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Michael Lynch

I'm Michael Lynch, software developer and blogger. I used to work as a software engineer at large companies, but now I create indie businesses and blog about the process.

• Refactoring English: Month 21 Sep 21, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 20 Aug 13, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 19 Jul 15, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• 2026-09-19 22:28: Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it... Sep 19, 2026

  Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it again with an adult brain...Jenny i...

• Amelia the Chicken Sep 19, 2026

  We lost our favourite chicken last night. I know, just a chicken, right? Big deal. It's not like we lost a pet. But t...

• A day is short, a life is long Sep 18, 2026

  A day is short, a life is longby Kevin WammerKevin talks about some of the stuff he's figured out in his life now tha...

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

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

• Galley House Is Beyond Help Sep 19, 2026

  Back in the 1930s, a terrible discovery was made at Galley House – a broken corpse on the doorsteps, the blood still ...

• Big Finish, Bigger Scarf – The Fourth Doctor Audios, Part 2 Sep 08, 2026

  Once upon a time in the 1970s, Tom Baker had picked up the Doctor Who baton from Jon Pertwee and made it well and tru...

• The Soggy Railroad Sep 01, 2026

  Roguish 1920s adventurer Calvin Rafferty and gender non-conforming Miskatonic University academic Faye Bennett are de...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Coreboot Hikes the Bay Trail to DRAM Initialization Sep 19, 2026

  This article is written on an open-source operating system, but not an open-source machine — the BIOS isn’t open-sour...

• Teaching a Robot Hand to Walk Sep 19, 2026

  Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic ...

• What are Your Indispensable Software Skills? Sep 19, 2026

  Using tools properly takes skill, and this goes for software tools as well as hardware. You don’t just buy a paintbru...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Blue-Factor Authentication Sep 19, 2026

  Read Blue-Factor Authentication Help Desk: "I need to ask you your security questions, sir, okay?" Me: "Sure." Help D...

• A Box Office Bomb Sep 19, 2026

  Read A Box Office Bomb Kevin: "Thanks! It was actually really fun!" Me: "Fun?" Kevin: "Yeah! Everyone was so happy wh...

• One Day, If We’re Lucky, Customers Like This Will Go Extinct Sep 19, 2026

  Read One Day, If We’re Lucky, Customers Like This Will Go Extinct Customer: "Do you serve anything endangered?" Did I...

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 19 September 2026 Sep 19, 2026

  Fluorine Bleach Edition Top Story The first new cat species to be identified in more than a century, leopardus tilcay...

• Daily News Stuff 18 September 2026 Sep 18, 2026

  Asdfghjkl Plus Edition Top Story AI researchers warned that the AIs they were researching would go rogue, and then th...

• Daily News Stuff 17 September 2026 Sep 17, 2026

  Cold And Dead Edition Top Story We narrowed down where Salesforce has been spending on the order of $400 million per ...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

• Gang of angry monkeys surrounds and attacks Japanese man in hot spring town Sep 19, 2026

  Morning walk interrupted by notorious Troop T1. The town of Yugawara, in Kanagawa Prefecture, seems like it should be...

• Fox spotted in Tokyo’s 23 wards, Japanese Internet wonders if it’s a shapeshifting spirit [Video] Sep 19, 2026

  Foxes rarely venture this close to the Tokyo city center…unless kitsune spirits are here all the time. You can spot l...

• JAL first class cakes can be bought for a bargain, but are they as bougie as they seem? Sep 19, 2026

  In Japan, a cake that’s “imperfect” can sometimes be perfect. Whenever we’re not eating sweets, you can find us on th...

The Volokh Conspiracy

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

• When You're in a College Electrical Circuits Lab, Better Follow the Teacher's Instructions Sep 19, 2026

  From Soliz v. Alamo Colleges Dist., decided by Judge David Ezra (W.D. Tex.) on Sept. 16: Plaintiff Joseph Soliz, who…...

• General Threats to Kill Jews and "Zionists" Can Be Punished Sep 19, 2026

  An excerpt from a longish opinion by Judge David Alan Ezra (W.D. Tex.) Monday in U.S. v. Griffin: Defendant was… The ...

• Today in Supreme Court History: September 19, 1907 Sep 19, 2026

  9/19/1907: Justice Lewis Powell's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 19, 1907 appeared firs...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Elecrow CrowPanel Advanced HMI Display Review: A Tinkerer's Touchscreen Sep 19, 2026

  A big touchscreen board for makers who want a physical control panel for their homelab, if you don't mind doing the w...

• GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start Sep 18, 2026

  GrapheneOS is calling out Google over its negligence in providing certain patches.

• Valve Quietly Open-Sources Its Android Compatibility Layer Sep 18, 2026

  The Lepton project is aimed at game developers who want to bring VR-focused Android titles over to Steam Frame.

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Belisarius Returns to Italy Sep 19, 2026

  The Gothic Wars (535 - 554) under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I were created to reunify the Western Roman Empire ...

• The Nika Riots, Part 3 Sep 18, 2026

  Emperor Justinian's plan to end the Nika Riots involved bribes. One difficulty about the Riots was that two large and...

• The Nika Riots, Part 2 Sep 17, 2026

  Let's look at how Emperor Justinian managed to stop the Nika Riots and save Constantinople. We saw yesterday how the ...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Why Doesn’t Gravity Explain Why You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once? A New Experiment Under 1,400 Meters of Rock Just Narrowed It Down Sep 19, 2026

  Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exi...

• Earth Isn’t a Perfect Sphere — But It’s Changing Shape Faster Than Expected Sep 18, 2026

  Earth has never been a perfect sphere. It bulges slightly at the equator and flattens slightly at the poles, a shape ...

• A 1,800-Year-Old Roman Iron and Bronze Workshop Almost as Big as a Villa Uncovered in Switzerland Sep 18, 2026

  Workers were preparing to build a block of flats in Ligornetto, a small town in the canton of Ticino, right on the bo...

The Scholar's Stage

A forum to discuss the intersections of history, behavioral science, and strategic thought, with an emphasis on East and Southeast Asian affairs.

• The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark Sep 19, 2026

  PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated.  I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have und...

• China and the Future of Science Mar 21, 2026

  THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...

• On Bombing Iran Mar 01, 2026

  THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• 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...

• Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026 Sep 04, 2026

  Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,00...

Noahie's Blog

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

• Deeper Roots Sep 19, 2026

  The funny thing about trees is that the more they spread their leaves, the deeper their roots seep. I came up with th...

• Professional Idiot Sep 18, 2026

  I'd rather be a Professional Idiot than an idiot professional. But that's just me. I had a dream last night I can't s...

• Ticking Sep 17, 2026

  My trip on Labor Day weekend was great, thanks for asking. Getting back into this proverbial saddle gives me a bit of...

Above the Law

A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

• Cravath’s Latest Hire Comes With A Les Moonves-Shaped Asterisk — See Also Sep 18, 2026

  Cravath Says Mike Aiello Shares Its 'Values.' About That: Not where I would have gone with the press release, but OK....

• He Took ‘Zealous Advocacy’ A Fatal Step Too Far Sep 18, 2026

  He got his client acquitted from beyond the grave. The post He Took ‘Zealous Advocacy’ A Fatal Step Too Far appeared ...

• The 3 Things Every Healthy Organization Needs Sep 18, 2026

  What actually makes people stay, thrive, and grow inside an organization — and what quietly drives them away. The pos...

Palladium

Governance Futurism

• Don’t Count Out the Country House Sep 18, 2026

  The English country estate bound each generation to the land and to relationships that endured for centuries, sculpti...

• The Organization That Remade India Sep 10, 2026

  One Hindu nationalist organization remade society from the ground up. Other ambitious projects should learn how they ...

• Battling All the Way Home Aug 27, 2026

  Homer’s Odyssey offers a window into the Greek view of life, which can teach us what moral excellence truly means. Th...

Stranger Than Usual

• Rollenspielszenen: Ein Hund Sep 18, 2026

  Fällt mir was an dem Hund auf? *roll* …es ist ein Hund.

• Eidechsen Sep 16, 2026

  Ich habe im botanischen Garten in Bochum heute zwei Eidechsen gesehen.

• SystemD-Security für einen Minecraft-Server Sep 16, 2026

  Ich habe ein paar Sicherheitsoptionen für meinen Minecraft-Server aktiviert.

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• GrapheneOS claims Android 17 QPR1 APIs remain exclusive to Pixel devices Sep 18, 2026

  GrapheneOS reports Android 17 QPR1 adds app developer APIs that remain exclusive to Pixel software rather than being ...

• Ktor 3.6.0 adds typed auth and experimental HTTP/3 support Sep 18, 2026

  Ktor 3.6.0 introduces experimental typed authentication, with role-based access and anonymous-user support, alongside...

• Perplexity Computer gets new effort controls on the web Sep 18, 2026

  Perplexity is rolling out effort controls in Computer’s model selector on the web. The presets pair an orchestrator m...

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 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...

• Weekly Notes 37/2026 Sep 11, 2026

  It’s been a hectic week. I had quite a bit of work both at work and at home. I’m still lagging on my home TODO list. ...

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.

• Non-obvious Nix Options Sep 18, 2026

  You followed the NixOS installation guide, now what? Awash in a sea of nix options what are you missing in your config?

• Building a Better Dog Camera Part 1 - Raspberry Pi with NixOS Sep 15, 2026

  I'll say up top that this part was unfinished before I moved on to my second attempt. So think of this more as a coll...

• Boston Athletic Association 10k Post Race Report Sep 10, 2026

  Though I've done longer races before, this was my first time targeting my training for a 10k distance.