Aug 29, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Union Peril 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCV Leafy intro Welcome to the 294th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form wr...
Aug 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Kan Gao on Why He Uses RPG Maker Kan Gao is the creator of the successful indie To the Moon series. I am not personally a fan of To the Moon. I tried the first entry and it just was not working for me, so I never finished. But des...
Aug 29, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Self-Examination Self-aware, but not self examined. That phrase has been plaguing me something fierce. Along with an actual bout of sickness I've been facing since Thursday night, it's something that has been eatin...
Aug 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26 Pook-Emu Bee will be taking the weekend off, first for Newsletter Saturday and probably for Sunday, so let us finish this work week strong before I return to my day job. 1 | Study Linking Solar Far...
Aug 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Adam Douglas’ List Page Links Bookmarklet I saw a post in my feed collection by Adam Douglas titled Extract and Review Web Page Links Using a Bookmarklet. As the title suggests, he created a bookmarklet which “will create a new local web p...
Aug 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-27-26 I have a deadline today, so while the weekday Pook-Emu Bee streak continues, this will be another minimalist entry in my ongoing series. 1 | Israel: Law Adopted to Preserve the Memory of the Octobe...
Aug 27, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Alcatraz Escape United States · 1962 · Escape — Three inmates tunneled through concrete cell walls, left lifelike dummy heads in their beds, and launched a homemade raincoat raft into San Francisco Bay, disappeari...
Aug 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-26-26 I have a rough three-day work-stretch ahead of me, but the weekday Pook-Emu Bee links streak must continue (I will however compromise on feature images today). 1. Brainless TikTok trend causes $2,0...
Aug 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Learning About Cassette Types I read an article by Mark Tyson for Tom’s Hardware titled Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives. I have many VCR memories,...
Aug 26, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Wings No big thesis for today—well, at least not yet. I've been feeling better over this last week or so, but the thing that always worries me about feeling better is getting into trouble—you know, think...
Aug 25, 2026 from Improve Something Today Everybody’s a facilitator, whether you know it or not. 3 ways to learn the most human skill going Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of all sorts to the best possible outcomes & help everyone around you have a better...
Aug 25, 2026 from Improve Something Today Everybody’s a facilitator, whether you know it or not. Three ways to learn the most human skill going Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of all sorts to the best possible outcomes & help everyone around you have a better...
Aug 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-25-26 I have been busy today, but the weekday streak of Pook-Emu Bee links continues. 1 | California political candidate facing six years in prison after listing dive bar as home address (Marina Peña for...
Aug 25, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Union Street and Questioning Article Assertions I question a claim about the state of Union Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn, based on my long history of having walked there going back to the 2000s.
Aug 25, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Madoff Scheme United States · 1970–2008 · Fraud — Former NASDAQ chairman Bernie Madoff ran a massive Ponzi scheme for decades through his investment firm, fabricating billions in trading profits.
Aug 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-24-26 We’re back from the weekend with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee links. 1 | OpenAI builds dedicated ChatGPT experience for teens with parental controls and study features (Eric Revell for Fox Bus...
Aug 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Burger King Surpasses Wendy’s Fox Business reported on August 9, 2026, that Burger King surpassed Wendy’s as the (distant) second largest burger chain in the United States after McDonald’s. According to the report, Wendy’s had ...
Aug 24, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Son of Believers I've been having to remind myself why I write, especially after dealing with the bout of shame from grappling with its confessional nature and the bleak horizon of getting paid some time in the fut...
Aug 23, 2026 from The Autodidacts 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 TL;DR: UD-IQ3_XXS with KV cache quantization
Aug 22, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Printer 64 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIV Leafy intro Welcome to the 294th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form wr...