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Swift Server Has Another Google - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #156

Last week, Google Cloud introduced a Swift SDK for server-side development. It covers more than a hundred Google Cloud services, including Cloud Storage, IAM, Secret Manager, and AI, while providin...

Days Still Go On

27 September, Some time... I don't remember anymore.I am supposed to write and send a draft research article by Monday. The one workshop for which I was rejected, then later accepted. Yet. I am her...

The End of Mazdak

Two days ago I promised you a grisly end to Mazdak and his followers. Yesterday was the set-up: Iranian Emperor Kavad tried to be tolerant of Mazdak, a priest who preached a doctrine that was not i...

2026W39

Obituary for a Quiet Life — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER — The idea I keep turning over is that contentment with a small life is actually subversive, a quiet refusal of the American reflex to keep climbin...

Spectrum Allocation

Negative Space

All art is a cry to God. I've had this idea regarding an art concept known as negative space. In visual art, it's the space around the image's subject. Much of the time in art, we criticize the sub...

Hackaday Links: October 3, 2026

If you’re interested in aerospace, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard the rumor that NASA is trying to get its SR-71 flying again. Or at the very least, they are …read more

Donut Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out

Read Donut Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out Customer: "So, you're not gonna sell those last few donuts." Me: "We close in five minutes, so not looking likely." Customer: "So, I can have them?" M...

Weekly Robotics #379

Weekly Robotics 379: Atlas has new hands, lessons learned from building 30,000 robot dogs, how to build a plane in 30 days, evaluating LiDAR performance, Figure robots going out in flames, and more!

Missouri’s Terrible Week — See Generally

Three Time Losers: The Supreme Court shut down the third attempt to impose Missouri's gerrymandered map for this election in direct violation of applicable law. Along the way, the Court directed si...

Libertarianism and Democracy

Matt Zwolinski is right to emphasize that democracy is generally superior to authoritarianism, but wrong to suggest it should be a central libertarian commitment. Moreover, recent events highlight ...

Daily News Stuff 4 October 2026

Fake Parrot Sketch Edition Top Story East during the spring and west during the fall: You know you're in for a ride when you read an article that includes the sentence Most magnets have two poles: ...

Japanese food hack says to soak your grapes in carbonated water, but is the fizz worth the buzz?

We try a Shine Muscat experiment that method claim lets Japan’s most delicious grapes shine in a different way. Shine Muscats don’t really need to be any tastier than they already are. The extra-sw...

Re-Filling My Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser 3

I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my second refill of Mr. Gingerbread Man back in July. Today, it was time for re-fill...

Would You Like to Write to Me?

I really enjoy writing. Not typing - writing. With a fountain pen on good quality paper. I find the whole process cathartic; putting pen to paper demands far more use of my grey matter than hammeri...

Trajan Died in a Small Cilician Port in AD 117 — Archaeologists Are Now Mapping What’s Left

In August AD 117, a ship carrying the Roman emperor put in at the coast of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey. Its most important passenger was too ill to travel any farther. Trajan had ruled ...

2026 Postgres Summit US - New York City

While my role at Percona is focused on MariaDB, I still have a soft spot for PostgreSQL, so when a spot became available for Postgres Summit US I jumped at the opportunity to attend. TL;DR; Postgre...

Mazdak and Kavad

During the reign of the Sassanian dynasty's Emperor Kavad I (r. 488–531), Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion. An Iranian priest named Mazdak started preaching a different version that came to...

ORICO X50 Review: A Sleek Thunderbolt 5 SSD Enclosure

A slim, silver NVMe enclosure that turns your spare SSD into fast external storage. Excellent if you have Thunderbolt 5 on your machine.