Feb 11, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com They’re Too Far Sai-Gone! Read They’re Too Far Sai-Gone! I was working as a cashier at a well-known video game store, located in a small town. Note, I'm a short woman with a high-pitched voice, and I'm Asian. Couple: "Oh my...
Feb 11, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Selective Vagueness There’s a style of blogging in which you write something that superficially seems pretty anodyne in a “who could argue with this?” sort of way, but that facial sensibility masks whatever it is you’...
Feb 11, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com All-Hands Come From No-Brains Read All-Hands Come From No-Brains [New Office Manager] likes a daily all-hands meeting in the morning, even though we have nothing new to add daily. He liked weekly closing meetings on Friday afte...
Feb 11, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal AI Game Worlds and Humane Games I learned about Project Genie and similar "world building" AI tools. While I suspect their best use will be generating slop for social media consumption, I take my critique as an opportunity to exa...
Feb 11, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com No Longer Allowed To Let It Rip Read No Longer Allowed To Let It Rip Years ago, the greeting card store I worked at got a vandal. Thirty-something, thin, twitchy. He'd come in once a week and go down the aisles, tearing the top e...
Feb 11, 2026 from JoeHx Blog COB LED Lighting for my Son's Room About a month ago I upgraded the lighting in my son’s bedroom to a COB LED strip.
Feb 10, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com The Customer Is Not Always Right, But Sometimes They Are Read The Customer Is Not Always Right, But Sometimes They Are Me: "Aw, I'm too late." Employee: "Yes, I'm sorry, but we're closing." His manager calls out from inside. Manager: "[Employee], be a st...
Feb 10, 2026 from BEEW The Death of Listening Somewhere in the past decade or two—pick your own cultural ruin-marker— it stopped being a side quirk that people don't listen and became a full-blown civic emergency, an extinction-level collapse ...
Feb 10, 2026 from BEEW The Most Important Questions Are the Ones You're Avoiding If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. –W. Edwards Deming We're taught early that progress comes from having good answers. That smart people solve problems. That th...
Feb 10, 2026 from The Jaxson Sights & Scenes: Downtown Cleveland In town for a business trip, The Jaxson's Ennis Davis shares a few sights and scenes from the streets of a snow covered Downtown Cleveland. - The 52-story Terminal Tower was the second-tallest buil...
Feb 10, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG On Intersecting Interests: Fandom And Photography Zachary is hosting IndieWeb Carnival this month with the thematic prompt at the start of my title here, and for the past couple of weeks I’ve been pretty sure I was going to have to sit this one ou...
Feb 09, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Some Technical Updates In the days since switching the blog’s design to something I’ve decided to describe as “aggressively monochrome” (which would make a decent name for the theme, actually), I’ve made a couple of addi...
Feb 09, 2026 from Thejesh GN My Journey Back to Being Pain-Free Neck pain and shoulder pain have been part of my occupational side effects. I have made some changes in my posture and working styleto reduce it. But sometime early last year, in 2025, it suddenly ...
Feb 09, 2026 from Peter's Path E2EE Backend part 1: Homomorphic Encryption This is the first post in a series exploring a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. The goal of this part: a demo that can calculate totals on encrypted user data with...
Feb 09, 2026 from R74n Newsletter Sandboxels on Neal.fun - A New Home We’re excited to share some surprising news — Sandboxels is joining Neal.fun, the home of popular online games such as Infinite Craft, The Password Game, and I’m Not A Robot.
Feb 09, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog Trying out Thunderbird Appointment While I Patiently Wait For An Invite OK, I'm actually a little impatient to use the new open source schedule booking tool by the Thunderbird team that will be a part of Thunderbird Pro.
Feb 09, 2026 from Roy Tang MTG: Avatar: The Last Airbender New set has been out for a while on Arena, so here's my overdue recap for the previous set Avatar: The Last Airbender. Flavor / Mechanics / Universes Beyond One thing I noticed about universes beyo...
Feb 09, 2026 from Thejesh GN Motorola T82 Extreme is my PMR446 Walkie-Talkie As a kid, I always wanted a set of Walkie Talkies to chat with friends. We got cell phones as adults, but that desire remained. A few years back, I took the HAM exam, but then COVID hit us, and I d...
Feb 09, 2026 from The Jaxson Book explores Jacksonville's Gullah Geechee Heritage In his first book since 2014, Jaxson co-owner Ennis Davis has collaborated with urban planner and historian Adrienne Burke to highlight the story of Jacksonville's Gullah Geechee Heritage. Preorder...
Feb 09, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Sunday Stroll Readers here know that I’m a huge fan of Kevin Lawver’s idea that blogs are the empathy engine of the web, and that I semi-religiously link my post about this idea whenever I get the chance. As suc...
