# bad day (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover bad day. Page: Feed: --- ## [What’s in my eclipse bag? (2026)](https://oandre.gal/whats-in-my-eclipse-bag-2026/) _2026-08-12 · André · oandre.gal_ Following tradition, we ve prepared some devices for scientific joy and discovery. We ll bring these with us along with food and water. Stay hydrated and sunshadowed, it s hot (until it s not). ## [If it’s reversible, decide fast](https://oandre.gal/if-its-reversible-decide-fast/) _2026-08-11 · André · oandre.gal_ The first time I consciously used the rule, we lived in Lugo. I vividly recall the two of us standing in the MediaMarkt sound aisle, agonizing over which of two portable speakers we should buy. With the form factor and price decided, the sound quality was the missing piece. And what a piece. Unlike with \[ \] ## [the fear of wasting your time is wasting your time](https://janelledodo.substack.com/p/the-fear-of-wasting-your-time-is) _2026-08-11 · janelle☆ · one cup of tea_ ...a year from now, you can either have one year of doing the things you love, or another year of wishing you had started. ## [you cannot hate yourself into becoming someone you love](https://janelledodo.substack.com/p/you-cannot-hate-yourself-into-becoming) _2026-08-04 · janelle☆ · one cup of tea_ you practice love by loving. that's the only way. ## [to be confident is to trust yourself fully](https://janelledodo.substack.com/p/to-be-confident-is-to-trust-yourself) _2026-07-30 · janelle☆ · one cup of tea_ … and trust is meaningful precisely because nothing is certain. ## [Issue 16: Editors' Note](https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/issue-16-editors-note) _2026-07-25 · Dust · Dustpoetry_ Cover painting: Sunny Watermelons (2024), by Alai Ganuza. We’ve been celebrating at Dust Towers over the past couple of weeks. Not only are we incredibly proud to showcase an immense wealth of talent across the pages of this new issue, but we are also delighted that Olya K-Mehri has been longlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written) for ‘Forest Fire’, which was published in Issue… ## [Mişaron by Maria Taylor](https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/mi%C5%9Faron-by-maria-taylor) _2026-07-25 · Dust · Dustpoetry_ Mişaron On jasmine nights we share a veranda, you’re camouflaged in silence, a presence easy to miss and that suits you. Moon lizard, your life quietly plaited with ours. A milky body pearled with tubercles of sandy brown, an unofficial pet kennelled on an outside wall. Baby cousin of the dragon, no one sane would ever hurt you. High up and out of sight, sticky digits bedded into walls. You do us… ## [Four by Erica Hesketh](https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/four-by-erica-hesketh) _2026-07-25 · Dust · Dustpoetry_ Four After A. A. Milne When you were one, I stared into the shifting waters of your face and encountered myself. When you were two, we were twin breezes, sky and sea meeting, a looping moon and sun. When you were three, we built the universe from first principles, toiling side by side. And everything was possible, or mendable, and we were our own frame of reference. But then you were four, the age… ## [When I am young, say seventeen or eighteen by Ann Cuthbert](https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/when-i-am-young-say-seventeen-or-eighteen-by-ann-cuthbert) _2026-07-25 · Dust · Dustpoetry_ When I am young, say seventeen or eighteen (after Marilyn Longstaff) When I am young, say seventeen or eighteen, the day will open itself to my face, and the runnels at my mouth will uncrease. Restlessness will not seem out of place - I’ll waft and wander but I’ll know where I am going when I am young. Scars will unpucker under a purple velvet dress which I will buy with savings from a Saturday… ## [Mealtimes by Sue Burge](https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/mealtimes-by-sue-burge) _2026-07-25 · Dust · Dustpoetry_ Mealtimes the dining table lies in state ringed with antique chairs but every meal is taken at the white formica breakfast bar even Sunday roast spreading its fatty tendrils on the cooling plates four teak stools in a row facing a blank wall each brushstroke visible the food tastes of resignation my father simmers with the potatoes the knives and forks are just knives and forks the formica is heat… ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3HcQ701QfSxD) _2026-07-25 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [Strange What Keeps You Afloat by Scott Elder](https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/strange-what-keeps-you-afloat-by-scott-elder) _2026-07-25 · Dust · Dustpoetry_ Strange What Keeps You Afloat A crow’s groan at dawn the creak of two boughs touching an empty breeze this tortoiseshell cat doz- ing in moonlight its wizened body attuned to the tide to some haunt- ing song that spins and drifts and twists a way through leaving you limp and without design tonight is beyond anyone’s reach a barely- there-event then gone give me a God damn map you mutter your… ## [For Mary by Eve Chancellor](https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/for-mary-by-eve-chancellor) _2026-07-25 · Dust · Dustpoetry_ For Mary I must have been looking for God again, when I saw you, standing there, in your white socks and bobble hat, clicking at the horses. Bless you. It's your laugh I remember most vividly. Always too loud, always at the wrong damn thing. The way it filled the room, like your perfume. Of course, I never met you. But sometimes, when I'm rubbing cream onto old scars, there you are, little one. A… ## [TXAKOLI by Julie Irigaray](https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/txakoli-by-julie-irigaray) _2026-07-25 · Dust · Dustpoetry_ 1 txiki = little ; muxu = kiss ; maite = love (in Basque) Julie Irigaray is a French Basque writer based in Birmingham. Her pamphlet Whalers, Witches and Gauchos was published by Nine Pens (2021) and her debut collection Etxe will be published by The Poetry Lighthouse in 2027. Julie's poetry has been featured on BBC Radio 4, and her poems, articles and translations have appeared in over sixty… ## [Join me in the den by Rowan Lyster](https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/join-me-in-the-den-by-rowan-lyster) _2026-07-25 · Dust · Dustpoetry_ Join me in the den Branches propped against each other, so close the light can only whisper, or a blanket fort with cushions to sit on and a mini-fridge of Smirnoff Ice. In here it is warmer than you would think. In here I’ve collected memories of us on the phone, taking turns to read out chat up lines from a plain-text website, ranking all the boys in our year, claiming again and again to be… ## [Inherited Soil by Olya K-Mehri](https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/inherited-soil-by-olya-k-mehri) _2026-07-25 · Dust · Dustpoetry_ Inherited Soil I used to walk that field after rain, the air dim and streaked with afterlight. Roots pushed up like ribs in the dirt, unbraiding the dark that held them as stones shifted in their sleep. Each season something gave out— the green thinned, copper bled through, and one morning the ground blushed with the last of its colour. I pressed my hand there, felt loss flicker—mineral, unsaid,… ## [Hai traballo para todos](https://oandre.gal/hai-traballo-para-todos/) _2026-07-25 · André · oandre.gal_ Non lle poñades chatas á obra mentres non se remata. O que pense que vai mal que traballe nela; hai sitio para todos. — Alfonso R. Castelao, Álbum Nós (1931). ## [Find me similar problems](https://oandre.gal/find-me-similar-problems/) _2026-07-23 · André · oandre.gal_ One of things I do with LLMs is to ask them for problems similar to the one I m solving. This is something I ve picked from reading Claude Shannon s Creative Thinking: reasoning by analogy. This is how and why it works in its own words: A very similar device is seeking similar known problems. I think \[ \] ## [the dreadful delight of being in your 20s](https://janelledodo.substack.com/p/the-dreadful-delight-of-being-in) _2026-07-21 · janelle☆ · one cup of tea_ … be brave enough to let life reveal the answers itself by living fiercely, passionately, fully. ## [the art of not thinking](https://janelledodo.substack.com/p/the-art-of-not-thinking) _2026-07-09 · janelle☆ · one cup of tea_ Life quietly unfolds in whatever we repeatedly pay attention to ## [whatever you seek from the world can only be found in you.](https://janelledodo.substack.com/p/whatever-you-seek-from-the-world) _2026-06-30 · janelle☆ · one cup of tea_ You can have all the evidence in the world, but if you don’t believe, there will always be suspicions. ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DTaTh1as2znL) _2026-06-30 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## [the trees are not afraid of taking up space, so should you.](https://janelledodo.substack.com/p/the-trees-are-not-afraid-of-taking) _2026-06-23 · janelle☆ · one cup of tea_ …they take up space without shame because they know the bigger they are, the more air they bless for the living. ## [bad days are part of a good life, too. | narrated by author](https://janelledodo.substack.com/p/bad-days-are-part-of-a-good-life-287) _2026-06-18 · janelle☆ · one cup of tea_ don't let one difficult day convince you that you have a bad life [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202654421/41eb143163dde9f5037706795dcedd84.mp3) ## [bad days are part of a good life, too.](https://janelledodo.substack.com/p/bad-days-are-part-of-a-good-life) _2026-06-18 · janelle☆ · one cup of tea_ …we just have to keep going long enough to make sure the good days outnumber the bad ones ## [the pain of a highly anxious mind](https://janelledodo.substack.com/p/the-pain-of-a-highly-anxious-mind) _2026-05-21 · janelle☆ · one cup of tea_ …the best I could do was keep on living without knowing anything at all. ## [Kasparov’s law](https://oandre.gal/kasparovs-law/) _2026-01-27 · André · oandre.gal_ A weak human player combined with a machine and a better process is superior, not only against a very powerful machine, but, most notably, against a strong human combined with a machine and an inferior process. — Garry Kasparov, Don t fear intelligent machines. Work with them. ## [Get motivation from LLMs](https://oandre.gal/get-motivation-from-llms/) _2026-01-10 · André · oandre.gal_ One of the common conversations with friends lately is: how do you use LLMs? In the latest round, I mentioned that I use LLMs to motivate myself — and people were surprised. In turn, I was surprised they were surprised, because when comparing notes with other peers at work, many shared LLMs were useful for getting \[ \] ## [Sheets that spread](https://oandre.gal/sheets-that-spread/) _2025-09-27 · André · oandre.gal_ During my 1st Automattic Grand Meetup I gave a flashtalk (under 4 minutes) about spreadsheets. ## [Air at Cúpula Atlántica](https://oandre.gal/air-at-cupula-atlantica/) _2025-09-13 · André · oandre.gal_ I attended a private concert by Air inside the Cúpula Atlántica, a ~200-person dome at Monte de San Pedro. The park is one of my favorite places in A Coruña. Even though I ve been there multiple times, I had never been inside the dome. As far as I remember, it was abandoned and not in \[ \] ## [Remembering is healing, and forgetting valuable](https://oandre.gal/remembering-and-forgetting/) _2025-08-25 · André · oandre.gal_ In Eulogy, the final episode of Black Mirror s seventh season, a man receives a device that allows him to virtually enter a photograph and explore its location. He is asked to use it to recall stories about a woman who has passed away — someone who had been his girlfriend decades earlier. After their breakup, \[ \] ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/d8MbZ7cRZL3X) _2025-08-25 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [You can’t hide on bad days](https://oandre.gal/you-cant-hide-on-bad-days/) _2025-08-22 · André · oandre.gal_ Here s a lesson I learned from my mom: you ll have bad days, and kids need you anyway. It s one of those things that parenting teaches, and I believe it s transferable to product development. A product isn’t built on one big idea, it s built from thousands. It takes daily steering. If you hide on bad days, \[ \]