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Dec 05, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Overhead Projector #1: You Can't Tame a Zebra

A post about jumping on the bandwagon

Dec 05, 2025 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx?

This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phalanx. Last week, we looked ...

Dec 05, 2025 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog

NeurIPS 2025 - Thursday Notes

On Thursday at NeurIPS 2025 I focused less on technical talks and more on some philosophical talks. There was a really good pool of sessions to attend. They dealt with democratization of AI, regula...

Dec 05, 2025 from Palladium

The Bronze Age of Globalization

Continent-spanning supply chains that sustained the advanced technology needed by civilization were set up thousands of years ago and then collapsed. It might happen again. The post The Bronze Age ...

Dec 05, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

App Defaults - 2025

It’s that time of the year again: here’s my extended “frozen /uses page” for late 2025. Whenever multiple applications are listed, p marks private use, w marks software that I (have to) use at work...

Dec 05, 2025 from Chris Short

Pony Famous

Pony Famous is the strange reality of being genuinely famous within a niche community. You've got fans and influence — just within a very specific bubble.

Dec 05, 2025 from Heitor's log

Betting on the Lottery with Bash and /dev/urandom

Trying to win the lottery with pure Linux RNG magic.

Dec 04, 2025 from The Public Domain Review

Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)

Illustrations of Abū Zayd and his adventures in double meaning.

Dec 04, 2025 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

Introducing The Custom Elements Dev Server

An opinionated development server for HTML and custom elements. Like Storybook, but it's all about HTML - no framework required. Auto-generated knobs, smart reload, and manifest-driven demo discovery.

Dec 04, 2025 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog

NeurIPS 2025 - Wednesday Notes

I'm back at another conference. This times NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. I took lots of notes again to summarize and share.

Dec 03, 2025 from LifeDev.net

What is Mind Mapping? 7 Practical Advice on This Powerful Tool

Mind mapping serves as a dynamic visual technique that organizes information in a way that aligns with the brain’s natural associative processes. Developed by Tony Buzan in the 1970s, this method t...

Dec 02, 2025 from Improve Something Today

Going wrong, going great: notes for December 2025

2½ readings on seeing failures & responding to them. Celebrating my accomplished & wonderful pals.

Dec 02, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #42: Phytomining, Adversarial Poetry, and Popping A Wheelie for 93 Miles

Hello! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next Linkfest, a collection of the most interesting items in science, culture and technology I could find during a complete A-to-Z reading ...

Dec 02, 2025 from The Public Domain Review

Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

First cloud taxonomer and a poem by Goethe.

Dec 02, 2025 from Michael Lynch

My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging

When my wife saw me playing with my new encrypted radio, she asked what it was for. “Imagine,” I said, “if I could type a message on my phone and send it to you, and the message would appear on you...

Dec 01, 2025 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics #338

Today is the last day to submit your proposal to our FOSDEM 2026 Robotics and Simulation DevRoom. It's going to be glorious. If you can, I highly recommend being there! In other news, on December 1...

Dec 01, 2025 from unixdigest.com

Why is your open source project still hosted on GitHub?

Perhaps the younger generation don't know anything about the past "evils" of Microsoft and naively believe that Microsoft is now the good friend to open source, but the truth is that all Microsoft ...

Nov 30, 2025 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

The Doorman

Carding the CEO is the ultimate unit test.

Nov 30, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLVI 〜 Thankful Bulls

Prefatory Note Note: I am sending the newsletter late because I ran into a technical issue when I was preparing to send it this afternoon. (I had an extraneous tag in the header which was messting ...

Nov 30, 2025 from Tim Hårek

November 2025

This month felt like two months, I don’t know why. 🍀 Life age++ this month, I have less than a year left in my twenties, not that I worry about that. But friends and family always like to point tha...