Blogs tagged "variety"

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 church nativity crib builders: a photo of the stable figures unwrapped from newspaper, or the wise men halfway along the sill, as a jigsaw, with your note at the end Oct 24, 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 church christingle makers: a photo of the kit trays laid out in the vestry, or a row of christingles waiting on the font, as a jigsaw, with your note at the end Oct 24, 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 church christening preparation team: a photo of the lit baptism candle, or the christening gown laid out on a pew before the service, as a jigsaw, with your note at the end Oct 24, 2026

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

Avenyora Journal

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

• The Fool Tarot Card Is Zero—But Must It Come First? Oct 24, 2026

  The Fool's printed zero, place in a guidebook, and reflective meaning are different things. Learn to check your deck ...

• Friend Invites Someone Else? Clarify the Plan Before You Meet Oct 24, 2026

  When a friend adds another person to your plans, clarify the invitation, protect private conversation, and respond wi...

• Friend Drops By Unannounced? Agree on Visits Before They Arrive Oct 23, 2026

  A friend drops by unannounced, and you feel obliged to host. Set a clear visiting agreement, handle a doorstep refusa...

Sam's Ramblings

I post here sometimes. I post whatever I feel like talking about, which is never consistent. Keyoxide: openpgp4fpr:31ec437b458e29b42f7644094d8b07c18f31acbd

• 27 Club Sep 09, 2026
• Metro Chronicles V Aug 05, 2026
• wait May 06, 2026

The Linkfest

The opposite of doomscrolling: Every two weeks (roughly) I send you a collection of the best Internet reading I've found -- links to culture, technology, art and science that fascinated me. Full, free archives here. I'm Clive Thompson, a longtime science and tech reporter (Wired, New York Times ...

• Linkfest #48: The MouthPad, "Volitional Reconsumption", and The Genetics of Giant Pumpkins Aug 29, 2026

  Hello there! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I slowly and patiently di...

• Linkfest #47: A Decoy Font, "Reverse Minesweeper", and A Plant That Dies If You Look At Your Phone Aug 02, 2026

  Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I exhaustively read the entire...

• Linkfest #46: "Curse Tablets", a Robot Cellist, and Why Geologists Always Die In Movies Jun 25, 2026

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• Pricing Rarity Oct 06, 2026

  Unfinished; posting anyway. As a kid I lived through several collecting manias in the midst of my peers. Hockey cards...

• Pizza Time Jul 31, 2026

  Unfinished; posting anyway. Pizza and 2+1 offers go together like Apache Airflow and data engineering: Nobody knows w...

• Tech Interview: Aftertaste Feb 25, 2026

  Interviews take a lot of energy. In general but this one in particular. And getting through it also deserves a little...

Noahie's Blog

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

• Power Meditation 2 Oct 24, 2026

  This morning, I've been meditating on power again, though hopefully I can expand a bit from when I did that last time...

• Day One Oct 23, 2026

  Every day is Day One. The mysteries of life continue to confound me, and while I still deal with immense fatigue, lis...

• Random Funber Generator Oct 22, 2026

  My vibe coding experiment, debloatmail, has been going just as one would expect it to. Dunning my Kruger, let me tell...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• Curiosity Traps Oct 13, 2026

  On reverse honeypots, rewarding close attention, and finding your people

• 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...

Sam Patterson's Blog

Thoughts on software development, AI, and technology

• Informed versus Uninformed AI Skeptics Mar 27, 2025

  In Which I Describe why some AI Skeptics need to Experiment

• No Longer 98.6 - How Human Body Temperature has Changed Mar 24, 2025

  In Which I Learn that our Body Temperature is Lower than Commonly Believed

• Can Coding LLMs only Increase Complexity? Mar 21, 2025

  In Which I Vent my Frustrations about Using LLMs for Coding

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed: A place where I complain about technology or dive into quasi-philsophical subjects.

• Implementing a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2 Oct 10, 2026

  In order to follow a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy, you should have three copies of your important data: two local on ...

• Are LLMs 'Other Minds'? Sep 27, 2026

  On whether LLMs and agentic AIs are a positive and beneficial invention, I tend to lean more toward optimism. Althoug...

• Why I Stopped Paying to Host Two Static Sites Sep 20, 2026

  I recently switched from Namecheap shared hosting to Cloudflare Pages. I have two websites that are both plain text h...

Stranger Than Usual

• Rollenspielszenen: Barriere Oct 21, 2026

  Auf der Flucht vor der Polizei, die auf Demonstranten geschossen hat, haben wir aus Versehen eine undurchdringbare Ba...

• Lückenwelle Oct 21, 2026

  In den letzten Tagen gab es einige größere Sicherheitsvorfälle in der Welt.

• Das UUID-Verzeichnis Oct 20, 2026

  Ich habe ein Verzeichnis mit allen UUIDs gefunden. Praktisch! Oder soll ich besser sagen: Vollkommen nutzlos? Aber da...

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

• 2026 Open Source Summit EU - Prague Oct 15, 2026

  The Linux Foundation hosts a number of open source events, including a series of Open Source Summit (OSS) conferences...

• 2026 Postgres Summit US - New York City Oct 04, 2026

  While my role at Percona is focused on MariaDB, I still have a soft spot for PostgreSQL, so when a spot became availa...

• 2026 Percona Live EU - Amsterdam Sep 22, 2026

  I was super-eager to attend my first Percona Live as a Perconian. While I was supposed to be at the one in the US in ...

Saeed Esmaili

I’m a data scientist based in Amsterdam, currently working at Spotify. I work on projects aimed at enhancing the productivity and experience of developers, using research and data analysis to inform our platform strategies.

• Save an audio file into your Spotify account via CLI May 25, 2026

  I have added several long conversational youtube videos into a playlist, hoping I’ll come back to the them some day, ...

• Treat your morning ritual like an opening chess move Mar 16, 2026

  I quite liked this metaphoric view of the morning ritual from Herbert Lui: A good morning ritual needs to be flexible...

• Taming Claude Code: Taking Back Control Feb 18, 2026

  I started using Claude Code in July last year. I was a Cursor user looking for something better, and I was skeptical ...

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 43/2026 Oct 23, 2026

  Earlier this year, in WN-23/2026, I set a goal of doing at least 3 pull-ups by the end of this year. I did that last ...

• Messaging with Reticulum and LXMF Oct 22, 2026

  The first kind of application you could try after setting up Reticulum, or with it, is messaging. I think Reticulum p...

• Thejesh Gangaiah Nagarathna Oct 17, 2026

  I have been thinking about writing about my full name for a while, especially after this incident in which an AI hall...

Daryl Sun's Journal

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds

• Special Edition — Ego Oct 31, 2025

  Special Edition — Ego TL;DR:What's the difference between my ego in the real world and my ego online? This blog post ...

• Special Edition — Colors Aug 31, 2025

  Special Edition — Colors TL;DR:Purple is my color. This blog post has approximately 301 words and may take 2 minutes ...

• Special Edition — Take Two Jun 07, 2025

  Special Edition — Take Two TL;DR:If I had another chance, I would have started this blog earlier. This blog post has ...

R74n Newsletter

Be notified when Sandboxels and other R74n projects are updated, along with ramblings from the developer!

• R74n Refresh #1 – Rue Street; Handwriting; Wordslop; New Mini Oct 17, 2026

  Today’s Refresh goes over the past few months of events, including minigame updates and our Halloween event.

• New Minigame: Human Tier List Oct 09, 2026

  You can now rank every human on Earth with a single webpage.

• Sandboxels v1.15: Update of the Century Jul 14, 2026

  Highly anticipated features such as Undo/Redo, Copy/Paste, and more are now in the game!

~hedy

A digital garden exploring web development, the small/indie web, Gemini protocol, book reviews, and personal reflections.

• Separating dark mode and night shift on a Mac Jan 21, 2025

  On iOS, it’s possible to use a custom schedule to turn on the night shift (slightly tinted yellow-orange) mode separa...

• 📚 The Anthropocene Reviewed Jan 11, 2025

  This would have been a great opportunity to use “The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewed” if not for the sake of my confo...

• Blog questions challenge Jan 06, 2025

  Kev Quirk started a personal blog challenge where you answer a few questions and “tag” a few people of your choosing ...

Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts

A wide-ranging blog with technical tutorials on Django, Python, and web development alongside travel guides and reflections on life abroad in Germany.

• Things done properly Sep 16, 2026

  Sakura pens are great, but they’re hard to tell apart from one another, especially in a stuffed pencil case at the bo...

• A Buttondown review Aug 31, 2026

  I have used Buttondown for almost a year now for All About Berlin’s newsletter. I could not find reviews for Buttondo...

• How to (properly) apply for an apartment viewing Aug 26, 2026

  I am subletting my apartment. These are the mistakes people make when they contact me about my listing. Kleinanzeigen...

Randall Degges

A long-running blog mixing practical programming guides on Django, Node.js, and PostgreSQL with essays on developer careers, productivity, and personal growth.

• I'm Writing Again Aug 03, 2024

  I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I last published an article here! Time really flies. The crazy part is...

• I'm Writing Again Aug 03, 2024

  I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I last published an article here! Time really flies. The crazy part is...

• Real Estate vs Stocks Apr 04, 2022

  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a bit of a personal finance nerd. I’ve been carefully tracking my spending and investin...

The Public Domain Review

An online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.

• “Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865) Oct 22, 2026

  A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.

• Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900) Oct 20, 2026

  Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.

• “Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Oct 14, 2026

  In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the...

Let’s get Person-al

A personal blog with posts spanning book and movie reviews, technology projects, and commentary on social and political topics.

• 🗨️ being popular is what causes you to become unpopular Oct 22, 2026

  It is impossible to simply enjoy something on its own. Anything relevant will be made viral, then made unpopular agai...

• 🌰 focus in an agentic age Oct 16, 2026

  As a software engineer, LLM-use is non-negotiable at work. When I wrote 🌰 loot boxes, casinos, and work chat, Slack w...

• 🗨️ we’re on the verge of democratizing only the worst part of celebrity Oct 07, 2026

  We’re on the verge of democratizing only the worst part of celebrity: the pervasive hovering cameras that are always ...