Events

With sunny, relatively cool weather on the penultimate day of spring yesterday, Cassie got over 2½ hours of walks covering 14.9 km (9.3 miles), followed by lots of pats and snoring on the couch. (Her snoring, not mine.) Today we're heading out to the North Branch Trail before meeting up with some friends for beer and tacos. I expect we'll both sleep pretty well again tonight.

Sometimes I read fun stories that don't make me want to move to a cottage on the west coast of Ireland:

It's another gorgeous day in Chicago thanks to a blocking pattern keeping non-gorgeous weather well away from us. Unfortunately, that also means we're back in drought conditions, which the warm weather will exacerbate. And don't forget, summer begins Monday.

I've been here for three weeks and until a few minutes ago hadn't gotten around to taking any photos with my real camera (which apparently is 11 years old now? Sheesh). Until now:

One of my colleagues has released an application that can help teachers generate content, particularly in subjects where lots of variations on similar problems are helpful—like computer science:

...and very happy about it.

It's still a lovely spring day in Chicago, but crap keeps happening regardless of the weather:

Now that I live only 800 meters from Lake Michigan, I get to experience lakefront cooling on otherwise hot days. For instance, right now it's 26°C at O'Hare and 21°C here:

Heathrow reached 35°C and Kew Gardens recorded 34.8°C yesterday, making it the hottest day ever recorded in May in the UK, breaking the record set, uh, Sunday:

I spent only a couple of hours today working with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on a long-planned feature for this application. It's not exactly a blog feature, and in fact initially it will only show up in the Calendar. I'm just psyched because in a short time working with Claude, I got a full spec for the feature, which Claude then used to create a passable first draft of it. A couple rounds of tweaking both the spec and the code later and I sent it to the dev/test environment.