County courthouse in Lockhart.
Early Autumn
I look out to the trees around and I see a sea of green. The air was warm today; summer is still here. With that said, there are ever more signs that indicate the beginning of the forthcoming season. Every so often, I notice a tree whose leaves are yellowing. This morning, I...
Old Picture of the Boat-Bridge at Sano, Kozuke Province by Hokusai
Thamara and I are doing an art exchange where we each sent the other person an art-related object to analyse. Thamara sent me a copy of “Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai & Hiroshige”, a book from the art exhibition of the same name being held at the Whitworth in Mancheste...
One of life's lessons is if someone does something evil to you, and you decide to let it go, they are sure to do it again and again until you stop letting them do it.
Successful launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope:
Roman pairs a large field of view with crisp infrared vision to explore vast swaths of the sky and probe deeply into cosmic history. This flagship mission will help astronomers explore dark matter, dark energy, and worlds outside of our solar system, known as exoplanets.
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My posts are also available on Mastodon, made possible by WordPress, where I mirror my posts from my original blog. A lot of what's in the post makes it through, but not all of it. This is where we need to do some work, connecting a blog like mine, to WordPress and Mastodon, with no loss of fidelity.
Trump is rotting in the presidency, and that is becoming more and more dangerous, because this time they had a plan, the most radical part of the Repubs, and have deployed a new secret police force and have introduced the nation's military to the nation's capital. It was all super insidious as it was starting up, and watching the news I wonder why they don't talk about this in terms of the upcoming election.
I've been watching Season 1 of The Pitt, and as its reviews said, it's great drama, and there are lots of episodes. I like shows like this because they're simulated communities, we come to know the characters, and think about them even when we're not watching. Before too lon...
Watched: Coyote vs. Acme. So much fun. They nailed it. 🍿
The #indieweb is about making your own words translate to actions, especially actions like writing, editing, and publishing your words (or photos or other media) on your personal site. The IndieWeb community is a place to help and empower good faith folks to do so as well. Pe...
An absolutely delicious temperate cloud-free day in the Catskills, so I got up from the computer and enjoyed.
Working on something new for blog book detail pages. I’ve been wanting to do this for years, finally getting around to it.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Cook Books Published as Recipe Cards
Anthropic announced a limits change on X in the most convoluted way possible:
Starting September 14, we’re permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place.
Compared to today, this works out to a 17% reduction in weekly limits on Claude Code. We’re working on exciting changes that will make it feel like you’re getting more from Claude, while having more visibility and control of your usage. Can’t wait to share them.
I had to read it a few times. It’s actually bad news.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Mounts Krn and Batognica
I lost count of how many times I looked—and photographed—Mount Krn over the past decade. It’s impossible to miss, standing right there in the background of almost all my walks around the valleys, with its 2245 meters and its characteristic gently sloping side.
And yet, I ne...
As a practical example of Standard.site in Micro.blog, you can view my latest blog post in Standard Reader. It pulls the Markdown from the PDS, and also shows Bluesky replies if any.
More on Cursor
After sleeping on the Cursor + OpenAI news from last night, I think it points to a broader question of openness. I don’t actually use Cursor, so it doesn’t affect me, but I’m interested in the dynamics of the industry.
There were two ways to use GPT-5.6 inside Cursor:
With ...
Flow
Natural light bathed the Royal Mile on the warm, summer’s morning. The Fringe is close to being finished, but there are still a few days of shows left. I was standing amid a city wakening up: where, hours later, there would be music and singing and crowds.
I gave my day to ...
New social photo journal web app Moments has added Micropub for posting. It also includes custom domain names and RSS feeds. This means you can post from apps like our own Sunlit, or add the posts automatically to the Micro.blog timeline.
Amazing what can be done with just feeds and a posting API.
Salter Cane, fifteen years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTMy1-VgIA Come along to the Prince Albert in Brighton one week from now to hear how we sound today: https://saltercane.com/tickets
Salter Cane, fifteen years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTMy1-VgIA
Come along to the Prince Albert in Brighton one week from now to hear how we sound today: https://saltercane.com/tickets