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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...

Jan 20, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

Slides from twenty years of lecturing about the workings of the universe and the fate of the soul.

Jan 20, 2026 from The Phoenix Trap

Migrating from Docker Desktop to Colima: When Hardened Images Break

By 10:25 AM, I’d entered what Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans call “Deep Hurting.” The migration plan was solid. The backup discipline was comprehensive. The execution? Chaos. I run a containeriz...

Jan 20, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Measles is off to an ugly start, EPA removes lives lost, ICE and hospitals, and lots of good news

The Dose (January 20)

Jan 20, 2026 from The Jaxson

7 historical facts about Fairfield

Tucked along the west bank of the St. Johns River, just north of Downtown Jacksonville, the neighborhood of Fairfield holds a history far richer than its modest footprint suggests. Once a thriving ...

Jan 20, 2026 from Chris Short

Looking for a new role

30-year tech veteran seeking remote Developer Advocate or Technical Marketing role. Translates complexity into adoption. Available now.

Jan 20, 2026 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers

Yesterday, I passed the Red Hat EX188 exam, which allowed me to renew my Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers certification. I had a very good memory of this exam from the last time I took it...

Jan 20, 2026 from micheal@ecliptik.com

Three Days with Claude Code

Everything after this paragraph was written with AI. I had Claude Code generate this post since I was curious what it would come up with and to give me a summary of what was done to help redesign t...

Jan 19, 2026 from Thejesh GN

One Video Format

I have a bunch of screen-casts that I want to release. I have not found a good PeerTube instance to host my videos. I am happy to pay a monthly fee, and I hope one day there will be a platform that...

Jan 19, 2026 from Peter's Path

Toxic Empathy by Allie Beth Stuckey

Why read the book? Allie Beth Stuckey wrote Toxic Empathy. She looks at how progressives use empathy to push ideas on Christians. Stuckey says empathy turns toxic when it ignores truth. The book co...

Jan 19, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog

Building AI Moats: Anthropic’s Crackdown and the Apple-Google Alliance - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #119

2026 kicked off with two major AI headlines: Anthropic banned third-party CLIs and wrappers from using personal subscriptions, and Apple officially confirmed a deep partnership with Google.

Jan 19, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Billie the Platypus

As I mentioned in my re:Invent post I got to meet Corey Quinn back in December and I follow his “Last Week in AWS” blog. This week he posted an article about an agent he had created to help him dea...

Jan 19, 2026 from Ploum.net

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots What I like most about teaching "Open Source Strategies" at École Polytechnique de Louvain is how much I learn from my students, especially during the...

Jan 19, 2026 from Brajeshwar

There’s an App for That, It Shouldn’t Have

We all remember Apple’s iPhone Commercial, “There’s an App for That.” That eventually became a pop culture phrase and one of the most common reasons in a company meeting to have “Apps, Lots of Apps.”

Jan 19, 2026 from JoeHx Blog

2025 End of Year Side Income Report

Ten years of income reports. Ten years of transparency.

Jan 19, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics #344

It's time for some big announcements at Weekly Robotics. I've started refactoring the newsletter, which you can already see in the online version at weeklyrobotics.com. The e-mail newsletter refact...

Jan 18, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Rollenspielszenen: Am Eingang die Waffen abgeben

Am Eingang zum Stadtteil der rassistischen Elfen muss man seine Waffen abgeben. Es sei denn…

Jan 18, 2026 from riz#000000me

on swift horses

What a heartbreaking movie. Generally set in the 50s and maybe early 60s, there is nothing particularly heartbreaking about the movement of the queer characters and the way they talk around identit...

Jan 18, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software

2025 re:Invent - How AWS Stole Christmas

First off, apologies for the click-baity title, but as this year marked the fourth re:Invent since I joined AWS I wanted to reflect on a major change it has made on my life - specifically how I cel...

Jan 18, 2026 from Kev Quirk

When Was I Happiest?

First, a little context. I'm currently in my early 40s. I'm married with 2 kids, many pets, and lots of other responsibilities. According to this site I am in the top 1% of earners in the UK (that'...