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 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...
Aug 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas” I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts women. This may be rich coming from someone who, in the last month, has published...
Aug 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Against “Like Them, but Better” I came across a short post on @iamgregb (I assume by Greg B) titled “Like Them, but Better.” It’s Not. In the post, he makes the case against “[a] social media strategy focused entirely on the comp...
Aug 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-21-26 It is time to wrap up another perfect five-for-five Pook-Emu Bee work-week before we take tomorrow off for Newsletter Saturday. Life Updates I shared a photo of my new (Ebay, so “new”) Wacom One dr...
Aug 20, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Nintendo 64 at 30 and My N64 Memories I celebrate the Nintendo 64's 30th anniversary with a selection of my own late-90s N64 memories.
Aug 20, 2026 from The Autodidacts Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand Sticks tongue out at AI
Aug 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-20-26 I’m a bit late with Pook-Emu Bee links today, but the streak continues. By the way, WordPress’s admin area looks different after the latest update. Change in color contrast. I’m not complaining. 1 ...
Aug 20, 2026 from The Autodidacts The Hopefully Eventually Ultimate Desktop Linux Troubleshooting Guide: Recovering from Crashes and Freezes Free advice from the printer fixer
Aug 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-19-26 Keeping the Pook-Emu Bee weekday streak going on this sunny (here in Brooklyn, at least) August 19, 2026. 1 | Vindman Vaporizes $16.2 Million in Loss, Spends 36X DSA Candidate on Ads (Paul Bois for...
Aug 19, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Outbursts Man, the page really does feel like it's on fire today, so I better write fast. I felt myself getting manic again, which is typical just after a depressive slump. Thankfully the slumps have gotten ...
