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Feb 24, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Testing Claude Code

In Which I Test the New Claude Code Release

Feb 23, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #31: Tactile Graphics, "Alexinomnia", and a To-Do App Controlled By Dice

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, a collection of the finest nuggets of science, culture and technology that I could excavate from the fractally-bra...

Feb 23, 2025 from Muffin Man

Bunny jumps again

I love 3D printing. It feels like magic - we are able to design and create physical things in a matter of hours, in our homes. I understand the underlying technology, but it still blows my mind whe...

Feb 22, 2025 from The Autodidacts

Troubleshooting: a skill that never goes obsolete

Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting. I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fix...

Feb 21, 2025 from R74n Newsletter

🪸 Sandboxels v1.11 - Everyone's Update - OUT NOW 🟠🔵

This MASSIVE update includes something for every type of Sandboxels player, along with GUI and quality of life improvements!

Feb 21, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage

The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility

THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed, boundaries have been laid, and rules have been established. In such an age there is still room fo...

Feb 21, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

No Ideology Required; AI Customization Makes Open Source Tools the Obvious Choice

In Which I Describe how Cracked LLMs are for Customization

Feb 20, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

Reading List Redux

Discovering Omnivore about a year ago felt like an instant win. A free, open source, read-it-later app that could also handle all my newsletter subscriptions and RSS feeds - absolutely marvelous! L...

Feb 20, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Fitness Tips from a Formerly Obese Nerd

In Which I Explain the Misconceptions I had About Fitness

Feb 19, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Obligatory 22 Year Anniversary Post

Apparently I started this blog 22 years ago. Sheesh. This anniversary is a bit more nostalgic than most because I just went through over 1200 posts to make sure they worked after my migration from ...

Feb 19, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Avoiding Google with Umami for Open Source Analytics

In Which I "Self-Host" another Pikapods Instance and don't even need AI

Feb 19, 2025 from Heitor's log

Temporary files and directories in Python

Creating temporary files and directories in Python, using the standard library module `tempfile`.

Feb 18, 2025 from Ryan Bagley

Installing Ratgdo and Fighting Technofeudalism

Full install kit for a Ratgdo v2.53i. In late in 2023 the Chamberlain Group, who makes the popular garage door opener Liftmaster, discontinued API connectivity through MyQ for third party home auto...

Feb 18, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Using Listmonk for my Newsletter because Substack has no API

In Which I use Open Source Self Hosted Tools like a Good Boy

Feb 17, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Preventing Homebrew from Upgrading a Formula

For a variety of reasons I run a local version of dovecot on my computer, which let’s me access older mail files stored locally in my account. Using the amazing Homebrew package manager I installed...

Feb 17, 2025 from Londogard Blog

Marimo - A new Notebook/App on the block!

Marimo Marimo is the “new” kid on the block. Based on what Marimo tries to achieve you can’t help yourself but comparing it too other frameworks such as Gradio, Jupyter, Streamlit, Solara & Panel. ...

Feb 17, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Saving My Table Tennis League’s Hard Drive—and Finding Lost BTC

In Which I Repair a Borked Linux Distro and Find Lost Bitcoin

Feb 16, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

This Week (and Previous Weeks) — The Valentine Edition, No. 1

This Week (and Previous Weeks) — The Valentine Edition, No. 1 TL;DR:Plenty of things happened in my online communities while I was on my unannounced hiatus. I rejoined Kingdom of Loathing and Falle...

Feb 14, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

Special Edition — Affirmations

Special Edition — Affirmations TL;DR:This, too, shall pass. This blog post has approximately 250 words and may take 2 minutes to read. This post was submitted as part of the Indieweb Carnival for F...

Feb 13, 2025 from Jasco's Website

A procrastinator's guide to doing well on exams

I detail my process for preparing for a test, minimizing the time wasted to studying