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Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing

The adoption of AI Tooling ironically encourages better practices. Now you have to actually do everything you've been putting off.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Why read the book? Robert Louis Stevenson published Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886. The story is short and direct. A lawyer named Gabriel Utterson investigates the strange behaviour ...

Do Colleges Owe Partial Refunds for Online-Only COVID Transition?

The Second Circuit asks New York's highest court to indicate what New York law says on this.

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-12-26

Can we complete a perfect Sunday-Friday Pook-Emu Bee link week? With this, we are 5/7 of the way there. Articles 1 | New $472M electronic brain modernizes aging CH-47 Chinook helicopters (Amir Khol...

As Yemen Falls Silent, AQAP Looks to the Sahel

Mustafa Malik and Elsa Chandio

An altar with pyramidal copper bells found in Bolivia reveals the power of sacred sounds in the Inca Empire

Atop an ancient grain storage building, in a settlement of the local Yampara elite, archaeologists Sonia Alconini and Walter Sánchez-Canedo have uncovered an exceptional find: a set of six copper b...

ContentBuilder Explained: The Secret Behind SwiftUI's Type-Checking Speedup

In WWDC 2026, Apple engineers introduced a new SwiftUI feature — ContentBuilder. From the usage perspective, it seems to be nothing more than a ViewBuilder with a wider scope. Apple also claims thi...

How Do You Do an Autumn Reset? 8 Steps to Restart Your Routines After Summer

An autumn reset is the yearly ritual that productive people quietly swear by while everyone else waits for January, and the logic behind it is hard to argue with.  September arrives with built-in f...

The Southampton Plot

People in England during the reign of Henry V were still trying to use Edmund Mortimer as a focal point for a rebellion.Edmund's sister, Anne Mortimer, had married the 3rd Earl of Cambridge, Richar...

SimpleX Chat Wants Its 400K+ Users to Become Investors Too

The funds will go towards keeping the project up and running.

Why you can’t find a primary care doctor

And what to do about it

Tabs now available in Paper Design

Tabs are now available in Paper Design, allowing users to open and work on multiple files at the same time. This update supports parallel prompting, helping users explore ideas faster and stay orga...

Outpost progress

I have been working lately on “Outpost”, a video adventure for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It is a bit metroidvania in some ways, because some objects unlock abilities that allow access to new areas. I gu...

Rebirth

RebirthAuthor: RR HaywoodGenre: Sci-fiReleased: 2026Rating: ★★★★☆How do you prevent a hero from saving the world?In the first trilogy, three heroes were extracted from their timelines to save the w...

A small publication needs rhythm more than volume

Readers do not feel a publication through raw output totals. They feel it through recognizable return, and a small publication becomes easier to trust when its return shape is legible.

Gas Station Variant

Hey man, remember when that 80s nostalgia-wave-core or whatever was really hot back in the 2010s? Like The Midnight, Timecop1983, and all that? Come on, you gotta remember those times, right? It wa...

Geology Building

Someone Is Keeping Up With Milbank — See Also

Keeping That Raise On Ice: Ice Miller increases associate pay in New York, but not until 2027. Blame It On The AI: Company tried to pin labor law violation on ChatGPT. The Tech Isn't The Key: Legal...

Fixing a Dead Makita Battery with a 20 Cent Part

It’s no real secret that battery packs for power tools aren’t the foremost when it comes to user serviceability, so if said battery pack suddenly stops charging outside of warranty, …read more

You’ve Bot A Problem

Read You’ve Bot A Problem Me: "I apologize, sir, but I am afraid I cannot send out your parcel. The address does not exist." Customer: "It doesn't exist? But that's what Amazon gave me!" Me: "Yes, ...