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Fri Mar 06

Praying For Humanity

noahie.xyz · 1mo

These days, I find myself in a relaxing tedium. I'll take that over being manic or depressed every day. For the first time in a long time, things feel predictable. I finally...

NOBODY SAID SOUTH KESTEVEN WOULD BE FUN

retiredmartin · 1mo

February 2026. Edenham. Lincolnshire. Not quite Greater Grantham, more Bigger Bourne. Have any of you ever been to Bourne ? I knew nothing about little Edenham, 15 minutes off...

Slightly happy

Sal's · 1mo

This is one of my favorite emoji reactions to chats at work: 🙂 When I hover over that emoji reaction in chat, it reads: :slightly-happy:. I’ve worked with a couple guys who use...

Stripes

The Wayno / Piraro Bizarro of 3/5, in which the effusive Cat in the Hat of Dr. Seuss / Theodor Geisel meets the elusive Waldo of Martin Handford’s Where’s Waldo? Under the sign...

🎙️ Ashlee Lhamon

foofaraw · 1mo

Read Ashlee’s story, Moon Drama, on Foofaraw now!Do you “bring your whole self to work”? Should people?Well, now that I’m writing full-time, definitely yes–I think writing is...

Using Clankers to Help Me Process Surgery

Xe Iaso · 1mo

Recovery from major surgery is not a single event. It's a long, strange hallway of days that blur together, punctuated by vital checks and medication schedules and the weird...

If flip-phones can make a comeback, can Flash do the same?

Bill Premo: I don’t know where to start with this but yeah I’m making flash if flash was built in 2026. I’m making it compatible with Linux,Mac, and PC. If you remember Flash,...

My ISP Virgin Media is blocking VPNs via Parental Controls

Cybrkyd · 1mo

The new internet provider has connected me up, and boy is it fast. I ordered 1GB and am currently getting ~800 Mbps down. I cannot complain too much about that, especially when...

Making Firefox’s right-click not suck, even more, with userChrome.css

Cleaning up right-click with userChrome.css In my previous post, I wrote about using Firefox’s about:config to cut the right-click menu from a massive 26 buttons down to just...

500 days of rdigest

Druchan · 1mo

rdigest is a small CLI-based tool I made in late 2024. It began as a way to manage my daily reading (online digital consumption) because YouTube's UI was distracting, RSS feed...

How I got into Bandcamp (and my Bandcamp Friday purchases)

Music is quite nice I think, and I enjoy listening to it very much. However I must admit I didn’t actually start to support artists directly until I discovered Bandcamp....

Bi Mes Tres

Gabo Scribe · 1mo

Es Marzo 7 y hoy hace 2 meses que vengo blogueando como un campeón en mi flamante blog que nació por la necesidad de tener un blog. Quería un espacio personal propio, no...

Quickie: David Gilmour - Between Two Points (with Romany Gilmour) [Tour Rehearsal]

andrei.xyz · 1mo

youtube • video ID: o_QTaUuU8F4click image to load player Happy 80th, Mister Gilmour! This article was originally published at:...

Snowy Statues in Brooklyn (February 2026)

I commemorated Columbus Day in 2023 with a photo post of a pigeon perched atop a Christopher Columbus statute at Brooklyn’s Borough Hall. On February 24, 2026, I took a walk in...

Weekly Notes 10/2026

Thejesh GN · 1mo

Work has been hectic. But I can see the end, which is good, I think. Also, my orthodontic work is coming to an end. I should be free of steel cables in my mouth in three months....

Emacs: four new themes are coming to the ‘doric-themes’

Protesilaos · 1mo

I am developing four new themes for my doric-themes package: doric-almond (light) doric-coral (light) doric-magma (dark) doric-walnut (dark) Each of them has its own character,...

John Mulaney, Mister Whatever

Chris Glass · 1mo

I laughed heartily, thanks to John Mulaney. ⊕Currently Listening: The Strokes “Bad Decisions”Reply via email

Identity crisis

Ideapad · 1mo

I’m at the waiting room at the doctor’s office. It’s a big space, the entryway to a health center, maybe 50 feet long with lots of couches. I’m sitting at the far end, one of...

Dusty Sunset

Daniel N · 1mo

Southerly winds are bringing dust from the Sahara over the next few days and a good chance for some nice sunsets/sunrises; with both still at reasonable times of the day (no...

Code: Why I dislike .well-known

busybee · 1mo

There is a growing trend for new protocols to express themselves in the form of a well-known URI. It’s seen as an easy place to stash something where other interoperable...

London cinema going

It all started with an announcement of a tribute to David Lynch with screenings of all his films in one of London's cinemas during the whole month of January. For all my love...

FAQ

Sometimes people as me questions. Not frequently, but they do. Who are you? A human. It's sad that it's no longer given. I can't solve CAPTCHAs, so maybe it's wrong? Still, my...

Occasional Weeknote #24

laze.net · 1mo

A few things I’ve learned in the last few weeks: Good stress is still stress. The way car insurance operates makes very little sense to the average person (me). Almost...

A shitty dream

Tadaima. · 1mo

I've been progressively getting into dream symbolism lately, but it's been a long, slow road because dreams are so abstract. Most of the time I wake up and, even if I remember...

(56) ground of my own making

(image courtesy of avogado6) today I plant my feet on unsteady ground. yet i will not cede to the rumblings beneath. and, I will not surrender this beat of my heart. __/\__/\__...

Are Design Tools Still Relevant?

I was a product designer for a few years. I had switched careers to design after suffering burn out as a software engineer. During those years, my entire day was spent in Figma,...

European and open source email services

Wordius · 1mo

What do you expect of an email service? It’s probably not at the top of most people’s lists, but it should be: privacy and security. You don’t expect anyone to be spying on your...

Kanban Reading Board

Kanban Reading BoardI think I finally may have found a great way for me to track my reading without the use of predatory platforms and cloud-based services; a plain text Kanban...

'The French fog machine'

Nigeness · 1mo

You can say what you like about Facebook – and many of my acquaintance won't go near it, indeed flinch at the very name – but I find that it does throw up some unexpected gems...

Where Home is Not Safe

Where Home is Not Safe. writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse Edited by Judith Skillman and Linera Lucas ISBN: 9781476683928 Description Even if you haven’t...

Lent 2026 Day 17 - The Crucible of Doubt

Dallineation · 1mo

Today I finished reading a book I have been meaning to read for a long time called “The Crucible of Doubt” by Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens. This is a book I have heard...

Proyecto: Informes de Control para RSS

Interlan · 1mo

Esto solo es un script bash para tener una idea de cuantos lectores RSS se tienen. Introducción Esto es solo un proyecto rápido originado por la curiosidad que me dio el post de...

Notes hebdomadaires #6

Astrid · 1mo

Une petite semaine, j’ai l’impression qu’elle est passée super vite ! Au niveau des projets, j’ai fait pas mal de choses : j’ai bloqué les bots Facebook de mon VPS...

Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service

Peter's Path · 1mo

The decision to go with Swift brought a lot of unexpected advantages for us. We come from a world of iOS in the frontend, Python, Node, or Ruby in the backend for server-based...

Lijstduwer, Felipe Rodriquez Award, BNR, NRC, btw en meer

Hallo allemaal, Er is weer een boel te melden! Ik ga een beetje de politiek in, ik heb een prijs gekregen, twee zinvolle podcasts/radio-uitzendingen. En dat onze btw op het punt...

#openSUSE Tumbleweed revisión de la semana 10 de 2026

Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión...

Plog 6 搬家啦

Another Dayu · 1mo

更新一些近况,最近身体不是很好,一直卧床摸鱼。 这两天终于缓过来了,精神不少。 一部半自传式的漫画回忆录,讲述了一个孩子突然被从熟悉的环境中「拔出来」,被放到一个本应属于自己、却又非常陌生的文化环境里。故事简单又细腻,几代人经历的并置很有趣。...

Waving from the (depression) trenches

So it’s been mumble weeks since I’ve posted; partly because it’s been as long since I’ve read anything, and partly because I have been in a depression spiral that rivals some of...

The Ethics of Intervention in Iran (guest post)

Daily Nous · 1mo

“In light of the awful brutality by the Iranian government against the uprising in late December 2025, the case for humanitarian intervention in Iran is not obviously...

Privacy-focused companies still have to follow the law

Mark Pitblado · 1mo

On March 5th, 404Media published Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester, which generated a lot of discussion both online and in the comments of the...

Sewage in Venice

One of the most common questions I get on my walking tours, is about sewage. Where does it go? Are the canals open sewers? What about Katharine Hepburn?

Una magnífica interpretación del Canon (la de Yale University Press):

En un paisaje inestable, donde la voluntad humana se cruza cada vez más con la automatización y el azar, CANON DE CÁMARA OSCURA (Camera oscura. A Novel) construye una tensión...

Trying not to rush when I don't need it

I feel like I was taught to rush, while growing up at school there was always to be done: homework, tests, projects, presentations, life was busy. Learning how to move around...

Quieter by design

paco · 1mo

last edited 34 minutes ago Social media has an attention problem, everyone knows it, and yet the design stays the same. I've been thinking about two small structural changes...

Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World

Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen when she dropped out of school and eighty-eight when she won the Nobel Prize...

Youtube sin anuncios

Harto de los anuncios he decidido instalar el navegador Brave para disfrutar de Youtube sin ellos. Últimamente estaba viendo bastantes vídeos, sobre todo de cursos o para poner...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-06-26

I am workng on a few “work” projects today. But I have enough time for a new set of daily Pook-Emu Bee links. If you enjoy the links, you can follow via feed (although I...

Bandcamp Friday: Some Long Due Purchases

Stephan Max · 1mo

Today I made some purchases that have been patiently rotting in my wishlist for way too long. Zelda & Chill by beat maker Mikel. It is Zelda. It is lo-fi hip hop. No idea what...

🎵 Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi

BandcampLetters Charity is a nonprofit organization on a mission to use Art as a conduit to transform passive compassion into immediate assistance through the distribution of...

THE OUTER RING

Cafe Bedouin · 1mo

PART ONE: THE DRIVE The lab at 0300 smelled like copper and ozone. Dr. Amara Okonkwo’s hands were steady on the micropipette, had been steady for forty-seven minutes, would...

Tidal Cycles/Neovim: No Plugins, 24 Lines of Lua

I've been enjoying writing music using code in Neovim — I recently talked about using Lilypond to write sheet music this way, for example. Another way of writing music with code...

grateful for anesthesia and other things

Among many other things, this week I was grateful for: The invention of general anesthesia.1 FaceTiming old friends Dreams Strangers writing in my blog’s guestbook and emailing...

Go errors: to wrap or not to wrap?

Exploring the tradeoffs between wrapping errors at every return site versus wrapping only at boundaries, with no definitive answer - just honest tradeoffs for the kind of...

Why choose the lesser of two AI evils when a third way might be good?

newsonaut · 1mo

A lot of people have been deleting their ChatGPT accounts in favour Claude. It’s their way of choosing sides in the controversy surrounding contracts with the U.S. government. I...

On prayer

BEEW · 1mo

Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in early sobriety, a committed atheist, unable to square the...

Artemis changelog #8

I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below.Organise subscriptions with foldersYou can now...

Are we now coding / writing for other agents?

I just wanted to tick off another article that I had marked for “read later”. In Claude Code is blowing me away, Nick Hodges writes about his surprise how well Claude Code wrote...

digital detox day 24/30

Days without turning off site blockers: 16 I'm starting to get my appetite for art back, finally!

11ty pauses its rebrand Kickstarter

March 6, 2026 Font Awesome Kickstarter campaigns live and die by momentum in the first 48 hours, and ours ran out of steam before most of our audience even knew it existed. Yes....
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