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My Favorite Games of 2025

Hello, RSS reader! šŸ‘‹ This post has some bespoke ar...

via tylersticka.com Dec 23, 2025

ā€˜Every Data Centre Is a U.S. Military Base’

Paris Marx, writing for the Canadian Centre for Po...

via pxlnv.com Jan 17, 2026

2026 is the year I return to rigorous planning

2026 is the year I return to some rigorous plannin...

via luke.hsiao.dev Jan 08, 2026

science in an anarchist society

I've always been fascinated by anarchist societies...

via lili.bearblog.dev Feb 04, 2025

The Price of Software

When Zork I was originally released in the early 8...

via bigzaphod.com Jan 06, 2026

Back Into The Swimming Pool

It feels good to be back in a swimming pool. After...

via hacdias.com Jan 16, 2026

It’s Okay ↗

I wrote a LinkedIn post: I used to have some regre...

via bentsai.org Oct 30, 2025

To be defeated by ever greater things

For the new year, a resolution How small that is, ...

via anniemueller.com Jan 02, 2026

New Search Filtering in Web and API

The search engine recently exposed a fair number o...

via marginalia.nu Dec 08, 2025

S3 Storage At Home With Garage Part 2: Reverse Proxy

Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. ...

via jan.wildeboer.net Jan 14, 2026

LLMs Make Legal Advice Lossy

cheap chatbot summaries take important choices awa...

via writing.kemitchell.com Dec 08, 2025

In Case I Die

A horror story about labor, humanity, and AI.

via garbados.github.io Jan 16, 2026

The natural home for AI agents is your Reminders app

AI agents do things for you, semi-autonomously, an...

via interconnected.org Jan 15, 2026

Web Review, Week 2026-03

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-03. E...

via ervin.ipsquad.net Jan 16, 2026

Who needs a flying car when you have display: grid

A friend asked me if I could build him a simple we...

via rachsmith.com Oct 10, 2025

Nob

From lunch today.

via lmnt.me Jan 14, 2026

time

TIME-2025(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual TIME...

via text.causal.agency Aug 18, 2025

Thoughts On People and Blogs

As I mentioned to the supporters on Ko-fi a week a...

via manuelmoreale.com Jan 18, 2026

Summary of changes for November 2025

Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes ...

via 100r.ca Dec 02, 2025

On Mathematics vs Programming, and Syntax and Semantics

December 28, 2025 Ā· 27 Min Read On Mathematics vs ...

via ludwigabap.com Dec 28, 2025

Week Notes 2025-48

I managed twenty-eight weeks of notes until the ha...

via netigen.com Dec 03, 2025

Updates 2025/Q4

Life and project updates from the current consecut...

via xn--gckvb8fzb.com Dec 31, 2025

Many Americans Are Open to Car-Free Living

Are Americans a ā€œcar cultureā€ or are they ā€œcar dep...

via humantransit.org Dec 09, 2025

New Year, New Me

One of the big changes I made at the end of 2025 w...

via evanp.me Jan 03, 2026

Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World?

There’s never been just one way to buy software. I...

via pketh.org Dec 02, 2025

How Many Pixels Do You Really Need?

I was reading in Ploum's excellent blog yesterday ...

via rldane.space Jan 17, 2026

Generators with UnpinCell

In July, I described a way to make pinning more er...

via without.boats Oct 25, 2024

January 2026

<p>I entered the new year holding an inconsolable, sh...</p>

via maggieappleton.com Jan 02, 2026

Strength and Hope Amid the Year’s Cold Start

Hey, maybe you are struggling here at the beginnin...

via dansinker.com Jan 12, 2026

Rest

When Mark died and I spoke to his mom that night, ...

via aspeckledtrout.com Jan 12, 2026

2026 is starting off with even more US fascism

2026 is starting off with even more US fascism 202...

via beardystarstuff.net Jan 09, 2026

Bose Open-Sources Its SoundTouch Home Theater Smart Speakers Ahead of End-of-Life

It goes without saying, but this is how companies ...

via initialcharge.net Jan 12, 2026

cheap DIY solar fence design

A year ago I installed a 4 kilowatt solar fence. I...

via joeyh.name Sep 21, 2025

Linkdump No 90

This week I was a guest over on Hyde's blog. He ha...

via 82mhz.net Jan 16, 2026

Untitled

I enjoyed this conversation between Margaret Atwoo...

via dahlstrand.net Jan 06, 2026

Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World

I start my morning going through nearly 250 feeds ...

via om.co Jan 16, 2026

What and Why, willow leaf revisit. It happened, but it’s in the past

Here’s a tree. Willow leaf fig. Yeah, the one ever...

via adamaskwhy.com Aug 21, 2025

unlimited

We live in a world of unlimited opportunities, but...

via atuljha.com Jan 11, 2026

Happy Belated New Year

Hey. It's been a while. I've been meaning to reach...

via taylor.town Jan 06, 2026

Impact, agency, and taste

I’ve been thinking recently about what sets apart ...

via benkuhn.net Apr 19, 2025

When Was I Happiest?

My wife recently asked me at what point in my life...

via kevquirk.com Jan 18, 2026

My 2025 GOTY: Skate Story

You are a demon made of glass and pain. And yet, y...

via moddedbear.com Jan 07, 2026

[library] creaturehood

Assumed audience: Theologically-orthodox Christian...

via v5.chriskrycho.com Jan 05, 2026

Bring Back Ops Pride (xpost)

Cross-posted from ā€œBring Back Ops Prideā€œ ā€œOperatio...

via charity.wtf Jan 19, 2026

Looking Back at 2025

Reminiscing and reflecting on 2025.

via hamvocke.com Dec 31, 2025

Choosing a new bookmarking/read later service

I used the Mozilla Pocket service until recently. ...

via cyb.org.uk Jun 05, 2025

Random Q&A That Are Interesting but Not At All Important…

Don’t look at me like that, you know you want to a...

via pimoore.ca Nov 08, 2025

Tools I loved in 2025

Hi friends! While answering 40 questions to ask yo...

via kevinlynagh.com Jan 04, 2026

Bónus poetry

When we visited Iceland a few years ago, I ran int...

via bjhess.com Jan 12, 2026

Responding to comments on ā€œI stream nothingā€¦ā€

Responding to comments from my latest video, which...

via vkc.sh Nov 03, 2025

Raising Notifications From Terminal

Raising Notifications From Terminal When executing...

via terminal-notifications.html Jan 17, 2026

Agentic Windows

I ran across an article today about a post on Twit...

via mikestone.me Nov 11, 2025

Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals (2025)

It’s my last day of writing for the year, so I’m g...

via ludic.mataroa.blog Dec 27, 2025

Better defaults for popovers via Manuel Matuzović

I recently added a rule to my reset style sheet UA...

via matuzo.at Jan 17, 2026

Wizards, Metadata, and Memory

Stage design of the Enchanted Garden by Hermann Bu...

via guillaumepaumier.com Apr 21, 2025

Thor: Resin Infusion

Watching carbon fiber resin infusion is always gra...

via cycfi.com Dec 14, 2025

Where am I?

I am in Montevideo, Uruguay. My family has mostly ...

via drafts.interfluidity.com Jan 19, 2026

Customizing The Emacs Email Experience With Mu4e

You all knew this was coming. After thinking about...

via brainbaking.com Jan 15, 2026

Life lessons from reinforcement learning

Becoming an RL diehard in the past year and thinki...

via jasonwei.net Jul 16, 2025

Moving Notice

I’ve officially moved my blog to here. Goodbye Wor...

via rebeccatoh.co Dec 03, 2025

Wireless HDMI Transmitters for my phone - Not a Fan

I bought a wireless HDMI transmitter to connect my...

via rafichaudhury.com Mar 09, 2025

Reading List 01/17/2026

ALARA, OLED screens, bus stop frequency, Ozempic a...

via construction-physics.com Jan 17, 2026

Playboy, kittens, and deep learning

It was nearing midnight and it had been a long day...

via obsessionwithregression.... Sep 04, 2018

AI-Powered Surveillance in Schools

It all sounds pretty dystopian: Inside a white stu...

via schneier.com Jan 19, 2026

Freedom of Missing Out

But filtering out unwanted noise is not being left...

via staticmade.com Dec 29, 2025

Additional Thoughts about the Command Pattern

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post on my employ...

via jonathan-frere.com Nov 29, 2025

The year in review: 2025

This year has been a return to the routines that o...

via arun.is Dec 21, 2025

The year of technoligarchy

In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power ...

via citationneeded.news Jan 07, 2026

Untitled

Found another hidden gem here in Chiang Mai today....

via birming.com Jan 19, 2026

TRMNL

The TRMNL is an 800Ɨ600, 1-bit e-ink display conne...

via imperialviolet.org Jul 27, 2025

The Shape of a Mars Mission

This post is the second in a series. Read part one...

via idlewords.com Feb 20, 2025

One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimes

How consumer protection in payments works, why it ...

via bitsaboutmoney.com Jan 07, 2026

Is there a tension between creativity and accuracy?

On Twitter, I’ve been chatting with my friend Juli...

via michaelnielsen.org Apr 09, 2017

Tech Stack 2026

A summary of my personal tech stack as we start 20...

via wezm.net Jan 08, 2026

2025 LLM Year in Review

2025 has been a strong and eventful year of progre...

via karpathy.bearblog.dev Dec 19, 2025

How We Will Be Measured (abridged)

This is a version of How We Will Be Measured, abri...

via mindingourway.com Dec 21, 2019

AI in 2025: gestalt

This is the editorial for this year’s ā€œShallow Rev...

via gleech.org Dec 08, 2025

If AI alignment is only as hard as building the steam engine, then we likely still die

You may have seen this graph from Chris Olah illus...

via mdickens.me Jan 10, 2026

Broken Workflow

I decided to upgrade the version of Hugo my sites ...

via ntnp.net Jan 10, 2026

pre-tenuring in v8

Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going...

via wingolog.org Jan 05, 2026

impersonator of profundities

Robert Inchausti, from his author page at the big ...

via sarahendren.com Jan 08, 2026

My thoughts on slow journalism

I know I’m tired of reading articles that include ...

via gregoryhammond.ca Dec 14, 2025

net.motss founding statement

In 1983 Steve Dyer created the Usenet group soc.mo...

via somebits.com Jan 17, 2026

My Book Release – and Other Ultra-belated Updates

I released my book in 2024 but never got around to...

via bigworldsmallsasha.com Dec 02, 2025

Gardenlog: Blueberries, Blackberries, Oh My!

OK! Checking in now on all things garden-ey from t...

via shellsharks.com Jun 23, 2025

Untitled

Bandits on the Run We’re encouraging all our belov...

via patrickrhone.net Jan 16, 2026

The best version of my site so far...

You might have noticed that I did a big design ref...

via daverupert.com Jan 18, 2026

why I had to be a runner before I could learn the piano

I’ve been trying to learn the piano for over a mon...

via winnielim.org Jan 18, 2026

Why you should run for the DSF Board, and my goals for the DSF in 2025

Applications are open for the 2025 Django Software...

via jacobian.org Oct 18, 2024

Credit Feed #6: The Gunner Light

In December [2025], Joel did a pretty cool thing o...

via bobbyhiltz.com Jan 05, 2026

Oops I slipped…

My travels have come to a temporary end. I was hik...

via alongtheray.com Jul 26, 2025

The Doorman

I don’t remember where I heard this story, but it ...

via kinduff.com Nov 30, 2025

pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken

Let's start a new Rust project. $ mkdir best-fizzb...

via jyn.dev Dec 26, 2025

Wizards, Metadata, and Memory

Stage design of the Enchanted Garden by Hermann Bu...

via guillaumepaumier.com Apr 21, 2025

New RSS feeds and other small blog updates

I mentioned before I don’t like to write blog post...

via blog.ctms.me Jan 17, 2026

Today my brain wanted to think about one of the first dates I ever went on

The moviefilm Titanic was released on December 19,...

via gkeenan.co Jul 30, 2025

Changes.

After 10 1/2 years at my current company, most rec...

via blog.jpnearl.com Jan 17, 2026

Winter CatCamp

If Air Canada cooperates, I’ll move back home toni...

via ruk.ca Jan 18, 2026

Svelte state sharing? Just use classes. They're fine.

Who here remembers Stores from Svelte 4? // counte...

via josh.is-cool.dev May 31, 2025

Tormentmaxxing 'simple requests'

Automating the full lifecycle of 'quick' requests ...

via xeiaso.net Jan 15, 2026

A novel approach to multi-line strings in Rust

Writing multi-line strings in Rust is quite awkwar...

via nikrev.com Sep 18, 2025

Slopes in AABB collision systems

Recently (again, bored on a vacation), I started w...

via andreyor.st Jan 09, 2026

Categorize Your Dependencies

<p>When building a project, it's very likely that we ...</p>

via antfu.me Apr 28, 2025

Certificate Transparency in Firefox

.Firefox 136 looks poised to enforce Certificate T...

via seirdy.one Jan 26, 2025

Darwin the Witness

In His Own Words (Episode 4)

via aethermug.com Jan 08, 2026

How to think about Gas Town

<p>I want to continue with my <a href="/series/getting-started-with-claude-code">series on how you can u...</a></p>

via steveklabnik.com Jan 15, 2026

This Week 2026 03

Yey, hurray for me, as I write this I’ve completed...

via sotolf.codeberg.page Jan 19, 2026

Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition

Andreas tagged me in his post over the Blog Questi...

via thedorkweb.bearblog.dev Feb 14, 2025

More dog care, work and lots of games - W02

The second week of the year was filled with many d...

via joelchrono.xyz Jan 16, 2026

Random Monster Generator

I've had this idea in my list for a long time - ge...

via rknight.me Jan 18, 2026

smol share

service for sharing short-lived encrypted snippets

via cblgh.org Dec 12, 2025

ambiences, agencies, apparitions

Reading Time: &lt; 1 minutei’ve been interested in de...

via chias.blog Dec 15, 2025

Visiting the Santa Fe Moon Tree

The Radiolab podcast (or actually, their "Terrestr...

via shallowsky.com Jan 10, 2026

My Unexpected Journey to Hormone Replacement (TRT)

As a man of Science, I’m supposed to hide my enthu...

via mrmoneymustache.com Dec 16, 2025

Perfect Sentences, 160

I am saying that we have, as a species, a deep and...

via buttondown.com Jan 18, 2026

Las Vegas, the Fourth Circle

reflections on Last Vegas Re:Invent, 2025 From the...

via drbacchus.com Nov 30, 2025

Taking Money off the Table

Recently I had a long call with an old friend who ...

via zachholman.com Oct 30, 2025

Weeknote (03-01-2025)

It's been a much more joyful week. On Friday my wi...

via wand3r.net Mar 01, 2025

The ghost of hamster game haunts me

The colorful tunnels call to me

via ctrl-c.club Dec 22, 2025