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When I volunteered at the Python booth at our local tech conference, the #1 question was "how do I get better at programming?" Fortunately there is an easy answer: Automate the Boring Stuff By Al Sweigart Instead of teaching "programming" or "Python", he focuses on actually doing things. First you learn some of the basics to get started, then you actually write real programs. By narrowly focusing on about 30% of the language, y..
Last November, Hrag Balian and Emily Chu were in a group chat on the secure messaging app Signal to monitor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in the San Gabriel Valley. Someone sent a message asking if anyone knew about a data center proposal in Monterey Park. No one did, so Balian and Chu, a [...]
I adore programming books... for a specific use case. If I want to learn a lot about a subject, nothing is better than a book: it was edited, so ideas and text are consistent the examples worked (at some point in time) the author has enough time-space to clearly describe a lot of material well they stay relevant for a LONG time, so there's a lot of them, and they can be very inexpensive. I use https://abebooks.com/ Nothing bea..
Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran – one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression – was always a fiction, an invention cooked up in Tel Aviv?  Far from Tehran posing an existential danger to Israel, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed for decades, might Israel’s real fear [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday instructed his military to seize fully 70% of the Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera. According to the ceasefire negotiated by Donald Trump last October, Israel retained 54% of Gaza territory in the first phase, with an eye toward an Israeli withdrawal. Since then, the Israeli army has annexed further [...]
Last week, the world watched as Donald Trump wrangled up his bro-squad of capitalist billionaires and chartered them across the world to China. We watched in disbelief as the China-hating Trump administration paraded around Beijing gawking at beautiful ceilings and giant rose bushes. “China is beautiful,” Trump said.  All the while, the top U.S. oligarchs [...]
Israel’s standing among the U.S. public is at an all-time low after Americans have witnessed two- and-one-half years of live-streamed Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, fueled by tens of billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer-provided weapons and diplomatic cover.  Last August, a Quinnipiac poll found that 60 percent of all Americans, including 75 percent of Democrats [...]
NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager...
The Modern City Against Climate In many cities around the world, walking outside in the middle of summer has become a physically exhausting experience. Concrete burns. Facades radiate heat long into the night. The air feels motionless, dry, sometimes almost unbreathable. Trees are disappearing, soils are sealed beneath asphalt, rainwater is evacuated from cities as [...]
It’s been record hot in parts of Europe and Asia over the last week and this has provoked an outburst of three things that have become de rigeur whenever this happens: The first one is baked in to the conversation, you might say, if you were reaching for an appropriate metaphor. And normally I’d not be that bothered. But [...]
On Friday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull request landing more kernel graphics/compute driver improvements in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window happening in mid-June...
The immense economic and ecological risks being taken by the artificial intelligence industry have grown so impossibly large that no one — including the AI companies — has the means to gauge them. This historic boom, like so much else in AI, is run purely on vibes.  In every direction, AI companies are straining to expand beyond their capacities in [...]
Personalized digital spaces designed with care and emotional intention may offer a new way to support self-awareness, emotional growth, and the processing of difficult experiences in an increasingly AI-driven world.
Personalized digital spaces designed with care and emotional intention may offer a new way to support self-awareness, emotional growth, and the processing of difficult experiences in an increasingly AI-driven world.
Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools
The latest open-source/Linux patch activity around AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors is expanding the range of the CPU models detected by the Linux kernel...
Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI...
I suppose Mozart is the greater composer but I often prefer Haydn. There is an innate goodness about his music and it appears there was about him too. Portraits show a kind looking man and reports about his life confirm this impression. He was widely regarded as a good and honourable person. and noted for his particular modesty. generosity and warm heart. He was a humble man with deep faith in God to whom he attributed his artistic success.....
GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has been updated to reject low-effort, vibe coded applications/libraries where the developer is not able to take responsibility for the work...
KDE released Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week while the current Plasma 6.6 stable series continues seeing fixes as does Plasma 6.8 for what will be the follow-on feature release to Plasma 6.7...
Genode OS 26.05 is out this week as the latest update for this original open-source operating system framework. With Genode OS 26.05, they have taken various features of their general purpose Sculpt OS operating system and turned them into reusable framework features...
just got back home from the backrooms movie at the theatre, i'm gonna say that it was something (it ...
My older two kids (12y, 10y) like contra dancing, but but have been increasingly unhappy with the available opportunities: a family dance is "too boring", and BIDA is "not enough kids my age". What they wanted was a regular dance, but just kids. So we had one! Ghiblified for privacy We invited people ages 9-13: I really wanted to keep the age range narrow so the kids got the feeling of dancing with people their own ag....
My older two kids (12y, 10y) like contra dancing, but but have been increasingly unhappy with the available opportunities: a family dance is "too boring", and BIDA is "not enough kids my age". What they wanted was a regular dance, but just kids. So we had one! Ghiblified for privacy We invited people ages 9-13: I really wanted to keep the age range narrow so the kids got the feeling of dancing with people their own ag....
Somehow I've managed to read 21 books for three years in a row now. I'd really like to pick up the pace a bit, but I always seem to get stuck on a book at some point in the year, slowing progress. I need to be better about dropping books I'm not enjoying, or at least picking something else up for a while to give myself a break. This year, I joined a science-fiction book club run by a friend. Any books marked (BC) were read as part of t..
Learning German with Bilbo · 3 min read · [edit] I have been trying to learn German without much success for a while now. The main issue I run into is motivation – I speak English at work, Czech at home and German… well, not many places, as most of my friends are either international, or speak English just fine. Since I listen to audiobooks quite a bit, I thought of the following: combine the English and the German v..
Yes, “AI” will compromise your information security posture. No, not through some mythical self-aware galaxy-brain entity magically cracking your passwords in seconds or “autonomously” exploiting new vulnerabilities. It’s way more mundane. When immensely complex, poorly-understood systems get hurriedly integrated into your toolset and workflow, or deployed in your infrastructure, what inevitably follows is leaks, comprom..
If computers are the future, why are computer users expected to be permanently illiterate? March 11 2026 I was introduced to computers by my father, though not intentionally. Now retired, my father worked in sales and was assigned a local territory within which he traveled by car to meet with customers. It made more sense for him to keep an office in our home and travel from there instead of first commuting to an offic..
As I covered in my plan for a Metro Line from Takapuna to the Airport getting across Auckland Harbour is difficult. The problem is that while a bridge would be cheaper and have the option of a pedestrian/cycling lane the requirements to allow a 43 metre clearance for ships would require a line too steep for rail to climb In my plan I ended up going for a tunnel under the harbour as I couldn’t make the bridge option work. However r..
March was all about one product: verimu. It has three connected parts: I built this because I keep seeing the same pattern across teams in the EU, especially from my own medtech experience: everyone knows the Cyber Resilience Act is real, but many teams are still not operationally ready. Why this product exists Most teams do not fail compliance because they do not care. They fail because compliance work gets fragmented: ..
For something a little different, here’s a little zine I made about finding joy in difficult times. This random indieblog.page link was picked on Saturday, May 30th 2026. It was originally published on Friday, January 16th 2026 at This Wild Curiosity . If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog, please include the following ID with your report: a9d7910d1aa97a08e2aa17d1fca41bb2-646273
You get the invite. No description. No agenda. No attached document. Just a title like “Quick sync” and a 30-minute calendar hold. You accept it anyway, because what else are you going to do — decline a meeting with your skip-level? I’ve written before about how meetings should be a point of escalation, not a starting point. But the agenda-free meeting is an even more fundamental failure mode: it’s a meeting that hasn’t even bothered t..
I still remember the first time I saw ChatGPT. It was around November 2022, and there was something strangely beautiful about it. Not beautiful in the polished, product-design sense. Beautiful because it felt unfinished in the right way — rough, limited, occasionally wrong, but carrying the unmistakable smell of the future. It was nowhere near what it is today. And even today, it is nowhere near what I imagine it will become. ..
I love Steam Next Fest so much. Every year, multiple times per year, we get to go hands-on with the future of the medium and try out as many games as possible within a short time frame. I adore the threads in Discord and Reddit and Bluesky and elsewhere in which people share their favorites, and I'm grown to adore doing the same via these videos. Here are the three demos I played which I think are going to go on to be a huge deal after..
This post is my personal opinion based on my testing and observations. I'm pretty confident in my test methodology, but William O'Connell is human and can make mistakes, check important info, etc. How much of your code is AI? That question would've been gibberish to me five years ago, but of course the last few years have seen an explosion of "AI-enhanced" IDEs and other software development tools. Software companies are spending huge ..
Simon's LLM Predictions for 2026 - Vlad Iliescu This random indieblog.page link was picked on Saturday, May 30th 2026. It was originally published on Thursday, January 8th 2026 at Vlad Iliescu . If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog, please include the following ID with your report: 3eca9f0ee560c5ad25842ceec44dab27-642107
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