ian holloway
'Moviedrome' ran, intermittently, on BBC2 from May 1988 to June 2000. The format was simple, hosts Alex Cox (series 1-7) and Mark Cousins (series 8-12) introduced a 'cult movie', or two, of the sort that were almost never shown on British TV and, in those halcyon years, long before the arrival of...
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MPorcius
Welcome back to MPorcius Fiction Log and to another 1943 issue of Weird Tales. Big names today, including two of the biggest, plus one of H. P. Lovecraft's closest associates and Robert E. Howard's literary agent. Within this July '43 issue of D. McIlwraith's magazine we also find a decent new...
abm-77
IntroI won't sugarcoat it: getting a job in compilers was kinda rough. SWE jobs have already been getting more and more competitive with the advent of AI, but compiler engineering specifically has always been a bit elusive, especially for junior folks. Most of the already-few postings for such...
Jack Shear
We had to skip a week due to gallery stuff and internet issues, but we were finally able to conclude the Krevborna group's delve in the Moyle Mines. CharactersDario Diego Durant, swashbuckling swordsmanDoctor Anastasia Nadya Strahov, a gun-priest who says strange thing about bloodJohanna Albrecht,...
Arun
(these notes are being posted in two parts to make the length more manageable, part 1 is here) Continuing from where we left off, about topics discussed at the PipeWire hackfest in Nice… DSP features We discussed a number of features related to digital signal processing blocks which are typically...
ataary
A game that sends you out into the real world, and quietly helps map it. Here is the pitch. A handler named Zero radios you an assignment, points you at a real landmark somewhere near you, and sends you out to photograph it as proof you were there. Maybe it is a mural two streets over that...
billhook
Make friends, do dope shit with them. Don't be a prick. Listen to what others say with generosity. Fuck the haters. Use bullet points liberally, especially when they're not appropriate. P.S. I'm gonna dedicate this one to Evlyn Moreau, because I've been recently reminded that she's been a great...
Mike Ramos
Own your context. A context monorepo is a structured repo of docs, examples, and agent guidelines that makes launching agents across real codebases actually work.
Rui XiaAyan DasArtem ArtemevAndy ZhangGuillaume HennequinAlberto Bernacchia
Paper Abstract The sampling process of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) can be accelerated by leveraging second-order information in the form of approximations to the denoising posterior covariance – allowing samples of acceptable quality to be produced in fewer but larger...
Andrey Lukyanenko
MiniMax Sparse Attention: Per-Group Block Selection for Cheap Million-Token Inference Paper Code Model Long-context LLMs keep promising the same thing: feed more tokens into the prompt and let the model reason over them. The bottleneck is rarely the window itself: it is the cost of attending...
Albert Sikkema
Photo by Ricky Kharawala on Unsplash Most people I know put wallpaper up in their own house, do small to medium jobs in and around the house themselves and only hire out to a crafts(wo)man when the job is too big or takes too much time. But doing stuff yourself is more or less normalised: it...
Ajinkya Gokhale
How I built apimyresume.com — a self-hosted resume tailoring API that turns one profile-specific master resume into a job-specific PDF for every application. Wire it into n8n, an AI agent, or Zapier, and never hand-edit a CV again.
Ad Astra Computing Inc
Second weekly run. The 9 June split reproduces: gemma 53.3%, mistral 66.0% and gpt-oss 73.0% reduce under the compiled prompt; llama-4-scout flat at 0.0% and qwen3 at 7.1%. llama again trades named-grid and type-pairing for line-height and radius rather than reducing. Repeating two weeks running...
Brian McQuay
The Fable shutdown might be our first glimpse of an uncomfortable future — not one where AI gets too powerful, but where safeguards become meaningless. Once capable models ship as open weights, you can't recall them, patch them, or add guardrails after the fact. Here's why I think we're 12–24...
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kristy bowen
The past couple of weeks, the internet has been aflutter with praise of Backrooms, which we caught in a late night screening the night it came out. It's one I, and apparently the whole of the internet horror community had been anxiously awaiting (I first heard it was happening back when I was...
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Oleg
Last week, I attended the first PTC Next 2026 event in Chicago. The event is part of a new PTC... The post PTC Next 2026: Is Intelligent PLM a Rename or a New Architecture? appeared first on Beyond PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Blog.
prasangika-matters
Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist
A reaction to five predictions about AI token economics, and why none of it changes the underlying work. Same problems, new vocabulary.
frankray
Software built with AI assistance reaches a dispute the same way any other software does: defects emerge, a system proves unmaintainable, or a security failure surfaces. The question a dispute turns on is rarely whether the supplier used AI, because almost everyone does. It is whether the...
Arthur Pesah
In the previous post, we introduced algebraic topology through one of its most important objects: chain complexes. We saw how chain complexes can be constructed from cellulations of manifolds and how they give rise to CSS codes. But the main reason both mathematicians and quantum error correctors...
andie
… well, i actually do have an interesting update for today. if you read my last blog, you’d know ive been out of state visiting my family and we departed today. it’s been a very long day. our flight returning home has been cancelled. before though, it kept getting delayed and the times swapped...
Budget, Offbrand, DIY
20dollarlolita:Since it’s been a year since Joann closed, I’m trying to get some data about how people are shopping for sewing supplies. Local sewing store questionnaireHere’s a google form with a lot of questions on it. If you don’t have the time, here’s a tumblr poll with one question on it.I’m...
Allen Lau
I am encouraged by Canada’s new AI for All strategy. It expands the conversation beyond research and talent to commercialization, IP retention, sovereignty, and supporting Canadian champions. To me, it reflects a broader and welcome shift from simply creating AI innovation to capturing more of the...
Jeff Lilly
In the first post of this series, I was angry about the book’s linguistics. This time I’m angry about, well, everything else. A bigger job, so let’s start small, in a classroom. Early in Project Hail Mary, Dr. Ryland Grace (xenobiologist-turned-junior high science teacher, our narrator, our...
Jacob Wren
. [I do a list at the end of every year. And sometimes I also do a shorter list in the middle. Not all of these books were published this year, but this was the year I read and enjoyed them.] Sofia Mostaghimi – DesperadaMichael Eddy – Koh-i-NoorKawai Shen – Wavering FuturesPatrick Cottrell –...
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Andy Wightman
Following recent posts about my attempts to secure prosecutions for those failing to register the controlling interest in land, I am pleased to see that the Ferret has published an important analysis of the Register of Controlled Persons in Land. The Register of Persons Holding a Controlled...
Aaron
Handy app/web app I stumbled across today that helps you figure out the best time of the day or week to go for a run weather wise. There’s a couple of options you can set, e.g. do you mind running in the rain etc. The post Handy weather app for runners appeared first on Aaron Fisher.
Susan Stepney
I'm an AI skeptic, gleefully saving stories of AI deleting a company's entire database, or diagnosing faked diseases, or just frankly turning evil. Although it is more than happy to apologise for its poor behaviour, like after that time it set dinosaurs loose in Central Park. I'm waiting for the...
Douglas A. Anderson
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addshore
Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that anyone can edit. It is a sister project of Wikipedia and serves as a central repository for structured data, so rather than paving pages with text, it stores data in a structured format that can be queried and reused across different platforms....
definitelystillanamateur
Heated Rivalry uses mirrors to show us how characters hide from the world and themselves.
Ed Halferty
I don't really need to say more, do I? Don't let AI create your UI. Just don't do it. When I see a UI created by AI, I instantly recognize it as such. And I'm not the only one, I think most people notice if your UI was created by AI. And they hate it. It has a certain laziness and practicality to...
dignitybydesign
Recognizing that you're both the hero and NPC in the system.
angrybunnyman
Portrait of the.... author? I have finished a draft of a book length thing. I have no idea what it is or who it is for but... I really like it. This is the second book length thing I have made. This once is clearly way better. I'm reading the draft and actually laughing at things I had forgotten...
robotkinz
In which the truth was ALMOST revealed... but perhaps it would have been too premature on Michelle's part.
John Connors
“Gee Whizz!” Big green men invade a small town in this classic sci fi film If the plot of Invaders from Mars seems familiar then that’s likely to be because it’s proven to be hugely influential on subsequent generations of filmmakers. The likes of Joe Dante and John Landis are fans while Martin...
André Klein
“You shall not pass!” [drop_cap]A[/drop_cap]dobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives, not because anyone is genuinely excited about these...
nevjev
Barry
Update July 15, 2026: The CEC issued a transcript of the comments:...
The Kane Interview
This is an interview with Vera Kane, deceased SHIPMIND deputy, conducted by Isobel “Poppy” Parker, a retired Vox Omnia Rex leader. Both of these were characters in the Baseline Drift roleplaying wargame that occurred from May 29th to June 14th, 2026. Kane, Vera: “Good when you are ma’am.” Isobel...
abekin
I had the worst idea the other day. What if magic expired? The language of magic changes over time and entropy erodes the spell on your scroll? Your magical potion goes bad. Enchantments rot. I really liked the idea of heroes stashing a potion in their backpack and then refusing to use it for...
jameswharris
by James Wallace Harris, 6/15/26 In Chapter 3, “Thought” from A World Appears, Michael Pollan works with psychologist Russell T. Hurlburt, who has been collecting thought diaries from his subjects for over fifty years. The technique Hurlburt uses is called Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES)....
Joy the Baker
The best snickerdoodle recipe, upgraded! Dough balls rolled in buttery cinnamon streusel AND cinnamon sugar for crackly, bakery-tall cookies. Make them once, love them always – trust me on this one! Friends, hi! After nearly two decades of putting recipes on this site, I’ve made a lot of cookies....
bababooey
Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Johann Jörg Rauch, son of Johann Nickel and Christina Catharina (Mühlberger) Rauch, was baptized in Odernheim am Glan 1 May 16951 and was still living 14 June 1750 when he is recorded in his son's confirmation.2 He married second in Odernheim am Glan 25 April...
Ajey Gore
A film set survives exactly one thing: the shot. The trouble starts when someone decides to move in. If you’ve ever been on a studio backlot, you’ve walked down a street that doesn’t exist. A row of perfect storefronts: the saloon, the bank, the sheriff’s office. A weathered sign that took...
alieniloquy
For the past two years or so, I've been mistakenly getting emails from a church somewhere in Virginia. I've never been to this town, let alone this church. (For the record, I'm not really religious either, haven't been to church since I was a kid). It looks like its somewhere out near the Blue...
alex
To set the scene: Last weekend I lost my voice, and then on Monday I woke up feeling totally ill. Maybe it was change of seasons, maybe it was the typhoon, or, maybe it was just not taking a break since in months. Probably a mixture of all three. Some things I have learned about losing your...
Bjoern
The post ”OpenAPI and Spring-Boot 4 – What’s New?” By Badr Nass Lahsen @ Spring I/O 2026 first appeared on Björn Wilmsmann.