Two terms are rapidly entering the software vocabulary and they describe two very different answers to the same question: if AI agents write our code, what do we build around them to ensure quality,…

This is the 10th post in the f3s series about my self-hosting home lab. f3s? The 'f' stands for FreeBSD, and the '3s' stands for k3s, the Kubernetes distribution I use on FreeBSD-based physical…

I watched The Ipcress File from 1965. It was based on Len Deighton’s first novel and was released at the height of mid-60s “Bond-mania” as kind of an anti-Bond. Michael Caine is Harry Palmer, an Army…

LEDE ONThis week I write about new products, existing (Adobe), announced-but-not-imminent (Ricoh), and upcoming (additional new cameras coming in September). So it seems only appropriate to also say…

I'll walk through a database of China's Hydropower Stations.

Does a good joke have to be explained? Most people would answer no. Does a good artwork have to be explained? Most people, depending on taste, would answer yes, no, or maybe. But what about humorous…

The socials are slamming Google for going along with Donald Trump's lie that Lake Ontario is now called Lake America. (Apple still calls the lake "Lake Ontario," and MapQuest has promised to never…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** T hose with keen memories will know that, just three months ago , I took a look at the…

This month is the Hungry Ghost Festival. Many would have ceremonies to commemorate the family members who had passed away. As I observed the gifts, food and ceremonial items displayed on the table, I…

Matt Gallagher reports that "the UK quietly sent one of its most senior security officials to a Trump administration summit which proposed to turn global counter-terrorism infrastructure against the…

To set the scene this morning, I woke up from a dream where I was having sex with [REDACTED]. I’ve been having a strange amount of sex with platonic friends recently. [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] being…

This week on CounterSpin Podcast: Janine Jackson: Corporate news media obscure it, almost like it’s their job, but we still understand that laws and policies land on differently situated people…

So Google has put their tongue to the Presidential boot once more, and renamed "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" (joining their previous bullshit of renaming the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of…

The second-to-last company at which I worked before escaping my captivity as an office worker was proudly, vehemently, obstinately, Data Driven. Now, my designs at this establishment did not extend…

Real rain this week; not yet biblical, but sustained and serious, with dark clouds on the horizon. No less busy, no less frustrated, making steady progress regardless. I’m not sleeping well and can…

And now, for something different: A Violonchelista de Fene .

It is estimated that about four-to-five Masses begin each second, and that there are approximately 8-to-9,000 Masses going on at any moment around the world. Mass today, 14th Sunday after Pentecost…

Божухна, колькі часу я сюды не пісаў. Апошні пост - пачатак мая. Дарэчы, думаю, што старыя пасты варта пацерці... Лета пад'язджае да канцавой станцыі. Яно было надта насыначым, у пэўнай ступені…

Being a smidge over-budget for food this month (really unsure how that happened, other than just not paying attention) means that i pulled chicken and ham out of the freezer and then stuck to…

april-august almost killed me, but i'm choosing to believe it's bc my autumn is going to be perfect and full of whimsy.

Leg day, a recharge meal and a home spa: the parts of recovery that never need a dashboard.

Early this month, I became aware of a ten-CD collection given the title Sweelinck Collection - Complete Keyboard Music & Psalms , release by Brilliant Classics. I had no trouble finding its…

    1. What you’ve got to know is she WROTE those songs! So it’s October 1973. I’m driving with the top down on my 1963 Chevy Impala trying to get something on the radio.…

Nine years ago this month, America was introduced to what was then called the “alt-right” and is now pretty much just “the right.” On Aug. 11, 2017, we witnessed what had been…

On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I do the math on Apple’s new M6 Mac mini and M5 Mac Studio, revisit launchers, Tailscale, and a few of my analogue bits. We also share some the…

I recently heard this great 1983 song when Anya Taylor-Joy and her husband Cary sang along when it played on their car radio while they were on the road in the superb series "Lucky." It was in…

Photography is art. It’s supposed to be fun. Somewhere along the way, we turned it into this overly technical, way-too-f*ckin-serious thing. So if you’re just starting out, forget trying to learn…

When people visit China, they often proclaim how safe it is. Deliveries are frequently left on a table outside hotels or housing on the side of the street or in the lobby and no one worries about…

"I am so good at what I do, and my business engines are so structurally sound, that I don’t even need to be on the internet to survive” …then win!...

Practice Drawing faces: #1 out of 20.

I was catching up on my RSS feed and saw this post from The Pen Addict. In it, Brad Dowdy mentions some updates to his Analog Defaults page. That’s a cool idea, so I set one up, too. I also thought…

Last year I wrote a blog post Apple in China, Ripoff in Amazon about a copycat book in Amazon search results. Sadly, it appears that Apple Books is no better than Amazon. I’m currently rereading…

Deciding that an experiment has failed, and throwing away the work, can feel bad. I suspect that it often feels worse to throw away a day of work than a year of work. Why might this be true? There…

Your app is losing its grip on your customers. Nothing about it needs to have become worse. Its UI might be thoughtfully designed and its workflows refined over years of research. The standard around…

There’s hot chocolate and then there’s Hot Chocolate. And the difference between what ordinary mortals call and drink believing to be, hot chocolate, is not the same as the Drink of the God’s Hot…

The Last Five Years and Grease in Gananoque, And No Birds Sang in Port Hope and Dora Awards debacle

Still having some problems trying to get WordPress to update or to successfully install the Store plugins. I’m going to leave this site as is and do my testing and tinkering on the backup…

August 30 2026 - 09:21 I need some water real bad. I forgot to drink water somehow once I came back. Guess I'll do that first after writing this. Big Walk is…

Today's entries are more 'yes and' of existing stuff but that's ok! (Also cat photo)

getting into the bus that crosses the city to another makes me bitter for 2 reasons. 1° is my parents ruining the vibe about the real possibility of getting kicked out of the park along a bill in my…

every time i fantasize something, i usually do it maxxing, e.g. this morning i was swiping on Tinder till i found the love of my life. mom was also at the table breakfasting and i showed her my wife…

If your life feels a little boring, it’s probably time to make a change. You don’t have to do something drastic, like try a new flavour of donut or set fire to your lawn. No. Consider…

⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: FULL SPOILERS In "Slingshot" (2024), two determined men face

Describing DRUCK makes me feel like an amateur sommelier talking about a bottle of cabernet. You're going to hear hints of MERCURY REV and SPACEMEN 3 floating around a base of Kraut Rock and THE…

With no inside / Or outside / Only a path that / Crosses…

When I was a kid, I used to watch Felix the Cat cartoons. One feature of those cartoons was Felix’s “magic bag of tricks.” Whenever he would get into a tight spot, he could make the…

The Meraki MX67 and MX68 (codename “Northern Brews”) are SD-WAN appliances. The MX67 is positioned as a replacement for the MX64 and offers one dedicated Gigabit Ethernet WAN uplink port,…

Kosmo - Arizona, 2020 When the weather cooperates, I enjoy a morning on the patio, reading or writing. We had a little West Highland Terrier, Kosmo, who never missed the opportunity to be outdoors. I…