From Oliver Burkeman’s Guardian column: I have a proposal to make: 2026 should be the year that you spend more time doing what you want. The new year should be the moment we commit to dedicating more…

Twenty years ago, Warwick Folk Festival asked me to create a community choir as part of its education outreach programme. Singing Safari, Warwick 2007 I was reluctant to use the word “choir” because…

In this Monday Pressing Concerns, we’ve got new albums from Fire Man, Lovewell, and The Hobknobs, and a new EP from NAYAN. Check them out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can…

if you are lost just write down your thoughts you can not know you just have to remove the shit from your head so you can act take a piece of paper or a clean text file, and write down everything…

Last week, Aldi ran a sweepstakes called Aldi Blind Box promising to give away mystery boxes of groceries each day for four days at exactly the stroke of noon. It sounded like such a good deal that…

A lovely sunny day. Hoed all the gravel path. Cleared Bernard’s bins. A lot of stuff in to burn. John from next door cut his head on swing last night. Went to hos.

The provisional surrender document signed by Donald Trump appeared to represent a triumph for Iran and indeed for the world; but neither the USA nor Israel has the slightest sense of honour and they…

Lostchild proves one great song can live two different lives. "Never Sleep" evolves from dark pop into a house-driven release without losing its emotional core. The post Lostchild Reimagines…

Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines… This blog post on Unstory is short, but really impactful. 5 paragraphs, and will never rank for anything, but it’s hit me more…

Lanfranco Palazzolo (Radio Radicale) intervista @quinta – Tech e Regole Podcast https://castopod.it/@quinta/episodes/23×2026-earthquake-alarm Terremoto in Venezuela – l’allerta…

Lorna Woods , Professor Emerita, University of Essex Photo credit : TodayTesting.com , via Wikimedia Commons This recent CJEU judgment has been flagged in some quarters as upholding the French rules…

Telling myself, "Shenji, if you don't pilot the eva, Rei will have to do it again." But I'm both Shinji and Rei. 😭😭😭 #evangelion #neonGenesisEvangelion #burnout #shinji #rei #eva #meme #memes

OT Cyber Attack Demo on PLC [ Case Study 03 ] : DDoS Attack CaseProject Design Purpose : The objective of this case study is to develop a workshop which utilizing the Railway (Metro) IT/OT System…

Helen Ganya is turning dreamscapes into captivating music. Her latest single "Riding on a dovetailed pony" is haunting, hypnotic and impossible to shake. The post Helen Ganya Transforms Dreamlike…

TL;DR. Testing a data plane at 100GbE line rate needs real NICs running VPP — which no cloud CI runner has. So an ephemeral GitHub Actions runner joins a private two-machine lab over Tailscale,…

It's funny, the behaviour in animals that we ascribe to personality. Thinking about it too much makes me wonder if there's even such a thing in humans.152 words · 1 image

As part of its Historic Summer campaign, Historic Scotland is offering a 20% discount on admission tickets at a number of its sites throughout the country. This offer, which is available to UK…

We traded the physical boundaries of dedicated rooms for the convenience of our always-on digital lives -- but recently I've been building those walls back up.

Building race telemetry for a ’92 Honda Accord — The RPM measurement bug is the part I keep thinking about. Reading frequency from square wave pulses sounds trivial until you realize that during…

Growing your own vegetables is fun and delicious to do, but when you go on vacation the plants still need water. Now we can ask a neighbor to take care of it, but we can also use a Sonoff water ...…

Anyone who spends their days inside Search Console knows that little nagging feeling: a page sits steadily in third position, yet the clicks are few, a CTR that looks like it belongs at the bottom of…

Three more scavvies to swell the ranks. This time its another trio of unreleased Jes Goodwin sculpts. Once again brilliant figures and really enjoyable to paint with all the layered rags and fun…

By Marcelo Zero The “generous offer” made by candidate Flávio Bolsonaro—officially recorded in a letter from Marco Rubio—to provide the current US administration with a “transition team” should he be…

"Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood & The Destroyers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that makes you feel invincible. - Bad to the Bone by George…

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Many developers are watching AI agents generate bad code, introduce bugs, and erode their skills. I'm having a different experience. The post AI took my job as a coder. Then it made me a better…

Yesterday 28 June 2026, I had the honor of speaking at the YMCA National Planning Forum in Alwaye, Kerala. We tackled a big topic: how Artificial Intelligence fits into a historic service…

“We all shine on. Like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.” - John Lennon

No more grocery bread for us - we’re making our own daily bread…

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon…

Almost every night since late February I’ve slept on our deck, watching the star-scape creep westward month by month. Scorpius recently came out of hiding and now the great space scorpion is…

You operate under the delusion that your trajectory is upward, a linear climb toward some vague, golden summit. This is a cognitive survival mechanism, and it is killing you. Entropy does not…

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In 2014, when I was working as a professional developer at a gaming company with around 25 developers, I heard about microservices for the first time at a conference - and was immediately excited. We…

For Round 27 of our writing group, in August of 2009, we decided to write short stories that were somehow based on dreams that we'd had. Well, I'd recently dreamed of a giant ant-like alien that was…

I‘ve been knee deep in render optimisation the past few days, tough but I‘ve got things working pretty well now. Also just added RSS feed generation. It was really quite straight forward to add, it…

Main Points: Star Trek (the 2009!movie verse) Cambion AU (New Genesis) Summary: Kirk and Spock fight Khan. Word Count: 1190 Rating: Teen ( payoff ) comments

1. The Story of Taro and Tofu One night, a quiet incident unfolded on a kitchen shelf. Resting side by side we […]

Over the years, we have received, read and handled way over one thousand vulnerability reports filed against curl. We have seen most kinds. It is time for me to try to help future reporters by…

The GitHub Copilot CLI keeps getting more capable. One of the newer additions is the ability to schedule prompts, either on a repeating interval or as a one-shot delayed action. Let me walk you…

Here we are again at Catcott, reputedly named after Bob Geeza Cat, though that might be wishful thinking on behalf of Bob, because he does have narcissistic tendencies - like most cats. The hot…

  Barbara Hambly has her own voice, that's for sure. The book is good, not perfect, but certainly feels unique. The characters are flawed, but make the best of what they've got, using…

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"Ever since I was young, I wanted to transform unstructured marketing data into actionable insights." This was in the farewell email I got last Friday. It was from a colleague who was let go due to…

a lot of stuff has been removed, hopefully temporarily, but most of the site has been rebuilt to simplify my ease of coding, and finally with semantic html! epic cool!

Generative AI has made plausible ideas nearly free, and a fashionable argument says this changes everything. It doesn't. Ideas were never scarce—judgement was, and remains so. On Grub Street at…

July 2026 brings a heavy run of fantasy, from M.A. Carrick's alt-history fae epic to H.G. Parry's Arthurian Wales and Elizabeth Lim's Cinderella retelling. Here are the six releases I have flagged,…

Work had me in Glasgow for a few days earlier this month, a city I had never been drinking in before, so was pleased to get it some way ticked off, though far from comprehensively, I'm sure. I was…

June 29, 2026 Happy Birthday To Me! I should be sitting in a cafe in Paris when you read this… It seems from your emails that traveling in September is very popular – except for that…

it is, in their minds, the natural next step to prove they are still ahead of the curve against their peers in elementary school you were ahead if you were invited into the gifted program in middle…