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For this week’s post, I am back on the South Bank looking at the survivals of, and references to the Festival of Britain, 75 years after the festival started the transformation to the place we see today, starting with: Festival of Britain 1951 – The Moment That Shaped South Bank A couple of...
M1A1
A beautiful dream of passions in the clay. Abstract and yet kinda only described as very human. Dissonant and avant-garde, yet, surprisingly catchy. Easy listening broadcast from the green flames of heck. The first half is like Kurt Cobain bedrooms demos using the convenience of modern...
Eana Hufwe
A simple web tool to generate a realistic looking QR code that is not really scannable. Useful for creating QR code placeholders for your designs. Features Generate QR code of all valid versions (or sizes) Adjustment of the scale of QR code Persist all locating and timing...
balancedbean
The issue with limited vocabulary we have to label our emotions and feelings. We have two words, at most, to describe majority of things that we feel throughout our day: happy and un-happy/sad. The hard black and white categorization. Everything is reduced to either the hedonistic pursuit of...
0wen
Beware! Its light will blind you! It speaks in tongues that will scorch the earth! Fear not! We noble few stand sentry! Our backs turned, to face the beast! Have faith! Evil surrounds you! You stand among men that cannot be trusted! Have faith! Stay behind us! We will give your wretched soul...
Jason
The other day I observed a silly little thing and thought "I'll need to remember this for Sunday's call" only to be reminded a split second later that there are no more Sunday calls. It was an odd moment because, for the better part of four years, Sunday night was dedicated to calling my mum....
Ashish Bhatia
An honest one-day Zurich travel guide covering the old town and walking tour, and why this pricey Swiss city is not worth a special visit.Zurich, along with Oslo, Norway is one of the few unassuming expensive European cities that I would not recommend visiting. The joke goes that Zurich whose...
Peter Fitz
I'm trying to make some modelling flock, with only limited success.This is made from bits of a kitchen sponge, whizzed up in a blender, coloured with ordinary house paint kneaded through, dried in the oven and then ground again in a little electric coffee grinder.It's not utterly worthless, but I...
animisma
An Introduction by Heather Louise Porter.
ClassicHasClass
Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but it's been getting pretty old dragging around old CRT terminals or tying up Mac laptops with a serial port. I'd like something that's self-contained, a little more portable and a bit less heavy. I'm...
nihilsyurievich
But blood isn’t magic. Blood is only blood.
Mr. Karswell
I was just talking about The Mephisto Waltz with a co-worker the other day, --it's an eerie, early satano 70's, Quinn Martin Production starring Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, and Barbara Perkins. As many of you know, demonic films were pretty hot during this time period thanks to 60's classics...
bcengine
Fun! Felt like dev's first serious attempt at a shmup; enemies a bit unbalanced but enjoyable overall. 2nd stage boss is much tankier than the rest. Took me a few tries to get the clear. Solid execution of the horizontal and backward shooting. Excited to play more of Terarin's games. Even if it...
Marc-André Moreau
This post introduces Shadow Theory: a mental model for AI prompting that treats prompts as perspectives shaping what the model sees. It explains why better results often come from changing the angle of analysis rather than simply adding more instructions or context.
Ash Ryan Arnwine
Simple strategies for keeping your vibe on the rails
Alexander Opalic
You don’t need a framework, a SaaS dashboard, or a dependency to test an AI agent. You need a way to run it, a way to grade it, and a loop around both. Here we build an eval harness in a single Bun file, start to finish, every line explained. By the end you’ll have one evals.ts file that spins up...
152334H
These are quick self-notes I wrote this week, while scrolling various AI Alignment related posts online. There are no insights here, just mundane reading & paraphrasing to ensure I ‘get it’.
Luke Rindels
Pebble Watch Face Architecture Modifying Pebble JS KiezelPay Watch Faces Failed Attempts Removing /api/v1/status call Spoofing Response Debugging Pebble Apps KiezelPay Status Verification Patching Pebble Binary Patching Pebble Checksums...
The Baliocene Apocrypha
It’s not the kind of thing that flatters anyone’s self-image or fits well into anyone’s politics, so - I think that most people haven’t appreciated just how much damage will result from the kind-of-AI-that-worked-first being a thing that’s going to come for the intellectuals and artists before the...
Brett g Porter
Brazil v Morocco. At the Philly Fan Festival. The city is for you to use. Instagram photo 1 Instagram photo 2 Instagram photo 3 View original post on Instagram View Change History
Cassidy Curtis
Fresh off our official world premiere at Tribeca Festival, our next stop is SIGGRAPH 2026! We’re doing a Production Session about Dear Upstairs Neighbors on Thursday, July 23 at 11:15am, and the film itself will be showing immediately after our talk, in the Computer Animation Festival, Animation...
awanaltrove
There was a girl in the language room with hair the color of a small fire. That is how I remember her first. Not the date. Not the weather. Not what I was wearing, or where I sat, or which page of the book we were supposed to open. Memory, I have learned, is careless with facts and loyal to light....
Olga Harmsen
The Cladding of Art Nouveau Buildings | Theory, history & practice of architectural covering materials. This is my summary of the second international symposium organised within the Creative Europe project “Art Nouveau as a New EUtopia” (2024–2027). Continue reading →
Burk
Not enough appeasement, or not enough deterrence?I have been watching the Harry Potter series of films, a decade or two after first reading the books. Aside from being extremely entertaining, they show Rowling to have been weirdly prescient about the moral dilemmas only developing as she was...
Blaine Bonham
Above image: Four men, including our guide Alex in the yellow jacket, carry me down the hill in a blanket. My sneaker pokes out near the bottom of the rescue scene. ﾿ A Travel Memoir About Risk, Rescue, and Why Preparation...
Alison Wilder
I’m super excited to be starting a new series with Greg Wilder called The Clearing: The Clearing is a monthly secular sound environment held in downtown Keene, NH. We present 90 minutes of live, slow-moving, beautiful music, composed and improvised in the room for deep listening, rest, and...
Jonny
As a publisher, Midas were famous mainly for two things: localising occasionally interesting Japanese budget games, and also publishing mostly-terrible original budget games. Skate Attack isn't one of the former, so my hopes for it weren't high. But I tried it anyway, being the fair-minded person...
BasicAppleGuy
macOS Golden Gate deserved a wallpaper inspired by its namesake. Apple announced the next version of macOS at its annual developers conference this past week, introducing macOS Golden Gate. But one thing...
Paul Bailey
It's a case of two steps forward, and one step back at the moment, but the main thing is I'm moving in the right direction. The good news - the two steps forward, is my desktop has been repaired, and is now back up and running, faster and more efficiently than it was before it gave up the ghost,...
beyondborders
Some friendships give us a sense of home we never quite found with family. This is more common than we admit, and it carries both love and a quiet grief. Here is how we can hold both truths gently.
Ahmet ALMAZ
I set up Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared), to stop worrying about open SSH ports on my server. No public IP exposed, no ports forwarded, no DDNS to maintain. Instead of opening a port and hoping for the best, I let Cloudflare handle the connection entirely. My server initiates an outbound tunnel to...
TAB
While officially China has no involvement in the ongoing war in Ukraine a substantial number of their weapon systems have been seen in theatre. Setting aside the tens of thousands of Chinese manufacturer commercial drones which have been used during the conflict we’ve also seen Chinese RPGs,...
andie
ive been spending the weekend at my aunt’s house 7 hours away from ours at home. it’s gorgeous here and im already dreading our leave tomorrow!!!! i want to stay forever. they live in such a nice subdivision that theres numerous canals and lavish gardens just outside. cottontails and birds hop...
David Eppstein
This past week was the final exam week for our spring term, and in it we also held the doctoral defense of another Ph.D. student, Vinesh Sridhar (advised by Mike Goodrich). Vinesh organized his thesis in an unusually symmetric way, with two parts on computing with noisy primitives, two parts on...
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I’m playing a live show on the Telephone Radio Hotline tonight! You can listen by calling +46 60 60 70 593 (normal charges within Sweden). I start at 21:00, Swedish time (UTC+2).
Abhinav
∞ Untitled buffers
Alex
had a dream that I signed up to bluesky and immediately had a few thousands smart and kind followers who liked all of my posts, so clearly my mental health is great and the four years since deleting my accounts have completely fixed the effects that twelve years of microblogging had on my brain
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ancientshell
New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, We continue with the next episode in the Suldokar's Wake system. (Content Warning: Violence, Gore, Traumatic Events) Scene 1 As the group approached the temple doors, the markings on the walls, the scrolls that...
jameswharris
by James Wallace Harris, 6/13/26 Would anyone still be reading John Galsworthy if British television didn’t keep producing new versions of The Forsyte Saga? Galsworthy did win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, the year before he died, but that recognition seldom guarantees an enduring...
Nat
First, let me note that the Great Pumpkin Carols book which I talked about a while back is now available for preorder. And while I’m doing that, I’ll remind you both that when you preorder, Amazon will give you the lowest price they list the book for between now and when it’s released (often a bit...
Wojtek Powiertowski
Juneteenth is next Friday, and it's had me thinking back to a few days we spent in Washington DC in May 2017.We walked around the main monuments after dark — fewer people, the marble lit against a black sky, the spring heat finally off. Earlier that day we'd been through the Smithsonian American...
Sabine Hossenfelder
Murat
Shortly after I joined MongoDB research, we ran a TLA+ workshop. It was a two-day ordeal. We had a 1.5 days of instruction on TLA+ and syntax, after which we tried to help people get started with modeling. People liked learning about TLA+ on the first day, but except for a person or two, we didn't...
Akseli
Silly name but works wonders. I have been using this search engine called Uruky for about a week: https://uruky.com/ As a software dev, big part of my workflow is searching for information. As search engines in general keep getting worse and worse, it has became more difficult. However with Uruky...
Bartosz Milewski
Previously: Kan extensions in Haskell. In a double category that is also a proarrow equipment, we have the ability to bend arrows. In particular, in the definition of the counit of the right Kan extension: we can bend the vertical arrow, replacing it with its horizontal conjoint . In a profunctor...
schnark
What is death, and how does it fit into life?
Ali Reza Hayati
During the internet blackout , one of the main sources of entertainment for me was watching movies. Between sounds of bombs near our house and being completely cut off from the world, one thing that could keep me sane was starting to watch movies and series I had on my hard drives. This way I...
aje
I can remember the charm and wonder of how the early internet brought people together, and also how it gave large platforms for diverse, funny, and shocking content. At the same time as setting up my own websites I remember: Waiting patiently to see what Nathan Barley got up to in each new...
J D Lowe
A few years back I was undertaking an informal study of books about the works of artists who used scale models of one sort or another as their medium. Other interests took over and I parked the project. The last few months though I've felt a need to revisit that project, especially now that the...