As I was catching up on some reading while being subjected to yet another bout of morning insomnia after feeding the cat at eight o’clock, I caught Dave’s list of Democratic mistakes. Take a hard look at what he deems their fourth such. Men’s votes need to be sought and welcomed, specifically. So much has been done to alienate male voters, which...
As I was catching up on some reading while being subjected to yet another bout of morning insomnia after feeding the cat at eight o’clock, I caught Dave’s list of Democratic mistakes. Take a hard look at what he deems their fourth such. Men’s votes need to be sought and welcomed, specifically. So much has been done to alienate male voters, which...
The Name Mangler giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Troy Patterson Jim Simpson René Quesnel Billy Rowell D. Lee Grooms You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but Name Mangler is still...
inflation was a painful global phenomenon, and every ruling party was punished for it regardless of political leanings #
Home Assistant and CarPlay with the Pi Touch Display 2 After a decade, Raspberry Pi finally upgraded their official Touch Display from 480p to 720p, while keeping the price and overall aesthetic the same. I've had early access to the Touch Display 2, and have been testing it in a variety of scenarios. Generally, Linux touchscreen...
Prediction: owning a twitterlike system will be like owning a big sports franchise or congressperson, or if you got in early, a president. A more functional trophy than a super yacht for the up and coming billionaire.
Social media was flooded with pictures of a smoky grassfire at Sydney Airport this afternoon, after an aircraft bound for Brisbane experienced an engine failure on take-off. Fun! Qantas released a statement: Qantas engineers have conducted a preliminary inspection of the engine and confirmed it was a contained engine failure. While customers...
I want to write more, and I want to enjoy going through my archive. Some posts are long, especially those that come from transcripts. If I sat with the ideas for longer, I might be able to make them more concise or break them up into more atomic notes; but I also want to get things out faster in order to learn from potential conversations. So I'm...
Since I talked about election night and I talked about the day after, and since I’ve (mostly) been limiting my social use to posting photos from the Camp Snap camera of my trip to the zoo, let’s talk a bit about today, although this will have some of those other days, too. Yesterday morning I had a dream that wound its way into my therapy notes...
Back in 2023 I quietly published my /uses slashpage. Today I gave it a pass to update things that had fallen out of date.
I wrote in the past about how I'm a pessimist that strives for positive outcomes. One of the things that I gradually learned is is wishing others to succeed. That is something that took me a long time to learn. I did not see the value in positive towards other people's success, but there is. There is one thing to be sceptical to a project or...
I wrote in the past about how I'm a pessimist that strives for positive outcomes. One of the things that I gradually learned is is wishing others to succeed. That is something that took me a long time to learn. I did not see the value in positive towards other people's success, but there is. There is one thing to be sceptical to a project or...
There is no doubt that over the last few years, Agile methodologies have gained prominence as a means to foster flexibility, innovation, and responsiveness to change. However, beneath the surface of this seemingly effective approach lies a troubling reality: the emotional toll it can take on teams. This article delves into the impact of Agile...
A hard look at the numbers and why it seems like such a challenge to change the narrative about gaming on Macs.
Elon Musk achieved election-swinging power by fostering the belief that the right ends justify any means. That's the tell everyone missed.
Having a sizeable following on social media hardens you—in the same way that any small measure of power might.At our worst we think of this as a suit of armor, a sort of mental toughness.At our best we mourn this as a loss of compassion, a subtraction of our humanity and connectedness.
It happens after every big political and sports event. Pundits are publishing their analyses, and they already have tidy, convenient explanations for the outcome. $FOO clearly failed because of X. $BAR clearly succeeded because of Y. Thing is, if the outcome had been different, they’d offer the exact same explanations. $FOO clearly succeeded...
Datasette Public Office Hours, Friday Nov 8th at 2pm PT Tomorrow afternoon (Friday 8th November) at 2pm PT we'll be hosting the first Datasette Public Office Hours - a livestream video session on Discord where Alex Garcia and myself will live code on some Datasette projects and hang out to chat about the project. This is our first time trying...
I'm starting a new interview series called Project. The idea is to interview people who are building interesting data projects and talk about what they've built, how they built it, and what they learned along the way. The first episode is a conversation with Rajiv Sinclair from Public Data Works about VERDAD, a brand new project in collaboration...
A few days ago, I blogged about using Chrome's built-in generative AI features (which are still super duper too early to even consider for production) to add on-device translation capabilities to a web app. It got me thinking, what if we could do translation automatically via a web component? If for some reason it failed, that would be fine as...
The word “pro” gets appended to a lot of products, and that tends to simply mean some combination of more features and better build quality. But I think there are (at least) 3 aspects to products, both hardware and software, that make them good professional tools.ReliabilityPredictability
Learn how to use the Pseudocode Programming Process effectively to write with superpowers.
If you have worked in search, you know how freaking hard even getting started with something close to this with traditional methods. Now, you can zero-shot it. System Instructions: As a query categorization expert, you try to break down the intent of a search query. First, provide your reasoning and then describe the intent using a single...
No matter how productive I can become, and no matter how skilled I become, I still have twenty-four hours in a day. Much like nothing exceeds the speed of light, no productivity pipeline will break the time barrier. This has...
John Gruber: The Brutal Clarity of This ResultI realized this year — or perhaps over the last four years — that for me, belief in the merits of democracy is quasi-religious. It’s more than a philosophy. It’s a fundamental belief. I have faith in democracy,
For the AMA challenge, today I answer the question "Has anyone had a profound impact on you?"
These horses were not particularly interested in me or my hiking shenanigans Breaking out the emergency kitten photos today, for obvious reasons. These are of my neighbours Grása (the grey and white one) and Loðmundur (the striped one) back when they were kittens. They are considerably fluffier as adults. Finally, the two siblings as adults Turns...
“AI is consolidating corporate power in higher ed (opinion)” “Silicon Valley got what it wanted - by Brian Merchant”. “It’s time to face facts. In Trump, Silicon Valley got what it wanted: A president that will kneecap antitrust efforts, embrace deregulation, and defang labor laws.” “Mind The (Remediation) Gap - TPGi”. “Here’s where things can...
This post announcing the closure of Giant Freakin Robot set me on a bit of a journey into the state of Google. “The End Of Independent Publishing And Giant Freakin Robot” GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT isn’t the first site to shut down. Hundreds of independent publishers have shuttered in the last two years, and thousands more are on the way. I’m in...
A gift from my brother. Coincidentally I’ve had John Carpenter’s “Halloween” echoing around my my head for weeks: I’ve been deconstructing it and trying to learn to play it.
NoteI had already built most of this before I saw Mat had already done this including making a plugin available. Lesson learned, maybe Google it first. Cooklang, as I wrote about in my previous post, is a markup language for recipes. I wanted to put all my recipes on my site under the /recipes directory which meant I needed to add support for the...
I finally got bothered to try jujutsu. It’s often hard to convey just how fast I’m accustomed to moving with git, and so while there are many valid complaints about its interface, object model design, etc., I’m really super fluent with it! So for a long time I was happy to let jujutsu just be a thing people were talking about; simpler or better...
GPUs support UNORM formats that represent a number inside [0,1] as an 8-bit unsigned integer. In exact arithmetic, the conversion to a floating-point number is straightforward: take the integer and divide it by 255. 8-bit integers are for sure machine numbers (exactly represented) in float32 and so is 255, so if you’re willing to do […]
Societal alienation, intensely depressive. Harris, 68.0 million popular, 226 electoral. 43%. Trump, 72.6 million popular, 295 electoral. 57%. I am haunted by what these numbers represent. I am not writing you a proof. I am upset, and this is a reflection. My basic worldview has been that things, on average, will continually get worse. Even before...
You don’t need me to tell you what happened: Mine Furor once again has happened here, with a very real possibility that the Republicans, having already taken the Senate, also manage to keep control of the House, in which case in just 75 days a fully fascist government is installed across all three branches of government in the United States....
The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically simple command line argument parser. Most argument parsers are declarative: you tell them what to parse, and they do it. This one provides you with a stream of options and values and lets you figure out the rest. For “pathologically simple” I still...
Jeremy Markovich: Tony Hawk Wanted to Track Down a Mysterious Skateboarder From 1979. We Found Her.Folks, we love two things around here: Tony Hawk and decades-old mysteries.On a shitty day, it’s nice to have something pleasant to link to.
Notify sites that you have linked to them with extra context: is your content a reply, a review, a bookmark, or even a checkin?
premise After I saw that Github Copilot was able to do my DSA coursework with little guidance (though, I never did use it to cheat) I for sure thought that LLMs would ruin kids ability to learn how to code and that it would handicap their learning of not only coding but the meta-cognitive skills around learning coding (ie, “learning how to...
In some of the communities I hang around in1, there’s a fondness for the kind of industrial research that happened at places like PARC and Bell Labs. Things like Smalltalk, Mesa/Cedar, and Plan 9 not only introduced new ideas but demonstrated them in practical, working systems. If you want to actually do research like this, how should you go...
I’ve been seeing articles all day decrying shock and despair over the election results. As if we haven’t seen it before only eight years ago. Don’t get me wrong here. I am just as despaired as the rest of the population who didn’t want the U.S. to cave to a more overt form of the fascism it was already courting. As a trans person, as a person who...
yet-another-applied-llm-benchmark Nicholas Carlini introduced this personal LLM benchmark suite back in February as a collection of over 100 automated tests he runs against new LLM models to evaluate their performance against the kinds of tasks he uses them for. There are two defining features of this benchmark that make it interesting. Most...
Adam Porter (alphapapa) reached out to John Wiegley (johnw) to ask about his current Org Mode workflow. John figured he'd experiment with a braindumping/brainstorming conversation about Org Mode in the hopes of getting more thoughts out of his head and into articles or blog posts. Instead of waiting until someone finally gets the time to polish...
I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs. That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multiple browser tabs. If you want that, you have to add the code yourself by...
Nudged by Thierry Stoehr's toot about my 23rd blogiversary, I've been thinking about how much I've learned thanks to blogging, and how I can get even better at learning out loud. I'm curious about what this could become over the next twenty years, when I'm in my sixties. 2024-11-04-04 How do I want to get better at learning out loud?...
I had a lot on my mind today (my recent change is taking a much bigger toll than anticipated), but this was, of course, inescapable, even for someone like me who abhors politics and never mentions it. To my US readership: I didn’t get a vote. And I understand that the US is a deeply divided country, and that at least half of you actually thought...
I'm writing this at 9AM Pacific standard time on November 6, the morning after the election. Not all the dust has quite settled yet, but two things are clear: Donald Trump has won, and the Republicans have taken control of the Senate. The House is still a toss-up, and it's still unclear whether Trump will win the popular vote, but the last time I looked at the numbers he had a pretty commanding lead.I'm writing this at 9AM Pacific standard time on November 6, the morning after the election. Not all the dust has quite settled yet, but two things are clear: Donald Trump has won, and the Republicans have taken control of the Senate. The House is still a toss-up, and it's still unclear whether Trump will win the popular vote, but the last time I looked at the numbers he had a pretty commanding lead.From my political perspective this is about as bad an outcome as I...From my political perspective this is about as bad an outcome as I...
embark-org-insert-link-to - 2024-11-02T15:49:09.420Z Ooh, it looks like `consult-org-heading` already lets me use embark-act with the shortcut `j` to call `embark-org-insert-link-to`. It doesn't feel like a "j" shortcut, though, so I'll just bind it to `L` for "link" instead: `(keymap-set embark-org-heading-map "L" #'embark-org-insert-link-to)`...
I've always wanted to know which user agents are currently hitting my site... Am I getting crawled? Are ML bots sifting through my site? I added some middleware to my site to log the user agent of every request while using Vercel's KV to store the user agents and their counts. User Agents in the last hour User Agent Count
I have, on occasion, been accused of being a pessimist, but my tendency to take honest inventory of shit that’s happening is a coping mechanism, not a belief or outlook. My default worldview is that of a disappointed optimist. I believe we are capable of great things, but humanity rarely lives up to the belief and pretending we do serves nobody....
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with MindMeister, the best collaborative mind mapping software out there. Spafe Code – AI Code Translator Use AI to translate code from one language to another. Works really well in my brief testing. Copilot can probably do the same thing but I’ve never thought to try. Stretch It A simpler...
I despise Donald Trump. I think he’s a lying, racist, fear mongering, transphobic, sexual abusing, convicted felon, incompetent, and dangerous person who is driven by hate and resentment.Yes, I think Trump is a bad person, but he’s not what I’m most riled up
Checking logs for pgdoc.link I noticed that some people where searching for system views, like pg_stat_activity, or pg_stat_all_tables in Pg 9.3. Now, these will work. This increased total number of known keywords from 1840 to 1883. Not much, but it's a progress 🙂
I've a little thing where I like to know roughly how many days it until something. My kids' birthdays, my wedding anniversary, Christmas... Following my focus on Generated Web Apps where launch sites and services without touching a single line of code, I decided to build a simple service that didn't require anyone to sign-up or sign-in, but could...
This is all I am capable of writing tonight. I've spent all day trying not to feel anything with little success.