General interest blogs covering a mix of topics
Thoughts on software development, AI, and technology
In Which I Describe why some AI Skeptics need to Experiment
In Which I Learn that our Body Temperature is Lower than Commonly Believed
In Which I Vent my Frustrations about Using LLMs for Coding
Wie gehst du vor, wenn du eine perfekte Goblinverkleidung herbeizaubern kannst, aber kein Wort der Goblinsprache spri...
Ein Arbeitskollege von mir hat eine Sonnenuntergangs-/aufgangssimulation programmiert. Und eine Schleimpilzsimulation.
Ist es in CSS „grey“ oder „gray“? Und wie ist es mit hellgrau und dunkelgrau?
Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed: A place where I complain about technology or dive into quasi-philsophical subjects.
During my holiday break, I built a Stratum 1 NTP server in my home lab. Ordinarily, we get our time from internet-bas...
"Ignorance is bliss" usually has a negative connotation, a way to refer to someone who is ignorant on some topic that...
Other than looking cool to your friends, owning your own domain increases your digital self-reliance. It's kind of li...
Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software
The first post I made on this blog was on this date in 2003. Rather than engaging in my usual anniversary navel-gazin...
One of my New Year’s initiatives is to move even more of my services from third-party providers back under my control...
As I mentioned in my re:Invent post I got to meet Corey Quinn back in December and I follow his “Last Week in AWS” bl...
I’m a data scientist based in Amsterdam, currently working at Spotify. I work on projects aimed at enhancing the productivity and experience of developers, using research and data analysis to inform our platform strategies.
I started using Claude Code in July last year. I was a Cursor user looking for something better, and I was skeptical ...
Welcome to the Netherlands! If you’re a newcomer like me and love tennis, or even if you’re looking to pick up a rack...
When you’re independent you feel less desire to impress strangers, which can be an enormous financial and psychologic...
A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
Uma loves singing. Recently, she has been humming ಬಾನ ದಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸೂರ್ಯ ಜಾರಿಹೋದ. I wanted to create a karaoke version o...
It was a busy week. I think it will be until the end of March, till we start our vacation. I managed to workout (P.T....
Neck pain and shoulder pain have been part of my occupational side effects. I have made some changes in my posture an...
An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds
Special Edition — Ego TL;DR:What's the difference between my ego in the real world and my ego online? This blog post ...
Special Edition — Colors TL;DR:Purple is my color. This blog post has approximately 301 words and may take 2 minutes ...
Special Edition — Take Two TL;DR:If I had another chance, I would have started this blog earlier. This blog post has ...
The unsupported use case of a disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.
In my (coming up on) twenty-six years of blogging, I’ve had some site designs you’d have been right to call “aggressi...
The disability lawyers sent both email and text today to inform me that the disability examiner has mailed me a copy ...
Today I resumed something I’ve done before: leaving my phone at home when I go out into the neighborhood to read a bo...
A practising self-memoir, recorded as an inconsistent logbook.
The satisfaction in self-destruction is what keeps me from getting out. Last night, right after I finished writing my...
Wow. It has been long, yet all it has been is a lot of ruminating, longing, yearning, guilting, depressing, daydreami...
Nobody is here.Nobody is touching me.Nobody is beating me.Nobody is hitting me.Nobody is engulfing my space.Nobody is...
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We’re excited to share some surprising news — Sandboxels is joining Neal.fun, the home of popular online games such a...
Okay, maybe only 1 million
This massive update includes new machines (Filters!), tools, graphics, and more.
A digital garden exploring web development, the small/indie web, Gemini protocol, book reviews, and personal reflections.
On iOS, it’s possible to use a custom schedule to turn on the night shift (slightly tinted yellow-orange) mode separa...
This would have been a great opportunity to use “The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewed” if not for the sake of my confo...
Kev Quirk started a personal blog challenge where you answer a few questions and “tag” a few people of your choosing ...
A wide-ranging blog with technical tutorials on Django, Python, and web development alongside travel guides and reflections on life abroad in Germany.
My resolution for 2025 was to make more art, and I had fun keeping it. I took acrylic painting lessons, got into wate...
My resolution for 2025 was to make more art, and I had fun keeping it. I took acrylic painting lessons, got into wate...
Every year, on the first of January, prices change and new laws come into effect. Mostly, life gets a little more exp...
A long-running blog mixing practical programming guides on Django, Node.js, and PostgreSQL with essays on developer careers, productivity, and personal growth.
I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I last published an article here! Time really flies. The crazy part is...
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a bit of a personal finance nerd. I’ve been carefully tracking my spending and investin...
I’ve always been the sort of person who works with music in the background. Ever since I was a little kid writing cod...
An online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.
Unruly steeds from King Mu’s mythology, cavorting across a silk scroll.
A bestselling 18th-century cookbook, containing the first recipe for curry in English.
A wondrous illuminated manuscript, which gathers and illustrates the marvels of the world and beyond.
A personal blog with posts spanning book and movie reviews, technology projects, and commentary on social and political topics.
Note: this review contains spoilers.
Note: This review makes it easy to avoid spoilers.
Sammy Keyes is a middle grade mystery series centering a young girl living illegally with her grandmother. This revie...
electronic brain surgery since 2001
LAN Overview 2026 The last time that I blogged about my personal LAN setup was more than a decade ago. Meanwhile we m...
Appy - An AppImage Installer I nerd-sniped myself today. All I wanted to do was installing SuperSonic, a subsonic com...
Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI I am still working adding services to my NAS and one thing that was on my todo list for ...
Personal blog of a Norwegian technologist writing about privacy-focused technology, web development, and monthly recaps.
1/12 of 2026 is almost at an end, and I’m certain that I won’t be able to write this post at any date later in Januar...
December is the slowest, fastest, and shortest month of the year. Everything has to happen this month. But I survived...
This is my fourth year in review. Looking back at those four years, a lot of things has happened. 2025 feels like a l...
Mark Dominus's long-running blog exploring mathematics, programming, language, and history through long-form essays with technical depth.
In a recent article about John Haugeland's rejection of micro-worlds I claimed: as a “Large Language Model”, Claude n...
(Previously: [1] [2]) Welcome to Philadelphia! We have a lot of political corruption here. I recently wrote about the...
Content warning: rambly Given the coordinates of the three vertices of a triangle, can we find the area? Yes. If by n...
In-depth, interactive visual explanations of scientific and technical topics like physics, astronomy, and engineering, using browser-based demonstrations and simulations.
Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.
Why read the book? Allie Beth Stuckey wrote You're Not Enough (And That's Okay). She calls the book an escape from th...
Nuremberg (2025), directed by James Vanderbilt, tells the story of the Nuremberg trials through the eyes of a US Army...
Hiked 11.3 kilometres from Maarssen to Utrecht. This was the last part of the Utrecht Path. You leave Maarssen along ...