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Nov 04, 2025 from Improve Something Today

A choice to counter culture: notes for November 2025

Ways to practice: refusal, invitation, risk. The new Ram Dass book. Revisiting ‘whole-heartedness.’

Nov 04, 2025 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

The tiny office, the compact cassettes, and the speaker upgrades

Thanks to a vintage receiver that came with the cassette deck, which I got because I had to deal with my box of cassettes from my childhood days, I upgraded my office desk speakers.

Nov 04, 2025 from R74n Newsletter

NEW Civilization Simulator - GenTown - OUT NOW

Influence human society indirectly in this nation simulation game.

Nov 04, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 4 — Duplex of Two Places

DAY 4. Duplex of Two PlacesA duplex is a braid of repetition. Each couplet borrows the previous line, shifts it a little, and carries on. Think: echo that returns changed. Today, let two geographie...

Nov 04, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

NixCon 2025

Apologies for such a late post on my trip to NixCon back in September, but my life has recently been overtaken by events. The annual Nix conference was held at the Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (OST)...

Nov 04, 2025 from Silence Calling

The Grand Sun

On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while

Nov 04, 2025 from Boris Tane

What even are Cloudflare Durable Objects?

Notes from 2 years of building with Cloudflare Durable Objects

Nov 03, 2025 from BEEW

Holy Shame

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf Woolf meant this as a warning. A century later, I can’t help but wonder if those same eyes might be the only thing that co...

Nov 03, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 3 — Corrigenda Crown

DAY 3. Corrigenda CrownIn fixed forms, a “crown” often means linked sonnets; we’re adapting the idea: seven linked lists with a repeating line that mutates and returns. A crown of seven short poems...

Nov 03, 2025 from Journal on n3s0 || journal

Apply New Kubernetes Pod/Deployment Configuration

Overview Applying configuration to kubernetes pods/deployments is a pretty big part of administering these environments. Whether you are making minor/major changes to the configuration of your depl...

Nov 03, 2025 from Galaxy Garden

Another Long Unexpected Water Supply Disruption in 2025

Having to endure an unscheduled water supply cut that lasted more than a day was not in my 2025 bingo card, let alone having to experience it twice in the same year. In late May, my house experienc...

Nov 03, 2025 from Silence Calling

Minimal Materialism

Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less than what's required

Nov 03, 2025 from Muffin Man

Promise based Web Worker Messaging

If you've ever used Web Workers (or any other event-based communication), you probably noticed that this kind of code can be hard to read and reason about. You also have to implement some kind of i...

Nov 02, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 2 — “Errata Sonnet”

DAY 2. Errata SonnetWhat are errata? In publishing, an erratum (singular) or errata (list) is a set of post-print corrections bound in or issued separately. We start by mimicking the dry book-histo...

Nov 02, 2025 from Chuniversiteit

Efficient and green LLMs for software engineering

Training and using large language models to develop software is bad for the planet – but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Nov 01, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLII 〜 Dinogourd OS

Welcome to the 251st 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...

Nov 01, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 1 — “Palimpsest of Self.”

DAY 1. Palimpsest of Self"Palimpsest of Self" uses the concept of a palimpsest—a manuscript with original text partially erased and rewritten over, leaving faint traces of the old—to describe the s...

Nov 01, 2025 from Palladium

Factory Farming is a Blight

The practices of industrialized animal farming are aesthetically and morally revolting. These practices can be phased out. The post Factory Farming is a Blight appeared first on Palladium.

Nov 01, 2025 from fasterthanli.me

Engineering a Rust optimization quiz

There are several Rust quizzes online, including one that’s literally called the “Unfair Rust Quiz” at https://this.quiz.is.fckn.gay/, but when I was given the opportunity to record an episode of t...

Nov 01, 2025 from is this it?

op Sydney

Sydney Harbour Bridge. Up until this point in my life I wasn’t sure if the Sydney Opera House was real. Growing up watching terrestrial television, I’d see the occasional news story with the report...