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Hot Tea or Iced Coffee - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #147

Recently, the temperatures in my city have been breaking historical records. Since the end of July, we've been stuck in a stretch of scorching weather lasting more than ten days, with temperatures ...

AI Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead

The same low-quality AI patterns kept showing up in submissions even after GNOME updated its review guidelines in December.

Chinese Research Details Distillation for Military Use

Sunny Cheung

The Downfall of the Lords Appellant

The Lords Appellant must have felt they had done good service to the kingdom of England after the Merciless Parliament of 1388 eliminated everyone who was considered a corrupting influence on King ...

2026W30

GPT 5.6 Sol Ran a Real Business—and Lost $447 — The part that stuck with me isn’t the zero revenue or the users going from 61 to 66, it’s how the agent got there. Under a 24 hour deadline it paid T...

Running Again

I have not been running. The last time I ran anything serious was a decade back. The max I have been doing is walking. Though I must say I love walking, especially with friends and family. It’s a g...

2026 Nagoya Basho Unfortunate For Yokozuna

I learned from a Sumo Stats post that the 2026 Nagoya Basho marked the first grand sumo tournament since the July 1991 Nagoya Basho that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach 10 wins. Yokozuna Onosato ...

Impetuous

God does not want your zeal. Well, at least He doesn't want mine, anyway. No, a broken spirit and a contrite heart are just about enough, I suppose. This last weekend was nice, and I finally actual...

DaisyDisk review: Where did all my Mac storage go?

DaisyDisk turns storage cleanup into a clear visual map, helping you find oversized files, forgotten downloads, and space-wasting folders without digging through Finder.

Maze

Un manifeste Offpunk

Un manifeste Offpunk Ce texte est une traduction en français du Offpunk Manifesto rédigé par Arlon de Serra Grande et que j’ai co-signé An Offpunk Manifesto (English version) Versão em português La...

Will Not Be Influenced By The Influencer, Part 15

Read Will Not Be Influenced By The Influencer, Part 15 I had just finished a small batch of commissions and posted them, and apparently someone had caught on that I'd finished the current backlog b...

Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026

About a month ago, we brought you word that the commercial rescue mission designed by Katalyst Space to save NASA’s Swift gamma-ray observatory had reached orbit and early indicators were …read more

Weekly Robotics #371

Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: Gemini Robotics 2, a place to find your next robot dataset, how it is to build large construction robots, the legacy of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, and more!

Seven books I keep close because I love them

The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the most, but the ones whose emanations I most hope will infuse me ...

Blogging Challenges

Around this time I often see some people posting about the Blaugust blogging challenge to post every day during August. I will often see those posts and think that maybe I should participate, but I...

Doctor Who: Speak Up, Chesterfield! – The First Doctor Audios, Part 2

Time once again to check in on Big Finish’s First Doctor-themed output. The last time we took a look at this, we enjoyed a set of four Companion Chronicles split evenly between those featuring the ...

Bar Exam Meltdown And Summer Bonuses — See Generally

Yakima, We Have A Problem: Washington scrapped its entire July NextGen administration after a convention center hardware failure left roughly 645 applicants unable to log in, offering them a tentat...

Linkfest #47: A Decoy Font, "Reverse Minesweeper", and A Plant That Dies If You Look At Your Phone

Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I exhaustively read the entire known Internet from A to Z, looking for the finest items of science, culture an...

Der alljährliche Nextcloud-Breakdown

Diese Woche hatte ich bei einem Update mal wieder Probleme mit Nextcloud.