Andrea Mann
“25 words or less.” “Absolutely!” The lovely and brilliant short fiction writer Emily Devane and I ran another Write Away workshop last month, all about pitching… both your writing project and yourself. In one section, we looked at examples of good and bad book submission emails to agents –...
alex
As part of a recent language programme, I was asked to give a short speech in Japanese. I'm finding it quite challenging to learn, so this was a golden opportunity to talk about something else it is teaching me. Setup: 皆さん、最近、面白いことがわかりました。 私の三つの趣味は、同じ趣味です。Folks uh, recently I realised something...
Aman Y. Agarwal
It’s time to celebrate my first 30 consecutive days of learning Mandarin. In the first 30 days, I have been able to do just one full pass of one episode of [机智 的 上半场], an interesting Chinese TV show I found. I will continue to read and listen to the episodes. Over time, the number of days...
Richard MacManus
This week’s market signals provide further evidence of the agentic web stack evolving into enterprise infrastructure. From Vercel to AWS to Okta to Google, the industry's focus is shifting toward the infrastructure needed to build, connect, govern and discover agents inside real enterprise...
Tom Arenberg
USA soccer fans show their allegiance prior to the u.s. win over australia in seattle on june 19. The first clue to my cluelessness about the current popularity of professional international soccer among Americans was the grandkid...
beyondborders
There comes a moment when love shifts from racing excitement to a quieter, steadier peace. Many worry something is wrong, but often the opposite is true. This calmer love may be deeper and more lasting than we first realize.
Andy Bromberg
I’m a fan of the probably-apocryphal Jerry Seinfeld “don’t break the chain” advice. It works for me. I even have an app for it. I’ve written at least 750 words for 661 days straight (2,329 if you don’t count the times I paused for a few days for Burning Man); jotted down two things that made me...
abhi-writes
FISSION In the beginning, before time wore down mountains and divided the oceans, there was a tiny speck of cosmic energy breathing since time immemorial. It was a realm where time didn't exist and love was as natural as breathing. But higher realms are places of absolute peace, and a soul cannot...
Akseli
Just something I experience more and more these days. When it comes to reviewing code, the descriptions, commits and such can be massive blast of information: Full of extraneous details depicting what was changed. The main point is why was something changed. And often in only one huge commit with...
Stephen Mitchelmore
The papacy, people say, counts in centuries, and perhaps never even thinks of counting, because its goal is eternity.1 It has been a pleasure every few months to buy the latest volume in the new translation of À la recherche du temps perdu. I've now read the third, by Peter Bush. The Oxford...
Andy Le Peau
It’s time to celebrate America’s landmark 200th anniversary. “Wait a minute, Andy. Don’t you mean 250th?” Oh, right. I did hear about some to-do back on July 4, 1776. Yet 200 years ago, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, on July 4, 1826, both John Adams...
dignitybydesign
redp
Parts 1, 2 & 3First of all, it should be noted that the mask of instruction attributes has size 20 bytes, so I updated dump for them.structure for this attributes descriptor has size 0xd8 bytes and some fields:mask at offset 0name of instruction at 0xC8index at 0xD0 Instructions selecting...
aeryn
I'm changing some things around here on aeryn.me. Future monthly posts will now be published to a New tag on the blog: Monthly, with a New atom feed link: Monthly. The Microposts tag and feed will no longer be used. Please update your feed reader service if you want to continue receiving these....
Andrea Badgley
I’m off work this week. It feels amazing to have time to myself that I don’t have to rush through, that I don’t have to be productive in. Each morning, I get up and blog. I check the writing prompt in my site’s dashboard, and it’s usually enough to get me going. I moved my swim lane...
Andy Wheeler
AI disclosure – this post was entirely written by myself. I know AI writing is still pretty cringey – so I get that people are quite opposed to it. For people like me though (academics promoting their work, more technical oriented) I would like to proffer a slight defense of (even cringey) AI...
Andrew Lock
This is the third post in the series: Exploring the .NET 11 preview. Part 1 - Running background tasks in Blazor with Web WorkersPart 2 - .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types🎉Part 3 - Avoiding ToString() allocations with StringBuilder.MoveChunks (this post) Part 4 - Closed class hierarchiesPart...
admin
Photo by Gera Cejas on Pexels Solving many professional challenges requires a special type of attention. Often, we don’t deliberately choose what we listen to and what we look at. And then something we overlook or overhear can reinforce an unwanted pattern. If you don’t notice that your...
arnold-gamboa-dev
I do not want YouPastor to become a machine that writes sermons while the pastor checks out. That may sound strange from someone building an AI workspace for pastors. But the more I think about the weekly pressure pastors carry, especially bivocational and small-church pastors, the more convinced...
Andrew Woodward
Recent discussions on the Mac Geek Gab and some personal experience have given me reason to give some thought to what equipment is best for the right tasks for home and small business computers. As a Mac geek and hobbyist, I over spec on most equipment, as in I get more than I need, often but...
uzwi
Mary presents herself, by accident or otherwise, as having been a reserved child; as having already been an observer. She’s writing as a reserved woman who has decided to be as open as she possibly can, writing about a reserved child, one who was well able to collect and store thousands of...
A. P. Howell
I’ve put “Femme Prédatrice” up for sale on itch.io. I’ll doubtless put it up elsewhere, too, but I mainly wanted to get it in an upcoming book bundle and maybe get some more eyes on Animal Noir. I also enjoyed making a noir movie style title card using GIMP and a photo (originally in color) by...
zapier
https://www.tumblr.com/alexanderwales/820180228060086272/found-the-guy-whos-been-tipping-over-our-garbage The post Found the guy who’s been tipping over our garbage … appeared first on Alexander Wales.
alterick
I was writing in my annonymous blog and trying to fight my mind which was trying to convince me we're not good enough. I wrote how we changed our routines and we're in the best place we've ever been. We even have what I like to call my 4 pillars of health. This holy war between my mind and my self...
ecoquant
Mohammad Azam
Where Should Loading State Live in SwiftUI?
axxuy
This quiz has been making the rounds in the Indieweb. Here’s what I got: You are a Explorer To you, the web feels like a library that’s open all hours and has everything you could ever imagine! You love reading others blogs, and know how important readers are to the whole of the indie web...
Axlefublr
In other shells, when you want to add a custom function, you add it to your config. Obviously. Maybe you put your functions in a separate file and then source it, but same difference. Bash, zsh; even nushell works this way. Of course, instantiating functions takes some startup time off of you....
Alexandre H. T. R. Bonfitto
A periodic table containing important elements of modern and historic computing.
Yossi Frenkel
There’s an interview with Simon Peyton Jones*I’m a huge fan of his trademark presentation slides set in Comic Sans I highly recommend watching. It’s full of interesting observations on type theory, Haskell, functional programming, and the future of programming. One quote at the end stood out to me...
Nicholas Major
A public school district in Washington expects to save up to $250,000 in software contracts, because its staff, none of them coders, started building the tools themselves. Even software companies used to buy. Now even non-software companies can build. For most of the last twenty years, build...
Brian McQuay
Porting your human code-review loop straight onto AI agents is a budget disaster. What's cheap for humans (review) is expensive for agents, and what's expensive for humans (scripts) is nearly free. Here's how to restructure the loop with contract-based verification so you pay for tokens only where...
Chris Weigant
It is with a very heavy heart that I sit down to write this column today. This is going to be about my personal experiences and emotions, not about anything happening in the headlines right now, just to warn everyone in advance.
Mark Rogers
There’s a steep hill at the end of the block that goes through a park with a nice view of the city. It’s the equivalent of about six blocks long. At one time, I would be huffing and puffing by the time I got to the top. If my wife was with me, I would jokingly tell her to leave me for dead. But...
anubiarts
Do you ever feel like you lost the ability to do basic things, like focusing or paying attention to stuff? Because that's kinda how its been feeling for me this past year. It's dumb saying it out-loud like that, but I'm serious with this, it feels like I've lost that focus over time, with the...
Insecure By Design
Way back in November of 2025, Valve made several hardware announcements that seemed to build on its previous releases. A new Steam Controller which took a lot of notes from the popular but still niche Steam Deck; a new VR headset called the Steam Frame that could connect to your PC wirelessly; and...
canderson1914
Brian McBrearty
Evoking versus infringing, and a helluva case for originality clearance. I caught this one in Aaron Moss’s Copyright Lately newsletter, (link to sign up), where he flagged it among four suits (!) Lee Mendelson Film Productions filed in May — against the Interior Department, an auction house, a...
Angie Jones
A practical look at how Karpathy’s LLM Wiki pattern can serve as long term agent memory, turning raw sources, markdown pages, and schema instructions into a living knowledge system for semantic, entity, episodic, summary, and procedural memory. The post Karpathy’s LLM Wiki as Agent Memory appeared...
madelynnchatwin
advantageonarcana
A Lakelands setting post Most of the Unbound crave human worship, attention, or service, but not all of them do. Some of them lack any interest in humanity. While the Howling Rustic decided to make its own version of a terrestrial hominid, the Sulphur Herald remembered its former subjects. Long...
Susan Stepney
I've just flown in to Trieste, for the Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation conference. It is HOT (low 30s, plausible for Italy). But it is just as hot at home (low 30s, totally implausible for the UK).While waiting in the heat for the train from the airport, there was a sudden...
Phil
I felt many emotions seeing Keir Starmer announce his resignation outside Downing Street on Monday morning. Not one of them was sympathy. For those who've spent the day celebrating the Prime Minister, demanding we respect the human frailties of a hard-done-to public servant, of Starmer's cracking...
Mike Farley
I feel like I’ve written about the idea that God does not coerce but instead lures us toward greater justice, beauty, and etc a few times already. So rather than focus on this, or indeed the relational nature of the text [Matthew 10:40-42], I want to point out that process thought insists that...
Alik Khilazhev
Two years ago, my work laptop was force-updated by the IT team and got broken so badly that I had to set it up from scratch. I was frustrated. As an engineer, I don’t like repeating the same actions multiple times, and this gave me the motivation to set up my laptop as code. Why I Tried Nix Some...
Fredrik
Miles in a experimental mood. View...
Joy the Baker
Friends, it’s time – and we are suspiciously on time for this year’s Summer Bucket List! My timeliness likely has everything to do with the fact that I’m writing this in the very wee hours of the morning. I’m up out of habit from the last 12 weeks postpartum, but here’s the thing: my baby seems to...
zapier
https://www.tumblr.com/alexanderwales/820151506794889216/what-did-you-think-of-obsession-ive-gone-to-see The post What did you think of Obsession? I’ve gone to see it twice now (may have become a little obsessed) appeared first on Alexander Wales.
prasangika-matters
Alex Shvartsman
I am curating a humor Storybundle! It features funny books from some of my favorite authors, and you can get the entire bundle for as little as $30! That’s just $2 per book, or the price of a cup of coffee (in 2019). Seriously you can get all of these for the price of like three Starbucks...