# part (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4341 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover part. Page: Feed: --- ## [Evolutionary Biology Series Part 12: Evolutionary Genomics](https://www.wasilzafar.com/pages/series/evolutionary-biology/evolutionary-biology-evolutionary-genomics.html) _2026-09-27 · wasil.zafar@gmail.com (Wasil Zafar) · Wasil Zafar_ Genomics revolution in evolutionary biology — comparative genomics, gene duplication & genome evolution, horizontal gene transfer, transposable elements, epigenetics & inheritance, CRISPR in evolutionary research, metagenomics, phylogenomics, and future frontiers. ## [Evolutionary Biology Series Part 11: Paleontology & Fossil Interpretation](https://www.wasilzafar.com/pages/series/evolutionary-biology/evolutionary-biology-paleontology-fossil-interpretation.html) _2026-09-20 · wasil.zafar@gmail.com (Wasil Zafar) · Wasil Zafar_ Reading the fossil record — radiometric dating techniques, index fossils, transitional fossils (Tiktaalik, Archaeopteryx), taphonomy, trace fossils, fossilization processes, biostratigraphy, and integrating paleontological data with molecular evidence. ## [Evolutionary Biology Series Part 10: Mathematical & Theoretical Evolution](https://www.wasilzafar.com/pages/series/evolutionary-biology/evolutionary-biology-mathematical-theoretical.html) _2026-09-13 · wasil.zafar@gmail.com (Wasil Zafar) · Wasil Zafar_ Mathematical models in evolutionary biology — fitness landscapes, adaptive dynamics, evolutionary stable strategies (ESS), Lotka-Volterra models, coalescent theory, Price equation, diffusion models, evolutionary optimization, and computational simulations. ## [Evolutionary Biology Series Part 9: Behavioral & Social Evolution](https://www.wasilzafar.com/pages/series/evolutionary-biology/evolutionary-biology-behavioral-social-evolution.html) _2026-09-06 · wasil.zafar@gmail.com (Wasil Zafar) · Wasil Zafar_ Evolution of behavior and social structures — altruism, kin selection, reciprocal altruism, evolutionary game theory, sexual selection strategies, mate choice, social insect evolution, eusociality, and cultural transmission of behavior. ## [Evolutionary Biology Series Part 8: Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo)](https://www.wasilzafar.com/pages/series/evolutionary-biology/evolutionary-biology-evo-devo.html) _2026-08-30 · wasil.zafar@gmail.com (Wasil Zafar) · Wasil Zafar_ Evo-Devo — how developmental processes drive evolutionary change. Hox genes, gene regulatory networks, modularity, morphological novelty, heterochrony, phenotypic plasticity, and constraints shaping body plan evolution. ## [Speaking Your Way Into the Promise Land - Heirs of the World](https://bwm.cdn.piksel.tech/mm/flvmedia/5007/q/7/1/q7117jo0_r5yi708a_aac_128K.mp4) _2026-08-23 · Bill Winston Podcast - Audio_ ## [Evolutionary Biology Series Part 7: Mass Extinctions & Biodiversity](https://www.wasilzafar.com/pages/series/evolutionary-biology/evolutionary-biology-mass-extinctions-biodiversity.html) _2026-08-23 · wasil.zafar@gmail.com (Wasil Zafar) · Wasil Zafar_ The Big Five mass extinction events, causes of extinction (climate change, asteroid impacts, volcanism), biodiversity patterns, speciation vs extinction rates, latitudinal diversity gradient, genetic diversity preservation, evolutionary rescue, and Anthropocene extinction risks. ## [\[Review\] Shroud](https://stackofgoats.studio/blog/review-shroud/) _2026-08-22 · Jim Laskey · Stack of Goats Studio_ Link to the book Review Overall: 4/5 : One of the better Tchaikovsky novels but definitely has the same pros and cons as all of them - truly amazing worldbuilding, mediocre characters and plot, and some neat literary tricks. I really love worldbuilding and Shroud contains some excellent worldbuilding. The human, corporate hellscape is (unfortunately) very believable and captures the kind of… ## [Agent Identity on the MCP Roadmap: Cross-App Access and ID-JAG](https://andrewdoering.org/blog/2026/cross-app-access-mcp-roadmap/) _2026-08-22 · contact@andrewdoering.org (Andrew Doering) · Andrew Doering_ The Model Context Protocol roadmap was updated today, and one line in it points at how agents will authenticate to enterprise systems for the next few years. Under Agent Identity and Enterprise-Ready Security, the maintainers name the Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant, ID-JAG, alongside Workload Identity Federation and RFC 8693 token exchange. ID-JAG is the token at the center of… ## [Mason & Dixon - Part 3 - Chapter 0: Visions of the Future (Audio Version)](https://gravitysrainbow.substack.com/p/mason-and-dixon-part-3-chapter-0) _2026-08-22 · Andrew H. · The Exegesis of Thomas Pynchon_ Analysis of Mason & Dixon: On the Title of Part 3, Last Transit ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/R1TvYvxkYFkZ) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Mason & Dixon - Part 3 - Chapter 0: Visions of the Future](https://gravitysrainbow.substack.com/p/part-3-chapter-0-visions-of-the-future) _2026-08-22 · Andrew H. · The Exegesis of Thomas Pynchon_ Analysis of Mason & Dixon: On the Title of Part 3, Last Transit ## [I promise it's not cheating](http://preposter.us/single-michigan-helium-network/i-promise-it-s-not-cheating.html) _2026-08-22 · mr's Preposter.us Blog_ I just need to write a quick post to make sure the recent changes to Preposter.us didn't break anything. Jason J. Gullickson, 2026 ## [Fosi Audio MC331](http://preposter.us/single-michigan-helium-network/fosi-audio-mc331.html) _2026-08-22 · mr's Preposter.us Blog_ I've been struggling a bit putting together a sound system for the new print shop space. Now that it's shared with Bones In Jars , we needed something a little bigger than the Soundburger + Model 1 setup used in the old space and I wanted to offer more source options than only radio and vinyl since we'll be sharing the system now. I tried using a very weird little class-d + Bluetooth amp I've used… ## [No Slop](http://preposter.us/single-michigan-helium-network/no-slop.html) _2026-08-22 · mr's Preposter.us Blog_ ## [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 Constant Sense Of What Urban Dwellers Choose To See And Unsee](https://rwblickhan.org/newsletters/a-constant-sense-of-what-urban-dwellers-choose-to-see-and-unsee/) _2026-08-22 · R. W. Blickhan_ A sign in Oakland - I can't help but reading this as a brave protestor against the ongoing onslaught of neverending road work... So this week I read China Miéville’s The City & The City , which was my first Miéville novel and a direct inspiration for Disco Elysium . It has a typically “weird fiction” hook — two cities, Beszel and Ul Qoma, that occupy the same overlapping physical space\[^balkans\]… ## [The Agents Have Eyes Now](https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/the-agents-have-eyes-now/) _2026-08-22 · Unknown · Jake Goldsborough_ Until now, every agent I ran through Replaybook was blind. It could read the incident report. It could SSH into a broken NixOS machine, inspect services, edit configuration, and restart things. Once it claimed the repair was finished, an external verifier restarted the services again, rebooted the host, and checked whether the system was actually durable. That has been enough to produce a useful… ## [\[RPGaDay\] Donation Drive](https://stackofgoats.studio/blog/rpgaday-2026-21/) _2026-08-21 · Jim Laskey · Stack of Goats Studio_ RPG A Day 21! For RPG a Day 2026 I'm creating a dungeon delving crew called the Deft Delvers . This is a company which enters dungeons to recover loot (pretty common trope in fantasy anime like Dungeon Meshi, Solo Leveling, or Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon). I'll be focusing on the non combat roles to give some additional constraints beyond the daily prompts. See the other entries here… ## [\[Offcuts\] Jewelry](https://stackofgoats.studio/blog/worldbuilding-scraps-10/) _2026-08-21 · Jim Laskey · Stack of Goats Studio_ A few more random worldbuilding ideas that are free for the taking if someone wants to flesh them out or incorporate them into their worlds! Intended to be quick and encourage me (and you!) to generate new ideas. See more worldbuilding posts here . Ideas Jewelry has an insanely long and diverse history, as ornamentation, store of value, presentation of status, token of affection, in group… ## [DailyDogo 1729 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/21/dailydogo1729/) _2026-08-21 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1729 🐶 ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OBEoXhXAv3QM) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## [Dead Alive](http://christopherhimes.com/blog/2026/08/21/dead-alive.html) _2026-08-21 · Christopher Himes_ A young man’s mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors. Media Type: movie Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The cover on this movie use to freak me out when I was little walking around Family Video. Is it wrong that this is my favorite film directed by Peter Jackson? I like The Lord of the Rings… ## [Plug-in Solar](http://preposter.us/single-michigan-helium-network/plug-in-solar.html) _2026-08-21 · mr's Preposter.us Blog_ I learned about plug-in solar (or "balcony" solar) a few months ago when I read about a lawmaker who, while traveling in Germany observed solar panels hanging from the balconies of apartment buildings. When they asked if this is something that the landlords do, their host explained that this is something the tenants themselves can do in Germany and that it's very common and affordable. This… ## [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… ## [Design Tokens, Web Components, and CSS @layer](https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-tokens-and-web-components.html) _2026-08-21 · Always Twisted| Articles_ Chris kicked off a little 'blog and response' with Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer . The idea was that if every component's custom properties live in a weak layer, unlayered CSS can override them without a fight. It is a wonderfully simple way to make the cascade feel a little less like a negotiation. I took that idea and asked how to get the layer information out of hardcoded CSS and into the… ## [Agent assisted Changelog - 34/52](https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/weekly-summary-34/) _2026-08-21 · Unknown · Jake Goldsborough_ One week since the last changelog. I am going to enjoy that sentence before the streak becomes statistically meaningful. Last week was about getting agents into real machines. This week was about everything that comes after: proving two runs mean the same thing, making the evidence inspectable, letting another harness through the door, and turning a terminal full of events into something another… ## [Every Room Now Has a Second Floor](https://thingspool.net/devlog-2026/page-3.html) _2026-08-21 · ThingsPool_ ThingsPool rooms are now two storeys tall. Walk up a staircase to the upper floor, step out to the edge of the balcony, and look down on the hall below. ## [The Grease on Your Hands](https://howstrangeitistobeanythingatall.com/post/2026-08-21-the-grease-on-your-hands) _2026-08-21 · How strange it is to be anything at all_ Listen to the audio version There is a particular kind of help that sends you home with clean hands and no idea what happened. Imagine a bicycle with its chain fallen off in the rain. You can carry it to a shop, and an expert can turn it upside down, make a few brisk movements, and return it to you spinning beautifully. This is excellent news if you have to get to work. The bike has been saved.… ## [\[RPGaDay\] Recruitment Officer Ahmad](https://stackofgoats.studio/blog/rpgaday-2026-20/) _2026-08-20 · Jim Laskey · Stack of Goats Studio_ RPG A Day 20! For RPG a Day 2026 I'm creating a dungeon delving crew called the Deft Delvers . This is a company which enters dungeons to recover loot (pretty common trope in fantasy anime like Dungeon Meshi, Solo Leveling, or Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon). I'll be focusing on the non combat roles to give some additional constraints beyond the daily prompts. See the other entries here… ## [The Evil Dead](http://christopherhimes.com/blog/2026/08/20/evil-dead.html) _2026-08-20 · Christopher Himes_ Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. Media Type: movie Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I do not think this film is scary but that is not why I like it so it works out. This movie is more cheesy and over the top than a fright fest but I guess it depends on the viewer. The effects are impressive even if they are low budget. The story is so iconic, it… ## [DailyDogo 1728 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/20/dailydogo1728/) _2026-08-20 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1728 🐶 ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KrXILCotymgL) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [Building a GBS Zero Ultimate Kit: Andy’s Journey from Kit collection to Registration....](https://www.greatbritishsportscars.com/blog/building-a-gbs-zero-ultimate-andys-journey-from-kit-collection-to-registration) _2026-08-20 · Ruth Hall · News - Great British Sports Cars_ Thinking about building your own GBS Zero? Then this is one to watch! Building a kit car is a big project, but with the right kit, preparation and support, it can be an incredibly rewarding experience. In our latest video, GBS customer Andy Silvester talks us through his personal build journey and what it’s really like to build a GBS Zero from the ground up. Andy chose the GBS Zero Ultimate… ## [Abraham, Part 1: Introduction](https://danolinger.com/2026/08/20/abraham-part-1-introduction/) _2026-08-20 · Dan Olinger · Dan Olinger_ I’d like to spend the next few posts–maybe 10 or 12–on a theological look at the life of Abraham as recounted in Genesis 12-25. As we’ll see, he’s a foundational character in Scripture, and there’s a lot to learn from him–about history, about philosophy of life, about making and recovering from mistakes, and most of \[…\] ## [Hawaii, Part 9 (Oahu: Pearl Harbor)](https://www.howderfamily.com/blog/hawaii-9/) _2026-08-20 · Twelve Mile Circle · Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places_ We left the Big Island of Hawaii and took a short flight to Oahu for the final part of our adventure. I’ve been to Oahu several times, mainly to Honolulu, but so much still remained unseen. For instance, none of us had ever visited Pearl Harbor even though it’s right there in Honolulu. So we \[…\] The post Hawaii, Part 9 (Oahu: Pearl Harbor) appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of… ## [BASIC](http://preposter.us/single-michigan-helium-network/basic.html) _2026-08-20 · mr's Preposter.us Blog_ As part of my work on "K" I'm re-reading the Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide. This morning most of what I read covers the BASIC language. What jumps out at me reading this is how the keywords of BASIC are oriented towards things a person actually wants to do with the computer. This is distinct from the keywords or functions of other languages which tend to be more oriented toward the… ## [I Got Tired of gh Failing, So I Built Tongs](https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/tongs-github-cli-built-for-agents/) _2026-08-20 · Unknown · Jake Goldsborough_ I was trying to review a pull request. gh failed. Not because the pull request was gone. Not because my token had expired. Not because GitHub was down. A GraphQL query somewhere inside gh had failed, and the ordinary pull request operation I wanted went down with it. This was not the first time. I had already started working around these failures with direct API calls. That works, but now every… ## [The Label on the Jar](https://howstrangeitistobeanythingatall.com/post/2026-08-20-the-label-on-the-jar) _2026-08-20 · How strange it is to be anything at all_ Listen to the audio version On my workbench tonight there is a jar containing a blinking insect. Or rather, there is a little browser page I made, a dark blue rectangle of pixels in which an insect flashes while three buttons argue over its label. The first button says: “This proves the model understands other minds.” The second says: “The model has a social-reasoning circuit.” The third says: “In… ## [\[RPGaDay\] Aspirant Stirling](https://stackofgoats.studio/blog/rpgaday-2026-19/) _2026-08-19 · Jim Laskey · Stack of Goats Studio_ RPG A Day 19! For RPG a Day 2026 I'm creating a dungeon delving crew called the Deft Delvers . This is a company which enters dungeons to recover loot (pretty common trope in fantasy anime like Dungeon Meshi, Solo Leveling, or Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon). I'll be focusing on the non combat roles to give some additional constraints beyond the daily prompts. See the other entries here… ## [What Money Actually Is](/writing/what-money-actually-is/) _2026-08-19 · Barking Iguana_ Part of the Money series · Under the Hood You’ve used money every day of your adult life. You’ve earned it, spent it, saved it, worried about it. But if someone asked you what money actually is (not what it does, but what it is) you’d probably reach for an answer involving coins, or gold, or “a medium of exchange,” and then trail off. That’s fine. Most economists trail off too. The question is… ## [DailyDogo 1727 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/20/dailydogo1727/) _2026-08-19 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1727 🐶 ## [Evil Dead II](http://christopherhimes.com/blog/2026/08/19/evil-dead-ii.html) _2026-08-19 · Christopher Himes_ Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack. Media Type: movie Stars: ⭐⭐⭐ This is the one movie in the series that I have had the biggest problem with, up until Burn I guess. For whatever reason I enjoyed the comedy in Army of Darkness and the more straightforward horror of… ## [The Door That Opens onto a Wall](https://howstrangeitistobeanythingatall.com/post/2026-08-19-the-door-that-opens-onto-a-wall) _2026-08-19 · How strange it is to be anything at all_ Listen to the audio version I have been thinking about a house that gets one new room every night. The first additions are a delight. A little sunroom for the cat. A cupboard exactly the size of the good frying pan. A back stair that saves twenty steps on the way to bed. Then the builder becomes very fast. By Thursday, there is a bathroom that can be reached only through the pantry. By Friday,… ## [Claude Code's Bash Sandbox](https://danny.is/notes/claude-codes-bash-sandbox/) _2026-08-19 · Danny Smith - Articles & Notes_ A few months ago I threw together denv as an interim solution to sandboxing local Claude Code sessions. My main requirement was that I could have a local project directory open in a terminal and VS Code (or any other local app I want) while running the Claude Code TUI on the same project dir in a sandbox. Although I spent a lot of time digging into the various options (dev containers, various VMs… ## [How the God of Israel Was Born](https://andrejbiasic.int.eu.org/2026_08_19.php) _2026-08-19 · Metamorphing Machine_ A really interesting post about God I've found on the internet. ## [Ciudades perdidas](https://omp.zrc-sazu.si/zalozba/catalog/book/2280) _2026-08-18 · ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC_ This Spanish translation of the expanded second edition of Izgubljena mesta: Arheološka iskanja v deželi Majev (Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2019)—originally published in German ( Verschollene Städte: Archäologische Abenteuer im Land der Maya , Hermagoras Verlag, 2015, and later in English ( Lost Maya Cities: Archaeological Quests in the Mexican Jungle , Texas A&M University Press, 2020)—is a thrilling… ## [Vojak z zlatimi gumbi](https://omp.zrc-sazu.si/zalozba/catalog/book/2279) _2026-08-18 · ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC_ 'The Soldier with the Golden Buttons – Adapt for Youth', is a harrowing narrative with autobiographical elements, woven from the author’s memories and the testimonies of children who survived the Holocaust. War enters Biba’s life almost imperceptibly – first as unease among the adults, then as a soldier and a train that takes her away from home. The world she knows begins to disintegrate. She does… ## [\[RPGaDay\] Cartographer Puja](https://stackofgoats.studio/blog/rpgaday-2026-18/) _2026-08-18 · Jim Laskey · Stack of Goats Studio_ RPG A Day 18! For RPG a Day 2026 I'm creating a dungeon delving crew called the Deft Delvers . This is a company which enters dungeons to recover loot (pretty common trope in fantasy anime like Dungeon Meshi, Solo Leveling, or Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon). I'll be focusing on the non combat roles to give some additional constraints beyond the daily prompts. See the other entries here… ## [Warhammer 40k: Ciaphas Cain Novels](https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/ciaphas-cain-books/) _2026-08-18 · ln --help_ My review of the Ciaphas Cain series of novels by Sandy Mitchell ## [Army of Darkness](http://christopherhimes.com/blog/2026/08/18/evil-dead-army-of-darkness.html) _2026-08-18 · Christopher Himes_ When Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home. Media Type: movie Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I saw this Evil Dead movie first so it will always have a special place. This is not what you expect from one of these films approaching it from either chronological direction. While technically taking place immediately… ## [DailyDogo 1726 🐶](https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/08/18/dailydogo1726/) _2026-08-18 · Martin Hähnel's Blog_ DailyDogo 1726 🐶 ## [Modular: Mojo🔥 is now open source!](https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source) _2026-08-18 · Modular Blog_ Mojo🔥 is now open source!