https://news.jlopes.eu/microblog Personal blogs and small-web writing, aggregated from Bubbles and Bear Blog. https://blog.curiousquail.com/young-suns-is-coming-to-steam-november-3rd-and-im-probably-not-going-to-shut-the-fuck-up-about-it/ https://blog.curiousquail.com/young-suns-is-coming-to-steam-november-3rd-and-im-probably-not-going-to-shut-the-fuck-up-about-it/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:33:00 GMT If you have also been waiting for a way to play this game without involving yourself in the Microsoft ecosystem, the time is near Ok so to catch you up; Young Suns is the latest game from KO_OP, cr... https://unstory.eu/ikn/ https://unstory.eu/ikn/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:29:59 GMT https://northernfolk.pagecord.com/manchester-23-september-2026 https://northernfolk.pagecord.com/manchester-23-september-2026 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:50:52 GMT Exchange Square Market Street Cross Street Victoria Station https://reprog.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/11843/ https://reprog.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/11843/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:28:17 GMT I was going for a walk six years ago when this caught my eye. As the sign on the right shows, there is a public footpath leading across the field. Yet the owner has put up an ugly, hostile sign sayin... https://lyteforcewrites.fyi/no-more-zero-days https://lyteforcewrites.fyi/no-more-zero-days Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:22:09 GMT You heard me right. No more zero days.Shared by Reddit user u/ryans01 over a decade ago (can't believe I've just come across this concept), the simple premise is that a day where you've no... https://dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intelligence/ https://dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intelligence/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:16:25 GMT The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with p... https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/828560747759058944 https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/828560747759058944 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:25:04 GMT Vote For the Inevitable https://drewdevault.com/blog/Why-is-HN-like-that/ https://drewdevault.com/blog/Why-is-HN-like-that/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:16:07 GMT Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers”1 gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent... https://riffraff.info/2026/09/notes-from-a-regime-change-part-1/ https://riffraff.info/2026/09/notes-from-a-regime-change-part-1/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:21:08 GMT In 2026, after 16 years of Viktor Orbán ruling Hungary, we finally changed our government. This is a momentous change, and I think it’s worth explaining it a bit, as someone who’s been around the whol... https://iamkonstantin.eu/blog/no-sloptober/ https://iamkonstantin.eu/blog/no-sloptober/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:08:00 GMT Abstain from LLMs for a month challenge? I just stumbled on the No Sloptober page and it sounds like a fun idea to try. I'm not sure I will, though. While some projects I work on require me to use... https://blog.ppb1701.com/muse-already-lied-about-what-it-reads-guess-why-amazon-doesnt-trust-it-either https://blog.ppb1701.com/muse-already-lied-about-what-it-reads-guess-why-amazon-doesnt-trust-it-either Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:10:00 GMT Two Muse stories dropped days apart, and read together they tell you everything. One is a journalist catching Meta's new AI agent lying to his face about what it had access to. The other is Amazon... https://brennan.day/static-site-generators-for-beginners/ https://brennan.day/static-site-generators-for-beginners/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:25:02 GMT I've been writing technical tutorials on my website since I started it last November, but this thread asking about static site generators for beginners on 32-bit Café made me realize I've neve... https://lyteforcewrites.fyi/html-for-people-and-i-think-im-people https://lyteforcewrites.fyi/html-for-people-and-i-think-im-people Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:18:50 GMT If I were to look back at the early days of me messing around with the internet - we're talking the late '90s here - it's that I didn't pursue my interest in HTML and CSS, let alone pr... https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/waiting-for-the-bubble-to-burst https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/waiting-for-the-bubble-to-burst Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:50:58 GMT Over on my ‘about me’ page, many years ago, back in the teenage years of this millennium, I wrote: My artwork has sold to collectors across the world, mainly facilitated directly through online sale... https://joshwithers.blog/2026/09/22/treat-your-body-like-a-data-centre-consume https://joshwithers.blog/2026/09/22/treat-your-body-like-a-data-centre-consume Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:53:23 GMT Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. – @chrismartin https://www.emgoto.com/brooklyn-sydney/ https://www.emgoto.com/brooklyn-sydney/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:46:18 GMT A lunch outing to Brooklyn, Sydney. To be honest I had never heard of this place before, but it wins the distinction of being the "northernmost suburb of Sydney". First up were some welcome sw... https://danq.me/2026/09/21/browser-vertical-tabs/ https://danq.me/2026/09/21/browser-vertical-tabs/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:07:04 GMT On a forum recently the conversation drifted into talking about the innovations different Web browsers had introduced, over the years. Another participant called out Vivaldi for bringing us vertical t... https://www.gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/09/19/i-received-an-ai-email/ https://www.gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/09/19/i-received-an-ai-email/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:07:36 GMT Look what landed in my inbox this morning. Good grief. Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more. https://thega.me.uk/2026/09/i-will-not-be-notified/ https://thega.me.uk/2026/09/i-will-not-be-notified/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:34:00 GMT For a year or so I have been struggling with my relationship with my phone. I am on it far too much, doing far too much of nothing. Hours have passed, and I have achieved nothing. I have learned nothi... https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/09/21/re-ai-is-not-just-a-tool/ https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/09/21/re-ai-is-not-just-a-tool/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:55:00 GMT Sure, you could run a local LLM model on your computer and use it to generate some SQL to help you create a report. Or generate awful art for your D&D campaign with your friends. But who made that... https://korin.uk/your-second-brain-wont-do-the-work https://korin.uk/your-second-brain-wont-do-the-work Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:19:00 GMT Use Johnny Decimal, set up a Zettelkasten, implement the PARA method, buy a Bullet Journal... none of it matters if you never do the work. I often read about people setting up these elaborate systems... https://kevquirk.com/do-you-use-visited-on-links https://kevquirk.com/do-you-use-visited-on-links Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:27:00 GMT I've always made the :visited attribute for hyperlinks look the same as links that haven't been visited, and it seems that it's the default behaviour across the web. I've never really... https://unstory.eu/kns/ https://unstory.eu/kns/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:36:55 GMT Religion is the perfect psychological parasite. Organized terror management. The human animal realized it was going to die, and the mind couldn't handle the sheer panic of its own expiration date.... https://widdershins.verja.net/one-light-day-away-time-incomprehensible/ https://widdershins.verja.net/one-light-day-away-time-incomprehensible/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:49:21 GMT Sometime around mid-November, Voyager 1 will cross the one light-day mark. That means the signal from a spacecraft we launched in September of 1977 now takes a full 24 hours to reach us at the speed o... https://gomakethings.com/articles/weeds-cant-grow-where-they-cant-take-root/ https://gomakethings.com/articles/weeds-cant-grow-where-they-cant-take-root/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMT In native gardening, the most effective way to prevent unwanted plants (aka weeds) from growing is to crowd them out with plants you do want. Rather than well-space plants with large gaps of mulch, y... https://blog.avas.space/think-of-the-children/ https://blog.avas.space/think-of-the-children/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:15:00 GMT Content warning: Mention of suicide, grooming methods, child sexual abuse. In between all the social media bans and age-verification discussions, I think back to my online time as a child. My parents... https://brennan.day/creating-a-blog-in-gemini/ https://brennan.day/creating-a-blog-in-gemini/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:00:00 GMT Welcome to my third post on Gemini and the alternative Internets and smallnets! This is going to be my most helpful and detailed article on the topic yet—and it's something I'm excited to get... https://hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-like-passkeys https://hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-like-passkeys Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:04:07 GMT For the past few years, the tech industry has kept pushing passkeys as the ultimate solution to logging in. Many Big Tech companies "helpfully" inform you every time you sign in how much easie... https://kevquirk.com/its-never-too-late-to-learn https://kevquirk.com/its-never-too-late-to-learn Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:54:42 GMT Last weekend my wife called me over to show me something on her phone. She was going through her old emails and came across some emails we had passed back and forth, from when we first met. She and I... https://deadparrotbbs.com/why-personal-websites-are-coming-back/ https://deadparrotbbs.com/why-personal-websites-are-coming-back/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:20:12 GMT There is a particular feeling some old software has that is hard to explain without sounding sentimental. You open it, it appears almost immediately, and it does the job it was built to do. The menus...