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Hokkaido by train

Nine days, one rail pass, and the discovery that the vending machines are warm.

#japan#trains#winter

13 AUG 20261 minWIRED☕×3hokkaido-2026 1

✈ transitarticle

FIELD NOTE

Langkawi, off season

The case for going when the guidebooks say not to.

19 AUG 20261 min

❍ humanstatus

The bug was a trailing slash. It is always a trailing slash.

15 AUG 2026TIRED☕×2

⌗ machinetil

#042

TIL: a partial index is usually the answer

14 AUG 20261 min

◍ makanarticle

MAKAN REPORT

Siam Road, and the queue I finally joined

Forty minutes for a plate of noodles cooked over charcoal by one man.

RM 12.00 · █████ · 🌶 ███░░ · would return ✓

9 AUG 20261 minFED☕×1

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○ queuearticle

THE QUEUE

Someday: the Faroe Islands

Eighteen islands, one road system, and weather that decides your itinerary for you.

planned: mid 2027

1 AUG 20261 minRESTLESS

✈ transitarticle

GRADUATED

Kyoto, in the rain

I wanted to go for the temples. I stayed for the rain on the temples.

16 JUL 20261 minSETTLED☕×2

❍ humanarticle

HUMAN DESK

On finishing things

I have started far more than I have finished, and I have finally stopped pretending that is a scheduling problem.

4 AUG 20261 minQUIET

⌗ machinelink

On the limits of retrieval-augmented generation

arxiv.org25 min read

The clearest account I have found of where RAG actually breaks, rather than where it looks impressive.

12 AUG 2026

◍ makandump

George Town, one evening, six stops

No commentary. Just the plates, in order.

6 AUG 20261 minFULL

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○ queuelink

The rail guide I am saving for next winter

japan-guide.com12 min read

The only pass breakdown I have found that says plainly when the pass is NOT worth buying.

26 JUL 2026

⌗ machinearticle

MACHINE DESK

Shipping an extraction pipeline that survives real documents

Accuracy on a clean test set is a demo. The interesting work starts at the scanned fax.

11 AUG 20261 minLOCKED IN☕×4

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