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Apr 17, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Spring Season 2026 at The New Leaf Journal

The 2026 spring season theme at The New Leaf Journal is spring cleaning. Admittedly not the most creative, but summer 2026 will be big.

Apr 17, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

A Refresher Course When You’re Fully Refreshed

Read A Refresher Course When You’re Fully Refreshed Teacher: "[My Name]? What are you doing here? You already passed this training." Me: "[Boss] sent me here and said I needed to be retrained." Tea...

Apr 17, 2026 from Hackaday

Comparing 12 VDC Air Fryers with Regular 240 VAC Ones

That boiling water is a contentious topic of discussion is clear, but what about hot air? When you take a 12 VDC, 280 Watt-rated air fryer and pit it against …read more

Apr 17, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

61-year-old Japanese fisherman falls off boat and defies odds to swim to safety

Captain Crunch Time. Having an accident at sea is one of the more horrific things to happen to a person. Many people would not be able to overcome that feeling of cold loneliness, aside from the po...

Apr 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Cal.com is going closed source with a major shift in its license strategy

The scheduling platform Cal.com has launched v6.4, introducing a major shift in its open source license model. Citing the growing impact of AI coding tools and the risks of exposing public code, th...

Apr 16, 2026 from Above the Law

For Some Reason Sotomayor Is The Only One Apologizing — See Also

Justice Says Sorry For Accurately Describing Kavanaugh's Pro-Racial-Profiling Opinion: He's yet to apologize for penning the damned thing. You Can't Just Call Renovations A "National Security Neces...

Apr 16, 2026 from Hackaday

Do We Really Need Another Development Board?

It’s fair to say that there are a lot of development board form factors for MCUs, with [Tech Dregs] over on yonder YouTube on the verge of adding another one …read more

Apr 16, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Two Hands, One Brain, Zero Extra Cashiers

Read Two Hands, One Brain, Zero Extra Cashiers Customer: "Can't you open another register?!" Me: "I could, but I could still only run one at a time." Customer: "Two registers, two hands!" Read Two ...

Apr 16, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Potential U.S.–Belarus “Big Deal” Could Strengthen Eastern European Security

Dmitry Bolkunets

Apr 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Windsurf 2.0 has launched with a new Agent Command Center, Spaces, and Devin integration

Windsurf has launched Windsurf 2.0, a major update for its agentic IDE. The release introduces the Agent Command Center, a new Kanban style interface that lets developers oversee multiple AI coding...

Apr 16, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

The Slowing of Fourth Amendment Law, and Now Advisory Opinions: A Comment on Chatrie v. United States

The second in a series.

Apr 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Yellow-Capped Passover Coca Cola

I never paid much attention to the color of caps on bottles of Coca Cola. In fact, I do not think I bought a bottle of Coca Cola in almost two years. But thanks to a 2014 article in Food & Wine, I ...

Apr 16, 2026 from Kev Quirk

I May Have Killed My Framework 13

I was in the office today, working away, and I often have my personal laptop, a Framework 13 next to me so I do things like check notes and emails, listen to music, etc. I reached over to grab some...

Apr 16, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog

The Claude Coding Vibes Are Getting Worse

I've seen a continuous degradation to the UX of Claude Code over the last two months. Now with the release of Opus 4.7 it's really evident.

Apr 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 16 April 2026

Refinery Fire Edition Top Story Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits & paid services to improve itself? Yes. (GitHub) As everyone in the attached Hacker News thread notes, this is en...

Apr 16, 2026 from It's FOSS

Privacy Email Service Tuta Now Also Has Cloud Storage with Quantum-Resistant Encryption

Tuta Drive is almost here, and it makes Google Drive and OneDrive look sus. I explored the early access release.

Apr 16, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Pikachu to cuddle with kimono-clad beauty on Tokyo street as part of flower art event

Exhibition near Tokyo Station mixes flowers, anime, and ukiyo-e aesthetics. Even in a country filled with cute characters, Pikachu stands out as one of the most huggable in Japan. Thankfully, there...

Apr 16, 2026 from Mr. Money Mustache

The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Social Security

In the world of very early retirement, we tend to ignore one of the most important things for normal retirees: the Social Security program. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great thing for the 73 million...

Apr 16, 2026 from Peter's Path

Veluwe Wander Trail part 13

Hiked part 13/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 15.9 kilometres from Hoog Soeren to Kootwijk. You walk on wide paths through gently sloping forests and along the Asselsche Heide. It is part of the Cro...

Apr 16, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 16] - What the half-room refused to say

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 16]Day Sixteen Happy sixteenth day of National/Global Poetry Writing month, everyone! Our featured daily participant is klara laurenzia linden, who brings us a bilingual respo...