Oct 11, 2026 from The Autodidacts Listening to music as an active process Although I’m a semi-professional musician, most days, I listen to far less music than my friends. I generally work in silence, cook in silence, run in silence. When I do listen to music, usually in...
Oct 10, 2026 from Boris Tane Self-improving software is inevitable Production tells us exactly how to make our software better, we've just never had the tools to run this on auto-pilot.
Oct 07, 2026 from The Autodidacts TIL how to deeplink all the things I have written before about how to link to a specific segment of a youtube video, and how to link to specific words or paragraphs within a webpage. I even knew, vaguely, that you could link to page...
Oct 06, 2026 from tenticle Pricing Rarity Unfinished; posting anyway. As a kid I lived through several collecting manias in the midst of my peers. Hockey cards, Kinder surprise toys, Pogs, Cs… Most of them managed to mostly pass me. I had ...
Oct 01, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Building Atlas How I built a website audit console that carries captured evidence into review and export.
Sep 24, 2026 from The Autodidacts How to copy URLs of multiple Firefox tabs without installing an extension It’s easy, once you know you can
Sep 15, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Verifying a 54-move exact search. How I reconstructed a three-dimensional knight path, reduced the search, and checked the result against the puzzle rules.
Sep 02, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Why Texas toll roads stay tolled. How debt, reserves, public transfers, and concession rights keep Texas roads tolled after construction.
Aug 23, 2026 from The Autodidacts How to fit Qwen3.8-27B into 16GB of VRAM and run it on a single RTX 3080 card: the best quantizations and Llama.cpp flags I've found TL;DR: UD-IQ3_XXS with KV cache quantization
Aug 21, 2026 from Boris Tane On-Call Is Now Theatre On-call was calibrated to the cost of waking up a human. That cost just went to zero. Self-operating software is coming, and your rotation is the last thing standing in its way.
Aug 20, 2026 from The Autodidacts Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand Sticks tongue out at AI
Aug 20, 2026 from The Autodidacts The Hopefully Eventually Ultimate Desktop Linux Troubleshooting Guide: Recovering from Crashes and Freezes Free advice from the printer fixer
Aug 17, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing The U.S. rare-earth magnet buildout. Much of the disclosed plant capacity remains a future project. Qualification, product mix, inputs, and yield determine how much becomes usable supply.
Aug 17, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing What happened to the software buyout boom? An audit of 25 software take-privates: what changed ownership, what returned cash, and what the public record cannot say about returns.
Aug 16, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing An AI megawatt is not a megawatt. A conditional GB300 model turns facility power into installed GPUs. A grid request alone leaves the fleet unknown.
Aug 15, 2026 from Toni Notes Why most blog advice does not apply to small publications Most blogging advice is built for marketing assets at a different scale. When a small publication imports that infrastructure, the result is friction, guilt, and frameworks for a business that is n...
Aug 12, 2026 from Toni Notes A small publication needs rhythm more than volume Readers do not feel a publication through raw output totals. They feel it through recognizable return, and a small publication becomes easier to trust when its return shape is legible.
Jul 31, 2026 from tenticle Pizza Time Unfinished; posting anyway. Pizza and 2+1 offers go together like Apache Airflow and data engineering: Nobody knows why, but it is a thing. The premise is deceptively simple: Buy three pizzas and g...
