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Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 3 August 2026 Aug 03, 2026

  Why Did It Have To Be Elves Edition Top Story The Xbox may keep disc support as Sony shoots itself and its customers ...

• Daily News Stuff 2 August 2026 Aug 02, 2026

  Omniglot Edition Top Story Microsoft has vowed to make Windows 11 actually work in 8GB of RAM, which is timely given ...

• Daily News Stuff 1 August 2026 Aug 01, 2026

  Port Elizabeth Edition Top Story VC-backed startups commit more fraud and researchers think they know why. (Tech Crun...

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.

• Hot Tea or Iced Coffee - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #147 Aug 03, 2026

  Recently, the temperatures in my city have been breaking historical records. Since the end of July, we've been stuck ...

• Liquid Glass: A Field Guide to UIKit Compatibility Pitfalls Jul 29, 2026

  Although Liquid Glass has been around for two years, the compatibility issues it introduced haven’t completely disapp...

• It's Not That the Models Are Slower—The Tasks Have Become Bigger - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #146 Jul 27, 2026

  Lately, even tasks that I consider relatively simple often take AI several minutes—or sometimes even tens of minutes—...

The Volokh Conspiracy

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

• Court Expresses Doubt About Lawprof's Attempt to Block Appointment of Federal Judge as U Kentucky Law School Dean Aug 03, 2026

  From Woodcock v. Van Tatenhove (E.D. Ky.), decided Friday by Judge Benjamin Beaton (W.D. Ky.): Professor Ramsi Woodco...

• Foster Parents Largely Win Wisconsin Second Amendment Case Aug 03, 2026

  From the 36K-word decision in Laffery v. Pertl, by Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge Maria Lazar, joined in part by… T...

• Ex-ICC Prosecutor Khan's Sexual Misconduct Wasn't His Only Scandal Aug 03, 2026

  Karim Khan, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court from 2021 until his removal in 2026, ultimately ...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• The Flip Side Of Intelligence Aug 03, 2026

  Read The Flip Side Of Intelligence Passenger: "You'll have to give me your details so we can talk more at the confere...

• A Brewing Emergency Aug 03, 2026

  Read A Brewing Emergency I work in a coffee shop in a neighborhood that has a large homeless population. We've had to...

• Untitled Aug 03, 2026

  Read A customer wants to know if their address is connected to fiber. It isn’t. They are also still under contract fo...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

• Japan’s favorite popsicles add multilingual packaging to better connect with foreign tourists Aug 03, 2026

  Garigari-kun wants to make friends with/be eaten by people from all over the world. Garigari-kun is Japan’s favorite ...

• Japan’s Super Volunteer, 86-year-old Haruo Obata, heads to the Kumamoto earthquake site Aug 03, 2026

  Your friendly neighborhood Super Volunteer. On 28 July, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture, just o...

• 7-Eleven Japan rethinks convenience store sandwiches with a wild new choc-mint variety Aug 03, 2026

  Convenience store chain tests our limits by turning the divisive flavour into a cream sandwich. In recent years, choc...

Above the Law

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

• Morning Docket: 08.03.26 Aug 03, 2026

  * Todd Blanche issues a memo claiming to rescind the Trump ally slush fund. It's not in the form holdout Senators ask...

• Bar Exam Meltdown And Summer Bonuses — See Generally Aug 02, 2026

  Yakima, We Have A Problem: Washington scrapped its entire July NextGen administration after a convention center hardw...

• The Biglaw Love Shack — See Also Jul 31, 2026

  If The Office Is A Rockin': It seems as though everyone at Wachtell was hooking up. Anti-DEI Group Is Coming For The ...

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.

• Chinese Research Details Distillation for Military Use Aug 03, 2026

  Sunny Cheung

• Technological Progress in ‘Time War’ With the West Aug 02, 2026

  Ryan Wu

• Draft Law Would Exploit Tech for National Mobilization Aug 01, 2026

  Samantha Hoffman

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• The Downfall of the Lords Appellant Aug 03, 2026

  The Lords Appellant must have felt they had done good service to the kingdom of England after the Merciless Parliamen...

• The Merciless Parliament, Part 2 Aug 02, 2026

  After the Merciless Parliament in 1388 had eliminated the five specific advisors to Richard II that they considered t...

• The Merciless Parliament, Part 1 Aug 01, 2026

  A few years back I offered a brief look at the Lords Appellant, the group put in charge of England because of the exc...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Get a Remote Terminal With One Binary, One URL, and Zero Config Aug 03, 2026

  Launch a single static binary executable, send someone a QR code or URL (or failing that, text a numerical code or sh...

• Spotting Emacs in the Wild Aug 03, 2026

  Emacs is one of the big classic text editors, right up there next to vi. It’s famous for its interface and its ubiqui...

• Making a Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch Aug 03, 2026

  As easy as it is to make a late 1980s-style game console using a modern microcontroller, there’s arguably more fun in...

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.

• 2026W30 Aug 03, 2026

  GPT 5.6 Sol Ran a Real Business—and Lost $447 — The part that stuck with me isn’t the zero revenue or the users going...

• 2026W29 Jul 27, 2026

  Appaji - Software Engineer — The detail that got me is that you didn’t even need to run anything. Just opening the ta...

• 2026W28 Jul 20, 2026

  @clickhouse/rowbinary: when your library is also a parser compiler — The framing that stuck with me is that the compi...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Shotcut 26.8 adds elements panel and new stock asset library Aug 03, 2026

  Shotcut version 26.8 introduces the Elements panel, a compact asset library with emoji stickers, sounds, overlay tran...

• Gitea Runner 3.0.0 supports standard artifact and cache actions Aug 03, 2026

  Gitea Runner 3.0.0 introduces native support for standard GitHub Actions cache and artifact actions, eliminating the ...

• Anthropic reveals Claude models breached 3 companies without authorization during tests Aug 01, 2026

  Anthropic has disclosed that 3 Claude models gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three external o...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Roman Lead Sling Bullets Reveal Two Distinct Routes in the Conquest of the Alps Aug 03, 2026

  In the summer of 15 BC, Emperor Augustus’ two stepsons, Tiberius and Drusus, brought the Central Alps and the Swiss P...

• Archaeologists Detect Stones That May Have Human Shapes Beneath the Enormous Neolithic Mounds of Coëby in Brittany Aug 02, 2026

  In the heart of the granite massif of the Landes de Lanvaux, in the French department of Morbihan, lies the Neolithic...

• Shipwreck from the 5th-4th Centuries BC with a Cargo of Amphorae Containing Wine from the Northern Islands and the Bosporus Found off the Coast of Andros Island Aug 01, 2026

  The Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, under the Greek Ministry of Culture, has completed an official inspection at ...

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.

• Running Again Aug 03, 2026

  I have not been running. The last time I ran anything serious was a decade back. The max I have been doing is walking...

• Weekly Notes 31/2026 Jul 31, 2026

  This week has been good. It’s been a busy week, but it has been good except today. I typed a wrong Git command and pu...

• Ride to Gandikota Jul 25, 2026

  Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are the least explored states in the South for me. I have been adding places of interest...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• 2026 Nagoya Basho Unfortunate For Yokozuna Aug 03, 2026

  I learned from a Sumo Stats post that the 2026 Nagoya Basho marked the first grand sumo tournament since the July 199...

• Fixing Failed KOReader OTA Update on PocketBook Aug 02, 2026

  I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do ...

• Letter to the Editor Backlink in Chicago Sun Times Jul 31, 2026

  I was checking my backlinks on Ahrefs when I saw one from the Chicago Sun Times. I do not recall having had a Chicago...

Ploum.net

le blog de Lionel Dricot

• Un manifeste Offpunk Aug 03, 2026

  Un manifeste Offpunk Ce texte est une traduction en français du Offpunk Manifesto rédigé par Arlon de Serra Grande et...

• Un petit mot de nos sponsors… Jun 26, 2026

  Un petit mot de nos sponsors… Comme pour les stades ou les équipes cyclistes, il est important de nommer les vagues d...

• Qucocoma Philippe Samyn ? Jun 01, 2026

  Qucocoma Philippe Samyn ? J’apprends avec tristesse le décès de l’architecte Philippe Samyn, un esprit incroyable aux...

The Universe of Discourse

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

• Seven books I keep close because I love them Aug 02, 2026

  The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the on...

• The road to epsilon-zero: Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game Jul 29, 2026

  Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals I...

• “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later Jul 27, 2026

  (Previously) Flukes and Breakthroughs In the NBA 2015–16 season, Steph Curry set the all-time single-season record fo...

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.

• Blogging Challenges Aug 02, 2026

  Around this time I often see some people posting about the Blaugust blogging challenge to post every day during Augus...

• Weeknotes 2026-08-02 Aug 02, 2026

  It's August! Somehow the year is already 2/3rds over. The World Gaza: Huh, Hamas has reportedly agreed to disarmement...

• Exporting a Youtube Playlist to MP3s Jul 28, 2026

  Writing this post mostly so I can refer to it again later if needed. A while back I taught my dad how to save YT vide...

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

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

• Doctor Who: Speak Up, Chesterfield! – The First Doctor Audios, Part 2 Aug 02, 2026

  Time once again to check in on Big Finish’s First Doctor-themed output. The last time we took a look at this, we enjo...

• The BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures: From an Eightfold Reunion To a Retcon War Jul 23, 2026

  Now that I’ve put the New Adventures (bar for the Benny-led ones), Missing Adventures, and the Doctor-featuring Decal...

• Doctor Who Comics: The Eighth Doctor (Part 2) Jul 21, 2026

  Last time we checked in on the Doctor Who Magazine comics continuity, we took in the first half or so of the Eighth D...

The Linkfest

The opposite of doomscrolling: Every two weeks (roughly) I send you a collection of the best Internet reading I've found -- links to culture, technology, art and science that fascinated me. Full, free archives here. I'm Clive Thompson, a longtime science and tech reporter (Wired, New York Times ...

• Linkfest #47: A Decoy Font, "Reverse Minesweeper", and A Plant That Dies If You Look At Your Phone Aug 02, 2026

  Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I exhaustively read the entire...

• Linkfest #46: "Curse Tablets", a Robot Cellist, and Why Geologists Always Die In Movies Jun 25, 2026
• Linkfest #45: Hallucinopedia, Salmon on Cocaine, and How Phil Collins Accidentally Invented Gated Reverb May 16, 2026

  Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I scroll through the endless B...

Stranger Than Usual

• Der alljährliche Nextcloud-Breakdown Aug 02, 2026

  Diese Woche hatte ich bei einem Update mal wieder Probleme mit Nextcloud.

• Bilddateiformate und Bildkompression Jul 30, 2026

  Eine kleine Einführung, welche Bildformate man verwenden für was verwenden sollte und warum.

• Rollenspielszenen: Baumaterial „finden“ Jul 30, 2026

  Eine Siedlung im Untergrund ist besorgt über eine Baustelle in der Nähe, die für Erschütterungen sorgt.