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50 aniversario de Apple

Con los días de vacaciones no pude escribir sobre el 50 aniversario de Apple. Algo que sí que hice el primer año de este espacio, cuando aún no tenía mi Macbook. El pasado día 1...

Rapport digitale autonomie binnen de energie-intensieve industrie voor Energy Innovation NL

Vandaag verscheen het rapport “Digitale autonomie binnen de energie-intensieve industrie”, wat ik schreef in opdracht van Energy Innovation NL, voorheen bekend als de Topsector...

the rest is …

As regular readers of mine know, I have long been a big fan of The Rest Is History podcast: I joined the Club as a Friend of the Show within weeks of its inception. But in the...

Author Note

lettrss.com · 2w

The origin of The Secret Agent: subject, treatment, artistic purpose, and every other motive that may induce an author to take up his pen, can, I believe, be traced to a period...

Theotokos

noahie.xyz · 2w

It has been about a week of no cigs and no porn. Go me! While the time apart from those things is irrelevant, I am more optimistic about this attempt at abstinence. Especially...

Chicago Blackhawks are No. 1 in Scott Wheeler’s 2026 NHL prospect pool rankings

The AthleticCould it be? Some actual good news for Chicago sports—even if it is just future potential that will probably be squandered away eventually anyway? Even better is...

Watching Avatar: The Way Of Water One Lunchbreak At A Time, Part 1

Okay whole new movie, first things first, let’s check the extra featu—aw yiss, no Family-Friendly Version available this time, we’re gonna hear ALL the fish-cussin’, we had best...

The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

Peter's Path · 2w

Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Four Loves. He looks at four natural ways people love. These are affection, friendship, eros, and charity. Lewis explains each one with...

Testing physical notebooks

AksDev · 2w

My brains are weird. I used to be interested in all kinds of e-ink devices.. But here I am very excited about physical, paper notebook. As much as I like my reMarkable 2 tablet,...

My Weekly Harvest Report

This post has been deleted and started over at least a dozen times in the last twenty-five minutes. I've ripped two smokes trying to figure out how to start this one, and I've...

Interpretation of “The Elves” by Socratis Malamas & Ioulia Karapataki

Protesilaos · 2w

For this entry in the series, I have picked a beautiful song which evokes that curiosity we have about the otherworldly. The Elves is a song written and composed by the...

2026-04-08-ghost

bneil.me · 2w

G is for Ghost I was convinced my parents old house was haunted. It was built in the early 1900s, had faded and peeling wallpaper. Dilapidation and general neglect for the past...

Nothingburgers who think they’re unique and exceptional. Not sure how the US is...

Nothingburgers who think they’re unique and exceptional. Not sure how the US is going to climb out of this mess, but the rest of the world is definitely moving forward.

2026 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics Winners Announced

Daily Nous · 2w

The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced that its 2026 Prize in Metaphysics has been awarded to Ezra Rubenstein and Verónica Gómez-Sánchez (both of UC Berkeley). They won the...

Chico Buarque en La Habana

Segunda cita · 2w

Foto: Kaloian Santos CabreraVino a grabar una canción con nosotros

The Elusive Chase

Nigeness · 2w

Cannock Chase is big – something over 20 square miles of heathland, woods and plantations – and not very far from Lichfield. So you would have thought that by now I would have...

The Black Tulip (Alexandre Dumas, père, 1850)

I wanted to read The Count of Monte Cristo for years, but never did. And guess what I found in a little library? Another Dumas' classic! What a lucky find, I assumed Oh boy, was...

Disparaging Nouns

Forking Mad+ · 2w

Words, and meanings, amaze me. More so the ones which are used colloquially — and have different meanings across the continents. Recently I was sarcastically ridiculing someone....

my favourite ... meme?

PINEWIND · 2w

I missed last month's carnival (the topic was "your favourite meme"), mostly because I couldn't really think of one. I guess I don't use memes extensively enough to have a...

Unselfing into Oneness with the All: The Forgotten Visionary Margaret Fuller on Transcendence

“How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller? What does it mean? What shall I do about it?” This essay is adapted from the sixth chapter of Figuring. “I am determined on...

CSS Naked Day

Bobby's Blog · 2w

Today is CSS Naked Day! That means this site is extra basic instead of its regular about of basic. (I was very late updating my site for this, sorry.) Enjoy!

Thursday coffee and ideas

Today I had other desires for coffee. I would have walked to this place I have not been for some time. Enjoyed the morning with their $1 iced americano. Thought and wrote and...

TOTALLY TYLDESLEY

April 2026. Tyldesley. A slight post now, perhaps, but I thought you’d like to see the highlights of my mile walk through central Tyldesley (pop. 16,142) in Wigan’s old colliery...

Why I’m Building More Intentionally Online, and I’d Love to Have You Along

CybersecKyle · 2w

I spent some time recently rebuilding my sponsorship and membership pages across GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi, and Buy Me a Coffee. On the surface, that probably looks like a small...

Framing the windows on the barn

Kia Kamgar · 2w

The barn in coming along nicely. We got a lot done today. More tomorrow! Reply by email

Early days with the XTEINK X4 ereader

A couple of weeks ago I acquired a tiny ereading device, the XTEINK X4. It all started with a YouTube video reviewing the device that I first shared in one of my weeknotes. A...

Code: Specification vs. implementation

busybee · 2w

There are a lot of times when the specification says one thing but common implementations do another. Here are some especially common examples to watch out for. Attribute...

The Architecture of Leaving: Why Exit Precedes Freedom

Cafe Bedouin · 2w

The conventional understanding of freedom emphasizes action—the capacity to speak, to choose, to participate. But this framing obscures a more fundamental precondition: the...

Ine Bay・伊根湾

A tour boat crosses the natural harbor of Ine Bay, a fishing village on the Tango Peninsula. 丹後半島の漁師町、伊根湾の天然の港を遊覧船が進む。

Returning to Teaching, Uncertain

It has now been several years since I've taught my own classes, or even acted as a tutor. That is to say: I worked with students after the lockdowns for COVID had ended, but...

quiz.el v1.7

davep · 2w

I wondered yesterday: ...those question headers are displaying differently, with the background colour no longer spanning the width of the window. I'd like to understand why....

An Underrated Feature of MacBook Neo: A Colour-Accurate Display (Neo vs Apple Studio Display)

When people discuss computer displays, they always talk about the refresh rate and LCD vs OLED. I understand that high refresh rates and true blacks are appealing for gaming and...

Grandpap

Scott Hill · 2w

“Grandpap” is how I knew my maternal grandfather, William Stevenson, Sr. He would have been 100 years old today. He passed away on May 17, 2018, at the age of 92. I spoke at his...

The Escapement Mechanism, Prologue 1

Gerty took a detour through the medical tent on her way to the latest test of the escapement mechanism. The stretched canvas shelter was only about one-third full, and though it...

Say nothing to Houston: decades old bug found in Apollo guidance system code

JUXT, a software consultancy based in the United Kingdom, report discovering a bug in the code of the Apollo Guidance Computer, nearly fifty-four years after the last Apollo...

Good things are happening too

I had a pleasant surprise in my Bluesky timeline today. Brittany reposted a custom feed made by Marisa called “Nature in the News”. The feed surfaces positive news about nature...

Taylor's Five Year Anniversary

Intro This is going to be a long rambling post about the past five years of Taylor. Be prepared for it not to be well edited and for my thoughts to jump around a bit. I thought...

Day 61: Tiny Trail

dpanphoto · 2w

2026-04-08Hello! My life has been flipping east and left and all around, and I'm signing up to crazy things this month. Loving every second of it. So enjoy a post including...

Another day, another ESP32-2432S028 (CYD) project

dmpop · 2w

This time it's a rather simple sketch running on my new favorite board — the ESP32-2432S028. It reads and displays a random line from the vocabulary.txt file on the SD card. I...

It's like podcasts, but for reading!

johnsy.com · 2w

When Google killed Google Reader, I didn’t look for a replacement feed reader. Most of the blogs I followed since the early 2000s had died and their authors had switched to...

New Art - Iris

So I failed in my "make at least one piece of art a month this year" goal already. Didn't even manage 3 months. That said the idea is to be making things regularly again rather...

Do You Still Tip When You Think Your Waiter Might Be a Nazi?

So say you're sitting down to dinner after a long day of travel. You're in the dining room of one of the historic inns in the Indiana State Park system -- let's say, the...

A Brief Review of Book Tracking Apps - and the Winner

Kell Shaw · 2w

I’m a messy reader. I’ll start a book, put it aside for a bit, and either abandon it or look at it again a few months later. Or I’ll pick up a book and binge it, and its...

Weekend drive to Camden

Thejesh GN · 2w

We just wanted to drive around NSW’s countryside and maybe visit a farm. Camden came up in the search, and the Airbnb there looked nice, and hence we settled on it. It was also...

Pulling Google Takeout straight to a NAS

I’ve been having a bit of a think about data I’ve left entirely in someone else’s hands. Specifically Google Photos, which has photos going back to 2011 and no local copy...

Listen

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to...

Claude Mythos cybersecurity concerns

April 8, 2026 I read something today that left me with a lingering dread. The kind that settles in your gut and doesn't go away when you close the tab. As reported by The New...

Bubbles

Rhys Wynne · 2w

Bubbles appeared in my analytics today and it could be a fun little project. It seems to be a version of Hacker News for personal and those sites that are non commercial. In...

Tough Guy, by Rachel Reid

I first tore through this series back in early-December 2025; by the time I finally got to watch the first season of “Heated Rivalry”, my brain had already been wreaking havoc,...

Catatan Ngopi: Tiny Seed Cafe, Kota Baru Parahyangan

Sejak tinggal di Cimahi, saya jarang banget main ke Bandung, kecuali ada keperluan. Selain karena Cimahi sudah cukup lengkap untuk kebutuhan dasar, Bandung saat akhir minggu...

human urinal

(a brief note about sex between men, described in street language — entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest) The hybrid. From “The Human Urinal” episode of...

Tower Dungeon me fez otaku novamente

Apesar da tag de anime, isso na verdade é um mangá. Mas como eu não quero criar uma tag só pra isso, aceitem esse aviso aqui. Muitos (eu mesmo) diziam que eu não iria mais me...

Little lion and lion

Chiayi, Taiwan 2009

It's CSS Naked Day

82MHz · 2w

Thanks to Zak I just learned that today (April 9th) is CSS Naked Day, a day to strip your website of it's CSS and show what it looks like underneath in plain HTML. By sheer...

The “Build A Boy” Project

Liked Build A Boy by Natalie Cursio (Crowd Supply) Build A Boy is a retro gaming handheld you build from scratch, brick by brick. The shell, the electronics…all of it! This DIY...

Building LaTeX documents on GitHub

Do you have LaTeX projects on GitHub? Ever wondered how to get GitHub to build them automatically? Here’s how I do it. Building LaTeX documents via TeXLive on GitHub. Image...
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