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Mon Feb 16

Crafting a Critical Thinking Course that Sticks with Students (guest post)

Daily Nous · 2mo

A forthcoming study shows that a critical thinking course focused on a few good, relatively easy to learn, and useful reasoning strategies can impart lessons that remain...

★ WebDriver BiDi: from spec to implementation

Previously. Disclaimer: Some LLM magic was used in this blog post1. From mid-2022 to late 2023, I was one of the core contributors to chromium-bidi, an implementation of the...

Blog Questions Challenge Answers

I recently had to switch author boxes on The New Leaf Journal because the one I had been using (a widget from the IndieWeb plugin) was causing me some concern behind the...

Deploy Hugo site to Cloudflare Workers

The Cloudflare team clearly stated that we should prefer Workers over Pages, and this is the one that’s going to get future improvements and optimisations. Now that Workers...

New hardware, Valentine's Day, and Resident Evil - W07

When was the last time you walked quietly while kicking a pebble on the ground over and over again? Just letting the time pass by for a little while, without picking up the...

Rebuilding Windows Live Messenger, Part 2: Messenger on macOS

Vito Sartori · 2mo

Just to take a breath between Assembly and graphics, I installed Mojave on an old Mac Mini and spun Microsoft Messenger, which is the equivalent of Windows Live Messenger for...

Anarthrousness in the comic strips

The Pearls Before Swine strip by Stephan Pastis, for 1/9/26: A difference between British English and American English over constructions with the definite article (arthrous) or...

Let me scroll myself, you animals

Quibbletown · 2mo

There is a horrible disease in web design I see everywhere. On one end, it has infected Apple, Microsoft, Google and more, and on the other end of the spectrum, small, niche,...

For Warmth: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Poetic Antidote to Anger

How to keep your soul from leaving you. “The main thing is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands,” the poet and storyteller turned...

XVI: Adventures of the Two Travellers, with Two Girls, Two Monkeys, and the Savages Called Oreillons

lettrss.com · 2mo

Candide and his valet had got beyond the barrier, before it was known in the camp that the German Jesuit was dead. The wary Cacambo had taken care to fill his wallet with bread,...

Interpretation of “My old troubles” by Kadinelia

Protesilaos · 2mo

For this entry in the “interpretations” series, I have picked the remix of a traditional song by Kadinelia. Kadinelia is a musical duo that draws inspiration from many genres,...

Slow, Then Suddenly

frantic.im · 2mo

Many years ago, I was invited to an adventure. My colleague from Facebook was assembling a little skunk works crew for a mission at Apple’s headquarters. We were to build the...

The Self-Reversing Logic of Alberta’s Sovereignty Movement

Cafe Bedouin · 2mo

What kind of political movement promises liberation from fiscal dependency by doubling down on the very structure that created the dependency? The Alberta Prosperity Project’s...

Vector Pixel Art In Inkscape

I share a vector and pixel art lucky cat for the Inkscape Challenge for February 2026.

Reading Georgette Heyer: An Infamous Army

This is the 1961 Pan paperback edition of An Infamous Army. The novel was originally published by Heinemann in 1937.I've had a marvellous time over the past couple of months...

Newsletter 2026.08

Matt's Blog · 2mo

My sleeping habits are all over the place. This getting up early thing is going to take awhile to set in. Some days I do well, and I’m up and at ’em early. Other days, I still...

Semana 07/2026

Manu Mateos · 2mo

El tiempo parece haber dado un pequeño respiro. Hemos vuelto a ver el sol por aquí y eso se nota en mi estado de ánimo (y en general en el estado de ánimo de la gente que me...

Shifting Sands and Dev Windows

cyanbane.com · 2mo

Over the past couple of months, my development desktop has gradually changed into its new form. This is the interweaving of AI into almost all of my workflows. I have a...

The Point of My Low Traffic Blog

Here at Bear, we do a lot of responding to other people's posts, so here's one from me: the point of my low traffic blog is just because I enjoy writing it. That's really it....

fluffy rambles: This site now Cloudflare-free

busybee · 2mo

About a year ago I set up Cloudflare as a fronting CDN for this site and my music site because it was the most expedient way of dealing with an AI bot onslaught. It helped a bit...

What to do next?

I've been asking myself that very question, every morning, for the last couple of weeks. The job hunt continues as well as before, which is to say not well at all. The only...

what does "learn to use a computer" mean, anyway?

The summer I turned 12, my older cousin (14) and her mom - who lived on the farm with us at the time - took on the job of babysitting one of the neighbor's kids (7). This kid,...

Random aside

Chris Glass · 2mo

Was looking for an image of dice and it turned out to be easier to make than hunt down on a free stock photo site or generate with a prompt.Currently Listening: Your The Best “1...

Improving the SAP Community together, one comment at a time

DJ Adams · 2mo

As a Developer Advocate, I have the privilege of working with some amazing colleagues in that team, but also in the wider Developer and Community Relations organisation. For the...

The Barkley Marathons - But For Writing

JetGirlArt · 2mo

There were several marathons and races going on this weekend, but the coolest one was the Barkley Marathons. You can google what they are, it's pretty interesting but I have no...

If Not Now, Then When?

If Not Now, Then When? mtift Mon, 02/16/2026 - 05:50 If we can’t be happy now, then when?Waiting for life to calm down sounds tempting. After the conflict ends. After the health...

Porter Day

Nigeness · 2mo

Peter Porter was born on this day in 1929, in Brisbane. His career, and his life, got off to a faltering start, but by 1955 he was living in London and associating with the...

¿Qué categoría es un blog post?

Después de escribir una lista larga de blog posts me llego la duda de ¿qué exactamente es un post?, dentro de lo literario ¿dónde cabría?, no es un cuento, no es poesía (aunque...

Translate Texinfo files using po4a

matto.nl · 2mo

Translate Texinfo files using po4a Texinfo Texinfo is a brilliant hypertext system that predates HTML. You access it with info, which is a text mode application. The content...

On Writing Pull Request Descriptions Well: The Five Cs

johnsy.com · 2mo

On this week’s Merri Monday Run I was chatting with a fellow nerd about software development, and the topic of GitHub pull requests (PRs) came up; particularly the importance of...

Happy Presidents’ Day (2026)!

I have been busy lately. For that reason I did not have time to do anything special for President’s Day. I present a quote from an article I wrote about an interesting passage...

Movie: Dead Man (1995)

Sigmarootpi · 2mo

I watched this movie yesterday. The storyline is very simple: An accountant goes to a industrial town to join a new job. But soon he finds himself involved in a double murder...

Linux server setup

tommi.space · 2mo

sudo useradd -m username sudo passwd username sudo usermod -aG sudo username sudo apt install ufw sudo ufw allow PORTNUMBER/tcp sudo chown -R :www-data /var/www

where to post

I'm coming across the problem of not knowing which blog to post to after I write something. I now have three separate blogs.1 I have a more "polished" blog that I sometimes post...

Bennu Station, 053:7 - Cratered Thinking

The present does not exist. It hasn't for weeks. I have been captured by the video and pictures of Jannshek before his accident. And it's not even the accident that bothers me....

💬 Snippet!

I'm a millennial, almost 40 years old, and I am savoring an amazing conversation of 2 women with autism, and a super social guy, about generational characteristics and growing...

A tiny, £20 keyboard! (And tips for using it on iOS)

Ross Wintle · 2mo

While I’m making recommendations and shilling other people’s products and generally turning into some weird kind of lifestyle blogger, allow me to talk about my tiny keyboard....

Closing Time・店じまい

Boatman wraps up for the day, along Nakanoshima Island. 中之島で一日の終わりに船を片付ける船頭。

A lazy morning turned into a perfect winter hike

A slow start to the day left me hesitant about hiking, but I remembered that I wanted to scout a route. A day started with low expectations and quite some doubt turned into...

Blog/2026-02-16/Are Mental Conditions Disabilities?

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Apparently 38 percent of students at Stanford have at least one disability<ref name=atlantic/>. Now, the Atlantic...

Betere Kamerstukken, en hoe lastig innovatie is

Het is 2026 en twee journalisten benaderen me met simpele vragen. Waarom kan je niet klikken op verwijzingen in Tweede Kamerstukken? En waarom kan ik de motienummers gebruikt...

M** BUN, SLOW FAST FOOD IN TURIN

retiredmartin · 2mo

February 2026. Turin. Two hours and two pints into Turin, with the sudden realisation we hadn’t eaten since sharing a croissant in Monaco that morning. The disappointment in...

digital detox day 6/30

Days without turning off site blockers: 0 Slept better last night. First half of the day was riddled with anxiety and brain fog. Wanted to go out on the down, but it was a...

A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 4: backups

Elena Rossini · 2mo

I had the pleasure of sharing with you all the steps it takes to set up and run your own essential internet services with the help of YunoHost. Fun fact - and sorry I'm...

How I built UltiGameMate with Eleventy and Supabase

Learn how I built UltiGameMate using Eleventy and Supabase, combining JAMstack with dynamic features.

Nolto.Social is gone, but is has shown the Demand!

Nolto.social started as a small experiment as a free alternative to LinkedIn. The author wanted to explore ActivityPub and see what could be built. There was no funding, no...

the tech-enabled surveillance of children

ava's blog · 2mo

Every now and then, I'll be exposed to a world I have otherwise nothing to do with: Child surveillance. What I see is infuriating. Not only are children nowadays pressured by...

I Forgot My Strap, but…

I got out for the first time today with my camera! 📸 Christina came with me and we trekked a bit thru the Old Falls. It was easily the best weather day of the year so far and we...

Weeknotes 7 - 2026

A day late and a dollar short I suppose, but just now I remembered I got back to writing week notes. The best thing that happened this week Wednesday and Thursday I was in...
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