# re (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 609 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover re. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117142909312481624) _2026-08-23 · jmac_ Content warning: Watching “Project Hail Mary” and it’s fun but Having finished the film I wanna say that it is also “Smart Enemy Mine” but I don't actually remember the plot of “Enemy Mine” too good, mainly I remember really, really wanting to see it coz it looked so cool, and finally renting it and watching it with my buddy, and we were like: huh. This movie was pretty cool, though, and I hope… ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117142634713471754) _2026-08-23 · jmac_ Content warning: Watching “Project Hail Mary” and it’s fun but It's a bit "Stupid Arrival”, isn't it I can tell I'd think this was super amazing if I were 12 and I mean that complimentarily ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117141170897670233) _2026-08-22 · jmac_ Two sessions in, and I feel ready to say that # BigWalk is one of the nicest things to happen to video games in a long time. ## [Tell me you’ve never read my blog without telling me that you’ve never read my blog](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/tell-me-youve-never-read-my-blog.html) _2026-08-22 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ In today’s mail: We recently came across Orange Crate Art — a quietly artful personal blog. That's exactly the kind of artful personal blog we built \[redacted\] for — an AI content team that keeps creating for you. Tell it what to make — newsletters, videos, podcasts, or articles — and how often; it researches fresh sources, picks what matters, and produces editable content on schedule, so morning… ## [Recently updated](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/recently-updated_01944173275.html) _2026-08-22 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ Things I learned on my summer vacation : Today’s Zippy prompted me to seek out a photograph of a Guggenheim Museum bathroom that I linked to in 2010. That photograph has disappeared from the Internets, but I found another. You’re reading a post from Michael Leddy’s blog Orange Crate Art . Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons… ## [Bicycle theft is the number-one crime issue confronting our society today. If you have a nice…](https://seatsafetyswitch.com/post/825662064914825216) _2026-08-22 · Untitled_ Bicycle theft is the number-one crime issue confronting our society today. If you have a nice bicycle – or even a crappy one – and you park it outside, someone may try to steal it. Worse, the entire bike-lock industry, which is supposed to protect your beloved chunk of alloy, seems to be just fine selling turd-ass products. Lots of bike locks can be defeated with a piece of windshield wiper blade,… ## [Today’s Saturday Stumper](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/todays-saturday-stumper_02134133543.html) _2026-08-22 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ I found today’s Newsday Saturday Stumper , by Ben Zimmer, wildly difficult. Daily puzzles — Newsday , the Los Angeles Times , the syndicated New York Times — seem to me increasingly easy. I can often do an entire puzzle, or nearly an entire puzzle, from Across clues alone. But the Saturday Stumper seems to get more and more difficult and unfun. Humph. Some clue-and-answer pairs of note: 1-A, five… ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117139631188874448) _2026-08-22 · jmac_ I also added a Q&A to the site's FAQ about accuracy, since eavesdropping on conversations about the site elsewhere on the internet shows some very reasonable skepticism about that. (A: It's as accurate as it can be given the data it has, but it's not at all a perfect predictor, since many factors can change what you actually experience during a flight. But the site's purpose is more about… ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117139592290011492) _2026-08-22 · jmac_ I've added cloudiness forecasts to https:// BumpySkies.com ! If you're a paid subscriber to my turbulence-forecasting website, you can also see when and where you can expect cloud cover between you and the ground, during your flight. This is a feature I’ve wanted to add for a long time, and now I have added it, hurrah. More details in the latest newsletter: https:// buttondown.com/bumpyskies/arch… ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117139525305078547) _2026-08-22 · jmac_ 1. Went into the Dunkins, exchanged "Good Morning" with the staff whose current rotation is chattier than average, and grabbed my waiting online-order tray. The tag says “Jessica D”? Wait… 2. A woman bustles in behind me carrying an identical tray and shows it to the staff. "Jason?" they say. The woman and I exchange trays, laughing. "My granddaughter was like: You're not Jason.” 3. Back home, and… ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/H9J90FmwbIAQ) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [ix und chen’s beef noodle house](https://wirres.net/articles/ix-und-chen-s-beef-noodle-house) _2026-08-22 · wirres.net_ vor ein paar ta gen sah ich in der mül­ler stras­se ei nen neu en la den in dem je mand nu deln mit der hand zog: chen’s beef nood le house . der la den ist so neu, dass noch nicht mal die home page von chen’s beef nood le house die adres se ge lis tet hat ( goog le hat den ein trag schon ). als fri da und ich ges tern wie der dran vor­bei­lie­fen und ich wie der den koch nu deln zie hen sah schau… ## [Announcing RangeMenu](https://ilikekillnerds.com/2026/08/22/announcing-rangemenu/) _2026-08-22 · I Like Kill Nerds_ Right-click inside a Froala editor and you get the browser's menu. Spell check suggestions, Inspect, Translate to English. Nothing to do with the document you're editing. That's deliberate. Froala reckons right-clicking to edit a table in a browser is wrong and that people want their native menu left alone. The only setting they ship is disableRightClick , which kills the browser menu inside the… ## [Paving the swamp](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/paving-swamp.html) _2026-08-22 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ Michelle Price of the Associated Press, on Washington Week in Review tonight: “This is a president who for a long time campaigned on draining the swamp, and it seems he’s paving it and making it glitzier.” Well put. You’re reading a post from Michael Leddy’s blog Orange Crate Art . Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0… ## [Germany does not take 50% of everything you make, they take 49.3%](https://levels.io/germany-does-not-take-50-percent) _2026-08-22 · @levelsio (Pieter Levels)_ ## [Stacking Pull Requests](https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/stacking_pull_requests) _2026-08-21 · Elijah Potter's Blog_ Stacking PRs I tried out GitHub’s PR stack­ing func­tion­al­ity for the first time this week. I have to say — it’s amaz­ing. Instead of im­ple­ment­ing the en­tirety of Harper Desktop’s Windows sup­port in a sin­gle mas­sive PR (as I tend to do far too of­ten), I de­cided to sep­a­rate the work out into in­di­vid­ual PRs and stack them. I am some­one who goes on a lot of tan­gents while work­ing.… ## [Harper for Windows](https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/harper_for_windows) _2026-08-21 · Elijah Potter's Blog_ Harper for Windows This is a fol­low-up to a re­cent post where I dis­cussed the ben­e­fits of pri­or­i­tiz­ing Windows sup­port for Harper Desktop. You can read that post by click­ing here. I am pleased to say that Harper Desktop for Windows is com­ing along beau­ti­fully. It is not ready yet, but I plan to launch it in beta soon. To keep my­self ac­count­able, I am set­ting a hard launch date of… ## [Before we begin this questioning, I need to make a confession. I have never really liked soups. When…](https://seatsafetyswitch.com/post/825571418858192896) _2026-08-21 · Untitled_ Before we begin this questioning, I need to make a confession. I have never really liked soups. When I was a kid, I thought they were too much work for the nutritional value. This makes sense, of course. If you bite into a big ol' burger, it feels like you're getting a good amount of food in that bite. Solid. Soup, not so much. This was all it took to bar me from an entire world of liquidinous… ## [Origin of an idiom: “My foot!”](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/origin-of-idiom-my-foot.html) _2026-08-21 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ From Saul Maydup, Idioms and How They Got That Way (2019): We know the expression “My foot!” as a way to signify indignant disbelief or shock: “Safe? My foot! He was out by a mile!” But it may surprise you to learn that the expression has its origin in the world of feet — in the world, that is, of poetry. The expression was born in 1727, during one of Jonathan Swift's many visits to the Twickenham… ## [Apropos of “the news”](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/apropos-of-news.html) _2026-08-21 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ \[ “Dream Job.” Zippy , August 21, 2026. Click for a larger view.\] Related reading All OCA Zippy posts (Pinboard) \[Context: Allen Ginsberg .\] You’re reading a post from Michael Leddy’s blog Orange Crate Art . Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 License . ## [The Shape of Gone Things](https://photoni.st/index.php/2026/08/21/the-shape-of-gone-things/) _2026-08-21 · cedric · Photoni.st_ There are things that are the most visible when they’re no longer there. Lately, our oldest pet, MiniBeastie (of her real name IV as in Ivy and cat number 4) has not been well. She started coughing and not breathing well in the winter. At first we attributed it to some passing illness or hairballs. \[…\] ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DuNEK6722jV8) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [Threshold Photography Gear](https://photoni.st/index.php/2026/08/21/threshold-photography-gear/) _2026-08-21 · cedric · Photoni.st_ I suspect every photographer has a piece of equipment that changed everything for them. Not always expected, rarely expensive. But the one that unlocked something for them. Mine was the Sigma 10-20mm. I bought two decades ago out of curiosity not really knowing what to expect of it, but I had seen on forums that \[…\] ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117130654202831429) _2026-08-21 · jmac_ RE: https:// masto.nyc/@denvermullets/11712 7606732749645 One game I remember fondly from the Atari VCS days was "Lost Luggage”, about catching suitcases flying off a baggage carousel run amok, and I didn't realize I was waiting decades for another video game about baggage conveyors UNTIL TODAY ## [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… ## [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 . ## [We were chased by drug dealers in Lisbon after I said no thanks](https://levels.io/chased-by-drug-dealers-in-lisbon) _2026-08-21 · @levelsio (Pieter Levels)_ ## [I'm starting to feel we're reaching a similar moment with Apple](https://levels.io/similar-moment-with-apple) _2026-08-21 · @levelsio (Pieter Levels)_ ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117130302439471147) _2026-08-20 · jmac_ Got taught a lesson in hubris for not bothering with an umbrella tonight. How about you? # NYC ## [Real Estate Report #473: Why & Where Are Your Latest Local RE Hot And Cooling Market Findings?](https://realestatenow.substack.com/p/real-estate-report-473-why-and-where) _2026-08-20 · Sam Thompson · Real Estate Now - Sam’s Substack_ Plus Your Best RE ChatGPT Prompt For Expired Listing Letter + Your Best RE Phone Call Script For Tenant Second Follow-Up on Arrears ? ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117129719521825688) _2026-08-20 · jmac_ RE: https:// social.panic.com/@cabel/117129 641032547610 I surely haven't heard this in at least 35 years and successfully hummed the opening horn+piano (I think?) riff before hitting play just from this description # BongoDrums WHOA it's got some synth bass goin on like a minute in, where'd that come from ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117129120735055606) _2026-08-20 · jmac_ Today’s side-eye at macOS autocomplete: Mailing a BumpySkies customer, typing “The problem was an oversight with the Bu” and then for a split-second seeing “sh administration” to the right of my cursor. ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3RV77sIxZUzO) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [Useful Painting Tips](https://seatsafetyswitch.com/post/825480842029793280) _2026-08-20 · Untitled_ Because our glorious summer season is now undeniably in its dying days, a lot of you will be rushing out to try and finish projects around the house and garage. Neglecting family, work, and friends, you will still struggle to accomplish even the smallest amount of things before winter's blanket of cold death once again envelops the earth, leaving you with months of self-immiseration and… ## [parser of PTX instructions](http://redplait.blogspot.com/2026/08/parser-of-ptx-instructions.html) _2026-08-20 · redp · windows deep internals_ A couple of facts to start things off From official "Inline PTX Assembly in CUDA": The compiler front end does not parse the asm() statement template string and does not know what it means or even whether it is valid PTX input And second , less well-known one: order of instruction's attributes (except types of operand) is not important The combination of these facts leads to stark conclusion -… ## [AI scans the curriculum at Texas Tech](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai-scans-curriculum-at-texas-tech.html) _2026-08-20 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ From The New York Times (gift link): “A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul” : Texas Tech is using A.I. to ferret out books and other materials that touch on topics like sexual orientation and gender identity. Professors describe the effort as a dystopian academic nightmare, in which ideologues are wielding technology to sideline subject-matter experts. The chancellor… ## [Fortnite, Harry Potter, &c.](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/fortnite-harry-potter.html) _2026-08-20 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ Natalie Wexler, co-author with Judith Hochman of The Writing Revolution , writes about how Alpha School, a private-school network that relies on AI instruction, teaches writing . Long story short: Alpha School borrowed (or co-opted?) the model of The Writing Revolution , known as the Hochman Method, and called it AlphaWrite: It’s possible that AlphaWrite could do a good job of teaching writing.… ## [Student writing and AI](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/student-writing-and-ai.html) _2026-08-20 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ From The New York Times (gift link), “What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?” An excerpt: Cognitive research confirms that writing is a powerful aid in helping us to retain information we read. The work of writing forces us to stress-test our ideas, allowing the writer to respond to counterarguments and cite sources. Revision is a practice of self-critique and self-improvement, and can be… ## [Why the real AI advantage in insurance lies beyond the model](https://www.postonline.co.uk/reinsurance/7960922/why-the-real-ai-advantage-in-insurance-lies-beyond-the-model) _2026-08-20 · Reinsurance - postonline.co.uk_ View from the top: Ben Rose, CEO of Supercede, argues that as artificial intelligence models become commoditised, the advantage for the industry will come from the context and infrastructure surrounding them. ## [Being real on the internet is special](https://levels.io/being-real-on-the-internet) _2026-08-20 · @levelsio (Pieter Levels)_ ## [Being without my girlfriend decreased my recovery by 17% but increased my productivity by 31%](https://levels.io/without-girlfriend-health-vs-productivity) _2026-08-20 · @levelsio (Pieter Levels)_ ## [opml2feed](https://wirres.net/articles/opml2feed) _2026-08-19 · wirres.net_ jetzt hab ich eine ma­schi­nen­les­ba­re /blogrolle die au­to­ma­tisch auch /opml aus gibt und wür de das ei­gent­lich auch ger ne selbst nut zen. oder we­nigs­tens aus­pro­bie­ren wie man so was nut zen kann, also mein ei ge nes dog food es sen, wie man so schon sagt. mitt­ler­wei­le weiss ich, dass man die ein zel nen opml feeds in freshRSS so abon­nie­ren kann, dass sie sich dy na misch… ## [Real Estate Report #472: Why And Where Are Your Latest 100 Local RE Sale Price, Pending Sales, Homes Sold, New Listings, Active Listings, Days on the Market Findings?](https://realestatenow.substack.com/p/real-estate-report-472-why-and-where) _2026-08-19 · Sam Thompson · Real Estate Now - Sam’s Substack_ Plus RE Master Mind Module #93 + Your Best RE ChatGPT Prompt For FSBO Conversion Letter + Best RE Phone Call Script For Late Rent – Friendly First Reminder ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117123222008332564) _2026-08-19 · jmac_ Tired: "You're aboslutely right!” Wired: "You're right, and it's worse than that.” ## [“Can you come down here and help me out?” asked my dad. Now, my dad has never been the kind of…](https://seatsafetyswitch.com/post/825390223840215040) _2026-08-19 · Untitled_ "Can you come down here and help me out?" asked my dad. Now, my dad has never been the kind of individual to ask for help. Whether out of pride or shame, our entire family is not particularly great at involving other people in our schemes. Unless it's as victims. I was starting to suspect I was being lined up for that particular role, but it gave me an excuse to stretch my car's legs on the… ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117122794134320076) _2026-08-19 · jmac_ Have updated the MOTD on https:// bumpyskies.com to acknowledge the bug and its repair while declining to mention the new airport codes, and that's as publicly snippy as I'll get today. # aviation ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117122692160163321) _2026-08-19 · jmac_ And I don't mean just posting “boo, trump sucks" (though I do a little of that too), I mean discussing how the current administration loathes public scientific knowledge, and is waging a destructive war on the American research centers and data-collection initiatives that enable the atmospheric forecasting that BumpySkies relies on. My newsletter's been openly reporting on that for a while now.… ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117122679101568402) _2026-08-19 · jmac_ Sometimes I think of turning BumpySkies into a nonprofit—there's arguments for it—but then I'd need to let go of my ability to use it as an advocacy platform. And now that I’ve started, I don't think I'd wanna stop. BumpySkies currently has 20K monthly active users, which is… rather more than any other platform I can type text directly onto. ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117122664516422222) _2026-08-19 · jmac_ I'm used to not badmouthing any politicians or political parties in my various businesses' communications, because most of them are charitable nonprofits which are legally restricted from such speech. (I mean, they \*can\*, but only at risk of losing their charitable status. A long-standing IRS rule.) BumpySkies is not a nonprofit, and I started being openly critical of the current administration in… ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117122644516731592) _2026-08-19 · jmac_ And another half hour because the IATA code, too, literally just now changed from “PBI” to “DJT" and it took a bit for Wikipedia to catch up. And then I had to figure out a way to make the airport still appear when people search for “PBI". Whee! # aviation ## [(untitled)](https://masto.nyc/@jmac/117122448572591254) _2026-08-19 · jmac_ Just had to refund a BumpySkies customer because my website didn't get the memo that Palm Beach International Airport suddenly changed its ICAO code from KPBI to KDJT earlier this summer, which messed up the website's forecast-notifications feature. I have updated the ICAO code in the BumpySkies database, but I haven’t changed the airport's name, per its Wikipedia page. I decline to add any other… ## [Nick and nook and cranny](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/nick-and-nook-and-cranny.html) _2026-08-19 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ I skip a lot of commercials, so I am late to the game, having seen the Swiffer Duster Kit commercial “No Jump Needed” (from December 2025) for the first time last night. After some successful cleaning, there’s this exchange: “It looks like you got into everything.” “Every nick and cranny.” Uh, no. As any eater of Thomas’ English Muffins knows, they’re called nooks and crannies. I can think of… ## [A pocket notebook sighting](https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-pocket-notebook-sighting.html) _2026-08-19 · Michael Leddy · Orange Crate Art_ \[From Dillinger (dir. Max Nosseck, 1945). Click for a larger view.\] Two feds, one pocket notebook, one pencil. Perhaps a Dixon Ticonderoga? Also one wallet. Out of the picture: John Dillinger. Related reading All OCA notebook sightings (Pinboard) You’re reading a post from Michael Leddy’s blog Orange Crate Art . Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended. This work is licensed…