Halifax Observing Guide — Falcon 9 Lunar Impact, Aug. 5, 2026
A guide to observing the Falcon 9 upper-stage lunar impact near Einstein Crater on August 5, 2026, from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Safe Vegetable Fermentation at Home
A practical, research-grounded guide to safely fermenting cabbage, carrots, garlic scapes, and other vegetables at home.
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A Prompt for Tackling Stale Repositories
A prompt for approaching old codebases by treating the existing implementation as a behavioural specification, not a problem to be replaced.
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Thunderbirds
I really enjoyed the Thunderbirds when I was a child.
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Which Historical Figure Would Have Been Most Intrigued by Today’s AI?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent his life imagining a universal system of knowledge and reasoning. He would have seen modern AI as the incomplete birth of that dream.
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Turning Ordinary Video Into a 3D Scene With LingBot-Map — Without Buying a New GPU
LingBot-Map reconstructs navigable 3D point clouds from ordinary video, but its NVIDIA CUDA requirements make rented GPU resources more practical than buying dedicated hardware.
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Getting a Leclerc Fanny Ready for First Weaving
A practical beginner review for checking, tying up, warping, and weaving first projects on a 4-shaft Leclerc Fanny counterbalance loom.
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A Day of Intentional Maintenance: Using Claude Code as a Systems Partner
Most AI coding sessions are about building. This one was about knowing what you have, fixing what’s broken, and making the whole thing more defensible.
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Hermes Agent: Actually Easy to Work With
Hermes Agent by Nous Research is refreshingly low-friction. A look at the new async subagents feature and why the framework gets out of your way.
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5th tank of gas @ 7,626 km
Five fill-ups, 7,626 km, 116.59 L of gas. The Prius PHEV is averaging 1.53 L/100km gas-only, $5.51/100km total energy cost — roughly half what the old Civic would cost. Now with charts.