BlogDB

Feb 08, 2026 from Refereeing and Reflection

Slouching Towards Tokyo Episodically

The Sutra of Pale Leaves is a Call of Cthulhu campaign set in 1980s Japan and sold in two volumes – Twin Suns Rising and Carcosa Manifest. Rather than being developed in-house by Chaosium, the proj...

Feb 08, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 8 February 2026

Simon And Simony Edition Top Story The robot revolution will not be televised in 8K. (MSN) The recent fuss over AI-only social network Moltbook is deflating somewhat as it becomes clear that the fi...

Feb 08, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

A look back on 40 years of Japanese schools banning stuff

Mr. Sato leads an office roundtable discussion on weird things Japanese schools have said “Nope, you can’t do that” about. As we’ve touched on recently, Japan is currently in the grip of sticker fe...

Feb 08, 2026 from Jordi Villar

2026W05

My AI Adoption Journey — The most practical thing here is the “reproduce your own work” phase: doing tasks manually and then redoing them with agents. Painful, but it forces you to learn where agen...

Feb 08, 2026 from It's FOSS

In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel

The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals

Feb 08, 2026 from Roy Tang

Weeknotes 2026-02-08

The World USPol: Still more Epstein files drama, Vance getting booed at the Winter Olympics, Trump being openly racist, etc. Not much new I guess. Locally: Impeachments mostly. My Week Had some rou...

Feb 08, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG

Blogging As Self-Care

It’s a timeworn and tired tradition that bloggers love to blog about blogging. So much so that if any particular blogger has done an especially large amount of it, there’s probably some degree of r...

Feb 08, 2026 from Isaac Clayton

Cold reboot

Today is Sunday! What a great day. Today was absolutely freezing, and I just about froze my ears off while walking around. Luckily my friend Nathan saw me and spared me a beanie. This week was good...

Feb 07, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXVI 〜 Little White Lies

Leafy Introduction Welcome to the 266th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-...

Feb 07, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 7 February 2026

Bedraggled Edition Top Story A trillion here, a trillion there. Sooner or later, you're talking about fake money. The global semiconductor industry is on track to hit $1 trillion in sales for 2026....

Feb 07, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog

LAN Overview 2026

LAN Overview 2026 The last time that I blogged about my personal LAN setup was more than a decade ago. Meanwhile we moved into our own house and one of the major things we did, was adding Ethernet ...

Feb 07, 2026 from Peter's Path

Pelgrims Path part 01

Hiked part 1/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 17.3 kilometres from Amsterdam to Amsterdamse Bos. Every year in Amsterdam, approximately 7,000 people walk the Stille Omgang, which has its origins in a Eucha...

Feb 07, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Maschinenlesbar

Ein anderer Blogger hat mal aufgeschrieben, wie er „maschinenlesbar“ definiert und wie es Gesetze in Deutschland definieren.

Feb 07, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Krispy Kreme Japan’s sakura donuts are almost here!

Cherry blossom donuts scheduled to arrive well before the cherry blossoms themselves, but we’re not complaining. Even though they only bloom for about two weeks, cherry blossoms captivate people’s ...

Feb 07, 2026 from It's FOSS

We Ditched ClickUp for Fizzy, An "Open Source" Kanban Board App

If you're juggling multiple tasks and want something simpler than Jira or ClickUp, this is worth trying.

Feb 07, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG

‘You Must Choose A Mighty Theme’

After days of noodling locally and around the same number of days angsting over whether or not I even really wanted to do it, for hours yesterday and into the post-midnight hours today, I finished ...

Feb 07, 2026 from Isaac Clayton

Isocore and the Internet

tl;dr: Today I typed up the first ~13-pages of a WIP specification for Isocore. The spec is about halfway done. I wrote it to be fairly approachable. Isocore is a distributed runtime for local-firs...

Feb 06, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

January 2026 at The New Leaf Journal

Join me in reviewing the month that was at The New Leaf Journal, Emu Café Social, and Newsletter Leaf Journal in January 2026 (perhaps with the pictured hot chocolate).

Feb 06, 2026 from Kev Quirk

Introducing Pure Blog

The keen eyed among you will have noticed that things have been quiet around here recently, and that's because I've been working away on a new project: Pure Blog. Pure Blog is a simple PHP based bl...

Feb 06, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, February 6, 2026 (On Ancient Migrations)

Hey folks, Fireside this week! I have ended up a bit behind in my work and as always it is the blog that much suffer first. In this case, we have in two weeks twice managed to have snow which only ...