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7 Productivity Myths Debunked: What Actually Works in 2026

We’ve all been there, scrolling through endless productivity hacks, convinced that waking up at 5 AM or color-coding our calendars will transform us into efficiency machines, unaware it is all prod...

Weeknotes 2026-01-25

The World It has been a week. The US threatened Greenland, then backed away from the threat of force, presumably because the bond markets disapproved. Trump claims that a "framework for a deal" has...

Tech Interview II

In the previous installment of the Tech Interview saga we left off just as things started to get fun, perhaps expecting some quite heavy chunks of code dropping. Will they materialize? Or perhaps t...

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXIV 〜 Footnote edition

Welcome to the 264th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

Utrecht Path part 09

Hiked 13.5 kilometres from Baarn to Hollandsche Rading. You walk through the wooded area of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, starting at the Baarnse Bos with its French style. Past Soestdijk Palace through the...

Doctor Who: Seven’s Sonic Seasons, Part 8

Last time we checked in on the Seventh Doctor’s audio adventures, I was left a little dissatisfied, feeling that the experiments in presenting the Doctor travelling alone prior to the TV movie had ...

Using !bangs without the duck

Since I started using DuckDuckGo in the early 2010s, one of my favorite features that made me stay around to this day was the !bangs. Essentially, if you want to search on a particular website, you...

stuff

I don't know. I've been spending a lot of money, but generally I feel like the purchases have either been something I would buy later anyway or are actually something I've thought about and the pur...

Creative Ways To Market Your Austin Business

Marketing is essential for promoting your business, launching new products and services, and enticing new customers. It’s a competitive world, and you need to create effective marketing strategies ...

Fireside Friday, January 23, 2025 (On the Cowardice of the Statue PfPs)

Hey folks, Fireside this week! Hopefully everyone enjoyed our series on the running debate over hoplites! As a social media note, I am going to attempt to start setting up a presence on Threads (wi...

Overhead Projector #2: Knot Sure What I'm Doing, But It Works

Retraining myself to tie my shoes a different way lead to reflecting on how I teach my lessons.

Overhead Projector #2: Knot Sure What I'm Doing, But It Works

Retraining myself to tie my shoes a different way lead to reflecting on how I teach my lessons.

“Skip Level” Interview Questions

I recently had a final round “skip level” interview which was with high(er) level leadership folk; think directors, VPs, and similar. Those that you wouldn’t interact with on a daily basis but perh...

Trumps Sturmabteilung

Lange habe ich nur vorsichtig Parallelen zwischen den Nazis und dem Trump-Regime gezogen. Nicht mehr.

Pardon Underwrites a Year of Palladium

Sustaining ambitious governance journalism and sponsoring PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige and beyond. The post Pardon Underwrites a Year of Palladium appeared first on Palladium.

Weekly Notes 04/2026

I have a sore throat and a cold. I think I got it from Uma, and she got it from school. I have also been talking a lot in meetings this week, and that’s not helping. Also, it’s very cold.

Creating NLJ QR Code With QR Code Generator

I decided to create a QR code for The New Leaf Journal's homepage. After some research, I tried nayuki's QR Code Generator on GitHub.

The fun internet is dead

Avoid Losing Items - Assign Places for Them

I like to believe that everything has a place, especially for smaller household items that usually go wherever and “have to be found” later, leading to frantic searches.

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct i...