Watching the final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year concert last night was wonderfully heartening. Whatever else is wrong with the world – and with music education – somehow these phenomenally talented youngsters keep emerging. The three finalists were whittled down from an original pool of several hundred...

A client certificate is supposed to prove more than an identity printed on a certificate. It is supposed to prove that the connecting client has the corresponding private key. That’s the trust boundary at the center of Canonical’s October 28 security advisory for LXD and MicroCloud.The issue, CVE-2026-112816, lets...

Back when I lived in Portland, OR, every year around this time I would venture out to southwest Washington to the old grist mill on Cedar Creek. It’s been there since 1876 and volunteers still run it as a working museum. The covered wooden bridge, the mill building and the aqueduct overgrown with moss make a great...

October 2026. Nassington. Northamptonshire. Last year, Yarwell; this time Nassington gets the Beer Guide glory in that cluster of gorgeous villages west of the A1 at Peterborough. A few miles east you’ve got dull Fenland and that pub in Holme that thinks it’s the lowest point in the UK, but this little pocket of...

Am primit știrea France Approves Proposal for €0.055 Tax per GB of Internet Traffic: RIP Gaming and Streaming de la Alex și nu mi-a venit să cred ce scrie în titlu, iar răspunsul meu instant a fost „ce prostie”. Și m-am pus să citesc articolul ca să văd mai exact despre ce este vorba, m-am mirat în continuare....

Hi. It's been a while. I'm trying to come back to blogging. It's been an absolutely crazy year between work and school and I just...had such trouble getting on a laptop at the end of the day. Not sure how to reinvigorate the want, though.

November Writing Month: Haiku Project⁠§There are only 58 days before the end of 2026, and before we reach December there’s November which is National #WritingMonth! Created by the talented Amin, it is a project that promotes writing (of all types). There’s a buddy system where you can see each other’s projects and...

They look like the kind of unassuming houses built across Manhattan just before the Civil War, and a newspaper ad offering the lots for sale in 1851 lends support to that possibility. Built at today’s northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st Street, these five attached cottages likely housed working-class families....

Back in 2023, I visited Saigon and got to see some friends there. It is not my favorite city but going back after years seemed incredible. From one day out wandering the city then. Saigon Vietnam 2022 I always loved to just wander the city. It never mattered if I had done it all before.

Man sollte sich öfter einfach mal hinreisen lassen. Von schönen Orten zum Beispiel, oder Gegenden, die man schon immer mal sehen wollte. Mit dem Bus oder dem Fahrrad, vielleicht auch zu Fuß, das ist natürlich ganz euch überlassen. Per E-Mail antworten

Today is the Feast of All Souls. You might be confused--didn't we just celebrate this holiday yesterday?No, that was All Saints. All Saints was originally designed to honor the saints, those who had been beatified. Official saints, canonized by the Pope.All Souls Day, celebrated the day after All Saints, was...

Introducción al Fediverso Cuando Elon Musk compró Twitter y todos buscamos alternativas, recordé que dos años antes me había registrado en una nueva red social, Mastodon. Surgía como otra de esas alternativas que iban apareciendo cada cierto tiempo para sustituir a Twitter. Cuándo la probé por primera vez, en 2020,...

“Our central ambition is philosophy on demand: philosophical judgment of exceptional depth and quality, available quickly enough to inform consequential decisions.” That’s Graham Clay, writing about Pensatura, an AI philosophy system he and Caleb Ontiveros are developing. Pensatura “coordinates AI tasks that...