Ambient Irony

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  • Daily News Stuff 15 April 2026

    Busy People Edition Top Story China's leading flash memory producer, YTMC, is constructing two new factories in addit...

  • Daily News Stuff 14 April 2026

    Greasy Spork Edition Top Story Answering the questions nobody is asking: Can AI be a "child of God"? (Washington Post...

  • Daily News Stuff 13 April 2026

    Fresh Spoo Edition Top Story DC. Suicide Squad is a DC property, not Marvel. The peril of laziness lost. (Dtrace) AI ...

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.

  • Act like what you want to be

    I used to roll my eyes at people who started a new sport and immediately bought all the gear. Day one of running and ...

  • 2026W13

    The Singularity Will Not Be Streamed — What makes this story land is the contrast. The Singularity doesn’t get stoppe...

  • Nobody Talks About the Hardware

    These days I’ve found myself reading about hardware shortage and how RAM, disk, and NAND manufacturers have all their...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

  • I Wish I Could Talk to My Dad

    My best friend lost his Dad yesterday. Understandably he's extremely upset, and I feel awful for him. I never know wh...

  • Adding a Book Editor to My Pure Blog Site

    Regular readers will know that I've been on quite the CMS journey over the years. WordPress, Grav, Jekyll, Kirby, my ...

  • How I Discover New Blogs

    Finding a new blog to read is one of my favourite things to do online. It genuinely brings me joy. Right now I have 2...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

  • The Colder The Temperature, The Harder The Burn

    Read The Colder The Temperature, The Harder The Burn Friend: "Why did you break up with him? You said he was a golden...

  • Encore No More

    Read Encore No More Customer: "Two tickets to Carmen, please." Me: "I'm afraid we're not playing that." Customer: "Ye...

  • Untitled

    Read About a year and a half ago I purchased a simple electronic synthesizer so that my two daughters, who at the tim...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

Above the Law

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A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

The Volokh Conspiracy

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

Chronicles of Miss Miseria

A practising self-memoir, recorded as an inconsistent logbook.

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

  • The Start of Charles' Reign

    Some months after Charles of Anjou married Beatrice of Provence in 1246, therefore becoming Count of Provence and For...

  • Securing Beatrice

    The agreement was made in 1245 between several powerful individuals that Beatrice of Provence (heir to the counties o...

  • Charles & Beatrice of Savoy

    Charles of Anjou became Count of Provence and Forcalquier by his marriage in 1246 to Beatrice of Provence. His attemp...

The Jaxson

Urbanism and Culture on Florida's First Coast.

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

Your Local Epidemiologist

Providing a direct line of "translated" public health science to you, so you can take action for your community's health

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

The Jamestown Foundation

Jamestown provides primary-source analysis on global developments of strategic importance to the United States and its allies. We primarily cover Russia, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

Peter's Path

Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.

  • Veluwe Wander Trail part 11

    Hiked part 11/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 16.2 kilometres from Vierhouten to Vaassen. From Vierhouten the trail le...

  • Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

    Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Out of the Silent Planet. It is the first book in his Space Trilogy. Dr Elwin Ran...

  • Veluwe Wander Trail part 10

    Hiked part 10/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 7.7 kilometres from Elspeet to Vierhouten. From Elspeet you walk past th...

Thejesh GN

A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.

  • Bees on the Balcony

    I recently added setting up a proper Bee hotel as a goal, but I didn’t think something similar would happen naturally...

  • Weekly Notes 15/2026

    I am back in Bengaluru. Slept and rested a bit. I watched One Battle After Another on the way to Sydney and Naked Gun...

  • Weekend drive to Camden

    We just wanted to drive around NSW’s countryside and maybe visit a farm. Camden came up in the search, and the Airbnb...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-14-26

    I did not have much time to engage in my daily “feed reading” this morning. But I will not let that stop me from publ...

  • Learning About Zespri RubyRed Kiwi

    I learned two things from Kat & Satoshi’s April 6, 2026 post on Our Adventures in Japan (see the first). The post fea...

  • Learning About Bonbon Drop Stickers

    Back in Newsletter Leaf Journal 269, I linked to an article about Pokémon card speculating which referenced “Bonbon D...