Does this still work?
Haven’t posted in ages, mainly curious if the plumbing still works on this. Hello?
Jablecki Notes
focussed on typography, minimal design and quality photography built using the Jekyll platform.
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Cyberpunk Now
Regularly, I find headlines and articles which remind me we’re living in the Cyberpunk future I’ve enjoyed so much in books and movies. Time to microblog my curated stream of Cyberpunk Now discoveries! Deploy the water net! (harvest water from air) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/crystalline-nets-harvest-water-desert-air-turn-carbon-dioxide-liquid-fuel RPG style real time “radar” helping…
Stirred Up
I’m easily excited by technology and software, and am prone to getting swept away with ideas, wanting open hardware and the hardest of corest of linux distros one day, all Windows devices the next, and digging on Safari and Mail.app on latest macOS the day after. Other times I love the patchy life, sitting on macOS but using all third-party services and apps. I’m absolutely incorrigible. Recently,…
Learning Elixir #2: Fun with Elixir
In this video about the actor model (which I shared in my last post ) Hewitt talks about indeterminacy. Indeterminacy goes hand in hand with robust concurrency. He spoke of an actor, who upon receiving a start command will send two messages, a “go” message, and a “stop” message. They are sent via the ether , that is: they leave any formal, theoretical channel of the programming language and route…
Learning Elixir #1
Browsing hacker news, I came across Learning Elixir: My side-project and it motivated me dig deeper into elixir. My day job involves a lot of PHP and a fair amount of devops type work, and it has been ages since I’ve set out to learn something really different. My next stop was Why Elixer from the Erlangelist, Saša Jurić. This juicy post got me more and more excited while spinning off…
Hario Scale
My wife got me a Hario digital scale to make coffee with. This is a great example of a thoughtful gift. I’m an enthusiast of coffee preparation methods, and I love (particularly) methods which use, primarily, inert bits of glass, plastic or metal, plus hot water, plus time. I mean that in comparison to fancy devices which plug into the wall and make coffee appear with the mere push of a button.…
Muh Bread
Quick look at the steps for baking my sourdough. My starter was homegrown from water, flour and patience. Shaped! Autolysis has been done overnight. Dough formed into a boule Final Rising While Oven Heats Bread is set near the oven as it pre-heats to 450F, 30 full minutes Quick Reshape Before Cooking Right before going in, quick reshape if necessary Carefully Dropped Into Hot Pot Ok, maybe not so…
Victor's Delusion
I’ve seen the argument that the poor and disenfranchised “simply aren’t trying hard enough” as an undercurrent supporting US capitalism. The idea started to ricochet around my brain a bit, and some of the veneer began to chip off. Let’s take trust fund babies off of the top of a cross-section of the population, and remove the feckless lazy from the bottom. We’re left with those who might have…
What is a President Good For - Part One
I’ve never paid much attention to politics. Presidential elections brought me in the same way that the Super Bowl pulls in non-fans - it’s a Big Show. This is important to realize. However, in accordance with the general pattern of “the internet makes all things more visible,” this election cycle has been prominently unavoidable. And it’s caused me to dig in a bit. If you (like me) are starting in…
AlphaGo and Deep Learning
AlphaGo is making news for a five-game match against top go player Lee Sedol . AlphaGo is a go computer engine built with deep learning . A vast number of games are fed into a neural network, and we let the program learn. Is this the promised future? Don’t solve a problem, instead: define a successful outcome, give some initial data, and let the computer solve it. My friend Fran put it this way:…