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pears: word game

Besides Wordle by the NYT and Jumblie by Cassidy Williams, now we have Pears by Slate. It’s a word game in the same spirit of its predecessors. A different game every day. I...

A piece of art I would love to see in person

Britt and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Britt chose for me is “A piece of art you would like to see in person”.One of the many joys of art galleries is that you...

Re: The Good & Not Good

Ten to fifteen years ago, I was pretty militant about my atheism. I'm from the south, you see, and so much is related to or about religion, so as an atheist, I thought I had to...

TURIN, VENTIMIGLIA, TURIN

retiredmartin · 2mo

February 2026. Monaco to Turin. If you’re missing the English pub reports here’s a spoiler. The first half dozen pints back in Old Blighty are….Beartown, Holt, Tiny Rebel,...

John Cleese on Creativity (Transcript)

Timo Tijhof · 2mo

The below is transcribed from a 1991 talk by John Cleese titled Creativity in Management. I encourage you to watch the 30-minute recording on YouTube. The delivery is hilarious...

AI Won’t Turn Everyone Into Developers- Because Most People Don’t Want to Be Developers

The AI hype claims that LLMs will make everyone a coder. I say: that’s pretty much BS. Most people don’t want to build software. They want their problems solved, preferably...

Eu tenho preguiça de trocar de lente

Eu queria um título sensacionalista, mas achei que seria muito sem graça. E essa época de utilizar títulos assim morreu em 201X ou se ainda usam a maioria das pessoas já sabem...

Writing code with LLMs (February 2026 edition)

Writing code with LLMs (February 2026 edition) At the start of the year, I said to Mahhek, a fellow developer "you need to learn how to use these coding agents - because what...

progressing with a project

tlohde · 2mo

Am I doing a poor imiation of what garmin and strava already do? Yes. Am I learning. Yes. Am I having fun. Mostly yes. I think. I should hope so. garth In my previous post on...

pay or okay - is it really?

ava's blog · 2mo

While browsing news websites, you may have seen a pop-up like this: That's one form of how "Pay or Okay" can look like. The model was first introduced by newspapers in Austria...

Everybody Needs a Rock

Naz Hamid · 2mo

A new homepage and site improvements. Looking at the Colophon from it’s last update, I mentioned that a refresh had happened in February 2025. A year later, another refresh has...

Philosophy: about a person’s behaviour and outlook

Protesilaos · 2mo

In this ~50-minute video, I reference some of the sayings of Confucius to comment on the overarching theme of a person’s behaviour and outlook. The comments I make are...

Sentir algo está bien

Simplemente quería republicar la entrada de Annie. Feeling something is okay I guess Una pequeña selección de lo que más me ha tocado Most of us think of ourselves as thinking...

She Spirited: My Solo Trip To Portland, Oregon

Solo Female Travel to Portland, Oregon – My Personal Adventure It goes without saying that, when you are exploring the world on your own, you make safe decisions. Be mindful of...

Nishiki Tenmangu・錦天満宮

More plum blossoms, this time in the (small) precincts of Nishiki Tenmangu, the shrine of Kyoto's famous Nishiki Market. 京都の有名な錦市場を守る錦天満宮の(小さな)境内の梅の花。

Christmas Tina – Visual Novel Review

I previously reviewed a well-known freeware Japanese visual novel titled Narcissu as part of my al|together visual novel localization review project. Narcissu was written and...

AI-Influencer-Journo Marketing Gimmicks

Quoted Viral Deepfake Demo Prompts ByteDance to Limit New AI Video Tool by He Qitong (Sixth Tone) Within just three days of release, Chinese tech giant and TikTok owner...

Week 7, 2026 (9 February 2026 – 15 February 2026)

ArticlesPodcastsVideosDeploying Your Own IndieWeb Site with Indiekit + Eleventy (Docker Compose based)The Guru Wears Prada - Sofia May on Surviving Tibetan Buddhism at Tara...

Nov & Dec '25

Ruban · 2mo

John von Neumann shot lightning from his arse, and rebuttal #1 and rebuttal #2. Inside Cursor. Pace and work ethic are among the most contagious norms (in both directions): If...

💬 Snippet!

Will be attempting to keep my daughter in her bed all night. May the heavens have mercy on me. #parenting #lifeThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.

Rebuilding Windows Live Messenger, Part 1: This is not RLE

Vito Sartori · 2mo

Some formats lie. But this one… This one lied to me in the first three bytes. 52 4C 45 → "RLE" It was not RLE. Not byte-aligned runs, not (count, value), not even something you...

Carmelo’s

Chris Glass · 2mo

New favorite restaurant, this one a newish Italian joint in Northern Kentucky. This is where I experience garlic soup. ⊕Currently Listening: Tutto Vanoni “La Voglia la Pazzia...

A.N. | Open Web Fun

I've been having so much fun on the open web... Tinkering with my blog and my listography, reading blog posts by fellow netizens, just discovering things by going down resource...

XIV: How Candide and Cacambo Were Received by the Jesuits of Paraguay

lettrss.com · 2mo

Candide had brought such a valet with him from Cadiz, as one often meets with on the coasts of Spain and in the American colonies. He was a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel...

BABELIA: SEGUIMOS AQUÍ: ANTES Y DESPUÉS DE BAD BUNNY

BABELIA SEGUIMOS AQUÍ: ANTES Y DESPUÉS DE BAD BUNNY [El País, Febrero 14, 2026]Cada fin de semana había carnes asadas. Casi todas ocurrían en la parte posterior de las casas,...

resisting authoritarianism deep dive #2: secure your communications

(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily...

Young Monastics

noahie.xyz · 2mo

I skipped Divine Liturgy—again—because I slept in until noon. This whole week, I've been waking up late, going to bed late, and it's really been throwing me off. I know it's...

RREESSIISSTT AALLLL CCOOMMIIXX 1

Tulips · 2mo

a. Storm cloud hittin the hookah b. Storm cloud remembering when it was a baby c. Dapper storm cloud avoiding cloud poop on a sunny day

Something big is happening; but it doesn’t add up

Andrew Doran · 2mo

This week, multiple people sent me a link to Matt Shumer’s post that Something Big Is Happening. In the post, he sounds the alarm that AI is coming for most white-collar jobs....

Fifteen

I started working on Safari & WebKit at Apple 15 years ago today. 

A sleepless night, An awakening realization

Sigmarootpi · 2mo

It's 6:50 AM in the morning, and I woke up almost an hour ago after my five-week-old son woke up. My wife was trying to calm him down by feeding him—yes, that is among the few...

mkdir /bcn/home/bkx

Amanecer con el Montjuic de fondo. Pues ya está. En una especie de espejo a lo que contaba la otra vez, ya “estamos de vuelta” en la ciudad que me acogió hace diez años. Ha sido...

Week 07, 2026

Cybrkyd · 2mo

This one was a challenge to get through. Firstly, the firm had many, many technical issues which kept quite a few of us up until the wee hours. We do need to simplify;...

Validating and improving my site's performance

February 14, 2026 A few months back, Nicolas Magand wrote about giving his site the "club racer treatment" — stripping it back to focus on what actually matters. For a blog like...

The Radiator Song

Cafe Bedouin · 2mo

The nurse takes my typewriter at the front desk. She slides it into a cubby with my name on a card, the letters pressed so hard the paper dimples. My notebooks go in after it....

South African Museum and National Gallery

Stephan Max · 2mo

We did a museum day today and visited the Iziko South African Museum and the Iziko South African National Gallery. Iziko is isiXhosa for “hearth” and an organization that...

Appleseed (Masamune Shirow, 1985)

We all know (or, at least, should know) Shirow from Ghost in the Shell. But he insists that his magnum opus is not that one, but rather Appleseed So, I've read it and I...

Happy Valentines Day

JetGirlArt · 2mo

I'm busy with stuff. Will update more later.

Utrecht Path part 11

Peter's Path · 2mo

Hiked 11.3 kilometres from Maarssen to Utrecht. This was the last part of the Utrecht Path. You leave Maarssen along the old Vecht, pass old industrial zones and enter medieval...

Indieweb carnival: intersecting interests

sonechka · 2mo

I downloaded obsidian only to see my blogs in its graph view.

[status] digital detox day 4/30

Days without turning off site blockers: 2 Trying to get used to being bored. It is harder than it sounds! Someone gifted me some navy yarn (my favourite color), so I'm using to...

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of...

School Reading

Nigeness · 2mo

Recently I was watching a BBC4 programme about Persian history, and naturally the poetry of Ferdowsi – still a national hero – came up. When the presenter started talking about...
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