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Running Bash programs on Moodle CodeRunner

I have been teaching a course at APU that includes Bash scripting. I have a love-hate relationship with Bash. It’s a weird combination of a programming language and an iterative CLI. It’s confusing...

Sheep Music & Wedding Bands

On knowledge gaps and bookworm pronunciation syndrome

Home Remedies

The Switch

Over the last day or two, I've been dealing with an onset of fatigue. A few reasons for this: I ran out of my Mounjaro prescription, and despite seeing my provider to get a refill, it's been severa...

🌰 it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they can’t do

I think we forget sometimes that it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they couldn’t do.

Weekly Robotics #351

It is my pleasure to welcome Anyscale as a new partner of Weekly Robotics! Please give them a round of applause. This means that, under our partnership structure, we only have one sponsor seat avai...

No Fortitude For Longitude, Part 31

Read No Fortitude For Longitude, Part 31 Customer: "My order isn’t shipping! It says, 'processing Monday AM'!" Me: "Right, ma'am. The warehouse reopens tomorrow morning. Today is Sunday." Customer:...

Dancing on the Head of a Needle

For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent logical pretzels over whether beings of pure incorporeal intelligence, massless a...

backlogged games

the gauntlet i set before myself

Court Upholds New York's Limits on Unauthorized Practice of Law

From Upsolve, Inc. v. James, decided Friday by Judge Lewis Kaplan (S.D.N.Y.) (for the earlier decision reaching the opposite result,… The post Court Upholds New York's Limits on Unauthorized Practi...

Daily News Stuff 8 March 2026

Space Shark Edition Top Story Look to the skies: For the first time a spacecraft has diverted the orbit of an asteroid. (Science News) Two asteroids, in fact, the pair Dimorphos, which was the dire...

Iran's BGP Behavior under Fire

Iran’s HTTP requests from February 24 to March 8, 2026 from the perspective of Cloudflare. Courtesy of Cloudflare Radar. At approximately 06:15 UTC on February 28, 2026, the United States and Israe...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-08-26

There was no daily Pook-Emu Bee link post yesterday because it was Newsletter Leaf Journal day (see the links in Newsletter 270). But the next Newsletter is next Saturday. Below, I present the Marc...

Is Japan’s Crab-shaped Cup Ramen Timer worth the hype?

This crustacean does more than just keep time on your three-minute instant noodles. Back in October, ramen lovers in Japan began scrambling for a hot new noodle accessory called the Crab-shaped Cup...

Do AI coding agents improve velocity and quality?

I know you have Betteridge’s law of headlines in mind, but the answer to this question isn’t as simple as “yes” or “no”.

A Diversion About a Marriage, Part 1

(I said we would get back to Amalric, but I've discovered a side story that I would rather not put off.)King of Jerusalem Amalric I did not want to give up on his dream of bringing Egypt under Chri...

Auto-Delete old Mails from GMail

Auto-Delete old Mails from GMail My inbox is a mess. While I manage to maintain a somewhat close to “Inbox Zero” at work, my personal GMail's inbox currently sits at 2,215 emails . A large amount o...

Weekly Recap: 8 March 2026

International Women's Day and Women's March Malaysia 2026 Permalink to section 'International Women's Day and Women's March Malaysia 2026' # Happy International Women's Day! International Women's D...

The Roman Forum of Barcelona Discovered During Hotel Expansion Works

An exceptional archaeological discovery has emerged from beneath the ground at number 3 Hércules Street, in the heart of Barcelona’s Barri Gòtic. The expansion works of the Gran Hotel Barcino, prom...

Weeknotes 2026-03-08

The World The Iran conflict enters its second week. As expected, oil supply disruptions are now affecting pump prices in many places. I think I read that the US experienced their highest price incr...