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Muffin Man

FrontEnd & Creative Coding

• GB Pixel Art Jam 2026 - SpaceDeck Trio Dec 10, 2026

  I participated in my first pixel art jam! It was a Game Boy themed one. It was a lot of fun to work with such a limit...

• SpaceDeck X July devlog: upgrades, backgrounds, and more Jul 23, 2026

  I've been developing SpaceDeck X since December last year. It started as me playing with a random framework I found f...

• SpaceDeck X is coming to an arcade cabinet May 21, 2026

  I want your coins! I'm making a game. It is called SpaceDeck X and you can try it online. But thanks to Amsterdam Ind...

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 12 October 2026 Oct 12, 2026

  Prostetnic Vogon Jatz Edition Top Story Xbox sales have fallen 33% to the lowest level since the platform launched 75...

• Daily News Stuff 11 October 2026 Oct 11, 2026

  Box That Goes Ping Edition Top Story AI models and agents are security risks and should be banned from your corporate...

• Daily News Stuff 10 October 2026 Oct 10, 2026

  Wavy Tableau Edition Top Story The US government have suspended US companies Microsoft, Adobe, and Cognizant, and a b...

Avenyora Journal

Grounded reflections on relationships, astrology, tarot and self-discovery.

• Orionids 2026: Where to Look Without Staring at Orion Oct 12, 2026

  The Orionids do not require you to stare at Orion's Belt. Plan a wide view for the October 21–22 peak, check local mo...

• Midheaven vs 10th House Cusp: Why Your MC Can Be Elsewhere Oct 12, 2026

  Your MC does not have to sit on the tenth-house boundary. Compare the point, the house cusp, and the house system bef...

• AI Companion Keeps Bringing Up Old Memories? Set a Topic Boundary Oct 11, 2026

  An accurate memory can still be an unwanted topic. Choose what you want to discuss now, state a clear boundary, and c...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Bang Out Of Order Oct 12, 2026

  Read Bang Out Of Order Customer: "Fine. Your generation and those weird haircuts…" Me: *Taken aback.* "Excuse me?" Cu...

• Untitled Oct 12, 2026

  Read I was traveling via Amtrak (a major train company on the east coast United States), and it was my luck that this...

• Untitled Oct 12, 2026

  Read (This exchange happens over text messages. Spelling and grammar have been corrected.) Dad: “You need to get out ...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Calibre 9.16 adds Kokoro voices for read aloud, Camoufox integration & updated Kobo driver Oct 12, 2026

  In its latest update, Calibre has rolled out version 9.16, introducing significant enhancements to audio accessibilit...

• Python 3.15 is here with faster JIT compiler, explicit lazy imports, and UTF-8 by default Oct 12, 2026

  The Python Software Foundation has officially released Python 3.15, marking one of the most significant updates to th...

• Deno team joins Cloudflare as runtime development winds down Oct 09, 2026

  The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to work with the Workers and Durable Objects teams on a shared platform for distr...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Norwegian Divers May Have Found the World’s Oldest Anchor, a Grooved Stone From the Stone Age Oct 12, 2026

  Five kilometres (about three miles) of open sea, strong currents and waves that give no warning. That is the distance...

• Roman-Era Oracle Pillar With 56 Answers, Consulted by Throwing Sheep Bones, Found in Turkey Oct 12, 2026

  Here is how a consultation worked. Anyone with a question (whether to travel, close a purchase, go to court, or wait ...

• Researchers Solve the Mystery of Enigmatic 18,000-Year-Old Venus Figurines: Artists Followed the Hidden Pattern Inside a Mammoth Tusk Oct 11, 2026

  Cut a mammoth tusk across and a pattern appears that nobody drew. Rings like those of a tree trunk mark how the ivory...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• A Free Cloud AI Oct 12, 2026

  If you would like an AI “personal agent” but don’t want your data on some opaque cloud computer, there’s a new option...

• DECing Out the Homelab with an AlphaServer 2100 Oct 12, 2026

  Retrocomputer enthusiasts have a bad rap as nerds who just want to play old video games. There’s some truth in this, ...

• Taking A Nokia 3310 Game Jam To The N’th Degree Oct 12, 2026

  Game jams are a fun competition in which the aim is to write a game under a particular theme while under a time const...

The Volokh Conspiracy

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

• Open Thread Oct 12, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• Fusionism in the Twenty-First Century Oct 11, 2026

  A Civitas Symposium on Stephanie Slade's new book.

• Sixth Circuit Affirms Universal Injunction Against Tennessee "Abortion Trafficking" Law that Does Not Reach Plaintiffs' Conduct Oct 11, 2026

  This is a case in which Judge Sutton may agree that the decision is not merely wrong, but also en-banc-worthy.

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

• Japan’s newest anime figure crane game prize may also be the world’s weirdest hanger [Photos] Oct 12, 2026

  There are two reasons this figure is posed that way. Prizes for UFO catchers/crane games in Japan tend to fall into o...

• Pizza Hut in Japan now serves spicy glass noodle pizza Oct 12, 2026

  No fewer than five nations are involved in the Malatang Pizza. Pizza Hut Japan has always been an example of culinary...

• Do Komeda’s beefy rice balls continue the chain’s hallowed tradition of “reverse fraud”? Oct 12, 2026

  Goodness gracious, great balls of rice and beef! Komeda Coffee is a nationwide chain of coffee shops that’s earned a ...

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.

• 46 Oct 12, 2026

  It feels like a major life turn after 35, even though I thought 35 was like half-life. I haven’t crossed the second h...

• Weekly Notes 41/2026 Oct 09, 2026

  This week was good. I got back to my routine after two weeks of travel and a hectic schedule. Work is progressing wel...

• Weekly Notes 40/2026 Oct 02, 2026

  It’s been a crazy but good week. It’s also been a fun week. Last Friday was a long class at APU before the midterm ho...

Puzzlify notes

Practical ideas for photo gifts, from the team behind Puzzlify: turn a personal photo into a private digital jigsaw you send as a link.

• A thank-you for your junior American football or flag football coach at the end of the season: a team photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end Oct 12, 2026

  Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to...

• A thank-you for your junior ice hockey coach at the end of the season: a team photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end Oct 12, 2026

  Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to...

• A thank-you for your junior netball coach at the end of the season: a team photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end Oct 12, 2026

  Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• Listening to music as an active process Oct 11, 2026

  Although I’m a semi-professional musician, most days, I listen to far less music than my friends. I generally work in...

• TIL how to deeplink all the things Oct 07, 2026

  I have written before about how to link to a specific segment of a youtube video, and how to link to specific words o...

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

  It’s easy, once you know you can

Personal Log at usebox.net

Recent content in Personal Log at usebox.net

• Into the Breach Oct 11, 2026

  As I have mentioned here a few times, I don’t play a lot of games these days. The last game I completed was Skyrim. I...

• 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 ...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-11-26 Oct 11, 2026

  After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled...

• Interpreting Trackback Spam on NLJ Oct 06, 2026

  I receive remarkable amounts of comment spam on The New Leaf Journal’s Guestbook page, but I seldom receive pingback/...

• Re-Filling My Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser 3 Oct 04, 2026

  I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my s...

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.

• Campaign Against ‘New Qing History’ Reinforces Ethnic Unity Oct 11, 2026

  John Dotson

• Beijing’s London Embassy as an Integrated Threat Oct 10, 2026

  Sze-Fung Lee

• In the Online Age, PRC Foreign Intelligence Evolves Oct 09, 2026

  Matt Brazil

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Gordiya Oct 11, 2026

  The woman whose name keeps showing up in the last few posts was the wife of three powerful men in 6th-century Iran, o...

• Uncle Vistahm Oct 10, 2026

  An uncle willing to kill your father might not be the best person in whom to put your faith. Vistahm and his brother ...

• Dealing with the Uncles Oct 09, 2026

  So Khosrow II had regained his throne and the usurper Bahram Chobin had fled and been killed. Order was restored in t...

Stranger Than Usual

• Satire ist tot Oct 11, 2026

  April 2026: Satire-Artikel in The Onion, dass das US-DOJ Hinrichtungen live-streamen will. Oktober 2026: Pete Hegseth...

• Trump und Folter Oct 09, 2026

  Die USA klagen Maduro wegen Folter an. Warum? Ich dachte, Trump sei pro Folter.

• Rollenspielszenen: Eichhörnchenangriff Oct 07, 2026

  Mr. Nutterbutter ist eine Fernkampfwaffe.

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 2026-10-11 Oct 11, 2026

  The World RIP Margaret Hamilton, pioneering software engineer for the Apollo Program. She lived long enough to witnes...

• Uncharted 2: Among Theieves, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Tomb Raider (2013), Shadow of the Tomb Raider Oct 06, 2026

  Like many young male gamers of a certain age, back in the day I did try playing the original Tomb Raider games a bit ...

• Weeknotes 2026-10-04 Oct 04, 2026

  It is October! Somehow the year is already more than 75% over. The World Public transportation in Metro Manila had a ...

MacBorn

MacBorn reviews and recommendations for great Mac software.

• Disk Utility vs. VeraCrypt: How to encrypt files on a Mac Oct 11, 2026

  I needed to protect files stored in iCloud and on an external USB drive, so I compared VeraCrypt with the encrypted d...

• Disk Utility or VeraCrypt: How should you encrypt files on a Mac? Oct 11, 2026

  I needed to protect files stored in iCloud and on an external USB drive, so I compared VeraCrypt with the encrypted d...

• Three ways to keep your Mac awake Oct 02, 2026

  I needed to keep my Mac awake while long tasks were running, so I compared macOS settings, caffeinate, and KeepingYou...

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• How To Choose the Right Tops for Your Plus Size Capsule Wardrobe Oct 10, 2026

  If you get decision fatigue every time you open your closet, you may benefit from having a capsule wardrobe. The caps...

• Ways to Make Watching a Sporting Event More Fun and Engaging Oct 09, 2026

  There’s nothing better than the feeling of cheering your team on. And with all kinds of sporting events happening thr...

• The Most in Demand Qualifications Right Now Sep 21, 2026

  There are plenty of job opportunities out there and employers are on the lookout for candidates with a specific skill...