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Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis

Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. F...

Local AI Weekly #4: The Fine Print of Running AI Locally

There is a local desktop AI assistant for KDE Plasma.

Final Cut Camera now offers variable aperture and cinematic mode effects for iPhone 18 Pro

Apple is bringing true aperture control to the iPhone for the first time. In an update announced yesterday, Final Cut Camera version 2.4 now supports the variable aperture of the new Fusion Main ca...

Letting AI See SwiftUI: Xcode Preview MCP in Practice — Pitfalls and Hopes

Xcode 26.3 marked the first time Apple opened its own capabilities to external agents through MCP. Many of those capabilities were already reachable through the CLI, but Preview rendering was entir...

One Year

Today marks a year since my little sister, Lisa, took her own life. She was 34. It was an overdose, but we don't know if it was an accident or suicide. We’ll never get an answer, yet I lean toward ...

Lean LaunchPad – The Next Generation

You’re reading a four-part series on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it. Part 1: The Year AI Came For Us Part 2: AI Killed the MVP – Long Live the IUP Part 3: The...

Games of Diplomacy

A 7th-century Sanskrit biography of the Indian emperor Harshavardhana written by his court poet Banabhatta contains the first literary mention of the game of chess. In it we read that the Indian em...

How to Ask a Friend to Remove a Photo Without an Argument

A photo can capture a lovely evening and still be something you do not want shared. Ask for the specific change you need, without turning your appearance into a debate.

Hmmm I read something at some point ... let me grab the link..

NOTE: having the links here doesn’t necessarily mean endorsement (though I often have similar takes … ) § (Psuedo) AI / LLM / AGENT https://dontpastetheai.com/ https://no-sloptober.com/ https://not...

When “DEI” research is cut, what happens to community health?

Health equity is caught in the crossfire

The Mona Lisa Theft

France · 1911 · Theft — In August 1911, Italian handyman Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre by hiding it under his worker's smock. He kept the masterpiece in his Paris room for o...

Myself; Yourself and Watchable Bad Anime

I was reminded of a 2007 anime called Myself; Yourself. While I did not care for it, I remembered the when and why I watched it and then discussed how it is a great example of a watchable bad anime.

September 2026

Time flies 🪰 or is it ✈️, I don’t know, and I don’t have a proper intro this month, so let’s not get hung up on unnecessary things. From the blog since my last recently post: Goodbye SourceHut Kaiz...

Ground Effect

On the autonomy ladder

I used to describe my position on AI and infrastructure with a simple rule: AI should never operate your infrastructure directly. The rule was useful, but I do not think it is the right rule anymor...

The Perjury ‘Gotcha’ Moment That Launched A Thousand Memes — See Also

SDNY Is Now Taking Applications From The Marine Corps, Any Rank Welcome: We used to be a proper Southern District. Senator Schmitt's Himself On Live TV: Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt thought he'd n...

The Deep Magic of 3D Graphics Perspective

Many of us of a certain age will have had their first true, good 3D video game experience with Super Mario 64. Unlike previous 3D games, the camera was an …read more

Some Say They’re Still Driving West…

Read Some Say They’re Still Driving West… Tourist Dad: "Yeah, we're gonna drive to the next spot now." Me: "Oh, where is that?" I was thinking they were going to say a neighbourhood in the city or ...

EAEU Pushes Agricultural Integration Amid Global Food Security Risks

Luke Rodeheffer

Bing Bunged Bobby's Blog

My site has been de-indexed, so I wrote about it.