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Jan 17, 2026 from Peter's Path

Utrecht Path part 08

Hiked 17.0 kilometres from Amersfoort to Baarn. Start in the old centre of Amersfoort, which you leave via the Koppelpoort. After this, the route remains near the Eem towards Baarn, where you will ...

Jan 17, 2026 from Karl Bartel's Website

Raising Notifications From Terminal

Raising Notifications From Terminal When executing long-running jobs in the terminal, it's useful to get notified when they complete so you can do other things while waiting. Here are a few ways to...

Jan 17, 2026 from Jordi Villar

Trust AI, But Verify

I wanted to understand buffer pool replacement policies better. So I asked Claude to run an experiment: implement LRU, Clock, LFU, and ARC, benchmark them under different workloads, tell me which o...

Jan 17, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites?

This is, at long last, the last part of our four-part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, Intermission, IVa). last time we looked at the social status of hoplites and the implications that had for the polit...

Jan 16, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Cheap Winter Cherries

A report about cheap winter cherries in China inspired me to share my story about purchasing cheap cherries in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, in February 2024.

Jan 16, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 03/2026

It seems like yesterday, but we are in the 9th edition of NMG. NMG/2026 applications are open now. The last date to apply is March 15th. Please share it with your friends. Please do apply if you th...

Jan 16, 2026 from riz#000000me

january 15

I keep thinking that I need something to write about to write a little blog, which is fully the content poisoning of social media that I had been exposed to for so long. Write about what? Who cares...

Jan 16, 2026 from Brajeshwar

CSS Grid Lanes and the Long Road Home from Masonry

There was a time when the web fell in love with imbalance.

Jan 16, 2026 from BattlePenguin

2026 Will be the Year of Wars

Last year, I thought 2025 would be the year of psychological operations. It’s not a risky prediction to make since false flags and propaganda infiltrate everything these days, from Wikipedia to fil...

Jan 15, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Avif und andere Bildformate

Was kann denn das Bildformat AVIF so, wie schneidet es im Vergleich mit anderen Formaten ab?

Jan 15, 2026 from Paul's Weblog

On Being a Top Dumpling

It’s been a rough week in Minneapolis, so I’m sharing my quick win: as of yesterday morning I was ranked #1 in the monthly leaderboard for the E line via the Transit app. Pro tip for any homies loc...

Jan 15, 2026 from LifeDev.net

Learn How to Avoid Burnout Cycles in 10 Simple Steps

If you are reading this article and want to know how to avoid burnout cycles means that you are coping with this problem for a long time. We’ve all been there—that moment when the alarm clock rings...

Jan 15, 2026 from Personal Log at usebox.net

UseboxWiki source code

You may remember that last year I was having one of my wiki revival moments, and even at some point I ended mentioning here that I wrote a wiki. I mean: another one! But then, nothing happened. Esp...

Jan 14, 2026 from BEEW

Notes On Discernment & Character (something I've been thinking about)

Lately I've been thinking about people—their motivations, how we read them, what they do and don't do, what they say and leave unsaid. I don't have a finished theory, but I'm noticing patterns wort...

Jan 14, 2026 from Jordi Villar

Work only I can do

My entire strategy is to do the work only I can do. Work that can’t be taught. Work that requires some unique combination of my skills, opinions, tastes, and experiences. Work that without me, woul...

Jan 14, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Flu antivirals: What to know and when to use them

Cutting through the noise

Jan 14, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog

Surviving tvOS: An Engineering Log of an Atypical Media Player

tvOS is far more than just an enlarged iPad. This article is an engineering log of the Syncnext player, providing an in-depth analysis of real pitfalls in Apple TV development: from the Focus mecha...

Jan 14, 2026 from ttntm.me - Blog

40 Questions – 2025 Edition

A list of 40 Questions to ask yourself every year. I saw it elsewhere, and decided to give it a go. – What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Bought a new apartment. Did you keep yo...

Jan 14, 2026 from Improve Something Today

Podcast episode No. 0033: Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea

0033: Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea0:00/596.8321×Episode details: A reading of this, from 2025 ↓Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the seaMaking sense of ‘shift...

Jan 14, 2026 from riz#000000me

here i am

I’ve felt pretty disconnected from the blog this week and somewhat last week. I didn’t have my computer with me during the holidays and then I immediately returned to work once the new year started...