Toasting Sugar
Taking inspiration from the “toasted sugar” recipe from Serious Eats, I decided to try it with “maple sugar”, which you can make, but your life is probably a lot easier if you get at Costco. I took the...
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Composure
On yet another foray into the list of opinions I have that I’m sure are making me progressively more unemployable by the day, I asked some people on the internet: who is doing interesting work on...
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The Place Where The Firewall Ends
An homage. We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models,...
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Powering Up
First draft, ship it. I’d like to grant you a magic power for helping people navigate change, as far as linux installs go; might be the year for that. Astute readers will grasp that the principles...
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Hobble
I saw somebody recently – sorry, can’t find the quote – arguing that people shouldn’t be remaking beloved classic movies, but should go looking for movies with a solid premise that didn’t quite live...
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Aspirations
< So, instead of the search, how about I talk about the work I’d like to be doing? We know technical debt is just debt, and it’s OK to take on debt to get something you need quickly, as long as you...
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Obligatory
You shouldn’t hesitate to block people in your social media life. Nobody’s entitled to your attention, and if they’re out there in the world saying shit egregious enough to make you consider hitting...
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Being on Team Words Mean Things is challenging on the best of days, but particularly when multibillion-dollar companies publish weird press releases disguised as blogposts about how their new “agent...
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I’m getting better at this. Plan to start the dough three to five days in advance to let it cold ferment in the fridge. For the dough I use this recipe: 1000g flour 30g salt 20g dry yeast 30g brown...
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The Pride Of Subject Hometown Here
A few days before “Crabby Rathbun” – a bot somebody is sending to harass github maintainers and then write ridiculous defensive blog posts about gatekeeping, had this to say: Published Feb 9, 2026 at...
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