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Aug 15, 2025 from Refereeing and Reflection

Supplement Supplemental! (Lower Deck Larks and Paranoia Farces)

Time for another entry in my occasional series of mini-reviews on game supplements I have thoughts substantial enough to write about, but lean enough that I don’t want to dedicate a whole article t...

Aug 15, 2025 from fasterthanli.me

Summer fasterthanlime update

There are news! Cool Bear's hot tip TL;DR: If you’re a patron or sponsor, check your Profile page to get detailed explainers of every perk. You’ll need to log in. Duh. Here are all the changes I’m ...

Aug 15, 2025 from Jasco's Website

Debloatube

I talk about my history of skirting Youtube's tracking and my new solution

Aug 15, 2025 from Muffin Man

How to draw a Space Invader

This is an interactive article. To fully experience it, you'll need to turn JavaScript on. I recently made the Space Invader Generator for Creative Coding Amsterdam code challenge. I made it for fu...

Aug 14, 2025 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

Terminally Online: When the Internet Becomes Your Reality

To be "terminally-online" is to be deeply engaged on social media, consuming YouTube creator-driven drama, or spending a significant amount of one's free time doing online activities. Personal inte...

Aug 13, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

Seven Years

It’s been seven years since Hello World. A lot has happened since then, in the world, in my life, and also on this website. What started as a minimal blog, grew into a proper online home for myself...

Aug 13, 2025 from BattlePenguin

How Large Scale Protest Organizers Can Build Big Tech Surveillance Networks of their Participants

Earlier this week, a friend of mine sent me an invitation to a “community resistance gathering.” It came in the form of a text message with a link to a website called Mobilize dot US. My friend was...

Aug 13, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

The Collective Choice of Oppression

So I've been going back to the gym lately and I think I hit a wall today. I was just too tired to go, and I don't enjoy how I don't seem to have the capacity for many things in life anymore. My bod...

Aug 13, 2025 from Michael Lynch

Refactoring English: Month 8

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...

Aug 12, 2025 from Volution Notes

EU-based cloud alternatives affordability for small projects and companies

My personal experience in finding affordable EU-based cloud providers for a small personal project. And my pessimistic assessment of the competitiveness in this segment with their USA-based competi...

Aug 12, 2025 from Tim Hårek

Volkswagen ID. Buzz first impressions

Photo from the ad of my Volkswagen ID. Buzz. I bought a used Volkswagen ID. Buzz last month and have been driving it for a few weeks now. These are my first impressions coming from a 2013 Skoda Rap...

Aug 11, 2025 from The Fly Blog

Games as Model Eval: 1-Click Deploy AI Town on Fly.io

Recently, I suggested that The Future Isn’t Model Agnostic, that it’s better to pick one model that works for your project and build around it, rather than engineering for model flexibility. If you...

Aug 11, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

On Irreligious Christianity

I've been feeling better today. I was able to go to the gym and do my laundry. Overall, I feel like I'm out of depression once again. Now I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm happy, but I at least d...

Aug 10, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Escaping the Escapism

I've been having a greater desire to escape my head lately. I've done better at cutting out addictions and other escapist tendencies in my life as of late because I know that it's not good for me, ...

Aug 09, 2025 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts

Improving my resignation letter generator

Two years ago, I have a released a resignation letter generator. There are a few rules and good practices around how these letters should be written, formatted and delivered. This tool makes helps ...

Aug 09, 2025 from Refereeing and Reflection

Star Trek: The FASA Frontier (and Philosophical Theories On Spiritual Successors)

Though Star Trek Adventures, particularly in its tightened-up second edition, is my current gold standard when it comes to Trek-based tabletop RPGs, it’s hardly the first game in that sphere. As I ...

Aug 09, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Pain in the Brain

I don't know what's been going on, but I've been on a self-deprecation kick over the last 24 to 36 hours. I haven't really done much externally to show this, but internally it's been quite the war....

Aug 09, 2025 from BattlePenguin

Fixing Yum Indexing on Sonatype Nexus and the Non-Open-Source Upgrade

I’ve been using Sonatype Nexus for the past few months as a repository for build artifacts (Python and RPM packages) for project I’ve been developing. Recently several of my build pipelines broke w...

Aug 08, 2025 from Jordi Villar

2025W31

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive — AI does not make engineers ten times more productive because much of coding involves thinking, reading, and preventing unnecessary work. AI helps ...

Aug 08, 2025 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

My Experiences as a Digital Nomad

Like many, I've always romanticized the idea of traveling long-term, all while earning my living solely through my laptop and my phone. I've loosely experimented with this, traveling for periods fr...