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Refereeing and Reflection

Tangled Thoughts On RPGs and Related Hobbies

• Thoughts On Concluding a One Ring Campaign Mar 26, 2026

  For the last year and a bit, I’ve been running the second edition of The One Ring for my Wednesday evening group. It’...

• Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle o’ Borg! Feb 26, 2026

  One of the signs that a tabletop RPG system has really made it once people start selling reskins of it. D&D hacks hav...

• Supplement Supplemental! (Cults, Forests, Creatures, Screens, and Catalogues) Feb 15, 2026

  Time for another article where I give quick breakdowns of supplements I’ve looked at lately. This time, it’s mostly B...

BEEW

Banish Expectations Expand Wonder

• Max's Song Mar 26, 2026

  I'm in a Starbucks on a Tuesday afternoon, half-working, half-staring at a wall, when the opening synth line comes th...

• Tolstoy, Dr. Robby, and What We Owe Each Other Mar 25, 2026

  Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom · March 25 “As you acquire objects, and you use them, you should keep in mind that they ...

• The Manosphere Didn't Invent Anything Mar 24, 2026

  This essay was originally published on March 24th as "Three Generations of Men, One Unsettled Question." It's already...

Stranger Than Usual

• Lakritz die Katze Mar 26, 2026

  Eigentlich wollte ich etwas über Suchmaschinenindizierung schreiben… dann bin über eine Katzenseite gestolpert.

• Rollenspielszenen: Band aus zwei Bassspielern. Mar 25, 2026

  Anis und Cracker wollen eine Band gründen.

• Atomarchiv mit RFC 5005 Mar 24, 2026

  Ich habe das Atom-feed dieses Blogs auf mehrere Dateien aufgeteilt

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• Axe, Enchanting Musk, and Muskrats Mar 26, 2026

  An article about the smell of Axe Body Spray reminded me of when a friend in high school described his post-Axe usage...

• Uncle Susan Graffiti in Carroll Gardens Mar 22, 2026

  "UNCLE SUSAN" graffiti tag sighting on a sign post on the periperhy of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

• Introducing N.A. Ferrell’s NLJ Blogroll Mar 21, 2026

  Re-launching The New Leaf Journal Blogroll after about four years centered on posts about website entries.

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.

• Fibonacci's Composed Fractions Mar 26, 2026

  Leonardo of Pisa (c1170-1241+), better known as Fibonacci, wrote Liber Abaci to introduce and advocate the adoption o...

• The Life and Work of George Boole (Review) Feb 19, 2026

  George Boole (1815-1864) was a mathematician best known as the progenitor of the Boolean algebra, the system of logic...

• OREGON (Trail): BASIC Game Design from the Teletype Era Jan 20, 2026

  In 1971, three college roommates developed an educational computer game. Titled OREGON, it was a simulation of westwa...

Palladium

Governance Futurism

• Permanent Games For Progress Mar 26, 2026

  As politics weakens and private power grows, building a great future will depend on permanent games that convert priv...

• The World Needs Your Great Work Mar 18, 2026

  Society has lost our sense of greatness and the reasons it is worth pursuing. This is especially relevant to those wi...

• Pardon Underwrites a Year of Palladium Jan 23, 2026

  Sustaining ambitious governance journalism and sponsoring PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige and beyond. The post Pardon U...

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

• 2026 Monki Gras Mar 26, 2026

  Hazel Weakly starts off her presentations with the words “I have thoughts, lots of thoughts”. That pretty much sums u...

• Is MySQL Due for a Renaissance? Mar 11, 2026

  Back at the turn of the century, open source was experiencing widespread adoption along with the growth of the Intern...

• New Laptop Mar 09, 2026

  It is hard to believe that I’ve been at AWS almost four years, but it turns out that is about the amount of time one ...

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.

• “Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition) Mar 26, 2026

  One of the most elaborate works of literary insult ever written.

• Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s) Mar 25, 2026

  Moneymaking caricatures by a teenage Monet, before he turned to Impressionism.

• Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History Mar 19, 2026

  In early modern Europe, around the time when lenses began to bring the world (and heavens) into newfound focus, patie...

kmcd.dev

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

• Faking protobuf data in Go Mar 26, 2026

  Stop hand-writing test fixtures

• Y'all are Sleeping on Mise-en-Place Mar 19, 2026

  Why I default to this tool for every project

• IRC Log: Standup 2 Mar 16, 2026

  The team attempts another text-based standup, this time with management present. It goes significantly worse than the...

Ploum.net

le blog de Lionel Dricot

• Le logiciel, un nouveau pétrole ? Mar 26, 2026

  Le logiciel, un nouveau pétrole ? Extrait de mon journal du 24 septembre 2025 Nous sommes fiers de nous passer de pét...

• Scène de salle d’attente Mar 23, 2026

  Scène de salle d’attente Extrait de mon journal du 6 mars, dans la salle d’attente du docteur X. Le couple entre, asp...

• The Social Smolnet Mar 20, 2026

  The Social Smolnet It might have been an email thread. Or a lobste.rs comment. It was a discussion about yet another ...

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.

• Swift 6.3 Released Mar 25, 2026

  Swift 6.3 makes these benefits more accessible across the stack. This release expands Swift into new domains and impr...

• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Mar 18, 2026

  Why read the book? Terry Pratchett wrote Going Postal. It forms part of his Discworld series. The main character is M...

• Pelgrims Path part 02 Mar 14, 2026

  Hiked part 2/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 12.9 kilometres from Amsterdamse Bos to De Kwakel. You leave Amsterdam and see ...

LifeDev.net

Empowering creative people

• How to Track Personal Progress (So You Don’t Lose Momentum): 7 Ways Mar 25, 2026

  Knowing how to track personal progress has recently become the difference between drifting and deliberately moving fo...

• 11 Quick Tips on How to Stop Mental Overload and Anxiety Mar 16, 2026

  There is nothing more dangerous than unrecognized mental overload, and here is why. It’s 10 p.m., and your brain feel...

• 10 Ways to Sharpen Your Strategic Thinking Skills (And Make Better Decisions Every Day) Mar 10, 2026

  Strategic thinking skills have become one of the most valuable assets you can bring to any job, project, or life deci...

The Jaxson

Urbanism and Culture on Florida's First Coast.

• Rethinking the Skyway: What’s Next for DT Transit? Mar 25, 2026

  As Jacksonville revisits the future of its Skyway system, the choices made today will shape how people move through D...

• Saints of Jacksonville: A History of the Mormon Church Mar 16, 2026

  Andrew Nicholas shares the deep history of the Latter-day Saints in Jacksonville. - The story of how Latter-day Saint...

• 7 riverfront dining experiences that no longer exist Mar 11, 2026

  Today, the average person will struggle to find a restaurant to dine along the river in downtown that is not located ...

Chris Short

Recent content on Chris Short

• OSPO Notes: How to find your community Mar 25, 2026

  How to find your open source community beyond git commits using repo data, GitHub Insights, GrimoireLab, and social l...

• Desk Setup, January 2026 Jan 27, 2026

  There’s a metaphor out there that you should write about something if you are asked about it more than three times. I...

• Looking for a new role Jan 20, 2026

  30-year tech veteran seeking remote Developer Advocate or Technical Marketing role. Translates complexity into adopti...

Toni Notes

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

• A draft is not just text, it is stored decision-making Mar 25, 2026

  A usable draft preserves more than sentences. It keeps scope, structure, emphasis, and live uncertainty visible so th...

• Distribution should not begin with panic Mar 24, 2026

  Small-blog distribution works better when it is designed before publication. A post should have a public shape, a res...

• A small blog does not need a content strategy, it needs a path Mar 21, 2026

  A tiny publication usually does not need a grand content strategy first. It needs a clear reader path through the hom...

Tim Hårek

Personal blog of a Norwegian technologist writing about privacy-focused technology, web development, and monthly recaps.

• Hudd review Mar 25, 2026

  Lately, there has been a lot of talk about moving away from US-based services, and social media platforms in general....

• February 2026 Mar 03, 2026

  The year’s shortest month is finally over, and I’m three days late to posting this because I’ve been too busy to sit ...

• January 2026 Jan 29, 2026

  1/12 of 2026 is almost at an end, and I’m certain that I won’t be able to write this post at any date later in Januar...

riz#000000me

Personal blog of a Chicago-based writing instructor sharing weeknotes, reading reflections, book recommendations, and musings on internet culture.

• blog relocating Mar 24, 2026

  in the atmosphere

• vbr files in apple music Mar 19, 2026

  ancient errors in itunes

• reading list Mar 16, 2026

  what's on my to-read list

Journal on n3s0 || journal

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

• Quito: Control One Container from Another Mar 24, 2026

  Summary This is my write-up for the Quito: Control One Container from Another challenge provided by SadServers. Where...

• Gained An Achievement On SadServers Mar 18, 2026

  I normally don’t like to boast about achievements on this site. Granted, this isn’t really boasting. But, I was going...

• Oaxaca: Close an Open File Mar 18, 2026

  Summary I may have killed process before I closed the file. Mostly due to not reading. But, with this challenge I def...

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Let’s get Person-al

A personal blog with posts spanning book and movie reviews, technology projects, and commentary on social and political topics.

• 🌰 three holidays and a wedding - a book review Mar 24, 2026

  On the one hand: I was up until 3am devouring this book. I wanted to feel the feels that a romance book is designed t...

• 🌰 I’m glad my mom died - a book review Mar 24, 2026

  harrowing interesting how she stayed in present tense and present-mind the whole time. It kept the book fresh, in a w...

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  Self-driving cars where instead of getting a driver’s license and calling AAA to help with a flat tire, you’re instea...