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Ive loved thy being from a boyThe highland hills was once my joyThen morning mists did round them lieLike sunshine in the happiest skyHer hills & valleys seemed my ownWhen our land was freedoms throneHer fruitful vales her mountain thronesAre ruled by natures laws aloneFollow me for daily John...
Perfumeshrine
The huge website/webzine of which I have the honor to be a senior editor and manager of its Greek edition for many years now invited a group of authors to post their favorite photos they personally took of their own bottles (Well, a small selection of them, at least!) The above our my very own,...
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Yesterday we went down to Spartanburg with my mom and dad. They wanted to see our fixer-upper that we bought in May, and while we were there, also see the campus of Spartanburg Methodist College. So that's what we did.My cousin Judy also wanted to see the house and to see Mom and Dad (Judy is...
AY
I edit photos for my primary job at the moment. Nothing grinds my gears more than people hiring photographers only to ruin every single photo by having them or a family member holding up their phone. No, your photographer or editors are not going to remove every single one in Photoshop. If there...
Mark V
afarshadblog
After 7 years of being a consistent user, the highest for any platform I have ever used, I am really unhappy about the recent news that Netflix, Sony Pictures, and Paramount are all bidding to acquire Letterboxd. While my love for that app is undeniable, as it helped me a lot with discovering...
Amaldev
I was looking for a long-term rechargeable option for a few household gadgets. I knew 1.5 V lithium AA cells existed, but I had never used them till now. So I thought today was a good day to explain how they work. Lithium batteries in consideration are of two kinds. The first is primary lithium...
mrgreen
Am building a new iso image, mostly updated packages and kernel. Have added Opencode AI agent which is a cli based application that could be useful for some if you already have used ai or wish to test it out. Comes with a free tier LLM model that has some token use on it. Know that Omarchy...
alan
Explanations for jargon, codenames, and tradecraft from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People
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admin
Thankfully, I do not make that many mistakes in my posts, but when I do, readers always find them, which is really brilliant as some are very embarrassing, and I want the posts to be as factually correct as possible. I have made a couple of mistakes in the last two posts. In my post on Basing...
Mr. Karswell
On this day 19 years ago (aka 2007), I cracked open the 'ol comic book long boxes and got to work scanning everything I had accumulated over my many decades of fiendish, fan boy collector existence. The point wasn't so much to just have everything backed-up on disc (which it is now, finally--...
Barbecue17
Let's check out the third of the four The Order of the Crimson Moon figures I ordered from Big Bad Toy Store a few months back: A nameless, faceless member of the cult itself, the Order of the Crimson Moon. Yes, this guy seems to be a generic army builder figure who is a member of the werewolf...
Marcus Hammarberg
The world of digital product development has changed forever with the advent of AI models like Opus (that was the first to make me realize this). In fact, many other industries have also changed, but I’m going to stick with what I know. And ever since I started to realize that code will be...
Jan Kocbach
Switzerland defended the World Orienteering Championships Sprint Relay title in Genoa, Italy, after a fantastic final leg by Simona Aebersold. Sweden took silver after Karolin Ohlsson passed Norway’s Pia Young Vik near the end of the race, while Norway had to settle for bronze despite starting the...
cparker
Australia Felix, Arthur Streeton, oil on canvas, 35 x 59 in. (90 x 151 cm), link is to Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Australia Felix is Latin for “dortunate Australia”, referring to fertils plains in Western...
Fred C (W6BSD)
Just a quick note for anyone who needs to convert between QRA (Maidenhead) locators and geographic coordinates. We've set up a simple, no-frills web tool at bsdworld.org/QRA-Locator. It's a lightweight page that does exactly what it says in the title: Earth Enter a QRA locator (like CM87VL) See...
Alexander Weiß
Whenever I build a custom reusable SwiftUI view as part of a larger application's design system, I follow the same principle: design its API to be as close as…
Ahmed Nadar
Geoffrey Hinton did the foundational work behind this entire AI wave at the University of Toronto. The Vector Institute turned that work into a real concentration of talent. The researchers who came through those rooms went on to OpenAI, DeepMind, Google Brain, and the current run of AI startups,...
Yossi Frenkel
TIL that the great-great-grandfather of Geoffrey Hinton, “the Godfather of AI”, is none other than George Boole, of boolean algebra fame! Reference: Bits with Soul Darwin College Lecture by Professor Simon Peyton Jones
Anthony's Blog
Interstate 909 – It’s A Whole ‘Nother Traffic JamPlugging and tough talk aside, I...
Great Hierophant
When IBM released the Personal Computer back in 1981, it gave the buyer two choices for the video output. The buyer could buy a monochrome card and a special high resolution green screen monitor to go with it, or a color card and connect it to a color monitor. The buyer could even run both cards...
Alex Leighton
By DimensionPublished on 2026-07-11Tags: listening-to, musicDimension - Offender Acid techno, drum and bass, inject it into my veins!Read the post →
Joy the Baker
Friends, hi! I’m back! Welcome back to The Bakehouse Almanac, our monthly ritual that’s part vibe check, part note taped to the fridge. Consider it a mug of coffee slid across the counter, from me to you. It’s a mix of good intentions, short lists, and whatever’s actually on my mind this month....
A Good Reed Review
By Ande Jacobson Linda Castillo’s tenth Kate Burkholder novel is A Gathering of Secrets. This time the Amish community goes full vigilante trying to right a horrible wrong. The prologue begins with the suicide of a young woman on the cusp of adulthood with her whole life ahead of her, though it...
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
I’ve just finished two new pieces for my Breathing Room collection, and although they arrived by different paths, they seem to belong together. Both are mixed media on handcrafted paper. Both suggest a horizon without insisting on a specific place. And both are really about light—how it settles,...
jt-ai-meets-mindfulness
Engineering Seed AI: A technical blueprint for building systems that recursively redesign and improve their own architecture.
andrei
This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/concerts/printre-maguri-xii-ziua-2/
Mark Rzepczynski
What is clear from the first Warsh press conference is that he will not provide forward guidance on the Fed’s actions. Chairman Warsh is not going to tell the market anything about what the Fed may be doing in the immediate future.Governor Waller, on the other hand, provided a spirited defense of...
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Apoorv Tyagi
Introduction I was reviewing a PR at work a month ago where a new application was setting up its database service, and I saw the connection pool properties, which made me think about how a small configuration looks in a single file, yet how destructive it can be at scale. A database connection...
Chris Townsend
Audrey Watters
The Atlantic has pronounced that “The End of Reading is Here,” the latest in a long series of stories, there and elsewhere, that lament that no one -- but specifically no student -- reads anymore. They don’t read; they can’t read.When I say “long series,” I really do mean long. In 2024, The...
underdark
It’s been a couple of busy weeks, with the QGIS 4.2 release and meetings and conferences all over the place before a few, hopefully quieter, weeks of summer break. QGIS The Austrian QGIS user group met online on 25 June to exchange experiences with different webmapping solutions, ranging...
antechei
there was something you said a couple weeks ago, about always feeling calmer on the days after we hang out. i went looking for the messages, but i cant remember your exact wording. i've been thinking about it since then though. there's a set of traits that i try to emulate, common in the people i...
trE
busted knee reinjured sprained ankle left-sided sciatica nothing’s cooperating todaywhy can’t we order newbody parts as quickly aswe can purchase everythingelse? at this point, I’m willingto barter for better.
Andy
It wasn’t exactly my plan. But it happened. A couple of months ago, I went on a solo trip to South Korea, Japan, and China. The trip was amazing; it was also tough in unexpected ways. When you spend three weeks alone with just your thoughts, you forget about the day to day, and start to unpack...
Nige
Well, I am back, and it was a joy to see Gloucester cathedral again – if not the city of Gloucester, which is now, sadly, the very model of English urban degeneration, dereliction and decay. A sorry fate for a once fine town, and one that is all too common, thanks to terrible urban planning, bad...
Jim Fenton
Saturday, June 20, 2026 Today is our second day at sea as we travel along the north coast of Sicily. Kenna and I took advantage of the morning light exercise and stretching that was offered. After breakfast, guests that had pre-qualified for physical readiness (primarily stair climbing and...
Aeoli Pera
We’re now learning that an unfortunate side effect of instrumental rationalism is that is stealthily degrades the will to live. I’m not 100% clear yet about how this happens, but I suspect it’s via reductionism. As people become more explicitly hedonistic, dedicated to pursuing intentionally...
Garry Rodgers
What kind of universe lets you wake up in the morning? That’s not a trick question. It’s not theology, and it’s not some late-night, dorm room, stoner puzzle. It’s a plain reality question. Before you ground coffee, checked email, praised the dog, negotiated with the cat, kissed your spouse, read...
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Vigen Avetisyan
Based on the Armenian-language essay “Երևանը տոն է. Արատտայից Երևան” (“Yerevan Is a Festival: From Aratta to Yerevan”) by historian Anzhela Teryan, head of the Department of Archaeology and Medieval History at the Yerevan History Museum (July 2026) Every summer, Yerevan turns into one long...
stefanawakening
strongest
Oh to be nineteen again. Oh wait, nineteen and angry? Maybe not. There’s a bit of 1950’s nostalgia in this character. The line work in the eyes and nose remind me of those “learn to draw comics” advertisements with a reference guide to facial expressions. I do appreciate the stylized (and...
Anthony Isola
Retirement has many definitions. Learn more about which one fits you best in this week’s terrific links. You can’t win the pursuit of status game. Young Money Seven misconceptions regarding retirement. Boston College Deciding to retire is more than numbers. Morningstar Emergency funds mean...
Andy Bromberg
I recently built Copapers, a collaborative, token-efficient, reliable document editor for humans & agents. See this post for broader context and an explanation of the product. There were several tricky bits in the implementation (perhaps partially why a similar product doesn’t exist already)....
tjschanaman
Does Vest survive? And what of the William Clark?
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Alik Khilazhev
A few years ago, I wrote a post on how I automated SMS forwarding using second-hand 3G modems and a Gammu SMS daemon running on a Linux server. This setup worked well for a while, but then became outdated due to the instability of USB dongles and the planned deprecation of 2G and 3G networks in...