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This New Open Source Project Wants to Be the AI-First Alternative to Microsoft Office

Built by a single engineer using open source components, GenOffice bundles editors like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDF.

Metro Chronicles V

The system should be on trial too.

Lindsay Clancy and the larger narrative that's needed

I Totally Misunderstood ATProto

I thought I knew what AT Protocol was about. It was for Bluesky and Bluesky-like sites and maybe auth. I wasn't entirely wrong but I was also way off the mark.

What Minneapolis Can Teach Jacksonville About the Power of Clustering

For years, The Jaxson has championed a simple but powerful urban redevelopment principle we call Clustering, Complementing Uses within a Compact (CCC) setting. While the concept may sound technical...

User Experience of Nomenclature

work-in-progress

Antiques Roadshow

Romantic Scandal Ends In Multimillion-Dollar Payout — See Also

It Looks Like The Jackson Walker/Federal Judge Scandal Is Officially Over: Some ~$20 million later... First Lateral Raid Just One Month After Mega-Merger: Sorry, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, but Sidle...

Tearing Down Aircraft Weather Radar Avionics

If you’re flying high in the sky, it’s useful to know if there’s turbulence, heavy rain, or other nasty weather ahead. Onboard weather radar is a useful tool that pilots …read more

The Great British Fake-Off

Read The Great British Fake-Off Me: "Can I help you find anything?" Customer: *With an American accent.* "Yeah! Black pudding! I was told it was really good." Me: "Uh, that will be in the prepared ...

Der inner-platform effect

Wenn das Datenbankschema eine schlechte Kopie des Datenbanksystems ist.

The Fifth Circuit Websites Gets A Glow-Up!

The new design is much improved.

WhatsApp adds @all group mentions, poll deadlines, and fast group creation

WhatsApp is adding an @all mention to notify every member of a group chat, similar to @here and @everyone on Discord or Slack. In groups with more than 32 members, only admins can use it, while any...

China is Building a Blue Granary

The People’s Republic of China hopes to turn the open ocean into the world’s largest farm. It might not be a bad idea. The post China is Building a Blue Granary appeared first on Palladium.

Daily News Stuff 4 August 2026

Teratornia Edition Top Story Who is legally liable for Anthropic and OpenAI accidentally murdering eleven trillion people? It's complicated. (Tech Crunch) Oops, sorry, that was next week's question...

Pokémon Center Online designates first Pokémon items that will require Japanese ID card to buy

Fans will need to be residents of Japan in order to buy these items from the Pokémon Center Online. Scalping is becoming an increasingly large problem for the Pokémon franchise, and the latest move...

2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 4 by Nick Needham

Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 4: The Age of Religious Conflict. It is the fourth book in his clear and readable church history series. This volume covers...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-04-26

My “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links have been far from “daily” of late. As a result, my link backlog has grown to an ominous size. But today we get back on track. Tomorrow? That is always TBD, but baby s...

Galera Clustering and MariaDB Server

Today marks the start of my fourth week at Percona and these few weeks have been, well, exciting to say the least. I was hired to manage and develop our business around MariaDB Server. Percona has ...

Linux's Favorite Music Player Rhythmbox 3.5 Lands After Nearly a Decade in the 3.4 Series

The release also adds lrclib.net, sidecar .lrc files, and embedded Ogg lyrics as new sources.