Mar 10, 2026 from Kev Quirk Pure Blog Is Now Feature Complete...ish I've just released v1.8.0 of Pure Blog, which was the final big feature I wanted to add1. At this point, Pure Blog does all the things I would want a useful CMS to do, such as: Storing content in p...
Mar 10, 2026 from The Autodidacts Some thoughts about backing up, which occurred to me after my laptop abruptly expired I had other plans for what to write about, and also plans for the day that didn't involve disassembling my connection to the outside world with a screwdriver
Mar 10, 2026 from Julia Evans Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages Hello! My big takeaway from last month’s musings about man pages was that examples in man pages are really great, so I worked on adding (or improving) examples to two of my favourite tools’ man pag...
Mar 10, 2026 from The Fly Blog Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practically nothing when idle. They’re the best and safest place on the Internet to run a...
Mar 10, 2026 from Heitor's log TIL: how to check why a Nix package is in the Nix Store Ever wondered why a package ended up in your Nix store? Here's how nix why-depends can help you find out.
Mar 09, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software New Laptop It is hard to believe that I’ve been at AWS almost four years, but it turns out that is about the amount of time one needs to qualify for a laptop replacement. When I joined I could choose a 14-inc...
Mar 09, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Meteorit in Koblenz In Koblenz hat ein Meteorit ein Loch in ein Hausdach geschlagen.
Mar 09, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 9 March 2026 Petabyte Pie Edition Top Story Two court cases have ruled that AIs aren't people. (Yahoo) And they're not lawyers either, though lawyers also aren't people. Mostly. Will the Anthropic's Pentagon co...
Mar 09, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog MacBook Neo: The Starting Point of Apple's Return to Campus - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #126 Last week, Apple launched several new hardware products. Unlike previous launch events, this release was unusually low-key. Initially, I was only interested in the newly announced monitor, but afte...
Mar 09, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal Cracking The Vaultek LifePod 1.0 (VLP10-BK) Safe Summary I have a Vaultek LifePod 1.0 (VLP10-BK) safe I bought a few years ago to store valuables or keep firearms away from children. Not to mention keep away from those who may attempt to steal th...
Mar 09, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal Cracking The Vaultek LifePod 1.0 (VLP10-BK) Safe Summary I have a Vaultek LifePod 1.0 (VLP10-BK) safe I bought a few years ago to store valuables or keep firearms away from children. Not to mention keep away from those who may attempt to steal th...
Mar 09, 2026 from It's FOSS MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow Colorado, Illinois, and New York could join the list if their proposed age verification bills pass.
Mar 09, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W10 Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity — The Engineer A vs Engineer B comparison is painfully recognizable. A ships a 50-line solution in days, B builds an event-driven architecture over three weeks, ...
Mar 09, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint: I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that people are willing to write detailed CLAUDE.md and PROJECT.md files for Claude to use...
Mar 09, 2026 from It's FOSS How Linux and BSD Distros Are Responding to the New Age Verification Laws Age verification laws could change how operating systems work. See how major Linux and BSD distributions are reacting to the new regulations.
Mar 09, 2026 from Thejesh GN Running Bash programs on Moodle CodeRunner I have been teaching a course at APU that includes Bash scripting. I have a love-hate relationship with Bash. It’s a weird combination of a programming language and an iterative CLI. It’s confusing...
Mar 09, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse How are John Waters movies like James Bond movies? A number of years ago I wondered how many movies I had seen. The only way I could think of finding out was just to make a list. This I did as best I could. (It turned out to be around 700.) I found...
Mar 09, 2026 from The Autodidacts Sheep Music & Wedding Bands On knowledge gaps and bookworm pronunciation syndrome
Mar 09, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #351 It is my pleasure to welcome Anyscale as a new partner of Weekly Robotics! Please give them a round of applause. This means that, under our partnership structure, we only have one sponsor seat avai...