Jan 12, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog An AT Life Isn't Necessarily Better Than an MT One - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #118 When I learned to drive, I used a manual transmission (MT). At first, my lack of skill often left me flustered, so for my first car, I went straight for an automatic (AT). However, after driving fo...
Jan 12, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Is prime numbers bad for kids? Where do search suggestions on duckduckgo.com come from?
Jan 12, 2026 from Brajeshwar Sprezzatura I have thought of this for a long time, but never knew the correct terminology. Recently, I stumbled on it and its Italian, Sprezzatura.
Jan 12, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #343 The schedule for the Robotics and Simulation Devroom at FOSDEM 2026 is out! We have some exciting talks lined up. I'm really looking forward to it, and if you can come to Brussels at the end of Jan...
Jan 11, 2026 from R74n Newsletter Sandboxels Update: Pixel Groups, Cooler (Hotter?) Fire, and 1 billion more features Okay, maybe only 1 million
Jan 11, 2026 from Ryan Bagley Chrome Featured Extension Is Actually A Scraper Network Update on January 30, 2026: A MyBib developer contacted me about this extension’s behavior. They confirmed that this was expected behavior and it was how they were pooling the retrieval of user cit...
Jan 11, 2026 from Chuniversiteit Is that my legitimate interest or your legitimate interest? Websites are allowed to collect user data without explicit consent, if they follow all the rules – but they often don’t.
Jan 11, 2026 from Isaac Clayton Marathon Row Happy Sunday! Two days ago, I woke up at 5:45am to row 26.2 miles. I walked on to the rowing team at MIT a year and a half ago. That might have been the greatest decision for personal development I...
Jan 10, 2026 from Peter's Path Number Station 44 Shortwave signals from nowhere. Encrypted messages that have haunted the airwaves for decades. Cold War ghosts, spy tradecraft, and transmissions that still broadcast today, for someone. This is Nu...
Jan 09, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual curl logo optimization How small can you make the curl logo SVG?
Jan 09, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI I am still working adding services to my NAS and one thing that was on my todo list for a while was a proper GMail backup. You never know when the powers that be deny y...
Jan 09, 2026 from The Fly Blog Code And Let Live The state of the art in agent isolation is a read-only sandbox. At Fly.io, we’ve been selling that story for years, and we’re calling it: ephemeral sandboxes are obsolete. Stop killing your sandbox...
Jan 08, 2026 from Paul's Weblog K, M, G, T vs. Ki, Mi, Gi, Ti Here’s a throwback from my undergrad1 degree: depending on the context, K, M, G, T can be base 10 OR base 2. For a quick refresher: K, M, G, T are kilo-, mega-, giga-, and peta-. Here’s the tl;dr: ...
Jan 08, 2026 from Commented Out My C source file format preferences Formatting is not something developers should be spending much time on, but we spend a lot of time staring at code to see if it's right so the formatting needs to be pleasing to the eye. As such, m...
Jan 08, 2026 from Julia Evans A data model for Git (and other docs updates) Hello! This past fall, I decided to take some time to work on Git’s documentation. I’ve been thinking about working on open source docs for a long time – usually if I think the documentation for so...
Jan 07, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Advent of Code 2025: Rückblick 2025 habe ich zum ersten Mal meinen Vorsatz zum Advent of Code eingehalten: Wenn es zu stressig wird, höre ich auf.
Jan 07, 2026 from Peter's Path On Democracies and Death Cults by Douglas Murray Why read the book? Douglas Murray wrote On Democracies and Death Cults. He looks at the fight between Israel and Hamas. Murray calls it a clash between a free country and a group that loves death. ...
Jan 07, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Farewell to Portable Assembly: I've Been Running Swift on MCUs for Seven Years Long before Apple’s official entry, Andy Liu and his MadMachine team spent years pioneering embedded Swift. Taking a unique path for complex development scenarios, they’ve built a perspective diffe...
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