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Dec 10, 2026 from Muffin Man

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...

Oct 18, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

O, H, N, O…

Read O, H, N, O… A customer looks at the name of our store and then walks over to me and asks: Customer: "What do A, C, E stand for?" Me: "Pardon me, ma'am?" Read O, H, N, O…

Oct 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 18 October 2026

Banana Free Zone Edition Top Story Nvidia totally isn't cancelling Nvidia's RTX 5090 says Nvidia, and 5090 prices climb into the ionosphere. (Notebook Check) Trust us, guys. When have we ever lied ...

Oct 18, 2026 from Hackaday

Building a Microscope with a 3D View

As electronic components grow ever smaller, a microscope has become an increasingly indispensable tool for any fine work; when inspecting electronics, though, especially solder joints, [Corebb] fou...

Oct 18, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Open-Source Self-Hosted Zer0 URL Shortener

A modern-looking, tiny, fast, self-hosted URL shortener built for Docker Compose. zer0 keeps the redirect path lean, protects public link creation with CAPTCHA, stores links in Redis, and includes ...

Oct 18, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

The cheapest bento at this Osaka shop is only 200 yen, but is it actually any good?

Does the taste match its simple appearance? Being too busy, lacking energy, the store having a fantastic campaign going on, or having the last time you set foot in the kitchen being known as “the d...

Oct 18, 2026 from Kev Quirk

2026-10-18 13:22: Terence Eden asking on Mastodon what people's setups look like. Here's mine - 38" ultrawide...

Terence Eden asking on Mastodon what people's setups look like. Here's mine - 38" ultrawide LG monitor that docks to my Framework 13, Fully standing desk, fish tank and motorbike helmets on the wal...

Oct 18, 2026 from Avenyora Journal

Parallel vs Conjunction in Astrology: Check the Coordinate

A parallel is not a hidden longitude conjunction. Learn to read north and south declinations, compare the right numbers, and check your report's separate orb settings.

Oct 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Constantine and Heroclonas

When Emperor Heraclius died on 11 February 641, he left two of his sons in charge. Each was from a different mother.Constantine, his son by his first wife, Fabia Eudokia, had been crowned co-empero...

Oct 18, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

"The Supreme Court Should Not Have to Keep Trimming the Same Poison Ivy One Tiny Branch at a Time"

A nice line from Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke.

Oct 18, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Unabhängige Infrastrukturen

Meta hat den Instragram-Account der No Kings-Bewegung gesperrt. Ein Fehler eines automatischen Systems, sagt Meta.

Oct 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hilltop Villages, African Ivory and Wounded Skeletons: How Small Communities Resisted The First Bronze Age Power in Spain

Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, stockpiling grain on a large scale and arming its warriors with halberds (blades...

Oct 18, 2026 from kmcd.dev

Visualizing the Internet (2026) - Part 2

Updating map.kmcd.dev with an interactive 3D globe, more BGP cities, historical submarine cables back to 1858, and live internet outage alerts.

Oct 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Meta launches Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight AI model for Macs requiring 1TB of RAM

Meta has launched Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight AI model designed to run locally on Apple Macs. It supports a context window of up to one million tokens, is natively multimo...

Oct 18, 2026 from Roy Tang

Weeknotes 2026-10-18

The World It feels like the situation in Ukraine is about to come to a head, with Trump and Musk almost openly siding with Russia, mainly by restricting Starlink access in Ukraine, but also by call...

Oct 18, 2026 from Puzzlify notes

A thank-you for your Christmas fair volunteers: a photo of the stalls 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 any school...

Oct 17, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Burger King Japan now selling hamburgers minus everything but the meat

On the Beef is back, but in a sense it never really left. Burger King Japan has made a linguistically confusing addition to its menu, and it’s one that’s culinarily puzzling too. Yes, even more so ...

Oct 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Libertarianism and Democracy Revisited - A Rejoinder to Matt Zwolinski

We agree on many key points, but have a few notable differences.

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

Sooo Not Ready For The Internet, Part 22

Read Sooo Not Ready For The Internet, Part 22 Caller: "Hi, yeah, can you remove a search result from Google?" Me: "Uh, no, sir, we can't do that." Caller: "But you control the Internet!" Read Sooo ...

Oct 17, 2026 from Hackaday

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dollhouse Arcade Cabinet Runs Remote DOS Games

Classic DOS games never ran from within stand-up arcade cabinets in dollhouses, but [Juha Lilja] imagines a world in which they did. His Micro DOS arcade cabinet is described as …read more