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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).

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...

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 ...

Daily News Stuff 6 February 2026

Zsync Edition Top Story losetup is the key Nvidia will not be releasing any new video cards this year. (Tom's Hardware) Their money is all tied up in not investing in OpenAI. They aren't likely to ...

Weekly Notes 06/2026

It’s been a hectic week. I was in Mumbai for a day on Wednesday, a quick but tiring trip. I had so much to do this week that I couldn’t play or do P.T. To be fair, I did go to P.T on Tuesday, but c...

My focus for 2026: community building

2026 has been really overwhelming for me so far. (As I’m sure it has been for many of you as well!) Aside from everything that’s going on in the world, I’m still feeling destabilised over possibly ...

The Rose in the Cesspool

I Can't Seem to Let The Graystones (and a Few Others) Go. And Why They Matter More Than Ever The internet used to be... (name your sunshine) ...✨ ...💜 ...fun ...useful ...inspiring ...liberating .....

Productivity Without Pressure: 10 Strategies for Success

Productivity without pressure is the key to sustainable success and long-term well-being. True productivity is sustainable, humane, and aligned with your energy and values.  It’s about working smar...

I Ditched Claude Code and Now Using Open Source Qwen AI for Real Sysadmin Work

An AI assistant in the terminal can help you guide through the process, help you move faster with your tasks. I tested Qwen Code and share my findings with you.

Xcode 26.3 + Claude Agent: Model Swapping,MCP, Skills, and Adaptive Configuration

Unexpectedly, Apple has directly provided support for Claude Code/Codex in Xcode 26.3. With this update, developers can finally use native AI Agents elegantly within Xcode. Over the past two days, ...

The Virgin Missing Adventures: Plotting a Well-Mannered Exit

And so at last we come to the end of Rebecca Levene’s stewardship of the Doctor Who novel line. Even as the New Adventures closed out with a plot arc which (ignoring certain infamous publishing del...

A Cryo In The Dark

Due to having imported a couple of hundred posts from the second iteration of furiousnads.com from the 2010s, my “on this day” widget today surfaced one of my many posts about DarkCryo and it’s fab...

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

Saturated Memory Bus

Games, Rules, Laws? Writing is a game. A while back I came across the best linguistics paper. Anne Cutler wrote it, line by line: The Perception of Rhythm in Language. Today of all days is a busy o...

The Dillo Appreciation Post

An appreciation post regarding the Dillo Browser and how I use it to browse the web, including YouTube, Wallabag, and others

The Dillo Appreciation Post

An appreciation post regarding the Dillo Browser and how I use it to browse the web, including YouTube, Wallabag, and others

Überwachungsinfrastruktur

Trumps Regime demonstriert, warum wir keine Überwachungsinfrastruktur aufbauen dürfen und warum die guten Datenschutz brauchen.

02-2026 Reading Update

Reading updates for 02-2026.

Daily News Stuff 5 February 2026

November In June Edition Top Story Can Chinese memory save us from the RAM crisis? (WCCFTech) The article points out limitations of current Chinese DRAM production: It's slower than the best chips ...

FOSS Weekly #26.06: Bash Manual in Epstein Files, Linux after Linus, Nano like Editors, France Takes on Big Tech and More

Your weekly assortment of FOSS news, Linux tips and open source tools.