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The Siege of Acre, Part 4

The first big clash between the army of Saladin and the Christians besieging the city of Acre led to thousands of losses for the Christians under Guy of Lusignan in September 1189. Fortunately, wha...

Miscellanea: The War in Iran

This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec...

OSPO Notes: How to find your community

How to find your open source community beyond git commits using repo data, GitHub Insights, GrimoireLab, and social listening to discover who's really out there.

Centimeter Wavelengths

Hudd review

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about moving away from US-based services, and social media platforms in general. Norway’s broadcasting channel, NRK, wrote yesterday about how to break free fro...

A draft is not just text, it is stored decision-making

A usable draft preserves more than sentences. It keeps scope, structure, emphasis, and live uncertainty visible so the next writing session does not have to rebuild the whole piece.

Vivid

Today has been slightly annoying. We've been having some problems with our refrigerator, and yesterday, we had a guy come out and "fix" it. He ended up being here for most of the day, but all he di...

Surprised They Didn’t Say There Was A Fly In Their Soup

Read Surprised They Didn’t Say There Was A Fly In Their Soup Customer: "There's a hair in my meal." Coworker: "May I see it?" The customer holds up a single hair while continuing to complain. Custo...

Iran Conflict Disrupts Central Asian Trade Routes

Syed Fazl-e-Haider

The Results Are In! — See Also

The Biggest Losers Of Our Disbar March Madness: Jeanine Pirro and Kash Patel were neck and neck! $35 Never Felt So Good!: Chance the Rapper wins lawsuit against Pat the Manager. There's More To Los...

Atomarchiv mit RFC 5005

Ich habe das Atom-feed dieses Blogs auf mehrere Dateien aufgeteilt

Three Generations of Men, One Unsettled Question

Growing up, there was a short pile of books sitting out on the cocktail table in the den of my childhood home, the kind of decorative arrangement that had been there so long they stopped being obje...

Trump Administration Agrees to Consent Decree in Missouri v. Biden Social Media Case

From the Consent Decree filed today in Missouri v. Biden (W.D. La.): As President Trump stated upon taking office on… The post Trump Administration Agrees to Consent Decree in Missouri v. Biden Soc...

Getting to the Point in Blogs

Words of wisdom from Leon Mika about getting to the point in blog posts.To expand a bit (without losing the point), I would advise my fellow internet writers to define the point in the writing proc...

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Daily News Stuff 24 March 2026

Something Edition Top Story Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh desktop CPUs are here - the 250K and 270K Plus. (Tom's Hardware) Are they fast? Yes. They close in on the regular AMD parts for gaming, and th...

Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with ads

Video advertising seems contradictory to the digital signage’s originally intended purpose. Osaka-based property management company Hankyu Hanshin Properties is in charge of a number of high-profil...

A 1st-century child’s tomb is discovered in Pas-de-Calais with a figurine of his parents kissing and more than 800 archaeological structures

Archaeological excavations in Ruyaulcourt, in the French department of Pas-de-Calais, carried out on an elevation flanked by two dry valleys—one of them currently occupied by the Canal du Nord and ...

HavenDevice is now open source

HavenApps has released HavenDevice, an open source Swift package that collects device and app information in one place. Call HavenDevice.current() and you get a struct with more than 40 fields. Har...

Quito: Control One Container from Another

Summary This is my write-up for the Quito: Control One Container from Another challenge provided by SadServers. Where those up to the challenge work though troubleshooting why a container cannot st...