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Michael Lynch

I'm Michael Lynch, software developer and blogger. I used to work as a software engineer at large companies, but now I create indie businesses and blog about the process.

• Refactoring English: Month 21 Sep 21, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 20 Aug 13, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 19 Jul 15, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 20 September 2026 Sep 20, 2026

  Whatever Happened To B Cells Edition Top Story AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable. (Tech Crunch) They a...

• Daily News Stuff 19 September 2026 Sep 19, 2026

  Fluorine Bleach Edition Top Story The first new cat species to be identified in more than a century, leopardus tilcay...

• Daily News Stuff 18 September 2026 Sep 18, 2026

  Asdfghjkl Plus Edition Top Story AI researchers warned that the AIs they were researching would go rogue, and then th...

Stranger Than Usual

• Tankrabatt 3.0 Sep 20, 2026

  Wieso führen wir hier in Deutschland einen Tankrabatt ein, der doch nichts bringt?

• Rollenspielszenen: Ein Hund Sep 18, 2026

  Fällt mir was an dem Hund auf? *roll* …es ist ein Hund.

• Eidechsen Sep 16, 2026

  Ich habe im botanischen Garten in Bochum heute zwei Eidechsen gesehen.

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• It’s Plug And Play, Not Unplug And Pay Sep 20, 2026

  Read It’s Plug And Play, Not Unplug And Pay At 9 AM, a man comes up to the front desk, arms crossed, already huffy. G...

• Technical Favorite, The Best Kind Of Favorite Sep 20, 2026

  Read Technical Favorite, The Best Kind Of Favorite Me: "Who is your favourite daughter born on [date]?" Father: *Laug...

• Unboxing Therapy Sep 20, 2026

  Read Unboxing Therapy Driving my van into the Walmart parking lot, I came across a woman crying. She was next to a sm...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today.

• Japanese sweet potato ice cream season! Häagen-Dazs and Muji take different paths to our hearts Sep 20, 2026

  Two completely different ways to make a delicious Japanese autumn dessert. Now that we’re into the back half of Septe...

• Japanese convenience store is very focused with its new bento…maybe TOO focused Sep 20, 2026

  Lawson’s crazy corn bento arrives as part of new series of “sugi” foods. In Japanese, the suffix -sugi translates lit...

• Studio Ghibli releases new anime socks that pay tribute to characters from four different movies Sep 20, 2026

  Cosy up in colder weather with cute characters cuddling your toes. With the days now getting colder in Japan, it’s ti...

Latest entries from petermolnar.net

Hi! I'm Peter, and you're on my homepage. It's an old phrase, but this place is my home, my own little corner on the vast internet. It's been around since 1999, had numerous domains, designs, and iterations. I'm trying to encourage...

• Making nginx use blocklistd Sep 20, 2026

  fail2ban is nice and simple to use, but has a brutal overhead on modest hardware that can handle a surprising amount ...

• The pipe dream of the useful augmented reality Sep 15, 2026

  Somewhere in '98 or '99 I fired up ICQ for the first time. Take it into account that I was living in Hungary, a 14 ye...

• Nyugtalanul Jul 21, 2026

  Mi történik, ha nem állsz meg? Leszáll a köd, az.

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Reverse Engineering A Sony Car Stereo LCD Sep 20, 2026

  For his own reasons, [Jose Luis Monteiro] (aka [emsyscode]) decided he needed to drive the LCD on a Sony CDX-A250 car...

• A Bandpass Filter Pulls In The Signals Sep 20, 2026

  It’s an unfortunate side effect of proximity to a large transmitter that the received signal can overload a receiver’...

• No GPU, No Problem: Flagship LLMs on a GPU-less Teenaged Server Sep 20, 2026

  There are lots of reasons to run LLMs locally, from privacy concerns to just wanting to futz about with the technolog...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Revolut, Europe’s biggest fintech, confirms breach exposing sensitive customer information Sep 20, 2026

  Revolut, Europe’s largest fintech company, has confirmed that an impersonation scam exposed personal information belo...

• Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash adds million-token context and lower API costs Sep 20, 2026

  Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native omnimodal model for text, images, audio, and video with a context w...

• GrapheneOS claims Android 17 QPR1 APIs remain exclusive to Pixel devices Sep 18, 2026

  GrapheneOS reports Android 17 QPR1 adds app developer APIs that remain exclusive to Pixel software rather than being ...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Totila the Ostrogoth Sep 20, 2026

  Although the coins later minted during his reign as king of the Osgtrogoths name him Baduila, he has become known as ...

• Belisarius Returns to Italy Sep 19, 2026

  The Gothic Wars (535 - 554) under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I were created to reunify the Western Roman Empire ...

• The Nika Riots, Part 3 Sep 18, 2026

  Emperor Justinian's plan to end the Nika Riots involved bribes. One difficulty about the Riots was that two large and...

The Volokh Conspiracy

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent | Est. 2002

• Today in Supreme Court History: September 20, 1968 Sep 20, 2026

  9/20/1968: The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission denied a certificate of no exterior effect to the Penn...

• Open Thread Sep 20, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• When You're in a College Electrical Circuits Lab, Better Follow the Teacher's Instructions Sep 19, 2026

  From Soliz v. Alamo Colleges Dist., decided by Judge David Ezra (W.D. Tex.) on Sept. 16: Plaintiff Joseph Soliz, who…...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Bronze Age Sardinians Were Trading Metal with Scotland and Sweden— 500 Years Before the Phoenicians Sep 20, 2026

  A copper ingot cast somewhere in inland Sardinia during the Bronze Age might, centuries later, turn up in a Scottish ...

• Why Doesn’t Gravity Explain Why You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once? A New Experiment Under 1,400 Meters of Rock Just Narrowed It Down Sep 19, 2026

  Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exi...

• Earth Isn’t a Perfect Sphere — But It’s Changing Shape Faster Than Expected Sep 18, 2026

  Earth has never been a perfect sphere. It bulges slightly at the equator and flattens slightly at the poles, a shape ...

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed: A place where I complain about technology or dive into quasi-philsophical subjects.

• Why I Stopped Paying to Host Two Static Sites Sep 20, 2026

  I recently switched from Namecheap shared hosting to Cloudflare Pages. I have two websites that are both plain text h...

• Converting FLACs to Opus Aug 11, 2026

  I have music collection of over 12,000 tracks. I prefer to actually own my music (ie digital files) and being able to...

• Why We Believe in the Preposterous Aug 08, 2026

  We all have that friend or family member that believes in the most ludicrous things, convinced of a conspiracy that d...

Roy Tang

A blog is a website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries, typically displayed in reverse chronlogical order. A single entry is called a blog post.

• Weeknotes 2026-09-20 Sep 20, 2026

  This entry coming in on a Monday because Sunday was busy. My Week Google Fit says I walked 74,807 steps from last Sun...

• Weeknotes 2026-09-13 Sep 14, 2026

  This entry coming in on a Monday because Sunday was busy. My Week Google Fit says I walked 70,320 steps from last Sun...

• Looking for iPad Reader App Recommendations Sep 07, 2026

  I was originally going to post this on r/ipad, but when I tried to submit my post I got a warning that I might be vio...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Sumo Ballet Sep 20, 2026

  I have been watching all of the top division bouts at the 2026 Aki Basho (September Grand Sumo Tournament). One of th...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-15-26 Sep 15, 2026

  My posting out-put has been subpar of late, but today the Pook-Emu Bee links return for the first time since Septembe...

• 2026 Aki Basho Sumo Predictions Sep 13, 2026

  Before July’s Nagoya Basho (July grand sumo tournament), I predicted which wrestlers I thought would reach 10 wins. N...

The Newsletter Leaf Journal

The Newsletter Leaf Journal is the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. It is written by Nicholas A. Ferrell, the editor and administrator of The New Leaf Journal. Our weekly issues include links to the newest articles at *The New Leaf Journal* and its sister projects and associated new...

• I had nothing 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCVIII Sep 20, 2026

  Welcome to the 298th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

• Copied Wrong 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCVII Sep 13, 2026

  Leafy Intro Welcome to the 297th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

• For a Good Cause 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCVI Sep 05, 2026

  Leafy Intro Welcome to the 295th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• 2026-09-19 22:28: Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it... Sep 19, 2026

  Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it again with an adult brain...Jenny i...

• Amelia the Chicken Sep 19, 2026

  We lost our favourite chicken last night. I know, just a chicken, right? Big deal. It's not like we lost a pet. But t...

• A day is short, a life is long Sep 18, 2026

  A day is short, a life is longby Kevin WammerKevin talks about some of the stuff he's figured out in his life now tha...

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Books, films, TV, videogames, comics, music, all that bread and circuses stuff.

• Galley House Is Beyond Help Sep 19, 2026

  Back in the 1930s, a terrible discovery was made at Galley House – a broken corpse on the doorsteps, the blood still ...

• Big Finish, Bigger Scarf – The Fourth Doctor Audios, Part 2 Sep 08, 2026

  Once upon a time in the 1970s, Tom Baker had picked up the Doctor Who baton from Jon Pertwee and made it well and tru...

• The Soggy Railroad Sep 01, 2026

  Roguish 1920s adventurer Calvin Rafferty and gender non-conforming Miskatonic University academic Faye Bennett are de...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Elecrow CrowPanel Advanced HMI Display Review: A Tinkerer's Touchscreen Sep 19, 2026

  A big touchscreen board for makers who want a physical control panel for their homelab, if you don't mind doing the w...

• GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start Sep 18, 2026

  GrapheneOS is calling out Google over its negligence in providing certain patches.

• Valve Quietly Open-Sources Its Android Compatibility Layer Sep 18, 2026

  The Lepton project is aimed at game developers who want to bring VR-focused Android titles over to Steam Frame.

The Scholar's Stage

A forum to discuss the intersections of history, behavioral science, and strategic thought, with an emphasis on East and Southeast Asian affairs.

• The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark Sep 19, 2026

  PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated.  I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have und...

• China and the Future of Science Mar 21, 2026

  THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...

• On Bombing Iran Mar 01, 2026

  THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines Sep 19, 2026

  This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War ...

• Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art Sep 11, 2026

  This week, at long last, we begin our long-delayed but always expected something that we blog for: the Hearts of Iron...

• Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026 Sep 04, 2026

  Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,00...