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Dec 08, 2025 from Chris Short

Common Display Resolutions

Display resolution reference: 540p, 720p HD, 1080p FHD, 2K, 1440p QHD, 4K UHD, 5K, 8K. Quick pixel dimension lookup for monitors, TVs, video formats.

Dec 08, 2025 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics #339

During the weekend, I've been reviewing the talk proposals for our Robotics and Simulation devroom at FOSDEM 2026, and I can already tell we will have a tough time choosing the finalists and buildi...

Dec 07, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

From Azure Functions to FreeBSD

Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test. On Thanksgiving morning, I woke up to one of my web services being unavailable. All HTTP requests failed with a “503 Service unavailable” error...

Dec 07, 2025 from Chuniversiteit

Israel’s attempts at songwashing in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest

The 2024 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was an absolute shitshow, and Israel was a major part of that.

Dec 07, 2025 from Personal Log at usebox.net

Learning OCaml

I know I said I wanted to write more Haskell in 2025, and I failed (almost) completely. I don’t think is Haskell. It is a bit what it has been my mood this year, that I haven’t found anything that ...

Dec 07, 2025 from Tim Hårek

Do something about it

We have all seen it, read it, experienced it. Lately on the interwebs, people have been complaining a lot about how things was better before, and how everything is turning to shit now. I even made ...

Dec 06, 2025 from Paul's Weblog

DevFestMN 2025

Today was my 3rd year volunteering at DevFestMN which is a small annual tech conference put on by the local Google Developer Group. I wrote about volunteering last year. I was able to attend a coup...

Dec 06, 2025 from Jasco's Website

Work thoughts

I complain about work

Dec 06, 2025 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog

NeurIPS 2025 - Friday Notes

Today at NeurIPS 2025 was a bit of a late start. This is common as conference go on. I saw some interesting medical data set talks, and posters... so many posters.

Dec 05, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Overhead Projector #1: You Can't Tame a Zebra

A post about jumping on the bandwagon

Dec 05, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Overhead Projector #1: You Can't Tame a Zebra

A post about jumping on the bandwagon

Dec 05, 2025 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx?

This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phalanx. Last week, we looked ...

Dec 05, 2025 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog

NeurIPS 2025 - Thursday Notes

On Thursday at NeurIPS 2025 I focused less on technical talks and more on some philosophical talks. There was a really good pool of sessions to attend. They dealt with democratization of AI, regula...

Dec 05, 2025 from Palladium

The Bronze Age of Globalization

Continent-spanning supply chains that sustained the advanced technology needed by civilization were set up thousands of years ago and then collapsed. It might happen again. The post The Bronze Age ...

Dec 05, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

App Defaults - 2025

It’s that time of the year again: here’s my extended “frozen /uses page” for late 2025. Whenever multiple applications are listed, p marks private use, w marks software that I (have to) use at work...

Dec 05, 2025 from Chris Short

Pony Famous

Pony Famous is the strange reality of being genuinely famous within a niche community. You've got fans and influence — just within a very specific bubble.

Dec 05, 2025 from Heitor's log

Betting on the Lottery with Bash and /dev/urandom

Trying to win the lottery with pure Linux RNG magic.

Dec 04, 2025 from The Public Domain Review

Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)

Illustrations of Abū Zayd and his adventures in double meaning.

Dec 04, 2025 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

Introducing The Custom Elements Dev Server

An opinionated development server for HTML and custom elements. Like Storybook, but it's all about HTML - no framework required. Auto-generated knobs, smart reload, and manifest-driven demo discovery.

Dec 04, 2025 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog

NeurIPS 2025 - Wednesday Notes

I'm back at another conference. This times NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. I took lots of notes again to summarize and share.