Two nights in a row I've been woken up at 2am by a jetlagged and upset baby, who woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. And then I couldn't get back to sleep. Two nights of only sleeping from 9-2. Please be nice to the Chalmers family this week.

please invite me to hop on a video call so I can show this beautiful piece off

Adam Chalmers@adamchalmers.com · 2d ago

Hard launching my new office backdrop: this antique leather folding frame hand painted with birds and botanicals

Hard launching my new office backdrop: this antique leather folding frame hand painted with birds and botanicals

SYD -> DFW -> AUS deactivating "g'day mate" enabling "howdy y'all" mode

In WWII the air was a source of immediate terror, by bomb and cannon. But in WWI, air forces' main task was reconnaissance and artillery spotting (and fighting each other). And that's the kind of air power Sauron and Saruman mostly wield, and the subtler kind of dread it holds for the heroes.

I'm re-reading Lord of the Rings. Last time I read it I was a teenager, and hadn't been exposed to the idea of LotR as WWI literature. Now that I have that frame in mind, one WWI-ism I'm seeing that the Discourse didn't tip me off to in advance is the ever-present fear of aerial surveillance.

I'm sick of talking about the male friendship crisis. I'm worried about the male enmity crisis. Friends are nice. But having a true nemesis is life-changing.

There's definitely some weird gender stuff going on in Neuromancer but I'm not really deep enough to get it.

Neuromancer: what if a beach was so boring that you not only wanted to die, but also wanted your entire family to stop having any experiences at all

New blog post: How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026 nnethercote.github.io/2026/07/31/h...

smoking forgotten vapes from the Tessier Ashfield vault

Ten part prestige Razorback prequel where we watch it grow up from a little piglet and become jaded and nihilistic by how fucked up society really is

Neil the Seal is the Koxinga of Tasmania

"Author Joyce Carol Oates came to the defense of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” after translator Emily Wilson wrote a viral review" this is "did rizzler outdo baby gronk? Zosha and Keke say no" but for people who are illiterate

There's so much TV out there. I wish I could have AI watch TV for me so that I can spend more time attending meetings and aligning stakeholders.

"LLMs only give me a 2x productivity increase" -- i'm sorry, there's a free 2x productivity increase on the table, and you're not slamming that button as hard as you can?

Going to the zoo, does anyone need anything?

This is why I'm anti fish power. We have not yet demonstrated the ability to dispose of fish waste.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7d ago

The townspeople of St. Mary’s can now breathe a sigh of relief. They are finally getting rid of the foul smell of rotten fish that has for years wafted over their tiny community in Canada’s easternmost province.

Why do people need todo list apps? What's wrong with just using a plain text bullet point list in your existing notes app?

they're calling it "the least useful captcha of all time"

simply obsessed with my mum's dog

when people tell me they're smarter than the borrow checker

Schedule of a Thomas Pynchon character (from reddit)

I hate walking around Sydney seeing everyone enjoy the nice weather. Get back to your fucking desks and generate shareholder value

Despite being published over 40 years ago, Neuromancer remains the defining sci-fi classic of today because it speaks to eternal, timeless needs: a fast computer and a hot girlfriend

AI native routing. Why do we even need IP tables anymore? Just let Claude look at the packets and make a decision.

Does anyone have some good beginner plots for someone who's new to treachery?

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Really beautiful painting "Sipping Tea under a Paulownia Tree" (commissioned by the Yongzheng Emperor). I'm no art expert but I really like its use of perspective.

Does anyone have some good beginner plots for someone who's new to treachery?