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The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• The Steak Debate: Quips and a Life Well-Done Mar 07, 2026

  I prefer my steak well-done. Not everyone is the same. I share three personal steak-cooking disagreement anecdotes.

• Snowy Statues in Brooklyn (February 2026) Mar 06, 2026

  The February 2026 snow gets to one side of statues of Christopher Columbus and Robert F. Kennedy near Brooklyn Boroug...

• Geese in the Snow in Brooklyn Bridge Park Mar 03, 2026

  Sharing photos of geese on a snow-covered lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park, all captured on February 13, 2026.

Stranger Than Usual

• Your AI slop bores me Mar 07, 2026

  Auf youraislopbores.me kann man sich Texte und Bilder generieren lassen. Oder selbst generieren, damit andere Leute i...

• Irankrieg Mar 07, 2026

  Ich werde hier nicht viel über den Angriff der USA auf den Iran schreiben. Ich schaffe das nervlich einfach nicht.

• Es wird immer noch depubliziert Mar 07, 2026

  Die öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender müssen ihre Inhalte auf Websites immer noch nach einiger Zeit depublizieren. Warum ...

R74n Newsletter

Be notified when Sandboxels and other R74n projects are updated, along with ramblings from the developer!

• Sandboxels Update: Pushers, Text Display, Draggable Humans + 100 Mar 07, 2026

  Our first update since the transition to Neal.fun! And it's a big one.

• Sandboxels on Neal.fun - A New Home Feb 09, 2026

  We’re excited to share some surprising news — Sandboxels is joining Neal.fun, the home of popular online games such a...

• Sandboxels Update: Pixel Groups, Cooler (Hotter?) Fire, and 1 billion more features Jan 11, 2026

  Okay, maybe only 1 million

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 02 Mar 07, 2026

  Hiked part 2/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.3 kilometres from Oldenzaal to Borne. The area west of Oldenzaal is home t...

• Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service Mar 06, 2026

  The decision to go with Swift brought a lot of unexpected advantages for us. We come from a world of iOS in the front...

• Monthly update #0430 • February 2026 Mar 02, 2026

  Posts The following posts were written last month. Books Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté You're Not Enough (and That's ...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• Sunsetting The 512kb Club Mar 07, 2026

  All good things must come to an end, and today is that day for one of my projects, the 512kb Club. I started the 512k...

• How Many Holes Does a Straw Have? Mar 06, 2026

  I was recently listening to an episode of The Rest Is Science, specifically the episode The Evolution Of The Butthole...

• 📚 Flybot Mar 05, 2026

  by Dennis E. Taylor Physicist Philip Moray is having a good day. He’s chipping away at his big work project. The lunc...

The Jaxson

Urbanism and Culture on Florida's First Coast.

• Fleet Landing Riverside seeks DDRB conceptual approval Mar 07, 2026

  After a failed attempt to acquire the DCPS Southbank headquarters, Fleet Landing now has plans for a 32-story tower i...

• Baptist Health Jax hotel headed to DDRB Mar 05, 2026

  Baptist Health is proposing to build a 15-story, 226-key hotel at its Southbank medical campus. The project will seek...

• Register for State of the South: Jacksonville Mar 04, 2026

  We’re just two weeks out from State of the South: Jacksonville - sign up now before registration closes at the end of...

Luke Salamone's Blog

A technical blog exploring machine learning, deep learning architectures, data structures, and systems programming with in-depth implementations.

• Distilling Stockfish with One Billion Positions Mar 07, 2026

  TLDR: I extracted fens and stockfish evaluations for 3.9 billion chess positions. I then trained a neural network on ...

• Aesthetic Graph Pruning Feb 20, 2026

  #mapContainer1, #mapContainer2 { color: #000; } #mapContainer1 button, #mapContainer2 button { padding: 10px 14px; bo...

• Keep Summer Safe Mar 21, 2025

  I recently built a small multi-agent simulation inspired by Rick and Morty. The setup is simple: The car must neutral...

unixdigest.com

Articles (occasional rants) and tutorials about open source, BSD, GNU/Linux, system administration, programming, and other stuff - the pragmatic way

• Stop telling people to sanitize user input Mar 07, 2026

  Whether you're dealing with a web application or some other application, all user input should always be considered "...

• Dinit, the init system systemd should have been Mar 06, 2026

  systemd is great as an init system, but - as you know - it's not an init system anymore, it's a behemoth of a monster.

• The reasons for the big discrepancy between satisfied vs dissatisfied developers using AI for coding Jan 27, 2026

  To some developers AI seems to be the best thing since sliced bread, while to others, AI is more or less useless. I s...

Previous Magazine

Exclusive News About Tech, Software, Music and More

• Managing Dark Circles and Under-eye Puffiness Mar 06, 2026

  Dark circles and under-eye puffiness are a growing concern for most people. If these things are something you’re deal...

• How To Find the Right Contractor for Your Home Renovations Mar 06, 2026

  Home renovations are a large undertaking and you need to find a reliable and trustworthy contractor who can stick to ...

• Tips for Introducing a New Puppy to Your Senior Dog Mar 02, 2026

  Expanding your family with a puppy is exciting, but you need to make sure your senior dog is ready for this change. I...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026 Mar 06, 2026

  Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing t...

• Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches Feb 24, 2026

  This week, time for something a bit silly: we’re going to think about the plausibility of the warfare in Frank Herber...

• Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries! Feb 21, 2026

  This week we’re going to take a look at mercenaries in the ancient Mediterranean world! This was one of the runners-u...

Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

A software engineering blog focused on operating systems, build systems, and reliability engineering, drawing from experience with FreeBSD, Bazel, Rust, and major tech companies.

• Reflections on vibecoding ticket.el Mar 06, 2026

  It has now been a month since I started playing with Claude Code “for real” and by now I’ve mostly switched to Codex ...

• Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents Feb 09, 2026

  Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article. It’s no secret that I’ve been grumpy about the new AI-bas...

• ssh-agent broken in tmux? I've got you! Dec 26, 2025

  A little over two years ago, I wrote an article titled SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right. In it, I described h...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next Mar 06, 2026

  What started as age gates on adult websites has quietly crept into app stores and operating systems.

• Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next Mar 06, 2026

  What started as age gates on adult websites has quietly crept into app stores and operating systems.

• FOSS Weekly #26.10: Age Verification in Linux, systemd Troubleshooting Tools, Graphene Phone, Longer Linux LTS Kernels and More Mar 05, 2026

  Age verification is the new pandemic.

xkcd.com

• Bazookasaurus Mar 06, 2026
• Solar Warning Mar 04, 2026
• Electric Vehicles Mar 02, 2026

LifeDev.net

Empowering creative people

• 7 Effective Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load and Boost Focus Mar 05, 2026

  Learning how to reduce cognitive load is essential for anyone who wants to work smarter, think clearly, and maintain ...

• How to Stay Consistent in Your Life Development Journey: 7 Strategies Feb 24, 2026

  In the context of life development, learning how to stay consistent is one of the most powerful skills you can build....

• How to Manage Energy: 10 Proven Steps for Sustainable Life Development Feb 15, 2026

  Mastering how to manage energy levels allows you to accomplish more meaningful work with less exhaustion, creating su...

The Public Domain Review

An online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915) Mar 05, 2026

  A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.

• Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919) Mar 03, 2026

  Illustrations of Javanese *wayang kulit* puppets with vivid colour and gilding.

• The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin Feb 25, 2026

  Does the flâneur, that curiously modern figure who wanders metropolitan streets, have a political consciousness? For ...

Paul's Weblog

The feed of updates to Paul's Weblog

• make-bookmarklets.com Mar 05, 2026

  Here’s a quick one live from Hack Night. 🧑‍💻 I met a cool human, Cullan, who made a website that I think is neat and ...

• Restaurant Week: Winter 2026 Edition Jan 29, 2026

  I’ve written about restaurant week before: Scraping Minneapolis / St. Paul Restaurant Week. Well, good news: it’s sti...

• “Skip Level” Interview Questions Jan 23, 2026

  I recently had a final round “skip level” interview which was with high(er) level leadership folk; think directors, V...

Your Local Epidemiologist

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

• 5 Logical fallacies in the era of RFK Jr. Mar 04, 2026

  Common rhetorical tricks that are trending right now

• Hep B vaccine rates declining, RSV is having a late surge, more disease=more economic cost, AI and triage, and the U.S. surgeon general Mar 03, 2026

  The Dose (March 3)

• Measles and echo chambers, fresh science, and more Feb 27, 2026

  Behind the Curtain (Feb 27)

Isaac Clayton

A cozy little corner of the web.

• Neopack is live Mar 04, 2026

  Slowly emerges from the sixth sea of silence. Hello! I’m back for the time being. I started working on a handful of p...

• Programming as theory building is true now more than ever Feb 21, 2026

  These past two days have been something of a whirlwind, as I made a couple of important life decisions. The decisions...

• Symbolic grounding Feb 18, 2026

  After yesterday’s massive post (and given the two assignments I have to do today) I figured I would write something a...

Personal Log at usebox.net

Recent content in Personal Log at usebox.net

• Another Tomato Mar 03, 2026

  I’m still enjoying programming in OCaml, but because most of the code I have written to date is a toy compiler that m...

• Changing theme in my terminal Feb 10, 2026

  So after more than 20 years using a dark theme for coding, I realised that a light theme works better during the day....

• git.usebox.net and bots Jan 31, 2026

  I just had a chat with Alex because I couldn’t reach any of his websites, but I fired Tor browser and they were there...

Darek Kay

Darek Kay is a professional front-end developer and an accessibility advocate.

• Sabbatical #05: Rotorua Lakes Mar 03, 2026

  A travel journal from my visit to Rotorua Lakes, New Zealand.

• Sabbatical #04: Coromandel Peninsula Feb 19, 2026

  A travel journal from my visit to Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand.

• Sabbatical #03: Auckland Feb 15, 2026

  A travel journal from my visit to Auckland, New Zealand.