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• Daily News Stuff 19 July 2026 Jul 19, 2026

  Woolly Hippo To You Edition Top Story Nvidia's 5000 Super graphics cards are lined up on the runway ready to go as so...

• Daily News Stuff 18 July 2026 Jul 18, 2026

  Accidental Umpires Edition Top Story AWS is experiencing a wee spot of bother with its billing system. (The Register)...

• Daily News Stuff 17 July 2026 Jul 17, 2026

  Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition Top Story TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm ...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Remembering the Zilog Z80 as it Turns Fifty Years Old Jul 19, 2026

  Perhaps the saddest thing about the Zilog Z80 is that this humble 8-bit microprocessor wasn’t allowed to live until i...

• QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer Jul 19, 2026

  In the old days, you either swore by BASIC or you swore at it — but just about everybody got their start on the educa...

• A Pop-Up Truck Camper for Less Jul 19, 2026

  We live in a veritable Cambrian Explosion of camping options, ranging from a tarp on the ground to multi-million doll...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Overthinking Plot Points Will Be Your Kryptonite Jul 19, 2026

  Read Overthinking Plot Points Will Be Your Kryptonite Some friends and I have just come out of the cinema, walking th...

• This Attempt Does Not Get A Pass Jul 19, 2026

  Read This Attempt Does Not Get A Pass Caller: "When I came to see a movie, I had to leave because a group of guys wer...

• Untitled Jul 19, 2026

  Read I’m the OP from this story https://notalwaysright.com/this-went-on-for-nine-years-and-eleven-months-longer-than-...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

• Starbucks Japan releases new fireworks collection that captures the beauty of a summer festival Jul 19, 2026

  Mysterious colour-changing cups and sparkly Bearista straw caps, inspired by a Japanese fireworks festival. Summer in...

• “Stab-kill for two deaths” and other fun Japanese baseball terms Jul 19, 2026

  And it’s one, two, three strikes you’re dead at the old ball game! The rise of Shohei Ohtani has completely cemented ...

• Japan’s favorite quasi-local curry launches convenience store version – Does it match the real deal? Jul 19, 2026

  Is it worth go going to Family Mart to try the convenience store version of Go Go Curry? Go Go Curry has kind of an u...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• I've Moved Back to GitHub Jul 19, 2026

  Back in May, I wrote a post about how I'd migrated all my repos away from GitHub. This ended up being a combination o...

• 📝 2026-07-16 17:05: Anyone using Pop!OS with Cosmic? I tried it when it was first released, but I... Jul 16, 2026

  Anyone using Pop!_OS with Cosmic? I tried it when it was first released, but I looks like they've done a lot of dev w...

• 📝 2026-07-16 11:47: A few of us were talking to one of the summer interns at work about... Jul 16, 2026

  A few of us were talking to one of the summer interns at work about age: Someone: How old do you think Kev is? Intern...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Blood & Health Jul 19, 2026

  We've been talking about blood as food, and some recipes using blood in cooking, but now let's talk about health-rela...

• Blood Recipes Jul 18, 2026

  We talked yesterday about preparing and preserving blood for culinary use, now let's look at some more specific uses ...

• Blood as Food Jul 17, 2026

  There's a scene early in The Name of the Rose involving barrels of pigs' blood. It was autumn, and time to slaughter ...

The Volokh Conspiracy

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

• Today in Supreme Court History: July 19, 1949 Jul 19, 2026

  7/19/1949: Justice Frank Murphy dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 19, 1949 appeared first on Reason...

• Open Thread Jul 19, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• The "Free Market" is More Popular than "Capitalism" Jul 19, 2026

  Such anomalies are common when polling often-ignorant voters. But libertarians would do well to take note, anyway.

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Bartolomeo Colleoni, the mercenary with three pairs of “coglioni” Jul 19, 2026

  It is curious that two of the most famous and representative statues of the Quattrocento were not made in honor of a ...

• First Textile Fragment from the Iron Age Found at the Submerged Site of the Gran Carro of Bolsena After Sixty Years of Searching Jul 18, 2026

  The waters of Lake Bolsena, in the Italian province of Viterbo, continue to yield unprecedented evidence of protohist...

• Late Antique Building with Mosaic and Ritual Objects Found in Agrigento, Evidencing the Transition to Christianity in Sicily Jul 17, 2026

  The eleventh excavation campaign in the Hellenistic-Roman district of Agrigento, carried out over the past few weeks,...

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 2026-07-19 Jul 19, 2026

  The World Iran: it looks like the interim peace agreement is completely done and Iran and the US are at full hostilit...

• MTG: Secrets of Strixhaven Jul 14, 2026

  This is my set recap for the Secrets of Strixhaven MTG set! SOS Limited Summary / Notes I am generally not a fan of t...

• Weeknotes 2026-07-12 Jul 12, 2026

  The World Iran: Trump says the ceasefire is done (though negotiations are still proceeding) and Iran says the Strait ...

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...

• Gingerbread President 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXIX Jul 18, 2026
• Reinstalling 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXVIII Jul 12, 2026

  Welcome to the 288th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

• Independence Forever! 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXVII Jul 04, 2026

  Welcome to the 287th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

The Universe of Discourse

Mark Dominus's long-running blog exploring mathematics, programming, language, and history through long-form essays with technical depth.

• The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps Jul 18, 2026

  Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory We're going to get to in a long and roundabout way. First I want to ...

• Starting to understand epsilon-zero Jul 10, 2026

  This post is going to be about what infinite ordinal numbers are, and about is in particular. I had a brainwave a whi...

• It's our language now! Jun 27, 2026

  A while back I related how I had been mocked by an English person for using the word “burglarize”. I ended by saying:...

seize the dev

• Self-Hosted Dynamic DNS Jul 18, 2026

  A guide to setting up a DDNS server with support for nsupdate.

• Will Software Engineering Survive? Feb 17, 2026

  Investigating recent claims amidst the rise of LLMs.

• Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? Jan 06, 2026

  The current state of app bloat.

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.

• Marskramer Path part 08 Jul 18, 2026

  Hiked part 8/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.92 kilometres from Deventer to Klarenbeek. Along the IJsselkade in Devente...

• Monthly update #0434 • June 2026 Jul 06, 2026

  Posts The following posts were written last month. Biking Biking in Zuid-Kennemerland National Park Biking in Holland...

• Can I Trust The Bible? by R.C. Sproul Jul 02, 2026

  Why read the book? R.C. Sproul wrote Can I Trust The Bible? It is a short and clear book from his Crucial Questions s...

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.

• Xi’s Leninist Selectocracy has Cemented Party Dictatorship Jul 18, 2026

  Filip Jirouš & Ralph Weber

• Strategic Snapshot: Russian Oil Woes Reinforce Economic Troubles Jul 17, 2026

  Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to come home as Kyiv increases its strikes against Russian oil infrastructure.

• CNP Part IV: Calculation Holds Keys to Strategic Competition Jul 17, 2026

  Erik R. Quam

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Why Bevel Is a Way Better iOS App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health Jul 18, 2026

  “The Fitbit Air is a really nice wearable—it’s thin, unobtrusive, cheap. But its app, Google Health, has problems. It...

• Vital Signals’ New Ring Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Finger Jul 17, 2026

  “Vital Signals thinks its Signal Ring is accurate enough to replace traditional blood pressure cuffs for the almost h...

• Making A Locked Down WHOOP Wearable Work Without A Subscription Jul 16, 2026

  “The goal of the so-called OpenStrap project is not to re-create the WHOOP app. Rather, the algorithms and processing...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Apple Music and Apple One subscription prices rise due to licensing costs Jul 18, 2026

  Apple has raised Apple Music subscription prices in the United States and several other countries, citing rising musi...

• COSMIC Desktop 1.3 adds frosted glass style and GPU power monitoring Jul 18, 2026

  COSMIC Desktop 1.3 introduces a major visual overhaul with an optional frosted glass style, adding translucent and bl...

• Roblox is launching an AI tool for creating games from prompts on mobile Jul 18, 2026

  Roblox has introduced Build, a new AI powered game creation feature for its mobile app. Users can create basic games ...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVa: Leadership Jul 18, 2026

  This is the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general gui...

• Friday Friday, July 10, 2026 (On the Chud Vision of Roman History) Jul 10, 2026

  Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’ve been a bit behind because we had some family travel followed by an issue with a w...

• Collections: On the Declaration of Independence Jul 04, 2026

  Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s po...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Become More Productive With These GNOME Extensions Jul 18, 2026

  Here's my recommended list of GNOME extensions that might help you focus more on work and be (more) productive.

• Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It Jul 17, 2026

  A chronological look at how Linux's creator went from "90% marketing" to telling AI critics to fork the kernel or wal...

• 15 O'Reilly Linux eBooks for Under $30: A Bundle That Goes From Command Line Basics to Kubernetes Jul 17, 2026

  Don't miss! Pay tiny amount for a Git-to-Kubernetes Linux library of DRM-free eBooks, with part of the purchase going...

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.

• Back to coffee Jul 18, 2026

  I gave up coffee because I started losing my sight. I was getting visual migraines, auras that would creep in until I...

• 2026W27 Jul 13, 2026

  Ten years of ClickHouse in open source — The detail that stuck is the monthly drill where they deliberately shut down...

• The Bear Jul 01, 2026

  I didn’t expect The Bear to make me uncomfortable. Not because of the kitchen chaos or the screaming, and there’s ple...

Above the Law

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

• DOJ Remains Dullest Tools In The Shed — See Also Jul 17, 2026

  The DOJ Gabs About Its Biglaw Subpoenas: I don't think it'll work out the way they planned it in their head. House Ov...

• The Death Watch For Biglaw On-Campus Interviews Has Begun Jul 17, 2026

  It used to be *the* way to get yourself a Biglaw summer job. Not anymore. The post The Death Watch For Biglaw On-Camp...

• Healthcare Groups Praise Unanimous Committee Approval Of MA Prior Auth Bill Jul 17, 2026

  The House Ways and Means Committee unanimously advanced a bill to reform Medicare Advantage prior authorization requi...