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Jan 12, 2026 from Brajeshwar

Sprezzatura

I have thought of this for a long time, but never knew the correct terminology. Recently, I stumbled on it and its Italian, Sprezzatura.

Jan 12, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics #343

The schedule for the Robotics and Simulation Devroom at FOSDEM 2026 is out! We have some exciting talks lined up. I'm really looking forward to it, and if you can come to Brussels at the end of Jan...

Jan 11, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Bonus Gifts With Usaburo Snowman Doll

I ordered an Usaburo snowman kokeshi doll on Ebay. The doll came as expected, but it was unexpectedly accompanied by a Christmas card and ornament from the seller.

Jan 11, 2026 from R74n Newsletter

Sandboxels Update: Pixel Groups, Cooler (Hotter?) Fire, and 1 billion more features

Okay, maybe only 1 million

Jan 11, 2026 from Ryan Bagley

Chrome Featured Extension Is Actually A Scraper Network

Update on January 30, 2026: A MyBib developer contacted me about this extension’s behavior. They confirmed that this was expected behavior and it was how they were pooling the retrieval of user cit...

Jan 11, 2026 from Chuniversiteit

Is that my legitimate interest or your legitimate interest?

Websites are allowed to collect user data without explicit consent, if they follow all the rules – but they often don’t.

Jan 11, 2026 from Roy Tang

Weeknotes 2026-01-11

First full week of 2026! TWENTY-TWENTY-SIX! Still feels a bit weird to say. The World The US continues its descent into full-on fascism and imperialism, with the gestapo (ICE) shooting down an unar...

Jan 11, 2026 from is this it?

ex Italia

Palazzo della Sapienza. Pantheon I. Pantheon II. Restaurants in Rome seat you in one of two areas: Smoking (outside) Vaping (inside) is this it? Rome I. Rome II. Rome III. Rome IV. Skyline. Known c...

Jan 11, 2026 from Isaac Clayton

Marathon Row

Happy Sunday! Two days ago, I woke up at 5:45am to row 26.2 miles. I walked on to the rowing team at MIT a year and a half ago. That might have been the greatest decision for personal development I...

Jan 10, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXII 〜 2025 NLJ NetRtg

Welcome to the 262nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

Jan 10, 2026 from Peter's Path

Number Station 44

Shortwave signals from nowhere. Encrypted messages that have haunted the airwaves for decades. Cold War ghosts, spy tradecraft, and transmissions that still broadcast today, for someone. This is Nu...

Jan 10, 2026 from riz#000000me

weeknotes 2

This week was the first week of the quarter, so back to work. It's been a weird mix of boring and tedious as I get all of the scheduling done for the entire quarter. The weather has been back and f...

Jan 10, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Doctor Who: The Sonic Salvaging of the Sixth, Part 10 – Lost Stories Special!

…Blackpool! In some respects, it’s surprising that it took Big Finish a decade or so to attempt The Lost Stories – a series of recordings of Doctor Who tales which had been developed to one extent ...

Jan 09, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars: Part IVa, The Status of Hoplites

This is the last part of our four-part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, Intermission) on the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the phalanx formation in which they fought. We’ve spent the las...

Jan 09, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

curl logo optimization

How small can you make the curl logo SVG?

Jan 09, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog

Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI

Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI I am still working adding services to my NAS and one thing that was on my todo list for a while was a proper GMail backup. You never know when the powers that be deny y...

Jan 09, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Who are you?

YLE community, I need your help!

Jan 09, 2026 from The Fly Blog

Code And Let Live

The state of the art in agent isolation is a read-only sandbox. At Fly.io, we’ve been selling that story for years, and we’re calling it: ephemeral sandboxes are obsolete. Stop killing your sandbox...

Jan 08, 2026 from Paul's Weblog

K, M, G, T vs. Ki, Mi, Gi, Ti

Here’s a throwback from my undergrad1 degree: depending on the context, K, M, G, T can be base 10 OR base 2. For a quick refresher: K, M, G, T are kilo-, mega-, giga-, and peta-. Here’s the tl;dr: ...

Jan 08, 2026 from Commented Out

My C source file format preferences

Formatting is not something developers should be spending much time on, but we spend a lot of time staring at code to see if it's right so the formatting needs to be pleasing to the eye. As such, m...