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Oct 17, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Testing Octothorpes

A note on using octothorpes on my blog

Oct 17, 2025 from The Phoenix Trap

Talking with an AI about whether it’s conscious

In a late‑night dialogue with an AI, I tested whether pattern‑matching could ever amount to consciousness. The exchange sharpened Objectivist insights: life, stakes, and caring are prerequisites fo...

Oct 17, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ

Design of a Wild Shape/Polymorph Decision Aid

In Fifth Edition (5e) Dungeons & Dragons™ (D&D), druids can transform into certain Beast forms using the Wild Shape ability. Similarly, casters of the Polymorph spell can transform allies and enemi...

Oct 17, 2025 from Palladium

The Birth and Burial of Evolutionary Science in Australia

Activists of often mostly European ancestry have appropriated prehistoric cultures and are systematically destroying fossils vital to understanding the evolutionary heritage of all humankind. The p...

Oct 16, 2025 from Previous Magazine

The Benefits of an Autism Diagnosis

Getting an autism diagnosis can be daunting, but it can improve a person’s well-being and quality of life. Here are a few reasons why people may choose to pursue an autism diagnosis and how can ben...

Oct 16, 2025 from Hugo’s Blog

Secret environment variables with Hermit and 1Password

This post is a quick TIL* (sidenote: “Today I Learned”) for posterity. I’m building a side project* (sidenote: It’s called FeedSync, and it solves a very niche problem: subscribing to RSS feeds, an...

Oct 16, 2025 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

AWS SSA-C03 exam

Three years passed from the last AWS exam I took, and my AWS certifications were due for renewal. The first thing I checked was the exam code, which I had taken three years ago. It turns out that l...

Oct 15, 2025 from Thranpages

Street Vending

Selling headphones on Facebook marketplace should be easier than this.

Oct 15, 2025 from Journal on n3s0 || journal

Troubleshooting PoE Not Supplying Power To Ports On FortiSwitch

Summary Recently I experienced a bizzare issue where a FortiSwitch wasn’t supplying POE power to anything you plugged into it. Whether that be a wireless access point or other PoE devices were plug...

Oct 15, 2025 from Steve Blank

How to Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory – Now with 500 more names

The October 2025 PEO Directory – Update 2. The Department of War (DoW) is one of the world’s largest organizations.  If you’re a startup trying to figure out who to call on and how to navigate the ...

Oct 15, 2025 from JoeHx Blog

How Will I Deduct Overtime Pay On My Taxes Next Year?

That “Big Beautiful Bill” (which I dislike the name - I’m not a fan of big bills, and the name is indicative of Trump’s limited vocabulary) that was passed earlier this year means that the overtime...

Oct 14, 2025 from Journal on n3s0 || journal

sslvpnct-sh

SSL VPN Connectivity Test (Bash) Summary I enjoy testing and reporting when I complete my work. It’s a fundamental stage before you provide the end result. There are tests for connecting to and tes...

Oct 14, 2025 from Previous Magazine

What Should Be Included in a Business Expense Policy?

An expense policy is an effective way to manage employee spending and encourage honest expense reporting. Your expense policy should have transparent rules and guidelines to ensure compliance and c...

Oct 14, 2025 from The Phoenix Trap

Treating My Résumé Like Infrastructure

Job hunting in 2025 means clearing AI‑driven applicant tracking systems before a human ever sees your résumé. Instead of juggling multiple Word files, I built a reproducible pipeline: YAML as sourc...

Oct 14, 2025 from The Jaxson

LaVilla’s Forgotten Freedom Fighter

Before Rosa Parks and Montgomery, a pastor on Ashley Street sat down on a Jacksonville streetcar, refused bail, and forced the courts to blink. His name was Andrew Patterson, and his blueprint trav...

Oct 14, 2025 from Jasco's Website

Re:Absurd fallacies of "minimalist" Linux setups

I respond to a blog post on linux setups

Oct 14, 2025 from Heitor's log

Firmware updates on Linux via fwupd

How to use fwupd to update device's firmware on Linux.

Oct 14, 2025 from Michael Lynch

Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0

Litestream is an open-source tool that backs up SQLite databases to cloud storage in real time. I love it and use it in all of my projects. Litestream is owned by Fly.io, and they paused developmen...

Oct 13, 2025 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts

How to fix `failed to connect to host` with GitHub webhooks

I use webhook and Github webhooks to redeploy All About Berlin when I push new changes. I’m using adnanh/webhook on an Ubuntu 24.04 VPS on DigitalOcean, behind CloudFlare. The problem The webhooks ...

Oct 13, 2025 from Steve Blank

No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d...