Apr 01, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559) Marvels, wonders, and monstrosities: something between a medieval bestiary and a scientific treatise on birth defects.
Apr 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social The Ever-Present Old Internet Tyler Gaw published a good blog post titled The Old Internet is Still Here, noting that there are many personal websites and blogs worth reading on the web. As he put it, “they just got layered ove...
Apr 01, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal The Proper Place For Articles and Blog Posts On publishing articles and blog posts as social media threas vs as articles and blog posts on a site designed for the format.
Apr 01, 2026 from Toni Notes Simple systems age better than impressive ones Publishing systems deserve to be judged by how they behave months later, under maintenance, interruption, and archive weight, not by how elegant they felt during setup week.
Apr 01, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Superpower I was listening to Ye's newest album Bully earlier this morning, and it was good. The standout track for me was "Mama's Favorite." Ye had a wonderful relationship with his mom, and the part at the ...
Mar 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social 2026 is the Year of the Windows Desktop(TM) The phrase “the year of the Linux desktop” has become something of a meme. As a 2025 Hackaday headline went, The Year of the Linux Desktop is Always Next Year. Note that I write this with all due a...
Mar 31, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NaPoWriMo 2026 [31st March: Early-Bird Prompt] - Receipt, or Something Like It NaPoWriMo 2026 [31st March: Early-Bird Prompt] Get set...It’s March 31, or as we like to call with around here, Na/GloPoWriMo Eve. A time when poetic spirits haunt the land, preparing for their mon...
Mar 31, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria The Ending of 31st March 2026. 31st March 2026, 20:20 PM I could not write. I could not write so, so much. So much that has happended and nothing that has happened. Ever since I wrote the previous update, I have been involved po...
Mar 31, 2026 from BEEW This Is Not Contained I opened my news app this morning. By the fourth headline my mind stopped reading and started mapping. The map it made was one of contagion, a fire spreading without any formal announcement or cong...
Mar 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-31-26 They say that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. That is true in terms of whether (looks nice out), but not in terms of your regularly-scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. OneTaste ‘o...
Mar 31, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Getting Slower There's been a certain gloominess I can't shake, but despite that, I feel calm. I don't know exactly where it's coming from. I'm not sure how well I'd be able to think my way out of it. It seems li...
Mar 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; Respond, Don’t Create I came across a blog post by Herbert Lui titled Respond, Don’t Create, and thought I would respond. For people looking to publish more often, he recommends reading interesting articles from around ...
Mar 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Retro Re; On Ditching AMP I came across a 2021 blog post by Maddy Miller on dropping Accelerated Mobile Pages (“AMP”) support on her blog. Back when I started running The New Leaf Journal, I had little idea what I was doing...
Mar 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-30-26 I have work today, but let us start the work week with a new set of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. New Apple Silicon M4 & M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays (Sam McLeod. March 29, 2026.) As a Linu...
Mar 30, 2026 from Toni Notes How to keep a draft alive between writing sessions A draft survives time away when it preserves enough orientation for the next session to resume the work instead of reconstructing it from scratch.
Mar 30, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Jazz School No-No Divine Liturgy was pretty good yesterday, thanks for asking. Even though it's only been about 48 hours since my last entry, it feels like it's been much longer. It really has gotten to a point wher...
Mar 30, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 what is your unicorn hair But if Mandy was a fairy, why was Mother dead? “You’re not a fairy.” “Why not?” “If you were, you would have saved her.” “Oh, sweetie, I would have if I could. If she’d left the [unicorn] hair in m...
Mar 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social “What if the [AI] bubble bursts?” I had wondered before what would happen if the AI bubble bursts, or if the current AI-obsessive moment passes. In my mind, I assumed that companies like OpenAI and Anthropic would be in particular ...
Mar 29, 2026 from BEEW Plinko Download PDF There is a man named Plinko who used to work as a clown on kids' night at a Ground Round restaurant in Jackson, Michigan. He was in his late forties or early fifties. His mother died o...
Mar 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-28-26 There was no Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday because it was newsletter day. But I am back early this Sunday morning (before I go to bed) with the first edition of the Pook-Emu Bee for the new week. 1....
