# days ago (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 38 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover days ago. Page: Feed: --- ## [Talanta Sports City: Engineering Kenya’s New National Stadium — and Making the Investment Count](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/talanta-sports-city-engineering-kenyas-new-national-stadium-and-making-the-investment-count/) _2026-08-19 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 1 day ago by Kenya Engineer When Kenya Engineer reported on the construction of Talanta Sports Stadium in August 2024, the project was still largely a construction story: a new national arena rising at Jamhuri Grounds as Kenya prepared to co-host the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations. Two years later, the project has \[…\] The post Talanta Sports City: Engineering Kenya’s New National Stadium… ## [I Was Only Her Friend So She Could 'Save Me': A Chipster Story and Fashion Study](https://lindseylouise.substack.com/p/i-was-only-her-friend-so-she-could) _2026-08-19 · lindsey louise · The Official Nancy Drew Newsletter_ Alternatively: my Bible Belt Life with Hipster Christians of the 2000s/2010s ## [Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.16 and Vagrant Box Hosting Issues](https://oracle-base.com/blog/2026/08/19/oracle-virtualbox-7-2-16-and-vagrant-box-hosting-issues/) _2026-08-19 · Tim... · The ORACLE-BASE Blog_ Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.16 was released yesterday. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both seem fine. Vagrant If you are into Vagrant you can find my builds here. https://github.com/oraclebase/vagrant You can see the list of Vagrant boxes I build and use here.… ## [A technical reading of Ndindi Nyoro’s People’s Party of Kenya agenda](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/a-technical-reading-of-ndindi-nyoros-peoples-party-of-kenya-agenda/) _2026-08-18 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 3 days ago by Kenya Engineer Political speeches describe destinations. Engineering has to describe the system that gets there. That difference is visible in Ndindi Nyoro’s statement, “What We Must Achieve for All Kenyans.” It identifies real national pressures: expensive and unreliable production inputs, weak job creation, food insecurity, inadequate health capacity, uneven \[…\] The… ## [The Engineer’s Software Stack; How to choose the right tools without paying for the wrong ones](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/the-engineers-software-stack-how-to-choose-the-right-tools-without-paying-for-the-wrong-ones/) _2026-08-18 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 3 days ago by Kenya Engineer Public prices in this article were checked on 18 August 2026. They are representative list prices before tax, quoted in the vendor’s displayed currency. Kenyan prices, reseller terms, exchange rates and promotions will differ. “Quote” means the vendor did not publish a dependable list price for the \[…\] The post The Engineer’s Software Stack; How to choose… ## [Nvidia’s $105 Billion Backstop Shows AI Data Centres Are Becoming Project Finance](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/nvidias-105-billion-backstop-shows-ai-data-centres-are-becoming-project-finance/) _2026-08-18 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 3 days ago by Kenya Engineer Nvidia’s agreement to support SB Energy’s proposed PORTS-Pike AI campus in Ohio with a guarantee of up to US$105 billion has produced an arresting headline. The first analytical task is to define what that number is—and what it is not. It is not a disclosed construction budget \[…\] The post Nvidia’s $105 Billion Backstop Shows AI Data Centres Are Becoming… ## [South Africa’s Renewable Boom Has Reached the Transmission Bottleneck](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/south-africas-renewable-boom-has-reached-the-transmission-bottleneck/) _2026-08-18 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 3 days ago by Kenya Engineer On 10 August, Kenya Engineer examined how South Africa’s renewable boom was becoming a test of the grid. The earlier feature focused on record private renewable investment and the danger that generation projects could run ahead of connection capacity. The next part of that story is now \[…\] The post South Africa’s Renewable Boom Has Reached the Transmission… ## [When Ten Suppliers Take 60.5% of Tender Value, the Missing Data Matters as Much as the Concentration](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/when-ten-suppliers-take-60-5-of-tender-value-the-missing-data-matters-as-much-as-the-concentration/) _2026-08-18 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 3 days ago by Kenya Engineer Ten suppliers received 11 public contracts worth KSh131.67 billion in the financial year ended June 2025, according to an analysis of awards reported to the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority. That represented 60.5 per cent of the KSh217.45 billion value across 25,994 reported contracts. The concentration was substantially \[…\] The post When Ten… ## [Mombasa’s $1.5 Billion AI Data Centre Proposal Is First an Energy and Marine Engineering Test](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/mombasas-1-5-billion-ai-data-centre-proposal-is-first-an-energy-and-marine-engineering-test/) _2026-08-18 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 3 days ago by Kenya Engineer Amaco Energy Group’s proposal for a US$1.5 billion—about KSh194 billion—AI data centre in Mombasa is immediately striking because of the proposed financing scale and its power concept. The Greek company says the facility would operate independently of the national grid and use an offshore liquefied natural gas \[…\] The post Mombasa’s $1.5 Billion AI Data… ## [Konza Phase One; A launch at the end of a long construction story](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/konza-phase-one-a-launch-at-the-end-of-a-long-construction-story/) _2026-08-18 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 3 days ago by Kenya Engineer The formal launch of Phase One of Konza Technopolis is an important national infrastructure milestone, but it should not be mistaken for the beginning—or even the first public declaration of completion—of the project’s operating phase. The first phase covers roughly 400 acres and brings together about 40 \[…\] The post Konza Phase One; A launch at the end of… ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/STq5lfePeM51) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [Web and native apps](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/web-and-native-apps/) _2026-08-17 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ This is sacrilegious among some parts of Apple fandom, but I like using web apps. Oh, sure, I can imagine a world in which there’s a carefully crafted Mac app that has all the functions of a website I use but has all the Mac-like interface features I love and isn’t hobbled by a web UI. But I don’t live in that world and don’t expect I ever will. ## [Kakamega’s KSh12 Billion Roads Plan: What 200 Kilometres Must Prove Before Tenders Begin](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/kakamegas-ksh12-billion-roads-plan-what-200-kilometres-must-prove-before-tenders-begin/) _2026-08-17 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 4 days ago by Kenya Engineer Kakamega County has placed a large number on its transport ambitions: 200 kilometres of roads, upgraded or constructed to bitumen standard, at an estimated cost of KSh12 billion. The proposal was highlighted by Governor Fernandes Barasa on 16 August while discussing collaboration between the county and national \[…\] The post Kakamega’s KSh12 Billion Roads… ## [Somalia Has Opened China’s Seafood Market. Now East Africa Must Build the Cold Chain](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/somalia-has-opened-chinas-seafood-market-now-east-africa-must-build-the-cold-chain/) _2026-08-17 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 4 days ago by Kenya Engineer Somalia’s fisheries agreement with China has removed one of the barriers that kept a long coastline distant from a major seafood market. Under a protocol signed in Mogadishu on 13 July, Somali fishery products are expected to receive duty-free access, with officials indicating that exports could begin \[…\] The post Somalia Has Opened China’s Seafood Market.… ## [Apple Music weirdness](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/apple-music-weirdness/) _2026-08-15 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ I was out on a walk yesterday, listening to the ’70s Hits Radio Station on Apple Music, when “Don’t Leave Me This Way” came on. I pulled my phone out of my pocket to look at a text while the song was playing and was surprised at what the Music app told me about the song. ## [For the Love of Sheep Sorrel](https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/for-the-love-of-sheep-sorrel) _2026-08-15 · Lucy Writes History · Writing the Garden_ Laura Ingalls Wilder, Prairies, and Correctness ## [What is the Point of a Pintle?](https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-is-the-point-of-a-pintle) _2026-08-12 · Lucy Writes History · Writing the Garden_ When Medieval Penises become Modern Window-Latches ## [A planet position widget](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/a-planet-position-widget/) _2026-08-12 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ After I learned how to make a Mac widget with TerminalWidget and how to determine the locations of celestial objects with Astropy , the natural thing for me to do was combine the two into a widget that tracks the planets. ## [I’ll follow the Sun](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/ill-follow-the-sun/) _2026-08-11 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ Through an odd coincidence, I started writing this post when the Sun was in Cancer, but by the time I’m done and get it published, the Sun will be in Leo. Don’t worry, this isn’t an astrology post—I don’t want to anger John Gruber —but it is a further coincidence that I’ve been puttering around with observational astronomy calculations at a time when there’s been some controversy in the Apple… ## [Webinar on Africa and the IMF: 8. and 15. September](https://www.flassbeck-economics.com/webinar-on-africa-and-the-imf-8-and-15-september/) _2026-08-10 · Heiner Flassbeck · flassbeck economics international_ Anyone interested can register via the following link . ... More ... ## [A two-month calendar on my Desktop](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/a-two-month-calendar-on-my-desktop/) _2026-08-05 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ A few days ago, I posted this image on Mastodon : ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Rid019AnhENy) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [Oracle Support : An Update](https://oracle-base.com/blog/2026/08/05/oracle-support-an-update/) _2026-08-05 · Tim... · The ORACLE-BASE Blog_ My last post was a rant about Oracle Support. As a result of that some folks from Oracle reached out for a meeting to discuss my experience. This was not about the specific SR, but my general experience of using Oracle Support as a customer. In this post I ll discuss some of the information that Continue reading "Oracle Support : An Update" The post Oracle Support : An Update first appeared on The… ## [All Women Want to do is Escape Influencing](https://lindseylouise.substack.com/p/all-women-want-to-do-is-escape-influencing) _2026-08-04 · lindsey louise · The Official Nancy Drew Newsletter_ An influencer that I’ve been following for over a decade now jiggles her breasts up and down in every video. ## [Standing Behind the Numbers](/blog/2026/08/03/Standing-Behind-the-Numbers.html) _2026-08-03 · Sam Ruby_ Six days ago I published a ledger that didn't flatter: the compiled Lobsters served ten of twenty-six routes, thirty-nine of 354 of its own tests passed, and the benchmark page opened with a banner declining to stand behind its own timings. The deal I made was to keep publishing the ledger either way. This is the update, under the same rules. The numbers, as of this afternoon The compiled binary… ## [Retrospective - Future Work](https://marcodifrancesco.com/2026-08-03-retrospective-future-work/) _2026-08-03 · Marco Di Francesco · Marco Di Francesco Portfolio_ In Apr 2024 in the Netherlands I wrote the artcle “Future Job” (in Notion). Here I mentioned my wish-job/wish-life list with a 2 years outlook, and now the time has come. ## [The years-overdue announcement post for FlickBoard](https://natkr.com/2026-08-02-flickboard/) _2026-08-02 · nat@nullable.se (Natalie Klestrup Röijezon) · natkr's ramblings_ (Or: How I fell into the (mobile) keyboard rabbit hole.) ## [My rules for using spreadsheets](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/my-rules-for-using-spreadsheets/) _2026-08-01 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ My fundamental rule is Don’t , but a single word wouldn’t make for much of a blog post. ## ['There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible': First Tastes of Homer, and the Joys of Goat's Cheese and Raw Onion](https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/there-are-no-sex-scenes-and-all-the) _2026-08-01 · Lucy Writes History · Writing the Garden_ An off-the-cuff post today, because my brother is coming up to visit my newborn baby (yay!), and I am writing this while said newborn snores loudly and makes those weird pterodactyl quacking noises. ## [Oracle Support : A recent experience](https://oracle-base.com/blog/2026/07/30/oracle-support-a-recent-experience/) _2026-07-30 · Tim... · The ORACLE-BASE Blog_ If you follow me you know I have a history of moaning about Oracle Support. I have had some good experiences in the past, but overall I would have to judge the services as a complete fail. Website Since the migration of the main Oracle Support website, the user experience has been terrible. A lot Continue reading "Oracle Support : A recent experience" The post Oracle Support : A recent experience… ## [What Happens After You IPO?](/blog/2026/07/28/What-Happens-After-You-IPO.html) _2026-07-28 · Sam Ruby_ Go look at rubyonrails.org right now. The first thing you see: Accelerate your agents with convention over configuration. Ruby on Rails scales from PROMPT to IPO. Token-efficient code that's easy for agents to write and beautiful for humans to review. I want to sit with that for a second, because I think it's more interesting than it first appears. The property Rails is selling The argument on… ## [A Welcome for a Baby](https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-welcome-for-a-baby) _2026-07-26 · Lucy Writes History · Writing the Garden_ This post is just about a lovely set of coincidences that made me think about community and kindness - it’s not terribly complicated. ## [Prime Noise-Cancelling Picks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pXwGjf4Z4Ty3) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Browse Prime-eligible, 4-star-and-up noise-cancelling earbuds with fast shipping and deals ## [The IMF is recommending a harakiri programme for Europe, yet ignores the US’s much higher national debt](https://www.flassbeck-economics.com/the-imf-is-recommending-a-harakiri-programme-for-europe-yet-ignores-the-uss-much-higher-national-debt/) _2026-07-26 · Heiner Flassbeck · flassbeck economics international_ Astute writers such as Michael Sauga of \*Der Spiegel\* realise immediately when things get serious: Europe needs austerity now. If Europe does not implement an austerity programme straight away, it is doomed. Europe must cut spending come what may. The best option would be an austerity programme in the style of Schröder’s Agenda. ... More ... ## [self care day](https://cytalai.bearblog.dev/self-care-day/) _2026-07-26 · cytalai · ⭐ cy's space ⭐_ Sometimes, when everything is just chaos, you need a self care day. When you're negotiating a move across countries while your current home is being renovated and you're dealing with bureaucratic politics all at once while dealing with a severe infection? Sometimes you just need a day to yourself, to relax and decompress. And today, I plan to do just that. No bullshit drama, no packing, no… ## [26.07.26 - 07:20](https://cytalai.bearblog.dev/status-260726-0720/) _2026-07-26 · cytalai · ⭐ cy's space ⭐_ Self care days are super important 2 weeks, 6 days ago ## [Plotting baseball team progress](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/07/plotting-baseball-team-progress/) _2026-07-24 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ I noticed today that the Cubs and Yankees have the same record. I knew that the Cubs have had some extreme ups and downs this year, but I wasn’t sure if the Yankees had, so I decided to plot their progress over the course of the season so far. ## [Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.14](https://oracle-base.com/blog/2026/07/23/oracle-virtualbox-7-2-14/) _2026-07-23 · Tim... · The ORACLE-BASE Blog_ Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.14 a couple of days ago. As I mentioned in my previous post, I was expecting this release to coincide with the the normal quarterly patch cycle. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both worked fine. Vagrant I didn t bother updating my Vagrant boxes for Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox… ## [22.07.26 - 20:20](https://cytalai.bearblog.dev/status-220726-2020/) _2026-07-22 · cytalai · ⭐ cy's space ⭐_ Bureaucracy sucks so bad 3 weeks, 3 days ago ## [Shut Up Barbie and Pitch the Tent](https://lindseylouise.substack.com/p/shut-up-barbie-and-pitch-the-tent) _2026-07-22 · lindsey louise · The Official Nancy Drew Newsletter_ You’re not getting any richer, it’s time to find your new hobby: camping! & I promise, camping is for everyone! ## [Rails on Roda](/blog/2026/07/22/Rails-on-Roda.html) _2026-07-22 · Sam Ruby_ Two days ago I ended a post deliberately in mid-air: the Roda spike's results were sitting in front of Jeremy Evans, and whether it lived, died, or got tweaked was his call to make, not mine. That was the point of the seating chart — for this episode, the keeper of the oracle is the framework's author. The verdict came back Tuesday evening , and it's worth watching what a keeper actually does with… ## [Apple Park and Severance](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/07/apple-park-and-severance/) _2026-07-21 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ The indispensable Michael Tsai has an interesting post up today about Apple Park and whether its design isolates the people who work there, despite its having been designed—in part, at least—to encourage collaboration. ## [curating experiences](https://cytalai.bearblog.dev/curating-experiences/) _2026-07-21 · cytalai · ⭐ cy's space ⭐_ So, I've recently been working on something that's had me thinking a lot lately about curating experiences. I love retro gaming, and I have amassed a massive collection of games on my handhelds that I simply do not play, so the last few days I've been going through those games. Playing them one by one, deleting the games I simply don't enjoy and wouldn't spend time playing. Curating my gaming… ## [21.07.26 - 22:20](https://cytalai.bearblog.dev/status-210726-2220/) _2026-07-21 · cytalai · ⭐ cy's space ⭐_ Haven't been able to breathe right in days, thanks hay fever 3 weeks, 4 days ago ## [You Can't Rewrite Your Way Out of Big-O](/blog/2026/07/21/You-Cant-Rewrite-Your-Way-Out-of-Big-O.html) _2026-07-21 · Sam Ruby_ Spinel is Matz's ahead-of-time Ruby-to-C compiler, and this month it acquired an unusual asset: a 40,000-line application it could not compile. When Roundhouse transpiles Lobsters for the Spinel target, it emits a ~370-file tree of plain Ruby — the app, its views desugared into methods, and the reified framework runtime. Two weeks ago, pointing Spinel at that tree produced a single core pinned at… ## [Roda on Spinel](/blog/2026/07/20/Roda-on-Spinel.html) _2026-07-20 · Sam Ruby_ At RubyConf on Thursday I argued that there is no server — that Rails is a declarative spec, the compiler is the query planner, and the deployment target is the execution plan. Afterwards, Jeremy Evans asked me the question that keeps a thesis honest: could you do Roda too? It's the right question precisely because Roda is Rails' opposite number. Rails is macros all the way down — has\_many ,… ## [Sum of cubes via difference tables](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/07/sum-of-cubes-via-difference-tables/) _2026-07-20 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ Yesterday I watched the most recent Numberphile video , in which Ben Sparks explains a few finite series and the equations that simplify the calculation of their sums. He derives the formulas graphically, and it’s all very cleverly done, especially the one for the sum of cubes. ## [19.07.26 - 00:00](https://cytalai.bearblog.dev/status-160726-0000/) _2026-07-18 · cytalai · ⭐ cy's space ⭐_ Happy birthday to me 🎂 3 weeks, 6 days ago ## [Permanent Daylight Saving Time](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/07/permanent-daylight-saving-time/) _2026-07-17 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ A couple of days ago, Casey Liss took a break from arguing about temperature scales to tweak me about the recent passage of the Sunshine Protection Act by the House. The Act would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, something Casey knows I disapprove of . A similar bill passed the Senate a few years ago, and Donald Trump has said he will sign this one, so there’s a decent chance it’ll become law.… ## [control](https://cytalai.bearblog.dev/control/) _2026-07-17 · cytalai · ⭐ cy's space ⭐_ When everything around you is being upended, when things feel entirely out of your control, how do you handle it? We all have our different ways. I used to be a hoarder, back in 2022. I managed to fix that, got the therapy, cleared the hoard, got rid of my collections for the most part, keep things tidy and organised. In most ways, I'm recovered from it. But when things are out of my depth, and… ## [Floating Saturn calculations](https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/07/floating-saturn-calculations/) _2026-07-17 · Dr. Drang · And now it’s all this_ You’ve probably seen somewhere that the density of Saturn is less than that of water. If there were a bathtub big enough to hold it, Saturn would float. I think I first read this in one of Isaac Asimov’s collections of science essays. If you do an image search, you can easily find many illustrations of Saturn floating in water. Most of these show no more than half of Saturn under the water. Could… ## [There Is No Server](/blog/2026/07/16/There-Is-No-Server.html) _2026-07-16 · Sam Ruby_ ## [Three Compilers, One Concern Each](/blog/2026/07/16/Three-Compilers-One-Concern-Each.html) _2026-07-16 · Sam Ruby_ In the talk , the tenth rung of the ladder gets a single line and a "hold that thought": typed Ruby ─▶ Spinel ─▶ C ─▶ machine code That rung is three compilers standing on each other's shoulders: Roundhouse turns a Rails application into the subset of Ruby that Spinel , Matz's ahead-of-time compiler, accepts; Spinel turns that Ruby into C; the system C compiler turns the C into a native binary.…