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Whenever I’m in a period of frequently moving from place to place I sometimes wake up slightly disoriented. “Wait, where am I?” I look out the window. “Oh, right. Okay.”This…

This is a an excerpt from Megan Fitzpatrick’s new book “Dutch Tool Chests.” I have been looking forward to its release for some time now and have finally had a…

LLMs accelerated with eGPU on a Raspberry Pi 5 After a long journey getting AMD graphics cards working on the Raspberry Pi 5, we finally have a stable patch for…

"The powerful fear art, whatever its form... because it makes sense of what life’s brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us... becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the…

(with Sophie R. Nelson) One philosophical inclination I shared with the late Dan Dennett is a love of weird perspectives on consciousness, which sharply violate ordinary, everyday common sense. When…

I have often called myself a member of the “sandwich generation.”  But after a little research, I discovered that I am actually a member of the “club sandwich generation.” The…

Okay, okay, I won’t toss this speck of neutron star material here! I guess I’ll just have to pack it out. (Spotted at the Hermosa Beach Pier over the weekend.)…

Not this hand-off In the aftermath of the 737 MAX crashes, I wrote First We Change How People Behave.: The fundamental problem of autonomous vehicles sharing roads is that until…

If you're self-hosting Renovate, you're generally going to be out-of-date compared to the upstream project's releases. This isn't just because it takes time to update, but because Renovate as a…

You know how you breathe on a screen to give it a little moisture before wiping away a fingerprint? I tried this with the nano texture display on the M4…

I’ve been wanting to “undo” or deconstruct one of my paintings and I finally did it. You can see the photo I worked… The post Swallowtail at Green Knob Oil…

The great French chemist and gastronomist Hervé This has a lot of interesting things to say about cuisine in his many books, but he sometimeContinue reading

Walk the road your dream goes.

This parody popped into my head this morning, glad someone else already did it.

Welcome to Part Three of this series about my recent visit to Bamfield, to stay at Outer Shores Lodge. You can find Part One here, and Part Two here. While…

Every techie dreams of one day writing a considered harmful post and today, my friends, today that honor is finally bestowed on me. Gather round the fire, and I'll tell…

Image was taken with a Fujifilm X100VI compact camera

I was an early adopter of Twitter and loved its rambunctious vibe for many years. It even brought me a brief moment of notoriety. I was relaxed about the change of…

Earlier this evening, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs on the topic of Bill…

🐉 I was recently invited to join an in-person Dungeons & Dragons campaign—using real paper character sheets and dice! We've just had our Session Zero and started creating our characters,…