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What's next?

Plans for the future of this website. To keep this brief, it’s probably best served as a list: Probably won’t write any more long and detailed web dev guides and tutorials Killed the /notes section...

It's Not That the Models Are Slower—The Tasks Have Become Bigger - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #146

Lately, even tasks that I consider relatively simple often take AI several minutes—or sometimes even tens of minutes—to complete. It gave me the impression that as models become more capable, they ...

“Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later

(Previously) Flukes and Breakthroughs In the NBA 2015–16 season, Steph Curry set the all-time single-season record for three-point field goals, 402, completely crushing the old record of 286. Curry...

2026W29

Appaji - Software Engineer — The detail that got me is that you didn’t even need to run anything. Just opening the take-home project in VSCode could fire the payload through a hidden .vscode config...

Black Chasm

I think the worst kind of writer is not just one who doesn't read, but one who doesn't go out of their way to read good writing. There are many people with blogs or publications who use writing as ...

Forth

Partner-Associate Park Passion Predicament — See Generally

What's The Billing Code For This: A midday park-bench makeout session between a Biglaw partner and associate ends up going viral. $1.2 Billion Worth Of 'Are You Sure This Is Legal?': MV Realty has ...

Silent But Deadlift

Read Silent But Deadlift I work in a 24/7 gym, but it's usually pretty dead between 3-4 AM. This huge hulk of a man comes in, taps his membership card, and then looks over at the free weights secti...

Hackaday Links: July 26, 2026

At a time when so-called “artificial intelligence” seems inescapable, we were encouraged to see news that Amazon will be cracking down on third-party sellers that use AI-generated images for their ...

Weekly Robotics #370

In Weekly Robotics 370, you'll learn about designing an underground robot scheduler, an open-source L2 autopilot, the problem with robot-centric deployment data for general robots, an interesting f...

Rollenspielszenen: Ich war high!

Worte, die man nicht von der Person hören möchte, die das Seil hält, an dem du hängst.

Evaluating My Nagoya Basho Predictions

On July 11, I made my pre-Nagoya Basho predictions for the fourth grand sumo tournament of 2026. To be precise, I picked eight wrestlers to hit double digit wins. Now that the Nagoya Basho has been...

Large Libel Models Decision in China

I just learned about this Large Libel Models case from China (to add to the nine U.S. cases I've seen,… The post Large Libel Models Decision in China appeared first on Reason.com.

Daily News Stuff 26 July 2026

No Skorking Edition Top Story China is breeding a clone army of terror yaks, probably. (CNN) They say they're not, but they also say:These are Tibetan yaks, designed and cloned in secretive labs mo...

How are you supposed to wash a Japanese futon duvet at the laundromat?

Sure, that big, fluffy down blanket is a must for making it through a Japanese winter, but how are you supposed to clean it when summer comes around? Generally, living in Japan means hanging your l...

John Northampton

John Northampton was a citizen of London his whole life, from a decent-sized family (two brothers and two sisters). He became a cloth merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, fou...

A Large Fresco of Dionysus and Ariadne Discovered and Restored on the Ceiling of the “Casa con Pacificio” in Pompeii

The presentation of the project took place in the Palestra Grande of the Excavations, at the end of the International Workshop Pompeii: Excavations and Ongoing Research, held in the Park Auditorium...

Archived Notes

An archive of what used to be my /notes page. Node.js: Buffer in Cloudflare Workers Using things like Buffer.from() in a Cloudflare Worker will result in an undefined error. To make it work, the no...

📝 2026-07-26 10:44: Taking the dogs for a walk with our oldest and we came across this beautiful...

Taking the dogs for a walk with our oldest and we came across this beautiful buzzard just sat there. Wasn't bothered by us really. I just hope it doesn't have a bust wing or anything. Thanks for re...

Play Local Music With File-Manager Simplicity

Old school style, old school vibes. SonicTree is for people who like browse music files in folders the way they are stored on the disk.