# The Self-Heal Withers
prasangika-matters
Controversy Erupts over Expansion of Universe: Nobel Prize Awarded in Error?
Sabine Hossenfelder
Lolita and the Art of Suitcase Literature
Bruce Berls
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Those are the opening lines of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov’s dazzling literary masterpiece. Lolita was an international bestseller that reshaped modern fiction and established Nabokov as one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists....
Exposing Details in The Shadows in Direct Sunlight
Avid Andrew
Shooting into the sun can result in underexposure and a loss of detail, especially in the shadows. If the situation forces you to shoot into the sun, learn how to compensate for these effects in darktable.
The Shooter
robert-levin
On Preparing the Way
andrewmarrosb
There is something intriguing, if frightening, yet hopeful, about transitions. When change is in the air, we can hope it will be good. Dawn and dusk are poignant times of the day as we see a new beginning with the sunrise and, strangely, a new beginning with the sunset that signals another day...
Why Active Student Engagement Matters
Alice Keeler
Active student engagement improves student learning. However it is not about entertaining but rather engaging critical thinking. The post Why Active Student Engagement Matters appeared first on Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler.
The Utah Measles Outbreak Sets a New Record
Vincent Iannelli, MD
The measles outbreak has set a new record! No, it isn’t the largest measles outbreak that we have seen in recent years. Everything is bigger in Texas, even our measles outbreaks – until the measles outbreak in South Carolina was bigger… That record belonged to the 2025 Texas measles...
You are not your work (and other helpful reminders)
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 –...
The Same Hobby
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...
30 Day Update of Learning Mandarin
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...
Agentic web market signals: the agent stack becomes enterprise infrastructure
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...
You might find soccer boring but American sports media are all in
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...
When Love Feels Peaceful Instead of Exciting (and Why That Might Be Better)
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.
365 days of commits
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...
The Architecture of Stolen Time
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...
Please keep code descriptions simple
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...
Reading, ignorance
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...
Nothing like rebuilding your home network on a hot day
basic
Yesterday afternoon my router just gave up serving any WIFI in the house. Ethernet still worked so I was confused. I opened the network cabinet and felt the router blazingly too hot to hold. I thought this thing is dying. It got very hot to around 33 degrees Celsius outside and since this small...
Celebrating 200 Years
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...
The Farmer and The Forty Thousand
dignitybydesign
RE of PTX grammar from ptxas, part 4
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...
Updates to the monthly posts (microposts)
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....
Relaxation time
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...
AI writing is better than no writing
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...
Avoiding ToString() allocations with StringBuilder.MoveChunks: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 3
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...
Amari No Kokoro And Going Beyond Words
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...
Look Upon My Works
radiobeartime
The Iron Law of AI is essentially Parkinson’s Law. The importance of a manager is demonstrated by having something or, better yet, someone to manage. The more you manage the greater your importance and thus organisations will grow driven by ego and competition. Also a subordinate is not a...
Pastors Do Not Need Autopilot AI. They Need Approval Gates.
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...
Some thoughts on monitors, memory and storage from a Mac geek who over specs things but tells others not to over spec (as in waste money on capacity and features they don’t need).
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...
mary’s memories
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...
Behavioural Lessons From the World Cup
Joe Wiggins
As we are currently in the midst of a wonderful summer of sport, I was considering writing a post about the factors which make some sports boring to watch and others exciting.* I am not, however, brave enough to put my head above the parapet on that subject quite yet. Instead, I decided to write...
Noir reprint
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...
GitHub Copilot SDK Deep Dive: CopilotClientMode
Bart Wullems
By default, the CopilotClient starts in CopilotCli mode. That means the full Copilot CLI persona is active — which includes a lot: All built-in tools available (subject to the ToolSet filtering you do per session) Host integration enabled: the CLI picks up your local ~/.copilot/ config,...
a painting of rocks
beepertown
painted some rocks my employer is insane and wants me to churn out four illustrations a week and i'm losing it, man, but at least they look nice. this is the first of this week. three to go,,,,, for thursday morning,,,,,,,,, ✦ . ⁺ ♫·-·♪¸♩·-·♬ ⁺ . ✦
Found the guy who’s been tipping over our garbage …
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.
The 4 pillars of health
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...
Some Solar in Westwood
ecoquant
Shipping AI-Generated Code Safely with Static Sites
Tom Barrasso
For years, I’ve built websites using Hugo. It powers this blog, Cloud Phone for Developers, and now my personal real estate website, Unique Homes Massachusetts. Even early versions of the PodLP Podcast API were architected as static websites, where the podcatcher crawled RSS feeds and, when the...
Where Should Loading State Live In Swiftui
Mohammad Azam
Where Should Loading State Live in SwiftUI?
Bookmark: Blogger Archetype Quiz
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...
the fish function meta
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....
Periodic table of computing
Alexandre H. T. R. Bonfitto
A periodic table containing important elements of modern and historic computing.
[video] Interview with Simon Peyton Jones
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...
Build-versus-buy broke, and AI broke it
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...
Token Churn: Why Traditional Software Workflows Are Bleeding Your AI Budget
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...
Personal Thoughts On The Semiquincentennial
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.
Learning to write on your own is good exercise for your mind
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...
Regaining My Attention Span - Part 1: The Plan Starts
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...
The Steam Machine
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...