Windfall

Photogrpah of Earth from the Orion sapcecraft's window

Reid Wiseman, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander, took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window.

Paved path between a pixelated mural and a chain-link fence, with a concrete noise wall topped with glass panels on the right and a condo tower visible left. Bare trees, early spring.

Walked along the West Toronto Railpath on my way home from Kitchener.

A hand holds the box for A Place for All My Books, a Smirk & Dagger game illustrated by Naomi Lord. The cover shows a young woman reading amid towering book stacks, a black cat draped across her lap, a steaming mug nearby.

A pink game board mid-play, action spaces labeled Rest, Gather, Sort, Read a Book, and Admire. Colourful wooden book tokens in green, blue, yellow, and red are spread across a room grid: Bedroom, Bath, Kitchen, Backpack.

A Graphic Novel card featuring an anime-style character with long green hair and a skull tee. Acquire effect: add a purple book to any stack. Admire effect: name a color, treat your purple book as that color until end of turn.

Played A Place For All My Books with the colleagues.

Two husky-type dogs waiting behind the glass doors of an office building vestibule, one sitting and one standing, both looking directly at the camera.

A cream sofa piled with linen pillows beside a bird of paradise plant and cast iron radiator, lit by a woven pendant lamp.

A small dining nook with a rattan pendant light, pink tulips in a glass vase, and a vintage pull-down world map on the wall.

A white-walled bedroom with linen bedding, a jute rug, a moroccan pouf, and botanical prints above a black cast iron stove.

Stayed at a really cute Airbnb in Kitchener. Very much my aesthetic: plants everywhere, rattan everything, a vintage world map on the wall.

Instagram is a photo grid owned by a company that would prefer you never leave. It used to be kind of nice.

So I made my own version. It lives at myles.garden/trellis and it’s just photos, in a grid, on a website I own.

Line drawing of the street view of 1RG. Brick upper floor, bay window, large grid windows, and a side door marked 2557.

Line drawing of 1RG’s street view.

Mario Zechner writes about the current usage of LLM coding agents in software development and how we just need to slow down our release cycles.

You have zero fucking idea what’s going on because you delegated all your agency to your agents. You let them run free, and they are merchants of complexity. They have seen many bad architectural decisions in their training data and throughout their RL training. You have told them to architect your application. Guess what the result is?

An immense amount of complexity, an amalgam of terrible cargo cult “industry best practices”, that you didn’t rein in before it was too late. But it’s worse than that.

This Is My Jam was a music sharing site that let you declare one song your jam at a time. It shut down in 2015 and I still think about it.

So I made my own version. It lives at myles.garden/this-is-my-jam and will be updated whenever the mood strikes.

A bouquet of tulips in a glass vase on a windowsill, lit by soft natural light. The arrangement mixes deep purple, pale pink, and white fringed tulips with tall green stems and leaves. Other houseplants are visible on the windowsill behind them, and bare tree branches show through the window in the background.