# burst (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover burst. Page: Feed: --- ## [Field Notes for Curious Minds](https://encouragementmanifesto.substack.com/p/field-notes-for-curious-minds-ef9) _2026-08-19 · Encourage Meant_ (33/2026) ## [Three races remaining for 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/upcoming-races-2026/) _2026-08-18 · Mijndert Stuij_ Three races left this year: the MS Motion 10k, a 25k across the beach during the 11 Strandentocht, and the DSW Bruggenloop. How I'm training for them while keeping my injury at bay. ## [Prepped Ish Week 33](https://myallen.substack.com/p/prepped-ish-week-33-9ef) _2026-08-14 · Mya Allen · Fed Up._ Menu: Roasted Veg & Halloumi Bowl with Hummus, Hot Honey Broiled Salmon with Broccolini & Couscous, Beef Kofta with Couscous & Herby Yogurt Sauce ## [Crunchy Chicken Salad with Crispy Chickpeas, Avocado & Lemon-Sumac Vinaigrette](https://myallen.substack.com/p/crunchy-chicken-salad-with-crispy) _2026-08-13 · Mya Allen · Fed Up._ For when you want a salad with a little personality ## [Burst Reach #49: Sit by my fire](https://brettpunk.substack.com/p/burst-reach-49-sit-by-my-fire) _2026-08-11 · Brett Marcella · Burst Reach_ everything continues to happen so much ## [Prepped Ish Week 32](https://myallen.substack.com/p/prepped-ish-week-32-5e9) _2026-08-07 · Mya Allen · Fed Up._ Menu: Chicken Salad with Lemon-Sumac Vinaigrette, Scallion Chicken Fried Rice with Smashed Cucumbers, Creamy Spinach & Artichoke Chicken Orzo ## [Weeknotes 32 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/32-2026/) _2026-08-07 · Mijndert Stuij_ Wrapping up work before a one-week holiday, a new treadmill, more DK Bananza, Josh Rouse's new single, and giving up on Obsidian again. ## [Reconsidering my relationship with the Fediverse](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/reconsidering-my-relationship-with-the-fediverse/) _2026-08-04 · Mijndert Stuij_ After years on Mastodon I'm rethinking my relationship with the Fediverse and social media in general. ## [Peanut Chicken Skewers with Spicy Peanut Sauce](https://myallen.substack.com/p/peanut-chicken-skewers-with-spicy) _2026-08-03 · Mya Allen · Fed Up._ Juicy peanut-lime marinated chicken thighs grilled until lightly charred and served with a creamy, spicy peanut sauce for dipping. ## [Prepped Ish Week 31](https://myallen.substack.com/p/prepped-ish-week-31-ca6) _2026-07-31 · Mya Allen · Fed Up._ Menu: Weeknight BBQ Shrimp & Creamy Grits, Blackened Salmon with Charred Summer Maque Choux, Chicken Sausage Dirty Rice ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ow4DwtMMVPFK) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [You probably don't follow me on Mastodon](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/you-dont-follow-me-on-mastodon/) _2026-07-29 · Mijndert Stuij_ I moved my Mastodon account from toot.community to Fosstodon, but the migration dropped most of my followers along the way. ## [Enormous Power Restrained](https://brettpunk.substack.com/p/enormous-power-restrained) _2026-07-28 · Brett Marcella · Burst Reach_ The personal impact of Neon Genesis Evangelion ## [Crispy Chorizo & Butter Beans with Herb Oil and Crispy Breadcrumbs](https://myallen.substack.com/p/crispy-chorizo-and-butter-beans-with) _2026-07-27 · Mya Allen · Fed Up._ Creamy butter beans and crispy chorizo simmered in a smoky white wine broth, finished with bright herb oil and crunchy toasted breadcrumbs. ## [A not very comprehensive Garmin Cirqa review](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/garmin-cirqa-review/) _2026-07-27 · Mijndert Stuij_ Three days with the screenless Garmin Cirqa: featherlight, ten days of battery, no subscription, and it finally lets me wear my normal watches again. My one gripe is the Daily Suggested Workout missing from Connect. ## [Weeknotes 30 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/30-2026/) _2026-07-24 · Mijndert Stuij_ Shipping Burst 1.3.0 with 19 achievements, three new translations and a Cross power-up, wrapping up a big Envoy Gateway migration at work before the summer holidays, skipping games while recovering from a virus, looping Switchfoot's new album Forever Now, and switching things up with a Garmin Cirqa, Safari, Helix and Apple Container. ## [Prepped Ish Week 30](https://myallen.substack.com/p/prepped-ish-week-30) _2026-07-24 · Mya Allen · Fed Up._ Menu: Creamy Lemon Zucchini Bucatini with Calabrian Chili, Honey Mustard Chicken with Charred Summer Veg, Grilled Peach & Farro Salad with Goat Cheese & Pistachios ## [Grilled Ribeye with Charred Corn Relish & Crispy Smashed Potatoes](https://myallen.substack.com/p/grilled-ribeye-with-charred-corn) _2026-07-22 · Mya Allen · Fed Up._ A backyard steak dinner that tastes way more expensive than it is. ## [Prepped Ish Week 29](https://myallen.substack.com/p/prepped-ish-week-29-f00) _2026-07-17 · Mya Allen · Fed Up._ Menu: Ranch Grilled Chicken with Radish & Arugula Salad, Grilled Ribeye with Charred Corn Relish, Grilled Pork Chop with Peach Mostarda & Charred Green Beans ## [Weeknotes 29 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/29-2026/) _2026-07-17 · Mijndert Stuij_ Fighting off the flu and losing sleep, picking out new doors for the house, finishing the wristbands in Forza Horizon 6, diving back into Vampire Survivors DLC, and tinkering with Home Assistant while prepping a big Burst update. ## [Chicken Cutlets with Burst Tomato Pan Sauce](https://myallen.substack.com/p/chicken-cutlets-with-burst-tomato) _2026-07-14 · Mya Allen · Fed Up._ Golden, crispy chicken cutlets served with a buttery lemon-Parmesan orzo and a bright burst tomato pan sauce. ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6EnFVwZEzalc) _2026-07-14 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [Burst Reach #48: "Do a barrel roll!"](https://brettpunk.substack.com/p/burst-reach-48-do-a-barrel-roll) _2026-07-11 · Brett Marcella · Burst Reach_ don't overdo it though ## [I was wrong about game development](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/i-was-wrong-about-game-development/) _2026-07-06 · Mijndert Stuij_ Releasing Burst taught me that the hardest part of game development isn't how a game looks or feels, but getting the difficulty just right. ## [Weeknotes 27 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/27-2026/) _2026-07-03 · Mijndert Stuij_ Slowly migrating our production cluster to Envoy Gateway, Burst doing well on the App Store and shipping a Zen mode update, reaching Legend Island in Forza Horizon 6, revisiting PSP classics on the Steam Deck, and prepping ribs for the Big Green Egg. ## [My favorite things on Steam Deck right now](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/favorite-things-on-steam-deck/) _2026-06-26 · Mijndert Stuij_ Why the Steam Deck is the best handheld I've ever owned: PSP emulation with RetroDeck and streaming my Xbox through Greenlight, all because it's an open Linux device. ## [Burst: a free (no ads) bubble shooter game for iPhone](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/created-free-iphone-game-burst/) _2026-06-20 · Mijndert Stuij_ Burst is a bubble shooter game for iPhone with zero ads, no tracking, and no in-app purchases. It has power-ups, six coding-inspired themes, Game Center leaderboards, iCloud sync, and accessibility features. Completely free to play. ## [Garmin needs to do better](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/garmin-needs-to-do-better/) _2026-06-18 · Mijndert Stuij_ A year with the Garmin Forerunner 570: an alarm that won't reliably go off, buggy software, and why I'm tempted to switch. ## [The biggest upgrade to CalAction yet](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/biggest-calaction-upgrade-yet/) _2026-06-13 · Mijndert Stuij_ Version 1.6 is the biggest CalAction update since launch, adding on-device AI to pull events from photos and text, easier event editing, and a fully reworked interface for iOS 26. ## [Weeknotes 24 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/24-2026/) _2026-06-12 · Mijndert Stuij_ A quarterly tech team offsite at Google Amsterdam, some posts going viral with 45k visitors, getting obsessed with Forza Horizon 6, BBQ on the Big Green Egg, and upgrading all the things on our Kubernetes clusters. ## [I was wrong about fast terminals](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/what-i-got-wrong-about-fast-terminals/) _2026-06-08 · Mijndert Stuij_ A reader pushed back on my fast-terminal post, and they were right about more than I'd like. On benchmarking shells properly, modern zsh, and the difference between a shell that is fast and one that feels fast. ## [Cheap to write, expensive to own](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/cheap-to-write-expensive-to-own/) _2026-06-08 · Mijndert Stuij_ Creating code with AI is cheap, owning it will always be expensive. ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FvXS7ww8B1IS) _2026-06-08 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Life is too short for a slow terminal](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/life-is-too-short-for-a-slow-terminal/) _2026-06-06 · Mijndert Stuij_ I do all my work in the terminal, so it has to be quick. How my zsh starts in 30 milliseconds without a framework, and how to measure where your own shell spends its time. ## [My Sony RX100 IV takes better photos now](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/sony-rx100-fuji-like-presets/) _2026-06-04 · Mijndert Stuij_ Three Fuji-inspired Creative Style recipes for the Sony RX100 IV's memory recall slots, so I never have to open Lightroom again. ## [Scale Kubernetes deployments to zero using KEDA](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/scale-to-zero-keda-cron-scaler/) _2026-06-03 · Mijndert Stuij_ Notes from using KEDA's cron scaler to put dev, QA and staging clusters to sleep overnight: the ArgoCD gotchas (CRDs, kube-system RoleBinding, replica drift), and what you give up in exchange. ## [Migrating from ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/migrating-ingress-nginx-envoy-gateway/) _2026-05-18 · Mijndert Stuij_ Notes from migrating from ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway with the Gateway API: shared Gateways, HTTPRoute patterns, ReferenceGrants, and the gotchas that slowed me down. ## [Weeknotes 20 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/20-2026/) _2026-05-15 · Mijndert Stuij_ Open-sourcing RSS FullText as my third side project of 2026, finishing Shelldiver and Zero Stress King, listening to RAYE's new album, AWS region annoyances, and hiring a gardener. ## [Burst Reach #47: " I too had receiv'd identity by my body"](https://brettpunk.substack.com/p/burst-reach-47-i-too-had-receivd) _2026-05-12 · Brett Marcella · Burst Reach_ Last month was a weird one, bodily speaking ## [Fixing headline-only RSS feeds with rss-fulltext](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/introducing-rss-fulltext/) _2026-05-12 · Mijndert Stuij_ Introducing rss-fulltext, a self-hosted tool that takes headline-only RSS feeds and rebuilds them with the full article text using readability. ## [Weeknotes 16 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/16-2026/) _2026-04-15 · Mijndert Stuij_ A proud dad moment at a dance show, running progress, getting hooked on Shelldiver, new Jack White music, and a week off with family. ## [Responsive images in Hugo using Render Hooks](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/hugo-responsive-images-using-render-hooks/) _2026-04-09 · Mijndert Stuij_ Replace Hugo shortcodes with Render Hooks for automatic responsive image generation — a modern approach using WebP-first srcset with JPEG fallback ## [Weeknotes 14 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/14-2026/) _2026-04-02 · Mijndert Stuij_ Easter weeknotes: website overhaul with new layout, projects section, and stats page. Plus gaming, reading Bill Gates' memoir, and training updates. ## [AWS SCP Catalog](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/aws-scp-catalog/) _2026-03-31 · Mijndert Stuij_ An open-source Terraform and OpenTofu module for managing AWS Service Control Policies across your organization with reusable, pre-built SCPs ## ["At this feast of ours, I'm the beast of honor"](https://brettpunk.substack.com/p/at-this-feast-of-ours-im-the-beast) _2026-03-28 · Brett Marcella · Burst Reach_ Rediscovering Melissa Auf der Maur and the bass guitar ## [Weeknotes 13 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/13-2026/) _2026-03-27 · Mijndert Stuij_ Launched CalAction on the App Store with first sales rolling in, playing Oh No! UFO! and Grind Survivors, and saying goodbye to a friend. ## [CalAction is now available on the App Store](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/calaction-now-live/) _2026-03-24 · Mijndert Stuij_ CalAction is now available for download on the App Store, making it easy to import .ics files into your calendar and manage your events. ## [Burst Reach #46](https://brettpunk.substack.com/p/burst-reach-46) _2026-03-18 · Brett Marcella · Burst Reach_ How do you do, fellow humans? ## [Introducing CalAction Beta](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/introducing-calaction-beta/) _2026-03-18 · Mijndert Stuij_ CalAction is a new iOS app that makes importing .ics calendar files easy via file, URL, clipboard, or QR code. Now available on TestFlight. ## [Weeknotes 11 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/11-2026/) _2026-03-13 · Mijndert Stuij_ Making progress on a secret iPhone app, diving into Diablo II for the first time on Steam Deck, and new music from Josh Ritter. ## [The mountain's sad, so the mountain cry](https://brettpunk.substack.com/p/the-mountains-sad-so-the-mountain) _2026-03-12 · Brett Marcella · Burst Reach_ The Mountain, and 25 years of Gorillaz ## [Weeknotes 8 - 2026](https://mijndertstuij.nl/weeknotes/8-2026/) _2026-02-20 · Mijndert Stuij_ Carnaval parades with the family, recovering from surgery, our corgi Sam turning one, and replacing Nginx with Envoy Gateway at work. ## [Burst Reach #45](https://brettpunk.substack.com/p/burst-reach-45) _2026-02-17 · Brett Marcella · Burst Reach_ all of the things going on and some pouncepunk art