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I prefer "Yankee" over "Usonian" over "American"
I was born in the USA. Many tongues call me "Ameri...
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's b...
Claude won’t let me talk about the Gaza genocide
I asked Claude to stop “correcting” me when I refe...
Moving the blog again (for real this time)
My last little hint indicated I was tweaking the c...
GL.iNet Mudi 7
A three-month review of the _GL.iNet Mudi 7_ (_GL-...
Credit Feed 10: Reviewing Reviewing
In the early days of high school, I knew what I wa...
Leap Tasks: Why Your Brain Avoids What Matters Most
Making a to-do list is easy. We can easily write d...
Things You Might Not Know About This Site
Hey you! Yeah you 🫵! Thanks for takin’ some time t...
Oops Tempus Fugit!
My, how time flies! It’s been a year since writing...
Seven levels of a tree
Here’s a challenge. Julie Trigg has been developin...
I prefer Djot over Markdown
I prefer Djot over Markdown Why Djot? Markdown is ...
Certificate Transparency in Firefox
.Firefox 136 looks poised to enforce Certificate T...
A Linux-Based Video Player Appliance
Our MP4 player box died. It was a little cheapo de...
Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits Is Leering and Traumatic
Emily Steel, New York Times (gift link): More than...
Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms
It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a rea...
It’s been a hot minute...
It’s been a hot minute. Time for a Barry update! L...
How We Will Be Measured (abridged)
This is a version of How We Will Be Measured, abri...
Platform Support for GNU Extensions to Basic Regular Expressions
Recently I was reviewing some shell script a colle...
Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems
There are many companies manufacturing adversarial...
Web Review, Week 2026-31
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-31. S...
i've started drawing again
I just miss doing art. Don’t you? Naomi Kritzer, B...
Out of Order
It is 1945, and 1961, and 1968, and 2024, and 2045...
Thirty Years of Monsters
The announcement came over loudspeakers: There wou...
Weeknote (03-01-2025)
It's been a much more joyful week. On Friday my wi...
The Price of Software
When Zork I was originally released in the early 8...
Hearing Aids Shenanigans
A short story on phones, hearing aids, the Fediver...
Diffs, by Pierre
<p>Although I’m generally allergic to dependencies as...</p>
Open Community License v1
an unusual non-commercial hardware-software combo ...
Before I go: Double your business with companies you like
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in t...
Too many words about DIDs
Your “Bluesky account” is not just a Bluesky accou...
Fitness Challenge: Update Two
About two months ago, I discussed my fitness chall...
If you have a Poem/1, pls run this firmware update
Hey, if you have a Poem/1 then can I ask you to do...
[notes] New Book Day
Is there a better kind of day? New book day is alw...
Omarchy on an ASUS CN60 Chromebox
Background If you haven’t noticed, AI and the data...
We have proof automation now
I've long had a soft spot for dependently-typed la...
Reading List 08/01/26
Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Projec...
ambivalence and authority
I have plenty of disagreement with George Scialabb...
Learning to break the rules</h1>
When I was a young boy I played cards with my frie...
You should try contra dancing
A popular icebreaker in San Francisco these days i...
my harddrive is probably not full
I enjoyed reading this post by Marginalia "Your ha...
Summary of changes for July 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes ...
“Trump’s Pathological Aversion To Truth”
This article was just fascinating to me. https://w...
To The South.
Storms are passing to the south of us this evening...
Is there a tension between creativity and accuracy?
On Twitter, I’ve been chatting with my friend Juli...
science in an anarchist society
I've always been fascinated by anarchist societies...
soot, solar, sedimentation, sin, & 'centers
Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosel...
Perfect Sentences, 188
Hello to the new subscribers who recently joined b...
My Favorite Runs From SGDQ 2026
Another GDQ has come and gone! I was more or less ...
Playboy, kittens, and deep learning
It was nearing midnight and it had been a long day...
I am publishing this from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, technology is incredible, etc. etc.
I caved and spent the $32 fucking dollars to have ...
This Week 2026 31
This has been another week where quite a lot happe...
Life lessons from reinforcement learning
Becoming an RL diehard in the past year and thinki...
I Broke My 4th-Grade Class Economy
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke ar...
Choosing a new bookmarking/read later service
I used the Mozilla Pocket service until recently. ...
Mongoose: Preauth RCE and mTLS Bypass on Millions of Devices
So, Mongoose. If you’ve never heard of it, you’ve ...
Favourites of July 2026
The summer holiday is halfway. I somehow managed t...
Comprehension is the job
I’ve already referenced Addy’s Comprehension Debt ...
Daily steps to building our resistance into a General Strike
Daily steps to building our resistance into a Gene...
📝 2026-08-05 22:52: I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, there's many of them for...
I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, t...
[notes] Daniel Levitin, and the age of distraction
…is the author of “This is your brain on music“, a...
A Life Really Worth Living
This class is about a fatal trap that lies in wait...
Down with the System by Serj Tankian (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully writt...
Probably Won’t Pass You on to Another Investor
This is one of those personal preferences that mig...
Emergence Saved Our Tofu
I think I know what emergence means now: concretel...
Sequoia Ascent 2026 summary
I did a fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026. The ...
A novel approach to multi-line strings in Rust
Writing multi-line strings in Rust is quite awkwar...
Finding the Rhythm of the Words
When I set out to print this Milton Acorn passage ...
KiCad helpers and caliper improvements
Hi friends, This newsletter we’re streamlining the...
On Michael Levin's research and approach
April 16, 2026 · 28 Min Read On Michael Levin's re...
Who needs a flying car when you have display: grid
A friend asked me if I could build him a simple we...
Artemis II Is Not Safe to Fly
“Our test facilities can’t reach the combination o...
Single Page Plaintext Caddy Sites
Single Page Plaintext Caddy Sites June 15, 2026 I ...
Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud
Well-regarded non-profit runs domestic intelligenc...
🔗 Recommendations When Using LLM-backed Generative AI Systems for FOSS Contributions
Several recommendations for LLM usage in the conte...
Recent reads: June 2026
It's been a while and this year has turned out to ...
In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of ...
I wrote a book about computing, out soon.
First, we're starting a publishing company. Second...
Recently in July '26
July was a month full of unexpected events, milest...
Your harddrive is probably full
I currently have 17 GB free space on my root drive...
Categorize Your Dependencies
<p>When building a project, it's very likely that we ...</p>
An average new Dad's approach to training with kettlebells (and other tools) to develop General Physical Preparedness (GPP) at home
This is a mirror of the post on /r/kettlebell: htt...
How to Swim with Manatees—without a Tour!
Swimming with manatees had been a long-time dream ...
Why are Americans so unhappy?
Here's a very straightforward graph to help explai...
Why a Raspberry Pi shouldn't be powered through its GPIO pins
I recently repaired the Micro USB socket of an old...
Have you heard? Clickhouse is winning the observability wars!
Years ago I predicted that columnar storage would ...
DIY adjustable projector stand
A quick project to make it easier to use our home ...
Evil Game Design - An Introduction
Transcript of my talk for GIGF 2026
What's a computer?
One of the biggest changes to my life since I step...
Svelte state sharing? Just use classes. They're fine.
Who here remembers Stores from Svelte 4? // counte...
New Interview of Me on “War on Cars” Podcast
The post New Interview of Me on “War on Cars” Podc...
Wizards, Metadata, and Memory
Stage design of the Enchanted Garden by Hermann Bu...
After Virtue
A book by Alasdair MacIntyre. Source: en.wikipedia...
Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World?
There’s never been just one way to buy software. I...
The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Social Security
In the world of very early retirement, we tend to ...
Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks
You can make your software developer life suck a b...
A Host City
When Mark and I moved to Kansas City 34 years ago,...
Picking up where I left off
Behold, it is I, the guy who continues to play new...
My Failed Tech Predictions
Tech writers love making at times outlandish predi...
Mapping Trump’s crypto empire on Last Week Tonight
A new Citation Needed data project maps the Trump ...
Waiting to be found by only you
Who knows how reality will continue to develop? Th...
Automating Obsidian With Python Organize Tool
When self-hosting it's easy to accumulate self-hos...
You should probably check on your smart appliances
TL;DR: is your refrigerator running malware? If so...
Here's how I host my own AIM server
Tired of Discord? Want to chat with your friends u...
The Dead MacBook Lives Again
I mentioned that my wife’s MacBook died in my last...
How much is too much? Or what's the maximum a price should increase?
When you get older and start to buy your own thing...
Generators with UnpinCell
In July, I described a way to make pinning more er...