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Jan 11, 2026 from Roy Tang

Weeknotes 2026-01-11

First full week of 2026! TWENTY-TWENTY-SIX! Still feels a bit weird to say. The World The US continues its descent into full-on fascism and imperialism, with the gestapo (ICE) shooting down an unar...

Jan 11, 2026 from is this it?

ex Italia

Palazzo della Sapienza. Pantheon I. Pantheon II. Restaurants in Rome seat you in one of two areas: Smoking (outside) Vaping (inside) is this it? Rome I. Rome II. Rome III. Rome IV. Skyline. Known c...

Jan 11, 2026 from Isaac Clayton

Marathon Row

Happy Sunday! Two days ago, I woke up at 5:45am to row 26.2 miles. I walked on to the rowing team at MIT a year and a half ago. That might have been the greatest decision for personal development I...

Jan 10, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXII 〜 2025 NLJ NetRtg

Welcome to the 262nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

Jan 10, 2026 from Peter's Path

Number Station 44

Shortwave signals from nowhere. Encrypted messages that have haunted the airwaves for decades. Cold War ghosts, spy tradecraft, and transmissions that still broadcast today, for someone. This is Nu...

Jan 10, 2026 from riz#000000me

weeknotes 2

This week was the first week of the quarter, so back to work. It's been a weird mix of boring and tedious as I get all of the scheduling done for the entire quarter. The weather has been back and f...

Jan 10, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Doctor Who: The Sonic Salvaging of the Sixth, Part 10 – Lost Stories Special!

…Blackpool! In some respects, it’s surprising that it took Big Finish a decade or so to attempt The Lost Stories – a series of recordings of Doctor Who tales which had been developed to one extent ...

Jan 09, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars: Part IVa, The Status of Hoplites

This is the last part of our four-part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, Intermission) on the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the phalanx formation in which they fought. We’ve spent the las...

Jan 09, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

curl logo optimization

How small can you make the curl logo SVG?

Jan 09, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog

Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI

Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI I am still working adding services to my NAS and one thing that was on my todo list for a while was a proper GMail backup. You never know when the powers that be deny y...

Jan 09, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Who are you?

YLE community, I need your help!

Jan 09, 2026 from The Fly Blog

Code And Let Live

The state of the art in agent isolation is a read-only sandbox. At Fly.io, we’ve been selling that story for years, and we’re calling it: ephemeral sandboxes are obsolete. Stop killing your sandbox...

Jan 08, 2026 from Paul's Weblog

K, M, G, T vs. Ki, Mi, Gi, Ti

Here’s a throwback from my undergrad1 degree: depending on the context, K, M, G, T can be base 10 OR base 2. For a quick refresher: K, M, G, T are kilo-, mega-, giga-, and peta-. Here’s the tl;dr: ...

Jan 08, 2026 from Commented Out

My C source file format preferences

Formatting is not something developers should be spending much time on, but we spend a lot of time staring at code to see if it's right so the formatting needs to be pleasing to the eye. As such, m...

Jan 08, 2026 from Suffix

2025 Movie List

Movies I watched in 2025.

Jan 08, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Our Most-Visited Articles of 2025

Reviewing the 140(!?) most-visited articles and short posts at The New Leaf Journal in 2025.

Jan 08, 2026 from Improve Something Today

Podcast episode No. 0032: We have to remember this

0032: We have to remember this0:00/403.7121×Episode details: A reading and expansion of this, from 2026 ↓We have to remember this: notes for January 2026Responding with attention, kindness & action...

Jan 08, 2026 from Julia Evans

A data model for Git (and other docs updates)

Hello! This past fall, I decided to take some time to work on Git’s documentation. I’ve been thinking about working on open source docs for a long time – usually if I think the documentation for so...

Jan 07, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Record vs Scoring Margin in NBA Team Analysis

Using the early-season 2025-26 Los Angeles Lakers and the top-three seeds in the Western Conference in 2006-07 to demonstrate why margin-based stats may be more predictive in the NBA than win-loss ...

Jan 07, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Advent of Code 2025: Rückblick

2025 habe ich zum ersten Mal meinen Vorsatz zum Advent of Code eingehalten: Wenn es zu stressig wird, höre ich auf.