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• A Vacuum Tube Computer For The Home Sep 07, 2026

  The earliest all-electronic computers used vacuum tubes, and most of us will know about machines such as ENIAC or Col...

• The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades Sep 07, 2026

  Sometimes you find gold in unexpected places. In this case, it’s from a video about the CH-53 helicopter. The CH-53 S...

• How To Talk To A Machine Without Anthropomorphising It Sep 07, 2026

  LLMs remain a divisive topic in these times. Perhaps we all know someone who’s become over-infatuated with their new ...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• 2026-09-07 20:39: Do you know what the hardest thing to do on earth is? Quantum physics? No.... Sep 07, 2026

  Do you know what the hardest thing to do on earth is? Quantum physics? No. Solving world hunger? Nope. Getting Trump ...

• New Design for Sept 2026 Sep 04, 2026

  I decided I was bored with the previous design, but wanted something that was in keeping with the previous design (br...

• 2026-09-03 14:47: Why do so many calendar apps offer Sunday as the first day of the week?... Sep 03, 2026

  Why do so many calendar apps offer Sunday as the first day of the week? It's not the first day of the week, it's the ...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Inventive Trauma Sep 07, 2026

  Read Inventive Trauma Customer: "Please, let me come in! I'll be quick! Just this once!" Me: "Sorry, last time I let ...

• Picture Perfect Compliance Sep 07, 2026

  Read Picture Perfect Compliance The next morning, my supervisor says: Supervisor: "I have a write-up for you." Me: *P...

• A Little Bit Of Password By My Side Sep 07, 2026

  Read A Little Bit Of Password By My Side I can see that it's a woman's name, so I throw a hint his way (for reasons t...

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 7 September 2026 Sep 07, 2026

  Fantasy Dimension Edition Top Story Your Roku TV now offers AI slop for free! (Engadget) Never mind the quality, feel...

• Daily News Stuff 6 September 2026 Sep 06, 2026

  Ambiguous Index Edition Top Story Word of caution: If you ever rewrite your own blogging platform and use your person...

• Daily News Stuff 5 September 2026 Sep 05, 2026

  Tongue Like An Electric Eel Edition Top Story Bob is back. (IBM) This time as an AI-assisted coding tool from IBM, ra...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

• Tokyo’s red-light district cafe lets you dine inside a real 1960s cabaret Sep 07, 2026

  Used as a Netflix crime drama set, this safe, solo-female-friendly venue offers up black omurice and colorful retro s...

• Okinawa man convinced he won 700 million yen by scammers, saved by convenience store staff Sep 07, 2026

  To serve and protect. Convenience store workers really don’t get enough credit. Often working for minimum wage, they ...

• Tokyo ward looking to change lodging laws, ban more than half of its Airbnb-style rentals Sep 07, 2026

  Shinjuku has more private lodging rentals than any other part of Japan, but a whole lot of them could be going away a...

The Volokh Conspiracy

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

• How Often Are Articles in Top Law Reviews Written In Part By AI? Sep 07, 2026

  A guest post from Julian Nyarko.

• Court Grants TRO Barring "Threatening, Intimidating, and Retaliation Action … Without a Legitimate Law Enforcement Purpose" Against ICE Watcher Sep 07, 2026

  From Judge Michael Newman (S.D. Ohio) Friday in Moorman v. Doe No. 1; since this is a decision at the… The post Court...

• Help Workers by Breaking Down Barriers to Labor Mobility Sep 07, 2026

  Labor Day is a great time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote w...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• A Clanker Pitted Fedora Against Windows 11. Fedora Won, Mostly Sep 07, 2026

  PhoneBuff's automated test found Windows 11 ahead only at launching Cyberpunk 2077.

• Ikey Doherty vs Omarchy: Why He’s Building Barney Instead of Another Distro Sep 07, 2026

  Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus and AerynOS, is back with Barney, a Rust tool that builds Linux distros from sourc...

• Elom Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back Sep 07, 2026

  Two weeks after X Corp's legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.

ttntm.me - Blog

Tom's homepage. A personal website, journal and playground.

• Guitar Chops 01 Sep 07, 2026

  A couple of months ago, I got lost in Starfield. I didn’t do much else, and I hardly played my guitar. It’s only been...

• A New Guitar Aug 04, 2026

  I never thought I’d own a Strat, but now I do. Guess it’s true that the amount of guitars one needs will laways be n ...

• What's next? Jul 27, 2026

  Plans for the future of this website. To keep this brief, it’s probably best served as a list: Probably won’t write a...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• A Judge Who Worked 150 Years After the Great Pyramid Just Had His Tomb Opened — and the Paint Is Still Wet-Looking Sep 07, 2026

  When the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette surveyed the necropolis at Saqqara in the mid-19th century, he catalogu...

• No, It’s Not Pompeii: This Roman City on the Black Sea Just Revealed a 105-Square-Meter Mosaic Sep 07, 2026

  On the Turkish coast of the Black Sea, there is a Roman city called Pompeiopolis. Despite the name, it has nothing to...

• Neolithic Cannibalism Wasn’t a One-Off: Spanish Caves Show It Happened Again and Again for 1,500 Years Sep 07, 2026

  An international team has re-examined close to a thousand human bones from the caves of Malalmuerzo, Carigüela, and M...

Fatbobman's Blog

English Home | Fatbobman's Blog ｜肘子的 Swift 记事本 – Sharing content related to Swift, SwiftUI, Core Data, and Swift Data, as well as covering development tools, AI, and other topics. All articles are original creations; for reproduction, please contact the author.

• When the Mac mini’s Price Is No Longer Mini - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #152 Sep 07, 2026

  Late last month, Apple released the new Mac mini and Mac Studio. Alongside the impressive performance upgrades, the n...

• SwiftData: Optimization Starts with Modeling Sep 02, 2026

  Once a dataset grows large, SwiftData lists start to stutter. This has been the performance complaint I've heard most...

• Just a Few Keystrokes - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #151 Aug 31, 2026

  Last weekend, I attended an App Accelerator event hosted by Apple in Beijing. The event focused primarily on app deve...

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.

• 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...

• Weeknotes 2026-09-06 Sep 06, 2026

  It is September! Officially Christmas season over here. My Week I spent most of the week at home. It was kinda lazy a...

• Movies / TV - July & August 2026 Sep 02, 2026

  Feels like I didn't watch a lot of movies the past month or so, mostly because I've been working my way through all 1...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• The Plague of Justinian Sep 07, 2026

  Long, long ago I made a brief mention of the Plague of Justinian, and I've mad many posts dealing with the Bubonic Pl...

• Emperor Belisarius Sep 06, 2026

  For the sake of ending the Byzantine invasion of Italy to conquer the Ostrogoths and unify the old Western Roman Empi...

• The Siege of Ravenna Sep 05, 2026

  Ravenna, in the far north coast of Italy on the Adriatic, was the capital city of the Ostrogoths. Capturing it could ...

Jordi Villar

I build distributed data systems that operate at scale. What draws me to this work is understanding how things actually work, whether that's performance challenges at scale or diving deep into system internals.

• 2026W35 Sep 07, 2026

  You should never be angry at work — The line that got me was “you are not Linus Torvalds or Bryan Cantrill”, because ...

• 2026W34 Aug 31, 2026

  Git at any scale — The move that stuck with me is putting a write-ahead log in S3 as the source of truth and treating...

• 2026W33 Aug 24, 2026

  Software Engineering fundamentals matter more than ever — The welding analogy is the part I keep coming back to, he l...

Stranger Than Usual

• Postgres in Prod, H2 zum Testen Sep 07, 2026

  Eine unterschiedliches Datenbanksystem für integration tests und für das Produktivsystem? Kann ich nicht empfehlen.

• Die Brandmauer in Sachsen-Anhalt Sep 07, 2026

  Wird die Brandmauer gegen die AfD nach der Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt halten?

• Book Swap: A Night in the Lonesome October Sep 06, 2026

  I did a Book Swap with some friends. I got “A Night in the Lonesome October” by Roger Zelazny.

xkcd.com

• Semaphore Sep 07, 2026
• Asteroid Mission Sep 04, 2026
• Handedness Sep 02, 2026

Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics Newsletter - stay up to date on state of the art robotics, drones, space, open source projects and research.

• Weekly Robotics #375 Sep 06, 2026

  Today in Weekly Robotics: A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself, a winning SLAM implementation, balancing a...

• Weekly Robotics #374 Aug 30, 2026

  Weekly Robotics 374: an insanely cheap robot duck, a guide to autodocking, highlights from the 2026 World Humanoid Ro...

• Weekly Robotics #373 Aug 23, 2026

  Weekly Robotics 373: how to train robots at a million-hour scale, NASA abandons satellite rescue mission, ROS enters ...

Thranpages

Thranpages; home of idiosyncratic variety and curiosity. Personal website of Thran. Featuring writ, RSRU, WMW and other collected interests.

• phpBB 1.4.4 in Docker Sep 06, 2026

  The final release of the 2001 forum software, running on PHP5 + Apache + mySQL 4 in a modern Docker container. Also i...

• SimCity 3k in 4k Dec 20, 2025

  SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry,...

• Street Vending Oct 15, 2025

  Selling headphones on Facebook marketplace should be easier than this.

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• PSA on RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot Sep 06, 2026

  I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-02-26 Sep 02, 2026

  My throat is irrtated, my nose is stuffy, and I have a slight headache. It’s ragweed season. Unrelated: It’s time for...

• Knowing Someone Through Games Sep 02, 2026

  I read a post on the Strange Voyages blog titled 9 Games to Know Me (HT Bubbles Weekly). It caught my interest becaus...

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Kept is an open-source self-hosted alternative to Google Keep notes Sep 06, 2026

  It looks and feels like Google Keep notes, but is private and tracker-free. It has some extra features too, such as l...

• “I’m Not Dead Yet!” Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buy Sep 02, 2026

  “RPN isn’t exactly the way people calculate with pencil and paper, and it certainly wasn’t derived from the slide rul...

• Tether Brings the Apple Continuity Experience to Linux Aug 31, 2026

  “Continuity. That is Apple’s catch-all term for how iPhone, iPad, and Mac talk to each other. It covers a wide range ...

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• RSS Amplifier Re-Publishes 19 Full NLJ Articles Without Permission Sep 06, 2026

  A PSA about a new scraping service for AI crawlers that syndicated (charitably) or re-published (less charitably) 19 ...

• Syndicated Newsletter Leaf Journal 296 Sep 05, 2026

  A syndicated copy of Newsletter Leaf Journal issue 296.

• Links From Feeds and the Story of “Sugar Baby Riri” Sep 01, 2026

  An RSS feed subscription about visual novels pointed me to the real-world Japanese criminal matter of "Sugar Baby Riri."