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GB Pixel Art Jam 2026 - SpaceDeck Trio

I participated in my first pixel art jam! It was a Game Boy themed one. It was a lot of fun to work with such a limited palette. The theme was Three, and I went with three player ships from SpaceDe...

Stacked Pinned Tabs in Firefox

I love vertical tabs. I used Tree Style Tab for years, then switched to Sidebery and recently to Firefox's native vertical tabs. I like them, but I was annoyed by the pinned tabs appearance. By def...

Watch Him As He Goes — See Generally

Foo Fighting: Dave Grohl dedicated "My Hero" to "my new friend Jack" at the Power to the People festival while wearing an Iowa Hawkeyes shirt. Meanwhile, Eric Schmitt is still trying to figure out ...

Congratulations to the Hoover Institution's Robert E. Hall, on His Economics Nobel Prize

From Hoover's post today (and see also our colleague John Cochrane's post about Hall's work): Robert E. Hall, the Robert… The post Congratulations to the Hoover Institution's Robert E. Hall, on His...

Tattoo Close For Comfort

Read Tattoo Close For Comfort He pulls his shirt up and turns around, showing a large new tattoo on his back. Customer: "Cool, right?" Me: "Uh, sure." Customer: "Can you rub in the cream?" Read Tat...

WiFi Router Does Software-Defined Radio

Perhaps the most famous of software-defined radios is the RTL-SDR, which is very cheap because it’s a digital TV receiver that’s been pressed into service delivering raw I and Q …read more

Daily News Stuff 12 October 2026

Prostetnic Vogon Jatz Edition Top Story Xbox sales have fallen 33% to the lowest level since the platform launched 75 years ago. (MSN) PlayStation sales are also down by 25%, their lowest level sin...

Linus Torvalds Says He Likes Using AI, While His New Kernel Branch Credits Claude Code

His eight-patch series takes advantage of AI assistance to cut the extra work the kernel does when many threads read the same file.

SpeedCrunch 1.0 launches with multi-tab workspaces, advanced math functions, and more

After years of incremental development, the open-source calculator application SpeedCrunch has officially reached version 1.0, marking its arrival as a fully-featured scientific computing tool. The...

What’s it like to stay in a Japanese container hotel?

We spend the night in the new rising-star class of hotels in Japan. There’s a new class of travel accommodation that’s been rising in popularity in Japan recently: the container hotel. Not to be co...

Khosrow and Shirin, Part 1

Once the rebellions were finished, the reign of Khosrow II (590 - 628) experienced a golden age in some respects. One facet of his reign was his tolerance of Christians, which may have had somethin...

When Build in Public Goes Back Underground - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #157

Over the past few months, the community has seen a growing number of cases where AI is used to quickly reverse-engineer commercial products or create pixel-perfect replicas of popular apps. With en...

Xi’s Purge and the War Over Taiwan

Jiang Lin & Baosheng Guo

Tarot Spread Positions: Read the Label Before the Meaning

A tarot card's position tells you which question to consider. Learn to check the layout, read a challenge without reversing the card, and keep reflection separate from evidence.

Archaeologists Unearth a Complete Roman Window Grille, Nails and All at Augusta Raurica, the Oldest Colony on the Rhine

Almost nothing is left of a Roman window. The wooden frame rots, the glass (when there was any) shatters and the iron rusts away, so a grille that reaches us in one piece is a rarity. One has now t...

The Great Escape — Stalag Luft III

Germany · 1944 · Escape — Allied prisoners of war built a 102-meter tunnel under Stalag Luft III, enabling 76 airmen to escape into Germany before a massive manhunt captured almost all of them.

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It feels like a major life turn after 35, even though I thought 35 was like half-life. I haven’t crossed the second half-life yet. I think there are a couple more years until the second half-life, ...

Rejected Space Mission Profiles

A thank-you for the volunteers at your weekly community run: a finish-line photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end

Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with parkrun or...

Madness Reaching Topping Tipping Point

Read Madness Reaching Topping Tipping Point We currently have a carryout deal for a large one-topping pizza for $6 at the pizza place where I work. A middle-aged couple enters the store and walks u...