Mark Twomey

CXMT is ramping to Micron-scale DRAM capacity on Beijing’s tab while Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron ration supply through multi-year deals with their biggest customers.

I’m reading Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel (The Talisman Trilogy) after taking a Stephen King break.

Finished reading: Roll the Calls by Ari Emanuel 📚 Ari is the least consequential of the Emmanuel brothers but the richest.

Finished reading: Strata by Terry Pratchett 📚 I don’t advise reading Strata if you’ve read and enjoyed Pratchett’s later works.

The latest Resident Evil is a good horror comedy and worth the trip to the movies.

Sitting in an early afternoon showing of Resident Evil and the theatre is filled with teenage girls.

I got 18 minutes into this week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds before turning it off.

Watching the annual ‘running of the nerds’ on the BlizzCon Twitch livestreams.

Currently reading: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 📚 Did cyberpunk fiction peak in the 90s?

Mistral provides hosted GLM 5.2 via their vibe client.

I restarted World of Warcraft after a 20-year break.

Nvidia’s purchase of Hugging Face is a defensive move.

It’s kind of amazing to me that there was a time you could write a utility to restore some computer files and build a profitable business around that.

Forever and a Day is the spy fiction/thriller you’d expect from a James Bond novel but in the second chapter I had an “Oh.

There’s something humbling about being in a bookstore, picking up a cheapo paperback and realising the font looks so small that you know why they also sell magnifiers.

If Fable 5 usage is underperforming in the US it’s probably cratering in Europe.

I’ve been reading Dungeon Crawler Carl, and there’s, what, seven or eight novels so far?

As a two-minute visual gag in an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the crew as puppets would be quite funny.

It took 15 seconds to withdraw €450 from ATMs that used DOS or OS/2.

It’s been years since WebAssembly support was suggested in the EPUB 4 draft.

I didn’t enjoy Waking Life, pseudo-intellectual despite the praise.

I like to remind first time employees that professional jealousy fades.

Today someone who isn’t a reader spotted my copy of The King in Yellow.

I do wonder if the audiobook industry’s ongoing growth will lead to favourite AI narrators, complete with names and “Read by” credits?

Replace Beverly Hills, 90210’s banality with Red Dragon’s menace, add a lot of sex and drugs, and you’ve got The Shards.

Optical may not be back for everyone, but with the drives and spindles of blank discs I have, it’s back for me.

I was looking at post quantum cryptography wondering what I’d have to replace AES with.

I always liked Peter Weller in The New Age.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the weakest Holland film.

Should a Stargate show be an MGM+ production?

I understand why Stargate fans are yelling at Amazon, but Stargate Universe’s final ratings probably ended up in a six page document and someone in an Amazon doc read underlined them in red pen.

Anecdotally, I’m seeing DeepSeek and Moonshot pop up a lot more in EU based software development.

The short listed designs for the new Euro bank notes are some of the most soulless things I’ve seen in a while.