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Jan 22, 2026 from Rock and Null

Cog in a great machine VS building one from scratch

Working in a big tech company feels like being a cog in a powerful, well-oiled machine, while launching your own startup means building a smaller machine from scratch and owning every decision. Bot...

Jan 22, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog

CGMs Part 1 - Great FOSS tools for an OK Quality Consumer CGM

A Stelo CGM I had was expiring so I decided to try out xDrip+. One of those two things works really well. In this part I talk about CGMs in general.

Jan 22, 2026 from Roy Tang

Books: Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #16)

“Oh, no!” said Asphalt. “How long were you asleep?” “Same as I am awake,” said Cliff. Finished reading Soul Music, Discworld book #16. I like the idea of Susan as a character; she's a good addition...

Jan 22, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Modern Solution: Good riddance!

Modern Solution, bekannt für Inkompetenz in der IT-Sicherheit und das Verklagen eines Entwicklers, der ihnen diese Sicherheitslücke mitgeteilt hat, ist wohl insolvent.

Jan 22, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Adding noai.duckduckgo.com as Custom Search Engine

A short guide to adding the no AI version of DuckDuckGo to Chromium-based and Firefox-based web browsers as a custom search engine with shortcut.

Jan 22, 2026 from Ploum.net

Why there’s no European Google?

Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! With some adjustments, this post is mostly a translation of a post I published in French three years ago. In light of the European Commis...

Jan 21, 2026 from Improve Something Today

Podcast episode No. 0034: On speeding things up

0034: On speeding things up0:00/497.0241×Episode details: a reading and discussion of this, from 2023 ↓On speeding things upLearning from the hourglass & the snake.Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr...

Jan 21, 2026 from LifeDev.net

Personal System Design: 10 Steps to Master Your Life by Design, Not Default

Here to find out about personal system design? Every successful person — from entrepreneurs to athletes — has one thing in common: systems, and that is why we are going to speak more about personal...

Jan 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch

Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these d...

Jan 21, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

How to strengthen your immune system

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Jan 21, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog

isolated(any) and #isolation: Letting Swift Closures Automatically Inherit Isolation

Swift 6 introduced many new features and keywords for concurrency. While many of these might be rarely used in daily development, encountering specific scenarios without understanding these new con...

Jan 21, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Back to Basics on an old Bike

I often find something that still doesn’t feel 100% right. These days, it has been the cold start and the choke. After the bike came out of restoration, it had a cold-start problem. The usual solut...

Jan 21, 2026 from Roy Tang

Return to Linux

Last week I set up Linux Mint + Windows dual boot on my computer! I am writing this post from the comfort of my desktop running Linux Mint (dual boot with Windows)! Previously Tracing through previ...

Jan 21, 2026 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

AI Made Hobby Coding Expensive Again

For the last twenty years, we've lived in a "golden age" of hobbyist coding. If you had a laptop and an internet connection, you had access to the same world-class tooling as a developer at Google ...

Jan 21, 2026 from The Fly Blog

Run Claude Code From Your Phone With Sprites

A few days ago, this post hit HN’s front page and generated over 400 comments. The author is talking about the setup he uses to code from his phone using Tailscale, an always-on Mac at home, SSH vi...

Jan 20, 2026 from Improve Something Today

With paper, glue & scissors: how little zines can make a big difference

Two ways to make an 8-page mini-zine using stuff you already have—and three reasons why you might do this.

Jan 20, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

PixelFade Studio VN Review Project

Canadian OELVN developer PixelFade Studio announced its "retirement" from visual novel development on January 19, 2026. I announce my plan to cover the three PFS novels I have not yet covered and i...

Jan 20, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog

Appy - An AppImage Installer

Appy - An AppImage Installer I nerd-sniped myself today. All I wanted to do was installing SuperSonic, a subsonic compatible music player written in go. One of their recommended ways to run it is a...

Jan 20, 2026 from BEEW

Like＞Love

We've been chasing the wrong thing for a long time. For centuries we've built our entire civilization around love — the songs, the movies, the holidays, the grand gestures, the heartbreak, the dram...

Jan 20, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

OREGON (Trail): BASIC Game Design from the Teletype Era

In 1971, three college roommates developed an educational computer game. Titled OREGON, it was a simulation of westward migration along the Oregon Trail and proved to be a hit among the students. O...