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Wed Feb 18

The Physics of the Grip: Why Leia Was Right

Cafe Bedouin · 2mo

“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”-Princess Leia in Star Wars Leia wasn’t making a political prediction—she was...

El Cautivo de Amenábar

El Cautivo es la última película de Alejandro Amenábar. Estrenada en septiembre de 2025 estamos ante un drama histórico, no exento de polémica, que recrea el cautiverio de...

How to add hoverable rows in tables

This post was written for the Grizzly Gazette's Bearblog Creation Festival. Bear Blog supports tables with optionally aligned columns in Markdown. As always, tables are easily...

Changing a hostname in Debian seems harder than necessary

Changing a host’s name in Debian1 is a two-step process, and there doesn’t appear to be a more direct method. This seems odd to me, somehow. Because I stumbled upon this issue...

Doggy D'Artagnan

Nigeness · 2mo

One of the pleasures of grandparenthood is enjoying all over again some of the things that most entertained us in our own childhood and, later, when our own children were young....

Movie Recap 2025

Last year, when it comes to movies, was probably one of the best ever in my life. I got to watch some amazing flicks and have some great moments binging movies myself or...

Tahoe

Laurel, Andy, Eryn, and I took the girls up to Lake Tahoe for a very long weekend away from school—SFUSD had both Monday and Tuesday off, for Presidents’ Day and Chinese New...

The RIB: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Kell Shaw · 2mo

Knights on campus! Brianna's mother has died, and to escape, she goes to college with her best friend Alice. While still processing her mother's grief, Brianna stumbles onto a...

Why Not Objective-C

inessential · 2mo

At my last job, at Audible (hi Audible folks, if you’re reading this!), I led the effort to port our remaining Objective-C to Swift. When I started that project, Objective-C was...

The Optimism Gap

Eddie Dale · 2mo

Openclaw is still dominating the tech-news, and the recent acquisition from OpenAI raises a lot of opinions and reactions. It's not that I don't have my own issues with that...

On Using AI in Blogging

bneil.me · 2mo

Agree as well, regardless of if you’re having LLMs help with coding or writing. It’s your word/voice your putting out there. So you better be able to back it up. — in response...

the resisting authoritarianism deep dive is now websites

Web versions! The one where molly does CSS The one where molly doesn't do CSS Updates will appear as sections get written. Go forth and share the info!

Rhythm

I have been thinking about the rhythm of my writing recently. I wrote in my drafts:I have spent much of this evening writing. I started by working on a draft of a post about...

Grandma Is Back in Hospital, and I Fear Her Cat Is Going to Die While She Is Gone

We can't seem to catch a break. Grandma is back in hospital again. I was only asleep for about three hours when my Mother came upstairs having a borderline-heart-attack. She was...

#181: notificaciones push en navegadores

Manu Mateos · 2mo

Creo que los navegadores actuales deberían ser mucho más restrictivos con las notificaciones push. Se están usando mucho con fines maliciosos. Tengo cierta confianza en que,...

build

Soundtrack I have mixed but largely unfavorable views of the rise of industrial society, but what prevents my views from being wholly negative is my fascination with and...

Jangle pop and some song I've been enjoying

A couple of weeks ago I started to listen to The Sundays again, I don't know why, they just came up in my mind and had the urge to listen to some of their songs. That turned...

Lent 2026 Day 1 - Ash Wednesday

Dallineation · 2mo

When I wasn't working from my home office or shoveling snow (we had our biggest snow storm of the season today – it's been a mild, dry winter and the snow was desperately...

How I find Inspiration

BrittHub · 2mo

Zachary Kai recently asked if I’d like to be on a list of people willing to trade blog post titles. Of course I said yes, I really enjoyed our trade last year and would love to...

“McDonalds finally found us, and we’re folklore in Turin”

retiredmartin · 2mo

February 2026. Turin. We woke up on that first morning in Turin feeling a bit like this; I felt sorry (not sorry) for Mrs RM, who had gone pint, pint, half litre of white wine,...

A Body Made of Glass: Spanish Edition

The Spanish edition of my book A Body Made of Glass is published today by Barlin Libros, in a translation by Helena Vivancos Peñas. It has a new cover, designed by Isabel...

I am making videos again!

I’ve always loved making videos. Not because I love being on camera, but I really enjoy putting together jokes and stories and tutorials (etc) with video as a medium. The moment...

An Index of Philosophy Book Reviews

Daily Nous · 2mo

Matt Zwolinski (University of San Diego) says he has long thought it would be useful to have a website in which you could type in the name of a book and be shown all the...

L.L. Cool J at Thriftway

laze.net · 2mo

I was thinking today a bit about the first records I ever bought myself. It’s going back 40 years, so my memories be slightly switched about which purchase came first, but I...

Remixing Bear Hug features to use markdown

I've been using Bear Hug's fun note styles and wave-y seperator on this blog. But I keep getting pulled out of the writing process once I put a bunch of html on the page. I came...

fig. | Boox Palma Daily Drive

Loving my Boox Palma, y’all! Been using it every day for a few weeks now and tried all sorts of things in it. I bought it second hand, but it came in mint condition and working...

You had a story

You had a story you used to tell yourself about how you got here in life. You’d share the story with others. Maybe you’d be at a party, and someone would ask what you do, and...

Owning My Music Again

Over the past few weeks, I dove head-first into the YouTube rabbit hole of the analog life, the personal cloud, less dependency on big tech companies, and more of the like. I've...

music makes me so happy

It's just a bit past midnight. After class yesterday I worked on a song cover all afternoon, then I read a book about music pretty much all evening because I had to stop working...

Kyoto Tech Meetup links for February 19, 2026

ashryan.io · 2mo

We can make the computers do things. It turns out that convincing humans is the tricky part.The Turing TestCo-Active CoachingMyers Briggs (16 Personalities)"What to consider...

I say too much

Will RC · 2mo

One thing I’ve realised as I write more is that I write too much. Specifically I mean, when it comes to blogging, I have a tendency to try and say too many things in one post....

Chinese New Year and Ramadan

Yesterday was Chinese New Year and today is the first day of Ramadan. Both of these dates are based on yesterday’s new moon, so I thought it would be fun to write a little...

XVIII: What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado

lettrss.com · 2mo

Cacambo expressed his curiosity to the landlord, who made answer: “I am very ignorant, but not the worse on that account. However, we have in this neighbourhood an old man...

How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education

“While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.” It bears repeating that what makes life livable is our ability...

digital detox day 8/30

Days without turning off site blockers: 2 Doing a digital detox feels futile if there is nothing occupying my mind. I had a good day today, the detox part is actually happening....

The "democratization of music production" is often (but not always) a scam

quailblog · 2mo

AI is the latest iteration, but financial predators targeting musicians with false promises is kind of an institution at this point Oh btw this has nothing to do with the topic;...

Nothing works without internet anymore

Today is day #3 since our internet service decided to give up... Somehow... I'm still alive... If that first sentence sounds like it was pulled from the diary of someone slowly...

Speedometer

noahie.xyz · 2mo

Over the last day or so, I've noticed a major increase in my mood. Most would interpret that to mean I’m feeling happier, but for me, it’s a different sensation. Instead of...

I'm going physical and you should too!

Aah physical media. It’s something I haven’t really experienced myself in full as a child. I did know what DVDs are and how to use the DVD player on our TV, but thats pretty...

stream of consciousness in feb 2026

ava's blog · 2mo

I’m going through an interesting time. I’ve been growing more uncomfortable with the way I’m always spoken over and interrupted at work. I started reacting to that and demanding...

Orion's comment section

foofaraw · 2mo

—Ellie Black

I made a bookmarklet that lets you quickly edit your blogposts

Kami's Corner · 2mo

Update: Apparently this doesn't work on safari. So, if you're using that browser... Well, get a better browser first of all, but if you don't wanna do that then this might not...

Vinilandia es uno de los podcasts que más he disfrutado últimamente

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★ New APKBUILD: LLM edition

Problem statement: package prek for Alpine Linux. prek is a modern replacement for pre-commit, covered (many times) in this blog1. Previously. It’s already a breeze to create...

I Witnessed the Birth of a Tiny World

Aether Mug · 2mo

This post is part of my List of Introspective Descriptions. I'm always accepting "curious introspection" links and submissions from everyone, regardless of the kind of inner...

Where to do these drafts

Sal's · 2mo

I’m not sure where I should be writing and keeping blog drafts. I’m writing this in iA Writer, which I quite like. I’ve got a Blog Drafts folder there. That’s where these words...

#cineForumSegreto e Fluxer

Ieri sera - praticamente con zero organizzazione e meno di una settimana di preavviso - alcune persone del Fediverso ed io ci siamo trovate per guardare Scott Pilgrim VS The...

Weeknotes #364 — Big pile of umbrellas

Andrew Doran · 2mo

Spotted a cheeky jackdaw sitting on the sign, looking at the passersby. It flew off as I pulled out my phone to take its picture. Note the blue sky in the background — a rare...

Amtrak and Skiing Whitefish, MT

Brandon Davis · 2mo

48 hours on the empire builder and 2 days in Whitefish.

Rebuilding Windows Live Messenger, Part 3: The Specification

Vito Sartori · 2mo

This post continues the investigation that began with “This is not RLE”. If the first post was about dismantling assumptions, this one is about replacing them with certainty....

As Seen on TV

Chris Glass · 2mo

The most important and best parts of today included hanging out virtually with good folks from the internet, Jasper and Rachel. ⊕Currently Listening: Silversun Pickups “Au...

Problematic Instagram use: redefining the nature of addiction

Kali Hays, Regan Morris, and Peter Bowes, writing for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): The head of Instagram has defended his platform against claims it caused mental...

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. KDE Plasma 6.6. One of those updates...

artist residency: SEED, Dublin City University (DCU)

artist residency, dublin city university, nov 2025-apr 2026 In 2025, I was invited to be one of five artists in residence for SEED, a project based in DCU, Dublin...

Irregular

Navigating the complex feelings following a death in the family is never easy, and while it does become more manageable in time, the hole it leaves is never fully healed. You’d...
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