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In my memory, Rayman Legends is a timeless classic. Released in 2013, it arrived at a moment when Ubisoft were becoming best known for po-faced games like Assassin's Creed and innumerable Tom Clancy spinoffs, yet Rayman Legends was a gorgeous ...
Release: datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0 I want Datasette Agent to be able to generate and execute Python code safely. This alpha is looking promising so far. GPT-5.5 has so far failed to break out of the sandbox! Tags: python, sandboxing, datasette, webassembly, ...
Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a1 Fixes for some limitations that emerged while I was trying to use this to build datasette-agent-micropython. Tags: python, sandboxing, webassembly, micropython
The very first computer programming class I ever took introduced me to the idea of there being different kinds of numbers, like integers, floats, and doubles (it was a C++ course). “You mean, when I assign a variable, I have ...
California Brown Pelican, in Fort Mason, CA, USI'm at the Microsoft Build conference today, held at Fort Mason in San Francisco. There are California Brown Pelicans diving into the water directly behind venue! Tags: microsoft, ai, generative-ai, llms, llm-release
Get in! My ascension 10 wins in Slay the Spire 2 continue. I finally ran a deck with The Defect that felt coherent. 4 Claw combined with 3 Feral and just enough block.
The CSS ::search-text pseudo-element selects the matching text from your browser's "find in page" feature. ::search-text originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Intel have had a bit of a wild ride as of late. In many ways, the past two years have been some of the roughest in the company's history: a massive, multi-billion dollar quarterly loss back in 2024 was enough ...
Today's links The tedious power of storytelling: "Excitement" is to art as "falsifiablilty" is to science. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Lost Marx Bros musical; USPTO v Drumpf trademark; 3D scans v copyright; Giving worse internet ...
Overview of Digital Accessibility Technologies by Declan Chidlow is an insightful list of lesser-known technology. How do website makers ensure what we’ve built is accessible? It is impractical to test everything. Even with access to all devices we’d struggle to ...
Tool: Pasted File Editor I really like how you can paste a large volume of text into claude.ai (or the Claude desktop/mobile apps) and it will detect it as a large paste and turn it into a file attachment instead. ...
Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a0 My latest sandboxing experiment: This alpha package bundles a lightly customized WASM build of MicroPython with a wrapper to execute code in it via wasmtime. Tags: python, sandboxing, webassembly, micropython
Sunday came, Sunday went, but the notes can be week notes any day they want to be. Current situation: Monday 25 May: Memorial Day, also hospital day. Having to work...
The View from the Office. I caught up with Howard Lindzon in Soho at La Colombe where we talked about markets, media and machines over cappuccinos. Howard is the founder of venture firm social leverage and the online community Stocktwits. ...
A charcoal architectural sketch: a lone figure steps out of a broken, tangled sienna structure on the left—current state—into a clean purple architectural corridor that races toward bright open light on the right—ideal state/images/anthropic-openai-ipos.webp/images/anthropic-openai-ipos.webp Some ...
For many people, Kubernetes Dashboard was their first window into Kubernetes. It offered a simple visual way to see what was running in a cluster, inspect resources, and build confidence without relying on the command line. For years, it helped ...
What’s up with this? The spirit, of course, is “I want my Google Reader back.” I should be careful though: I imagine if we really did have it back exactly as it was, it would probably not be as cool ...
I am back! Ten days “offline”. For me that just means online without talking to anyone. My break came at a time of high industry (and personal) stress. “Seeing talented people lose motivation bums me the hell out. Reach out ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in May 2026.
In the previous article, I spoke about the why and how to use a Markdown component in Astro. Here, we’re going to expand on that and help you use Markdown everywhere — regardless of the framework you use. So, … ...
STATUS: All-in Linux and Emacs...againTODO: Finish staining the deckWATCHING: "Nemisis" on NetflixI love the first day of a new month. I get to print new calendars, review photos from last month, create a new monthly spread in my notebook, etc. ...
Refilling some pensThis might be my favorite part about using fountain pens.Inks:iroshizuku shin-kai in the Lamy 2000. It's a beautiful blue.Noodler's Bernanke Blue in the Pilot Custom 823. The Pilot has a juicy nib so, being left-handed, I need a
The TBT Window is the FCP-to-TTI interval used to calculate Total Blocking Time. If FCP or TTI moves, TBT can change even when long tasks do not.
I chose Pika Backup for backups on Linux because it's very basic and simple to use, which is at least as important as features. Anyway, I somehow stepped on May's org-journal file and was able to browse the backups and ...
Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this moment and for the moments that led to it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Home chemistry sets in danger; Every ...
Topics covered in this episode: CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective daily-stars-explorer Markdown to pdf with pandoc and typst postman2pytest Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Brian #1: CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective Marcelo Trylesinski suggested by Lee Luocks Short version: ...
Short post today. New ZJIT contributor dak2 submitted a PR to fix an overflow bug in fixnum division in ZJIT. We did the division fine, but lied about the type of the result in the case of dividing FIXNUM_MIN by ...
Holy moly! I pulled of back-to-back shiv builds in Slay the Spire 2 to destroy my first ascension 10! And I was beginning to lament how difficult The Silent is to pilot. I even took down the two bosses without ...
Following Friday’s antics I have achieved a Slay the Spire 2 milestone. Ascension level 10 on all characters! The Silent was last to arrive. After many anaemic runs I finally got shivs working with two upgraded Afterimage. I’ve always played ...
To create a post like this one, I run an emacs function to create the markdown file. Then I pick an image to use. Then I run a script on that image to add date and weather info. Then I ...
Sundays are for stumbling upon a ruined church, squirrelled away among the hawthorns behind a currently active church in the neighbourhood. I was flabbergasted – I've walked past that churchyard a thousand times without noticing. In this case, I just ...
A link is just a button that takes you somewhere when you click it right? style> span { text-decoration: underline; color: #44EEEE; } style> span onclick="window.location='https://xkcd.com/'">100% legit linkspan> span.link { text-decoration: underline; color: var(--link-color1); } 100% legit link Except that's ...
I love science and space flight as much as the next boomer, but my attitude has changed over the past decade. Now, when some billionaire's rocket "experiences an anomaly", I cheer a little.
You wake up, brew the coffee, open GitHub, and there it is. Another pull request on your open source project. Thirteen thousand lines added. No issue filed first. No discussion. Just "here, please review this for me." Over the past ...
