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When my site analytics reported a large number of inbound traffic from Hacker News clones, I got curious and started clicking links.[1] I like to visit links. I am connoisseur of it. I love the feeling of landing on something you didn’t expect — which is precisely what happened. I landed on a site that had one of those Cloudflare-esque “prove you're human” captchas. That didn’t seem particularly abnormal. Lots …

The next big step in the boat project is buying the plywood that will be used to construct the hull. There’s a few things to note about the plywood: This isn’t the stuff you buy at the big box store. It’s marine-grade plywood, which is higher quality and more expensive than the normal stuff. The plywood gets CNC cut – think: a computer that controls a router to cut out …

Wow, so much has happened since #6. Where do I begin? Should I try to recap my travels to Portland or to Atlanta for WordCamp or FinCon? Should I summarize all of the progress we’ve made on the addition to our home? Should I write about my recent upgrade to an M4 MacBook Pro? Or, do I focus on the updates that have come to the ActivityPub plugin that has …

Like so many, I’ve been enchanted by Wicked since I was young. The musical shaped my childhood, inspired my imagination, and stayed with me through every stage of life (my dog is literally called Elphie!) When news of a film adaptation first surfaced all those years ago, my heart soared, though tempered with the hope that they would do justice to something so pivotal to me and countless others. It’s …

Well, it had to be this one I posted, didn't it? That macabre sing-song sample - "did you ever think / when the hearse goes by / that some day you are going to die?"Also on the themeYounger than me, by a half-decade... sobering, eh? I reviewed Depth Charge - or is it Depthcharge? - a couple of times in a Melody Maker Singles column, and each time the release …

In my last post (see here) I invited you to work on the following question:Find a \(d\) such that--There is a 2-coloring of \(R^d\) with no mono unit square.--For all 2-colorings of \(R^{d+1}\) there is a mono unit square. Actually I should have phrased my question as What do we know about d? Here is what we knowa) \(d \ge 2\). There is a 2-coloring of \(R^2\) with no mono …

this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore. I'll add photos and notes and stuff when i'm done. note that the full slides contain a lot more info that i had to cut out of the ~~10~~ 9 minute talk.

Busy, busy, busy. But apparently not on this blog. I’m still making time for this month’s stats post, however. I only manages to two posts this month: ChatGPT Slow Cooker Chicken Curry October 2024 Book Reading List Google Analytics Users → 1,900 Sessions → 2,300 Views → 2,300 Google Analytics Graph for November Google Search Console Clicks → 1,330 Search Impressions → 78,200 Average position → 31.4 Google Search Console …

[] Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best. —Robert Baden-Powell One Foot Tsunami has always been a labor of love. Since 2009, I’ve been proud to amuse, entertain, and inform tens of thousands of readers just about …

This weathervane was photographed at a rest area on the New York Thru WayIn September we traveled down south to see the Shenendoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. On the way home we traveled through New York state on the Thruway and the Berkshire Connector. The NYSTA (New York State Thruway Authority) calls the rest areas here "travel plazas". There are 27 travel plazas. A redesign project was …

A huge ✨Thank You️✨️ to those who let me know they can not see my Fanciful Utility Holiday Boxes in my Etsy shop. I have no idea what is going on. As an attempt to put a bandaid on the problem, I am going to list all of my current items here. Fanciful Utility Holiday […]

A great recent talk by Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf on what is going on with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Surfaced on Bluesky through The Ocean Commotion feed.

I was really happy to join Mal Minhas and Chris Evans on a panel at The SaaS CTO conference. Moderated by the excellent Jon Topper, we covered what criteria we use to differentiate between genuinely transformative technologies and overhyped trends, how we communicate the value and risks of adopting new technologies to stakeholders outside of technology, and what advice we’d give to a tech leader on how to get started …

One could argue for Star Wars: Visions as the best post-Disney acquisition work next to Andor. So, suffice to say, I am excited about a 3rd season.

I just finished my fifth driving lesson in Taiwan.500 minutes down; 1,000 to go.For my first two lessons, the English-speaking instructor rode with me. But since then, I’ve been on my own: repeatedly, mindlessly circling the test track at 2km/h.During each 100-minute session, the odometer has never risen by more than 3 clicks. Three kilometers in an hour and 40 minutes.I’m yet to touch the accelerator.Aside from one 45-meter stretch, …