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'These touching lines...'

Nigeness · 1w

I have never seriously kept a commonplace book, but I have long had a habit of jotting down, usually in scrappy little notebooks, short quotations from things I'm reading or...

Project Hail Mary

Sigmarootpi · 1w

A science teacher goes to space to save our sun. In this journey he meets a friendly alien who also came for the similar reasons. Ofcourse, the alien speaks a different language...

Wagashi Giftbox Artwork

Pixel Glade · 1w

A PC-98 style artwork of a woman sharing a wagashi giftbox. Made in Krita using the new Pixel smoothing setting.

Mid-April link roundup

Personal Encyclopedias, by Jeremy, via Kottke. delphitools indie toolkit, by ruby morgan voigt, via Jeremy. Via Virginia: defuddle.md is a simple tool for generating a Markdown...

reMarkable editable pdf

Eddie Dale · 1w

One of the main issues I've had so far, is that I sometimes want to add a file from my mac to the remarkable, and still be able to interact with the graphical elements of it on...

Daily Dex - Meltan, Axew, Trapinch, Frillish and Seismitoad

quailblog · 1w

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop OK so I know this feels moot at this point but like. Covid? Covid's got hands?? Before the first lockdown...

The Daily Question

spu.io · 1w

I kind of jumped into this new blogging era head over heels. Since signing up about a month ago I've been asking myself if I want to make blogging a daily thing. Which is...

Shoulder Bag Rabbit Hole: PGYTech OneGo Solo V2 (6L) vs Ulanzi Travel Sling V2 (PB038/B120)

One lesson I learned from the trip my wife and I made to Halifax, Canada, was that I absolutely didn’t enjoy having a huge, 41L backpack on me while walking around all day: It...

Now Contact 1.x

Application file: Now_Contact_Demo_1.0.sit First version of Now Contact 1.0 Trial Category: Business & Productivity Year released: 1993 Publisher: Now Software System: System...

The Separation

Cafe Bedouin · 1w

I. The drill bit screams through ice older than human civilization, and Kira feels it in her teeth. Sixty meters down in Europa’s crust, the vibration travels up through the...

Dark Reads 2026

Gathering of Local Authors

Journal français

sonechka · 1w

I started a french blog for practice. I won't spam the feed with its updates, though, besides this one.

Mark Zuckerberg will exist as the forever Meta CEO as an AI clone

Claudia Efemini writing for The Guardian: The AI clone of Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and chief executive, is being trained on his mannerisms and tone as well as his public...

morning and writing and coffee

Some things I have thought of whispering into the void. Considered moving the blog to pika. They offer an easy way from iA Writer to publish via the included micropub thing. It...

Test Pure Blog <-> Mastodon

Testing a custom hook that auto posts to Mastodon from Pure Blog.

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

“Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so.” In a world pocked by cynicism and pummeled by devastating news, to find joy for...

Things I didn’t know

Things I probably should have known, but didn’t, and have just recently discovered: one linguistic (on a pronunciation in BrE), one botanical (on the identity of a plant growing...

Re: How to kill a blog

moonwriting · 1w

Dear reader,Robert Birming published a blog post recently, where he encouraged bloggers to stop limiting themselves by only writing about a niche topic.Don't go niche . . . The...

Three Philosophers Among New Guggenheim Fellows

Daily Nous · 1w

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its new class of fellows, and three philosophers are among them. They are: Alan Baker (Swarthmore College) Kate Manne...

Watching Avatar: The Way Of Water One Lunchbreak At A Time, Part 2

In this citizen’s opinion it’s…pretty gross that Jake makes his kid call him ‘sir’; my parents tried to foist that on me but didn’t start until I was WAY too old and it went...

Used Computer Locator - April 1990

laze.net · 1w

It’s been a while since I’ve posted an #ArchiveTheUnimportant item. Today’s is a 28-page paper newsletter from April 1990 that I found in the basement. Used Computer Locator...

Temperament and Spirit

noahie.xyz · 1w

I broke my fast last night. There were about ten leftover chicken tenders from dinner a few nights ago, and I ate all of them. Thankfully I didn't eat anything else after that,...

Taylor has a Community Site!

At a Glance Intro What Does this Mean How do I Participate Outro Intro After much hinting, faffing about, and being worried about having to be a community manager a golden...

Day 67: Philadelphia Skyline Panorama

dpanphoto · 1w

2026-04-14Hello! My first ever panorama photo!I have a couple of ideas on what to talk about floating around, but none of them fit a certain photo. So today, let's talk about...

Grafted

Chris Glass · 1w

Spied a dogwood that has both pink and white flowers today. + 1 photoCurrently Listening: The Church Sisters “In The Garden”Reply via email

This blog post tells the time

Computer clock synchronization is a complicated process, requiring protocols like NTP and a specialized server to answer requests. In this post I explore a “serverless” method,...

Help Shape Kyoto Tech Meetup

ashryan.io · 1w

This post is in English below.Kyoto Tech...

wordcloud.el v1.4

davep · 1w

I think I'm mostly caught up with the collection of Emacs Lisp packages that need updating and tidying, which means yesterday evening's clean-up should be one of the last...

Una Cuba americana y otras distopías

Segunda cita · 1w

Rafael HernándezImaginemos un solo instante que Cuba se hubiera convertido en el sueño americano. Esa Cuba se habría reencontrado, finalmente, consigo misma, después de haberse...

Bam Adebayo’s 83 and Scoring Averages in 60+ Point Game Seasons

Introducing Bam Adebayo’s 83 Point Game On March 10, 2026, Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo scored 83 points in a game against the Washington Wizards, which now stands as the...

BUS TROUBLE IN LINCOLN

April 2026. Lincoln. South Herts have made a splendid job of organising this week’s CAMRA Members Weekend, putting the emphasis on pub crawls curated surveys of licenses...

“Let me share my screen”

The year is 2143, people customarily greet each other with a saying of long-forgotten origin, “let me share my screen”, eliciting the enigmatic yet empathic response, “I can see...

The RIB: An Unlikely Coven by AM Kvita

Kell Shaw · 1w

This is the first novel by AM Kvita. Overall, fun, a touch of cozy, with queer found family tropes. I had some world-building hang-ups, but it's more of a character piece. Our...

Um novo propósito de nicho

Recentemente eu tenho acompanhado um círculo de pessoas com uma habilidade muito peculiar. Arquivar e preservar jogos antigos. Não jogos de SNES, PSX e Dreamcast. Mas pessoas...

Sleep review, addendum

LostFocus · 1w

Sleep review, lunch break nap April 14th, 2026: 8/10, too short, otherwise no notes. Reply by email

Green

I went for a walk today. No destination, no idea how far; I turned wherever the light was green and ambled unhurriedly. My thoughts followed me like a dozen frantic shadows,...

Stress Awareness Month: Helping Cybersecurity and IT Go From Burnout to Balance

CybersecKyle · 1w

In cybersecurity and IT, stress gets normalized way too easily. That does not make it healthy, and it definitely does not make it sustainable. April is Stress Awareness Month,...

★ 🔗 Reply to: The Aging Programmer — Kate Gregory (2024) — YouTube

This was a great talk! In a C++ conference, who would have imagined? Via Adam Gordon Bell: Kate Gregory has been writing C++ for over forty years. Books, keynotes, a consulting...

Living at Ease

Living at Ease mtift Tue, 04/14/2026 - 08:31 At the end of my yoga classes, I say a lot of things. Be kind in your thoughts, speech, and actions. Take care of yourself and the...

Rivva unterstützen

Stephan Max · 1w

Rivva von Frank Westphal trägt seit 19 Jahren (!) zusammen, was die deutschsprachige Blogosphäre umtreibt und ist damit ein geschätzter zentraler Dienst für Menschen mit eigener...

When I travel

mzll · 1w

I’m back to traveling for work. My old project and my new job will require me to travel more often, much like I did in recent years, when four out of every 14 days I spent 800...

Weeknotes #372 — Born in the financial crisis

Andrew Doran · 1w

Waiting for a train at Chesham tube station. It’s always a bit surreal to jump onto a Metropolitan Line train so far out of the capital. Despite last week being filled with...

Bubbles Is the Cool New Way to Find Blogs

I wanted to quickly highlight a new blog discovery platform I’ve just learned about called Bubbles. It uses a community voting system similar to sites like Reddit, Hacker News,...

New wallpaper, movie going, plus anime! - W15

This weekend was packed with quite a bit of stuff, I wonder if things will calm down a bit now that the Easter vacation period is over. 🎨 Modified my website design, just a bit!...

Veluwe Wander Trail part 11

Peter's Path · 1w

Hiked part 11/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 16.2 kilometres from Vierhouten to Vaassen. From Vierhouten the trail leads through pine and spruce forest onto the wide open...

2026-04-14-multitasking

bneil.me · 1w

M is for Multitasking Its funny. A few years back, I read that a person couldn’t actually multitask. That it was infact just focusing on one thing and flipping to the next. That...

Bees on the Balcony

Thejesh GN · 1w

I recently added setting up a proper Bee hotel as a goal, but I didn’t think something similar would happen naturally. I love the concept of Bee hotels. Bee hotel is a man-made...

Building the foundation for the upper floor of the barn.

Kia Kamgar · 1w

First we had to cut the steal square tubing for platform to size so the H-Beam going across to the other side of the ban can rest on. We then created a sandwich between two sink...

Back on track.

JetGirlArt · 1w

I spent the entire day cleaning and fixing up Game Boys for the market event in May. The consoles will run around 150-250 dollars depending on if they have mods or just new...

Your crap is more memorable than your slop

Rhys Wynne · 1w

Why you shouldn’t use AI to generate your poster. Over the Easter weekend I was taking a stroll down the Rhos-on-Sea promenade, and noticed the following community noticeboard...

Movies: Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

andrei.xyz · 1w

Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief, encountering a new, aggressive Na’vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates...

fluffy rambles: Tech/software updates

busybee · 1w

Just sharing two software/workflow changes I’ve made recently, and why they’re improvements over what I had before. Window management: Magnet → RectangleI bought Magnet ages...

Who has the knowledge? Me? Or the LLM?

I couldn’t send the last few Mediations due to sickness and not getting enough rest to recover fully. I kept telling myself that I should write and send something, but I didn’t...

Endgame for the Open Web

anildash.com A month old, but I'm testing something..

Chapter 7

lettrss.com · 1w

The Assistant Commissioner walked along a short and narrow street like a wet, muddy trench, then crossing a very broad thoroughfare entered a public edifice, and sought speech...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-14-26

I did not have much time to engage in my daily “feed reading” this morning. But I will not let that stop me from publishing my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Justice Department...

Put away your phone and play Pokémon on your Nintendo DS instead

Put away your phone and play Pokémon on your Nintendo DS instead

Links of the Day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building...

Gifting stationery to family

I have bad handwriting. I used fountain pens in school till ball-point pens and then gel pens replaced them. I wasn’t fascinated by fountain pens then, as much as I was about...

re: Stuck on the now page

This post came across my feed after work today and this bit from that piece really struck me close to home: Maybe I'm too old or my month to month interests are just very...
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