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Thu Apr 23

The RIB: Threads of Memory by Richard Fierce (SPFBO XI)

Kell Shaw · 2d

This is a crisply written book. It’s short and pacy, and I loved how it got straight to the action. (It's also another entrant in the SPFBO XI contest.) Amara is a seamstress,...

A post from Andrew Doran

Andrew Doran · 1d

After listening again to Rufus Wainwright’s cover of the whole album at the weekend, this week, as I left the office, I put on Judy Garland’s concert at Carnegie Hall. By the...

Some thoughts on the role of astrophysics, AI and ML.

I was reccomended a couple of white papers by a collegue (Thanks Ben Pope!) and I wanted to share them here. Being opinion white-papers they are both quite readable. Is machine...

Budget friendly tech isn't what it used to be

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Bad IP Watch

I checked my emails this morning and saw an alert from Cloudron that New Leaf Journal had become non-responsive. By the time I saw the report, NLJ had recovered. I was a bit...

The Functional Migration Problem

Cafe Bedouin · 2d

You’re alone in a quiet room when the concept hits: you’ve been defending a dead project because of what you already spent, not what you’ll gain. The recognition restructures...

On Making and Breaking Routines

It takes 21 days to form a habit.I used to think that I could build a routine, and keep it as long as I was disciplined enough. There is comfort in that mindset, in believing...

Linkdump No 104

82MHz · 1d

Life, uh, finds a way. That's what the internet recently feels like to me. Tech bros and corporations are doing their best to fuck things up and make everything AI generated and...

Bitwarden CLI a fost compromis printr-un atac supply chain

Dacă folosești Bitwarden CLI în vreo automatizare de pe server, ar fi bine să citești ce s-a întâmplat ieri. Versiunea 2026.4.0 a pachetului @bitwarden/cli publicată pe npm a...

Expat Dialogues

I’ve thought about this thing for a bit. How living here has basically reshaped the dialogue. I get to see a few expats now and again. Sometimes a person just arriving or...

Dissecting AI News as a Layperson

Bobby's Blog · 1d

NOTE: Some of the articles mentioned in this post were selected at random from my RSS feeds between the 23rd and 24th of April 2026. I didn’t take time to cherry-pick anything....

El libro, ese pequeño objeto que nos sostiene

Segunda cita · 1d

Por Rosa María Robles Montijo / En el Día Mundial del Libro...Escultura en bronce de Étienne Pirot (Francia, 1952)Podemos estar rotos, desbaratados, con nuestras partes...

Friction-maxxing, a buzzword to restore balance to your life force

Canadian author and researcher Kathryn Jezer-Morton documented friction-maxxing in an article (paywalled) for The Cut, in January this year. Weeks later, a Wikipedia page was...

Miss Bart and Mrs Lloyd

Nigeness · 1d

I'm just back from yet another visit to Worthing (see Nigeness passim). This time my reading on the train was Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, which I resolved to read after...

Update on My Coffee Ridden Framework 13

Kev Quirk · 2d

A week or so ago, I talked about how I might have killed my Framework 13 by dumping a full mug of coffee over it while it was running. In that last post I explained how I'd...

Can you guess who wrote the blog post?

Pablo Enoc · 1d

Try the powRSS Who game to test how well you know the blogs you read.

Side projects

LostFocus · 1d

I just went through a tour de force of going through all the subdomains (and domains, lol) that I have gotten and set up for random side projects over the year. Good god. I...

Cybersecurity Does Not Have a Specialization Problem. It Has a Context Problem

CybersecKyle · 1d

Cybersecurity has a bad habit of mistaking specialization for maturity. A recent piece at The Hacker News got me thinking about something I see more and more often in real...

Playing in the Rain

BrittHub · 2d

Sunday Zine Club #21’s theme was splash. I decided to gather my pictures of children playing in the rain and use them to tell a little story. I’m still getting used to using a...

unabbrev.el v1.0.0

davep · 2d

Back in the late 1990s, like plenty of people who were very online, I was a very avid user of Usenet. There were a few groups I was very active in, even a couple that I...

resisting authoritarianism #8: support local independent businesses

(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...

Philosophers Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Daily Nous · 2d

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced its latest class of members, and several philosophers are a part of it. They are: Julia Driver, University of Texas at...

I rode 16k yesterday!

This is the farthest I've ridden in one day!

testosterone poisoning

jeff's blog · 1d

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake - Lower Salt River, Arizona When I moved to Arizona (in 1997), I read an interview with an emergency room doctor about rattlesnake bites. He...

Kacey Musgraves, “Cardinal”

This is a complicated background to a mishearing posting that has itself turned out to be more complex than I first imagined — a mishearing of the title word in the song...

Veluwe Wander Trail part 21

Peter's Path · 1d

Hiked part 21/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 11.2 kilometres from Elspeet to Echoput. Left Elspeet along a quiet lane and walked past an old brick farmhouse dated 1788. The...

Attempting to find to focus

Chris Glass · 1d

Back at the studio and trying really hard to get back into the swing of things.Currently Listening: The Strokes “Going Shopping”Reply via email

Bestseller Talk

Akos.ma · 1d

Ten years ago, almost to the day, I delivered what turned out to be the “best-selling” talk of all my conference speaking career, with effects that I can feel to this day. I was...

🛝 The Lion Slide

foofaraw · 1d

Oli and Craig sat on the wall outside Burgon’s News, the newsagents at the edge of Gildeen park, eating crisps. “You ever hear the story about the lion slide?” said Craig,...

Blackcap

Daniel N · 2d

Today, I managed to get my first Blackcap on camera. He was buried deep in the bush and was hard to even get a clear shot of his face. I didn't even realise he was mid-song...

external-secrets: bust the ClusterSecretStore cache

This post is hyper-specific but I am quite sure I’ll forget how to do it the next time it happens again, so I’m better off documenting it. External Secrets: External Secrets...

Highway 61 Interactive

Application file: HIghway_61.zip "An interactive experience in the virtual world of legendary singer, songwriter, & culture shaker, Bob Dylan" The disc has two tracks; the first...

Proctoring a High School Exam While in High School

Yesterday, I published an article about my former dreams of being a basketball coach and my unexpected one-game stint as a baseball coach when I was in high school. While it is...

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. Spotify turns 20. To celebrate the...

Vim tip: substitute pattern delimiter doesn't need to be a slash

I initially published this tip on r/neovim Reddit, and folks liked it. It will soon probably disappear in the maze of memes, so it probably makes sense for it to be a blog post....

Do-nothing software development

Do-nothing software development

Aks Plays EVE, Part 3: Switcharoo

AksDev · 1d

Today I got my ass kicked. Granted, I didn't play much, like an 1.5h or so. But I wanted to share something small but I found it amusing. Couple days ago I exploded this guy:...

2026-04-23-Vertigo

bneil.me · 1d

V is for Vertigo When thinking of a fun word to have with V, I thought it would be fun to admit a weird weakness I have for elevators. For some reason, every time I leave an...

'Back In My Neighborhood', our new summer anthem

‘Back In My Neighborhood’, our summer anthem for those sweet visits with family and friends, is out into the world! Hear it now: Bandcamp Spotify Apple Music YouTube Music...

Trust me, this is better?

I want to talk about Signal, but "current affairs" won't let me. Published by AHE. on 7th April 2026 If I could ditch my phone completely and go back to a flip-phone, or one of...

Dilvish, the Damned (Roger Zelazny, 1981)

I really want to get to know and to like Zelazny's works. So, when I found Dilvish in the Little Library, I was excited. So, how was it? Not great, Bob. Not great. Dilvish,...

Blog/2026-04-23/Nanny State

Roshan: [[File:4141a19b-12a-IMG_4346.webp|thumb|Astra really enjoys her new skill - walking]] Astra and I like to go to the local park in Mission Bay to play. The classic thing...

La ciudad no es de la clase política

Esta semana ha estado particularmente caliente aquí en Chihuahua, entre escándalos de seguridad y decisiones públicas cuestionables y aquí en la capital, con la aprobación por...

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

“These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.” Not often — a handful of times in a lifetime, if you are lucky — you come upon a work...

The Greatest Joke of All Time

spu.io · 1d

Things got a little deep yesterday, so how about a joke today? But not just any joke! THE joke! The Greatest Joke of All Time™! So there are these two woodchoppers. One of them...

tools, jobs

Justin Neuman: At the start of a session, I might pull a trick from my meditation or yoga practice and say, as we’re opening our computers, that I know how tempting it is to...

NO EDGE TO ALDERLEY

April 2026. Alderley Edge. I’m not sure my heart will stand these tense City games, but after a period of letting the lads use my season ticket I thought I’d better see The...

Ecos del chico

Dejó una gran huella en su momento de mayor apogeo, ahora sus ecos continúan siglos después... › Ver más »¡Patina todo el día!

Parents Attic

It couldn't be free storage forever

55 for 55

bubbles.town · 1d

I now have somewhere around 39% of my time left on the planet. Simple math: 55 divided by 90 puts me at roughly 61% done.

Hallucinations

noahie.xyz · 1d

I slept all day yesterday, went to bed at 9 PM, and have gone through most of the day still tired. What can I say? I'm a sleepy guy. Anyway, things are feeling a bit dull today....
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