Sep 01, 2026 from Rock and Null The age of customized software or custom-made software? AI is changing the economics of custom software. The future may not be everyone building from scratch, but rather customizing a strong software base to fit their specific needs.
Sep 01, 2026 from Kev Quirk Android Auto Has Been Hammering My Phone’s Battery I've noticed recently that my phone needs to be charged way more often than I used to have to do it. I used to be able to go for nearly 2 days on an 80% charge, but I started having to charge daily...
Sep 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval The First Siege of Rome King Vitiges of the Ostrogoths besieged Rome, that had been taken and inhabited by the Byzantine forces of Justinian I, led by General Belisarius. Rome had not even put up a fight against Belisariu...
Sep 01, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist Measles deaths debacle, Covid-19 protection for immunocompromised, and more The Dose (Sept 1)
Sep 01, 2026 from kmcd.dev Let's Talk About Streaming Data on the Web A practical look at streaming data in the browser, from response streams and WebSockets to WebTransport over HTTP/3.
Sep 01, 2026 from Brajeshwar Syntactic Sugar Peter Landin coined the term syntactic sugar in 1964, in the paper, “The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions.”1 P. J. Landin, The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions, appeared in The Computer Jou...
Aug 31, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Horns of Darkness, Vessels of Paranoia, and Clues of Carnage: Tim Curry Tribute Special! In the midst of a desperately cruel August, we ended up losing Tim Curry. He had a ton of wonderful performances to his name, three of which really don’t cry out for further examination. Muppet Tre...
Aug 31, 2026 from Hackaday Fixing an Expensive Amprobe Cable Tracer With Mystery Fault Perhaps the most annoying kinds of faults are those that involve expensive equipment that just sit around in a cupboard, only for them to just stop working at all. Such …read more
Aug 31, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Upon Further Reflection… Read Upon Further Reflection… Sometime in the previous millennium, I worked in a store that produced custom neon signs. I remember getting an angry call from a customer: Caller: "I just received my...
Aug 31, 2026 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts A Buttondown review I have used Buttondown for almost a year now for All About Berlin’s newsletter. I could not find reviews for Buttondown when signing up for the service, so here is mine. Rough start The first few d...
Aug 31, 2026 from Above the Law Samuel Alito Has Absolutely No (Direct) Financial Interest In The Upcoming Global Warming Case — See Also Alito Is Still Loaded Up On Oil And Gas Stock Ahead Of The Big Climate Case: His long-withheld financials, posted this morning, confirm the holdings watchdogs say should have forced a recusal. Jim ...
Aug 31, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenClaw 2.0 has been launched with easier setup, subagent tracking & private credentials The popular autonomous AI agent OpenClaw has released version 2.0 after nearly two months of development. The update focuses on simplifying installation and setup, with better detection of existing...
Aug 31, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual RPG scene: Market forces We are fighting against the no-so-invisible arms of the market.
Aug 31, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Tether Brings the Apple Continuity Experience to Linux “Continuity. That is Apple’s catch-all term for how iPhone, iPad, and Mac talk to each other. It covers a wide range of small conveniences. Copy something on the iPhone and paste it on the Mac. Sta...
Aug 31, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japan’s birth rate rose for the first half of the year for the first time in over a decade More babies follow two consecutive years of more marriages. Japan’s population has been shrinking for a long time, as fewer couples have children, and those that do have kids have fewer than genera...
Aug 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-31-26 We bring August to a close with one Pook-Emu Bee for the road. 1 | Understanding And Dealing With Kim Jong-Un’s Resilience (Mario Alexis Portella for American Thinker. August 31, 2026.) I attribute...
Aug 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition The Saqqara Bird, an Egyptian object from 200 BC that looks like a miniature airplane It is very common to find images of birds in the art of Ancient Egypt. We see them in paintings and sculptures with species of all kinds, from the ducks hunted on the Nile to the ibis that lent its...
Aug 31, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 31 August 2026 Fuck Yeah Edition Top Story Google Maps has correctly marked Lake America and the crazies are being crazy. (Daily Beast) Oh no. Speaking of crazies, they're upset that America's education system ha...
Aug 31, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W34 Git at any scale — The move that stuck with me is putting a write-ahead log in S3 as the source of truth and treating the local NVMe repos as a warm cache you can throw away. That flips the usual p...
