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GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Microsoft going back to its roots and breaking spreadsheet compatibility Sep 26, 2026

  “Microsoft has ended 40 years of single-occupancy for Excel cells and is now allowing multiple values to inhabit the ...

• F-Droid’s Android open-source app store has been rebuilt from the ground up Sep 25, 2026

  “Virtually every Android device comes with the Play Store preloaded, but there are other ways to get apps. F-Droid bi...

• OSS Document Scanner is an open source mobile app to scan documents to PDF Sep 22, 2026

  This mobile app does largely what Adobe PDF Scan or similar apps do, but your scans stay private and offline. It runs...

Merazi's blog

A personal tech blog focused on Linux desktop environments, window managers, and open-source software projects including a static site generator.

• Surviving with low end hardware Sep 26, 2026

  This is a rant.

• New website again! Sep 24, 2026

  Well, here we are again. Another website, another attempt at pretending I have a proper online identity and a plan fo...

• New website! (Again) Sep 23, 2026

  Well, here we are again. Another website, another attempt at pretending I have a proper online identity and a plan fo...

Noahie's Blog

Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings.

• Lesser Wizards Sep 26, 2026

  Your browser does not support the video tag. I saw a mule the other day. For the lesser wizards out there, if you see...

• Fuck off, Azazel Sep 25, 2026

  The man makes the times, huh? Come on now, Young Buck. There's still pockets of mania, but managing it with the medic...

• Inverse Moth Sep 24, 2026

  A void? More like some weird chasm with funny little floating things in it, if you ask me. I've had to take some exte...

Bobby Hiltz

An English teacher in France writing about technology, education, gaming, and guides with an indie web ethos.

• BIRDCAGE Sep 25, 2026

  BIRDCAGE by Polygon Bird is great shmup and a fabulous homage to late-90s games

• Credit Feed: Super XYX Sep 11, 2026

  A quick review of the shoot-'em-up game Super XYX on the Nintendo Switch. A great game for shmup fans, and everyone e...

• There Aren't Enough Quarters in the World (Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 2) Sep 05, 2026

  A review of Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 2 on the Nintendo Switch, a good collection for fans of Toaplan shmups

Bobby Hiltz

An ESL instructor's blog covering technology, education, games, and personal reflections.

• BIRDCAGE Sep 25, 2026

  BIRDCAGE by Polygon Bird is great shmup and a fabulous homage to late-90s games

• Credit Feed: Super XYX Sep 11, 2026

  A quick review of the shoot-'em-up game Super XYX on the Nintendo Switch. A great game for shmup fans, and everyone e...

• There Aren't Enough Quarters in the World (Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 2) Sep 05, 2026

  A review of Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 2 on the Nintendo Switch, a good collection for fans of Toaplan shmups

Coding Horror

programming and human factors

• If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? Sep 25, 2026

  Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful state...

• You Can't "Vibe Code" Love Aug 31, 2026

  About six months ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely tak...

• Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show Jun 22, 2026

  About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT networ...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Fireside Friday, September 25, 2026 Sep 25, 2026

  Hey, folks, Fireside this week! We’re now well into the Teaching Paradox series on Hearts of Iron, but as you may hav...

• Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines Sep 19, 2026

  This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War ...

• Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art Sep 11, 2026

  This week, at long last, we begin our long-delayed but always expected something that we blog for: the Hearts of Iron...

Mr. Money Mustache

Early Retirement through Badassity

• Will the AI Bubble Destroy our Retirement? Sep 25, 2026

  Wow, how about that stock market?  It’s a phrase we keep having to dust off and use again, as the years go by and the...

• The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Social Security Apr 16, 2026

  In the world of very early retirement, we tend to ignore one of the most important things for normal retirees: the So...

• My Unexpected Journey to Hormone Replacement (TRT) Dec 16, 2025

  As a man of Science, I’m supposed to hide my enthusiasm about this somewhat controversial subject, and instead direct...

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.

• Weekly Notes 39/2026 Sep 25, 2026

  In one of my earlier blog posts, I mentioned that I have become more routine, more protective of my time, and indirec...

• Weekly Notes 38/2026 Sep 18, 2026

  It’s been a busy week, but not as busy as last week, mostly because Monday was a holiday and I got some rest. Uma was...

• Why Garmin Forerunner 965? Sep 12, 2026

  I have been looking for a full-fledged smartwatch for a while now. I have a Pebble and a BangleJS; I use them all the...

Steve Blank

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• AI Killed the MVP – Long Live the IUP Sep 25, 2026

  This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants This is the second of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean La...

• The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same Sep 23, 2026

  This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship...

• Lean Launch Pad 2026 @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations Jun 16, 2026

  We just finished the 16th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. In those 16 years, the class has gone from a radic...

The Universe of Discourse

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

• L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages Sep 25, 2026

  The Fibonacci sequence is so-called because in Western mathematics is first appears in connection with a problem from...

• The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order Sep 24, 2026

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

• Noting another house repair chore victory Sep 23, 2026

  Yesterday I reported about how much I despise home repair, how I feel I'm really bad at it, how it sometimes goes ter...

Your Local Epidemiologist

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

• Don’t boil the ocean: Reach passive positives Sep 25, 2026

  The 2026 fall vaccines should be available, for free, to everyone who needs them.

• Medicare for All: Separating the slogan from the substance Sep 23, 2026

  People are fed up with the U.S.

• Where are the fall vaccines? Plus Covid-19 and norovirus, and what another measles death means Sep 22, 2026

  The Dose (Sept 22)

xkcd.com

• Slab Graveyard Sep 25, 2026
• Voyager Instruments Sep 23, 2026
• Stargazing 5 Sep 21, 2026

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• How to copy URLs of multiple Firefox tabs without installing an extension Sep 24, 2026

  It’s easy, once you know you can

• Older than the dog Sep 05, 2026

  How wise do our mentors need to be?

• Ode to Metadata Sep 01, 2026

  Make your projects 4-dimensional

Personal Log at usebox.net

Recent content in Personal Log at usebox.net

• Using emacs Sep 24, 2026

  There has always been that rivalry between these two editors. In fact, the closing question in my first successful jo...

• The effects of walking Sep 08, 2026

  Before I started working from home, I was lucky enough to commute to the office by foot. That was 35 minutes in each ...

• Loading from tape again Sep 04, 2026

  A couple of days ago we decided to repeat the experience of loading games from tape, but this time with my ZX Spectru...

William Lyon's Blog

Software, startups, and data

• Checking Knowledge Graph Extraction with GLiNER2.5-Decide Sep 24, 2026

  GLiNER2.5-Decide beside GLiNER2.5: two local models checking extracted edges, typing mentions for entity resolution, ...

• Typed Judgments for Knowledge Graph Extraction with TypeSafe's Jev Sep 17, 2026

  TypeSafe's Jev model as a stage between a span extractor and a Neo4j graph: gating edges on whether the source assert...

• From a Neo4j Graph Back to an OKF Bundle Aug 09, 2026

  Part two of the Neo4j and OKF series. A projection is a selection query with a serializer on the end: it reads a gove...

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.

• ArrangementView: Think Before You Arrange Sep 23, 2026

  In the first time I saw the `ArrangementView` API, I had a vague sense of discomfort, though I couldn’t quite put my ...

• A “Native” Debate Over SwiftUI Animation - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #154 Sep 21, 2026

  Last week, a post by React Native core developer Krzysztof Magiera sparked a lively discussion across the Apple devel...

• From pbxproj to xcproj: Xcode Project Configuration Gets a JSON Format Sep 17, 2026

  Apple has released the 27.2 beta. Although the iPhone Duo simulator is still missing, the new `project.xcproj` is qui...

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.

• In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825) Sep 23, 2026

  An illuminated Persian manuscript about customs, culture, and caste, written by an enigmatic figure of the early Brit...

• Veronese's Dogs Sep 16, 2026

  “Oh, if I could only pray”, Luther once said of his dog Tölpel, “the way this dog watches the meat”. Attending to att...

• It’s “A Cat-astrophe”! (1919) Sep 15, 2026

  “A Cat-astrophe” came on the tail end of an odd 1918 boom in cat-themed music.

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Higurashi Mahjong Sep 23, 2026

  I have played and reviewed many little-known and niche visual novels. But I am also familiar with some of the classic...

• AP Tests and College Credits Sep 22, 2026

  According to Neetu Arnold, writing for City Journal, “37 states require public universities to award credit to studen...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-22-26 Sep 22, 2026

  Let us make it three days of Pook-Emu Bee links in a row. 1 | Million Goods Opens And A Crucial Bike Lane Completed (...

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• Reviewing What You Are Reading, Watching, or Playing Sep 23, 2026

  On first reviewing the show you're watching (or book you're reading, game you're playing, etc.) before thinking about...

• Charles Barkley on Scottie Pippen’s Aborted 2007 NBA Comeback Sep 08, 2026

  I remembered Charles Barkley having a humorous reaction on a 2007 episode of Inside the NBA when confronted with news...

• RSS Amplifier Re-Publishes 19 Full NLJ Articles Without Permission Sep 06, 2026

  A PSA about a new scraping service for AI crawlers that syndicated (charitably) or re-published (less charitably) 19 ...