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This PICO-8 Handheld is No Fantasy

The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually the 8-bit console it pretends to …read more

Grain Brain Drain

Read Grain Brain Drain Client: "Thanks for coming out. The pool has been disgusting for a week, and I don't know what's happening!" Me: "When was the last time the filter sand was changed?" Client:...

Sequencing CAR-T and Bispecific Antibodies in Multiple Myeloma: What the Data Show

Explore multiple myeloma updates: CAR-T vs. bispecific sequencing, T-cell exhaustion factors, IVIG infection prophylaxis, and dual-antigen strategies.

As Suncor Approaches, Justice Alito Recuses

The petitioners appear to lose a vote they might need in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County.

Daily News Stuff 28 September 2026

Fake Clod Edition Top Story Thieves stole two entire trucks belonging to Plus.ai and got away with 20 tons of raw Nvidia silicon. (Tom's Hardware) So raw that it was still sand. Because Plus.ai is ...

Babylon Had No Religion Class, but Its Future Officials Still Had to Learn Nearly 2,000 Gods

Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the gods. There was no textbook that worked as a Bible either. Religion was everywh...

How to get into this beautiful off-the-beaten-path Kyoto temple earlier than the general public

Getting up early and heading outside the regular tourist circuit could lead to an unforgettable experience this autumn. When looking at lists of sightseeing spots in Kyoto, there are certain names ...

postmarketOS rebrands as Nura in move to broaden appeal beyond tech community; keeps logo

In an announcement at their annual conference, the open-source mobile operating system project formerly known as postmarketOS has revealed its new identity: Nura. The name emerged following an exte...

How Do We Get More Microgrants in India?

I gathered a group of folks and did the BOF session at IndiaFOSS/2026. The idea behind the BoF session wasn’t to present anything, but to solicit ideas and provocations to improve the micro-grantin...

The Month iPhone Duo Gives Developers - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #155

Xcode 27.1 beta, which includes the iPhone Duo simulator, was released on September 18—just five weeks before the device officially goes on sale on October 23. Curiously, Xcode 27.2 beta, which doe...

The Lazic War

While the Byzantine Empire under Justinian I and the Sassanids under Khosrow I might have decided to stop fighting on their southern borders, hostilities continued in the area east of the Black Sea...

postmarketOS is No More, At Least Under That Name

It took the project 1.5 years before settling on 'Nura' as its new identity.

The World Outside the Classroom Changed, The Class Didn’t

This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants This is the third of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it. Part 1: The Year AI Came For Us Part 2: A...

I Switched to Brave Browser

I've been whinging about wanting to move away from Firefox for nearly a year now. It started with Mozilla's announcement about their AI strategy and my initial thoughts. Then they doubled-down and ...

First for South Africa as robotic exoskeleton aids Table Mountain rescue

I can really sympathise with this situation as it happened to me as well a few years ago. We hiked up the mountain and planned to come down with the cable car. But many hours later by the time we r...

2026W38

Semantic Search Without Embeddings — The insight that reframed this for me is that embeddings nail representation and similarity but are weak at the third piece, deciding what’s actually in or out....

How to Disagree With a Friend Without Pretending to Agree

Disagree with a friend clearly and respectfully by separating tastes, facts, and shared plans, with practical wording and a stopping point for circular debates.

Better late than letter 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIX

Welcome to the 299th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form writing sister...

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer

Scary Law Firms In Time For Halloween — See Generally

Nothing To Fear But Quinn Itself: BTI's annual survey of the firms clients least want to see across the "v." is out, and Quinn Emanuel, Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden, and Gibson Dunn are once again the...