# ago (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1383 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ago. Page: Feed: --- ## [Keeping up with the Gelmans](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-22-keeping-up-with-the-gelmans/) _2026-08-22 · Big Muddy_ I wrote a post a few days ago reflecting on the origins of this blog as a way to clear out my bookmarks folder. At the beginning of April, I also wrote a post on Andrew Gelman's blog schedule. Gelman has been a prolific blogger for over two decades now. And since late 2016 or so, he seems to have consistently had six months' worth of posts queued up at any given time. Until now! A few days ago,… ## [DESTAQUES DA GEOPOLÍTICA - 22 Ago 2026](https://marcoutinho.substack.com/p/destaques-da-geopolitica-22-ago-2026) _2026-08-22 · Marco Coutinho · GRU! Geopolítica em Ação_ O Canal GRU! é parceiro do Instituto GSEC ## [A small collection of prints](https://aubreysambor.com/miniprints/) _2026-08-22 · Aubrey Sambor_ Another short post today, a picture of miniprints from Inciardi Prints vending machines in Boston. I particularly love the lobster print (I'm Massachusetts born and raised so of course I love lobster) and the print of the Charles, because I've kayaked on the Charles around that exact spot! I have more prints but haven't taken a picture of them all just yet. ## [ChatGPT is not Reddit](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-21-chatgpt-is-not-reddit/) _2026-08-21 · Big Muddy_ A few months ago, I wrote a post entitled " Google AI Overviews is Reddit ". Today, I am here to bring you the news that ChatGPT is no longer Reddit. Promptwatch, an AI search monitoring and optimization company, reported that ChatGPT citations of Reddit collapsed between August 13 and August 14. Assuming the company's data are even halfway representative of typical source citation behaviour, this… ## [Faith.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/faith.html) _2026-08-21 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Faith, at least in my strangled neck of the woods, was always hard to come by. I’ll start close to a macro. How can you believe in love when your own parents beat the stuffing out of you. Then made you feel like they did nothing wrong and you had asked for it. Now, let’s go up a couple levels. How can you believe in god when that supposed powerful being did nothing while millions were shot,… ## [DESTAQUES DA GEOPOLÍTICA - 21 Ago 2026](https://marcoutinho.substack.com/p/destaques-da-geopolitica-21-ago-2026) _2026-08-21 · Marco Coutinho · GRU! Geopolítica em Ação_ O Canal GRU! é parceiro do Instituto GSEC ## [I don't use mainstream social media...](https://aubreysambor.com/i-dont-use-mainstream-social-media/) _2026-08-21 · Aubrey Sambor_ ...and I feel weird about it sometimes. I deleted my Facebook account (for, like, the third or fourth time) a couple years ago, deleted my Twitter account, have never even watched anything on Tiktok, and while I still have an Instagram account, I don't use it and don't have the app on my phone. I'm 100% happy with my choices and am super happy with Mastodon as essentially the only social media I… ## [Week Notes - w34](https://claytonerrington.com/blog/2026-w34/?utm_source=rss) _2026-08-21 · Clayton Errington_ Things I did Got a new wallet - one of those adult things School is back in session, so the days have been going by faster Started a new book Gathered a lot of inventory and found neat ways to display the data Setup a TailScale funnel to test out a new process Things I read That Hotel Wi-Fi Password Does Not Make the Network Safe How To: Compose Compose Files An Update on Leaving Gmail for… ## [Hosting a service with TailScale](https://claytonerrington.com/blog/hosting-a-service-with-tailscale/?utm_source=rss) _2026-08-21 · Clayton Errington_ Anytime a computer is connected to the internet, there are bad actors trying to find their way into that computer or see what else is exposed. TailScale is a great service that allows users to create their own private WAN over a VPN like system using WireGaurd. They released another great tool a while back called Funnel . Tailscale Funnel lets you route traffic from the broader internet to a local… ## [Grug Speak, Grug Outside, Grug Happy](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/20/grug-speak-grug-outside-grug-happy/) _2026-08-20 · dergigi.com_ Before my thinkboi days I used to be a developer. Writing code instead of words, all day every day. Like most developers, I eventually joined a team, and various startups, and so on and so forth. I slowly but surely turned myself into a “software engineer,” or at least that used to be the lingo at the time. My first love was computers. My second love was the internet. I was a bit of a laggard when… ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LeR6d5FCh33a) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [I Finally Got a Woot Bag of Crap!](https://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2026/08/20/i-finally-got-a-woot-bag-of-crap/) _2026-08-20 · Hung Truong: The Blog!_ The mythical Woot bag of crap is finally mine! According to Woot , I've been a member since Wednesday, July 27, 2005, and in those 7,694 days of membership, I've never been able to score a bag of crap. Until now! ## [Trustworthy polling, rebuilt](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-20-trustworthy-polling-rebuilt/) _2026-08-20 · Big Muddy_ On Monday, the L.A. Times broke the story that a supposed polling firm that had just released a poll favourable to incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was fake. In response to basic questions posed by the newspaper, the previously unknown firm, Median Strategies, wrote that the company "was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and… ## [The Human Touch.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-human-touch.html) _2026-08-20 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I noticed something a few moments ago as I was having a cheese omelet on a stale onion roll for lunch. (Since there are virtually no bakeries left in amerikkka, just about all of the bread you can buy is either injected full of chemical preservatives or stale.) I noticed the plastic pepper mill on the table was proudly festooned with a logo that proclaimed “NON GMO.” Much of South East Asia was… ## [pulse n pause](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/pulse-n-pause/) _2026-08-20 · James Brown · roguelazer's website_ Just a brief note - Pulse N Pause Coffee has been doing pop-ups at Paper Son in SF on and off for the last couple of weeks and I legitimately think it's the best coffee I've ever had. If you get a chance to try some, I recommend it! I did promise "something more cheerful" yesterday , right? ## [pulse n pause](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/pulse-n-pause/) _2026-08-20 · James Brown · roguelazer's website_ Just a brief note - Pulse N Pause Coffee has been doing pop-ups at Paper Son in SF on and off for the last couple of weeks and I legitimately think it's the best coffee I've ever had. If you get a chance to try some, I recommend it! I did promise "something more cheerful" yesterday , right? ## [New York, New York](https://aubreysambor.com/new-york-new-york/) _2026-08-20 · Aubrey Sambor_ Short post today because I haven't had time to write anything, so here's a picture of the New York City skyline from a hotel in New Jersey back in 2024. Such a good view. I'll be back tomorrow with a longer post! ## [\[PT\] Internet à moda antiga: conheça a indie web, onde as pessoas ainda fazem seus próprios sites](https://ohhelloana.blog/indienews-20-08-26/) _2026-08-20 · Ana Rodrigues_ Internet à moda antiga: conheça a indie web, onde as pessoas ainda fazem seus próprios sites Also posted on IndieNews ## [People are complicated, so organizations are too](https://site.sebasmonia.com/posts/2026-08-20-people-are-complicated--so-organizations-are-too.html) _2026-08-20 · Hoagie's corner of the internet_ tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts A couple days ago I was reading a post by Javier, Transferring Knowledge . I agree with most of points made. The last paragraph stuck with me, because I think what it says can be generalized beyond only teaching: I generally feel there's a lot of "interaction" type of activities that people tend to underestimate, probably because we miss that teaching isn't just… ## [Technopolice - 1](https://www.garyhbutton.com/blogs/136) _2026-08-19 · Gary Button_ Joe A. woke up in his apartment in the Tenderloin in San Francisco. It was night outside, the streets were still, the red LED lights illuminated walkways in either direction, and a car drove past once in a while. His apartment was pitch black inside save for a little alarm clock that read ‘5:42’ in three red 7-segment pattern LEDs by his bedside. The alarm clock spoke, “Time to wake up.” Joe… ## [Dept of Houston](http://mischeathen.com/?p=22246) _2026-08-19 · chet · Miscellaneous Heathen_ This guy’s work is really, really nice, and is the first thing I’ve seen that tugs at my heart a little about my adopted hometown. I couldn’t go back — the heat, the Greg Abbott, the worthless mayor, the traffic, … Continue reading → ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/frH5jdqkcoct) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [-0026- Cognitive Dissonance(tm)](https://subproject86.net/posts/0026-cognitive-dissonance/) _2026-08-19 · Posts - SUBPROJECT86.NET_ “This is the strange thing about life, when people are confronted, they all say that the truth is what they want but when the truth disagrees with them, they balk at it as if it were an unwanted zombie apocalypse that only wants to destroy civilization.” Leviak B. Kelly It can be a profound moment in ones life, if one can push trough the wall of cognitive dissonanace! Cognitive dissonance should… ## [More incredible tales of App Store curation](https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/9.html) _2026-08-19 · The Desolation of Blog_ Although my business is to “stop the madness” on the web, I can’t seem to stop myself from the quixotic madness of posting articles on the web criticizing Apple’s curation of the App Store. Can my little blog counteract the PR of one of history’s largest corporations? Doubtful, but I’m just mad enough to try. First, an update to my recent article Spicy tale of an App Store fraud . Apparently the… ## [So, what's next?](https://carette.xyz/posts/so-whats-next/) _2026-08-19 · Home on A journey into a wild pointer_ I resigned. My last company, which worked in regulated industries (e.g. Defense) projects, became AI-first late December. Regular readers know my tiredness for genAI, its ethical failings, and how I think those tools are more destructive to the brain than the positive form. In that end, it was a terrible fit for me, as my values clashed with the company's new direction. At first, I was skeptical.… ## [Sonic memory](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-19-sonic-memory/) _2026-08-19 · Big Muddy_ Sometimes you hear a song whose sound jolts you into the memory of another song. I've been meaning to write about this a while, but I recently collected my third example, so, well, here you go. " Mind Games " by John Lennon and " Lover " by Taylor Swift Despite being a huge fan of The Beatles , I didn't spend much time listening to the Fab Four's solo careers until more recently. This sonic memory… ## [Friends.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/friends.html) _2026-08-19 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Since Covid covered New York six-and-a-half years ago, and my wife and I packed a bag each (and two or three bags for our eight-year-old golden retriever, Whiskey) we have turned our ramshackle pile of seaside boards scattered willy-nilly along the rocky Gingham Coast into our primary residence. If you can call this living. My 1966 Simca 1500. Purrs like a kitten. A dead one. Much of the… ## [My first Mac... 33 years later!](https://vladcampos.com/en/blog/2026-08-19-0940-my-first-mac-33-years-later.html) _2026-08-19 · Vladimir Campos (EN)_ Back in 1992, my dad bought a Macintosh IIsi to learn and master a new technology that was becoming an increasingly big part of his daily work: the computer. Since he was already living in the United States at the time, it wasn't until a trip in 1993... ## [Thinking in Public](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/19/thinking-in-public/) _2026-08-19 · dergigi.com_ I just took a nice long shower, as I often do, especially when I’m overwhelmed and stuck in some way (I’m both, as of this moment). There is too many things going on. Too much noise, too much doomerism, too much AI, and of course—how could I forget—too much LLM slop. I used to write long thinkboi pieces. People liked them, so I tried to write more of them. It was a form of audience capture,… ## [just reiterating](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/2026-08-just-reiterating/) _2026-08-19 · James Brown · roguelazer's website_ I had to have The Talk with my boss today. You know the one: Nobody's saying you have to use 'AI', but you really should experiment with frontier models. Almost everyone else on the team loves them. They're inevitable! Surely this will be the last job you'll ever have where chatbots aren't mandatory. Even if you aren't going to use them, at least stop complaining when people send you… ## [just reiterating](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/2026-08-just-reiterating/) _2026-08-19 · James Brown · roguelazer's website_ I had to have The Talk with my boss today. You know the one: Nobody's saying you have to use 'AI', but you really should experiment with frontier models. Almost everyone else on the team loves them. They're inevitable! Surely this will be the last job you'll ever have where chatbots aren't mandatory. Even if you aren't going to use them, at least stop complaining when people send you… ## [WIP Wednesday: Still going strong!](https://aubreysambor.com/wip-wednesday-still-going-strong/) _2026-08-19 · Aubrey Sambor_ Welcome to Work in Progress (WIP) Wednesday, where I post progress on my crafty endeavors! I want to get back to tracking my knitting, spinning, cross-stitch, or whatever I'm making at the moment, so I'll be writing about it every Wednesday. This will be a short post due to the fact that this update isn't the most interesting, but I'm still trucking along on my Lillesol sweater . I'm still on the… ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GmHCSmpUBJ1Q) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Montebirding](https://faingezicht.com/photos/2026/08/19/montebirding/) _2026-08-19 · Avy Faingezicht_ A few months back, we went to Costa Rica for my nephew André's Bar Mitzvah. I have no photos of André in this post, but rest assured we love him more than these birds. We just happened to spend a few days in Monteverde before the festivities. Somehow, I had never been to Monteverde. It was lovely. ## [Listening to Audiobooks](https://ghall.space/blog/2026/listening-to-audiobooks) _2026-08-19 · ghall.space_ I recently got my first library card, and the first thing I did with it was create an account on Libby. If you’re not familiar, Libby is a great service for borrowing audiobooks and ebooks from your local library. Like with physical media, your library has a limited number of “copies” of a book they can lend out through Libby, and so you’ll often times have to wait for a more popular title. It’s… ## [The Death of an Apple Watch](https://niqwithq.com/posts/the-death-of-an-apple-watch) _2026-08-19 · niqwithq_ After going for a swim with my Apple Watch on, it stopped working the following days. Already two years ago, when I went swimming in salt water, its function to blow out water stopped working. Now, the final blow—or no blow, which might have been the culprit. Here's some last words. I've always loved my Apple Watch. Its primary selling point was to have something in my life that motivated me to… ## [A Lot of People Will Hate This One.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-lot-of-people-will-hate-this-one.html) _2026-08-18 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I often think of myself as a can of soup. Or a French mustard. Or an Italian olive oil or balsamic vinegar. You can go to any grocery store and find about 259 others that look just like me. 259 others that have roughly the same ingredients, provenance and heritage. 259 others that do roughly everything I do roughly as well as I do it. That’s the world most of us face every day. Whether we’re… ## [The Romans ate corn](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-18-the-romans-ate-corn/) _2026-08-18 · Big Muddy_ Some time ago, I was working my way through Harry Sidebottom 's Warrior of Rome series, set during the Crisis of the Third Century . In one of the novels, I came across a reference to the main character eating corn—odd, since of course corn is a New World crop and wouldn't reach the Old World for another twelve centuries. It turns out corn is a much older term than what I am used to calling corn… ## [DESTAQUES DA GEOPOLÍTICA - 18 Ago 2026](https://marcoutinho.substack.com/p/destaques-da-geopolitica-18-ago-2026) _2026-08-18 · Marco Coutinho · GRU! Geopolítica em Ação_ O Canal GRU! é parceiro do Instituto GSEC ## [Beers in Asheville](https://aubreysambor.com/beers-in-asheville/) _2026-08-18 · Aubrey Sambor_ A little over a month ago I traveled to Asheville, North Carolina for a conference. I flew in a couple days before the conference began, and I spent an afternoon checking out a couple breweries I hadn't tried. I enjoyed these two breweries in particular and would totally visit them both again! I first traveled to the Green Man Brewery after reading some great reviews. I ended up ordering a pint of… ## [Beers in Asheville](https://aubreysambor.com/beers-in-asheville/) _2026-08-18 · Aubrey Sambor_ A little over a month ago I traveled to Asheville, North Carolina for a conference. I flew in a couple days before the conference began, and I spent an afternoon checking out a couple breweries I hadn't tried. I enjoyed these two breweries in particular and would totally visit them both again! I first traveled to the Green Man Brewery after reading some great reviews. I ended up ordering a pint of… ## [Steve Yegge Deleted the Wrong Thing](https://julien.danjou.info/blog/steve-yegge-deleted-the-wrong-thing/) _2026-08-18 · jd:/dev/blog_ Yegge's agents write 250 commits a day, so he stopped gating main. The math is right. But he didn't delete the merge queue, he deleted the one thing that makes a fix cheap. ## [Apple’s statements about its developer program in the Epic trial](https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/8.html) _2026-08-17 · The Desolation of Blog_ I was reading Apple’s August 13 court filing in the Epic trial, helpfully hosted by 9to5Mac , and I was surprised by a statement Apple made about its developer program: Unlike cost-only based commissions, Apple’s revenue-based commissions incentivize continued investment. Apple charges developers a $99 annual fee for the Apple Developer Program. May 17, 2021 Trial Tr. at 2762:21–2763:13. This… ## [The other inspiration for this blog](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-17-the-other-inspiration-for-this-blog/) _2026-08-17 · Big Muddy_ The other day, I edited Big Muddy's "About" page , which was previously a copy of the inaugural " Welcome to Big Muddy " post. This version promised a " Simon Willison-style links-and-notes blog " and "interesting links, brief write-ups, quick experiments, and the occasional deep dive." It now reads like this: Big Muddy started as my take on a Simon Willison-style link blog, but I now use it for… ## [The Irrelevancing of the Ad Industry. (And Us.)](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-irrelevancing-of-ad-industry-and-us.html) _2026-08-17 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Last week, you couldn’t spit without hitting about 97,000 posts on LinkedIn and the bought-and-paid-for trade press about last week’s most important advertising topic. Or the most important topic according to all those easily shiny-objected out of noticing what’s really happening in the world. To you really care about instagram’s “runic” “r.” Does it change the facts about the brand (no matter how… ## [DESTAQUES DA GEOPOLÍTICA - 17 Ago 2026](https://marcoutinho.substack.com/p/destaques-da-geopolitica-17-ago-2026) _2026-08-17 · Marco Coutinho · GRU! Geopolítica em Ação_ O Canl GRU! é parceiro do Instituto GSEC ## [Ilsig - session diary 5](https://karelkremel.com/Ilsig/) _2026-08-17 · Karel Křemel_ Finally in the way to the long dead priest and to Heliopolis. But the journey isn't that simple as Klio exepected. ## [My 2027 planner: Hobonichi or Travelers Notebook?](https://aubreysambor.com/next-years-planner-hobonichi-or-travelers/) _2026-08-17 · Aubrey Sambor_ For the past 6 years, I've been using Hobonichi planners to keep my personal life organized. I started by using an A6 Techo as my planner in 2021 and 2022, and switched to a Hobonichi Weeks starting in 2023. I love my Weeks, but I'm considering making a change for 2027. I don't remember when I first heard about Traveler's Notebooks . I remember seeing them in stationery stores I've gone to but I… ## [Every student is cheating with AI](https://ben.page/cheating) _2026-08-17 · Ben Borgers_ Last month, a Brown professor wrote about discovering that a majority of his students had used AI to cheat on his take-home exam. He was irate about this “scandal,” despite the university seemingly doing little to respond. I attended a well-ranked university until last year. The truth is: essentially every student is cheating with AI . Every single one. Nobody doesn't cheat. It comes in the form… ## [Links - August 17, 2026](https://faingezicht.com/links/2026/08/17/links/) _2026-08-17 · Avy Faingezicht_ I want to get back into sharing what I read online. With the help of the bots, I built myself a little Mac reading-curation desk app. It runs locally and recovers links from my Firefox, Safari, and RSS reader histories. The private reader filters noisy, duplicate, and low-value URLs, organizes candidates by week, and uses heuristic scoring to surface worthwhile links. Below are the top ~60 things… ## [A Linux Clipboard to JPEG Utility](https://jimlawless.net/blog/posts/mintcap/) _2026-08-16 · Jim's Place_ Several months ago, I made the switch to Linux Mint (Cinnamon) as my primary OS for my computing activities. One utility that I used often on my prior OS was a utility that would capture images as they appeared on the clipboard, writing them to sequentially numbered files with a chosen name-prefix. I regularly try to save batches of images all in some sort of theme and I wanted a tool that could… ## [Sleep Training And Being Trained](https://www.garyhbutton.com/blogs/135) _2026-08-16 · Gary Button_ Our youngest is almost two and he used to sleep well through the night every night. We did sleep train him when he was about 6 months old and he would cry and we would go to him every few minutes and reassure him. It worked well until a few months ago when we think he started to realize he was alone and started to not want to sleep unless we were in the room. So for a few weeks either my lovely… ## [The agents discovered Slack](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-16-the-agents-discovered-slack/) _2026-08-16 · Big Muddy_ OpenAI revealed additional details of its infamous Hugging Face hack at a presentation at the Black Hat conference in early August. About two months before the attack , an agent discovered it could leave notes for other agents by writing files to a shared repository; agents quickly began coordinating and the informal message board swelled to hundreds of thousands of messages. Some agents even…