Perceptual Engineering
Audrey Watters
Baking Reference Image for Textures
Witold Jaworski
In the previous post we projected scale plans onto 3D model surface: Figure 127-1 Reference drawing, mapped onto model surface In this post we will use so-called “texture baking” method to unwrap this image into the UV space. This way we create an accurate reference image for various...
Coffee
Ben
Changelog: v0.5.0
tuhat
The Guide: A Collection of Rare & Unknown Work by Arthur Machen
Douglas A. Anderson
Darkly Bright Press's new Arthur Machen collection, The Guide, is a 260+ page compilation of "eighty-two works originally published across twenty-seven periodicals and spanning nearly three decades," to quote from editor Christopher Tompkins's "A Brief Introduction." It is subtitled "A Collection...
Imaginary Problems
garyglass
The privilege of creativity
The Foundling Fathers Playlist
Meg Elison
My coming-of-age American mythos satire is out, and I have curated a playlist to accompany it for your listening pleasure. Most of the songs are about who we are and where we come from, and what a pain in the ass that all is. Some of these songs are about the unbearable weight of history, both...
Mis impresiones acerca de las actualizaciones de tuhat y algunas sugerencias de mejora
ashermind
Start With Your Sermon Notes, Not a Blank AI Prompt
arnold-gamboa-dev
I am increasingly convinced that the first question pastors should ask about AI is not, “Can it write this sermon?” A better question is: “Can it help me work with the notes I already have?” That difference matters. A blank AI prompt invites the tool to lead. It asks the machine to decide the...
Shining a light on .NET versions across our organisation with OpenTelemetry – The Azure Monitor edition
Bart Wullems
In a previous post I showed how to add the .NET runtime version as an OpenTelemetry resource attribute: ResourceBuilder.CreateEmpty() .AddService($"{_sofaSettings.ApplicationName}-{_sofaSettings.EnvironmentName}") .AddAttributes(new Dictionary<string, object> {...
Cómo Tener Una Vida Plena y Dichosa
jlmc
Chips Security Act gains industry support: letter
alecm
Oh look! It’s ITAR for AI, done worse and with an option for both supply-chain AND salt-typhoon/type attacks, to no great benefit: The CSA aims to address those loopholes, mandating that chip exporters better track where advanced chips are sent, via either bespoke location-verification...
Vafurlogi - Gneisti af eldi Guðs (2026) Review
VJ
We're no strangers to the glory of the Icelandic black scene, which has always aimed for production of music with ever-present ferocity, and continental significance. Most of the bands active during the previous decade dominated my playlists of favorites, some of which I still consider recordings...
Why is direct democracy still signed on paper?
Mert Bulan
A couple of years ago, I was taking a walk in Stadtpark when I saw a group of people holding clipboards and pens. They were talking to people who were sitting or walking around the park. Later, I learned that they were collecting signatures for a popular initiative (Volksinitiative).At that time,...
Sunday.
Joe Crawford
First thing firstly: I went to OB this morning. It was uneventful. Chilly. Wonderful after several days of not being in the ocean. I was in Northern Virginia / Washington D.C. Instagram used to be where I’d post trip photos. As the platform has worsened, I do it less. That obliges me to post here...
!@! Movies: The Rainmaker (1997)
andrei
A Memphis law school graduate battles an insurance giant. Strong legal drama about a young lawyer that fights an army of layers representing an insurance corporation. Under the direction of the great Francis Ford Coppola, the movie shows strong performances from a lot of great actors, and keeps...
Father’s day project
Adam Young
Getting a little more organized in my workshop. My pain point was boxes of nails or screws falling off shelves. And, of course, I wanted an excuse to use the laser cutter. I took a lesson from Minecrafters and put an instance of what was inside the box on the front id the box.
Authors Who Influenced Ornamental Women
Jack Shear
The other day, someone asked me if there were any specific authors that influenced the way I wrote Ornamental Women. (What, you don't have a copy of Ornamental Women, my Gothic Fantasy novel, that is available in print and ebook? Well, you can remedy that here.)These are some of the authors whose...
Blaze of Storm | Normal 1CC | PC
bcengine
I 1CCed Terarin's Blaze of Storm on Normal tonight on my first playthrough. I did the caravan mode first and then took on the arcade challenge. His bosses have improved greatly since Raging Blasters, as have his art skills. Blaze of Storm is stylish and relentless. There's often no downtime and...
NPM Supply Chain Attack: Fake Job Offer Drops Info-Stealer
Yunus Aydın
Typosquatted npm package (pretie_x1) delivered via fake job offer drops AES-encrypted info-stealer for browser credentials, crypto wallets, and SSH keys.
C++ Insights new lambda transformation
Andreas Fertig
Last week I pushed an updated lambda transformation for C++ Insights. Here is a little background on the change. Since I first published C++ Insights when you transformed a lambda like the following: 1 2 3 4 5 6int main() { int val{4}; auto lamb = [&] { return val; }; } The result …
LocateAnything Explained: Parallel Box Decoding and how it makes visual grounding faster and more precise
Andrey Lukyanenko
LocateAnything Explained: Parallel Box Decoding and how it makes visual grounding faster and more precise Paper Project Demo Modern detection-and-grounding VLMs treat a bounding box as text: each box becomes a short string of coordinate tokens, decoded one at a time, left to right. This...
Your Next Backend Could Just Be a Google Sheet
Akash Rajpurohit
A relative needed a website for their wholesale catalog. I turned a Google Sheet into the backend, and gave myself almost nothing to maintain.
Three weeks · One split
Ad Astra Computing Inc
Third consecutive weekly run. Gemma 57.2%, mistral 64.6% and gpt-oss 72.7% reduce under the compiled prompt; llama-4-scout stays flat at 1.6%. qwen3 swings back to -7.0% after +7.1% the week before, straddling zero across three runs (-3.4, +7.1, -7.0). The reducing band and the llama trade hold;...
"Ghostly Killer" / "Death on Display"
Mr. Karswell
Gale forces are still blowin' strong here at THOIA, as we re-enter Earth's atmosphere, leaving behind Gale Allen and her space-age Girl Squadron (see our previous post HERE), thus, landing once more back on solid, blood-soaked soil to find not one, but TWO great, horror-tinged, Gail Ford murder...
Spinning the Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception
robert-levin
I was in a PREpartum depression.
The dangers of being on the inside
A Good Reed Review
By Ande Jacobson Linda Castillo’s eighth Kate Burkholder novel is Among the Wicked. This time, Kate goes undercover back into the plain life. After Rachel Esh, a fifteen-year-old Amish girl, is found frozen to death in the woods near a small rural New York town, Ohio BCI agents John Tomasetti and...
Good things to come
Paul Bailey
Pub visits have been somewhat curtailed over the past week, for a variety of reasons, most of which have been family related. There’s also been quite a lot of boring, DIY – home improvement projects going on, nothing major, but still time-consuming and not the stuff that people will necessarily...
I've Been Wondering About a Plane for 40+ Years. Claude Found It, and Now I'm Logging All of Them.
Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist
I wondered about a Pan Am 747 for 40 years. Claude found the exact tail number. Now I log every flight in BlackOps so the answers never scroll away.
Water Brands: Enter the Water Choice Awards
Camper English
This August I’ll be judging the Water Choice Awards, a new water competition hosted by The Daily Pour. If your brand hasn’t entered yet, check out the website – entries are due June 30, 2026! The post Water Brands: Enter the Water Choice Awards first appeared on Alcademics.
How Time Is Like a Cruffin
joeychung
Solstice!
Aegir.org
Summer! It's warm, everything is full of life and flowers are in full bloom.
sequestering carbon, several books at a time CLXII
Susan Stepney
The latest batch. (I'm trying to do these posts before the batches get too big, which means they are more frequent.)
Mile or Intersection to Coordinate Map
ataary
I built a little web app to solve a problem that sounds trivial until you actually need it: turning a highway milepost into GPS coordinates. The code is open source, available on GitHub, and a demo is available at mapsdemo.johnsonfarms.us. The problem If you’ve ever had to say exactly...
Adventures in Open-Source: the lit profraw race
abm-77
IntroThis is the start of an ongoing mini-series where I document contributions I make to open source projects. These aren't tutorials; I won't be teaching background theory. Instead, I want to walk through the process: how I identified the issue, designed a fix, and went through code review....
There Are Four Lights
4q
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing cheap shorts and an old T-shirt. He has just changed out of khakis, a white button-up shirt, pink socks, and tan dress shoes. How does Dave feel today? Dave is happy and stuffed. What are the factors affecting Dave's mood? Dave enjoyed a gastronomically...
You're looking for love in all the wrong places
jsabra
Three Months of Crunchyroll: Part 1
artix
You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given the corpus of games that I generally play, but I am very much NOT an anime person. A lot of stuff inspired by anime, yes, but broadly speaking, my position has always been that if I'm going to experience this kind of stuff, I would rather play it...
19/06/2026 - Summer trotting Part I (we're off!)
Toodle
The closed season passed very quickly this year with nothing really blog-worthy to mention. Plans to fish the local canal and a club stillwater for zander and eels respectively never came too fruition, mainly due to apathy on my part. Had a couple of early bass sessions down in Pembrokeshire in...
Power of the Purse V: How Transformations at the National Level Threaten Federalism
David Super
In four recent posts, I explained how President Trump is seizing large parts of the Power of the Purse from Congress and how this has led to restructuring within Congress, the Executive Branch, and the courts. In general, those in each branch adept at bipartisan problem-solving have been...
!@! Movies: The Firm (1993)
andrei
A law school graduate uncovers a sinister secret about the Memphis firm that made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Another great thriller set in the legal world based on a novel by John Grisham, this time starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Gene Hackman (among others) that will keep you...
Spring 2026
autumnwright
A collection of seasonal excerpts from the commonplaceEssays, blogs, and other prose: No as a Noticeboard, Sara Ahmed A no to an institution can be expressed through the withdrawal of labour from it. When you leave because of a complaint, you don’t just leave the problem behind. You leave a...
Hexorcist
8by3
Life Update 6/21/26
AY
Definitely been a hell of a year, and I am happy to say I can finally walk and sit again. The main recovery from this part of the saga has been due to being able to stay with H and his family and all the help they have been giving me. Through physical therapy and all the rest of the shit you can...
British Army Training Grenades
TAB
A few weeks ago I visited my friends at the Vickers Machine Gun Collection & Research Association and had a look at a variety of items you might not immediately expect to be part of their collection. The VMGCRA, however, has an extensive collection of all sorts of items and an incredible...
The AirPods Effect (Markham Heid)
Alexandre Storelli
(…) During the pre-smartphone era of iPods and other portable music devices, a small study of college students found that those who were heavy users of headphones experienced higher levels of social isolation and loneliness.More than 15 years later, in 2021, a survey conducted by the audio...
Humanity May Soon Reach Singularity: How Do We Stay Human?
jt-ai-meets-mindfulness
Explore how mindfulness, attention, and human connection can help us stay grounded in an age of accelerating AI; as Humanity and Technology reach the inevitable Singularity.
Solar Power Fixed Everything
mconlon
A student and her teacher reflect on the impact of the adoption of solar power
Don’t believe everything you think
theMan
While reading Pema Chödrön’s Another Kind of Freedom this morning, I smiled when I read, “Don’t believe everything you think.” What a good way to make light of the thoughts that pop in and out of our mind. It’s the longest day of the year. The chicks are growing up fast. On their way to...
Choke Baluns for F6KOP
Fred C (W6BSD)
Info This article was also posted in French on my club's website F6KOP The objective of a choke balun is to reduce RF current flowing on the outside of the coaxial cable, thereby improving the symmetry of the radiation pattern and suppressing radio-frequency interference (RFI). The target values...