Apocalypse is Not the End, It’s the Lifting of the Veil
lala1972
June Rose
theMan
A family member needed a home for a small rose plant years ago. We planted it in a spot tucked away. Last year I pruned it heavily. I just happened to look its way yesterday and went running to get a scissors to bring these massive, pink, sweet-scented flowers indoors to enjoy. It’s...
The insert benchmark on a small server, IO-bound workload : Postgres 19 beta1
Mark Callaghan
This has results for Postgres versions 19 beta1, 18.4 and 17.10 with the Insert Benchmark on a small server using a cached and CPU-bound workload. I also used MySQL 8.4.8 to see where performance was different.Postgres continues to be boring in a good way. It is hard to find performance...
Is there some sort of a probability problem with a humongous but finite universe?
Alexander R Pruss
It’s easy to generate probabilistic paradoxes in a universe (or multiverse) with infinitely many people (e.g., if infinitely many people roll a die, equal numbers of people get 1 as get more than 1, so why think it’s more likely to get more than 1?). But what about a very large but finite...
Hunting bugs with a team of agents
Avasdream
I pointed a team of Claude Code agents at one of my codebases and asked them to find bugs. Here is the prompt I used, how I tightened it, and what came back.
Better First Drafts: How to Build Apps Fast Without Infinite Iterations
Bethany Crystal
Yesterday I attended a demo day for Decoded Futures by Tech:NYC, a NYC-based organization that helps nonprofits build and deploy their own AI tools.It’s always incredible to see how far people can go with just 6 or 8 weeks of focused building. But one participant shared a piece of reality that...
C++ Insights Episode 75: The Ref-Qualifier That Saves You from Undefined Behavior
Andreas Fertig
I published a new C++ insights episode: The Ref-Qualifier That Saves You from Undefined Behavior. In this episode, you'll learn how req-qualifers save you from undefined behavior. Andreas
Milton is live, and the report already knows your street
Ahmed Nadar
A few hours ago a resident in Milton filed a report about a dip in the road that turns into a puddle in the rain and a sheet of ice in the winter. A minute later it was in front of the Town and in front of their ward councillor, with the location, the photo, and the surrounding street attached....
Re: If I could be transported back
82MHz
In Hyde's recent Over/Under series of interview posts, David left the question "If you could be transported back in history to a period of time, when would it be and why?" for the next participant, who happened to be Elena Rossi. She gave a great answer, and then David and Hyde answered the same...
Fix the process first. The AI is the last step.
Nicholas Major
BNP Paribas has used machine learning since long before ChatGPT, on credit scoring and fraud. So when its head of AI and IT, Su Yang, says "agentifying a bad process just burns tokens", we should listen. It's about order. The agent is the last step. The process is the first. Where the signal goes...
Our Italy trip
Murat
We spent 10 days in Italy in early April. It was a lot of fun.Back when I was a grad student, I stayed in Pisa for a month for a "summer school on mobile computing" in 2003. Mobile computing was the next "big" thing back then. (In retrospect, the research was misguided about the local/distributed...
Three Billion Dimes
Chris Weigant
Donald Trump has just been caught in another lie. This is news, but it's hardly shocking, since he's been caught in so many lies it's tough to even keep count of them all. In fact, it'd be a lot easier to tally up the promises Trump has made that didn't turn out to be lies. If there are any,...
Do You Want the Future? | Weekstarter 25-2026
ahmetasabanci
Intro I was hoping to post a Weekstarter from Brussels last week but hitting my all-time low sleep score according to my Apple Watch and then not being able to sleep again rest of the day made it impossible to write anything. Instead, I’m writing you from Ankara. After staying at home for...
!@! Nintendo Classics: Super Nintendo Entertainment System > a half-assed review
andrei
Play 100+ games on your Nintendo Switch system Enjoy a curated library of more than 100 total NES™ and Super NES™ classic games—including Super Mario Bros.™, Metroid™, The Legend of Zelda™, Donkey Kong™, and more—all at no extra charge. Plus, you can compete (or cooperate) online with friends,...
Boddhisatva-Nature and Theosis: Or, a Proposal for the Integration of Buddhist Thought into Christian Spiritual Practice
canderson1914
DNA result
anonymous-wanderers
S3e2 - S3e1 - S2e3 - S2e2 - S2e1 - S1e1 And so we got the DNA result of my Aunty from Ancestry, and it says we're family. In other words, the man who recognised me as his child was my biological father. And there's no second backlash. In the previous instalment, I had mentioned this could be an...
Orthodox D&D - a curious find
againstthecultofthecommodity
Recently, I went to visit a new acquaintance. We had met through mutual friends and got along immediately because of our shared interest in German Idealism. During dinner at my friend's place (his partner is an excellent cook!) I casually mentioned that I spend a lot of time playing RPGs. I...
taking the summer off work
benjamin wil
after deliberating for a while and doing some budget-math, i decided to take the summer off of work and attempt to recover from burnout. maybe i’ll write about that more over the next few months. this is the first time since i was fourteen that i haven’t either been doing school or doing work (or...
Tuesdays with Dorie DAC: Berry Yogurt Cake
steph (whisk/spoon)
A yogurt cake is a classic French home dessert, so it’s no wonder that, as a part-time Parisian, Dorie has made it a classic dessert of hers as well. Mixed by hand and infinitely adaptable in terms of flavor, it’s a true anytime cake. I think we’ve made at least a few versions by this point in our...
A short test piece to re-establish my connection to Blogger
Paul Bailey
This isn’t a new blog post, although it is a sightly re-jigged one, and my prime purpose in publishing it is to check that my numerous attempts to access my Blogger Dashboard have been successful. In effect it’s a test post, based on a Word document I produced last summer, relating to the Beer...
La letra pequeña del memorándum entre Estados Unidos e Irán
miquel-tort
El acuerdo de junio de 2026 no es un instrumento de paz, sino un mecanismo de control temporal que reproduce las lógicas de dominación sobre los recursos fósiles.
Kubernetes runs on feedback loops
Fatih Arslan
For the past few years I've spent most of my time building database operators on top of Kubernetes. Along the way I kept coming back to the same idea: under all the YAML and the moving parts, Kubernetes is really a framework for feedback controllers. It's control theory turned into something...
On Process: Earning Emotional Payoff
inkblotsandintuition
How Much of the World a Wrist Can Hold
sergiogalanti
This text is written as a parable.
Tooltrace is kind of amazing
Matthew Haughey
One of the things 3D printing is good at is helping you organize things. You can print all kinds of custom bins and one of the universal systems is called Gridfinity, which is a system of baseplates with a 42mm x 42mm grid that you print, then you print boxes in any shape you need (and they can be...
Key, in sight
Marcin Wichary
A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization. (9,400 words.)
Scenery begins on the Community Garden layout
J D Lowe
I've started to work on the scenery by laying out the primary areas. There'll be 9 garden plots, or pieces of garden plots: 5 inside the loop, 3 bounding the outside the loop pedestrian pathway, and 1 close to the loco re-charging station (it's the gravel area with the repurposed porch railing as...
Upcoming O’Reilly Workshop: Building Data Apps with Streamlit and Copilot (July 2026)
Ari Lamstein
On July 9 (9am–1pm Pacific), I’ll be teaching a 4‑hour live workshop for O’Reilly: Building Data Apps with Streamlit and Copilot. This is the second time I’ve run this workshop, and I’ve made several improvements based on what I learned the first time. If you work in Python and want to turn your...
To Likeness or Not to Likeness
barraqueira
As someone who has been training AI image models for quite some time, I have been noticing a pattern in the real world, not in the models. Expectations for what counts as a "real" image are perhaps changing, or at least a high level of realism is no longer expected, and that seems to be...
The Hidden Health Price of Being the Family’s Emotional Anchor
beyondborders
Many of us quietly become the emotional anchor for our family. We listen, support, and hold everything together. But this role carries a hidden cost to our own health. Here is how we can learn to carry it more gently.
Instructions before visiting Earth
auldmanbigtower
In the event that you wake up and find your soul separated from source and manifest into material form, don’t panic. Your condition is only temporary. You have been selected for the opportunity of human incarnation. This 3D simulation is designed to break up the monotony of eternity by giving you...
Creator's Prayer
badlodge
“O Great Spirit, our Father from above, we honor your name as sacred and holy. “Bring your good road to us, where the beauty of your ways in the spirit-world above is reflected in the earth below. “Provide for us day by day—the elk, the buffalo, and the salmon. The corn, the squash, and the wild...
Climate and Migration
at-the-cafe
I’d like to start this edition of the newsletter with a thought experiment. Imagine if you will that you are just married and you are on your honeymoon to the wonderful island of Tuvalu. You spend a few glorious weeks there living your best life before coming home and being subjected to the...
Downloading from gitlab
Adam Young
We use gitlab to post internal releases of archives. I want to be able to automate the process of downloading these artifacts. Here it is using the glab CLI. export REPO=https://gitlab.com/YourCompany/sw-eng/product-manifest glab auth login --stdin < ~/.token glab release list -R...
J’adore le Four
4q
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a black polo shirt, brown shorts, and white socks. How does Dave feel today? Dave feels apathetic. What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood? Dave is working on several things today but is uninvested in most of them. Does Dave ever write about himself...
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aubworks
My face slides forward, my skin feeling as if it is about to fall off the very bone; the winter air chides me shamefully for daring to step into it. It hasn't snowed but the frost still lingers. Black ice pools in hidden spots, catching me off guard as I step down the heavy concrete bolted into a...
Structural Limits of Imaging in Cosmological Observation
prasangika-matters
The agentic web gets execution rights, from payments to app actions
Richard MacManus
One of the characteristics of the agentic web is an increasing ability for AI agents to execute actions on the web on our behalf. This is a key part of the shift from a web of pages to a web of capabilities — but it also introduces significant security, governance and financial risks.This week’s...
Drawing a Mandala with p5.js: Smooth Lines, Speed-Based Thickness & Tweakpane - Part 1
Alex Postolache
Hello friends, and welcome to another creative coding tutorial! Today we're going to build a mandala maker in the browser — you drag with the mouse, and every stroke is mirrored and rotated so you get kaleidoscope-like patterns in real time. We'll wire up symmetry, smoothing, velocity-based stroke...
FreeBSD 15.1
8by3
The White Space. Chapter 8. Ministry of Spatial Balance 2.0
slwriter
The DOGE Boys Are Going To Pay
Denny Carter
Preemptively moaning about elected Democrats not sufficiently fighting the authoritarian scourge is every online doomer's favorite game. Some have made a career out of it. You gotta respect that kind of hustle. And I get it. I've done my share of this sort of engagement-friendly posting during my...
Johnny Mack Brown Appears in Gadsden in 1945
AlabamaYesterdays
I've written several pieces on this blog about football star, actor and Dothan native Johnny Mack Brown. Two of them discussed his 1928 silent films Our Dancing Daughters and A Lady of Chance. The first paired him with Joan Crawford [one of two he made with her] and another Alabama native, Dorothy...
Listening To: See You In Heaven
Alex Leighton
By SoftcultPublished on 2026-06-16Tags: listening-to, musicSee You In Heaven by Softcult Grungey, shoegaze-y, indie rock.Read the post →
Discussion Point - Disco Elysium
MorpheusKitami
Written by Morpheus KitamiOne of the most beloved RPGs of the last decade is Disco Elysium. A game in which you play a cop who wakes up in a dingy hotel room with no memory of anything, and he has a murder to solve. What follows is a very strange game set in an alternative Earth with its own...
In Taiwan
Saturn
I'm in taiwan now, I'm gonna be here for around a month. A combination of study and here for my mom to take care of family things. I was gonna write this blog about how I am glad to be away from people and making my own server (very exciting!), but I think it's ok for me to air out just how...
The Night Train
michael-graeme
Headless Mode
Chris Davis
If the firmware is loaded on an Arduino Due and run without any front panel hardware connected, the emulator will automatically detect this and force RUN mode. This allows BASIC or other programs to run on a bare Due with nothing but a USB serial connection. With headless mode enabled,...
Easing Back In
Belghast
Good Morning, Folks! It has been a while since I played Guild Wars 2. Around the drop of the current expansion, I flaked out and stopped playing. My guess is that this correlated with the launch of a Path of Exile league, but whatever the case may be, it has been a bit. We had a regular Thursday...
Tire Brands at a Glance
Barry
Please note: Tire Business is a bi-monthly publication of news of interest to those of us in the tire industry. Among the things they publish are summaries of various things – like who has plants, where. In this case, it’s brands and who owns them. Be aware: That the list appears to be US...