Aceso Under Glass
Last month I made my print debut in Asterisk Magazine, with a title so good it made me rethink my entire philosophy: We’re all one crisis away from taking unlicensed research peptides. Then this month I published On the origin of continents at Works in Progress, about the simultaneous,...
alieniloquy
well, after a few days of a heat wave that had us sweating through 100+ degree temperatures, its finally a comfortable temperature again. in the past week and half i've moved back in with family as i inch closer to beginning a new job that i am both excited by and nervous about. it feels much...
John Connors
At the beginning of this third instalment of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ smart sister, Enola is late, a nod perhaps to the tardy arrival of the film. It’s more than three and a half years since the second in the series so you’d be forgiven for forgetting what happened. Luckily anything you...
alliemackie
We're starting the blog off strong with a rather great week of goings-on. Canada DayOn Wednesday we celebrated Canada Day, which is possibly the worst day of the week to be celebrating such. Being right in the middle of the week makes it unworthy of taking additional days off, so you spend your...
idiotking
As the years have gone by, I’ve taken fewer and fewer pictures of the Catonsville parade, but I do still pick up the phone to shoot interesting things. This year, the weather was so hot (“feels like 112˚”) there were probably 1/3 of the usual participants in the parade, and 1/2 the people...
ruthschenk
rands
In our 98th episode, we list the things we’ve been building with our robots and figure out who we’re really yelling at when it all goes wrong. Mentioned, referenced, or obsessed over: Planetfall, the Infocom game that gave Floyd his name Rands Leadership Slack Managing Humans Railway Supabase...
admin
A new therapeutic approach developed by McMaster researchers could help prevent brain cancer. Targets inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase 2 (IMPDH2), one of two enzymes researchers say is “vital” to metastases. Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’. Some of the...
armoroff
Ezekiel 37:1–14Ezekiel was a prophet and a priest, but exiled due to Babylon's victories over Judah and Jerusalem, geographically and practically separated from his usual responsibilities with God in the sense that his home/job was no longer accessible, so he has "skin in the game" and isn't just...
alanb99
Seems like a good guideline for working in this wacky world of AI. The context: This is about my side project, Syracuse Company News (https://syracuse.1145.am). It’s a structured company news provider that you can plug your agent into and be confident you’re getting decent quality results with...
alex
This week I’ve been thinking about career paths, about how to quantify and measure things and social capital. Oh and the humidity has been rising fast. Re-established my gym routine, equipped with a new (and much cheaper/better) app for planning and tracking. Did that thing this week where when...
Andrew Shell
Last night, I finally released the 4.0 rewrite of the rssCloud Server. I’m very paranoid about breakage, so technically there was a version 3.0 that came out in May, but it was a necessary step to shore up the old codebase before the big rewrite. The big changes have been reorganizing the...
Araz Gray
Semantic Image Compression (Left=Original, Right=Outcome) We've spent decades making image compression better. JPEG throws away details your eyes probably won't notice. PNG keeps everything but produces larger files. Newer formats like WebP and AVIF squeeze images even further using...
Sean Kleefeld
Here are this week's links to what I've had published recently... Kleefeld on Comics: An Evolution, or Just a Long Time to Get to Where I'd Always Been Trying to Go? https://ift.tt/4FpMRil Kleefeld on Comics: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Redux https://ift.tt/8n76KxF Kleefeld on Comics: The Power...
prasangika-matters
Andrea Badgley
When I heard Christopher Nolan was releasing a cinematic adaptation of The Odyssey this summer, I thought, oh yeah, I definitely want to see that. The Odyssey, along with the Iliad, is among our original stories, told orally nearly 3000 years ago, and the first of our written works in the West,...
angrybunnyman
Love these guys.
Andy Bromberg
I had long stayed away from developing iOS apps, probably thanks to some long-forgotten Objective-C-related trauma. But I’ve recently built four (Congruence, Lightwork’s onsite inspection app, linen&, and CribCam; I’ll post about the latter two soon) and discovered some utilities that make the...
Nige
Well, I didn't make it to London on Friday. The Euston train got no further than Milton Keynes (of largely evil memory), where damage to overhead cables up ahead had ended all serious possibility of getting to London, short of limping in very late, packed into a cattle-truck train and with no...
abagond
Some songs I have posted about the US: 1939: Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit 1964: Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come 1965: Barry McGuire: Eve of Destruction 1968: Dion: Abraham, Martin and John 1969: Jimi Hendrix: The Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock. 1977: The Eagles: The Last...
Jack
Apparently I Wrote a Book Well… this is weird. After years of writing about Complex PTSD, trauma, healing, emotional chaos, and the occasional story about getting lost in New York despite living here for decades, I’ve somehow become a published author. I genuinely didn’t see that coming. If you’re...
john garrett
A couple of months ago I spent eight days crossing America — Indianapolis to Cincinnati, Boston, New York, and finally Omaha for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting — visiting businesses, investors, ballparks, bookstores and art galleries.On the surface, the itinerary made little sense. Fire...
thearchivedstories
How strangers leave behind imprints and the subtle art of impermanence
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
The day lilies are nearly finished blooming, but while they last, I love adding them to my salads. I’ll chop up an open flower or two because they’re so beautiful scattered through a bowl, but the real treat is a handful of unopened buds. They’re crisp, mildly sweet, and wonderfully crunchy. (Just...
beyondborders
When trust breaks, the pain runs deep. Yet many couples discover that trust can grow back after serious hurt. Not quickly or easily, but stronger, more honest, and more resilient than before.
Mads
The reason is simple, since no one seems to know what actually means, and there are other symbols available that cause much less (i.e. no) confusion, it is time to retire the notion of a natural number. Let me explain. Everyone in mathematics seems to have their own opinion on whether 0 is a...
Mark V
Luigi Guarino
In the interest of completeness, I feel it incumbent upon me to complement the post on gap analysis for crop diversity conservation that I put up a few days ago with a couple of additional links. The Crop Trust and FAO elearning Academy have collaborated on a course on the Global Crop Conservation...
Andy Leonard
Data engineering in a software engineering world [originally posted at Engineer of Data Substack] Your orchestration runs. It Just Works every night. You built something real and that is not nothing. The ache isn’t that it’s broken – it’s that it lives in three people’s heads and a folder of...
Amaldev
If you are from India, you may have seen the e-rickshaw battery videos this week on how e-rickshaws are getting so called “hacked” & disabled and India govt banning the vendor apps allowing for Battery Management System access. TBH its not even a hack. Its a safety feature to probably...
Adrianne
🇺🇸 🎇 Happy 250th Birthday! And some random yapping... 🗣️
mrgreen
Well ArchBang since Wednesday’s release has had over a thousand downloads, which is amazing thank you Arch has released kernel 7.1 so have updated iso image to run it, other than that it is just packages updates. Still working on arch-browser-installer, more about theme and more testing. Hope to...
afterstan
The list of people I want to send postcards to doesn't get shorter. It's a list of old connections and new ones. But today I wrote one, to Taihe School, in a village up in the hills of central Taiwan where oolong tea grows, where the steep roads are in poor condition by the country's high...
dignitybydesign
Hels
The theft discussed here was the latest in a series of robberies targeting major European museums, soon after a series of other high-profile heists. “Poppy Flowers” by Vincent van Gogh, stolen from Cairo's Khalil Museum in 2010, was never found. Neither was “Soldier on Horseback” by Anthony van...
anothersoulwandering
Today I was out and about reading my book, drinking coffee, and then headed to a brewery for lunch. The bartender was making a massive mixture of watermelon margarita to turn into a slushy and we started talking. I went through my couple of drinks and my food and got ready to check out, but I...
jlmc
The Passing Tramp
first American editionreprinted by DellOne thing I enjoy about Sara Woods is how she varied her London settings with more than occasional jaunts to Yorkshire, taking her brilliant barrister-sleuth Antony Maitland up north to her own native ground, where she was born in 1916 and after the Great War...
Aaron Pham
Prep for a 60-minute algorithmic code screen on encoding and decoding. This kit is now meant to be learned in layers: shape: learn the mental model and one diagram. recipe: implement the smallest correct algorithm. guards: add the failure cases the interviewer will probe. recall: review notes.fc,...
12b
4s
IntroductionWhen I was a computer science student, I read the first edition of the book "Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide" by Dick Grune [1] et al. In the ~30 years since, it may be the book I’ve been reminded of most often. The primary reason for this is that the book goes off on tangents...
Ankit Gadiya
I added the Wonders of Web Weaving Podcast by James in my feed reader a couple of months ago when it was announced, but I didn't get to it until this weekend. The Podcast has 8 episodes so far, and I wanted to catch-up. While cleaning my apartment over the weekend, I finished listening to 3...
Alejandro M. P.
In the previous post we looked at hidden furnaces in agentic products. The example was the most common one, title generation. You type the first message, and the product quietly asks another model to name the conversation. Small and useful.This time I want to add recaps to our tiny harness. Not...
Akshay Regulagedda
Figure 1: Working through an English - Tamil dictionary. Photo by Antony Hyson Seltran on Unsplash Foreword This is the final term project I did towards the completion of my Master of Science in Analytics degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. Problem Statement1 Whilst multi-lingual...
82MHz
It's that time of the year again. For the past three years I participated in the old computer challenge every year, and I always had a lot of fun, so I wanted to do something this year, too. The topic for this year isn't strictly about old computers, but rather about making something yourself, to...
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Jonny
This is a demake of World of Horror, a game I haven't yet played (though I'm sure I will eventually), but which drew me in simply for the novelty of being a horror game made for Game Boy Color. Because I haven't played its inspiration, I can only judge it as a game in its own right, and am unable...
dak1024
Watergate is a scandal in the early Seventies of the last century that added the suffix -gate to so many things after that; that alone assures Watergate a place in history. The period starts with burglars being discovered in the Watergate hotel in Washington, DC (hence the name) and ends with the...
alexwlchan’s notes
If I want to use ssh -A every time I do a Git push, I need to add the remote host to my ~/.ssh/config.All the words and code for this website are in a Git repo. The canonical copy of the repo is a bare repository on my Mac mini, which has a post-receive hook that builds a copy of the site and...
Alex Leighton
By LANNDSPublished on 2026-07-04Tags: listening-to, musicIf the Door Closes by LANNDS Their music always reminds me of summer, especially the way Rania Woodard sings.Read the post →