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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.

• 2026W32 Aug 17, 2026

  Abdominal Fat Predicts Heart Disease Risk Better Than BMI - American College of Cardiology — The number that stuck wi...

• Write it down Aug 14, 2026

  I spent a few years writing down everything I learned about ClickHouse internals. Most of it I can’t read anymore. It...

• Write it down Aug 14, 2026

  I spent a few years writing down everything I learned about ClickHouse internals. Most of it I can’t read anymore. It...

Ploum.net

le blog de Lionel Dricot

• L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots Aug 17, 2026

  L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots Quand bien même les chatbots ne seraient pas les produits de gigantesques ent...

• L’arnaque du bilan carbone Aug 10, 2026

  L’arnaque du bilan carbone Pourquoi nous nous sommes fait avoir dans notre soi-disant lutte contre le réchauffement c...

• 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...

(Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

A technical blog covering enterprise infrastructure, open-source tools, and cloud technologies, with posts on Ansible automation, Kubernetes, Linux, and DevOps practices.

• On finding vulnerabilities and shipping fixes Aug 17, 2026

  Over the last year, I’ve watched AI models and tools that find vulnerabilities in code take a central role in securit...

• Red Hat EX467 exam Jul 09, 2026

  Last Friday, I renewed my Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform (EX467...

• On Podman 6 and weeding out legacy Jun 25, 2026

  Podman 6.0 was released yesterday. This is a fairly big and important release, since they removed the support for cgr...

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 #372 Aug 16, 2026

  If your Monday coffee didn’t taste the same as usual due to me not sending out an issue - apologies. I hope today’s i...

• Weekly Robotics #371 Aug 02, 2026

  Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: Gemini Robotics 2, a place to find your next robot dataset, how it is to bui...

• Weekly Robotics #370 Jul 26, 2026

  In Weekly Robotics 370, you'll learn about designing an underground robot scheduler, an open-source L2 autopilot, the...

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

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

• Doctor Who: Bessie’s Tape Deck – The Third Doctor Audios, Part 2 Aug 16, 2026

  Time to check in again on Big Finish’s offerings starring the Third Doctor. As with last time, we’re still in the era...

• Doctor Who: Oh, My Giddy Audio! – The Second Doctor At Big Finish, Part 2 Aug 09, 2026

  Time to hitch a ride with the Cosmic Hobo and take in some more Second Doctor audio releases. Last time we got four C...

• Doctor Who By Other Means: The Benny New Adventures, Part 1 Aug 08, 2026

  When Virgin lost the licence to do Doctor Who novels, that could have been it – editor Rebecca Levene could have woun...

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.

• 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...

• Weekly Notes 33/2026 Aug 14, 2026

  I ended the Netflix subscription. We have not been using it for a long time, and we were just paying; finally, this m...

• Weekly Notes 32/2026 Aug 07, 2026

  It’s been a hectic but active week. As usual, I continued with my two P.T sessions. I played a game of Pickleball on ...

Matthew Brunelle's Blog

I write about a variety of projects, events and thoughts, but they all share one aspect: I learned something and want to share my experience with others.

• I've Inadvertently Opted Out of Smart Notifications Thanks to GrapheneOS. Aug 16, 2026

  I've been running GrapheneOS for a little over a year now and didn't realize much Smart Notifications have changed ph...

• Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing Aug 12, 2026

  The adoption of AI Tooling ironically encourages better practices. Now you have to actually do everything you've been...

• Converting a PS4 Persona 5 Royal NG+ Save to Steam with Adversarial Interoperability Aug 09, 2026

  Sony is locking the PlayStation down more and more. I just want to free my PS4 Persona 5 Royal save so I can play on ...

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 2026-08-16 Aug 16, 2026

  My Week Another rainy week, though it let up a bit the past few days. Google Fit says I walked 76,313 steps from last...

• 750 Words: Hall of Phoenixes Interview Aug 14, 2026

  I've written a bit about 750 Words before, the last time in 2019. It's a service I started using for private journall...

• Retro Review: Tales of Xillia (PS3!) Aug 13, 2026

  Previously: Retro Review: Tales of Graces F (PS3!) Continuing my year of playing Tales games on the very retro consol...

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...

• Deflated Bee 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIII Aug 15, 2026

  Welcome to the 293rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

• Coolidge Air Conditioner 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCII Aug 08, 2026

  Welcome to the 292nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

• August Novel 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCI Aug 01, 2026

  Leafintro Welcome to the 291st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially vir...

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.

• Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne Aug 15, 2026

  Why read the book? Jules Verne published Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 1864. Professor Otto Lidenbrock finds ...

• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Aug 12, 2026

  Why read the book? Robert Louis Stevenson published Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886. The story is short...

• The Sword of Freedom by Yossi Cohen Aug 07, 2026

  Why read the book? Yossi Cohen served as director of Mossad from 2016 to 2021. In The Sword of Freedom he describes h...

Toni Notes

Toni Notes is for writers, creators, and indie builders who want better ways to publish and run their online work.

• Why most blog advice does not apply to small publications Aug 15, 2026

  Most blogging advice is built for marketing assets at a different scale. When a small publication imports that infras...

• A small publication needs rhythm more than volume Aug 12, 2026

  Readers do not feel a publication through raw output totals. They feel it through recognizable return, and a small pu...

• A newsletter should extend a publication, not duplicate it Apr 30, 2026

  A newsletter earns its place when it gives a publication a narrower, more direct return surface instead of just repea...

ℤ→ℤ

The mapping of integers to integers is a fair summary of the work of programming. A blog about computer science, history of computing, engineering, game theory, and other things that attract my interest.

• Number of bags of a given length with exactly d distinct elements Aug 14, 2026

  We develop a formula for counting the number of bags of length \(l\) containing \(d\) distinct elements drawn from \(...

• Inventing ELIZA (Review) Aug 10, 2026

  This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum’s article “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural L...

• Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War (Review) Jun 29, 2026

  Within the history of cryptography, the tale of how Bletchley Park broke Germany’s Enigma cipher has been told many t...

Journal on n3s0 || journal

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

• Buenos Aires: Kubernetes Pod Crashing Aug 14, 2026

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

• Testing To See If An Old Entry Aged Well Aug 11, 2026

  Doing a run-through of an old post to see if it can be used today.

• Ways To Prioritize DNS Over mDNS On Macbooks With .local Domains May 06, 2026

  Notes on how mDNS is prioritized on the .local top-level domain.

Palladium

Governance Futurism

• Technological Determinism and Human Freedom Aug 14, 2026

  For millennia, myths and philosophy warned of tools entrapping us in tragedies of our own making. But the discovery o...

• How to Deal With Iran Aug 07, 2026

  The Iran crisis cannot be resolved without recognizing Iran’s unexpected military and technological edge. Victories c...

• China is Building a Blue Granary Aug 04, 2026

  The People’s Republic of China hopes to turn the open ocean into the world’s largest farm. It might not be a bad idea...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Fireside Friday, August 14, 2026 (On Financing Pre-Modern Navies) Aug 14, 2026

  Hey folks, fireside this week as I get ready for the start of a new semester! For this week, I wanted to talk briefly...

• Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together Aug 08, 2026

  This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying o...

• Fireside Friday, July 31, 2026 (On The Odyssey) Jul 31, 2026

  Hey folks, Fireside this week, as I am fresh back from a short family trip before the jaws of the Fall semester close...

PRBS23

A technical blog about electronics, hardware verification, and embedded systems, featuring guides on LoRaWAN networks and SystemVerilog.

• Reverse Engineering the Gravity 800 Smoker Controller Aug 14, 2026

  I recently released FreeFall 800, open source firmware for the Gravity 800 smoker/grill from Masterbuilt. The project...

• Announcement: FreeFall 800 (v0.1.0) Jul 25, 2026

  Today I’m publicly releasing a project I’ve been working on for a while: FreeFall 800. FreeFall 800 is a local first,...

• Getting Started With a Private LoRaWAN Network Using ChirpStack v4 (Updated) Jul 24, 2024

  I have recently started experimenting with LoRa radios, and the LoRaWAN network protocol. Interestingly it seems that...

xkcd.com

• Accretionary Arc Aug 14, 2026
• Geology Building Aug 12, 2026
• Size and Lifespan Aug 10, 2026

JoeHx Blog

Writing What I Want

• Asking ChatGPT a Legal Question Aug 14, 2026

  I’m serving as Treasurer for my county’s Libertarian political party. Recently the county board of elections emailed ...

• Using Linear Regression to Analyze My Electric Bill Jul 21, 2026

  Here in Ohio we can choose our electric supplier… But not who delivers it.

• MET Values for each Exercise in MapMyFitness Jun 11, 2026

  Sometimes I want to do an exercise and record it in MapMyFitness, but MapMyFitness doesn’t have that particular exerc...

Refereeing and Reflection

Tangled Thoughts On RPGs and Related Hobbies

• Supplement Supplemental (Scouting Scares, Gaslight Gruesomeness, and Maledictum Missions) Aug 13, 2026

  Time for another check-in on a selection of RPG supplements that have caught my eye of late. This time around it’s a ...

• Wages of Sin: Rewards of Kickstarter Aug 12, 2026

  I’ve previously waxed enthusiastic on here about Mothership, having been very pleased with my hauls from Tuesday Knig...

• Boldly Going Outside of Modiphius’ Range Aug 09, 2026

  Modiphius’ Star Trek Adventures RPG celebrated its 10th anniversary recently, making it the longest-lasting Star Trek...

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: Productive programs and well-founded orders Aug 13, 2026

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

• There are two kinds of theorems Aug 11, 2026

  In mathematical study there are two kinds of theorems, which serve very different purposes. Math instruction follows ...

• The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins Aug 05, 2026

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