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Aug 03, 2025 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts

I guess I'm an insurance salesman now

I am on a train to Frankfurt to meet Seamus, the insurance broker I work with. We are building a health insurance business from the ground up, and I have mixed feelings about it. I could wax poetic...

Aug 03, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

nix 01 - Nix subsystem for arch

[BACK TO INDEX] With massive copy-paste from the Nix Pills. This post is under the same CC-BY-SA-4.0 . (Co-)Authors list. This post is intended to be a quick reference for arch-to-nix beginner (me)...

Aug 03, 2025 from Virtuwise

AI Is Your Tool, Not Your Boss: Six Ways to Take Control

Use these six AI tactics to take control, boost productivity, and turn machine learning into your competitive edge.

Aug 03, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Sleeping Through Divine Liturgy

I neglected to attend divine liturgy today and I’m feeling bad about it, but I need to talk through my thought process a bit. So, I woke up late this morning. I usually wake up around 5 AM but toda...

Aug 02, 2025 from Virtuwise

What Happened When Nutanix Said “Let’s Simplify Kubernetes”

In just 12 months, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform redefined hybrid container management—and the industry took notice.

Aug 01, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

One Year of Lifting Weights

We visited Portugal last year. I still remember how heavy the luggage felt that we had with us: 2 suitcases, weighing around 20 kg each. One year later, I now joke about that, and laugh, whenever I...

Aug 01, 2025 from Virtuwise

Your New Study Buddy Isn’t Human (But Smarter Than Most)

ChatGPT's study mode turns AI into your new learning partner—think flashcards, feedback, and smarter studying in one focused experience.

Aug 01, 2025 from is this it?

Melbourne Photography XII

My fourth autumn in Melbourne. My favourite season here due to the colourful trees, cooler temperatures, and the way the light hits on the landscape on accord of the sun sitting lower in the sky. F...

Jul 31, 2025 from Improve Something Today

Needing Earth & body: notes for July 2025

Remembering Joanna Macy. Two book recommendations (on AI & on facilitation). Two ways of looking at a chair.

Jul 31, 2025 from Chaotican Writer

July 2025’s RPG Blog Carnival – The Roundup!

Its that time, friends! The festivities of July 2025 has come to an end. Its been a fantastic opportunity to host the first blog challenge in the sites history, and provide my spin into the monthly...

Jul 31, 2025 from Tim Hårek

July 2025

Only a few days left of the summer vacation, and here we are again! Let’s recap what I’ve been up to since June. 🍀 Life Started our summer vacation this month, starting work again on Monday. We’ve ...

Jul 30, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #37: "Wind Theft", an HTML Bomb, and the Rice Theory of Culture

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next Linkfest, in which I comb through the endless branching shelves of the Internet in search of the finest items of science, cultur...

Jul 30, 2025 from BattlePenguin

Privacy Guard: You Don't Need to Scan My Drivers License

Nearly a decade ago, I was purchasing beer for a friend’s party at a drug store and the cashier wanted to scan my drivers license. I refused and her manager said my ID had to be scanned to make my ...

Jul 30, 2025 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Google Professional Cloud Architect

At this point, it has become kind of a ritual for me: renewing my Google Professional Architect Certification during the summer months. This time around, I renewed it slightly earlier than usual, w...

Jul 28, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

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Jul 25, 2025 from Sophia Willows' Blog

Jitter the first request, too

Exponential backoff with jitter is an effective retry strategy that helps avoid thundering herds, but most implementations only start applying jitter after the initial request fails. If you’re usin...

Jul 24, 2025 from Rock and Null

Big clients aren’t always a big win

"Whale" clients can look like a dream, but they often come with strings. When one customer makes up most of your revenue, your business becomes fragile.

Jul 24, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Open Source, GenAI and the Post-Truth Society

One of my favorite TV shows of all time is The Big Bang Theory. It is somewhat divisive among my circle of friends, but I like it. One scene from the show has the character Leonard, a physicist, ta...

Jul 23, 2025 from Michael Lynch

Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2

p img { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } I recently upgraded my home TrueNAS server and migrated 18 TB of data from a 4-disk RAIDZ1 ZFS pool to a new RAIDZ2 pool. The neat p...

Jul 22, 2025 from Ryan Bagley

Street Photography in Chongqing

Chongqing (重庆市) has taken the triple crown of sweatiest, most crowded, and hectic place I’ve ever been to in my entire life. Traversing the heart of the city near the Hongyadong Folk Custom Scene A...