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Fri Mar 20

My Recollection of Kobe Bryant’s 81

On March 10, 2026, Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo scored 83 points against the Washington Wizards, which is good for the second highest single-game scoring effort in NBA history...

Fictional Writing

Forking Mad+ · 1mo

I enjoy writing. In my career I have written a lot: Proposals; Training Guides; Management Reports; Funding Applications.... For fun, I really enjoy writing my blog, but I am...

Notes hebdomadaires #8

Astrid · 1mo

Une semaine rythmée avec l’arrivée d’un nouveau chat à la maison, Spritz a pas mal de mal pour le moment du coup des nuits pas forcément très reposantes et des journées bien...

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.” “Lights and shadows are continually flitting across my inward sky, and I know neither whence they come nor...

People are not friction

Dave Rupert · 1mo

The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically...

The Heaviest Owl in North America

Quoted Snowy Owl Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology (allaboutbirds.org) Thick feathers for insulation from Arctic cold make Snowy Owls North America’s...

No one told me about the "second childhood"

Tadaima. · 1mo

It's funny reading posts from people talking about how old they are, how they're changing, how things aren't the same anymore, how they're worried about the future, how they...

The good and the bad days

Dominik Hofer · 1mo

This is an observation I regularly have during everyday life. Some days feel like I have all the time in the world. I manage what I set out to do, I move, create, read, learn....

Linked List Blogging

From the depths of the Daring Fireball archives: New feature at Daring Fireball: the Linked List, a daily list of interesting links and brief commentary on DF-related topics,...

today's sketch and some graphic design finds

PINEWIND · 1mo

Spent the whole day in Tokyo Midtown today. I met up with the people from the art circle for the first time in a month or so. It was raining the whole time, so we went to a...

Náufragos de março

Última modificação 3 minutes ago. Março não vai deixar pedra sobre pedra nessa casa (e por casa, entenda-se minha vida). Meu companheiro perdeu a bolsa do mestrado, minha irmã...

What I learned in Malaysian history class

Elizabeth Tai · 1mo

Malaysian secondary history classes have changed so much, so I am not sure what is being studied now. But during my time, we studied the history of Malaysia (of course), world...

Occasional Weeknote #25

laze.net · 1mo

The 25th weeknote is a bit short and uneventful. No real reason other than I’m just in a bit of a creative funk for the moment and wading through some general Life Overwhelm...

Re: People Are Not Friction

Dave Rupert puts words to the feeling in the air: the unspoken promise of AI is that you can automate away all the tasks and people who stand in your way. Sometimes I feel like...

The responsibility to keep flowing

Protesilaos · 1mo

This is an excerpt from my journal. I describe the prevailing conditions in my mountains and how those relate to matters of complacency, responsibility, foresight, and...

Pensamientos: Mi primer strike

Interlan · 1mo

Que te digo. Para el post más original que pude haber escrito, le clavan un strike por copyright. Introducción Todo comienza con un mensaje del Google Search Console Aviso de...

Reflecting

He opened his eyes to be greeted by shards of sunlight effortlessly radiating into the room. The golden rays faced no challenge breaking through the curtains. The room was...

the sublime Web; billionaires, in electrical terms

the sublime Web The sublime form of the Web is when complete nerds geek out in minute detail over their obsession in a manner specifically designed to let any random surfer-by...

Thrift: A Banking Game

Chris Glass · 1mo

While sifting through board games to find dice the other week I hovered over this nugget from 1963. Thrift is a card game about collecting money wrapped in a fine mid-century...

AI Can Write Code, But It Can’t Debug Without Context

Large Language Models (LLMs) are often marketed as the ultimate productivity boost for developers: “Write code faster! Debug with AI! No more manual work!” After a recent...

Affording It

noahie.xyz · 1mo

Tensions are running a bit high today. Over the last few weeks, I had been waiting on my Mounjaro prescription to get filled. At first, I thought that it was an oversight on my...

We need the illusion that we matter to someone

mzll · 1mo

It’s impressive how writing a blog and feeling responsible for your readers – no matter how little you know them – can make our brains stick to promises we’d normally break...

Russia is Not a Great Power

Joarvarndt · 1mo

Russia is not a great power. It is in no way a contender for the title, and treating it as one of the “power brokers” of the world benefits no one except the autocratic regime...

RIP Nicholas Brendon

Thomas Rigby · 1mo

I didn't really follow Brendon's career post-Buffy but he made a lasting impact on me as Xander. The role of the only non-magic member of the "Scooby Gang" allowed for some...

Coconut X revisited

Briefly noted. From my 8/9/23 posting “The states of matter: coconut X”: I discovered the melting point of coconut X several summers ago. My air-conditioning aims to cool things...

(70) sweating towards a shared sun

(image courtesy of an unknown artist) a memory of a father and a daughter, brought together by an impossible, infinitesimal fracture within the space-time continuum. sweating...

Brauhaus Sion, Cologne

retiredmartin · 1mo

March 2026. Cologne. Germany. I thought long and hard about blog titles for Cologne. “Day 1, Hour 3” ? “A Sion of the Times” ? “No, STOP bringing the Kolsch !” ? It’s so much...

Onigiri!

A kitchen adventure Recently, I've been told that we have not one, but two Asian groceries in 15 mins walk radius. Then my genius turned to 11: The Kid loves sushi, so let's...

Story 4 - meadow

I was busy clearing out a cupboard in the living room when I found a package hidden in the back of the bottom shelf. It was wrapped with a string of rope, and something was...

Weekly Notes 12/2026

Thejesh GN · 1mo

It’s been another hectic week, but towards the end, it was a bit relaxing because of Ugadhi and Id breaks. Wish you all a happy Ugadhi and Id. The war continues. I doubt the...

The Hollow Man — book review

Okay, this one was a disappointment. Not that bad but not good either. 3 out of 10. Having an ingenious timeline and a clever solution and an eccentric detective and a very...

Repositories, transactions, and unit of work in Go

Decoupling business logic from storage in Go, adding transaction support without leaking SQL details, and coordinating atomic writes across multiple repositories using a unit of...

Quiet things

Sal's · 1mo

Love this page by Terry Godier: The Last Quiet Thing. I found it via this HN thread about Gary's post, I love my dumb watches, which cites Kev's post on smartwatches, which...

The Topology of Self-Limitation: When Strength and Ceiling Share the Same Root

Cafe Bedouin · 1mo

The Radio In 2002, the cancer biologist Yuri Lazebnik asked a deceptively simple question: can a biologist fix a radio? His answer was no — not because biologists lack...

Konoe Cherry Tree・近衛桜

Closeup on one of the hanging branches of this cherry tree, at the former location of the Konoe Residence in Kyoto Gyoen, the former Imperial Palace park. This "Itozakura"...

human and Hedgehog

A pretty significant turn in my thinking came when, around a decade ago, I discovered the anthropologist Susan Harding’s concept of the Repugnant Cultural Other. That concept...

#openSUSE Tumbleweed revisión de la semana 12 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...

Cuddles

Teun van Son · 1mo

"It's so weird that this isn't weird" The voice came out of a pile of around a dozen people. The room was dark, I couldn't see who said it. The people in the pile were lying...

🎙️ B. Morris Allen

foofaraw · 1mo

Read Morris' story, Escape Algorithm, now!The first thing people tend to think of these days when they see the word “algorithm” is typically tech related—that’s not the case...

River

The verdant foliage on the steep hillside, the path that you know was made just for this place — the wooden planks delineating where to walk, the stairs up and down following...
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