# ldquo (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1550 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ldquo. Page: Feed: --- ## [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… ## [Keeping up with the Gelmans](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-22-keeping-up-with-the-gelmans/) _2026-08-22 · Big Muddy_ I wrote a post a few days ago reflecting on the origins of this blog as a way to clear out my bookmarks folder. At the beginning of April, I also wrote a post on Andrew Gelman's blog schedule. Gelman has been a prolific blogger for over two decades now. And since late 2016 or so, he seems to have consistently had six months' worth of posts queued up at any given time. Until now! A few days ago,… ## [Review: a month with a Solargrow solar system](https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/solargrow-isolarcloud-review/) _2026-08-22 · James Cridland (james@crid.land) · James Cridland - radio futurologist_ In October last year, we had a "once in a lifetime weather event" - some larger-than-tennis-ball hailstones, which went through this area with quite some force. A few hit our solar panels: the above is what happens when a large hailstorm hits a glass solar panel. Ouch. The insurance company's people came, looked at our roof, and decided that it all needed replacing: not just the solar panels, but… ## [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… ## [This is a letter for you, Dad](https://kangminsuk.com/blog/a-letter-for-you-dad/) _2026-08-21 · Minsuk Kang_ It's been four years since I talked to you. I wonder if you would still be here if I had paused my life and put all my energy into helping you get back on your feet. Confused about my own life's purpose, I didn't dare to imagine a life without you. I thought you would return to being the father I knew, just as you had after the first big surgery. You were in pain for several years, and all I had… ## [ChatGPT is not Reddit](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-21-chatgpt-is-not-reddit/) _2026-08-21 · Big Muddy_ A few months ago, I wrote a post entitled " Google AI Overviews is Reddit ". Today, I am here to bring you the news that ChatGPT is no longer Reddit. Promptwatch, an AI search monitoring and optimization company, reported that ChatGPT citations of Reddit collapsed between August 13 and August 14. Assuming the company's data are even halfway representative of typical source citation behaviour, this… ## [The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon](https://enhaq.com/the-everything-store-jeff-bezos-and-the-age-of-amazon/) _2026-08-21 · My Ledger_ In February 1994, a Texas publisher named John Quarterman printed a chart in a monthly newsletter called Matrix News. It showed that the number of bytes transmitted over the World Wide Web had grown by a factor of 2,057 between January 1993 and January 1994. Packets sent over the Web had jumped by a factor of 2,560 in the same twelve months. A twenty-nine-year-old running a quantitative fund's… ## [Bending tradition](https://ilearnt.com/blog/bendingtradition/) _2026-08-21 · I Learnt_ I recently went to a weekend of weddings that bent tradition - sticking to some and tweaking others. ## [I get faster speeds when i update my linux laptop with bpn on. Indian problems ig](https://blackpiratex.com/thoughts/i-het-faster-speeds-when-i-update-my-linux-laptop--298724/) _2026-08-21 · BlackPirateX - Unified Feed_ I get faster speeds when i update my linux laptop with bpn on. Indian problems ig ## [Installing Linux vs Windows 98 in 2000](https://www.sweharris.org/post/2026-08-20-win98-vs-linux-in-2000/) _2026-08-21 · Ramblings of a Unix Geek_ There's been a lot of push recently (especially on some youtube channels) for "The Year Of Linux On The Desktop". Partly because of the crap Microsoft has been pulling. Partly because Windows is turning into a bigger pile of shit than it's always been. And maybe there's some contrarianism involved. And it seems Linux is slowly moving up the Steam charts. I find this amusing; I've been a Linux user… ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9HIq1CtoumlO) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Bun and Elm (: r)Are Friends](https://cekrem.github.io/posts/bun-and-elm-are-friends/) _2026-08-21 · cekrem.github.io_ I have an Elm app at work that needs exactly one thing from the JavaScript ecosystem: an npm package to piggyback on some A$ure auth thing. And for that one(!) package, I was running Vite with an Elm plugin and a growing pile of config to keep the two on speaking terms. Plus a backlog of bun audit warnings, courtesy of said auth thing's dependencies, and/or build tools just bringing their own… ## [Cache Keys Must Come From the Resolved Call](https://mcginniscommawill.com/posts/2026-08-21-cache-keys-come-from-the-resolved-call/) _2026-08-21 · McGinnis, Will_ Every cache should have one property, and plenty do not: turning it on changes how fast your code runs and nothing else. If attaching a cache can change the answers , it has stopped being an optimization and become a correctness feature with a performance side effect. The most common way to lose that property in Python is a decorator that builds its key out of kwargs . ## [Technology Flattening Natural Cycles](https://philoserf.com/posts/technology-flattening-natural-cycles/) _2026-08-21 · Mark Ayers_ To flatten the physical evidence of natural cycles is a quieter ambition than conquering nature, and a more thorough one. The conqueror leaves a battlefield; the leveler leaves a smooth surface on which nothing seems to have happened at all. A heated room in February, a peach on the shelf in January, a city that burns at the same wattage at three in the morning as at noon—none of these present… ## [If/Else in CSS](https://jakeworth.com/tils/if-else-in-css/) _2026-08-20 · Jake Worth_ Today I got to try the experimental if/else syntax in CSS: /\* Component.module.css \*/ img { transform : if ( style ( -- isZoomed : true) : scale( 2 ) ; else : scale( 1 )); } I used it to pass a variable from React state to the stylesheet: // Component.tsx \< img style = {{ '--isZoomed' : isZoomed ? 'true' : 'false' }} /\> I think conditional classes would be my preference for managing this for real,… ## [Making a notes app feels simple, Until it’s not.](https://blackpiratex.com/thoughts/making-a-notes-app-feels-simple-until-its-not-518281/) _2026-08-20 · BlackPirateX - Unified Feed_ Making a notes app feels simple, Until it's not. ## [Modular CSS Classes and Elements](https://jakeworth.com/tils/modular-css-classes-and-elements/) _2026-08-20 · Jake Worth_ A goal of modular CSS is to scope styles to components. Globally styling elements like h1 is to be done sparingly. Instead, we use class syntax: /\* Component.module.css \*/ . header { color : purple ; } // Component.tsx import { styles } from './Component.module.css' ; const Component = () =\> { return ( \< section \> \< h1 className = { styles . header }\> A purple header here 💜 \ \… ## [The Power of One Test](https://jakeworth.com/posts/the-power-of-one-test/) _2026-08-20 · Jake Worth_ A developer experience and quality control measure I take on programs I'm building, even small ones, is always to write at least one test. ## [Trustworthy polling, rebuilt](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-20-trustworthy-polling-rebuilt/) _2026-08-20 · Big Muddy_ On Monday, the L.A. Times broke the story that a supposed polling firm that had just released a poll favourable to incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was fake. In response to basic questions posed by the newspaper, the previously unknown firm, Median Strategies, wrote that the company "was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and… ## [v0.26.0](https://annhexation.com/releases/v0.26.0/) _2026-08-20 · Annhexation_ New wonder: The Parthenon Unlocked by Theology +3 culture per turn in the city where it is built The city's borders immediately expand one level when construction completes Your story so far videos now end with a fade to black and the Annhexation title card Your story so far videos crop tighter to your explored land and cross-dissolve between turns Optional ownership map style for your story so… ## [Three People Is a Team. Seven Is a Committee with Zero Decisions.](https://www.v01.io/posts/2026/08/three-people-is-a-team/) _2026-08-20 · English Blogposts on Klaus Breyer_ Three people have three lines of communication. Seven people have 21. That is Brooks' Law : communication overhead grows much faster than headcount. This single insight should change how you staff every phase of product development. The Math Is Simple, the Implications Are Not ¶ With three people, everyone talks to two others. Three communication lines. Manageable. Productive. Fast decisions. Add… ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yxLERsIEkruo) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Inspecting Symlink with readlink](https://jakeworth.com/tils/inspecting-symlink-with-readlink/) _2026-08-19 · Jake Worth_ There are a few ways to know that a file is a symlink. Here's one I learned today. ## [Remembering the Percent as Wildcard](https://jakeworth.com/tils/remembering-the-percent-as-wildcard/) _2026-08-19 · Jake Worth_ It's been a bit since I was typing SQL into a REPL. One interface that didn't come back to me right away is the percent character in a like or ilike query: select full\_name from users where full\_name ilike 'jake%' ; Returns: full\_name ----------- Jake Gyllenhaal Jake Tapper Jake Worth (3 rows) This percent sign ensures we get all the Jakes. Here's how I'm going to remember this next time. ## [Sonic memory](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-19-sonic-memory/) _2026-08-19 · Big Muddy_ Sometimes you hear a song whose sound jolts you into the memory of another song. I've been meaning to write about this a while, but I recently collected my third example, so, well, here you go. " Mind Games " by John Lennon and " Lover " by Taylor Swift Despite being a huge fan of The Beatles , I didn't spend much time listening to the Fab Four's solo careers until more recently. This sonic memory… ## [Blaugust update](https://lazybea.rs/blaugust-update/) _2026-08-19 · hyde@lazybea.rs (Hyde Stevenson) · Lazybear_ A small update about my Blaugust challenge. August has been a really busy month so far. We moved to a new place. Every house move involves stress. This was particularly the case for Mrs Hyde. At some point, her stress became contagious and I found myself getting annoyed by little things that usually don't bother me. Basically, that's how I've spent the last two weeks. I've only written ten posts… ## [v0.25.0](https://annhexation.com/releases/v0.25.0/) _2026-08-19 · Annhexation_ Added support for "Story so far…" that will generate a video / visual history of your game and decisions - produces a timelapse video Can be invoked at any time Appears as an option as you enter a new era Appears as an option when you win a game Fix for projected path rendering (now correctly and consistently shows the red/green split) Fix for projected path rendering that involve a melee attack… ## [The Kelly Criterion With Real Payoffs and Real Fees](https://mcginniscommawill.com/posts/2026-08-19-kelly-with-real-payoffs-and-fees/) _2026-08-19 · McGinnis, Will_ The Kelly Criterion is one of those results that gets quoted more often than it gets read. The version you'll find in most blog posts is f\* = (bp - q) / b where b is net odds, p is your probability of winning, and q is 1 - p . It's correct, and it answers a narrower question than most people using it realize, because it has an assumption baked in that real instruments frequently violate. ## [Reading as Cognitive Event](https://philoserf.com/posts/reading-as-cognitive-event/) _2026-08-19 · Mark Ayers_ Much of what reading does to a person happens not at the instant a sentence yields its meaning but across the hours a mind spends afterward on what the book raised—grappling with it, drawing connections, arriving at thoughts it would not otherwise have had. But not every such hour is well spent. A book is a box of statements. Reading takes them out, and a good summary could deliver the same goods… ## [I made a note taking app, heavily inspired by bear notes on ios. Already have one genuine user other than me. It is opensource and end to end encrypted if you choose to sync to the cloud. I havent tested the linux app yet, so cant tell you if it works. But you can install on android. Install amd try it out: https://github.com/blackpirateapps/quitepaper/releases](https://blackpiratex.com/thoughts/i-made-a-note-taking-app-heavily-inspired-by-bear--381537/) _2026-08-18 · BlackPirateX - Unified Feed_ I made a note taking app, heavily inspired by bear notes on ios. Already have one genuine user other than me. It is opensource and end to end encrypted if you choose to sync to the cloud. I havent tested the linux app yet, so cant tell you if it works. But you can install on android. Install amd try it out: https://github.com/blackpirateapps/quitepaper/releases ## [My "Distraction-Free” Writer's Deck](https://kangminsuk.com/blog/distraction-free/) _2026-08-18 · Minsuk Kang_ I'm not a shopper. Ever since I quit my job as an unhappy marketing manager six years ago, I've fought hard to avoid buying things that aren't absolutely necessary for my well-being. That's why I still wear the same shorts I had in college. That's why I own only two pairs of shoes. That's why I've used the same phone for more than seven years. Despite my grudge against consumerism, I'm a sucker… ## [The Romans ate corn](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-18-the-romans-ate-corn/) _2026-08-18 · Big Muddy_ Some time ago, I was working my way through Harry Sidebottom 's Warrior of Rome series, set during the Crisis of the Third Century . In one of the novels, I came across a reference to the main character eating corn—odd, since of course corn is a New World crop and wouldn't reach the Old World for another twelve centuries. It turns out corn is a much older term than what I am used to calling corn… ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zD0GqJNJgLK9) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [The brief history of lsp\_lines.nvim](https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/08/18/the-brief-history-of-lsp_lines.nvim/) _2026-08-18 · hugo@whynothugo.nl (Hugo Osvaldo Barrera) · Hugo's weblog on WhyNotHugo (雨果)_ Back in 2022, LSP implementations could find errors and other diagnostics in code and send them into the editor, but editors lacked good interfaces to actually present this. The best at the time was a panel with a list of errors (not unlike what Eclipse and other IDEs would do a decade earlier). I wanted to see errors in context instead. I found inspiration in how Rust renders compilation errors… ## [When Did Conn Stop Making Rolled Tone Holes?](https://www.stohrermusic.com/articles/when-did-conn-stop-making-rolled-tone-holes/) _2026-08-18 · Welcome to Stohrer Music. on Stohrer Music_ Short answer: 1947. The 10M tenor # Conn interoffice communication, June 9, 1947. Courtesy of Josh Creekmore, Saxquest and Saxophone.org . This is a Conn interoffice communication dated June 9, 1947, that states that the first 10M without rolled toneholes is number 325028. We don't know if 325027 was a tenor, so we don't know the last one with rolled toneholes, only the first one without. This was… ## [Mexico - Travel Report](https://www.v01.io/posts/2026/08/mexico/) _2026-08-18 · English Blogposts on Klaus Breyer_ Today I want to share about the trip with my wife to Mexico. As with French Polynesia , the format is again an excerpt of my thoughts as I had them during the journey: originally published in a private family blog, only lightly edited for flow and shortened by cutting some of the probably boring activity details. The key facts: 14.07.2026: HAM → CDG → MEX 14.-16.07.2026: Mexico City (CDMX)… ## [HTML Preview for Org Files](https://randyridenour.net/posts/2026-08-17-html-preview-for-org-files.html) _2026-08-17 · Randy Ridenour_ I've long been a fan of Brett Terpstra's Marked for easily reading Markdown files. Over the years, he's added more and more features. He's recently released Marked 3 which, if you need those features, is well worth the purchase price of $2.99/month subscription or a one-time purchase of $69.99. There are only two small things keeping me from upgrading: I don't need any of those features — in fact,… ## [The other inspiration for this blog](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-17-the-other-inspiration-for-this-blog/) _2026-08-17 · Big Muddy_ The other day, I edited Big Muddy's "About" page , which was previously a copy of the inaugural " Welcome to Big Muddy " post. This version promised a " Simon Willison-style links-and-notes blog " and "interesting links, brief write-ups, quick experiments, and the occasional deep dive." It now reads like this: Big Muddy started as my take on a Simon Willison-style link blog, but I now use it for… ## [Over/Under #79 with James Sweeting](https://lazybea.rs/ovr-079/) _2026-08-17 · hyde@lazybea.rs (Hyde Stevenson) · Lazybear_ T his week my guest is James Sweeting . He's a lecturer/researcher in Game Studies with a focus on nostalgia, hauntology, and media form. He manages a blog and also Relative Nostalgia . You can follow him on Mastodon , Bluesky or subscribe to his RSS feed . Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Bluesky Given how Threads is apparently used daily by millions of users and somehow X still has a strong core… ## [My open-source contribution of a long-awaited feature was accepted](https://kevinquinn.fun/blog/contribution-to-loop-habits/) _2026-08-17 · Hoarding Minimalist. Product-minded Software Engineer. Usually confused. on Kevin Quinn_ After a long hiatus, I can finally say that my PR to add a long-awaited search bar into the Loop Habits app has been merged 1 for the next release! The maintainer made some tweaks to better fit their long-term vision, but I'm excited that the work I put in was enough to catalyze a feature addition that had stalled for over 5 years with regular requests to add it 2 . This is the most used app on my… ## [Recovering Encrypted LLM Reasoning Traces](https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/recovering-encrypted-llm-thoughts/) _2026-08-17 · Embrace The Red_ A few days ago, a paper named "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs" was published. It describes a simple, yet super elegant way to recover encrypted LLM reasoning traces. Naturally, I had to try it. Background AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic send reasoning traces back and forth as part of their messaging protocols. However, the actual reasoning text is hidden inside an encrypted,… ## [Denshattack!](https://pdp.dev/posts/2026-08-16-denshattack-/) _2026-08-17 · hello@pdp.dev (Phil Piwonka) · Phil is typing..._ Do you like joy? If you like joy, then you’ll probably like Denshattack! My daughter and I finished the game today and it was a blast. She did the majority of it herself, there were only a few spots where I needed to help out. The vibes of the game were great, like how when you make a mistake it’s reassuring and kind. “You’re doing great sweetie!” / “You’ll get it next time!” 10 out of 10, go play… ## [Code review is the new bottleneck](https://www.tqdev.com/2026-code-review-is-the-new-bottleneck/) _2026-08-17 · Blog about software development on TQdev_ I was watching the (well made) video " Can We Trust AI to Code Without Human Oversight? " by Sam Newman on the Modern Software Engineering channel (recommended watch). He asks how much attention we still need to give to the code our agents write and concludes that the human code review may be the bottleneck in our delivery process. I think he is right about the bottleneck, but I don't think "stop… ## [My social preview images are Elm code now. Rendered by Go. Into an Svg 😵](https://cekrem.github.io/posts/og-images-as-elm-code/) _2026-08-17 · cekrem.github.io_ Here's a meta post for you, if there ever was one: if someone shared this post with you and a preview image showed up, that image was generated by the thing this post describes. The post is its own demo. I find that unreasonably satisfying. It looks like this, generated live from the post's own title and description as you read this: (If I change the title, the image changes with it. There is no… ## [The Billing Bug You Can't Have](https://mcginniscommawill.com/posts/2026-08-17-the-billing-bug-you-cant-have/) _2026-08-17 · McGinnis, Will_ Emit bills by the email: you prepay for credits, and every send debits one. Which means somewhere in the system there's a number going down as mail goes out, and a nasty question attached to it: what happens when two sends debit the same balance at the same instant? Get this wrong and you either give away free email (annoying) or charge people for mail that never sent (unforgivable). The fix is… ## [Don't use an LLM for your README.md](https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/don-t-use-an-llm-for-your-readme-md/) _2026-08-17 · Andrew Quinn's TILs_ One of my more popular open source projects is Shell Bling Ubuntu , which, contrary to its name, actually supports many different operating systems these days: modern macOS, Alpine, Fedora 40 and up, Rocky Linux 8 and up, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) , and so on. But while I feel the project is in a much more advanced state than it was four or five months ago after all that hardening and… ## [AI Coding Agents and Attention](https://philoserf.com/posts/ai-coding-agents-and-attention/) _2026-08-17 · Mark Ayers_ An AI coding agent collapses the distance between wanting a change and watching it happen. What that collapse removes is friction—and friction, it turns out, was load-bearing. It kept a programmer's attention on one problem long enough to understand it, and it capped how many problems a person could hold in mind at once. Take the friction away and the cap goes with it. Attention is now the scarce… ## [1786919776](https://netbros.com/1786919776/) _2026-08-16 · Notes_ I have been craving ramen the whole day. Of course, it is not going to happen now—best I can do is instant at this point. My main worry, though, is what everyone else gets to eat tonight. I made tostones not long ago, but a “person doesn’t live by plantains alone”. Got to think what to cook, on an empty stomach. Not the smartest thing to do. ## [I didn't set a cookie.](https://zufrieden.io/linking/i_didn_t_set_a_cookie/) _2026-08-16 · Hello, I'm Marc Friederich 👋 on zufrieden.io/_ ## [Don't worry, you're not doing it 'wrong'](https://pdp.dev/posts/2026-08-15-not-wrong/) _2026-08-16 · hello@pdp.dev (Phil Piwonka) · Phil is typing..._ My mom has this saying that she attributes to her dad: “Anything worth doing is worth doing right.” I fucking hate this saying. “Right” according to who or what?! What I feel the person who says this really means: anything worth doing is worth doing the way I would do it, so I hope you can read my mind! There’s more than one way to do something. There’s no single “right way” or… ## [“I think there’s a lot of value in these.” – Unsung](https://zufrieden.io/linking/i_think_there_s_a_lot_of_value_in_these_unsung/) _2026-08-16 · Hello, I'm Marc Friederich 👋 on zufrieden.io/_ ## [Now What?](https://lngnmn2.github.io/articles/now-what2/) _2026-08-16 · Notes from the digital underground by Lngnmn_ So, there is the "biological" and "evolutionary" convergence. What does it mean to "know" something, and what is worth knowing? I have seen very nice guys who know very long, elaborage mantras and can recite then verbatim. Notice that unlike sutras, which are versed human languages, matras are just rythmical sounds, which does not translate into any vocabulary or any semantic meaning. One could,… ## [Free-Range Human Art](https://zufrieden.io/sharing/20260816_free_range_human_art/) _2026-08-16 · Hello, I'm Marc Friederich 👋 on zufrieden.io/_ https://uarrr.org/free-range-human-art/