A lighter set of links as I was travelling - but for more, check out the huge set from the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival . Bloggie-nominated.…

I am deeply saddened to report that this weekend, far too soon, we lost Gor Nishanov: a friend and colleague, an extraordinary software engineer, and a long-serving member of the C++ standards…

Why Do My Partners Fall Out of Love With Me? The answer may be partially explained by a difference in emotional intelligence. Key points Generating closeness is not the same as sustaining closeness…

W Social has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.

My Boy, The Engineer, who has worked in transport all his life, has internalised the NATO alphabet [ whc prev ] to ensure better comms over crackly, lossy, phone-line. That prevlink also hat-tips…

Tech bros still dominate the discussions about so-called “AI” with false claims. Even most “AI”-critical researchers spend much of their time meticulously debunking (always…

A look inside the "Jewish" anti-Zionist Congress, where antisemitism and terror support were on full display. Continue reading Inside The “Jewish” Anti-Zionist Congress at Radical Truth…

Editor’s note: First published by Mad in America on June 19th As a systemic psychotherapist, I believe that human distress needs to be understood in its relational and social context. The…

Part 4 now. Thought I would have hated an allegorical novel but pleasantly surprised. I grew fond of the Hamilton and the Trask families.

Cursor Pro is best when it edits code, not when it thinks out loud. A practical split workflow — Perplexity for current research, ChatGPT for planning, Claude for review, Ollama for cheap tasks, and…

Sony is deleting 551 purchased StudioCanal movies from PlayStation libraries on September 1, 2026 with zero refunds. Here's the full technical and legal breakdown This post first appeared at - The…

Went to a rose garden today.

Another annoying GPT-ism (circa June 2026): while describing something, it always describes what it *does*, but never what it *is* > "LocalPerf benchmarks local LLM inference servers and keeps the…

The post Gambling in Norway: Why Betting and Lotteries Are So Tightly Controlled appeared first on Life in Norway.

...hiding the thing in plain sight, and also because I love the mystery AND aesthetic as rendered in these Tibetan glyphs.…

Or the lack thereof.

Learn why store water at home is essential for family safety. Ensure you have enough drinking water during emergencies with our 2026 guide. The post Why Store Water at Home: Your 2026 Readiness Guide…

If you’re a lemon lover, this Three Ingredient Lemon Dessert is about to become your newest obsession. Made with just three simple ingredients — double cream, sugar, and fresh lemons — it’s one of…

A look at how one of the oldest open source projects grew up.

Five scenes is all you're likely to get through in a four-hour RPG session. Narrow your prep down to the five scenes you might run to help you focus and avoid getting lost in the vast and overwhelming

i have experienced the suffering of deep attachment but its totally wrong to say that attachments give us sufferings. infact its the opposite attachments help us thrive "Transformation happens inside…

A sequel to the last one, but a bit longer.On Leaving SlackAfter nearly 6 years, I left Slack in August of 2025. It was for a combination of reasons that added up to "it's time".The…

https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/

All right, so what to say first. Hmm. A) Sure, Adamantine first. I think I said I had two chapters to go, not counting the short denouement. (Someday I will spell “denouement” right the…

I've avoided going deep with LLM usage, including for agentic coding. This is has been for a number of reasons. I don't want to be sending data to US tech platforms is a big one. I don't want to…

It's been a while...Man, a lot has happened. Earlier this month, I got to visit San Francisco. It ended up being a pretty long trip. I still had a lot of fun and got to eat some really good…

Greetings, traveler! SwiftUI provides a built-in .refreshable modifier, which covers the majority of use cases. At some point, product requirements start to demand more control over the refresh…

Almost missed a week of blogging. I have been feeling an elevated amount of ambient stress and I think it all stems from AI in various ways. Can’t wait for this fucking bubble to pop! Come on,…

Unwinding after a long night of patrol

🗺️ Map tinkering: Overpass and gravel paths 🔊 The Steve Mason Experience archive 🌡️ Worth keeping: weather forecast for the past weekend ❄️ Portable air conditioner: is ok 🎲 Random findings in the…

A pithos burial has been discovered in the ancient city of Hadrianopolis, modern-day Eskipazar in northern Turkey’s Black Sea region. It is the first example of this type of burial found in…

Climate tech is losing trendiness but not relevance. This post explores what’s replacing it and why mission and values matter more than branding.

/////////////////// le bonne (ident)idee /////////////////// idk man maybe it was just me but like, the naughty stuff the older kids new, or grown up things or whatever, it's not like they were…

Cisco DevNet channel has published an hour-long Getting Started with netlab interview with Suresh Vina , resulting in netlab.tools documentation having more weekly visits than ipspace.net blog for…

The most popular technology may not be the best. In 1989 Richard P. Gabriel coined the term Worse is Better , a clearly humorous take on certain tendencies in software development and design as he…

Cookies n cream babie

warp point is a site that curates blogs that write primarily about games (making it a little fraught if i should submit mine, as i write about game stuff maybe once a year lmao). the creators wes…

One thing I didn’t like about being a YouTubeTV subscriber is that I couldn’t find a plan that worked for me which included the History channel. I’ve forgotten how much I’ve…

You don't build a reputation in the future. You build it today, in the choices when no-one is watching

Weekle #19 29th June to 5th July The following events all took place in this week in history in the last 100 years. In which year did they occur? Answers go back in order from most recent to oldest…

I picked up a Palo Alto Cloudgenix ION 2000 off of eBay and decided to try and stick OPNsense on it. It has a ethernet ports, 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, and an Intel Atom CPU. What I hadn't considered…

Here we share recordings of vintage Radio Dublin from the days when full-time broadcasting was still a dream. These extracts are from the station’s 36-hour marathon over Saturday and Sunday 17th and…

Richard Kiel’s indestructible Jaws returns in the second half of Moonraker after crashing through a circus tent during the pre-title sequence. He wears the same outfit over the course of a couple of…

October, 2013:

I have, for quite a long time, tried to figure out how to cover ‘80s music acoustically, or with an acoustic guitar and some samples in the background, and it’s really been a tough thing for me.…

How to write custom events from a Worker with Analytics Engine and query them later with SQL. Cheap, high-volume time-series data.

I used to think that everyone knew it -- “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” -- the same way everyone knew “And what is so rare as a day in June?” and “Into the valley of Death / Rode the…

This week’s “Dark Wave” featured music by The Sugarcubes, Nitzer Ebb, Christian Death, Mission of Burma, Love and Rockets, Felt, The The and more. The post Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted…