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Jan 26, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics #345

A lesson I keep learning, over and over, since I launched this newsletter over 7 years ago, is that e-mail is hard. This is why this newsletter issue might still seem off; the web version is done a...

Jan 26, 2026 from Brajeshwar

Newspaper

It was the early ritual of my school days: wake up, grab the Newspaper before anyone else got to it, and devour every word as if it were sacred morning scripture. Headlines, classifieds, obscure co...

Jan 25, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

In My Restless Dreams, I See Those Movies: The Silent Hill Cinema of Christophe Gans

Silent Hill is undergoing a bit of a boom at the moment, and as in any boom not all the products yielded by this current flurry of activity have been equally well-received. Silent Hill: Ascension s...

Jan 25, 2026 from BEEW

The Forging & The Fruits

i. the forging (2020) In the early days of January 2020, I was helping my daughter pack for her semester abroad. It's what we do. She goes, I help get her ready to go. It's my way of staying close ...

Jan 25, 2026 from Previous Magazine

The Pros and Cons of Accepting a Cash Offer on Your House

If you’re putting your home up for sale in the near future, you’re going to have to decide whether to sell to a mortgage buyer or a cash buyer. Selling your house for cash may sound like an appeali...

Jan 25, 2026 from Chuniversiteit

How batch size affects LLMs’ classification of requirements

We all know that larger large language models (LLMs) tend to perform better than smaller ones – but what about the size of their inputs?

Jan 25, 2026 from Jordi Villar

2026W03

I’m addicted to being useful — This hit close. The idea that some of us are fundamentally wired to solve problems, and engineering just happens to fit that dysfunction perfectly. I’ve been thinking...

Jan 25, 2026 from Galaxy Garden

Weekly Recap: 25 January 2026

Preparing for Student Showcase Presentation Permalink to section 'Preparing for Student Showcase Presentation' # I mentioned in my previous weekly recap post that I and two other classmates were in...

Jan 25, 2026 from LifeDev.net

7 Productivity Myths Debunked: What Actually Works in 2026

We’ve all been there, scrolling through endless productivity hacks, convinced that waking up at 5 AM or color-coding our calendars will transform us into efficiency machines, unaware it is all prod...

Jan 25, 2026 from Roy Tang

Weeknotes 2026-01-25

The World It has been a week. The US threatened Greenland, then backed away from the threat of force, presumably because the bond markets disapproved. Trump claims that a "framework for a deal" has...

Jan 25, 2026 from tenticle

Tech Interview II

In the previous installment of the Tech Interview saga we left off just as things started to get fun, perhaps expecting some quite heavy chunks of code dropping. Will they materialize? Or perhaps t...

Jan 24, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXIV 〜 Footnote edition

Welcome to the 264th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

Jan 24, 2026 from Peter's Path

Utrecht Path part 09

Hiked 13.5 kilometres from Baarn to Hollandsche Rading. You walk through the wooded area of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, starting at the Baarnse Bos with its French style. Past Soestdijk Palace through the...

Jan 24, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Doctor Who: Seven’s Sonic Seasons, Part 8

Last time we checked in on the Seventh Doctor’s audio adventures, I was left a little dissatisfied, feeling that the experiments in presenting the Doctor travelling alone prior to the TV movie had ...

Jan 24, 2026 from Gonçalo Valério

Using !bangs without the duck

Since I started using DuckDuckGo in the early 2010s, one of my favorite features that made me stay around to this day was the !bangs. Essentially, if you want to search on a particular website, you...

Jan 24, 2026 from riz#000000me

stuff

I don't know. I've been spending a lot of money, but generally I feel like the purchases have either been something I would buy later anyway or are actually something I've thought about and the pur...

Jan 23, 2026 from Previous Magazine

Creative Ways To Market Your Austin Business

Marketing is essential for promoting your business, launching new products and services, and enticing new customers. It’s a competitive world, and you need to create effective marketing strategies ...

Jan 23, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, January 23, 2025 (On the Cowardice of the Statue PfPs)

Hey folks, Fireside this week! Hopefully everyone enjoyed our series on the running debate over hoplites! As a social media note, I am going to attempt to start setting up a presence on Threads (wi...

Jan 23, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz

Overhead Projector #2: Knot Sure What I'm Doing, But It Works

Retraining myself to tie my shoes a different way lead to reflecting on how I teach my lessons.

Jan 23, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz

Overhead Projector #2: Knot Sure What I'm Doing, But It Works

Retraining myself to tie my shoes a different way lead to reflecting on how I teach my lessons.