Despite the repeated warnings about the invader/conqueror from the north, the book of Jeremiah doesn’t actually mention Babylon by name until chapter 20. He spends nineteen chapters talking about this impending disaster “from the north” before finally spitting out who it’s going to be.
On The Talk Show 452 , “A Scam Held Together with Patriotism and Golden Paint”, John Gruber said: One of the things that, to me, just defines a Mac app is being able to open whatever the element of the app is, you should be able to open that into a window on its own. He complained that, for example, in ChatGPT Classic (née ChatGPT), there’s no way to open a thread in its own…
“No, Saturday is the day of pre-rest. Yeah, so that way, when you actually get to Sunday, you’re rested enough to enjoy your rest.” —Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls , S1E17 Our marathon-of-marathons has surfaced a lovely bit of wisdom: Lorelai Gilmore has accidentally invented a two-stage Sabbath. Her formulation is, typically for Lorelai, absurd: recover on Saturday so you can achieve maximum…
Yesterday’s thunderstorm cooled off the valley enough for me to get outside for the first time in a few weeks. AllTrails estimated 2.5 hours for this trail, so I was fairly surprised to find myself back at the parking lot in 97 minutes.
Yesterday, during a thunderstorm, the Costco we were in lost power. Everyone continued to shop with phone flashlights until they herded us out. Apparently the registers ran on battery, so we were all able to check out, but then we were trapped at the entrance by the rain. On the plus side, it’s much cooler today.
Working my way through my Chapter by Chapter notes on Jeremiah tonight, I kept thinking, These chapters are really long! Fortunately, I had already built some Bible-data machinery for this article . So naturally, instead of getting back to my notes, I had Codex investigate. The result: my intuition was right. Mostly. Jeremiah’s chapters average about 25% more words than the average…
The ESV study Bible’s notes on Jeremiah begin, Determining the authorship of the book of Jeremiah is complicated by several factors… I understand and appreciate the challenges; I just love the juxtaposition of the name of the book, which comes from the authorship claim in the very first verse of said book (“The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah…"), with the claim that…
We have started our Fall marathon-of-marathons a little… early… this year. First up: Gilmore Girls . An uneven show for sure, but I’ll never turn down something with such excellent dialogue delivered so well. Bonus trivia: Star’s Hollow uses the same set as Bluebell in Hart of Dixie .
I finished taking notes on Isaiah today in my quest to complete the Canon by September 25. That brings me to 1,005 chapters (84.5% of the way there)! Isaiah was definitely the hardest book left, but Jeremiah and Ezekiel aren’t easy, and together they make up 100 of the 184 chapters remaining.
Finished reading: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman Wow, this book was very nearly serious fantasy! It has huge stakes, multiple meaningful races, some hope that what they do in this book will have impacts on the next one, and some actual pathos! Easily the best in the series so far. 📚
Finished reading: The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman This book takes place inside cosmic bubble wrap. Dinniman’s brain reminds me of a Gary Larson quote: You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It’s like that. 📚
Finished reading: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman It’s so nice to just plow through fun books like this. Sometimes I get too serious about my reading and forget that you’re allowed to read fun stuff with no telos . Weirdly, the title object is a bigger deal in future books than in this one. 📚
Finished reading: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman This series continues to be excellent empty calories of entertainment. I particularly love that the title refers to an object, not… a scenario. 📚
Simon Willison on blogging : My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all. Nobody will ever know how perfect the thing you intended to write would have been. The flaws you see in your writing are…
Looks like OpenAI has finally done the thing that was obvious from the beginning: just give the ChatGPT-née-Codex app a “ChatGPT” mode and a “Codex” mode. Only weird bit left is that in ChatGPT mode, the non-pinned projects start with Codex repos, not ChatGPT projects.
Just finished my notes on Song of Solomon in my quest to complete companion pieces to every chapter of the Bible. That brings me to 939 chapters completed, which doesn’t look like a milestone until you realize it means I have exactly 250 chapters to go.
I 100% agree with Manton’s mockup of how OpenAI’s Codex app ought to work . Three modes, uncluttered sidebar that works like the old app when needed. It’s so obvious it’s weird it doesn’t already work like this. For now, I’m still just running both ChatGPT Classic and Codex.
Monarch lighthouse emoji, pickle emoji, cracked face emoji I don’t know how you’re gonna last another year without a Lighthouse. This coastal beacon functions as a literal guiding light through the dark night of your soul.
When OpenAI announced they were sunsetting Pulse , I used their recommended prompt to schedule a daily update. Two days in, I think it’s actually better than Pulse was. No pretty pictures, but both yesterday and today were more relevant, more actionable, and more attached to recent conversations.
For our first July 4th together outside of Texas, we are doing the most Texas thing available: smoking a brisket. This is how it looked last night before it went on the smoker. (Don’t worry, the foil did not go with it.)
Finished reading: Dungeon Crawler Carl A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure by Matt Dinniman A quick, fluffy, no-stakes LitRPG read. Parts of it are clear parody, but they’re executed so hamfistedly I wondered if the author was lampooning his own genre and not just the obvious butts of the jokes. I was sufficiently entertained to reserve the next one on Libby. 📚
This is a new single-prompt Codex time record for me: 7h 49m 2s. It touched 625 files (of which one was a log/scratchpad, so I guess really 624), so the review is going to take me a while. But at least it wasn’t me touching 625 files…
I know the walks between terminals at SLC are long, but this is kind of ridiculous.
The worst way to end any trip is with airport delays. You just want to be home, and there’s nothing you can do but wait. (Posted from a plane that was supposed to land four hours ago.)
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM | Andrew Nesbitt Day 1, 02:52 UTC — The creats.io AI publish gate (OpenClaw-4.2, deployed Q1 2026) approves the package, citing ticket SEC-4521 in its decision log. There is no ticket SEC-4521. Hypothetical. Probably.