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Sun Feb 22

The Witness Does Not Die

Jai Luthra · 2mo

The following is an excerpt from Guru Granth Sahib Ang. 152-153 (Raag Dakhni Gauri): पउणै पाणी अगनी का मेलु The body is a meeting of air, water, and fire. A compound. Borrowed...

Avalancha

Gabo Scribe · 2mo

La estación de trenes se tomaba un momento para descansar. Había gente, pero no mucha. El sol ya no era el de enero, no alumbraba tan en exceso pero su intensidad alcanzaba para...

Two remarkable performances by Jesse Jackson

I come to celebrate two television performances by Jesse Jackson (who died a few days ago) that have made my day: one that totally broke me up in laughter and one that made me...

Leave me behind

AksDev · 2mo

If you wont use this new VC funded hypetech, such as generative "AI" you will be left behind! Is that a promise? Please! Please leave me behind. I am boycotting your tech,...

Weekend Edition Vol.091

foofaraw · 2mo

Lots of exciting things are happening in the background here, hence the lack of (and tardiness of) rounds-ups—so we are going straight into the goodness.The first thing I wanted...

github workflow: external script

Problem statement: execute a .js script in a GitHub workflow. The script must be stored in a separate file (than the workflow) in the same git repository. Why store the file...

Weeknotes: 2026-W08

Thomas Rigby · 2mo

16th February - 22nd February 04:00 — woke with a terrible thirst, mind racing with fever dreams. "unplug your phone, cable may be warm" warns my phone. the cable is cold, the...

digital detox day 12/30

Days without turning off site blockers: 5 Man (still) down! Nothing of note has happened, I've been letting my mind wander all day so here's a list of my favourite professors:...

22.2.2025

Kultapyörä · 2mo

Divided runosongs into myths and ballads for now, and added translation for the ballad of Iivari Kojonen. Added a page for Joukahainen in deities and heroes, and for Rahkonen in...

An Ode to Things That Do One Thing Well

I have a long-standing argument that passes the test of time. A product should do one main job and do it well. When it tries to do more, it often does none well. It's tough to...

Building a Home NAS from Mostly Spare Parts

Max Glenister · 2mo

I’ve had a SNUNMU GK3 mini-PC kicking about since early-2023, barely used. An impulse buy that ended up on a shelf, alongside a drawer full of old drives from various machines...

Artemis dense layout

This evening I added an idea I have had for a while to Artemis: a "dense" layout.By default, the Artemis interface appears in a single-column layout. The dense layout creates...

better bear dashboard

The Bear dashboard hurts my eyes. But that's okay because it's customizable! I've revamped it to use Rosé Pine Dawn and Catpuccin Frappe colors (these are also colors used on my...

2026-W08: Alaaf, I guess

LostFocus · 2mo

That was in many way a very surprising week. A spontaneous decision meant that on Monday afternoon I drove into Köln. On Rosenmontag no less. I reached the town late enough that...

A Private Joy in Numbers

Closcope, Pandrosion the Mathematician. CC BY-SA 4.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. There’s to be no real discussion of weighty matters in this post. Rather, what follows is a...

Selfie: a portrait of me by Ro

Protesilaos · 2mo

This is a portrait of me by Ro, which was done live during our “Prot Asks” meeting: Prot Asks: Ro about programmatic thinking, political discourse, and self-discovery through...

0005-writing motivation and perfectionism

Sigmarootpi · 2mo

It's the fifth word-vomit post, and I still feel lost whenever I open the text editor to write the first few words. Thanks to Atomic Habits by James Clear, I know that habit...

26W08. Safe travels

Z1NZ0L1N · 2mo

I’m beginning to think that you should ignore travel guides entirely. Take Marseille, France’s second city after Paris and before Lyon. Everybody tells you to visit Notre-Dame...

Bringing a 27-year-old programming project back to life with Claude Code

Andrew Doran · 2mo

A big chunk of my final year at university, studying for my Computer Science degree, was spent working on a project. That last year counted for 60% of my overall grade, and the...

Dostoyevsky on Why There Are No Bad People

“A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in...

The Bookstore Hope

The world always has a unique way of slapping me when I least expect it. Things go really well, and then, SMACK. The universe has plans for me. I can't decide if spirits read...

I Rent My Entire Life

February 22, 2026 I came across this piece by Greg Morris today and it's been rattling around in my head ever since. It's about something most of us don't think about until it's...

February 2026 blend of links

Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share the good stuff I encounter on the web. ¶ World’s largest spider web – Be warned — especially if...

Daily Dex - Kirlia

quailblog · 2mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sun 02/22/2026 - Kirlia Today's request was "What's a pokemon that has 'Farsia' vibes" - the Farsia being a...

XXII: What Happened in France to Candide and Martin

lettrss.com · 2mo

Candide stayed in Bordeaux no longer than was necessary for the selling of a few of the pebbles of El Dorado, and for hiring a good chaise to hold two passengers; for he could...

Weeknotes 37

ANHVN · 2mo

if the layout is messed up in your rss reader, apologies, I did some gruesome CSS stuff—I recommend reading it in your browser. What is this? you ask. Well, it’s a tale as old...

True Good

noahie.xyz · 2mo

I've been feeling better from my flu, but not fully. It makes writing here an even tougher task, but I know that once I get the ball rolling, I'll finish out just fine. Even...

Prendre soin des autres

Faites tout ce que vous pouvez pour prendre soin les un·es des autres. Il reste tant à faire, mais âhkamêyimo, n’abandonnez pas. Chacun·e à le pouvoir d’agir. — Kent Monkman,...

WOWSER ! THIS TRAIN STOPS AT LETCHWORTH

retiredmartin · 2mo

February 2026. Letchworth Garden City. The weekly visit to see Dad in his Cambridge care home found him in rude health, no doubt in part due to the food at Hatley Court, which...

Lent 2026 Day 5 - Busy Sunday

Dallineation · 2mo

It's been a long day. I'm still actively attending and serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints even while I wrestle with doubts and questions. I need to stay...

Cherry Thing-A-Lings

Chris Glass · 2mo

In Batesville Indiana there is a place that sells these cherry fritters once a year. Today I was lucky to try one. ⊕Currently Listening: sezno “manifesto”Reply via email

El sentido último de la escritura

Louise Brooks, alias Ryo en ‘Canon de cámara oscura’ ¿El sentido último de la escritura? Ésta nunca consistió en la inscripción de una obra personal, sujeta a la reinscripción...

45-sylvia's pixel bears!!

sylvia made this pixel bear icon for me. look at it, it's so cute!!! you can check out her and others renditions of bearbloggers on her page. it is an awesome place to find new...

We’ll See Tomorrow

This spring I am on vacation in a city I have never visited before. A chance to immerse myself in a different culture, a different pace, during a few days in which nothing is...

A random list of silly things I hate

Sal's · 2mo

Following Andrea, Manu, Kev, Carl, Steve, and probably many more.... I try to keep it mostly positive here, but I’ll bite. 😁 When people DM me at work, “Hi Sal,” and then start...

fluffy rambles: Post-Cloudflare update

busybee · 2mo

It’s been nearly a week since I removed Cloudflare from my sites. As a quick followup, I did get a slight surge in traffic that lasted for a day or so after a bunch of bots' DNS...

Talking About Music: They’re from California; you’ve never heard of them

I’m making this post today to discuss a musical artist that you’ve most certainly never heard of, and I think that’s a shame. While artists giving their music away under...

Smaller and dumber

Dave Rupert · 2mo

If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance.

No temp variables needed for pointers in Go 1.26

How many millions of times have you seen this pattern in Go where a variable is pre-created just to make a pointer to it down the line? There is a high chance your codebase...
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