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Visions of Vibrancy: Pittsburgh

The Jaxson Magazine takes a visual walk through the urban core of a city that has transformed itself from its steelmaking past: Pittsburgh -

2026W28

@clickhouse/rowbinary: when your library is also a parser compiler — The framing that stuck with me is that the compiler here is the LLM itself. Instead of shipping a codegen tool, they ship tested...

📝 2026-07-20 08:10: Yup. Goat-proofing the chicken door really worked a treat. FML. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Yup. Goat-proofing the chicken door really worked a treat. FML. 🤦🏼‍♂️ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

Arthurian Connector

Keep Writing

After yesterday's difficult confession, I feel somewhat spiritually hungover, weirdly enough. One thing I have trouble coming to grips with is the fact that this website, while I enjoy cataloging m...

The Systematic Removal of Security in Consumer Operating Systems

Slide to Unlock by Solstad This year we’ve seen cracks in Windows 11 BitLocker, VeraCrypt developers losing their ability to distribute their software on Windows, and Apple removing encryption supp...

Bad News Out Of Biglaw — See Generally

Opening The Gates (To Push People Out): K&L Gates cut roughly 10 percent of its business-services staff -- accounting, marketing, and IT, several of them with more than a decade at the firm. U.S. A...

My Head Megahertz, Part 5

Read My Head Megahertz, Part 5 Me: "I meant how big the memory needed to be. Did your grandson mention anything like megabytes or gigabytes?" Customer: "Jiggle beets." Read My Head Megahertz, Part 5

Hackaday Links: July 19, 2026

We’ll start this week off by giving our congratulations to Skyroot Aerospace of India for successfully launching the country’s first privately developed orbital rocket yesterday. The company’s Vikr...

Weekly Robotics #369

Weekly Robotics 369: a new robotic hand on the block, an aerial autonomy stack, a robot that got stuck in the hallway, puffin-inspired robot, and more!

Antidemokratische Umwälzung

Ein paar lesenswerte Texte und ein Podcast, die ich gefunden habe.

Followup on the Gym Injury

I had my followup appointment for my bicep tendon surgery and luckily, the recovery continues to be very easy and straightforward. Aside from checking in on the recovery, though, my doctor recommen...

"Academics Spent Years Lending Their Institutional Credibility to Various Political Projects"

Now they are reputationally bankrupt. If they don't repair the damage, and convince people to keep writing the checks, many… The post "Academics Spent Years Lending Their Institutional Credibility ...

The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Yesterday I talked about the game of Nim, which involves two players taking beans from several piles, and an extension that in...

Daily News Stuff 19 July 2026

Woolly Hippo To You Edition Top Story Nvidia's 5000 Super graphics cards are lined up on the runway ready to go as soon as someone breaks the news to the passengers that the price of their tickets ...

📝 2026-07-19 19:09: Today was spent goat-proofing the automatic chicken door. We recently moved it to ground level...

Today was spent goat-proofing the automatic chicken door. We recently moved it to ground level and now the goats use it as a scratch post. 🐐 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so...

Japanese convenience store releases Japanese convenience store-flavor fried chicken

Famima’s newest fried chicken and potato chip flavor is also Famima. For convenience stores in Japan, the ideal situation is to provide customers with both familiar favorites and new eating experie...

Releasing a New ONScripter-EN Visual Novel

An essay about writing, developing, and publishing a new original ONScripter-EN visual novel in less than 48 hours.

Three Tombs of Officials and Military Figures from Egypt’s 18th Dynasty Discovered at Saqqara, Including That of the “Great Merchant of the House of Ptah”

The Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Bubasteion necropolis, in the eastern sector of the escarpment at the Saqqara site, has announced the discovery of three rock-cut tombs dating to ...

Blood & Health

We've been talking about blood as food, and some recipes using blood in cooking, but now let's talk about health-related blood.Blood was considered one of four "humors" that were the key to health ...