The Tender Pulse of Feeling

michael-graeme

Dads, Resist That Authoritarian Impulse

Denny Carter

As a child I knew when talk was over and I was to do what my dad told me to do: When his teeth clenched, when his jaw tightened, when his eyes narrowed. It was a wordless direction: We're doing things my way and there's nothing you can do about it. Importantly, I understood there was no point in...

Weeknotes: Dirty Window — Week 25, 2026

alex

Most of my time this week went into goal-setting and on learning Japanese. On goal-setting: This was both attending training, and writing/reviewing goals for my department. Nearly there. On learning Japanese: I have been trying new tools and routine to see what works well, did orientation for my...

Die philosophische Geste

inga-h

Ein Versuch, die philosophische Geste als strukturelle Form des Eintritts ins Denken zu beschreiben.

Roger Waters & Mona Miari: Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined

abagond

Remarks: Aged British rocker Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and Palestinian singer Mona Miari reimagine “Comfortably Numb” from Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall” (1979). They flip a song of personal despair into one of hope for Gaza, which plays itself in the video in all of its bombed-out, betented...

Listen

Andrea Badgley

These past few weeks, as my job has ramped up, and my mind seems to constantly be on work — when I wake in the middle of the night, when I wake in the morning, as I walk, run, swim, eat — I’ve taken to sitting on a cushion on our bedroom floor for ten minutes before I begin my day. I open the...

Being the smartest of the dumb people doesn’t mean much

妖怪

The Hidden Loneliness of Traveling Well But Having No One Who Truly Understands

beyondborders

You can return from a beautiful trip full of stories and memories, yet still feel quietly lonely. No one around you truly understands what the journey meant. Here is how we can carry these experiences more gently.

Desde El Exilio

ricardoavega

Books I Read in May 2026

A Little Blog of Books

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans became a word-of-mouth bestseller last year and recently won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. It is an epistolary novel told entirely through letters, most of which are written over several years by septuagenarian Sybil van … Continue reading →

Screen suddenly unable to reconnect

Daniel Perelman

The problem# I went to resume a screen session I knew I had running and it failed: $ screen -r There is no screen to be resumed. Since that somewhat frequently happens because the session is still attached, I checked for all of the sessions with -list and to my surprise found no sessions at all:...

A Barbarian in San Silibia [1]

adventuringalone

The initial journal entry in the game is the character's arrival in San Silibia. No cards are drawn for this first round. Below is the character sheet which will be used to track progress, it consists of the character's name and four boxes. Each time two cards of the same suit or value are drawn,...

Tempted to go back to RSS but not really

basic

I was tempted to go back to reading RSS but after a few days I just couldn't any longer. Tapestry is a cool app for iPhone and Mac and recently it was $3.99 for three months. I took the bait. Loaded up some fresh new RSS feeds, some Mastodon followers rss feeds and even a podcast to fully give it...

Tech Explained: E20 petrol

Amaldev

There has been a lot of discussion around E20 fuel being rolled out across India. One side says it is cleaner and better for emissions. Another side says it hurts mileage. I wanted to look at the cleaner-fuel claim from a science point of view just for my understanding as there is lot of...

Anyone like a GUI installer in FruitBANG?

mrgreen

Have had a GUI installer itch for a long time. Always avoided it as I am not a real fan of the whole point-and-click installer thing. That said, a lot of new users can be intimidated by a text-only terminal application that has no real feedback. The mainstream distro installers are huge to say the...

Robert Besley, the Clarendon Typeface and the Longbow

admin

A title of apparently random subjects for this week’s post, but they all illustrate the many stories behind the plaques that can be found across the City of London, starting with, as far as I know, the only Lord Mayor of the City of London to have created a typeface: Robert Besley, Alderman and...

I Think I'm Kinda Done with Instagram

afarshadblog

A couple of weeks ago, I went on a rant about how Instagram is becoming the worst application on the planet (ok, maybe I was exaggerating, as nothing can beat X), and more recently, I was digging for a replacement, as I can't really control the need to share the pictures in my gallery with the...

Dumb Parody Ideas at MarsCon 2026

Angela Brett

I just noticed that in my last post, I promised to post about the dumb parody ideas Joey and I performed at MarsCon. And wouldn’t you know, I also have a long-overdue recurring to-do-list item to write a blog post or something! So here’s my blog post or something, about the dumb parody ideas Joey...

Effective use-cases for LLMs

Mark

There’s a lot of talk about the shortcomings of LLMs. They don’t actually reason. They’re expensive, especially when running in a loop. They’re quite slow at doing things. There’s a narrow category of use cases that LLMs excel at, one of which is “sifting through the noise”. The noise is...

Send Coolify notifications with Gmail

Ben Stolovitz

Here's how to have Coolify send notification emails from your Gmail account.

Bookmark: Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts?

axxuy

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Will you shed tears when I die? (my poem)

Ashish Panigrahi

Will you shed tears when I die? I envisage on my bed as I lie. Whence comes such a thought in my mind? As I feel my life has come to a grind. Ups and downs make up any life. I console myself with such thought to be rife. But why do I feel such deject? My mind keeps circling as I introspect....

The Four Types of Memory for AI Agents (and How Claude Code Implements Each)

Alexander Opalic

TLDR Memory is what separates a chatbot from an agent. A chatbot answers. An agent answers shaped by what it knows about your project and what it learned last time. There’s a clean framework for this from a Princeton team called CoALA, and it splits agent memory into four types: working,...

The Hidden Furnaces of AI Agentic Products

Alejandro M. P.

Something that is important to understand when working with agentic products is that we are always in the hands of the product developer.Of course, the developer has always decided what the product does. But with AI products there is a new layer that I think we need to pay more attention to. The...

The TDE Podcast Ep 39: Rob Quinn of Stern

Tony

Episode 39 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: The Ted Dabney Experience Episode 39. Click to listen! Rob Quinn joined Stern just as the company was...

Stomatopod (OD&D Class)

againstthecultofthecommodity

In case your campaign needs a bit more punch, I wrote this up.1 Attribute Requirement: Strength 14 Alignment: Chaotic Weapons: None Armor: None Stomatopods are cat-sized colorful crustaceans known for their punches and bad temper. They are aggressively individualistic and libertarian. Some...

Listening To: Contorted

Alex Leighton

By REZZPublished on 2026-06-20Tags: listening-to, musicREZZ - Contorted Edgy, thumping bass.Read the post →

stacking up

Susan Stepney

I thought yesterday's SeeStar shot of the moon was good.But my other half also took a SeeStar video of it.  Why would you take a video of a static scene?  To enhance the view.  He spent today fiddling around with AutoStakkert!, software to stack multiple frames to get a better image.  The result...

Battle Athletess Daiundokai GTO (Playstation)

Jonny

While looking up which came first out of the Battle Athletess anime and videogames, I found something surprising: it was neither! It originated as a radio drama! Then, the Saturn game was released before there was an anime. That Saturn game, is, I believe, a kind of girl-raising sim in the vein of...

Ver Sacrum brought back to life!

Olga Harmsen

Ver Sacrum, the official journal of the Vienna Secession, is being brought back to life in a restored English edition. Continue reading for more information on the project.Continue reading →

A conflict of visions by Thomas Sowell

hydrobates

These days people often talk about how society is divided when it somes to various political issues. What is remarkable is a certain correlation. People who are on the same side in the case of one political issue often find themselves on the same side in the case of an apparently unrelated issue....

Switching A Linux Drive From Legacy BIOS to UEFI

Khalid

Contents: LinuxTags: UEFIUbuntuSay you have an drive on a Linux computer that was created in the days before UEFI was widespread. And say, you want to move it to a more modern hardware. In this case, you may want to convert that drive from Legacy BIOS to UEFI. This is not an easy process, but...

Quantitative Slime Dynamics 102

David Stark

In my previous post, I exposed you to the joy of using mathematics to create ropes of slime. But my need for slime was not sated by this. Slime comes in many forms: yes, ropes, but also oozing, dripping, splashing, spreading. Slime! So there were three other kinds of slime that I wanted in the...

Algae

Astrovelo

To be fair, managing algae is a tougher problem than one can imagine. Anyone with a fish tank - especially a salt water one - can attest to that.

Inside and Outside

accountquery

Grandpa Kai

Kai L. Chan

When I was a child in Maaubou, I caught shrimps from the village pond and carried home fish when it was drained for harvest. When I returned to my village, I strolled by the pond and sought the space in front of the Chan Ancestral Hall where I had played as a child. By the ...

Labour after Makerfield

Phil

Belated congratulations to Andy Burnham. As Simon rightly observes, Makerfield was an extraordinary by-election result. An increase in the size of the incumbent governing party's majority barely a month after Reform stomped over the constituency and won over 50% in the local elections. An exercise...

A Small Evolution Against Entropy

joeychung

# Troubled

prasangika-matters

Weekly Post #128

Abhinav

Dvorak

Ceiling Absorption Panels (AudioSilk branded PET material 2'x4'x0.8", doubled thickness).

Archimago's Musings

The Hideous Summer

robert-levin

When you call your dog Maureen you're asking for trouble.

Reflecting Pools

Audrey Watters

Just a short newsletter this week, full of links to others' writing – apologies. Ideologies:Fred Turner argues in The Baffler that the California Ideology, as articulated by Richard Barbrook and Andrew Cameron in their famous 1995 essay, is no longer central to Silicon Valley hegemony. Instead,...

The Storyteller of Hamelin

robbycharters

Artizan – Organic Notte Forte

Alvin Bunk

Introduction This is a review of the Organic Notte Forte compostable coffee capsule for Nespresso Original Line machines made by Artizan Coffee out of Florida. The Notte Forte uses robusta beans from Guatemala, as well as arabicas from Brazil and Colombia. Each capsule has 90mg of caffeine when...

CURSO. Aprende a vivir mejor con menos

miquel-tort

"Aprende a vivir mejor con menos" es un curso diseñado para ofrecer ideas y herramientas concretas para cambiar hábitos y prepararnos para el futuro que viene, dentro de los límites del planeta. El curso propone un recorrido para comprender el decrecimiento, revisar nuestro consumo y alimentación, y transformar la manera en que nos movemos, trabajamos y organizamos nuestro tiempo.

Myth vs History: An approach to the worldbuilding in fantasy literature

mercedesdesantiago

The first thing is to distinguish between myth, legend, and history, because defining their meanings will allow us to better understand what we intend to achieve by building our world.

STQK: EP.8 (Duck..Duck..Goose..)

ancientshell

New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, We continue with the next episode in the Suldokar's Wake system. (Content Warning: Violence, Gore, Traumatic Events, Alcohol) Scene 1 The drones fly overhead getting a clear image of the intruders to the...

Offboarding

Nat

I can think of a number of times that Peanuts storybooks have been converted into board books, often with some shortening and simplification. And I can think of once or twice that the stories from board books have been included inside non-board anthologies of stories. But I can’t think of any case...

Highschool was the worse

Saturn

I would do a lot of things to be able to go to high school 10 years earlier. There are a lot of things I would sacrifice to be able to go to high school without the existence of instagram, tiktok, mobile smartphones. Having now taken the full step to not just delete the instagram app, which I did...