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Russia Struggling to Compete in Rare Earths

Anna J. Davis

Selling Sicily

Pope Urban IV's first move to try to curtail Manfred of Sicily's imperial ambitions was to excommunicate him. This was Manfred's third excommunication, and clearly he was not bothered.Manfred had m...

Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.

Self-hosted Pinchflat will download YouTube videos or playlists into Jellyfin

“Pinchflat can technically download individual videos, but its strength lies in archiving entire channels and playlists at a time. For starters, Pinchflat lets me add channel and playlist URLs as s...

What I learned from my students

Hope for the future

It's OK to Use Coding Assistance Tools To Revive The Projects You Never Were Going To Finish

I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end result was a fairly short amount of time to get a working project.

Husband and Wife

Hallucinations

I slept all day yesterday, went to bed at 9 PM, and have gone through most of the day still tired. What can I say? I'm a sleepy guy. Anyway, things are feeling a bit dull today. I don't have a whol...

No Facts, No Problem! — See Also

Fifth Circuit's Stuart Kyle Duncan Shows You Can Go Far Without Doing The Reading: Also, the Establishment Clause doesn't matter anymore. Keeping It Real About Real Estate Law: These schools should...

Sabbatical #11: Queenstown

A travel journal from my visit to Queenstown, New Zealand.

Finger Lickin’ Obvious

Read Finger Lickin’ Obvious Customer: "What you got besides chicken?" Me: "We're a chicken restaurant, sir. Our menu is small but high quality." Customer: "And what precisely are people who don't w...

This KiCAD Plugin Enables Breadboarding

Some people learning the noble art of electronics find the jump from simpler tools like Fritzing to more complex ones, such as KiCAD, a little daunting, especially since they need …read more

Russian Internet Restrictions Undermine Economy and Spark Protests

Vadim Shtepa

Dissecting AI News as a Layperson

How to deal with the deluge of AI-related news stories we see everyday when most of them have no substance to them

Dissecting AI News as a Layperson

How to deal with the deluge of AI-related news stories we see everyday when most of them have no substance to them

So There Was More To The Story

Kannon Shanmugam and Masha Hansford move from Paul Weiss to Davis Polk.

Speisekarten hinzufügen

Die deutsche Android-Entwickler-Doku übersetzt „add menu“ etwas eigenwillig.

Daily News Stuff 23 April 2026

Double Stacker Edition Top Story TSMC has shown off its roadmap through 2029 - heading towards 1.2nm chips. (Tom's Hardware) That used to be not a lot. In fact, it probably wouldn't be possible if ...

Proctoring a High School Exam While in High School

I share the story of that one time I briefly proctored a high school exam while I myself was a high school student.

Bad IP Watch

I checked my emails this morning and saw an alert from Cloudron that New Leaf Journal had become non-responsive. By the time I saw the report, NLJ had recovered. I was a bit alarmed since I had rec...