What’s Up With Ruger?

captainsjournal.com · Oct 21 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

Covered here, but this is a more succinct listing of what models have been canceled for production. Maybe Beretta knew something we didn’t when they tried to buy Ruger. Maybe they should still…

NJIT Partners on New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative to Drive Statewide Innovation

davidbader.net · Oct 21 · 🎤 Politics ·

Written by: Mindy Weisberger New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced the launch of the New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative, at an event held on Oct. 20 in New Brunswick. New Jersey Governor…

你的电脑可以关机,但你的AI应该继续工作

dingyu.me · Oct 21 · 🛡️ Sysadmin & Security ·

在未来的工作模式,或者说如何高效使用AI中我提到了那个笑话: AI流行之后,经常能看到一些社畜下了地铁以后还捧着电脑走路,因为电脑上的AI正在干活,不敢把电脑合上。 要想让AI不间断地干活,要么让自己的电脑24小时开机,要么租一台服务器(VPS),然后远程指挥AI。 前者对笔记本用户来说很难,所以这里主要说第二个办法 - 服务器。 配置好的效果 配置好了是这样的:…

"The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping"

hongzhangphd.blogspot.com · Oct 21 · 🎤 Politics ·

I listened to the podcast The Making of Xi Jinping where the host interviewed Joseph Torigian, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Party’s Interests Come First: The…

The direction I’d like for effective altruism

andymasley.com · Oct 21 · 🪶 Essays ·

This is a crosspost of my recent blog post on the specific version of EA I like the most and am excited to defend and promote . I’m working on a much longer post articulating the reasons and…

A Troll, a Gold Mining Town and a Sunset

redlegsrides.blogspot.com · Oct 21 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

A bit cool today when the sun was not out but still a pretty good day. Martha and I drove the Honda CRV down Colorado highway 67 towards the town of Victor, Colorado. Back during the Gold Rush days,…

NJIT Celebrates Faculty, Staff at 2026 Nexus of Excellence Awards

davidbader.net · Oct 21 · 🎓 Education ·

Interim President John Pelesko with Foundation Board of Directors Excellence in Research and Innovation Medal winner David Bader. New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) celebrated the achievements…

Learning Anything with AI

clipsoflogic.com · Oct 21 · ✨ AI ·

In the past few months, I've been sharing my experiences working with AI, both in software development and in everyday administrative tasks. AI has been amazing at automating workflows and…

Testing Ansible Roles with Molecule on Digital Ocean Droplets

ngetchell.com · Oct 21 · 🛡️ Sysadmin & Security ·

For years, I’ve been using Ansible to configure my homelab, blog, and workstations. After testing out Chef and Salt, I’m glad I happened upon Ansible. The tool has grown more and I’ve gotten tons of…

When the president types, the press listens (1919)

type-writer.org · Oct 21 · 🎤 Politics ·

The Evening Times-Star and Alameda Daily Argus (Alameda, California), February 15, 1919 -

La folie de la vie, c’est la vie.

seanshadmand.com · Oct 21 · 🪶 Essays ·

Weekend / Stuff

esotericsurvey.blogspot.com · Oct 21 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

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Here or There, Who Cares? Canada and I Are Just Friends Now

correresmidestino.com · Oct 21 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

I got tired of trying to be Canadian. These days, I’m not even trying. The post Here or There, Who Cares? Canada and I Are Just Friends Now first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

1915: Bill Nichols, the Cat Who Could Have Been a Rikers Island Hero

hatchingcatnyc.com · Oct 21 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

I recently learned that there is a large cat colony on Rikers Island, where hundreds of feral cats have been living for many years (most of the original cats had been dumped on the island by…

BBC World Service moves overnight bulletins to Australia

james.cridland.net · Oct 21 · 🎤 Politics ·

I&rsquo;ve been sent the below internal email, which I&rsquo;ve been told is from Matthew Grant who is Executive Editor, Radio &amp; Audio Newsroom, BBC News. It suggests that the BBC World Service…

Healing of the Mind and Emotions

yourbarnabas.com · Oct 21 · 🏃 Health & Fitness ·

That’s a loaded concept. Not easy to deal with. I’ve got some thoughts about this, but not all the answers. I think of the mind like a cluttered desk. To find something, I’ll have to take more time…

Making Space Again

krabf.com · Oct 21 · 💼 Work & Business ·

View from BenCab Museum's Café SabelI’m out of the corporate world since April. I felt a huge weight lift off me the week I sent my resignation letter. The past year has been really tough and I kept…

Liferea 2.0.3 Released

lzone.de · Oct 21 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

This is a new bugfix release for 2.0. Thanks to everyone reporting 2.0 bugs and helping solving them! Changes * Ensure schemas are available during testing (Paul Gevers) * Fixes missing top margin…

bybye

mynameiskaneel.com · Oct 21 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

twas nice but fuck it all

Introducing astro-d1-reactions: hearts, reads and highlights for Astro in one integration

zander.wtf · Oct 21 · 🧩 Programming ·

A new package to add hearts, reads, reader highlights and a stats page to your own Astro site

Copy what works: Pabrai's method and the research behind it

brycewatson.com · Oct 21 · 🎲 Economy ·

My notes on how Mohnish Pabrai built his career by copying Warren Buffett, plus the research on why copying a proven method works and how to do it well.

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

simedw.com · Oct 21 · ✨ AI ·

A 360M model that pretends to be a terminal, and remembers what you did

Mitigating eMudhra Private Key Compromise on Ungoogled Chromium

bd103.dev · Oct 21 · 🛡️ Sysadmin & Security ·

I don't use Chrome, as I dislike Google's blatant disrespect for my privacy, so instead I use Ungoogled Chromium as my browser [1] . Because Ungoogled Chromium is a community-run project, they are…

Unfinished Business

dungeonmerl.in · Oct 21 · 🪶 Essays ·

You CAN bargain with Death, but their schedule is immutable.

Learning from pstack: Build Your Own Reliable Coding Agent Stack

alexop.dev · Oct 21 · ✨ AI ·

The written version of my TypeScript Meetup Munich talk. What pstack teaches about planning, implementation, review and verification, and how to give your own agent a verification skill that proves…

Status for 2026-10-21

hamaonoverdrive.online · Oct 21 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

Intensely fixated on the upcoming BDSiM update, which is rapidly becoming my single longest piece of writing by a wide margin, to the detriment of my sleep cycles and other hobbies. Now tinkering…

AI

mschaef.com · Oct 21 · 🧩 Programming ·

As a lifelong fan of marginal programming languages, I've spent my fair share of time wondering why they don't get more use. I would really have liked to use more Clojure over the last fifteen years.…

Feedback your AI can act on

usecue.com · Oct 21 · ✨ AI ·

Every web developer knows this email: &ldquo;Can you make the button on the about page a bit bigger? And the text under the photo is wrong.&rdquo; Which button? Which photo? Then come the endless…

Session Report — The Dark Tower 1

thedolentchronicle.com · Oct 21 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

A report for the 1st session of my Mythic Bastionland campaign.

You Don't Have To Reach For The Stars

adityapurwa.com · Oct 21 · 🪶 Essays ·

God knows, the finish line of human is not the stars.

Island Operations talk at PART

journal.seefar.dev · Oct 21 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

Island Operations talk at PART On Tuesday evening, October 20, 2026, I gave a talk at the monthly meeting of PART of Westford, my local radio club. The meeting had an island activation theme. I went…

Study notes: automatic differentiation (part 2)

mathias-brandewinder.github.io · Oct 21 · 🧩 Programming ·

In my last post, I began my side quest into automatic differentiation , trying to implement it from scratch as a learning exercise, in F#, to understand how it works. In part 1 , I decided to start…

Explicit Account Routing in OpenCode with CLIProxyAPI

mrkaran.dev · Oct 21 · 🧩 Programming ·

I juggle between personal and work accounts for both Claude and Codex, and I wanted all of them available in OpenCode . Most people set up local LLM proxies to pool their accounts into one bucket and…

Calculating gravitational waves at infinity: the missing link

duetosymmetry.com · Oct 21 · ⚛️ Science ·

Gravitational-wave science requires waveform templates to be computed at future null infinity, the asymptotic boundary of spacetime. Numerical solutions of Einstein’s equations typically rely on a…

Accurate initial data for Cauchy-characteristic evolution

duetosymmetry.com · Oct 21 · ⚛️ Science ·

Accurate gravitational-wave (GW) templates from numerical-relativity (NR) simulations are essential for GW science. These templates are typically computed at finite radii and extrapolated to future…

Refactoring English: Month 22

mtlynch.io · Oct 21 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

New here? Hi, I&rsquo;m Michael. I&rsquo;m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I&rsquo;m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for…

ReverseMarkdown passes 7.5M downloads; 6.3.0 halves memory on real-world pages

mysticmind.dev · Oct 21 · 🧩 Programming ·

ReverseMarkdown more than doubled its NuGet downloads this year, from 3.7M in January to 7.5M. The 6.3.0 release cuts allocations by up to 58% on real-world pages by making the unclosed script and…

ChatGPT field guide: models, plans, Codex, and prices

dunn.us · Oct 21 · ✨ AI ·

Every current OpenAI model, ChatGPT plan, and tool, with prices and what to pick by job. Checked regularly.

Agent UX: Building developer tools for humans and their coding agents

ines.io · Oct 21 · 📐 Design & UX ·

For a long time, visual SaaS apps have been the go-to solution for professional tooling. But with coding agents, this is changing – and the apps we build now need to work just as well for the agents…

Every language should talk to the kernel itself

smarimccarthy.is · Oct 21 · 🧩 Programming ·

Almost every program running on any given Linux box today, regardless of what language it was written in, talks to the kernel by way of the same few megabytes of C. Python, Ruby, Rust, PHP, Java,…

Switching from Dokploy to Komodo

timharek.no · Oct 21 · 🛡️ Sysadmin & Security ·

Holy shit, I didn’t know what I was missing out on. The other day I was setting up a new home-server for a friend, they’re technical, but I don’t think they will tinker too much with the media stack…

Mercury 3 vs. the Fast Autoregressive Models: A Technical Report

zbruceli.org · Oct 21 · ✨ AI ·

How fast is a diffusion LLM in practice, what does it get right, and what does it cost per right answer? Two use cases, 13 model configurations, about 63,000 jobs, measured end to end over public…

《缺氧》玩后感

ycao.net · Oct 21 · 🕹️ Gaming ·

这篇文章欠了缺氧好久。此游戏耗费笔者宝贵的六百七十六个小时青春。越想愈觉得设计精妙、难以改进。 妈的,这么牛逼,我操 游戏的目的(注意区别于异化后的娱乐。笔者本人极其厌恶在线游戏等以营利为主要目的的作品,本质为资本主义剥削用户注意力,和短视频等批判方式相同。)与传统艺术并无不一,本质都是使得观众/游玩者获得特定的情感体验。在传统艺术的基础上,游戏多了“交互性”这一工具,使得艺术表达边界获得极大的拓…

Evolution Of HTTP: An Interactive Guide

prateeksurana.me · Oct 21 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

A deep dive into the three major versions of HTTP that dominate the web today and how they evolved to meet the needs of the modern internet.

Build Case-Insensitive Lookups with Rails' New QueryPredicates Types

codewithrails.com · Oct 21 · 🧩 Programming ·

Rails 8.2 lets an Active Record type define the SQL expression every query compares through. Write lower() once, in a type, and get case- and accent-insensitive find_by, where, order, and uniqueness…

Why your monorepo has two copies of your singleton

cannibalcode.com · Oct 21 · 🧩 Programming ·

=== was true in dev and false in prod

Out with the GOOG in with the Muse

natestraub.github.io · Oct 21 · 🧩 Programming ·

TLDR; I was losing my mind with how slow our TV was, so I used Claude to reduce the memory usage of my TV launcher from 356 MB to 23–27 MB, while reducing screen draws to about 365 ms from a cold…

Creating Custom 3D Avatars with Runek

blog.anirudha.dev · Oct 21 · 🧩 Programming ·

A person is a seed and a few props. No .glb , no textures, no rig to import. Everything else falls out of that. Every game with a character creator ends up with the same pile of stuff. A base mesh, a…

Upgrading K3s nodes to Ubuntu 26.04, testing Debian 13 worker nodes

fredrickb.com · Oct 21 · 🛡️ Sysadmin & Security ·

It was about time to upgrade K3s nodes from Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04. I’ve also wanted to test out using Debian 13 as K3s nodes for some time. Using Ansible to automate provisioning of cloud-init…