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Fresh hacks every day

• 3D Printing a Railway Pump Car Aug 24, 2026

  A staple of old movies featuring railways, many handcars – also called pump trolleys or pump cars – feature the chara...

• Hackaday Links: August 23, 2026 Aug 23, 2026

  We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mi...

• Using the Basic SNES Hardware to Play Minecraft Aug 23, 2026

  After previously putting a very basic version of Minecraft on the Game Boy Color, [Tobi] decided to have some fun and...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

• Osaka Starbucks has one of the city’s coolest photo vantage points, but it’s going away soon Aug 24, 2026

  We head to Osaka to say goodbye to Ebitsuta, and get a new view at one of the city’s most famous landmarks. The physi...

• We recommend not buying one pack of Japan’s new convenience store corn soup-flavor fried chicken Aug 23, 2026

  But that doesn’t mean we don’t love it. Japanese convenience store chain Lawson’s Karaage-kun is one of the absolute ...

• Ohaw? Ruibe? Pocche? While traveling in Japan’s north, we try Ainu cuisine for the first time Aug 23, 2026

  Taste-testing the northern frontier of local foods in Japan. Just about every corner of Japan has some special food i...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Charge It To Experience Aug 23, 2026

  Read Charge It To Experience On her return, she presented a receipt from the local café and said in a demanding tone:...

• This Is The Right Stuff Aug 23, 2026

  Read This Is The Right Stuff Guest: "Hmm, this is the real Bill of Rights?" Me: "That's right." Guest: "It's just… th...

• Putting The Art In Fart Aug 23, 2026

  Read Putting The Art In Fart Boss: "You need to come into work no matter what." Me: "Did you hear my reason why I can...

Above the Law

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

• ChatGPT Experts, $700 Million Law Firms, And Frat House Felonies — See Generally Aug 23, 2026

  Expertly Flawed: An expert witness collected $90,000 from 3M to ask ChatGPT, "show how 3M is 0% at fault." Plaintiffs...

• Matching The Milbank Scale Before Most Of Biglaw — See Also Aug 21, 2026

  While The Rest Of Biglaw Waits On Cravath, McKool Smith Just Matched Milbank: The Texas trial powerhouse is raising a...

• Supreme Court Confirmation Isn’t Always A Sure Thing — Just Ask The First Man To Lose One Aug 21, 2026

  He was Borked before Borking was a thing. The post Supreme Court Confirmation Isn’t Always A Sure Thing — Just Ask Th...

The Volokh Conspiracy

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

• Trump Imposes Harmful and Illegal Section 338 Tariffs Against Many Canadian Imports Aug 23, 2026

  Section 338 is a long-defunct part of the notorious Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.

• AI Freezes The Scholarly Voice Aug 23, 2026

  AI trains on your voice at a particular point of time, and stunts future development.

• Ben & Jerry's Lawsuit Over "Social-Mission"-Related Contract Related to Its Earlier Sale Aug 23, 2026

  A summary from Reuters (Jonathan Stempel) Friday: A federal judge on Friday dismissed major ​portions of a Ben & Jerr...

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 23 August 2026 Aug 23, 2026

  A Zelda In Time Edition Top Story Never send a Link to do a Zelda's work: The LINK mission intended to boost the Swif...

• Daily News Stuff 22 August 2026 Aug 22, 2026

  Diseneuropification Edition Top Story All the news is stupid. AI use boosts the quality of students' homework - and t...

• Daily News Stuff 20 August 2026 Aug 20, 2026

  Triple-Baked Balaclava Edition Top Story Microsoft GitHub says the 8-hour outage of its systems was caused by a combi...

Stranger Than Usual

• Rollenspielszenen: Kriminelle Konstrukte Aug 23, 2026

  Wenn es Wachkonstrukte gibt, gibt es dann auch Kriminalkonstrukte?

• Hörnchen oder Waffel? Aug 22, 2026

  Ich muss hier unbedingt den Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache vorstellen. Ich dachte, ich hätte das schon längst getan.

• Thimbleweed Park 2 Aug 21, 2026

  Thimbleweed Park 2 ist in der Entwicklung und es gibt ein Dev-Blog

Personal Log at usebox.net

Recent content in Personal Log at usebox.net

• New website Aug 23, 2026

  After 8 years of love/hate, I decided to leave Hugo and go Haskell.

• Outpost progress Aug 12, 2026

  I have been working lately on “Outpost”, a video adventure for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It is a bit metroidvania in some ...

• It is the game, stupid! Jul 25, 2026

  Paraphrasing the famous American catchphrase, I have noticed a pattern in my gamedev failures. Generally, people get ...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• Dungeon Crawler Carl Aug 23, 2026

  Dungeon Crawler CarlAuthor: Matt DinnimanGenre: Fantast, Sci-fiReleased: 2020Rating: ★★★★★You know what’s worse than ...

• Gamifying Snacking with Snacker Tracker Aug 19, 2026

  So one of the things I've been trying to do as part of my journey to lose weight and get fit is sort my diet out. As ...

• The Smell of AI Aug 18, 2026

  The Smell of AIby Kevin WammerKevin talks about his opinions for various use cases for AI and LLMs.Read post ➡ I star...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• The Lombards Convert Aug 23, 2026

  There was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Lombardy when they had no king. Two kings in a row had been murde...

• The Lombards Aug 22, 2026

  The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according...

• The Origin of the Langobard People Aug 21, 2026

  The History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon drew heavily on other works, especially about prior times. One of thes...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• The back cover of an 8th-century codex hid ten papyri, six of which remain undeciphered because no one knows what language they are written in Aug 23, 2026

  In 1919, when someone began to carefully examine the binding of an 8th-century codex preserved in the Chapter Archive...

• Codex Gigas, the largest medieval illuminated manuscript, was created by a single monk who took 30 years to complete it Aug 22, 2026

  In 1648, as Swedish troops looted Prague Castle at the end of the Thirty Years’ War, someone carried off among the sp...

• The Oldest Sanctuary and Prehistoric Astronomical Observatory in Central Europe Found in the Czech Republic, a Thousand Years Older than Stonehenge Aug 21, 2026

  A team of archaeologists, led by the University of West Bohemia (UWB), has brought to light, near the town of Chleby,...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• 17 GNOME Extensions To Help You Customization Desktop Looks Aug 23, 2026

  Change how your Linux desktop running GNOME DE looks with these GNOME extensions.

• Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used AI to Fix a Kernel Bug Aug 22, 2026

  The creator of Linux needed 18 boots to find a one-line fix. The AI helped him get there.

• Proton Mail Wants to Organize Your Emails Automatically Aug 22, 2026

  The feature sorts mail into six categories using metadata alone, and full-content search is coming to mobile next.

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• How to fit Qwen3.8-27B into 16GB of VRAM and run it on a single RTX 3080 card: the best quantizations and Llama.cpp flags I've found Aug 23, 2026

  TL;DR: UD-IQ3_XXS with KV cache quantization

• Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand Aug 20, 2026

  Sticks tongue out at AI

• The Hopefully Eventually Ultimate Desktop Linux Troubleshooting Guide: Recovering from Crashes and Freezes Aug 20, 2026

  Free advice from the printer fixer

The Newsletter Leaf Journal

The Newsletter Leaf Journal is the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. It is written by Nicholas A. Ferrell, the editor and administrator of The New Leaf Journal. Our weekly issues include links to the newest articles at *The New Leaf Journal* and its sister projects and associated new...

• Printer 64 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIV Aug 22, 2026

  Leafy intro Welcome to the 294th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

• Deflated Bee 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIII Aug 15, 2026

  Welcome to the 293rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

• Coolidge Air Conditioner 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCII Aug 08, 2026

  Welcome to the 292nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas” Aug 22, 2026

  I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts w...

• Against “Like Them, but Better” Aug 22, 2026

  I came across a short post on @iamgregb (I assume by Greg B) titled “Like Them, but Better.” It’s Not. In the post, h...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-21-26 Aug 21, 2026

  It is time to wrap up another perfect five-for-five Pook-Emu Bee work-week before we take tomorrow off for Newsletter...

Refereeing and Reflection

Tangled Thoughts On RPGs and Related Hobbies

• Grim Dwarfs and Perilous Elves Aug 22, 2026

  The option to play a dwarf or elf has been part of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay since its first edition – an inheritanc...

• Free League Gives Its Creation More Life Aug 22, 2026

  A while back I covered the first wave of products for Free League’s Blade Runner RPG – based off the Year Zero engine...

• Kwisatz Your Own Haderach: the Sweeping Ambition of the Dune RPG Aug 19, 2026

  Dune is, it’s fair to say, a fairly troubled franchise. In terms of the novels, the original book is a landmark of sc...

LifeDev.net

Empowering creative people

• What Are the Best Evening Routines? 7 Habits for Darker, Shorter Days Aug 22, 2026

  Evening routines get a fraction of the attention that morning routines enjoy, which is strange, because the evening i...

• How Do You Learn With AI? 9 Ways to Use AI Tools for Studying Anything Faster Aug 17, 2026

  Learn with AI and you get something students have wanted since the invention of homework, a tutor that is available a...

• How Do You Do an Autumn Reset? 8 Steps to Restart Your Routines After Summer Aug 12, 2026

  An autumn reset is the yearly ritual that productive people quietly swear by while everyone else waits for January, a...

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Jellyfin Playlist Membership — Easily browse Jellyfin Music song titles to add or remove from playlists Aug 22, 2026

  I wanted to quickly see which of my song titles are already in which playlists, and to quickly add them to other play...

• Moving your Linux home folder to a dedicated drive is the distro-hopping secret I wish I knew earlier Aug 19, 2026

  “Home is where the heart is. On Linux, home is where everything personal to you is: your documents, downloads, screen...

• The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Here Aug 18, 2026

  The “best” model is not always the “best” model for you. Why I say this, is because Z.ai’s model is still outperforme...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plugin for Apple Messages that can basically text on your behalf Aug 22, 2026

  OpenAI has released a new ChatGPT plugin for Mac that gives the AI direct access to your Apple Messages conversations...

• Spline V2 launches with rebuilt 3D editor, AI agents, WebGPU, and new desktop app Aug 22, 2026

  The browser-based 3D design platform Spline has gone through one of its biggest overhauls with the launch of Spline V...

• Google adds Preferred Sources and enhanced content controls for Search and News Aug 21, 2026

  Google is rolling out a Preferred Sources button that allows users to save favorite news sites for prioritized access...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Vb: Pixel Armies for Pixel Societies Aug 21, 2026

  This is the second half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va, Vb) of our apparently five-part series lay...

• Fireside Friday, August 14, 2026 (On Financing Pre-Modern Navies) Aug 14, 2026

  Hey folks, fireside this week as I get ready for the start of a new semester! For this week, I wanted to talk briefly...

• Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together Aug 08, 2026

  This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying o...