A New Biography of Antal Guth is being prepared

michaelguth.com · Oct 19 · 🏺 Humanities ·

Jelenleg az Ön rokonának, Dr. Guth Antal, a Magyarországi Tanácsköztársaság egészségügyi népbiztosának és orvosának életét kutatja, azzal a céllal, hogy megírja életrajzát. Guth Antal a kommunista…

What if the room is right?

theviewinside.me · Oct 19 · 🪶 Essays ·

If I automatically disagree with the crowd, am I really thinking for myself? A reflection on contrarian identity and the freedom to listen.

Joint shine

skeetmotis.blogspot.com · Oct 19 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

Two sections meet Seen in the street beneath our feet, the proud sections of this bridge joint are shined by tired wear from vehicular traffic.

Various Artists – "Cambodian Nuggets" (Akenaton Records – AKENAT02) 2019

dieordiy2.blogspot.com · Oct 19 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

You can't beat the smell of a horribly charred Cambodian in the morning, especially if he's been playing a plethora of Psyched up garage tunes in what sounds like an empty School hall on the…

Rolling the Root Key - WHat Happened?e

ispcol.potaroo.net · Oct 19 · 🛡️ Sysadmin & Security ·

The Root Key of the DNS rolled to a new key on the 11th October. This key roll is special as it sits at the apex of the DNS hierarchy, and DNSSEC-validating resolvers need to add this key to their…

You Can See Everything: A Review

exch.gr · Oct 19 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

Warning: this review contains lots of spoilers. Please go see the movie first. You Can See Everything is an absolute masterpiece. A delicate kaleidoscopic fractal of deception, manipulation, and…

dtg 0.3

fifthrevision.com · Oct 19 · 🧩 Programming ·

Version 0.3 of dtg is out. Check it out on GitHub ! This is a substantial release. By the end of 0.2 , I knew that the next version would entail major changes. I didn’t appreciate their extent until…

Where We Are So Far

lngnmn2.github.io · Oct 19 · ✨ AI ·

So, this is what is actually going on (seen as they are) in plain English. The sheer brute-force of data-center-sized “frontier” models is so brute that it easily appears as…

You Owe Me!

pussista.com · Oct 19 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

We are not woke enough!

Manuel was annoyed

annoying.technology · Oct 19 · 📐 Design & UX ·

Why?! At least it shows an actual error message instead of just hiding the toggle, or flipping itself back on. But just saying that it’s not possible is such a terrible user experience. Explain to me…

Offline speech-to-text for Flutter, with no server and no API key

blog.ishangavidusha.com · Oct 19 · 🧩 Programming ·

transcribe_cpp turns speech into text on the phone itself, live and hands-free, on iOS and Android. Why I built it and what turned out to be hard.

Introducing the Kick13 Explorer: the Kickstart 1.3 ROM, annotated

techtravels.org · Oct 19 · 💾 Retro ·

For at least the first few years I had my Amiga 500, Kickstart 1.3 was my OS version of choice. I’m not sure I chose it, per se, because it simply came this way, but it is still my go-to for…

Finished Proverbs!

theworksofegan.net · Oct 19 · 🕹️ Gaming ·

I started playing Proverbs a little over a year ago, when things were getting quiet at work just before I got laid off. So in a way it's fitting that a year later, and having recently been re-hired…

A fresh start

joaomagfreitas.link · Oct 19 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

It always feels good to do a fresh start. It’s the transition between old and messy, to new and clean. It’s exciting because you can do things differently now, based on the mistakes from…

Did Trans Fat Have Its Tobacco Moment?

thenutritionarchive.com · Oct 19 · 🏃 Health & Fitness ·

I get asked this a lot, usually by students who are frustrated that food policy moves so slowly. The science on smoking was so overwhelming that it eventually reshaped laws, taxes, and norms around…

Goodbye to Albania

ae5x.blogspot.com · Oct 19 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

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The Imaginary Tomorrow

grahamwilsonbrown.com · Oct 19 · 🪶 Essays ·

"Retirement starts when you stop sacrificing today for some imaginary tomorrow." — Naval Ravikant I used to think retirement was a date. A number in a spreadsheet, a finish line you cross and then…

Ode to LinkedIn

quinonero.net · Oct 19 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

After almost falling for a sophisticated scam, sharing the story on LinkedIn reminded me how much I need a community to go through this madness with.

Between Two Fires

orenraynes.ca · Oct 19 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

Last updated: 1 week ago By Christopher Buehlman Reviewed By Oren Raynes Book 20 of 2026 The Writing I didn't mean to pick this one as a Halloween month read, but it works. The writing in this book…

Why the fuck are you in my inbox?

willhackett.com · Oct 19 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

Getting into my inbox should be a privilege. Strangers should ask first, every sender should get one line, and everything I keep should be labelled for me.

The Decades

lakewoodhiker.blogspot.com · Oct 19 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

Slowing down in Hawaii In a few short weeks my odometer will turn over to 50 years and I will enter a new decade of my life. It's true what they say about how time progresses as we get older..."The…

Opinions Attract AND Repel

valerieflynn.com · Oct 19 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

When do we determine when to speak up and when to let sleeping dogs lie? When is it itching for an argument? And when is dealing with conflict honestly and productively?

My coffee station

lubieniebieski.pl · Oct 19 · 🧑‍🍳 Food & Drink ·

Today I want to share my coffee station setup. My daily journal showed me a photo from five years ago, and it reminded me to write about this part of my morning routine. Disclaimer: I’m a…

Drawer: A Tidy Menu Bar in One Click

tommcfarlin.com · Oct 19 · 🧩 Programming ·

Drawer adds a pair of brackets to your menu bar: [ on the left and ] on the right. Anything between them is in the drawer.

Ideation and oracles - where AI does better than testers

visible-quality.blogspot.com · Oct 19 · ✨ AI ·

As I was preparing for my PNSQC keynote 'Better together: Humans, AI and the next quality benchmark', I went back on my social media timelines on the public notes I had taken, and two stood out in…

Don Valentine: The Mindset Behind Sequoia Capital

thevcfactory.com · Oct 19 · 💼 Work & Business ·

Don Valentine founded Sequoia Capital in 1972. He backed companies such as Apple and Cisco, recruited and taught legendary Investors such as Michael Moritz and Doug Leone, and helped build a Venture…

Software architecture in the age of AI-assisted development

blog.oxyconit.com · Oct 19 · 🧩 Programming ·

Generation got a hundred times faster and reading did not. What that actually breaks in code review, why spec-driven development collapses into a compiler, why clean code matters more when agents…

Theatre Review: Ilford Boy (Donmar Warehouse)

boycottingtrends.blogspot.com · Oct 19 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

Between contemporary travesties of Ibsen or the Greeks, and the endless "assembled research" ‎efforts of James Graham, Peter Morgan and the like, so much "new" writing for the British stage these…

Should We Be Concerned as a Society That Half of Gen Z is Open to Dating an AI?

ethicssage.com · Oct 19 · ✨ AI ·

Human-to-Human Contact in Decline: What Does it Mean? A recent Harris Poll reveals a dramatic shift in how younger people interact with technology. The exact breakdown of the 50% of Gen Z that are…

Building our first Sukkah

princessleia.com · Oct 19 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

In practicing Judaism with MJ for over a decade, I had a passing familiarity with Sukkot, but much like Purim, it didn’t have much meaning until we had kids. Which is not to say they’re…

Writing Discord Integration for UNBEATABLE

diaduck.xyz · Oct 19 · 🧩 Programming ·

Alternatively, "I dont know C#". Making UNBEATABLE show what you’re playing on Discord.

Marshall Guv'nor Genealogy (Part 2): Attack of the Clones

thekingofgear.com · Oct 19 · 🎛️ Hardware ·

In part one, we took a deep dive into the circuitry that makes the Marshall Guv’nor unique, in particular its “clipping core”. This week, we’re looking at the most notable Guv’nor-inspired pedals…

The next wave of software

markjgsmith.com · Oct 19 · ✨ AI ·

I think over the next few months we are going to start seeing a massive wave of new software releases. It's been a good number of months now that AI agents have been of a high enough quality that…

Programming

atharvaraykar.com · Oct 19 · 🧩 Programming ·

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Dead Zone

mikekarnj.com · Oct 19 · 💼 Work & Business ·

There are only two types of startups now: 1) lifestyle and 2) sci-fi. Lifestyle startups should bootstrap. Sci-fi startups should raise lots of capital. Anything in the middle is what...

Ut Tensio, Sic Vis

ooloi.org · Oct 19 · ⚛️ Science ·

“As the extension, so the force”Hooke’s law, first published in 1676 as the anagram ceiiinosssttuv(Gourlay’s springs are Hooke’s law with a stop) ​The last few…

Pujo Committee and the “Money Trust”

tontinecoffeehouse.com · Oct 19 · 🎲 Economy ·

One man played outsized role in ending the Panic of 1907, and for many Americans weary of the power of bankers, that was unsettling. Five years later, Congress summoned John Pierpont Morgan to…

Application icon changes via NSWorkspace.setIcon no longer being reflected in Notification Center in macOS 26.4+

macmule.com · Oct 19 · 📱 Technology ·

Bit of a wordy title, but since macOS 26.4 the rebranding options in both Jamf Auto Update and Notifier have stopped working, at least as far as the icons being shown in Notification Center for…

AI can operate a screen reader. What does that actually test? [link]

remysharp.com · Oct 19 · ✨ AI ·

Really like the framing of this article. It uses some very visceral (or easy to understand) examples of how people vs. AI would approach the problem space, and my feeling is that this kind of…

#Review - Trust No One by Mary Burton #Suspense

gizmosreviews.blogspot.com · Oct 19 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

Series: Standalone Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition Release Date: October 1, 2026 Publisher: Montlake Source: Kindle Unlimited Genre: Romantic Suspense A woman’s unexpected return to her isolated…

Credential Brokering Patterns for AI Agents Part 2.5: Where KMS Grants Stop Scaling

blog.christianposta.com · Oct 19 · 🛡️ Sysadmin & Security ·

Mode 3 from part 2 takes standing decrypt away from the token vault with KMS grants. The grant quota caps the whole system at 50 exchanges a second, and the attacker who actually shows up doesn't…

How To See Ghosts: 18 Scary Ritual Games That Might Reveal The Supernatural To You

theghostinmymachine.com · Oct 19 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

Wish you could learn how to see ghosts? These ritual games might teach you. Just be warned: Not all spirits are friendly...

Disjointness between Sets (8)

sites.psu.edu · Oct 19 · ⚛️ Science ·

We’ll finish proving Theorem A.2 of Paper S6 in this post. Links to: index page, 10/12/26 (last post), 9/28/26, 9/21/26, 9/7/26, 7/21/25, the generalized binomial theorem. Next time,…

Releasing games on Steam without using the SteamSDK

simondalvai.org · Oct 19 · 🕹️ Gaming ·

This month I'm very busy preparing my first commercial game for the v1.0 release in December. Additionally, I will also speak at GodotFest26 and SFSCON in November. For that reason this month's blog…

Next generation asynchronous logging

blog.kimiblock.top · Oct 19 · 🧩 Programming ·

From the very beginning of Portable, logging is always a four-tiered simple idea: We assemble a formatted String with a designated log le

The Kraken Busters 89

keithpille.com · Oct 19 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

<< First | <Prev | Next > << First | <Prev | Next > It’s important to me that you know: this comic has always and always will be made…

Successful Adventures, or How to Win in AD&D

forlornencystment.blogspot.com · Oct 19 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

This post is part of Prismatic Wasteland's blog bandwagon on the topic of player advice . At the end of the AD&D PHB, just before the Appendices on psionics, bards, alignment, the planes, and…

Four months in Poland

gkeenan.co · Oct 19 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

I’ve been meaning to write something, anything , about my experiences over the last, like, five months–holy shit, it’s been nearly five months since I left the US. Holy shit! I thought just now,…

I Am a Defender of Ukraine

jeffsachs.org · Oct 19 · 🎤 Politics ·

By Jeffrey D. SachsI wish to state my position plainly. I am a defender of Ukraine and of peace. I believe in the concept of indivisible security, meaning for Ukraine, Russia, and Europe.  Those…

A Love Story -- and a Hypotenuse

poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com · Oct 19 · 🌊 Art ·

The following poem -- "Fayetteville Junior High" by Delaware poet Fleda Brown -- uses mathematical terms in entertainingly describing a romance between two teachers: Read more »