# gods monster (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover gods monster. Page: Feed: --- ## [Myth of the Day: Python](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/myth-of-the-day-python) _2026-08-21 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ Python was the colossal earth-born serpent of Greek mythology who guarded the oracle at Delphi until Apollo's arrows. ## [Myth of the Day: Sjövættir](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/myth-of-the-day-sjovttir) _2026-08-20 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ Sjövættir are Norse sea wights, local guardian spirits of specific waters whose favor brings safe passage and full nets. ## [The Viking Movie That Did the Homework](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/the-viking-movie-that-did-the-homework) _2026-08-20 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ The one that got it right. What Eggers pulled straight from the sagas, what he built out of a museum catalogue, and the three big things he invented anyway. ## [Myth of the Day: Wondjina](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/myth-of-the-day-wondjina) _2026-08-19 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ Wondjina are the mouthless cloud and rain creator spirits of the Kimberley in Aboriginal Australia, painted into living sandstone galleries. ## [Myth of the Day: Nagual](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/myth-of-the-day-nagual) _2026-08-18 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ The Nagual is an Aztec sorcerer who shapeshifts at night into a jaguar, owl, dog, or other tonal animal. ## [Gods Are Older Than Their Stories](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/gods-are-older-than-their-stories) _2026-08-18 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ At Zeus's oldest oracle the priests did not wash their feet and slept on the ground. Real gods have bits stuck to them that do not fit, and those bits are the previous version. ## [Starting to change my mind about AI](https://siderite.dev/blog/starting-to-change-my-mind-about-ai/) _2026-08-17 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ For a while now I have been waiting for the "AI bubble" to burst. I don't want it to happen, but what the hell is one supposed to think when companies that make up a large portion of the U.S. economy invest hundreds of times more than they can reasonably extract in a year for that? It's a fad, I thought. First it bubbles, then it bursts, then it settles to a shit version of itself, like the… ## [Myth of the Day: Niobe](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/myth-of-the-day-niobe) _2026-08-17 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ In Greek mythology, Niobe was a Theban queen whose pride cost her fourteen children and turned her to stone. ## [Unclean Spirits (Gods & Monsters #1), by Chuck Wendig](https://siderite.dev/blog/unclean-spirits-gods--monsters-1-by-chuck-wendig/) _2026-08-16 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ If you've read American Gods , this is really very similar, albeit focused more on action and less on mythology. Same rascally male character with an uncertain origin discovering a world of gods, monsters and that they're kind of the same thing. I don't know why it's called Unclean Spirits . Truly it makes no sense to me after reading the book, but I guess it needed a title. Chuck Wendig is a… ## [Myth of the Day: Num](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/myth-of-the-day-num) _2026-08-16 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ Num is the supreme sky god of the Nenets of Siberia, creator of earth and remote father of Nga. ## [Ultra-Quiet Business Mini (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BTaRM0dElY5x) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Compact business mini, ultra-quiet for focused work. ## [Myth of the Day: Fir Bolg](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/myth-of-the-day-fir-bolg) _2026-08-15 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ The Fir Bolg of Irish myth divided Ireland into five provinces before the Tuatha Dé Danann defeated them. ## [Sisyphus Had a Reason](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/sisyphus-had-a-reason) _2026-08-15 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ Homer gives the punishment and leaves the crime off. When you put it back, the story stops being about hard work and starts being about something much more specific. ## [Myth of the Day: Ptahil](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/myth-of-the-day-ptahil) _2026-08-14 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ Ptahil, an uthra of Mandaean myth, shaped the material world and human bodies but could not give them souls. ## [Myth of the Day: Ittan-momen](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/myth-of-the-day-ittan-momen) _2026-08-13 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ Ittan-momen is a flying strip of white cotton from Kagoshima folklore that smothers lone travelers and stragglers at night. ## [Myths in the Movies: Apocalypto — the language they got right, the massacre they borrowed](https://godsandmonstersinfo.substack.com/p/myths-in-the-movies-apocalypto-the) _2026-08-13 · Mythology: Gods and Monsters · Mythology: Gods and Monsters_ Mel Gibson filmed a whole civilisation in its own tongue, then handed it the oldest lie about itself. Sorting the real Maya from the six hundred years the last shot folds flat. ## [The AI self building pattern](https://siderite.dev/blog/ai-self-building-pattern/) _2026-08-04 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ Intro Ever since LLMs entered the scene I have been lamenting the blunt human refusal to acknowledge the similarities between how LLMs work and how people work. These are not just parallels, they are actual copies. LLMs are working on the neural network architecture distilled from how brains work. Language for us works like language for AI. We are animals with large language models strapped on. In… ## [AI is not replacing people, but businesses](https://siderite.dev/blog/ai-not-replacing-people-but-businesses/) _2026-07-25 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ A short opinion on what AI is actually replacing. Fears are that AI is replacing people, because so many companies are firing people and implementing artificial intelligence alternatives. But the person is still there, the "person" role was never supplanted. Instead, it's the business role of that person that is. I see you rolling your eyes at me because it's all semantics and it boils down to the… ## [Plug'n'Play subscription world](https://siderite.dev/blog/plugnplay-subscription-world/) _2026-07-18 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ Intro This is going to be a very long rant. And by the end it's going to get a bit depressing and overdramatic. But also revelatory, I hope. If you think I am going off the rails here, let me know. I would love to hear your arguments. I have a job now I have been trying to get a job for a while now and I just got one. Why did it take so long? Because in just a few years, the market for software… ## [querySelector immediate children with :scope](https://siderite.dev/blog/queryselector-immediate-children-with-scope/) _2026-07-08 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ Requirement You are on a web page, using JavaScript, and have a reference to an element node. And you want to select the immediate children of that node using the general syntax used by querySelectorAll , maybe with some extra constraints. What do you do? Failed attempt The CSS syntax for children of a node is using the greater-than character, something like this: #parentNode \> \* , but as soon as… ## [Dragonshadow (Winterlands #2), by Barbara Hambly](https://siderite.dev/blog/dragonshadow-winterlands-2-by-barbara-hambly/) _2026-06-29 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ Barbara Hambly has her own voice, that's for sure. The book is good, not perfect, but certainly feels unique. The characters are flawed, but make the best of what they've got, using cunning and planning, their minds always in conflict with their hearts. The first book in the series was the same, it seemed to be a standard fantasy story, but the characters' depth changed everything. Dragonshadow… ## [Zero-Persistence E2EE (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/y6LrMloA0BAl) _2026-06-29 · **Sponsored**_ End-to-end encryption with client-side WebCrypto and volatile memory. ## [Alien: Colony War, by David Barnett](https://siderite.dev/blog/alien-colony-war-by-david-barnett/) _2026-06-20 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ Alien: Colony War is a classical Alien story in the "Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe": state, corporate and military corruption and greed, individual bravery and struggle, xenomorphs and mothers willing to protect their children, the occasional psychopath. Entertaining. I feel the author understands and respects the Alien universe. Alien has a successful recipe, one that unlike other… ## [When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut](https://siderite.dev/blog/when-we-cease-to-understand-world-by-benjamin-laba/) _2026-06-20 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ Wow, I really loved this book! I started reading it because of the title, expecting to read about how technology evolves ever faster and leaves people in the dust. I mean, it's very apropos these days. But then I've read the first chapter and it was a standard biographical analysis of a scientist in the 20th century. And then there was another, then an entire story about another. I love science… ## [Book acknowledgement inflation](https://siderite.dev/blog/book-acknowledgement-inflation/) _2026-06-20 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ So you read a book, and it's not great. It's something that you imagine you could spin up in a few months after a writing course. The ideas are derivative, the characters are cardboard cutouts and the writing is merely decent. It does push some emotional buttons, so you enjoy it as much as one can and then reach its end. And the acknowledgements come. Are these things designed to feel small and… ## [The Last Watch (The Divide #1), by J.S. Dewes](https://siderite.dev/blog/last-watch-the-divide-1-by-js-dewes/) _2026-06-20 · Siderite · Siderite's Blog_ If you're into heroic space opera, this is pretty fun. The only problem is that it ignores any science and sometimes logic, but if you can get over that, the experience is pretty fun. The Last Watch starts with the standard rich rascally aristocrat thrown against his will into military service, where he proceeds to be better than everybody even when doubting his own self worth. Not only is he…