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Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 26 August 2026 Aug 26, 2026

  CNO Orrery Edition Top Story Apple has announced new Mac Mini models based on the M5 Pro and M6 CPUs. (MacRumors) The...

• Daily News Stuff 25 August 2026 Aug 25, 2026

  Infinite Indexes Edition Top Story Why Aliexpress is muting your music. (The Register) Because they're taking your fi...

• Daily News Stuff 24 August 2026 Aug 24, 2026

  Goof News Everyone Edition Top Story The that guy who thought it would be a fine jape to hand Border Patrol a "duress...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Untitled Aug 26, 2026

  Read This was at the liquor store I worked at for ten years. (I’m also the author of the story about the meth head wh...

• No Room In The Budget Aug 26, 2026

  Read No Room In The Budget I had a mom come to check in, and she leaned in close and told me they can’t afford the ro...

• Untitled Aug 26, 2026

  Read (I’m the author of the story “Straining Training”. Reading that story, you could be forgiven for thinking that m...

The Volokh Conspiracy

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

• Today in Supreme Court History: August 26, 1964 Aug 26, 2026

  8/26/1964: Lyndon B. Johnson nominated as Democratic candidate for president. He would make two appointments to the S...

• Open Thread Aug 26, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• A Wall Of Separation Between LGB and T Aug 26, 2026

  The Log Cabin Republicans will no longer advocate for transgender issues.

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Claude Plays DOOM Aug 26, 2026

  Large language models (LLMs) are generally thought of as machines that accept textual prompts and spit out textual co...

• New Controller Makes Heavy Machinery Intuitive Aug 26, 2026

  As children, many of us looked wistfully into the cockpits of heavy machinery, wondering just how the series of knobs...

• Blow Those Pyros With A Telephone! Aug 26, 2026

  A pyrotechnic charge is set off by passing a high voltage through a filament within it, melting the filament and igni...

Above the Law

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

• Today At ILTACON: Kevin Fong Keynote, ILTA Authors Corner, Women Who Lead Reception Aug 26, 2026

  ILTACON attendees and legal tech watchers: Here's a rundown of what's set for today in Nashville. The post Today At I...

• Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Had Enough Of The Shadow Docket — See Also Aug 25, 2026

  Ketanji Brown Jackson Read The Shadow Docket To Filth: A blistering dissent on the 'Kafkaesque nightmare' the Court k...

• He Made A Political Enemy Of The Wrong Man — And It Cost Him The Supreme Court Aug 25, 2026

  The finest judge of his era, blackballed by someone he'd insulted. The post He Made A Political Enemy Of The Wrong Ma...

Your Local Epidemiologist

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

• Your guide to fall 2026 vaccines Aug 26, 2026

  Respiratory vaccines—for flu, RSV, and Covid-19—will be available at no cost this fall.

• Foodborne illness increase? Common cold, Covid-19 summer wave, and more. Aug 25, 2026

  The Dose (August 25)

• When wildfire smoke hits home Aug 19, 2026

  With a son on the fire line, what I’ve learned about protecting the air we breathe.

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• ArcBrush 1.6 adds pressure-sensitive brushes and non-destructive painting Aug 26, 2026

  ArcBrush 1.6 introduces a pressure-sensitive brush engine with 29 built-in brushes and the ability to import Photosho...

• Substack unveils creator match, audience-specific content, global reply rules, and more Aug 26, 2026

  Substack has rolled out several major updates aimed at streamlining creator collaboration and increasing audience eng...

• Rspack 2.2 boosts build speed, improves HMR, and reduces output size Aug 26, 2026

  Rspack 2.2 introduces over 30 performance optimizations, cutting production build time by 5% and significantly accele...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• 17th-Century Woman’s Grave with “Anti-vampire” Practices Never Before Seen Together Discovered in Poland Aug 26, 2026

  A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, geneticists, anthropologists, and geologists has unearthed a 17th-century...

• An Exceptional 11,000-Year-Old Sculpture Depicting a Man on a Leopard Found in Karahantepe Aug 26, 2026

  The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the discovery of an archaeological piec...

• The Tomb of a Young Viking Woman with Remains of a 1,300-Year-Old Dress Found in Western Jutland Aug 25, 2026

  Danish archaeology is facing one of the most unique discoveries of the last decade in the field of ancient Nordic clo...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

• Japan approves foreign resident visa renewal fee increases of up to 967 percent, starts soon Aug 26, 2026

  Fee for permanent residency jumps 1,900 percent. At a cabinet meeting held on the morning of August 25, the Japanese ...

• Starbucks Japan adds new Customisation Bar to stores, with free ways to hack your food and drink orders Aug 26, 2026

  New bar helps to create up to 5.27 million possible combinations. Starbucks has been leaning into its customisations ...

• Ministop brings bulked up Okinawan-style rice balls to mainland Japan for one week only Aug 26, 2026

  If you’re craving massive meals on a budget, portion-boosted convenience store foods are the way to go. On the days t...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Learning About Cassette Types Aug 26, 2026

  I read an article by Mark Tyson for Tom’s Hardware titled Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s fer...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-25-26 Aug 25, 2026

  I have been busy today, but the weekday streak of Pook-Emu Bee links continues. 1 | California political candidate fa...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-24-26 Aug 24, 2026

  We’re back from the weekend with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee links. 1 | OpenAI builds dedicated ChatGPT experie...

Improve Something Today

Continuous improvement in a complicated world. A blog, podcast, and free e-mail newsletter by Brian Kerr. Simplicity, patience, compassion.

• Everybody’s a facilitator, whether you know it or not. 3 ways to learn the most human skill going Aug 25, 2026

  Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of ...

• Podcast episode No. 0046: What the heck is Brian up to? Jul 29, 2026

  A professional update, some new things, a request for listeners, and a reading.

• A summertime check-in: Comfort-Stretch-Panic & Disability Pride Month Jul 22, 2026

  A simple method for checking in; a reading & a game for Disability Pride Month; plus some recent updates across the s...

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• I tested out the new Elecrow ThinkNode M9 with MeshCore Decentralised Radio Network Aug 25, 2026

  For those who don’t know, MeshCore (similar to Meshtastic and same hardware LoRa radios) is a decentralised radio net...

• Jellyfin Playlist Membership — Easily browse Jellyfin Music song titles to add or remove from playlists Aug 22, 2026

  I wanted to quickly see which of my song titles are already in which playlists, and to quickly add them to other play...

• Moving your Linux home folder to a dedicated drive is the distro-hopping secret I wish I knew earlier Aug 19, 2026

  “Home is where the heart is. On Linux, home is where everything personal to you is: your documents, downloads, screen...

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• Union Street and Questioning Article Assertions Aug 25, 2026

  I question a claim about the state of Union Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn, based on my long history of having walked th...

• Nintendo 64 at 30 and My N64 Memories Aug 20, 2026

  I celebrate the Nintendo 64's 30th anniversary with a selection of my own late-90s N64 memories.

• Recapping Junited and JulyReply 2026 at ECS Aug 18, 2026

  Recapping my 2026 Junited and JulyReply posts from Emu Cafe Social, all in one post on The New Leaf Journal.

Journal on n3s0 || journal

A technical journal focused on infrastructure, networking, and IT operations, featuring configuration guides and home network design.

• Deploying A Postgres 16 Container Using Docker & Docker Compose (Development) Aug 25, 2026

  Running document containing notes on deploying PostgreSQL 16 container using Docker & Docker Compose.

• Helsingør: The first walls of postgres physical replication Aug 18, 2026

  Scenario This is not completed just yet. You’re setting up a PostgreSQL database with replication, you decided to use...

• Buenos Aires: Kubernetes Pod Crashing Aug 14, 2026

  Scenario There are two pods: “logger” and “logshipper” living in the default namespace. Unfortunately, logshipper has...

Stranger Than Usual

• Mit Imagemagick eine Farbpalette aus Bildern extrahieren Aug 25, 2026

  Ich brauche eine Liste aller Farben, die in einer Sammlung von Bildern verwendet werden. Hier zeige ich, wie man mit ...

• Rollenspielszenen: Kriminelle Konstrukte Aug 23, 2026

  Wenn es Wachkonstrukte gibt, gibt es dann auch Kriminalkonstrukte?

• Hörnchen oder Waffel? Aug 22, 2026

  Ich muss hier unbedingt den Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache vorstellen. Ich dachte, ich hätte das schon längst getan.

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.

• United Front Worker Recommits to Rejuvenation Aug 25, 2026

  Cheryl Yu

• Minesweeping Exercise Highlights Intelligent Warfare Efforts Aug 24, 2026

  Joaquin Camarena

• Purges, Aging Set Stage for 21st Party Congress Turnover Aug 24, 2026

  Willy Wo-Lap Lam

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Clothar I Aug 25, 2026

  The father of the four sons who were mentioned fighting each other's divided Frankish kingdoms yesterday was Clothar ...

• Saint Guntram Aug 24, 2026

  Yesterday's post mentioned that the Franks fell into civil war and became less of a threat to Lombardy. The Frankish ...

• The Lombards Convert Aug 23, 2026

  There was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Lombardy when they had no king. Two kings in a row had been murde...

kmcd.dev

I'm Kevin McDonald. I am a backend software engineer from Texas, living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Let's learn together.

• The Gravity of Ashburn, Virginia Aug 25, 2026

  Why a suburb in Northern Virginia rivals the world's largest internet hubs.

• The CPU Cost of Protobuf Varints in Go Aug 04, 2026

  Do fixed-size integers serialize faster than varints? We benchmark the CPU overhead of continuation-bit parsing using...

• It's Time for ConnectRPC to Adopt HTTP QUERY Jul 28, 2026

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• This Tiny USB Device Turns Your Phone Into a Keyboard, Mouse, and SSH Terminal Aug 25, 2026

  The $42 open source dongle gives you BIOS-level keyboard and mouse control plus SSH access. No software installation ...

• Linux 7.3 is Shaping Up to Be One of The Most Performance-Focused Kernel Releases in Years Aug 24, 2026

  The merge window is still open, but faster filesystems, a smarter scheduler, and real-time latency fixes are already in.

• Omarchy Linux Just Got $8 Million From Tech's Biggest Names Aug 24, 2026

  A new nonprofit is being setup that would house all that money, and Hyprland is the first external project to benefit.

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.

• Exploring 1-Bit LLMs Aug 25, 2026

  My interest in LLMs has increasingly shifted towards smaller models, small in terms of size and their ability to run ...

• Weekly Notes 34/2026 Aug 21, 2026

  With the Peppo team here in Bangalore and other commitments, the week was crazy busy. I met at least half of the Pepp...

• Embedding Workouts using Web Component Aug 16, 2026

  I wanted a way to represent workouts by the muscle groups they activate. Most applications where you log do it. I tho...