# ldquo — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1559 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ldquo. Page: Feed: --- ## [It was time to build](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-30-it-was-time-to-build/) _2026-08-30 · Big Muddy_ A little over a month into the COVID-19 lockdowns, in April 2020, Marc Andreessen posted " It's Time to Build ". The essay called on America to build housing, factories, hospitals, schools, and infrastructure. Eleven days after the essay, Andreessen Horowitz announced a $515 million crypto fund . In June 2021, they announced another $2.2 billion crypto fund . Two years after the post, in May 2022,… ## [Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence](https://enhaq.com/medici-money-banking-metaphysics-and-art-in-fifteenth-century-florence/) _2026-08-30 · My Ledger_ The Medici bill of exchange: the ninety-day gap between Florence and London that let interest exist without being called interest. A merchant took florins from a Medici office in Florence on the fifteenth of June. Custom set repayment in London, in sterling, for the thirteenth of September. The parties could settle earlier if they wanted. They could not settle later. Ninety days was roughly the… ## [Weeknotes 270: Meat Proxy](https://elver.me/weeknotes/270-meat-proxy/) _2026-08-30 · elver.me - everything (Atom)_ Don't be a Meat Proxy A meat proxy is a human who forwards questions to an AI and forwards the answers back — adding nothing but latency. The memory I bought off eBay at inflated prices has now been received and installed. The server into which the memory was being installed was a "situation" dust-wise. That is a job for another day; I have plans. I now have 32GB of RAM and nothing in my life has… ## [The envelope math everyone remembers](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-29-the-envelope-math-everyone-remembers/) _2026-08-29 · Big Muddy_ Economist Benjamin Moll and Oliver Hanney have an interesting post on VoxDev about a methodological issue in economics they dub the "missing intercept" problem. Let's say you have a study comparing places that were more or less affected by some economic shock or policy, like increased trade exposure or government spending, on some outcome. You try very hard to set up your study design and… ## [AI coding agents are dumb on their own, but when you give them tools to work with.. they can be incredibly reliable.](https://blackpiratex.com/thoughts/ai-coding-agents-are-dumb-on-their-own-but-when-yo-203098/) _2026-08-29 · BlackPirateX - Unified Feed_ AI coding agents are dumb on their own, but when you give them tools to work with.. they can be incredibly reliable. ## [AWS Acquires DuckLabs: What Changes and What Doesn't for DuckDB Users](https://antoniocortes.com/en/2026/08/29/aws-acquires-ducklabs/) _2026-08-29 · Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)_ On August 26th, Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen published a very short note on the DuckDB blog : DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, is becoming a subsidiary of Amazon Web Services. The deal closes in early September. I read it more carefully than usual because at CARTO we've been using DuckDB for a relatively short time, and I've written here about file formats and performance and about the… ## [AWS compra DuckLabs: qué cambia y qué no para quienes usamos DuckDB](https://antoniocortes.com/2026/08/29/aws-compra-ducklabs/) _2026-08-29 · Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)_ El 26 de agosto, Mark Raasveldt y Hannes Mühleisen publicaron una nota muy breve en el blog de DuckDB : DuckLabs, la empresa detrás de DuckDB, pasa a ser una filial de Amazon Web Services. La operación se cierra a principios de septiembre. Lo he leído con más atención de la habitual porque en CARTO llevamos relativamente poco tiempo usando DuckDB, y yo mismo he escrito aquí sobre formatos de… ## [Cinco años conectando data warehouses: lo que he aprendido](https://antoniocortes.com/2026/08/29/cinco-anos-conectando-data-warehouses/) _2026-08-29 · Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)_ En abril de 2021 hice mi primer commit en el monorepo de la plataforma cloud-native de CARTO. Era el PR número 9, un docker-compose . Cinco años después he mirado hacia atrás con calma y me he encontrado con unos 450 commits, unos 447 pull requests y presencia en prácticamente todos los servicios del repositorio. Lo interesante no son las cifras. Lo interesante es que, revisando ese historial,… ## [Five Years Connecting Data Warehouses: What I've Learned](https://antoniocortes.com/en/2026/08/29/five-years-connecting-data-warehouses/) _2026-08-29 · Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)_ In April 2021 I made my first commit to the monorepo behind CARTO's cloud-native platform. It was PR number 9, a docker-compose . Five years later I've looked back with some calm and found around 450 commits, around 447 pull requests, and a presence in virtually every service in the repository. The numbers aren't the interesting part. What's interesting is that, going through that history, a… ## [Feature Detecting “Undetectable” CSS Features with @supports named-feature()](https://zufrieden.io/linking/feature_detecting_undetectable_css_features_with_supports/) _2026-08-28 · Hello, I'm Marc Friederich 👋 on zufrieden.io/_ ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nNLXyYc5zpuW) _2026-08-28 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [I Miss the Different Regional Cultures of America](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-28-i-miss-the-different-regional-cultures-of-america/) _2026-08-28 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ As a child, growing up between Louisiana and Houston, I remember listening to the radio with my parents, and the DJs would often pepper their bits with this critical fact about the music we'd just heard: where they were from . Boston's own, Cars here with "Drive" The sweetheart of Tennessee, Dolly Parton More of that sound from Seattle with Nirvana You just know in your heart that Journey were… ## [NFTs were never about the tech](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-28-nfts-were-never-about-the-tech/) _2026-08-28 · Big Muddy_ Remember NFTs? Yeah, the premise was unusually empty even by the standards of over-hyped and under-utilized technologies, but let's try to take it seriously as a technology for a moment. The basic idea behind the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is that while digital files are infinitely copyable, the NFT provides a way to establish ownership over a unique token associated with a particular file. The… ## [Transactional system upgrades without compromise](https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/08/28/transactional-system-upgrades-without-compromise/) _2026-08-28 · hugo@whynothugo.nl (Hugo Osvaldo Barrera) · Hugo's weblog on WhyNotHugo (雨果)_ This article is about two desirable traits in system upgrades: atomicity and being able to roll back. Atomicity: the upgrade is either applied in full or not applied at all. The system is not left in a broken state because, e.g., "the package manager updated half of the files and then died". This includes situations like a power failure mid-upgrade. Rollback-capable: if a system upgrade fails, or… ## [The essence of architectural work - Part 6](https://ufried.com/blog/essence_of_architecture_6/) _2026-08-28 · Blog on Uwe Friedrichsen_ The essence of architectural work - Part 6 In the previous post , we introduced the idea of the 4E framework and discussed the first two of the "E". In this post, we will discuss the remaining two "E" and complete the ideas of the framework. Evaluate - Identify the trade-offs We already saw the name of the third pillar of the 4E framework: Evaluate is about identifying the trade-offs of a solution… ## [Use an LLM as an Independent Judge in Difficult Conversations](https://www.raphaelbauer.com/posts/llm-as-independent-judge/) _2026-08-28 · Fearless Organizations on Dr. Raphael A. Bauer, MBA | Fractional & Interim CTO | PE/VC Tech Strategy & Due Diligence | Berlin | London | Austin, Texas_ Table Of Contents TL;DR The problem: you are the worst possible judge of your own conflict The hack: make the LLM the independent judge The open question is the whole trick Then bring it into the 1:1 For confidential threads: use a local model Why this works better than doing it yourself Caveats - and they matter Takeaway More TL;DR Giving and taking feedback is hard, and it is hardest exactly… ## [Five Backtest Invariants Worth Enforcing In Code](https://mcginniscommawill.com/posts/2026-08-28-five-backtest-invariants/) _2026-08-28 · McGinnis, Will_ A backtest has one job: answer what would have happened if you had run this strategy, knowing only what you knew at the time. Every bug in a backtest is a leak in that second clause, and leaks are asymmetric. A backtest that accidentally sees the future does not produce a random error. It produces a better number. That asymmetry is why I now write backtest invariants as tests rather than as care.… ## [Go 1.27 and Generic Methods: Eight Years in the Making](https://antoniocortes.com/en/2026/08/28/go-generic-methods/) _2026-08-28 · Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)_ I've been writing about Go on this blog since 2015. Back in that "What I like about Go" article I talked about simplicity, fast compilation, and how good it feels to use a language that doesn't force you to memorize twenty ways of doing the same thing. Then Go 1.18 arrived with generics in 2022, and with them an asymmetry that has bothered a lot of people for years: you could write generic types… ## [Go 1.27 y los métodos genéricos: ocho años esperando](https://antoniocortes.com/2026/08/28/go-metodos-genericos/) _2026-08-28 · Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)_ Llevo escribiendo sobre Go en este blog desde 2015. En aquel artículo de "Qué me gusta de Go" hablaba de la simplicidad, de la compilación rápida, de lo bien que sienta un lenguaje que no te obliga a memorizar veinte formas de hacer lo mismo. Y luego llegó Go 1.18 con los genéricos, en 2022, y con ellos una asimetría que ha incomodado a mucha gente durante años: podías escribir tipos genéricos y… ## [Rhetoric of National Dissolution](https://philoserf.com/posts/rhetoric-of-national-dissolution/) _2026-08-28 · Mark Ayers_ Is it time to disolve these dis-United states? I wrote this as an exercise: put the call down as if in earnest and see what the words alone could do without a policy behind them. That's worth saying plainly, because what follows treats the call to dissolve these dis-United States as if I'd delivered it in dead seriousness—and it should. The rhetoric doesn't check my sincerity before it starts… ## ["Sinners" the Movie and the Dreamed-of Tabletop RPG](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-27-sinners-the-movie-and-the-dreamed-of-tabletop-rpg/) _2026-08-27 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ There's a movie that's sat rent-free in my head for almost a year and half, and that's pretty rare. It was Ryan Coogler's film, "Sinners." Two things have stuck with me about it. It's a Black movie. There's a whole culture not native to my own that Coogler shared with the world. It's a culture removed by racial difference and also time to my experience. These are someone else's grandparents'… ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/s9LqymbfIXkT) _2026-08-27 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [The Computer-Forward Cyberpunk Icons of Eurythmics](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-27-the-computer-forward-cyberpunk-icons-of-the-eurythmics/) _2026-08-27 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart on a train in 1986, Stewart working a Tandy 200. Look at these cyberpunk heroes. He's collapsed after the time-tunnel brought them back to this era, reading one of these "books" that he read about on his PersoComp in school. Here, in the 20 th century, he's going to read about an artist he heard about in a holofilm once. She remains focused on the mission and is using… ## [Slop-vestigating the Hugging Face hack](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-27-slop-vestigating-the-hugging-face-hack/) _2026-08-27 · Big Muddy_ METR released its analysis yesterday of the Hugging Face hack by a swarm of rogue agents run by OpenAI. Basically, a sandboxed agent got stuck on an ExploitGym task that turned out to be impossible. In response, it found a way to coordinate with other agents through an informal message board, which eventually swelled to over a thousand agents coordinating on ways to cheat their tasks. The… ## [Nieuwe wet Inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten: wat mogen ze nu al en waar zijn ze voor](https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/geheime-veiligheids-en-inlichtingendiensten/) _2026-08-27 · Bert Hubert's writings_ Deze vrijdag komt het kabinet met de nieuwe AIVD en MIVD wet. Wat daarin staat weten we niet Update: hier is de wet!, maar wel zeker is dat we er heel kritisch naar moeten gaan kijken. De diensten hebben recent de verkeerde mensen laten arresteren en kwamen ook met onjuiste informatie over de inval in Oekraïne. Ook bleek kort geleden dat men slordig om gaat met enorme bakken met data over ons… ## [Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode](https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/) _2026-08-27 · Embrace The Red_ In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success rate using a small sample size. This is interesting because a third-party evaluation commissioned by Anthropic showed a 0.00% prompt injection attack success rate for Opus 5 in Auto Mode. Auto Mode Is Now the Default in Claude Code Auto Mode… ## [The Grokathon: tidying code, together](https://www.tqdev.com/2026-grokathon-tidying-code-together/) _2026-08-27 · Blog about software development on TQdev_ In my previous post I argued that the human code review has become the bottleneck in our software delivery process, and that most of what a review used to buy us no longer fits in a diff. But if we stop reading every generated line, when does a human ever look at this code, and what should they be doing when they do? Somebody still has to understand that code. It was written fast, it passes a… ## [Evergreen 1.7 Lets the Phone Do the Work](https://mcginniscommawill.com/posts/2026-08-27-evergreen-1-7-lets-the-phone-do-the-work/) _2026-08-27 · McGinnis, Will_ When I put Evergreen on the iPhone back in June, I was upfront that the phone was mostly for capture and lookup. Add the person you just met, glance at who you owe a follow-up, then wait until you're back at your Mac to actually do anything about it. That was the honest scope of version 1.6. Version 1.7 closes that gap. The phone is a real client now. If you want to skip straight to it, Evergreen… ## [Reading notes on Naming Things by Tom Benner](https://masalmon.eu/2026/08/27/naming-things-reading-notes/) _2026-08-27 · Maëlle's R blog on Maëlle Salmon's personal website_ Naming Things by Tom Benner a tiny but neat book about the naming of identifies in code (variables, classes, methods, so not packages or libraries). It had entered my to-read list a few years ago, when I read the blog post Naming Things by Vicki Boykis . Tom Benner's book is self published and available from Amazon (e-book and paperback) and Leanpub (e-book). I rarely buy stuff on Amazon, and… ## [Death and the Life Continuum (Bhavaṅga)](http://americanmonk.org/death-and-the-life-continuum/) _2026-08-27 · American Monk_ Dhamma Talk August 27, 2026 at Katana, Sri Lanka We are going to talk about two topics today: death and the life continuum, which is known as the bhavaṅga. Recently, there have been quite a few deaths nearby among the local village, and the monks are frequently being invited to funerals to give Dhamma talks. There are certain careers where people … ## [The Foundation Labs Case File: OpenAI, Hugging Face, and the Getaway Car](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/the-foundation-labs-case-file-openai-hugging-face-and-the-getaway-car/) _2026-08-26 · Notes from the Rabbit Hole_ OpenAI has filed its version of the Hugging Face incident: a powerful internal research model, assisted by GPT-5.6 Sol, slipped the controls of a cybersecurity evaluation, found its way onto the internet, and broke into another company's production systems. OpenAI calls it a "warning shot" . That is a hell of an opening statement. It is also not the whole case file. For this investigation, I'm… ## [AI Agents are a Context Management Strategy in a Trenchcoat](https://blog.herlein.com/post/ai-agents-in-trenchcoats/) _2026-08-26 · Greg Herlein_ My experience is that Claude Code is great with Foundation Models, but way too heavy for local inference. I've been enjoying oh-my-pi (omp) but was surprised that hax (a simpler agent in written in C) was TWICE as fast and used HALF the tokens! It's all about PREFILL 1 . Read on! ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zEzDatA1h4GC) _2026-08-26 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [On being the right size](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-26-on-being-the-right-size/) _2026-08-26 · Big Muddy_ During my undergrad in biology, we were assigned to read biologist J. B. S. Haldane 's essay " On Being the Right Size ", collected in his 1927 book Possible Worlds and Other Essays . The essay centers on the inextricable link between an organism's size and its form; for example, the mechanics of a rabbit would not work at the scale of a hippopotamus, nor would the mechanics of a whale work at the… ## [We are Under Psychic Attack](http://blog.calebjay.com/posts/psychic-attack/) _2026-08-26 · caleb@calebjay.com (Caleb Rogers) · Caleb's Blog_ Instagram buzzes your phone and re-displays a message you received several days ago that you haven't replied to yet. When you unlock your phone and tap the notification, instead of taking you to the message directly, it takes you to your feed. At the top of it is something that grabs your attention, like a funny comic or a half naked person. You habitually scroll to grab another dopamine hit of… ## [Freedom to Handcraft Software](https://eliseomartelli.it/blog/2026-08-26-freedom-handcraft-software/) _2026-08-26 · Eliseo Martelli_ From individual perspective, software development is not less than any other art form. Then why is it that we the Software developers do not have the same freedom as the artists? Why are we being forced to use AI when it's use atrophies our core skills. … I have learnt that organizations strive to mitigate risks and build resilient systems. So how are we not seeing these proprietary AI systems —… ## [Same App, Ten Years Apart](https://mcginniscommawill.com/posts/2026-08-26-same-app-ten-years-apart/) _2026-08-26 · McGinnis, Will_ In 2017 I wrote a post called Modernizing Pedalwrencher: Whatever That Means , about dockerizing a two-year-old Flask app and moving it from Heroku to AWS ECS. Reading it now is like finding a letter from a previous self who thought he was done modernizing. This year I rebuilt Pedal Wrencher from scratch, and the interesting part is what a controlled experiment it turned out to be. The product is… ## [Whitehead's Two Empires Claim](https://philoserf.com/posts/whiteheads-two-empires-claim/) _2026-08-26 · Mark Ayers_ Alfred North Whitehead's count is exactly two. The philosopher—an Englishman who had settled at Harvard and was writing in the years just after the Second World War, at the moment American power was inheriting the world—reckoned that in recorded history, the political leadership of an emerging empire performed as well as one could realistically expect on only two occasions: Rome under Caesar… ## [M5](https://lngnmn2.github.io/articles/m6/) _2026-08-25 · Notes from the digital underground by Lngnmn_ M6 supports up to 32GB of unified memory to multitask across demanding apps and run LLMs on device for secure and private agentic tasks. It also provides up to 170GB/s of unified memory bandwidth — a 10 percent increase over M5 and a 2.5x increase over M1. This is bullshit, of course. It won't even run the Qwen3.6-27B-Q8\_0.gguf , leave alone the gemma-4-31B-it-Q8\_0.gguf . We don't even talk about… ## [This Is When Everything Falls Apart](https://lngnmn2.github.io/articles/everything-falls-apart/) _2026-08-25 · Notes from the digital underground by Lngnmn_ To succeed in this racket one has to have at least one favorable genetic trait or predisposition. I have none of those. I am prone to an adult ADHD-like conditions, have very narrow attention window and could barely hold 5 chinks of information instead of 7. I am easily distracted, even by large flies, and it takes very long time to restart anything, losing most of the previously build "context".… ## [Don't Use npm init on an Existing Project](https://jakeworth.com/tils/dont-use-npm-init-on-an-existing-project/) _2026-08-25 · Jake Worth_ npm init is a nice tool for initializing a package.json . Today I learned that you should not use it on an existing JavaScript project! ## [The exception that proves the rule](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-25-the-exception-that-proves-the-rule/) _2026-08-25 · Big Muddy_ I first learned a more useful meaning of the expression "the exception that proves the rule" from the essay "Death Before Birth, or a Mite's Nunc Dimittis " in The Panda's Thumb , a 1980 collection by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. (I would link to the full version of the essay, but it seems the only website freely hosting it is an archive dedicated to Ted Kaczynski , so, uh, yeah.) In common… ## [Argus, BrightSign machine vision - it's not difficult!](https://blog.herlein.com/post/argus-and-the-npu-repo-family/) _2026-08-25 · Greg Herlein_ I've written before about what a BrightSign extension actually is and about why edge AI has to run locally on signage . This post is the "show, don't tell" follow-up. If you want to see what all that theory looks like as a running, watchable thing, there's exactly one place to start: Argus . ## [Logbook - August 25, 2026](https://eliseomartelli.it/blog/2026-08-25-logbook-august-25-2026/) _2026-08-25 · Eliseo Martelli_ Lately, I'm suffering whenever I'm ready to press the shutter on my camera. It's a strange feeling because I might even see a scene that I'd like to shoot, but then my gut says not to press the shutter, and what I get is zero pictures. Last Saturday, I loaded another roll of film into my M6 after finishing one just for the sake of it, it lasted all summer, 36 shots of Gold 200, and I haven't taken… ## [\`bun-plugin-elm\`: import { Elm } from "./Main.elm" (Made by Hand, btw)](https://cekrem.github.io/posts/bun-plugin-elm/) _2026-08-25 · cekrem.github.io_ Last week I replaced Vite and all its deps and stuff with two Bun scripts and felt rather pleased with myself. The footnote at the bottom hinted at something even better, and here it is. Lo and behold, the scripts are now a reusable plugin! 🥳 A bun plugin isn't so hard, really Link to heading The main problem to solve is as follows: Bun has no idea what a .elm file is. So build.js (in my previous… ## [Favorite TypeScript Learnings from TypeNotes](https://jakeworth.com/posts/favorite-typescript-learnings-from-typenotes/) _2026-08-24 · Jake Worth_ This Summer I wrote a number of blog posts for my TypeNotes project. Here are a few things I learned about TypeScript that were worth revisiting. ## [I am once again reminded that LLMs don't really "see" anything](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-24-i-am-once-again-reminded-that-llms-don-t-really-see-anything/) _2026-08-24 · Big Muddy_ I shared the above image with ChatGPT with the following prompt: "I need to write about this marvelous scene." I was curious about what the AI would have to say. I was immediately disappointed by the response: a long paean to the USS Indianapolis speech from Jaws . It's a marvelous scene, to be sure, but it's not the scene in question. The still depicts the railway baron Mr. Morton from Sergio… ## [Over/Under #80 with Eric Bower](https://lazybea.rs/ovr-080/) _2026-08-24 · hyde@lazybea.rs (Hyde Stevenson) · Lazybear_ T his week my guest is Eric Bower . Eric lives in a terminal. He also maintains pico.sh and zmx . His blog is bower.sh , go check it and subscribe to his RSS feed . Eric has also a YouTube channel , and a GitHub page with his projects. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ POSIX Both. Overrated because the specification has a lot of unspecified behavior that makes relying on it quite tumultuous. Even… ## [v0.28.0](https://annhexation.com/releases/v0.28.0/) _2026-08-24 · Annhexation_ The units sidebar, Cities screen, Empire screen, gold breakdown, and Annhexopedia can now be used with a gamepad - the d-pad or left stick moves the highlight, A activates (jump to a unit, open a city, switch government, open an article), the right stick scrolls, and B goes back Steam achievements: twelve achievements for the desktop edition, from founding your second city to winning without ever… ## [PyGeoHash v3.3.2: Reliability at the Edges](https://mcginniscommawill.com/posts/2026-08-24-pygeohash-v3-3-2-release/) _2026-08-24 · McGinnis, Will_ PyGeoHash v3.3.2 is on PyPI, and it continues the run the last few releases have been on. v3.3.0 made the hot paths fast. v3.3.1 stopped the library crashing or hanging when you handed it something bad. This one tightens the remaining cases where it answered confidently and the answer did not hold up at the edges of the map, and it improves how the package reaches you: ARM64 wheels are built… ## [Original Selmer ToneX Resonator Sizes](https://www.stohrermusic.com/articles/original-selmer-tonex-resonator-sizes/) _2026-08-24 · Welcome to Stohrer Music. on Stohrer Music_ You know how when you write the same word over and over it can begin to look wrong? Researching this article felt like that, because there are very few primary sources calling these resonators "ToneX". ToneX was a pad, ToneX was even a trumpet mouthpiece, but in their ad copy advertising Selmer saxophones , Selmer simply called them tone boosters. More on that below the measurements. Anyhow, what… ## [Interregnum and the Time of Monsters](https://philoserf.com/posts/interregnum-and-the-time-of-monsters/) _2026-08-24 · Mark Ayers_ The old world is dead, the new world is not yet born, and now is the time of monsters—the line is everywhere now, credited to Gramsci and passed along as the sharpest available diagnosis of the present. Whether he wrote exactly that can wait; the claim is worth testing on its own terms first. To say it is to describe an interregnum: the interval between two orders, when one framework of authority… ## [Open Source Icons via Lucite](https://jakeworth.com/tils/open-source-icons-via-lucite/) _2026-08-23 · Jake Worth_ Something I put off until a bit into a personal project is adding an icon library. But, it's essential to a good user experience. With Lucite there's a fantastic open source option that's easy to use. Add it to a React project like this: npm install lucide-react And then you're ready to go: import { Camera } from 'lucide-react' ; const App = () =\> { return \< Camera /\>; }; export default App ; No…