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Wed Mar 04

The Court Challenge: What Survives the Ehrenfest Barrier, and Why It Matters

Cafe Bedouin · 1mo

A particle bounces inside an enclosed court. If the court’s walls are curved in just the right way — a stadium shape, a square with a circular obstacle — the particle’s...

De un golpe

Gabo Scribe · 1mo

Tengo una fijación con el clima, tiene mucho que ver con mi estado emocional en curso, justo en el momento de escribir algo de índole personal. Algunos prefieren las frases,...

Pollen!

LostFocus · 1mo

Oh boy. The pollen allergy season is in full swing already. And of course I forgot to order my antihistamines. Reply by email

Dear Spotify

Sal's · 1mo

Re: User interface for Hey, Soul Sister by Train Dear Spotify, Please add a button labeled I fucking hate this song and allow it to be activated at least one thousand times....

Review: I Write Like

Forking Mad+ · 1mo

I recently stumbled across a writing tool, which has somewhat changed the way I write — for the better. I Write Like is a web based app, describing itself as "a writer-focused...

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

Peter's Path · 1mo

Why read the book? Chris Voss wrote Never Split the Difference. He spent many years as an FBI hostage negotiator. Voss shows how the same skills work in normal life. He says...

Welcome to The Lounge

The Lounge · 1mo

Welcome, to the Soft Metal Lounge, a portal for time travel between the past and future. My name is Elle and I'll be your timesplitter. The Soft Metal Lounge is my life or at...

I can’t stand my chair anymore

Now, after yesterday’s dark post, here’s a post about a chair. Living in the age of excessive consumerism definitely has its sweet side. On one hand, I have endless options to...

Holiday blues in the tank of dreams

Brian flicked his tail against the cool glass of his aquarium, watching the same plastic castle and rubber plants bob in the current he created. For two weeks, the world beyond...

The Oldest Known Mallard

Quoted Mallard Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology (allaboutbirds.org) The oldest known Mallard was a male, and at least 27 years, 7 months old when he was...

Books Read February 2026

(Nota bene, each entry has a review using Seth’s proprietary three-point Good-OK-Bad scale, with emojis representative of something that stood out to me about the work; please...

第 9 周剑道记录

日々精進 · 1mo

2025-02-23(月・祝) 因为感冒刚好,就自觉戴上了口罩(运动用布制)稽古,结果喘不上气差点晕过去…… 这一次没再被指出挑剑尖问题,但是依然感觉自己的面还是慢,不是速度慢,是反应慢。 本次最大的收获来自 TM老师的指导。打击的最后一瞬间要把注意力集中在剑尖,可以打出更快的面。我还发现这样可以最大限度避免落剑尖。...

#185: apuntes de italiano

Manu Mateos · 1mo

Llevo un tiempo aprendiendo italiano. Empecé con Duolingo, donde llegué a tener una racha de más de un año. Luego cambié Duolingo por Babbel, aprovechando que pude hacerme con...

Detail: Pixelmator Pro Effect Ropes

Quibbletown · 1mo

I’m trying out a ton of design and art software at once (which I might write a blogpost about), and today I got into Pixelmator Pro, and when figuring out the Effects panel, I...

resisting authoritarianism #6: strengthen your mental and physical resilience

(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...

CDS expressions in CAP - notes on Part 1

DJ Adams · 1mo

See the series post for an overview of all the episodes. Notes 00:00 Introductions. 05:00 A first look at expressions in the context of the new Declarative Constraints feature....

My favorite meme: Woman yelling at a cat

This post was written for this month's Bearblog Carnival. Thanks to Suliman for hosting this event! What happens if a blonde woman and a white cat meet each other? They just...

Blue Tit

Daniel N · 1mo

I finally got you. You were much trickier than the curious Robins of the last few days. Either my reactions are getting quicker with practice, or you were milliseconds more...

The Gratitude Subscriptions, February 2026

mzll · 1mo

In February, my gratitude subscription was expressed with a donation ($10) to Johan Sanneblad, lead developer of Notebook Navigator. Notebook Navigator is an excellent plugin...

StreetComplete: Pokémon Go for map geeks

A few years ago, while recuperating from our at that time “favourite” dreaded lurgy,1 I stumbled across StreetComplete, an Android app to update OpenStreetMap data in a fun and...

Takeaways from Red Rising

bneil.me · 1mo

Red Rising; Thoughts on the Society I recently finished reading through the full Red Rising series, completing Light Bringer just a few days ago. After sitting with all of these...

A LAST HURRAH FOR DOOM BAR

retiredmartin · 1mo

February 2026. Downham Market. £9.30 “invested” on an old person’s evening out in Downham Market, and all I had to show for it were some blurred photos from the Crown, which I’m...

Influential Ideas in an AI Era

Daily Nous · 1mo

A philosopher often praised for the accessibility of his writing, when asked about it (he often took part in advice sessions for younger academics), would say that he is not...

Lent 2026 Day 15 - Counting Blessings

Dallineation · 1mo

I need to do better at recognizing the tremendous blessings in my life and acknowledging God's hand in all of them. A favorite hymn among Latter-day Saints is “Count Your...

Kita Osaka・北大阪

Looking over some brush along the Yodo River at the Umeda Sky building and other Umeda high rises. 淀川沿いの葦原越しに、梅田スカイビルやその他の梅田の高層ビル群を眺めている。

Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” In 1957, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) became the second youngest...

CybersecKyle Security How-To Series: Everyday Defense Part 5 - Scam Spotting, The 60-Second Pause Protocol

CybersecKyle · 1mo

I’m back with Part 5 of the Everyday Defense track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. Here’s what we’re going to cover: the pressure patterns scammers lean on, the exact...

Mutate your locked state inside a closure

Why your mutex wrapper should accept a closure for mutation instead of a plain value, with examples from the standard library and Tailscale.

Reflecting on My CISA Certification

Wibi · 1mo

I passed and am now certified as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Now what?I got the opportunity to go through the CISA course and pass ISACA's CISA...

"Light rain forecasted"

quailblog · 1mo

When the forecast gets it wrong (complimentary) The weather alerts for yesterday morning were really (and I cannot stress this enough) really on the fence about if it would rain...

Show Random posts in Bear Blog

Another Dayu · 1mo

Bear blog supports Embedding blog post lists, for example displaying the latest posts: {{ posts|limit:5 }} However, it does not support displaying random posts. Then, I created...

Weeknotes #366 — Kitzbühel

Andrew Doran · 1mo

The town of Kitzbühel, Austria, from high up in the mountains. A four-day working week with a long weekend away at the end. I needed it. At the start of the week I noted that I...

digital detox day 22/30

Doing okay. Everything just feels 'meh' and I just want to have a long lie down. I want to do things well (like this fucking challenge) but it's as though I'm half asleep in my...

Newsletter 2026.09

Matt's Blog · 1mo

A few days late just means there is more to cover, right? Programming and Scripting This week I worked on my homepage quite a bit. I added a ListenBrainz widget and fixed quite...

I talk with Joshua Blais about Emacs and life issues

Protesilaos · 1mo

I had a ~2-hour chat with Joshua Blais, a fellow Emacs user, over at the @JoshuaBlais YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JoshuaBlais. We covered Emacs at length and also...

Links of the day

MacBook Neo. Apple has announced a new entry-level MacBook. Colorful and equipped with an iPhone chip (A18 Pro), it starts at USD 599 (without Touch ID, available only in the...

Three nights on the hormonal rollercoaster

A journal of the nights of 3/1-2, 3/2-3, and (last night!) 3/3-4, during which I experienced the deepest lows and the greatest highs of hormone-driven states of being....

🔗 Reply to: How Jane Street does code review

Interesting tech talk. I like the approach of committing code review comments and making small fixes on behalf of your teammates as part of code review, which is a (more)...

The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything

Chris Glass · 1mo

I met Brandon 42 years ago. Today we gathered for lunch and introduced each other to the folks that make us better. ⊕Currently Listening: Francis, & Her Fawn “Cold Water /...

Leviathan

Leviathan es un anime de estética steampunk y ciencia ficción que presenta una versión alternativa de la Primera Guerra Mundial. En esta serie, que consta de doce episodios,...

AMS: The last aircraft photography session in a while

dmpop · 1mo

On my way from Germany to our new home in Denmark, I spent a couple of hours in AMS, capturing airplanes. This was my last airplane photography session in the foreseeable...

Fun language tidbits

Ah, randomness. A favorite of the average ADHDer. Today I bring you a little bit of that on one of my past times: hyper specific facts about dead languages and/or word...

🚧 OBSTRUCTION #13

foofaraw · 1mo

Catch up!Matthew BurbridgeThe story so far:Issue #1Issue #2Issue #3Issue #4Issue #5Issue #6Issue #7Issue #8Issue #9Issue #10Issue #11Issue #12

ಅನ್ಯಮತೀಯ

Thejesh GN · 1mo

ನಿತ್ಯಾನಂದ ಬಿ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿಯವರ ‘ಅಳವು ಅರಿಯದ ಭಾಷೆ’ ಪುಸ್ತಕಕ್ಕೆ ಇಸ್ಮಾಯಿಲ್ ಅವರು “ಕೇಡಿನ ಭಾಷೆಯೇ ಆಡುಭಾಷೆಯಾದಾಗ…” ಲೇಖನದ ಮೂಲಕ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸಿದ್ಡಾರೆ. ಸಮಯ ಸಿಕ್ಕಾಗ ಓದಿ. ಆ ಲೇಖನದ ಈ ಎರಡು ಪ್ಯಾರಾಗಳು ನನ್ನ...

Deezer vs. Spotify (and Qobuz) (or, Yet another post about a dude trying to leave Spotify, part 2)

laze.net · 1mo

(Read part one here, where I discuss my month with Qobuz.) I started with a free month of Qobuz and then used two months to try out Deezer. Let’s run down the list of my...

Scour - February Update

Evan Schwartz · 1mo

Hi friends, In February, Scour scoured 647,139 posts from 17,766 feeds (1,211 were newly added). Also, 917 new users signed up, so welcome everyone who just joined! Here's...

Stop anthropomorphizing the machine

I’ve seen a lot written on the unexpected dangers of letting LLMs run amok in society. Some of the consequences of opening Pandora's box include: AI-induced psychosis, the...

Anarchistischer Antimilitarismus – Vortrag von Dr. Bernd Drücke

Stephan Max · 1mo

Das Allgemeine Syndikat Freie Arbeiter:innen Union (FAU) Köln hatte Interessierte in das Naturfreundehaus in Kalk zum Vortrag „Anarchistischer Antimilitarismus“ von Dr. Bernd...

Goodbye my friend Debian

Calaveras · 1mo

Disclaimer: this post is written in bad english, I need to practice. What's this post about? Well, maybe it's a love letter or goodbye letter to one of my favourite...

Cuento: La mandarina y el tomate / Story: The Tangerine and The Tomato

Go to English translation La pequeña e inocente mandarina no se esperaba terminar en el estado en el que se encontraba en estos momentos, junto con cadáveres de pedazos...

Night time; walking

i'll spend my whole life looking for the next best thingbut when I finally find it, i’ll be too busy lookingfor the next best thingI had spent half of the day travelling and the...

A Field Guide to Your Internal True North (An AI Experiment)

BEEW · 1mo

A note before you read—this is an experiment. I've spent years accumulating ideas, learning, and ways of thinking about risk, ego, the body, the noise in your own head, the...

Keeping things, letting go

Ideapad · 1mo

I am something of a packrat. I derive comfort and pleasure from the artifacts of my past. My parents’ house is still full of material remnants of my youth, from art projects to...

Share this post to Mastodon

The people at Mastodon recently released a share button for websites! and I think it works rather well, as it remembers the instance you selected for the next time you use it...

Kyoto Tech Meetup links for March 5, 2026

ashryan.io · 1mo

We had a lot asks this week, which is rare and fun. AsksOrdered by question, with links where possible.Q: What's the whole OpenAI vs Anthropic vs DoD thing?There's no way for me...

(54) i can't seem to smile like her again

(image courtesy of an unknown artist, on pinterest) i was planning to write more. i apologise (to no one) in advance. this afternoon and evening, for a few hours, i totally and...

Larkin's Administration

Nigeness · 1mo

Here, to lower the tone, is a little something that Philip Larkin wrote on the, er, challenges of personnel management...AdministrationDay by day your estimation clocks upWho...

One of the most potentially dangerous failure modes of LLM-based coding assistants …

I really like having Jason Gorman’s blog posts in my RSS reader. Especially when he’s highlighting some critical issues with AI assisted coding. This paragraph for example...

A New Reality

noahie.xyz · 1mo

Lately, I've been feeling a certain staleness in writing these entries. This is mostly because my emotions have been stable, and while it's a welcome season in my life, I can't...

Let’s have Small Tech, Big Tech didn’t really work

fredrocha.net · 1mo

I found my fairbuds, finally! For a second there, I thought I had lost them for good. They just fell out of my jacket pocket in the closet, though. *breathes sigh of relief*...
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