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okay. book production is complete. Time to get on .

Which means seriously getting to grips with .

Did some bhyve experimenting a couple weeks ago. Got FreeBSD installed just fine. Debian with ZFS, not so much.

So this week it's go back, one step at a time. Install base debian with grub, does it work? Then UEFI, then ZFS secondary disk, then root on ZFS.

This morning's install ends with a console saying:

grub>

The Debian installer wrote grub to disk, but... didn't configure it? Huh.

Time for some classic headdesking.

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Has anyone attended in the past as part of a team (or with others from your company)? I'm working on a (short) article, and I'd love to quote some folks for it - i.e. why you came as a team, what you took away, or anything else.

Please @-me or email me - I'd appreciate it.

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So you might have noticed me periodically complaining about my problem with Ubuntu/Debian where the kernel has an off-again, on-again bug with my laptop's particular AMD chipset, where it often goes to sleep and instead of waking up on lid open the capslock blinks to indicate panic. The problem has not occurred for about two weeks! I'm not sure if this means a kernel patch got pushed that finally fixed it, or if I just used Windows a little more this week and made a series of lucky dice rolls.

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So I found a tactic that's working in my YouTube comments- thought I'd share.

If someone complains that a software I recommended is "woke", I ask them "what does that mean? Can you say more about that?"

They never say more. They delete their comment instead.

My tactic is to make them say what they mean. They won't.

Because they're cowards.

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I really enjoyed chatting with Tobias Macey recently for an episode of his AI Engineering Podcast. We talked about how get the most out of current AI agents, creating agent rules, constraining the blast radius, local models, and how @jetbrains is thinking about all these factors while working on its own AI agent, Junie.

We also touched upon the recent @django Django Developers Survey 2025 results that just came out.

aiengineeringpodcast.com/episo

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Lukewarm take: changing the clocks twice a year is bad

Medium warm take: Iโ€™d be okay with daylight savings time being permanent

Nuclear take: we should vary the length of an hour throughout the year to minimize the number of daylight hours

(Hisses in vampire)

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Here's the original, unaltered U.S. floppy disk version of SimCity Classic for DOS. With file dates from August of 1993, this is the very first revision. Sorry for the delay, but I imported these from the USA. For the retro collectors!

archive.org/details/simcity_cl

Have fun building your dream city!

SimCity Classic v2.0 for DOS, first revision. Screenshot in 640x480 VGA.SimCity Classic for DOS, install disk, US-version
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Iโ€™m feeling refreshed, inspired by the seascape that surrounds me and ready to create this week. This is an old photo from one of those days when the Gulf is so clear, it looks like a swimming pool.

Iโ€™ll be ending the week with a workshop for students at St. Johnโ€™s River State College.

My hand holds a decorative ceramic cup above the surface of clear turquoise water, with light reflections and bubbles visible in the water. The cup is off white with carved geometric leaf-shaped patterns, with aqua color accents that match the water.
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์š”์ฆ˜ ใ€Š๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์กด์žฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹คใ€‹๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ฐ€๋” ์ด ์ฑ… ์ œ๋ชฉ์„ ์ž˜๋ชป ๋งํ•ด์„œ ใ€Š๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋‹ต์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คใ€‹์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ด์ƒํ•œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

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