# cone (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover cone. Page: Feed: --- ## [5 Beautiful Flowers That Help Repel Ticks From Your Garden](https://www.gardenguides.com/2236236/beautiful-flowers-help-repel-ticks/) _2026-08-20 · staff@gardenguides.com (Autumn McGarr) · Garden Guides - Garden inspiration, from seed to bloom_ From striking shrubs to popular bed flowers, these colorful garden picks can brighten your landscape while helping make it less inviting to ticks. ## [If You See This On Plant Leaves, Check For Aphids Immediately](https://www.gardenguides.com/2234360/check-plant-leaves-aphids-honeydew/) _2026-08-19 · staff@gardenguides.com (Lauren Krystaf) · Garden Guides - Garden inspiration, from seed to bloom_ Your plants may be trying to tell you something. Spot this clue and it's time to take a closer look before a tiny pest turns into a much bigger problem. ## [Don't Toss An Old Bundt Pan — Reuse It For A Cute DIY Bird Bath](https://www.gardenguides.com/2236089/dont-toss-old-bundt-pan-could-reuse-diy-bird-bath/) _2026-08-18 · staff@gardenguides.com (Lauren Krystaf) · Garden Guides - Garden inspiration, from seed to bloom_ Instead of sending that old baking pan to the thrift store, give it another life. A little paint, pebbles, and water can turn it into a backyard favorite. ## [5 Beautiful Flowering Plants To Grow If You Love Hostas](https://www.gardenguides.com/2233391/flowering-plants-grow-love-hostas/) _2026-08-17 · staff@gardenguides.com (Autumn McGarr) · Garden Guides - Garden inspiration, from seed to bloom_ Love hostas? These five flowering beauties bring plenty of shade-loving charm, from woodland natives and delicate blooms to one surprising sun-lover. ## [Don't Toss Old Mason Jar Lids When You Could Reuse Them For Cute Garden Decor](https://www.gardenguides.com/2236908/dont-toss-old-pickle-jar-lids-could-reuse-garden-decor-wind-chime/) _2026-08-16 · staff@gardenguides.com (Lauren Krystaf) · Garden Guides - Garden inspiration, from seed to bloom_ With a little paint, string, and creativity, you can turn leftover canning supplies into a cheerful garden wind chime that adds a personal touch to your space. ## [The Beautiful Heat-Tolerant Flower That's Almost Impossible To Kill](https://www.gardenguides.com/2233288/heat-tolerant-flower-impossible-to-kill/) _2026-08-15 · staff@gardenguides.com (Lauren Krystaf) · Garden Guides - Garden inspiration, from seed to bloom_ Heatwave? Drought? Hungry deer? This garden favorite doesn't care. Find out which low-maintenance perennial might be the hardiest plant you'll ever grow. ## [Skip Expensive Self-Watering Pots: Try This IKEA DIY Instead](https://www.gardenguides.com/2236062/skip-expensive-self-watering-pots-ikea-diy/) _2026-08-14 · staff@gardenguides.com (Lauren Krystaf) · Garden Guides - Garden inspiration, from seed to bloom_ Your plants can stay hydrated without you constantly hovering over them, and you don't need a fancy planter to make it happen. All it takes is a clever hack. ## [One Tomato Pest Can Wipe Out Your Harvest If You Wait Too Long](https://www.gardenguides.com/2235361/tomato-pest-fruitworms-wipe-out-dont-wait/) _2026-08-13 · staff@gardenguides.com (Lauren Krystaf) · Garden Guides - Garden inspiration, from seed to bloom_ A promising tomato crop can go from thriving to trouble surprisingly fast. Keep an eye out for this late-summer pest before it gets a taste of your hard work. ## [The Beautiful Red Shade Flower That Attracts Hummingbirds & Pollinators](https://www.gardenguides.com/2232365/red-columbine-shade-flower-attract-hummingbirds-pollinators/) _2026-08-12 · staff@gardenguides.com (Lauren Krystaf) · Garden Guides - Garden inspiration, from seed to bloom_ Easy to grow and perfect for the middle of garden borders, this vibrant bloomer brings brilliant color and plenty of winged visitors to shady spaces. ## [The Award-Winning Plant You Should Grow If You Love Hostas](https://www.gardenguides.com/2232252/award-winning-plant-love-hostas-curly-fries/) _2026-08-11 · staff@gardenguides.com (Lauren Krystaf) · Garden Guides - Garden inspiration, from seed to bloom_ With its one-of-a-kind foliage and delicate lavender flowers, this shade-loving perennial stands out among the rest, making it a hosta-lover's dream. ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JyiI8elQ3pRL) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [When will my reflection show?](https://cones.lol/cones/isomorphie/reflection/) _2026-08-09 · isomorphie · Curious Cones_ wandered from its post at a subway station to examine its own reflection in the mirror ## [Hiding in the Bushes](https://cones.lol/cones/danq/20260726_124100/) _2026-08-02 · Dan Q · Curious Cones_ Nestled among the trees behind Hotel Cheyenne, Disneyland Paris Resort ## [Advanced anti cone theft technology](https://cones.lol/cones/nikola/pxl_20260712_134629081_1/) _2026-07-26 · jan Nikola · Curious Cones_ A cone bolted to the ground. I can't help but feel like there must be better solutions than this... ## [cOneSTRICH](https://cones.lol/cones/nikola/pxl_20260712_103337849/) _2026-07-19 · jan Nikola · Curious Cones_ nobody can see me ## [A crochet detective story](https://www.baroquepurls.com/blog/a-crochet-detective-story) _2026-07-16 · Amy van de Laar · Blog - Baroque Purls_ My latest just-for me project is a stripy cardigan worked sideways, and it’s a milestone for me as it’s my very first crocheted sweater. I actually learned to crochet before I learned to knit, but I’m much more experienced with knitting as I’ve spent much more time doing it over the years. ## [Taking A Dive](https://cones.lol/cones/danq/20260614_134156/) _2026-06-21 · Dan Q · Curious Cones_ Diving board, outdoor public swimming pool, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom ## [The Euclidean Algorithm: Curiosity Satisfied – Sadly](https://jrh794.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/the-euclidean-algorithm-curiosity-satisfied-sadly/) _2026-06-03 · jrh794 · Math Thoughts_ The Euclidean Algorithm is a (the) way of finding a common factor between two numbers, say a and b. The method is to divide the smaller number into the larger and then divide the remainder into the smaller and continue Continue reading ## [Personal Space Requested](https://cones.lol/cones/samothy/personal-space-cone/) _2026-05-31 · Samothy · Curious Cones_ Found in Home Depot lumber section in Cabot, Arkansas requesting personal space. ## [🎉 One Year of Curious Cones 🎉](https://cones.lol/news/2026-05-08-one-year-of-curious-cones/) _2026-05-08 · zock · Curious Cones_ ## [The Conehead Family in Mourning](https://cones.lol/cones/bikerbuddy/mourningconefamily2/) _2026-04-26 · bikerbuddy · Curious Cones_ In Windsor, NSW, the Conehead family mourn the loss of a husband and father, Hubert Conehead, the family’s only breadwinner, cut down mercilessly on the side of the road by a maverick truck while simply doing his job. We send our thoughts and prayers. ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/o6gPcuFmZrG1) _2026-04-26 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [Haberdashery Safety Officer](https://cones.lol/cones/bikerbuddy/cone/) _2026-03-29 · bikerbuddy · Curious Cones_ Found in a Spotlight store in Penrith while enquiring about curtains ## [Introducing Urd](https://conecrows.com/blog/introducing-urd) _2026-03-24 · Trey · Cone Crows Engineering Blog_ Urd is a configuration tool for small teams and solo developers — catalog your config, encrypt secrets, and assemble environment files from source control. ## [Shaggy](https://cones.lol/cones/zock/shaggy-r1/) _2026-03-15 · zock · Curious Cones_ Found in dire need of a trim outside a used car lot in rural Arkansas. ## [Fountain](https://cones.lol/cones/struan.carewcox/fountain/) _2026-03-08 · Struan Carew-Cox · Curious Cones_ Found tucked behind a farm house in Rous Lench, a small village in rural UK. ## [Designing the Augur Memory System](https://conecrows.com/blog/augur-memory-v1) _2026-03-02 · Trey · Cone Crows Engineering Blog_ How Augur's memory system works: impression-based recall, vector embeddings, and lossy synthesis that gives the Architect a subjective, imperfect memory of every player it faces. ## [Caution: No Swimming](https://cones.lol/cones/danq/20260222_101959/) _2026-03-01 · Dan Q · Curious Cones_ A puddle in a field, near Milton-under-Wychwood, in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, United Kingdom ## [Augur: A Text-Based Boss Battle Powered by AI](https://conecrows.com/blog/augur-soft-launch) _2026-02-23 · Trey · Cone Crows Engineering Blog_ Announcing the soft launch of Augur — a text-based boss encounter where the boss is an LLM that adapts to how you play. How the dual-LLM architecture evolved and what makes the game tick. ## [Fenced In](https://cones.lol/cones/fishy/dsc_0918/) _2026-02-22 · Fishy · Curious Cones_ Nighttime display of a cone in captivity. ## [How I Build: Stack, Workflow, and Shipping as a Solo Dev](https://conecrows.com/blog/how-i-build-stack-workflow-and-shipping) _2026-02-16 · Trey · Cone Crows Engineering Blog_ A look at how my tech stack evolved across four projects, the AI-assisted workflow I've refined over ten months, and how I keep multiple features moving at once. ## [What Building a 200-Type GraphQL API Taught Me About REST](https://conecrows.com/blog/graphql-vs-rest-what-i-learned) _2026-02-09 · Trey · Cone Crows Engineering Blog_ A solo dev's honest experience using GraphQL and Apollo on a production mobile app — what worked, what didn't, and why all my new projects use REST. ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MQWAlrPIHi1m) _2026-02-08 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## [A nice cup of coffee](https://cones.lol/cones/nikola/pxl_20260207_1031111880/) _2026-02-08 · jan Nikola · Curious Cones_ Two cones sitting at a table in a university cafe ## [Welcome to the Cone Crows Engineering Blog](https://conecrows.com/blog/welcome-to-the-cone-crows-blog) _2026-02-03 · Trey · Cone Crows Engineering Blog_ Introducing our engineering blog — a solo dev's journey building four products under one corvid-themed brand. ## [Imprisoned cone](https://cones.lol/cones/joepinball/z3hpdnv/) _2026-01-25 · Joe Pinball · Curious Cones_ A common cone (Conus Vulgaris) spotted behind bars at a closed business facility. I assume it did something bad when the business (Taxi firm) was still running. ## [Packing Circles with Unequal Radii – Stacking Corks Edition](https://jrh794.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/packing-circles-with-unequal-radii-stacking-corks-edition/) _2026-01-19 · jrh794 · Math Thoughts_ A part of my wine cork construction project, a few years, was a trivet out of wine corks. Here it is. It is wonderfully light and holds hot dishes well away from the table. Looking directly down on it, one Continue reading ## [Cone in Fruit](https://cones.lol/cones/wildbread/ycznxaj5/) _2026-01-18 · Wild Bread · Curious Cones_ Naarm 🎵 Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana cooone 🎵 ## [Untitled](https://cones.lol/cones/polprog/sfo-cone1-dsc06580/) _2026-01-04 · polprog · Curious Cones_ I took this photo mid-way down Sunset District Beach in SF. Somebody climbed and put the cone up on the traffic light. ## [Cirque du Coneleil](https://cones.lol/cones/nikola/pxl_20251014_104229135_1/) _2026-01-04 · jan Nikola · Curious Cones_ An acrobatic cone, delicately balancing itself on top of another cone. ## [Site Rewrite](https://cones.lol/news/2026-01-01-site-rewrite/) _2026-01-01 · zock · Curious Cones_ ## [Reflecting Pond](https://cones.lol/cones/hasty/20251101_140153/) _2025-12-28 · Hasty · Curious Cones_ Local pond at the edge of town; that place you went to as a child and had fun with your friends, but then you revisit it as an adult and you only find despair. ## [New patterns: The Greenery Set](https://www.baroquepurls.com/blog/new-patterns-the-greenery-set) _2025-09-24 · Amy van de Laar · Blog - Baroque Purls_ The Greenery Set is a trio of hat, cowl, and mitts featuring a rich texture of cable-and-lace leaves, seed stitch, and half-twisted ribbing. This combination of stitches may sound complex but it’s much simpler to knit than you might think, because in any one round you’ll only be using one technique at a time - e.g. you’ll be working either two-stitch cables, or simple lace, or a small number of… ## [Project Comfortable: Bereket + Bubble Cardie](https://www.baroquepurls.com/blog/project-comfortable-bereket-fo-roundup) _2025-07-16 · Amy van de Laar · Blog - Baroque Purls_ I’ve been lazy about taking photos in recent months, so I have a bit of a backlog of makes to show off - but here they are! I’m splitting them up into two groups with the first being my knitting FOs and current main WIP, and my sewing projects will follow in a post of their own. ## [A Mathematician Slices Carrots – Part IV](https://jrh794.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/a-mathematician-slices-carrots-part-iv/) _2025-06-23 · jrh794 · Math Thoughts_ This post shows all the calculations I needed for getting equal total surface areas including the derivation of the surface area of an oblique cone using double integral calculus. I am still using OneNote for graphs and formulas, hence this Continue reading ## [A Mathematician Slices Carrots – Part III](https://jrh794.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a-mathematician-slices-carrots-part-iii/) _2025-04-14 · jrh794 · Math Thoughts_ I want to slice carrots for a salad. I have a conical carrot and a blue cutting board and an invisible knife. I could choose to make all the slices (slicing perpendicular to the cone s axis) the same thickness. But Continue reading ## [A Mathematician Slices Carrots – Part II](https://jrh794.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/a-mathematician-slices-carrots-part-ii/) _2025-02-19 · jrh794 · Math Thoughts_ This post shows a derivation of the volume of an oblique cone using pure geometry. I am still using OneNote for graphs and formulas, hence this PDF. ## [A Mathematician Slices Carrots – Part I](https://jrh794.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/a-mathematician-slices-carrots-part-i/) _2025-02-06 · jrh794 · Math Thoughts_ I want to slice carrots for a salad. I have a conical carrot and a blue cutting board and an invisible knife. I could choose to make all the slices (slicing perpendicular to the cone s axis) the same thickness. But Continue reading ## [New patterns: Parterre Hat & Scarf](https://www.baroquepurls.com/blog/new-patterns-parterre-hat-amp-scarf) _2025-01-29 · Amy van de Laar · Blog - Baroque Purls_ I have two new patterns to share today, a cabled hat and scarf duo in DK weight yarn. The cable pattern reminds me of a formal garden with flower beds laid out in groups of interlocking shapes, a style called a ‘parterre’. The travelling cables create geometric shapes softened by twirling verticals. The Parterre Scarf has two options for the width, a classic scarf (shown here) and a wider wrap,… ## [New patterns: Melisma Hat & Scarf](https://www.baroquepurls.com/blog/new-patterns-melisma-hat-amp-scarf) _2024-10-03 · Amy van de Laar · Blog - Baroque Purls_ This classic hat and scarf combo is all about the cables! They twirl across a background of 2x2 ribbing, and with only a handful of cable crosses on alternating rounds or rows the set is relatively quick to knit in worsted weight yarn. Best of all, the cable pattern is moreish and satisfying to watch unfold. The hat, with instructions for two very stretchy sizes, and the scarf, with two width…