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🌐 Blogging Resources

An ongoing collection of blogging resources: Blogging Tips and Advice Why and how to write things on the internet https://www.benkuhn.net/writing/ Blogging myths https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/05/some-blogging-myths/ How to write more blog posts https://kristoff.it/blog/write-more/ Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/start-a-blog Stop acting like you’re…

🔗 Link Dump #76

A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently.

⚾ Trade Deadline Thoughts 2026

The MLB trade deadline expired yesterday. Here are my thoughts: Acquiring Skubal makes the Dodgers rotation godly (if healthy), but maybe more importantly, it prevented the Brewers from landing a second ace. Miz and Skubal in a 5 or even 7-game playoff series would have been diabolical. The Brewers disappointed by not going out and [ ]

📋 How to Handle Links

I like to share interesting web links I stumble upon, but I have vacillated with the best way of doing so. I’ve tried link dumps where I unload five to ten links with little/no connection to each other all in one post. I’ve also tried sharing links one at a time as I find them, [ ]

Dumb Witness (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

When family comes to visit, a wealthy matriarch takes a fall down the stairs, which she later realizes wasn’t an accident at all. Dumb Witness is Agatha Christie’s seventeenth Hercule Poirot novel. I like the Poirot and Hastings rapport. Hastings isn’t too dense in this one, and he has some funny moments with Bob the [ ]

🔗 Link Dump #75

A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently.

🔗 Link Dump #74

A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently.

Widow’s Bay (⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2)

A New England mayor prepares his small town for tourist scene as a long-rumored curse on the island begins to feel very, very real. Imagine a Stephen King novel starring Michael Scott, set on the island from Lost, featuring the monsters from Cabin in the Woods. That’s Widow’s Bay. The series balances comedy and horror [ ]

The Clocks (⭐⭐⭐)

While investigating an espionage case, Colin Lamb stumbles upon a murder involving a typist, a blind woman, and a room full of clocks. By getting to the bottom of the murder, Lamb thinks he might just catch an international criminal while simultaneously saving the woman he loves. But to do so, he will need the [ ]

🔗 Link Dump #73

A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently.