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MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow

Colorado, Illinois, and New York could join the list if their proposed age verification bills pass.

Morning Docket: 03.09.26

* After about-face on withdrawing lawsuits against law firms, Justice Department uncorks almost 100 pages of vitriol against federal judges for ruling against the administration generally. [NY Time...

IRC Log: rm -rf /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql/data

2026W10

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity — The Engineer A vs Engineer B comparison is painfully recognizable. A ships a 50-line solution in days, B builds an event-driven architecture over three weeks, ...

Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other

A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint: I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that people are willing to write detailed CLAUDE.md and PROJECT.md files for Claude to use...

Running Bash programs on Moodle CodeRunner

I have been teaching a course at APU that includes Bash scripting. I have a love-hate relationship with Bash. It’s a weird combination of a programming language and an iterative CLI. It’s confusing...

Sheep Music & Wedding Bands

On knowledge gaps and bookworm pronunciation syndrome

The Switch

Over the last day or two, I've been dealing with an onset of fatigue. A few reasons for this: I ran out of my Mounjaro prescription, and despite seeing my provider to get a refill, it's been severa...

Home Remedies

Weekly Robotics #351

It is my pleasure to welcome Anyscale as a new partner of Weekly Robotics! Please give them a round of applause. This means that, under our partnership structure, we only have one sponsor seat avai...

🌰 it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they can’t do

I think we forget sometimes that it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they couldn’t do.

No Fortitude For Longitude, Part 31

Read No Fortitude For Longitude, Part 31 Customer: "My order isn’t shipping! It says, 'processing Monday AM'!" Me: "Right, ma'am. The warehouse reopens tomorrow morning. Today is Sunday." Customer:...

Dancing on the Head of a Needle

For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent logical pretzels over whether beings of pure incorporeal intelligence, massless a...

backlogged games

the gauntlet i set before myself

Court Upholds New York's Limits on Unauthorized Practice of Law

From Upsolve, Inc. v. James, decided Friday by Judge Lewis Kaplan (S.D.N.Y.) (for the earlier decision reaching the opposite result,… The post Court Upholds New York's Limits on Unauthorized Practi...

Daily News Stuff 8 March 2026

Space Shark Edition Top Story Look to the skies: For the first time a spacecraft has diverted the orbit of an asteroid. (Science News) Two asteroids, in fact, the pair Dimorphos, which was the dire...

Iran's BGP Behavior under Fire

Iran’s HTTP requests from February 24 to March 8, 2026 from the perspective of Cloudflare. Courtesy of Cloudflare Radar. At approximately 06:15 UTC on February 28, 2026, the United States and Israe...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-08-26

There was no daily Pook-Emu Bee link post yesterday because it was Newsletter Leaf Journal day (see the links in Newsletter 270). But the next Newsletter is next Saturday. Below, I present the Marc...

Is Japan’s Crab-shaped Cup Ramen Timer worth the hype?

This crustacean does more than just keep time on your three-minute instant noodles. Back in October, ramen lovers in Japan began scrambling for a hot new noodle accessory called the Crab-shaped Cup...

Do AI coding agents improve velocity and quality?

I know you have Betteridge’s law of headlines in mind, but the answer to this question isn’t as simple as “yes” or “no”.