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05 April, 2026

It really is the stupid phone ruining everything isn’t it? The stupid screens of doom and the stupidity of the world isn’t it? Yes. However, it's not the device itself, and not the base functionali...

Making sense of Codebase

Can Free VPN and AI Save Firefox From Decline?

Mozilla is betting on free VPN and AI to revive Firefox browser. Can this bold strategy bring users back or is it too late already?

Research should be allowed to kill the post

Research is not there to justify a topic that once sounded promising. It is there to clarify whether there is a real post here at all, and sometimes the honest result is to split, demote, or kill t...

Can a downtown Tokyo super sento bathhouse beat a hotel for a one-night stay?

Does the morning sauna make up for a night of communal snoring? With Tokyo hotel prices increasing due to the tourism boom, both domestic and international travelers are often left on the hunt for ...

A Pretty Gourd Deal, But For Who?

Read A Pretty Gourd Deal, But For Who? Customer: "If I buy a pumpkin, can you give me change for a hundred?" Me: "I don't even make that much in a day." Read A Pretty Gourd Deal, But For Who?

Exposing a Radiation-Hardened 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Receiver to 500 Kilograys

From outer space to down here on Earth, there are many places where ionizing radiation levels are high enough that they effectively bar access for humans, but also make life …read more

April 5, 2026: Rot, longing to disappear

April 5, 2026, Around 2 or 3AM.The need to be someone else, somewhere else, at some other time period sits like a stone in my throat and permeates my sentience. After a seepy Saturday, I offered my...

March 2026 at The New Leaf Journal

We are now starting April (and approaching this humble perennially virid online writing magazine’s sixth birthday). When a new month comes, […]

Winkekatze24: Seite und Favicon

Wie schwierig kann es sein, sich auf ein Favicon zu einigen?

The Former Bronx Zoo Platypuses

I am a fan of the platypus. But I have never seen a platypus in person, for I live in New York City and not Australia. But thanks to a 2023 article in Mental Floss, I now know that New York City’s ...

Turn paper hiking maps into real-time GPS guides with Matchy Maps

“Trails may not be visible on the digital map, but things like roads, rivers, ponds, lakes, and other natural features are. The app allows you to take a photo of a physical map in the real world—wh...

Unexpired :o 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXIV

Leafy intro Welcome to the 273rd 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 wr...

Visual Studio Code 1.114 adds video in carousel, semantic code search, and TypeScript 6.0

Visual Studio Code 1.114 introduces video playback in the image carousel, enabling users to view and control video files from chat attachments and the Explorer context menu. The #codebase tool now ...

Daily News Stuff 4 April 2026

Plasmotoxosis Edition Top Story Half of planned US datacenter builds have been delayed or canceled. (Tom's Hardware) Unfortunately this does not represent a collapse in the AI industry - not yet, a...

Veluwe Wander Trail part 01

Hiked part 1/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 19.1 kilometres from Arnhem to Wolfheze. At the foot of the Arnhem moraine you can walk in one of the most beautiful city parks in our country: Park Sons...

Birth-Right Citizenship as a Second-Best Policy

I oppose Trump's efforts to deny birthright citizenship chiildren of undocumented immigrants. But birthright citizenship is not the ideal policy.

AMA: Can One Setup Their Digital Life to Be Subscription Free?

Sanjay asked me in a comment on my AMA post: Dear Kev, I am a fellow reader of multiple blogs of yours and others. But somehow I have been searching for any article where any one can setup of his e...

Aimery and Henry

So we have Henry II of Champagne, elevated to the position of King of Jerusalem even if he doesn't use the title, and Aimery of Lusignan, who King of Cyprus after he needed to flee the mainland whe...

The maritime villa of Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Cicero’s son-in-law, discovered on land confiscated from the Camorra in Baiae

The municipality of Bacoli, located about twenty kilometers from the center of Naples, has restored to public visibility a monumental villa from the Roman period originally built more than two thou...