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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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Look out your window. Can you see three trees?
That’s the first question of the 3-30-300 test — a standard that has become the go-to for solving a universal urban problem: Does this city have enough trees, and are they in the right place?
The …
I’m only 20 minutes into this episode and it’s so fascinating and depressing that I wish it were much longer than 50 minutes.
The Economic Lie That Let Companies Sell Us Out with Eric Ries
Stopped in at Barbarian Brewing’s downtown taproom for a few tastes.
That dark beer is a glorious syrupy 12%-ABV mess called “Waffle Cone Stout”. But the Little Wolf IPA was the clear best of this flight.
Nice view, too.
Boise Fry Company has a gimmick, and they live up to it. Four different kinds of potatoes, prepared four different ways, with a dozen sauces and ten or so salts available.
Best combo: cinnamon-ginger salt on sweet potatoes.
Best sauce: spicy Idaho …
Visited Payette Brewing, since we’ve planned some more-central breweries for tomorrow. Awesome outdoor space with plenty of dogs.
