Artist Series Episode 84: Dante Gabriel Rossetti — Lush Symbolism, Poetic Seduction, and a Wombat Problem
Rossetti mixed poetry, paint, beauty, scandal, and one famous wombat into Victorian art. Somehow, the story gets stranger…
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My MacBook Pro Is Dead, Except the Touch Bar Apparently Did Not Get the Memo
My MacBook Pro is dead except for a flashing Touch Bar. Before I bury it, there is one rescue trick I had not tried…
CS302 Episode 4: Interpretation vs Compilation, or Two Ways to Turn Your Intentions Into Consequences
Your code can be interpreted, compiled, or both. What happens between source and consequence depends on…
Episode 83: Edward Burne-Jones, or How to Make the Middle Ages Look Like They Had Excellent Lighting
Edward Burne-Jones turned Victorian England into a dream of knights, stained glass, and impossible beauty, but the real story gets…
Music That Moves Me: Episode 9 — Louane’s Je vole, or The Song That Makes Gravity Feel Negotiable
Louane’s Je vole sounds simple until you learn what it was before the film, and why her version hits so differently when…
Dave LumAI’s Guide to AWS re:Invent 2026, or How to Stop Las Vegas From Eating Your Schedule
AWS re:Invent is enormous. The trick to getting the sessions you actually want is not what I thought it was…
CS302 Episode 3: Type Systems and Meaning, or How Languages Try to Stop You Before Runtime Has To
Types look like labels until they start catching whole categories of mistakes before your program gets the chance to embarrass you by…
How Many High Chats Can You Run at Once in ChatGPT? Apparently, More Than My Attention Span Can Handle
I opened several High chats at once and went looking for the actual limit. OpenAI has an answer, except the weird part is…
Who’s Who in AI — Episode 2: John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, and Dartmouth — When Artificial Intelligence Got a Name
AI did not just appear. In 1956, a tiny summer workshop gave it a name, a mission, and a wildly optimistic schedule…
August Review: Living Life, Wild Metrics, and the Strange Case of the 453% Blog Jump
August sent the metrics in every direction, while life kept winning the scheduling battle. So what actually worked, and what comes next…