A Time Traveler: 2492
A supposed time traveler from 2492 talks to the camera for 40 minutes about the future, which sounds totally boring.
Satan Wants You
Somewhat interesting documentary about "Michelle Remembers", the book that kicked off the "Satanic Panic" and "recovered memory of abuse" trend of the '80s.
Secrets Of Skinwalker Ranch (TV series)
Bullhit series about supposed investigations of UFO phenomena at a desolate southwestern range. Kind of on par with those "paranormal investigation" shows where people run around darkened houses freaking themselves out over weird noises and claiming "cold spots" or creepy feelings prove something. Like people feel sick when they approach a certain spot... that's supposed to be some sort of proof of alien phenomena, or something. I might have liked it when I was 8.
Confessions of a Time Traveler: The Man From 3036
Short (40 min) film of an interview with a man supposedly from the year 3036. The man's voice is soothing, but that's about all the good I have to say about it.
An American Satan (2019)
Documentary about the modern Church of Satan and its origins in the 1960s. You know, it's funny, the Church of Satan has always had some good ideas (and, before anybody assumes anything, the first of them is that the devil isn't real.) But, damn, what a bunch of pretentious hipsters. Cripes, it's exactly what you'd expect from a religion founded in San Francisco by a former carnival showman, if you'd lived in San Francisco as long as I have... lots of counterconformity, lots of fashion sense, lots of showmanship and people who dress and act like Hollywood's idea of a satanist, lots of tattooed and pierced people, and of course a burlesque revue in there too, because all those people are into burlesque. Still.
Maybe a couple of sincere people in there here and there also. But mostly, ugh.
I don't get why people have to…
A Cursed Man
Execrable "documentary" in which a filmmaker asks various witchy people to put a curse on him. And then... he starts having bad dreams! OoooOOOooOOOOh! He goes mountain biking and takes a spill and hurts his knee... and then remembers, one of the witchy people mentioned his knees! OoooOOOooOOOooOOh! Cue "creepy strings" background music.
This is about as much a documentary as "Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch" or any bullshit "haunted house investigation" tv series I've seen. Awful. Just garbage.
Wake In Fright
Ponderous early '70s Austrialian film which apparently all the critics at Cannes loved. I don't get it.
Billed as a "thriller", a schoolteacher gets stranded at an outback mining town, gambles, gets drunk, shoots kangaroos, and fights. And that's about it.
Other than the ambient menace that always seems to suffuse any movie featuring rural Australian locals, I don't know why this is a thriller. I don't even know if it's a story.
FileMaker AI Skills
Our own Mislav Kos created a skill that leverages the newly LLM-friendly Claris help docs.
CadenceUX’s claris-filemaker-pro-skill is a skill in the pure sense, and a good one. It ships reference catalogs — all 360 calculation functions, all 155 script steps, the error codes, the help-center URLs — with a local-first, live-verify strategy and even a version-drift detector that flags when a fetched doc references a newer FileMaker version than the skill was built against. What it fixes is what the model knows: it stops your model from hallucinating a function signature or inventing an error code. That is real value. But it is, by design, a knowledge layer. The model still authors the XML; the skill just makes sure the model is better informed while it does that.
Andrew Kear’s FileMaker Layout XML Skill (from Clockwork Creative Technology, with a companion skill…
https://artificialcorner.com/p/claude-limits-fix
Decent article on how to query claude without burning too many tokens.
Summary:
1. Edit instead of following up
Go to your prompt → click the pencil icon → rewrite it → hit send. Claude regenerates as if the bad response never happened, so you avoid piling up conversation history.
2. Start fresh every 15–20 messages
When a chat gets long, ask Claude "Summarize everything we've discussed so far," copy that summary, open a new chat, paste it as your opening message, and continue there. Avoids the exponentially rising token cost of long threads.
3. Batch questions into one message
Instead of three separate asks, combine them — e.g. "Summarize this article, list the main points as bullets, then suggest a headline" — so context is only loaded once instead of three times.
4. Upload recurring files to Projects
Sidebar → Projects → create…
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
Well-spoken of software engineer skill set for agentic coding.
From the readme:
Skills For Real EngineersMy agent skills that I use every day to do real engineering - not vibe coding.
Developing real applications is hard. Approaches like GSD, BMAD, and Spec-Kit try to help by owning the process. But while doing so, they take away your control and make bugs in the process hard to resolve.
These skills are designed to be small, easy to adapt, and composable. They work with any model. They're based on decades of engineering experience. Hack around with them. Make them your own. Enjoy.
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Continuum
Fairly watchable Canadian sci-fi series about a time traveling cop from the future trying to prevent a terrorist attack in her day. Watched it a while ago, don't remember it clearly but I recall liking it well enough, just jotting it down here for completeness.
P2
What should have been a crappy thriller is actually saved by unexpectedly solid acting. This is the kind of film a younger Jodie Foster might have been in, in between her more prominent roles. It's not "The Accused", it's not even "Panic Room", but it might be "Red Eye".
A young woman working late on Christmas Eve has car trouble and winds up trapped in her building's underground garage with the increasingly unhinged attendant. That's it, that's the entire plot.
Where this movie breaks away from the pack is the slow and deliberate way the villain slowly metamorphosizes from a bumbling nice-seeming guy to an absolute psycho, and the performances, which require a surprising amount of range and depth for a film like this. Both characters somehow manage to convey some depth and variety of emotion; when the villain tells her, "I like you. I would never hurt…
Eaten Alive! (1980)
Here we have an oddity. A low-budget Italian late '70s exploitation flick that throws everything but the kitchen sink: gritty NYC cop flick (including wah-wah guitars and bongoes, '70s cop show music); a jungle cult obviously intended to cash in on interest in Jim Jones and the Guyana Peoples' Temple; more boobs than even I want to see, which is really saying something; and graphic cannibalism. It feels like an attempt to merge every '70s exploitation flick, most prominently the notorious (and also Italian; the Italian filmmakers had a way about them) cannibal flick "Cannibal Holocaust", which is interesting, as this seems like an attempt to cash in on that specifically, but was actually filmed before that was released.
The overally production is so cheezy that it very nearly succeeds at that rarely achieved "so bad it's good" context. It's the '70s, so there's lots of unabashed nudity, and of…
Hostel Part III
Ok, google "Hostel". And the,n think of any movie you've ever seen whose title ends in "III". Now you know.
Truth to tell, it's actually probably a hair more fun than the original, it's got a ridiculous, cartoonish element to it and doesn't dwell on the torture quite as much, there's a passing nod to actual relationship dynamics between the characters, however shallow, as opposed to the original, which was just "these guys are traveling together, they get tortured".
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To Timeshift Or Not To Timeshift
Damn. I need to shift my clocks again.
Most people don't know this but, even living in CA, I live on east coast time. For about 5 years now, all my computers and clocks have been set 3 hours ahead of my neighbors. Everybody else at my company starts work at 8AM. I start at 11. They don't know.
But, man, I took a full-time job recently. And I remember this from the last time I had a full-time 9-5 job back in 1995... it's exhausting. A full day of selling your time, the discipline required to do anything with my evening other than recuperate is beyond me.
So, I'm thinking. Let's see, I get off at 7:30 Mike Standard Time (4:30 Pacific)... I go to bed around 3AM Mike Standard Time (Midnight Pacific)... if I shift my schedule 7.5 hours earlier, I could have my full evening…
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Bonus Gallery: Fireworks Study Extras
I had a lot of leftover images from the Fireworks Studies gallery that I had to cut out to keep the album focused, but which I liked a little too much to just let languish on my hard driver... a bunch of images that came out more figurative, plus some more fireworks landscapes and abstracts that didn't make the cut of the main album but which I still liked.
Fireworks Figuratives
Some extra fireworks image leftovers
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You're Gonna Lose A Finger: Generative Art—Fireworks Studies
Studies originally done for a July 4 online generative art competition, I believe? I can't quite recall.
Bonus Galleries: Fireworks Figuratives, plus some extras I liked
(Bonus Gallery Page: Fireworks Study Extras)
The Poughkeepsie tapes
Pointless torture porn in the guise of a true crime mockumentary about a serial killer who videotapes all his killings, conveniently for the filmmaker, who now doesn't need to hire a cameraman or cinematographer. Actually not the worst one of these I've ever seen, but that's a very low bar.
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The Beyond (2017)
Slow-starting but ultimately decent hard sci-fi mockumentary about the discovery of a near-earth wormhole, and the transhumanist effort to transplant scientists into artificial bodies for the voyage through. Not that well acted at points, and overall nothing to write home about, but decently watchable.
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Developer WordPress Plugin: Raw HTML Shortcode WordPress Plugin—preserve raw HTML formatting in the classic editor
The short version
I've written a WordPress plugin which gives you a short code [raw]content[/raw] that exempts the enclosed content block from WordPress's wpautop() processing, so you can include raw <style>, <script>, or other html into posts in the code tab of the classic editor without WordPress breaking them by inserting paragraph or line break tags into the code.
If that's enough explanation for you, the plugin can be found on Github at https://github.com/kupietools/ktwp-wp-plugin-raw-html-shortcode.
The longwinded versionIn HTML5, it's acceptable to put [code]
...[/code] tags in page bodies. Even if it wasn't sometimes it's expedient in WordPress to include custom CSS or javascript in a single post. The correct WordPress way to do this is to enqueue CSS and javascript... but this requires writing PHP, and, if you ask me, is one of those case where the "correct" way of doing things doesn't…
Curse Of The Mayans
Billed as a horror, mentions Mayans in the title, and has a UFO in the poster image. Movie is 60 minutes of talk followed by 30 minutes of mild action, but unfortunately I'd already lost interest.
3022
During a solitary long-distance voyage to Europa, a space ship's crew speaks in ominous tones and with intense facial expressions. The earth blows up, causing them to add raised voices, ratching up the drama.
Actually not terrible, for run-of-the-mill sci-fi. The production is good, if a little clichéd.
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“Underwater Moonlight” by the Soft Boys, released this day in 1980
The Soft Boys released "Underwater Moonlight" 46 years ago today, to absolutely no acclaim from anyone... at the time.
Jangly pop before REM revived that, dark like a Baudelaire poem before goth music hit it big, obscurantist and surrealist (and occasionally as silly) as Bob Dylan 10 years after he was out of fashion, trippy as Syd Barrett while their peers were all listening to punk rock, this might be the worst-timed masterpiece in rock and roll history. To this day, I have never once heard any song from it on the radio, ever. I recall even well into the 90s trying and failing to turn people on to it.
But everyone who knows it, knows.
It was an instant favorite of mine when I heard it 41 years ago, and still is.
Teeth
This movie has been an odd favorite of mine for a long time. It could have, should have, been so terrible, but decent direction and strong acting performances absolutely save it.
The plot is so ridiculous it's hard to explain. In a suburban town, growing up in the shadow of an often-seen but never-mentioned nuclear reactor, a religious teen, the kind who wears a purity ring and goes around to schools lecturing to the kids about the evils of sex, learns, through a series of horrific sexually violent encounters with despicable men, that she has teeth inside her, and evolves from being vehemently opposed to premarital sex to, ultimately, using it to get revenge. It's an absurd setup, but handled so thoughtfully, and with such a nuanced, wide-ranging, and realistic performance from the lead actress, that it actually makes for a surprisingly good movie.
This was originally mis-marketed…
The Mollusk Murders
Sub-student-film-quality 45 minute "movie" with actors who can't act, about a woman who discovers she loves eating oysters, which for some reason makes her take men out and kill them.