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Jul 26, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Reviewing Limerence, an al|together-Inspired Visual Novel

I review a new indie visual novel that was inspired in part by the al|together 2008 localization of The Letter, which the author stumbled upon thanks to an article in The New Leaf Journal.

Jul 25, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Court Notes Apparent AI-Generated Errors in Court Reporter's Transcript

"[W]e remind the Court Reporter that this court relies on transcripts being true and accurate representations of the transcribed proceedings."

Jul 25, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

The Next Chapter

Read The Next Chapter He then sings the whole song word for word and even includes some pretty impressive dance moves that I, someone in her early thirties, would have trouble with while the regula...

Jul 25, 2026 from Hackaday

Taking Tri-Camera True-Color Infrared Videos

Silicon-based CMOS camera sensors are cheap and plentiful, but they’re rarely used to their full potential: they can detect a greater range of wavelengths in the infrared spectrum than they …read more

Jul 25, 2026 from PRBS23

Announcement: FreeFall 800 (v0.1.0)

Today I’m publicly releasing a project I’ve been working on for a while: FreeFall 800. FreeFall 800 is a local first, open source firmware project, that replaces the factory firmware that comes on ...

Jul 25, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 25 July 2026

Chimken II Electric Boogaloo Edition Top Story Anthropic's Opus 5 model is here - nearly as smart as Fable for half the price, and less annoying. (Engadget) It has been trained similarly but with m...

Jul 25, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

ONewSletter Mail Novel 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXC

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 290th 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...

Jul 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Criminal Cases, Part 3

When the Mayor of London says you have to dress for diner, you dress for dinner. On the Feast of Pentecost in 1382, the Mayor of London and the Aldermen were to meet at the Church of St. Peter in C...

Jul 25, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Universal Studios Japan requiring consent form for adults-only horror attraction

USJ goes R-18 for the first time. When theme parks in Japan have Halloween events, oftentimes they’re drawing inspiration from the lighthearted aspects of the season, such as playing dress-up and e...

Jul 25, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

EskomSePush app transitioned to neighbourhood service disruptions otherwise it would have died

This is the story of how the app evolved from being a high demand app to manage the electricity load shedding across South Africa, to something completely different after load shedding went away. T...

Jul 25, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Ride to Gandikota

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are the least explored states in the South for me. I have been adding places of interest to my list. Gandikota has been on that list for a while. I wanted to do it post...

Jul 25, 2026 from Personal Log at usebox.net

It is the game, stupid!

Paraphrasing the famous American catchphrase, I have noticed a pattern in my gamedev failures. Generally, people get to see the successes –or games that I finish–, but they don’t see all the projec...

Jul 25, 2026 from It's FOSS

Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray": All the New Features So Far

As usual, Canonical is using an interim release to test features headed for the next LTS. Her, we keep a track of the features as they are added.

Jul 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Microsoft Entra ID to default to passkeys, phasing out SMS and voice codes by 2027

Microsoft will make passkeys the default authentication method for Microsoft Entra ID starting September 1, 2026. The change primarily affects businesses and organizations that use Entra ID to mana...

Jul 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On Tactics to Hit the Hacker News Front Page

I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page. I had six New Leaf Journal articles make Hacker News page one between April 2021 and January 2024, and can say ...

Jul 25, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Amplifier

This post is a submission to this month's Bear Blog Carnival, and the theme is "An album that got you through a hard time." I don't use the Bear platform, but you can't get me to not write about so...

Jul 24, 2026 from Above the Law

Partner And Associate, Sittin’ In A Tree — See Also

Always Be Billing: A Biglaw partner and associate got caught making out by an obnoxious social media video. I Consider Experience Experience: Guy posts his performance reviews from WilmerHale 15 ye...

Jul 24, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Keeping Them In Mint Condition

Read Keeping Them In Mint Condition Customer: "I just quit smoking, so I need some of them nicotine patch things."  I get them from the locked glass case behind the counter. Customer: *Yelling.* "M...

Jul 24, 2026 from Hackaday

Hands-Free Mouse Uses Eyes And Muscles Instead

The standard computer mouse is a perfectly useful peripheral if your hands work. If you’ve got some trouble in that area, you might appreciate an alternative input solution. To that end, [Varun …re...

Jul 24, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVb: Cohesion

This is the second half of the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. Last we...