16 Aug 2026 · bhelx · simst.im
Sometime around 2016, a guy named Henry Newton started showing up to our local meetup in New Orleans. He had a pretty interesting career and some cool stories. The reason he came out, I think other than just talking with some like minded people, was he wanted to revive an old project he worked on. The way he told it, he had some Fortran code from the 70s for simulating EMP attacks. He was interested in porting it to a modern language and studying how it could impact the electrical grid. I found …
16 Aug 2026 · edsu · inkdroid
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Illich at 100 We’re spreading a rumour. Over the first weekend in September, 2026, there will be local gatherings around dinner tables and picnic blankets and in convivial spaces of different kinds, in places around the world, to mark what would have been the 100th birthday of Ivan Illich. Whether you’re a newcomer to Illich’s work, a long-time reader or anywhere in between, you are warmly invited to be part of this. C…
16 Aug 2026 · dmitrygr · Dmitry.GR
I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V. Here it is.
16 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
This evening I was on a wonderful call about websites where, at two points, I reached for books that were around me as a visual reference. One of the books was “Mini Louvre”, a gift given to me that contains images and information about various artworks in the Louvre. We ended up talking about how there should be more picture books for adults, something I raised after sharing my excitement about the Mini Louvre book. This led me further to think about my use of Mini Louvre in the last week. …
15 Aug 2026 · splitbrain · Linkblog
Full-page, visible-area and region screenshots for Chrome, with a complete editor that runs on your device. Works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc and other Chromium browsers. 601 Chrome Web Store users · 55 stars on GitHub · v0.6.0 · MIT licensed · Show HN thread The whole workflow, in one place. Capture a full page, mark it up, blur what should stay private, then export — no tab juggling, no separate editor app. Full-page capture to export, recorded at 2.4× speed. 01 Capture Full page, visib…
15 Aug 2026 · lalitm · Lalit Maganti
To get promoted as a software engineer in Big Tech, you generally need to show “ownership” of a product or area. This means being responsible for it and deciding what should happen over time. I often hear more junior engineers ask: “How can I demonstrate ownership when my manager hasn’t given me anything to own?” This way of thinking is a trap: an easy one to fall into, but a trap nonetheless. The problem is that they are treating responsibility as a complete, self-contained opportunit…
15 Aug 2026 · otoolep · Philip O'Toole
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database built on SQLite and Raft. rqlite.io is the Hugo-based website for rqlite, built on the Docsy theme. It introduces people to the database, as well as serving all the technical documentation. Last month I decided to ask Claude Code to redesign the website. I fed this simple prompt to Opus 5, […]
15 Aug 2026 · splitbrain · Linkblog
15 Aug 2026 · dblock · code.dblock.org | tech blog
My previous post walked through four bugs in ruby-enum , a gem I maintain, all stemming from the fact that class-level instance variables aren’t inherited by subclasses. The third fix, #59 , made keys , key? , value? , key , value , to_h , parse and each walk up superclass and merge in a parent’s enums, so a subclass would see everything its ancestors defined. It was correct, fully tested, and shipped. It also made every one of those methods roughly 5x slower on any subclass. def _enum_hash …
15 Aug 2026 · aphaelion · asb's corner
Welcome to Rambletown! I think the core problem I have when I am creative writing, is that sometimes I feel like I wax poetic too much, or I feel the pressure to wax poetic too much, and then I am not driven by the whims of the mind but instead a ghoul on my shoulder constantly nudging my hands off the wheel to pull a fucking Gymkhana maneuver. I wonder why I like creative writing. I know for a fact I have fun writing interesting sentences; it’s a definite thought I’ve had, where I just chai…
15 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
My first feelings outside this morning were of the chilly, refreshing autumn air; one for which I have been yearning for many days. I feel at home in cooler climates. In the grass, a rabbit hops slowly; other rabbits gather, too. A bird flies in front of me as I walk; many kinds of birds sing, heard by each other and the trees and me. In the song, I wonder. Do birds have their own community? Their own rhythm? A robin – or maybe a chaffinch – perches on a low branch at the bottom of the hedge…
15 Aug 2026 · dmitrygr · Dmitry.GR
TODO summary
15 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
The National Gallery of Scotland has a temporary exhibition of Stanley Cursiter’s artwork going on at the moment. Cursiter was both an artist and keeper (which I understand to be like a curator), later director, of the National Gallery of Scotland. The exhibition, in one of the side rooms to the main hall, is filled with a selection of works throughout his career. Walking through the room, I was surprised and delighted by the range of his works. I liked his “Synthesis of the Supper Room at a…
14 Aug 2026 · jordi · Jordi Villar
I spent a few years writing down everything I learned about ClickHouse internals. Most of it I can’t read anymore. It lived in the internal tools of a company I no longer work for, and the day I left, it stayed there. The habit came from Tinybird. For the ones who didn’t read my farewell post , writing things down was a big chunk of the company culture for the first years. We used Basecamp for it. We can argue whether it was the best tool, but it did the job. Some of what I wrote in those ye…
14 Aug 2026 · starbist · Blog of fearless web developer Silvestar Bistrović
I had to build columns of items moving in opposite directions when a user scrolls the page. See how I did it.
14 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
For the 3rd year running, I've been at GopherCon UK and am surprised to have survived the heat in London - highs of 36 degrees yesterday - but thankfully The Brewery is a lovely and cool event space. I'm writing this on the train home, with a slightly tired voice, and a little tired after a good time - thanks again to the organisers for putting it on! How to Stay Passionate in the Age of AI Ainsley Clark kicked us off by talking about ways that we can stay passionate with the reshaping of our ro…
14 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
A lie is robbing some future reality from somebody else. -- Stephen West, Philosophize This https:// open.spotify.com/episode/30se1 mE8nsPirNYhlmbyBr Media: https:// traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD758211 0057.mp3 (MP3) # PhilosophizeThis # philosophy # lies # StephenWest
14 Aug 2026 · gabe · lifewaza
In the last article in this series, I got caddy up and running and told it about all the services I wanted it to know about. Now I need to setup the mapping between the names (grafana.lifewaza.com) and the IP address where caddy is running (192.168.1.10). Since I run a local DNS resolver ( unbound ) I can just add entries to it’s configuration file ( /var/unbound/etc/unbound.conf ) for each of the services I want to name. # transparent local zone for lifewaza.com local-zone: "lifewaza.com" tra…
14 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
Wearing a distinguished red scarf, the fluffy librarian sits atop a shelf of books. Of the stacks and stacks of stories and tales resting beneath, he knows all. Edgar is a quiet, soft fellow — content contemplating closer to the clouds. He could recite any poem from Dickinson — or paint a portrait of the quietest, fullest Japanese coffee shop. Instead, he sits patiently, waiting for the moment when you reach out, asking “what should I read today?” With a smile always on his face, and wit…
14 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
While walking earlier today, I noticed a few tall trees in the distance were starting to turn yellow. One tree in particular stands out to me; one changing faster than others, adding a new hue to the once all-green canopy of trees. I look around and start to notice the first signs of yellowing on other trees, too – the ends of branches tinted with the colour of the next season; leaf-shaped reminders that, with time, summer becomes autumn; green becomes yellow and red and brown as we cycle thro…
14 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
(what if) home pages (were, are) ever-changing poems(?)
14 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
to feel the boundaries of the paper loneliness hopes blankness fullness peripheries texture colour; within its edges: frames of beginnings.
14 Aug 2026 · dblock · code.dblock.org | tech blog
The ruby-enum gem is a small library I maintain that adds enum-like behavior to a class via include Ruby::Enum and define :KEY, value . Four pull requests landed against it recently, each fixing a different symptom, and all four turned out to be the same underlying bug: class-level instance variables set in a module’s included hook are not inherited by subclasses the way you might expect. All of these fixes shipped in ruby-enum 1.2.0 . Ruby::Enum stores its keys and values in instance variable…
14 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
the forever flutters like a lantern, warming, present.
13 Aug 2026 · ABGEO · ABGEO's Personal website
Have you done something like this? POST /api/orders/search HTTP/1.1 Host: api.example.com Content-Type: application/json { "status": "shipped", "createdAfter": "2026-01-01", "customer": { "country": "GE" }, "sortBy": "createdAt", "limit": 50 } Most backend developers have. I’ve seen it in dozens of production APIs. You need to filter, sort, and page through a resource, the filter shape is too complex for query parameters, so you reach for POST and call the endpoint /search . It works. It also …
13 Aug 2026 · jbaber · John Baber-Lucero
Cairo Composite Manager 2011-10-11 This is what I had to do to get Cairo Composite Manager working to get expose-like behavior for normal Gnome. Sergey Davidoff has a working version in his ppa. Follow his directions . Because I have no idea what I'm doing, this advice should be taken with a grain of salt. I make no claims that following my directions won't erase all your data and destroy your computer. short how to
13 Aug 2026 · jbaber · John Baber-Lucero
Beautiful Things 2008-01-07 The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Henry Miller perspective Steampunk Datamancer Steam Punk Workshop Língua Portuguesa vi Spiders Evolution Biological Stellar Geological Smoke curling Liquid crowning Clouds Intricate Machinery Steam toys Engines Carburetors Typewriters Typewriters The Virtual Typewriter Museum The Human Body Celtic knotting Radial Symmet…
13 Aug 2026 · jbaber · John Baber-Lucero
Person - Action - Object 2014-03-23 My person-action-object (PAO) system using major system words exclusively. Some are a stretch, but it's a very easy system to learn with the major system crutch. Note: Animals make great objects. I like to distinguish 03 and 3, so I've actually got 110 triplets. My real personal list replaces many celebrity and generic names with friends: I suggest you do likewise. Suggestions for simpler replacements are more than welcome. Having the triplets be striking them…
13 Aug 2026 · jbaber · John Baber-Lucero
Computers 2007-05-22 The city's central computer told you?! R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer! C3P0 When I teach math to students who want to use calculators or argue with people who like voting by touchscreen, I always find myself trying to explain why you should be careful trusting machines too much. Even though they make very few mistakes of their own, human error/corruption is always present. I just remembered the best, simple demonstration of this principle: short compu…
13 Aug 2026 · jbaber · John Baber-Lucero
Alfred E. Neuman quotes up to 2005 2008-01-05 Fa, fa, fa. Alfred E. Neuman Show me a trunk murderer, and I'll show you a sloppy packer. (Issue 038) Bars are something which if you go into too many of, you're apt to come out singing a few of, and maybe land behind some! (Issue 039) It takes 12,000 workers to put a bottle of milk on your doorstep, and at 4 A.M. in the morning, it sounds like it. (Issue 040) There are more important things in life than money... but they won't go out with you if you…
13 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
Is this what “afterglow” means? The question came to me as I looked up at the sky twenty minutes or so after sunset. There is a faint orange colour on the horizon where the sun was. The colour grows paler away from the hills; the sky is now mostly blue, the top of the sky darkening while the horizon is slightly white, painted with lines of light and lightdark grey clouds; two dark clouds appear to the right of the horizon, surrounded by the red of the afterglow. I knew the word “afterglow,…
13 Aug 2026 · jbaber · John Baber-Lucero
Now These are things I'm doing now: Married to Laarni Raising two boys Living in Columbia, Maryland, USA . This is a now page Updated: 2025-10-20
13 Aug 2026 · jbaber · John Baber-Lucero
Today I Learned "Meta" meant "after" in Greek, not "about" since the Metaphysics section came literally after the Physics section in the organization of Aristotle's treatises. (2020-09-07) Penguin and Random House merged in 2013 . (2020-06-12) " Selfie s" are usually backwards images. It's obviously easier to take a picture of yourself that looks like a mirror, but I assumed the image would be stored right-way-round. (2020-05-20) git-bug exists for tracking bugs entirely in the repo. and bridgin…
13 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
I was just in time to catch the moment when the sun started to recede behind the hills in the distance, a moment in which two birds flew together and danced into the night, in which there were the last flickers of the golden glow of Evening thinking through the window, in which I looked to see the colours of the rest of the sky and, when looking back, realise the sun has now set; its brilliant yellow glow becoming cooler with every passing minute. I looked to the clouds and saw the shape of a gi…
13 Aug 2026 · jbaber · John Baber-Lucero
Laarni Marital status: Married (to John ) Eye color: Brown Hair color: Black
13 Aug 2026 · mtlynch · mtlynch.io
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights July’s book sales tripled the already-strong sales I saw in June. I’m fighting the world’s dumbest scraper bot. I’m using AI to make a multiplay…
13 Aug 2026 · jbaber · John Baber-Lucero
Wishlist And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. Exodus 23:8 I have been unable to think of any polite way to tell this to people directly, so I'm going to say it on my webpage. I have enough stuff. If you want to purchase a present for me, please donate as much as you would spend on me to one of the following charities. A $5.00 donation means so much more to me than a $50.00 gift certificate. Of course if you want to make me a pizz…
13 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
Ever since I published “Blogs, websites, and identity”, I have been thinking about and discussing some of the questions I raised in the blog post: why do we take photos, what does it mean to write on the web. The essay feels like a starting point: a framing from which to work, a point of reference, a repository of questions. In the essay, I wrote: But I can’t shake my question: what does it mean to write on the web? I am still thinking about this question. I am no closer to having a writte…
13 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
first breaths, outdoors: in, out. calm.
12 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
HN discussion on France's telemarketing ban Yesterday's discussion impressed me with the number of comments indicating total rejection of the mainstream direct-dial phone network (PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network), by which I mean not merely landlines but mobile and (compatible) VOIP/SIP systems. Spam calls, once largely confined the the US and a few other countries, are spreading. Comment highlights: Telemarketers have ruined the phone network for me. I haven't answered an unknown call f…
12 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
Using the web is basically impossible without an ad blocker, and having a phone is basically impossible without a call blocker. -- altern8 (Hacker News) https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9256281 # Robocalls # PhoneSpam # DeathOfTelephony
12 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
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12 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
I will be attending https://www.meetup.com/londongophers/events/315973770/ . I'm on the waitlist 🤞🏼
12 Aug 2026 · aphaelion · asb's corner
I was talking with a new friend Angela yesterday, and during our email conversation she mentioned her art taking a side seat to the tech-y stuff. It got me thinking about art again, and in particular the seemingly random but firm belief I have that knowing about, caring about, and engaging with art is important (more important than ever before? Who’s to say, really). I initially thought up a large portion of this with the intent of being prescriptive, but some helpful conversations with my gir…
12 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
On my desk there is a painting of Monet’s “Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies” 1 that I purchased when I was on holiday last year. I wanted to bring something back that I could put in my living space, something that would both be a memory of the trip but also a work of art in itself to be enjoyed. Every time I go to my desk, the painting is there: a reminder of one of my favourite artists. I brought back a fridge magnet from the same trip, too, which brings art to the kitchen. And when I g…
12 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
Is it possible to be in awe and have no idea to what extent until you look back? I think this is what I feel now, looking back on the solar eclipse that happened an hour and a half ago or so. “Isn’t it amazing that this happens?”, I said to everyone who joined this evening’s Homebrew Website Club Europe meetup online, whose start coincided with the solar eclipse. I didn't have solar eclipse glasses, but I decided to do the next best thing to experience the eclipse: watch the stream from …
11 Aug 2026 · hpj · Comments for Et tu, Cthulhu
This is a really interesting case study, and I appreciate the honest breakdown of DALL-E 2's limitations for pixel art. The point about pixelization masking the model's smudges is spot on—it’s a clever workaround that makes the output much more usable for a game project. I’ve found similar approaches helpful when experimenting with an ai art creation tool for concept work, though consistency across multiple scenes is still the biggest hurdle. Your note about the genre’s forgivi…
11 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 In the Renovate project, we use the Merge Queue to merge PRs. If a PR fails its status checks, it will be pulled out of the Merge Queue, and a maintainer will need to re-queue it, if it is a transient error. For those of you unaware, GitHub are having a pretty hard time recently with outages , which means that we're seeing an increase in the number of PRs being pulled out of the Merge Queue due to transient errors due to GitHub's instability …
11 Aug 2026 · jalcine · Jacky Alciné's linklog
Ever since listening to the first episode of Revolution Social with rabble and Jack Dorsey , my opinions on Dorsey have slightly changed. I didn't understand - not fully - why he allowed the sale of Twitter to Elon, but that episode talks more about it (tl;dr: capitalism wins over logic every time). That capital has been one he's been sitting on but as of late, he's been funding a lot of projects that are anti-cenorship, something I'm adamant about, which is different from moderation, something …
11 Aug 2026 · edsu · inkdroid
Vine on bark