BlogDB

Monthly update #0434 • June 2026

Posts The following posts were written last month. Biking Biking in Zuid-Kennemerland National Park Biking in Hollandse Duinen National Park Books The Odyssey by Homer 2000 Years of Christ's Power ...

Jacksonville's 4 disasters

The road to recovery from devastation is never easy. This is the story of Jacksonville’s recovery from four major disasters. In James Weldon Johnson’s lifetime, Jacksonville suffered three major mi...

When Linux Becomes "Air": Containers, Agents, and a "Desktop War" That No Longer Matters - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #143

A week ago, Microsoft released the public preview of native Windows 11 container support that requires no Docker. Combined with Apple's recent 1.0 release of its container manager (Apple Container)...

The Jews in Oxford

Just as London had a Jewish presence after the arrival of William and the Norman French, Oxford started to see a significant Jewish population about 10 years after the 1066 conquest. Living mostly ...

Return of The Meme! Hannah Montana Linux Lives Again in 2026

A curious developer took it upon himself to revive this *iconic* gem.

Grading Papers

Working with high school students in a college-level class.

Admonitions

I find myself becoming a lot less rigid in my prayer life, which to some might sound like a good thing. For me, I don't see it as a bad thing so much as a slightly scary notion; there's a sense of ...

Offside

Caught Between A Wok And A Hard Place

Read Caught Between A Wok And A Hard Place Customer: "What do you have that's gluten-free?" Me: "Uh, not much. We just have the one wok back here, so we can't guarantee a lack of contamination, plu...

Hackaday Links: July 5, 2026

Happy belated July 4th to all the readers from the United States — hopefully you aren’t reading this from a hospital bed after losing a hand or burning off your …read more

Weekly Robotics #367

Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: 100 years of humanoid robot developments, self-supervised learning for multimodal data with OctoSense, a NASA orbit bump mission, a robot arm tying a knot, ...

Supreme Court Term Goes Out In Blaze Of Hypocrisy, False Retirements, And Bad Ratings — See Generally

Roberts Writes Two Opinions With One Shrug Emoji: The Chief Justice declared independent federal agencies unconstitutional and then turned around and, without a note of irony, said that OF COURSE t...

Wallos — An Open-Source Personal Subscriptions Tracker Which Saved Quite A Bit Of Money For Me

Wallos is a free and open-source application that you can self-host and which will help you track what subscriptions you currently have, what they cost (with auto-conversion to your currency), when...

Rollenspielszenen: Die Miniatursonne

Wir bekämpfen eine unheimliche Miniatursonne.

"Who, It Is Fair to Ask, Is Retaliating Against Whom in This Situation?"

From Amacher v. City of Tullahoma, decided June 25 by the Sixth Circuit (opinion by Judge Jeffrey Sutton, joined by… The post "Who, It Is Fair to Ask, Is Retaliating Against Whom in This Situation?...

Daily News Stuff 5 July 2026

Fireworks And Leftovers Edition Top Story Apple's upcoming A20 Pro phone CPU could be the company's first chip to use LPDDR6 memory - and to increase the bus width from 64 bits to 96 bits. (WCCFTec...

7-Eleven Japan releases chocolate cookies that taste like freshly baked melon bread

New melon pan crossover looks set to be a hit with customers. 7-Eleven has been shaking up the convenience store scene in Japan recently, overhauling sandwiches with pink bread, rolling out tea-bre...

Sealed Tombs with Slabs, Untouched Since Antiquity, and a Stele with a Seated Man Holding a Bird Discovered in Northwestern Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission working in the ancient city of Marina Al-Alamein, located on the country’s northwestern coast, has achieved a discovery of singular importance during excavations...

Not all parallel careers lead to the same outcomes

People with parallel careers simultaneously hold two different jobs not because they have to but because they want to.

Sony says existing PlayStation disc games can still get reprints after 2028

As previously reported, Sony plans to stop producing physical discs for new PlayStation games starting in January 2028, with new releases moving to digital formats after that cutoff. New reports no...