Personal blogs

On a recent afternoon walk, I heard an unseen owl call from somewhere off in the forest: "Hoo-hoo . . . hoo-hoo." This seemed to be a gentle inquiry, a tentative "How do you do?" …

I actually don’t recall how I came across Top Boy, but I’m pretty sure it was from an issue of the Rec Room newsletter… Searching through my inbox, it definitely was. Top Boy is a …

This is a post about multiple wordles and the point at which they hit diminishing returnles. If you don’t know what Wordle is, this post is not for you and also, how is life back …

Aber es gibt ein Neues im Alten, dessen Sein damit, daß es war und ist, nicht erschöpft ist, ein Etwas, das uns fehlen kann, obgleich wir es haben. Man muß es neu sehen lernen, um …

Went and wandered through the Bosque along the Rio Grande: Category:Dan Lyke life Category:2013-04 Albuquerque Trip Flutterby.net is a publication of Dan Lyke and unless otherwise noted, copyright by Dan LykeGratefully acknowledged: OpenStreetMap map tiles …

So the legit uses for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies at this point have been pretty much reduced to malware and helping North Korea and Russia evade sanctions. I've been thinking about LLMs in the context of …

The time has come to start thinking about getting a new motorised wheelchair. My current one will be 10 years old in July and, while it still runs well, as I have looked after it, …

I’ll be honest, I’ve had better weeks. It was the anticipation. It was Gordon’s birthday on Friday, which seemed a fitting day to scatter some of his ashes. Earlier in the week, I’d arranged to …

The Verge takes a trip on a submarine-cable-repair ship Vici.org, an “archæological atlas of antiquity” that shows you Græco-Roman history and artefacts in your area In Vesuvius Prize news, the vulcanised scrolls have now revealed …

We’re hosting an event in London in a few weeks to launch Mapped, a project we’ve been working on over the last six months with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. ​Mapped integrates …

We went to Tuscany in 2022 and I never wrote it up, so here are some notes that are 2 years out of date. A great trip, apart from the scorpions.

Hi there. Long time no see. I’m not really sure how to start this, so I guess we’ll just start. 2023 has been an interesting year full of… Life changes? Life adjustments? Life somethings. A …

A project I’m working on forced me to wade into the discourse about semiconductors – especially the economics of older chip manufacturing processes and claims about the importance of bleeding edge processes for AI. I …

Naomi Hartono: The team discovered that a single chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory — including some of the FDS computer’s software code — isn’t working. The loss of that code …

A parable of our decade in two pieces of nearly-identical hardware: In 2012 we had the Descriptive Camera using Mechanical Turk, as a thought provoking student project and a blog post. In 2024 we get …

The maximum temperature today - which means now - is around 24C and clear skies ☀️. I just got the not so unexpected urge to write something about biking. I say unexpected because I am …

18 April 2024 Projects by IF new home page You used to be able to confidently predict that the future would look more or less like today: many things getting a bit better, some a …

A fine post by Ethan Marcotte called The negotiation cycle led me to an incredible essay by Alan Jacobs called From Tech Critique to Ways of Living. It references an old idea called “The SCT1” …

Helldivers 2 is a fun game. That is when it works. It has a bad habit of crashing when you don’t want it to. Matchmaking is also a little borked as it is right now. …

As my wife can attest, I have zero ability to resist various gadgets if they’re below a certain price. Be it the Analogue Pocket, the Playdate, the Game & Watch reissue or countless Amazon-enabled monstrosities …