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Charles and Sicily, Part 4

Events were in place for a final showdown between Charles of Anjou, declared King of Sicily by Rome, and Conradin, teenage son of the last "official" King of Sicily, Conrad IV.Conradin, convinced b...

Gun violence, domestic violence, and the systems that fail us

The Dose (April 21)

Repositories Are Human/Agent Knowledge Factories

We argue that source repositories are no longer just containers for human-authored code — they are containers and generators of knowledge supporting the interaction of humans with AI agents. Taking...

Kubernetes Deployment with Helm

The Case for Greppable Code

Why naming is about navigation, not just aesthetics, especially in a multi-repo world.

The Ennui Aesthetic

It seems that we've been bitten by a certain bug, one that takes any sense of meaning and truth and tries to reject it for the sake of something different. With our ability to constantly access so ...

Patel Wants Kash From The Atlantic — See Also

Kash Sues Atlantic For $250M: I'd say that's a long shot, but he's more prone to chugging beers. The Numbers Seem Off: Does working 69 hours in a day seem weird to you too? Training Matters: These ...

FBI Director Kash Patel Sues Atlantic Over Friday's Article

Some excerpts from the Complaint in Patel v. Atlantic Monthly Group LLC (D.D.C.), filed today: Kashyap P. Patel, the Director of… The post FBI Director Kash Patel Sues Atlantic Over Friday's Articl...

A Textbook Example Of Why You Need The Textbook

Read A Textbook Example Of Why You Need The Textbook I used to work for a textbook company. I know textbooks are massively overpriced, but there was nothing I could do about it except sympathize wi...

Ukrainian Military Offers Lessons Learned to NATO (Part Two)

Taras Kuzio

Making the Most Pick-Proof Lock Yet

Throughout the centuries the art of lock-making and lock-picking have been trapped in a constant struggle, with basic lock designs being replaced by ever more complex ones that seek to …read more

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Daily News Stuff 20 April 2026

Blarney Fife Edition Top Story The memory shortage could last for years. (The Verge) 16GB is the new 128GB, and you might as well get used to it:Nikkei says that production would need to increase b...

Second Best NBA Team of the 2000s

User Matt15 posed a question on the RealGM Basketball Player Comparisons board: What was the second best NBA team of the 2000s (2000-01 through 2009-10) after the 2000-01 Los Angeles Lakers. I’ll b...

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 19] - The Animal of Oizys

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 19]Day Twenty Hello, everyone, and welcome back for Day Twenty of Na/GloPoWriMo. We’re heading into the home stretch now! Our featured participant today is M. Jay Dixit, who b...

Thank You For Being a Friend

It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the...

Veluwe Wander Trail part 17

Hiked part 17/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 8.2 kilometres from Dieren to Rheden. At Dieren, the enormous game park is a former hunting area of the House of Orange. At De Steeg there is a large bo...

The German Fossil That Baffled Scientists for Decades Was Not a Neanderthal–Modern Human Hybrid

For almost half a century, a fragment of a human skull found on the banks of the Elbe River, near the German town of Hahnöfersand, has been at the center of an intense scientific debate. Discovered...

My Best Sub £100 Purchase

I was recently listening to an episode of The Idea Roastery about personal life gamechangers and toward the end of the episode, Herman asked Jason: What is the best purchase you've ever made for le...

Google debuts rebuilt Android CLI, skills & knowledge base for faster agentic development

Google has launched a new suite of Android development tools optimized for agentic workflows, featuring a revitalized Android Command Line Interface (CLI), a set of Android skills, and an Android K...