# great (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1240 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover great. Page: Feed: --- ## [Dolly and us](https://www.nicksimson.com//posts/2026-dolly-and-us.html) _2026-08-26 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ It look a few years of living in East Tennessee to fully comprehend what Dolly meant to the people. Shortly after Eleanor got accepted into graduate school at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, we learned the university was presenting Dolly Parton an honorary doctorate . I knew Dolly Parton for her music and as a pop culture icon. The university’s website featured a publicity photo of… ## [Dolly and us](https://www.nicksimson.com//posts/2026-dolly-and-us.html) _2026-08-26 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ It look a few years of living in East Tennessee to fully comprehend what Dolly meant to the people. Shortly after Eleanor got accepted into graduate school at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, we learned the university was presenting Dolly Parton an honorary doctorate . I knew Dolly Parton for her music and as a pop culture icon. The university’s website featured a publicity photo of… ## [Cool Link: Healthy Websites Have Good Anatomy](/cool-links/healthy-websites-have-good-anatomy) _2026-08-25 · Matt Fantinel_ by Jeff Calaway If you’ve ever struggled on how to organize components in your project, then this is well worth the read. This article goes into the Atomic Design principles (+ some extensions of it) and explains all the rules that will make finding your way around a codebase much easier. It’s been 5 years since I was introduced to this way of building websites (Jeff is my coworker!) and it’s a… ## [DailyDogo 1733 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/25/dailydogo1733/) _2026-08-25 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1733 🐶 ## [Even more nonsense today](https://aubreysambor.com/even-more-nonsense-today/) _2026-08-25 · Aubrey Sambor_ I'm having another day where I feel like I can't catch up with everything I have to do. I haven't been sleeping the greatest recently and when I don't sleep well, it throws off the rest of my day. I at least got out for a walk today in the sunny, 80 degree, zero humidity late August day in New England and that made me happy. It's been one of those days where cooking dinner felt hard, but I got it… ## [Hodgkinson withdraws from Zurich Diamond League](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cly5n3r521qo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss) _2026-08-24 · BBC Sport_ Keely Hodgkinson withdraws from the women's 800 metres at Thursday's Diamond League meeting in Zurich because her "body is not quite ready". ## [DailyDogo 1732 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/24/dailydogo1732/) _2026-08-24 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1732 🐶 ## [A short late entry of nonsense](https://aubreysambor.com/a-late-entry/) _2026-08-24 · Aubrey Sambor_ It's almost 10pm and I'm finally sitting down to write today's blog post, which will just be me saying I'll be writing a longer entry tomorrow. Blaugust is really hard but again, like NaNoWriMo, some days are writing days and other days it's good to get just a few words down, so today's one of those latter days. I went to knit night tonight and sat outside and drank a tasty juicy IPA and chatted… ## [DailyDogo 1731 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/23/dailydogo1731/) _2026-08-23 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1731 🐶 ## [(untitled)](https://www.nicksimson.com//notes/2026-08-23-likes-little-websites-everywhere.html) _2026-08-23 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ Likes Little Websites Everywhere. by Michelle Barker . Building a website feels old-fashioned these days. How many more websites do I have left in me before the old fire flickers and dies? Is snuffed out. Before making websites is no longer a viable way to earn a living? The web will change drastically within my lifetime, maybe someday soon, indeed it already has. Maybe it really will fizzle out,… ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ra1zl3vaEgZR) _2026-08-23 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [(untitled)](https://www.nicksimson.com//notes/2026-08-23-likes-little-websites-everywhere.html) _2026-08-23 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ Likes Little Websites Everywhere. by Michelle Barker . Building a website feels old-fashioned these days. How many more websites do I have left in me before the old fire flickers and dies? Is snuffed out. Before making websites is no longer a viable way to earn a living? The web will change drastically within my lifetime, maybe someday soon, indeed it already has. Maybe it really will fizzle out,… ## [Kejelcha breaks men's half marathon world record by 29 seconds](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c9989lm0vkro?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss) _2026-08-23 · BBC Sport_ Ethiopia's Yomif Kejelcha breaks the men's half marathon world record in a time of 56 minutes 51 seconds in a World Athletics road race in Buenos Aires. ## [Cool Link: Visual design rules you can safely follow every time](/cool-links/visual-design-rules-you-can-safely-follow-every-time) _2026-08-23 · Matt Fantinel_ by Anthony Hobday As a non-designer that sometimes designs stuff, this is fantastic! A compilation of easy to understand rules you can follow in web design without having to worry too much about context. Some of them I had already learned elsewhere, but it’s nice to have them all laid out together like this. ## [DailyDogo 1730 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/23/dailydogo1730/) _2026-08-23 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1730 🐶 ## ['We're not going to run from it': Sydney Marathon laughs off medal error](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4n4l1yyvro?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss) _2026-08-23 · BBC Sport_ Runners will receive a medal at the 2026 Sydney Marathon with an engraving of a German stadium. ## [Week in review #4](https://aubreysambor.com/week-in-review-4/) _2026-08-23 · Aubrey Sambor_ This has been a week , seriously. I feel like I've been playing catch up all week, especially with my blog posts, so I'm hoping I can do a better job of actually writing posts next week. Making No new updates on my Lillesol sweater , just continuing on with the body! At some point this update will change, but today is not that day. Watching I'm still watching Big Brother 28 and season 20 of… ## [Week in review #4](https://aubreysambor.com/week-in-review-4/) _2026-08-23 · Aubrey Sambor_ This has been a week , seriously. I feel like I've been playing catch up all week, especially with my blog posts, so I'm hoping I can do a better job of actually writing posts next week. Making No new updates on my Lillesol sweater , just continuing on with the body! At some point this update will change, but today is not that day. Watching I'm still watching Big Brother 28 and season 20 of… ## [(untitled)](https://www.nicksimson.com//notes/2026-08-22-web-of-vouches.html) _2026-08-22 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ I created and deployed a human.json file to my site today, after being aware of the concept for a while. One of the problems with the internet today is that a lot of the content is AI generated. There’s no way to know for sure if a site is maintained by a real human or if it’s just slop. The only way to know for sure is by getting to know the authors, which usually takes time and requires… ## [(untitled)](https://www.nicksimson.com//notes/2026-08-22-web-of-vouches.html) _2026-08-22 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ I created and deployed a human.json file to my site today, after being aware of the concept for a while. One of the problems with the internet today is that a lot of the content is AI generated. There’s no way to know for sure if a site is maintained by a real human or if it’s just slop. The only way to know for sure is by getting to know the authors, which usually takes time and requires… ## [spinning website as a concept dot gif](https://esoterictriangle.neocities.org/spinning_website_as_a_concept_dot_gif/#top) _2026-08-22 · seth · a triangle lives here_ ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/etorg4frEiOR) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [2026 08 22 I Miss the Different Regional Cultures of America](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-22-i-miss-the-different-regional-cultures-of-america/) _2026-08-22 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ As a toddler, growing up between Louisiana and Houston, I remember listening to the radio with my parents, and the announcers would tell me one critical fact about each band: where they were from. I remember learning, later, on MTV, that Journey was from San Francisco. And in the street garages of the Sunset, the docks and warehouses of South of Market and Mission Creek, in whatever it was that… ## [Movies: El robo del siglo // The Heist of the Century (2020)](https://andrei.xyz/movies/el-robo-del-siglo-the-heist-of-the-century/) _2026-08-22 · andrei · andrei.xyz_ In 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina when they rob the Banco Río branch in Acassuso. Good crime comedy, feeling like a Latin-American Ocean's Eleven. It entertains properly and it will keep you glued to the screen for a bit over an hour and a half. Oh, and it's based on a true story, which makes it even… ## [My Site's Turning 25](https://andrei.xyz/post/my-sites-turning-25/) _2026-08-22 · andrei · andrei.xyz_ Started in the summer of 2001, in an internet cafe (RIP Mister G , you were a great guy!), I used to stay for hours using the site builder web editor that Tripod was giving for their free plans. I used to have a few pages, and unfortunately, only a Halloween-themed version survived and was somehow indexed by the Web Archive . I already had gotten my new nickname on a dotTK TLD, which was neat at… ## [Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg92y1wzn8o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss) _2026-08-22 · BBC Sport_ Online sleuths detected the error after Sydney Marathon unveiled the double-sided medal. ## [A small collection of prints](https://aubreysambor.com/miniprints/) _2026-08-22 · Aubrey Sambor_ Another short post today, a picture of miniprints from Inciardi Prints vending machines in Boston. I particularly love the lobster print (I'm Massachusetts born and raised so of course I love lobster) and the print of the Charles, because I've kayaked on the Charles around that exact spot! I have more prints but haven't taken a picture of them all just yet. ## [Review: 21363-1 - The Goonies](https://rebrickable.com/blog/952/review-21363-1-the-goonies/) _2026-08-22 · Rebrickable - Blog_ Heeey you guuuuys... read this. Do I need to write an intro for the Goonies? The movie is one that defined many millennials childhood. We were all super jealous that we didn't have cool adventures like this. When my son got to an age where he could handle a bit edgier content (edgier than Bluey at least) it was the first old school movie I watched with him. ## [A small collection of prints](https://aubreysambor.com/miniprints/) _2026-08-22 · Aubrey Sambor_ Another short post today, a picture of miniprints from Inciardi Prints vending machines in Boston. I particularly love the lobster print (I'm Massachusetts born and raised so of course I love lobster) and the print of the Charles, because I've kayaked on the Charles around that exact spot! I have more prints but haven't taken a picture of them all just yet. ## [the inverse of the hammer](https://www.allevato.io/2026/08/22/the-inverse-of-the-hammer/) _2026-08-22 · Nick Allevato_ Entry one of ten in "the end of the wire," a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone. Maslow's law says a tool shapes what you see. The shell has no shape to impose, which makes it a different category of thing. Give a man a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Maslow put it more carefully in 1966 — "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as… ## [DailyDogo 1729 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/21/dailydogo1729/) _2026-08-21 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1729 🐶 ## [Good Songs from Videogames](https://andrei.xyz/post/good-songs-from-videogames/) _2026-08-21 · andrei · andrei.xyz_ It's not a secret that many times, the music is what makes the difference between a good game and a great game, and it's not seldom when the music department saves a pretty bad story. So without further ado, I want to share some songs that I like that are part of various games' soundtracks. Forza Horizon 4 \> ODESZA - A Moment Apart The games in the Forza Horizon series are not only driving games,… ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/auR0lMTD5pS7) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [Hunt second in Diamond League 200m as White wins](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c8dnvl1mqleo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss) _2026-08-21 · BBC Sport_ Amy Hunt follows up her extraordinary week at the European Championships with a second-placed finish in the women's 200m at the Diamond League in Lausanne behind Kayla White. ## [Quickie: Lost in Translation at the end](https://andrei.xyz/quickies/lost-in-translation-at-the-end/) _2026-08-21 · andrei · andrei.xyz_ Back in October 2024, I wrote an article called “ Lost in Translation ” about how the language barrier can prevent us from discovering new things and experiencing other cultures and it has evolved into a small social project. During the 46 months that have passed since then, the article has been translated in twelve languages, and also twelve people decided to respond to the follow-up interviews.… ## [This Is Not The Computer For You: An Appreciation of Struggle](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-21-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you-an-appreciation-of-struggle/) _2026-08-21 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ Sam Henri Gold recently published a post about Apple's new MacBook Neo: a lower-power, but decidedly not less-than, version of the Apple hardware I've been loving for almost two decades now. It comes in at $599 , against the $3,000 to $7,000 you'd pay further up the line. In a surprisingly touching, insightful piece, Gold makes the case: yes, the Neo's underpowered, but for the person this machine… ## [Quickie: Syncing Home Folders to my Homelab](https://andrei.xyz/quickies/syncing-home-folders-to-my-homelab/) _2026-08-21 · andrei · andrei.xyz_ 1 rsync -avr /Users/andrei/ --exclude 'Library' --exclude '.Trash' --exclude '.npm' --exclude '.nvm' --exclude 'Parallels' --exclude '\*.photoslibrary' -e ssh andrei@192.168.100.69:/media/backup/Users/andrei I exclude the npm and nvm folders, as well as the Photos library (because it's synced with iCloud) and the virtual machines and trash too. And I just run this from all my computers from time to… ## [Landing floor without a GitHub App — gates still count](https://davevoyles.com/posts/landing-floor-without-a-github-app/) _2026-08-21 · Dave Voyles_ You do not need a GitHub App or bot merge to run a serious agent landing path. Human mode: Intent, CI, SHA-keyed review receipts, and a wrapper that refuses bare merges. ## [Duplantis releases song for Ultimate Championship](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cy9w75veryyo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss) _2026-08-21 · BBC Sport_ Swedish pole vault star Armand Duplantis says "music and sport bring people together in the best way as he releases 'Gold' for the upcoming inaugural Ultimate Championship. ## [Journal Entry For 2026-08-21](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/21/journal-entry-for-2026-08-21/) _2026-08-21 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ YouTube Premium raises prices again. 14.99 € to 16.99 € for the individual plan. After we had already canceled the family plan and moved our music listening \[to Qobuz\](Journal Entry For 2026-05-09) \[1\] and me finally using my Twitch subscription I have had for years at this point not only for supporting the creators I like but also for watching VODs AND using Netflix more on my tablet AND having… ## [The Last 20%](https://vpetersson.com/2026/08/21/the-last-20-percent/) _2026-08-21 · Viktor's Tech Musings & Security Paranoia_ The other day my friend Chris pinged me on a Twitter thread . Todd Dailey was making the case that digital signage is a huge industry selling bad products with high subscription fees, and that with a $40 e-ink ESP32 board you could just go build your own conference room signage with AI. Fair point. I'd add that the security posture across the industry is pretty terrible too. ## [Olympian Simpson says she will never run again after cardiac arrest](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cy8e6jjwnp8o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss) _2026-08-21 · BBC Sport_ Olympic 1500m medallist Jenny Simpson says a "chapter has ended" and she will not return to running after having a cardiac arrest. ## [Now (Aug 2026)](https://niclake.me/now-aug-2026/) _2026-08-21 · Nic Lake • Feed_ Winter is coming. Maybe. Hopefully not anytime soon. ## [I don't use mainstream social media...](https://aubreysambor.com/i-dont-use-mainstream-social-media/) _2026-08-21 · Aubrey Sambor_ ...and I feel weird about it sometimes. I deleted my Facebook account (for, like, the third or fourth time) a couple years ago, deleted my Twitter account, have never even watched anything on Tiktok, and while I still have an Instagram account, I don't use it and don't have the app on my phone. I'm 100% happy with my choices and am super happy with Mastodon as essentially the only social media I… ## [Week Notes - w34](https://claytonerrington.com/blog/2026-w34/?utm_source=rss) _2026-08-21 · Clayton Errington_ Things I did Got a new wallet - one of those adult things School is back in session, so the days have been going by faster Started a new book Gathered a lot of inventory and found neat ways to display the data Setup a TailScale funnel to test out a new process Things I read That Hotel Wi-Fi Password Does Not Make the Network Safe How To: Compose Compose Files An Update on Leaving Gmail for… ## [Hosting a service with TailScale](https://claytonerrington.com/blog/hosting-a-service-with-tailscale/?utm_source=rss) _2026-08-21 · Clayton Errington_ Anytime a computer is connected to the internet, there are bad actors trying to find their way into that computer or see what else is exposed. TailScale is a great service that allows users to create their own private WAN over a VPN like system using WireGaurd. They released another great tool a while back called Funnel . Tailscale Funnel lets you route traffic from the broader internet to a local… ## [Sunshine Punch Orange Cream](https://www.bfbcping.com/2026/08/sunshine-punch-orange-cream.html) _2026-08-20 · BFBC-Ping · BFBC Ping_ When I wrote this, there was little sunshine. So little, in fact, that I didn't get an outside shot. I normally don't let bad weather stop me from getting a shot, but this was a cold day, it was rainy, and I just didn't have it in me. As I post, it's a sunny day in the middle of summer. This would have been a better day for the review to take place. This is doing that thing where is looks really… ## [(untitled)](https://www.nicksimson.com//notes/2026-08-20-baseball-in-art-and-poetry.html) _2026-08-20 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ ZieherSmith gallery has a great looking baseball-themed show up called Augie Garrido or Gonfalons for the Grand Old Game . If you can’t get to Nashville before the end of September you can view all the works online and read Scott Zieher’s essay Aleatory Notes Celebrating the Baseball in Art and Poetry (PDF). We might be aware of the many peculiar binaries and quirks of baseball— the only game… ## [(untitled)](https://www.nicksimson.com//notes/2026-08-20-baseball-in-art-and-poetry.html) _2026-08-20 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ ZieherSmith gallery has a great looking baseball-themed show up called Augie Garrido or Gonfalons for the Grand Old Game . If you can’t get to Nashville before the end of September you can view all the works online and read Scott Zieher’s essay Aleatory Notes Celebrating the Baseball in Art and Poetry (PDF). We might be aware of the many peculiar binaries and quirks of baseball— the only game… ## [okay uhh that part was easy? II](https://esoterictriangle.neocities.org/okay_uhh_that_part_was_easy_ii/#top) _2026-08-20 · seth · a triangle lives here_ eeheeheehah hah hah! A week or so ago I wrote that I had automated sending webmentions but wasn't happy with my execution. I have been, evidently, unhappy enough to keep thinking about it, and now I dare say it is Good ! I started thinking about my workflow, and how what I had configured in my last post meant that if I adjusted a typo or added a build file or changed my CSS or whatever, I'll… ## [DailyDogo 1728 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/20/dailydogo1728/) _2026-08-20 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1728 🐶 ## [Portal \> a half-assed review](https://andrei.xyz/post/portal-a-half-assed-review/) _2026-08-20 · andrei · andrei.xyz_ a half-assed review"\> A test subject wakes up in a scientific facility controlled by a sadistic artificial intelligence and must escape with the help of the only instrument she has-a gun that makes portals. I think this is the game I have finished the most times, and I think I bought it at least several times: Mac App Store, physical media for the Xbox 360, digital for the Xbox One / Series X,… ## [Edmonton Marathon route was 674 metres too long](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cvgw9wlky9zo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss) _2026-08-20 · BBC Sport_ Organisers of the Edmonton Marathon admit their course this year was more than half a kilometre too long.