxa AI pe Aliniere appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art.
andrei
Table of Contents Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Outro Hello and welcome to the Old Computer Challenge - 2026 Edition! This is the third year when I’m participating, and if you didn’t read my previous years’ entries, you can check OCC24 – Party like it’s 2004, and also the OCC25 – Old...
Alain Connes
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Sean Kleefeld
Here are this week's links to what I've had published recently... Kleefeld on Comics: Tom Hanks Is an OG FF Fan https://ift.tt/NsZJgB2 Kleefeld on Comics: The Fantastic Four's Chest Emblem https://ift.tt/K5wmqv3 Kleefeld on Comics: Nap Time https://ift.tt/mOGk7Jn Kleefeld on Comics: Political...
Jack Tremain
Every day, our real world's lore becomes more and more grimdark. If you read it on any fantasy series, you'd think the plot is unbelievable and cheap.Once monarchy was succesfully removed from europe, capitalism was unhindered to reach its natural state of monopoly. The families behind this...
alex
This was a good week for eating Okinawan food and for achieving several huge paperwork wins. I’ve unlocked a whole new world of being fiscally responsible. Received a few nice voice notes via my sister who bumped into my high-school maths teacher. “Maths is a game and we invent the rules”. Words...
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
The rain blows in on the backside of our house, so when yesterday’s downpour began I went upstairs to close the door to the upper deck that we often leave propped open. I did a quick check for cats, battened down the hatches, and went back downstairs to make coffee and enjoy the thunderstorm. A...
elle-m
Le partage d'un texte écrit il y a quelques temps et que j'ai beaucoup aimé écrire. Elle M.
Anirudh Varma
Illustration by همَّام on Unsplash Over the last 4-5 years I have tried picking up journaling and maintaining a diary multiple times. It has only been in the last 18 months or so where I can finally say I'm someone who maintains a diary. At the same time I have had many conversations with friends...
absurdthoughts
I have been struggling with anxiety for most of my life, at least i think so. But only during university the anxiety got worse. The worst part about the kind of anxiety i feel is that it is so unshaped. And it is always about something in the future. Right now the anxiety jumps at a meeting i have...
Christof
J D Lowe
Kim Adams: Bruegel-Bosch Bus | Kim Adams: One for the Road | Kim AdamsI've written a lot about Kim Adams' work over the years, but I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that I've never gotten around to buying those three books shown above. Since I'm back to studying artists' use of miniatures, I figured...
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Ali Reza Hayati
Curiously, the failures of Communism are more often treated as a joke than as a tragedy. (As in the current jollity: What would happen if the Communists occupied the Sahara? Answer: Nothing—for 50 years. Then there would be a shortage of sand.) William F. Buckley Jr.
Araz Gray
For a while my blog had the usual stuff: HTML, RSS, a few alternate formats. That was fine. Then I started wanting it to play nicer with the rest of the indie web — without bolting on a heavy CMS or a pile of JavaScript. So I spent some time wiring up the boring, important protocols. The ones...
abagond
Remarks: Fifty years ago today, shortly after the Bicentennial, this was the number one song on the US pop chart, from July 10th to 23rd 1976. It was a top-20 hit throughout the Anglosphere. The band won a Grammy the following year for Best New Artist – and then never had another hit. The...
prasangika-matters
addshore
Introducing Overlap Atlas! Very similar to another little web app that I made a few weeks ago, making use of Android timeline data and Spotify data, I now have another little web app for visualizing overlaps of 2 peoples timeline data (or lack of overlaps). You can load one or more Google...
Sheryl
Several months ago, I saw a recipe for Raspberry Muffins in a hundred-year-old magazine, and have been anxiously waiting to try it. Finally, the black raspberries in my backyard are ripe, and I dug the recipe out and made it. The recipe was a winner. The Raspberry Muffins were soft, moist, and...
Ralph Boumenot
I'm over the hump with the frames that morphed from 2 to 3. Got all the woodworking done on the last two today. All that is left to do with them is to apply shellac. I will easily get the two out to the Frame it Shop on wednesday. A lot of days between now and then with no new project tickling my...
TomCat
The Case of the Running Man (1958), the 52nd entry in the Ludovic Travers series, rang in the last phase of Christopher Bush's decades-long run as one of Britain's premier mystery novelists as two more would appear in the late 1950s and counting down the final ten over the following decade –...
jlmc