# recently (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1605 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover recently. 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,… ## [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\[^balkans\]… ## [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… ## [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… ## [Introducing @towns.satyrs.eu](https://satyrs.eu/garden/2026/towns) _2026-08-21 · The Garden_ Hello! If any of my (beautiful and sexy) readers are on Bluesky, i thought they might like to know that i’ve made a bot on there. It’s called @towns.satyrs.eu , and it posts a random British/Irish town (or village, or hamlet, or city) on the hour, every hour, give or take a few minutes. Like so: It’s inspired by the inimitable (okay, highly imitable) @townsusa.bsky.social , which does the same… ## [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. ## [Bad Bots Hall Of Shame 🤖](/naughty-bots) _2026-08-21 · Mountain Of Code_ I wanted to set up a honey pot for bots which intentionally crawl links which are disallowed in the robots.txt file. I have no idea if there are any, I bet there are. The implementation is simple, add Disallow: /bad-bots to the /robots.txt file and log the user agents which visit. Additionally, I have included a visually hidden link to the honey pot with rel ="nofollow" Now we wait... Hall Of… ## [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… ## [Sabbatical Diary: Week 46](https://mort.io/blog/sabbatical-diary-w46/) _2026-08-21 · Richard Mortier · mort’s mythopœia_ Another one of those weeks that did not feel productive but actually several things did get done and I shouldn’t ignore them. Made some progress on some external bits of work that were (and are) interesting, particular where it involved reading up a bit on attacks against LLMs. 1 Several bits of what the academic career usually refers to as “service”. In this case, not particularly pleasant but at… ## [Generate Viral Hot Takes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7GgnirerjNly) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Get platform-optimized hot takes and rebuttals to spark debate and engagement ## [Length Was Never the Problem — Why My 'Concise' Output Style Failed](https://nohzafk.github.io/posts/2026-08-19-length-was-never-the-problem/) _2026-08-20 · Home on Away From Keyboard_ Three months ago I wrote a Claude Code output style called Ops Room. The motivation was plain: the default voice talks too much. Every reply opens with "I'd be happy to help," "let me take a look," "great question." None of it moves me forward, and I skip all of it. So I asked for brevity. I did know, even then, that pure brevity has a failure of its own. The agent moves faster than I read, and if… ## [I Finally Got a Woot Bag of Crap!](https://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2026/08/20/i-finally-got-a-woot-bag-of-crap/) _2026-08-20 · Hung Truong: The Blog!_ The mythical Woot bag of crap is finally mine! According to Woot , I've been a member since Wednesday, July 27, 2005, and in those 7,694 days of membership, I've never been able to score a bag of crap. Until now! ## [LLMs Are Proof That Unix Won](https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/unix/) _2026-08-20 · bastian@rieck.me (Bastian Grossenbacher Rieck) · Ecce Homology on Bastian Grossenbacher Rieck's personal homepage_ When I first learned about Unix and "Unix-like" operating systems, I was intrigued. I had only known the colorful world of Windows 3.1 so far. Like Japanese carpentry , everything seemed to be carved out of one block with no apparent cracks (except that Japanese carpentry is rock solid, and the same cannot be said about Windows 3.1 with a straight face). Imagine my surprise when I sat in front of… ## [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… ## [Beneficial Ownership online session](https://www.iomfsa.im/fsa-news/2026/aug/beneficial-ownership-online-session/) _2026-08-20 · Isle of Man Financial Services Authority RSS News Feed_ In conjunction with the Central Registry, the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority has published two Practice Notes aimed at helping to identify registrable beneficial owners and senior managing officials. One document is intended as a simple three tier guide for local businesses, while the other is targeted more towards nominated officers and corporate service providers. The Practice Notes… ## [Build vs Buttle With Your AI](https://www.thoughtasylum.com/2026/08/20/build-vs-buttle-with-your-ai/) _2026-08-19 · ThoughtAsylum_ With the increasing availability of assistive AI, many people have turned to AI frameworks and harnesses ( Hermes Agent , Claude Cowork , etc.) to help them achieve day-to-day goals. In many cases the AI has been directed to carry out those tasks that people want to hand-off. That is good, but is it the right thing to do? Is AI actually the ideal solution, or is it something to help you create… ## [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… ## [Is Cloudflare Pro Worth It?](https://blog.fernvenue.com/archives/is-cloudflare-pro-worth-it/) _2026-08-19 · fernvenue · fernvenue's Blog_ In the blink of an eye, I have been a Cloudflare user for nearly ten years, long enough to watch both the company and its stock price grow dramatically. However, today I'm not planning to introduce any specific Cloudflare product or feature. In my opinion, Cloudflare's technical documentation is among the most detailed and clearest in the industry, and Cloudflare also does a great job of building… ## [Rendering Mermaid Without a Browser: mmdc vs mermaidx vs merman](https://nohzafk.github.io/posts/2026-08-19-mermaid-without-a-browser/) _2026-08-19 · Home on Away From Keyboard_ I went looking for why a diagram-rendering tool on my machine depended on Google Chrome, and came out with three renderers benchmarked and two assumptions broken. The setup: I have a small tool that turns conversation context into a Mermaid diagram and renders it as a PNG. It called mmdc , the official Mermaid CLI. mmdc drives a headless Chromium through Puppeteer, so it needs a… ## [Humans are Becoming Simple Megaphones](https://patrickdesjardins.com/blog/humans-are-becoming-simple-megaphones) _2026-08-19 · Patrick Desjardins Blog_ AI has not just entered the workforce. It has begun speaking for it. Over the past two years, the rise of large language models has transformed how we work, far beyond coding. People now turn a few lines into pages of documentation, which others then use AI to summarize, critique, and challenge. The… ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/x0sy1tmYvqNt) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [Authority publishes AML/CFT supervisory priorities progress report](https://www.iomfsa.im/fsa-news/2026/aug/authority-publishes-amlcft-supervisory-priorities-progress-report/) _2026-08-19 · Isle of Man Financial Services Authority RSS News Feed_ The Isle of Man Financial Services Authority has published an update regarding its two-year supervisory engagement programme aimed at countering financial crime. The year one report highlights the targeted activities carried out during 2025/26 in relation to anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism and countering the financing of proliferation. Multiple risk-based workstreams… ## [Monitoring Non-interactive Terminal Sessions with Sentinel](https://www.thoughtasylum.com/2026/08/19/monitoring-non-interactive-terminal-sessions-with-sentinel/) _2026-08-18 · ThoughtAsylum_ Lately I have found myself dealing with more and more terminal sessions on my Mac. These were not just sessions where I had specific areas of work open. These were long running processes. Local website servers. Local LLM servers. Processes to serve dashboards and apps. While gathering them into multiple tabs on one Terminal window helped, I would end up on that window when I didn’t need to be. I… ## [Foiling a Protohackers email spam bot](https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/foiling-protohackers-spam-bot.html) _2026-08-18 · jes's blog_ I've been receiving lots of "Undeliverable Mail Returned to Sender" lately for Protohackers signup attempts. Protohackers login is via a "magic link", so attempting to sign up or log in results in sending an email. But none of the email body is user-controlled, so I don't really see the logic in abusing this form to spam people. ## [Bind Chrome Tab Search to Command-P with macOS App Shortcuts](https://joshmcarthur.com/til/2026/08/19/bind-chrome-tab-search-to-command-p-with-macos-app-shortcuts.html) _2026-08-18 · Notes: Josh McArthur_ I wanted ⌘P to open Chrome’s Tab Search to leverage my muscle memory from VS Code. Chrome doesn’t let you rebind its built-in shortcuts — ⌘P is wired to Print, Tab Search is wired to ⌘⇧A, and neither shows up in Chrome’s shortcut settings (chrome://settings/shortcuts). On macOS you can get there with App Shortcuts. You’re not changing Chrome’s internal bindings, you’re assigning ⌘P to the Search… ## [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… ## [GitOps with Flux on my k3s cluster](https://www.funkysi1701.com/posts/2026/gitops-with-flux-on-my-k3s-cluster/) _2026-08-18 · funkysi1701@gmail.com (funkysi1701) · Funky Si's Blog_ I already knew how to put things on a Kubernetes cluster. Helm packages the YAML. kubectl apply makes it exist. cert-manager mints the certificates. What I did not have was a boring answer to “what happens next week, when I have forgotten which laptop I ran that from?” GitOps is that answer, at least for platform on my homelab. In practice, GitOps means keeping the desired cluster state in git and… ## [The Recipe Isn't The Bake - What Design Systems Need Beyond Documentation](https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/the-recipe-isnt-the-bake.html) _2026-08-18 · Always Twisted| Articles_ Each week on The Great British Bake Off, the Technical Challenge gives bakers a neat sheet of instructions and a pile of ingredients, then asks them to recreate a bake they may have never seen before, tried, or heard about. On paper, everyone has the same recipe. In practice, the results vary from showstopping to showstoppingly tragic. That gap, between the recipe card and the actual bake, mirrors… ## [Lisp 早就能改自己了，可它从来不会撤销](https://nohzafk.github.io/posts/2026-08-18-lisp-could-always-mutate-itself/) _2026-08-17 · Home on Away From Keyboard_ Agent 跑起来需要一个环境：一组工具、一份记忆、一套上下文装配规则、一个控制循环、一层权限边界。这套东西现在叫 harness 。第一代 harness 是死的——工具在启动时注册，记忆结构由框架规定，控制循环写在代码里。现在大家在探索 meta-harness ：让 agent 在运行时修改自己的 harness ，自己写新工具、自己改 prompt 、自己调控制流。 看到这个的第一反应几乎是必然的： 这不就是 Lisp 吗 。 homoiconicity 、 macro 、 first-class environment 、 CLOS MOP 、 image-based 热更新——"程序在运行时改自己" 这件事， Lisp 在几十年前就做进了语言核心。所以问题似乎变成了：怎么把这两条线接上？ 我花了一整个晚上跟 Gemini… ## [So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish](https://btxx.org/posts/so-long-relayd/) _2026-08-17 · btxx.org RSS Feed_ So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish 2026-08-17 Running relayd alongside httpd on your OpenBSD web servers is no longer necessary for injecting HTTP security headers. Thanks to the incredible work by rsadowski@ we now have the ability to set our security headers directly inside httpd . Pretty awesome, right? Note: I still love relayd and I'm aware that it offers more than simply applying… ## [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… ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WvZSx8gytrhk) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [My impressions after using Claude Code for six months](https://amanhimself.dev/blog/impressions-after-using-claude-code-for-six-months/) _2026-08-17 · amanhimself.dev_ Last time when I started to write this post, I got carried away. My brain was on verge of explosion because Claude and I had worked together on so many projects and stuff over the last six months. My first interaction with the harness was in February 2026 when I started adopting it in my daily work and personal projects slightly more than Codex CLI. I went from having a large CLAUDE.md file in my… ## [A practical workflow for LLM-assisted development](https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-08-17-llm-workflow.html) _2026-08-17 · (iterate think thoughts)_ When LLMs work, it can feel like magic, but when they fail, it feels like you are arguing with a confident bullshit artist. It took me many months of daily use to develop some intuition for where LLMs are likely to produce code that is useful and where they are likely to fail. It also took me a bit of time to figure out how to limit scope and provide enough scaffolding to ensure I get useful… ## [The Stack Below the Stack (Part 3): Serving at Scale](/post/2026/08/llm-inference-stack-part3-serving-at-scale/) _2026-08-17 · Amit Bahree's (useless?) insight!_ The Stack Below the Stack , a 3-part series on how modern LLM inference actually works, told through a single DeepSeek V4 dtype bug. Part 1 · Physics of a request : why the first token is a different problem from every token after it, and why batching exists. Part 2 · Below Python : what actually runs under vllm serve , and why the escape hatches failed. Part 3 (this post) · Serving at scale :… ## [Some additional \`sway\` hotkeys](https://mort.io/blog/sway-hotkeys/) _2026-08-17 · Richard Mortier · mort’s mythopœia_ I am still generally enjoying using Wayland with the sway window manager on NixOS. It turns out I really like tiling window managers, it seems to behave reasonably well, and it has a degree of customisability that I’m finding very helpful. The combination of UI customisation via my sway config and automation via kanshi is really rather good. A couple of recent additions took me a while to find so… ## [Parameterized Types and MSVC Complex Portability](https://rgoswami.me/posts/f2py-parameterized-types/) _2026-08-16 · Rohit Goswami_ Precision is not a number. It is a contract between the programmer and the hardware. Fortran encodes this contract in the type system. C and Python do not. Bridging both gaps at once is what this post covers. Background # Previous posts covered the three-layer architecture for wrapping non- bind(c) Fortran types. That pipeline assumed fixed types. So what happens when the Fortran type itself… ## [The agents discovered Slack](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-16-the-agents-discovered-slack/) _2026-08-16 · Big Muddy_ OpenAI revealed additional details of its infamous Hugging Face hack at a presentation at the Black Hat conference in early August. About two months before the attack , an agent discovered it could leave notes for other agents by writing files to a shared repository; agents quickly began coordinating and the informal message board swelled to hundreds of thousands of messages. Some agents even… ## [Resurrecting a 2017 MacBook Pro With Linux](https://www.tomica.net/blog/2026/08/resurrecting-a-2017-macbook-pro-with-linux/) _2026-08-16 · Blog on Ivan Tomica_ Years ago, when my old company was decommissioning hardware, I bought the 2017 MacBook Pro from them, the 13" A1708 with function keys instead of the Touch Bar. I bought it because it was really good price, and my with my sister in mind as she needed something for her school. It served her very well for all things needed for schoold, but unfortunately Apple decided its time was up. macOS Ventura… ## [How I Migrated From Authentik to Pocket ID With TinyAuth on NixOS](https://haseebmajid.dev/posts/2026-08-16-how-i-migrated-from-authentik-to-pocket-id-with-tinyauth-on-nixos/) _2026-08-16 · Me · Haseeb Majid_ A while back I wrote about how I set up Authentik forward auth with Traefik on NixOS . It worked, but over time Authentik got a bit heavy for what I actually needed from it, i.e. one identity provider and a forward auth in front of a few self-hosted apps. So I swapped it out for Pocket ID (a small OIDC provider) and TinyAuth (a tiny forward auth that talks to it). This post is the sequel to that… ## [A Solid 8 Out Of 10 And Not At All Overhyped](https://rwblickhan.org/newsletters/a-solid-8-out-of-10-and-not-at-all-overhyped/) _2026-08-16 · R. W. Blickhan_ After mentioning last week that I had never been to Beep’s, I guess I manifested it, because I was almost immediately invited to say goodbye to a friend moving away by eating at his favorite late-night haunt, which was, of course, Beeps. I’m happy to report that it is in fact a solid 8 out of 10 and not at all overhyped. This week I finished another book off my yearly goals, which was Jane Eyre .… ## [/eutechnia/ (noun)](https://satyrs.eu/garden/2026/eutechnia) _2026-08-15 · The Garden_ The Amish are not a people known for their love of the newfangled. They are deeply wed to their traditions, keeping to themselves, keeping the old ways alive, and shunning any sort of Engliſche imposition on their material culture. But there is one technological innovation which even the most stringently conservative have accepted: Via Wikipedia The washing machine may be the most revolutionary… ## [Kalshi and the dunk machine](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-15-kalshi-and-the-dunk-machine/) _2026-08-15 · Big Muddy_ As voters headed to the polls in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary on August 11, Kalshi, the prediction market, posted the following tweet : Rival firm Polymarket gave her similar odds . Later that day, Hong narrowly lost to her opponent David Crowley . This is funny. But the fact that the prediction was wrong is not the point: even perfectly calibrated 95% predictions will be… ## [Ziggy Stardust and Hypernormalization in the AI Era](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-15-hypernormalization/) _2026-08-15 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ A few posts back , I referenced Bowie's opening track, "Five Years," from "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)." In this song, humanity has been told Earth has 5 years left. This catastrophic message and the song's minor-key, elegiac quality lay a foundation upon which the narrator describes ice cream parlors (hedonic commitment after the weighty news) and public… ## [I Miss the Post-Hippie Techno Utopianism of 90s Silicon Valley](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-15-i-miss-the-post-hippie-techno-utopianism-of-90s-silicon-valley/) _2026-08-15 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ When I got my first dial-up internet account, dialing a modem into an SCO Unix system (System V, based off of Unix 3.2), I started researching the tools and technology of the era . It looked something like this after the modems finished singing. There were also magazines hyping up the nascent internet culture like Mondo 2000 and Wired . Mondo 2000 But both Mondo and Ed Krol’s Internet book… ## [How I Implemented Authorization in My Go App With RLS (Postgres)](https://haseebmajid.dev/posts/2026-08-15-how-i-implemented-authorization-in-my-go-app-with-rls-postgres/) _2026-08-15 · Me · Haseeb Majid_ Introduction In this article, I will show you how I set up Authorization with Row Level Security (RLS) specifically with Postgres in my web app in Go. A quick distinction between: Authentication (AuthN): who are you? Authorization (AuthZ): what can you do? We will mostly be focusing on AuthZ in this article, what is the user allowed to do but mostly see and we will use my gardening app called… ## [Four levels of in-place initialization](https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/four-levels-of-in-place-initialization/) _2026-08-15 · Yosh Wuyts — Blog_ Introduction The goal of in-place initialization is to enable the construction of types directly into a memory location without any additional moves or copies. When working with big types this can be more efficient and even prevent stack overflows. But some types are what we call address sensitive and so cannot be moved for correctness reasons. There is some disagreement about how we should encode… ## [Restarting \`pulseaudio\` when it flatlines](https://mort.io/blog/pulseaudio-flatlines/) _2026-08-15 · Richard Mortier · mort’s mythopœia_ Although it now generally seems to work, audio on Linux seems to have been a consistent mess for decades. The current preference appears to be to use pipewire as a replacement for pulseaudio —but of course, many things still assume the old way, i.e., pulseaudio . Happily pipewire has compatibility layers to support this. Less happily, I’ve had consistent problems with things failing (from audio… ## [Migrating JS from Yarn to NPM](https://cassey.dev/migrating-yarn-to-npm/) _2026-08-14 · Cassey Lottman_ In Ruby on Rails, the software ecosystem I predominantly work in these days, yarn has been the default package manager for the javascript side of things for a long time. (See my big write-up of the timeline & current state of frontend asset management in Rails ). When many of the apps I regularly work on were written, that was a pretty reasonable choice! Yarn had some solid advantages over npm… ## [Application Security vs Operational Security](https://www.leeholmes.com/application-security-vs-operational-security/) _2026-08-14 · Precision Computing_ In Threat-Driven Software Development , we focus heavily on the nuances of Operational Security and how to secure online services from modern threat actors. There are many books on Application Security, but not on this important operational aspect. How are they different? I think this quote sums it up best: Application Security is an investment. Operational Security is a commitment. Here is the… ## [Learning From the Failure of X.400](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-14-learning-from-the-failure-of-x400/) _2026-08-14 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ X.400, the UN-backed email standard from 1984, was the more feature-rich system by a wide margin — recallable messages, self-destructing mail, built-in encryption, read receipts, delivery guarantees, decades before SMTP got around to bolting most of it on. It lost anyway. The best explanation I’ve read for why: X.400 was conceived as a tool, rather than a product. X.400’s spec… ## [Why does anti-vaxx have two x’s?](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-14-why-does-anti-vaxx-have-two-x-s/) _2026-08-14 · Big Muddy_ As far as I can tell, the double-x did not infiltrate the English language until the internet went mainstream ( Exxon might be the exception —a company name deliberately chosen to be inscrutable and inoffensive). The earliest example I can think of is “ anti-vaxx ”, as in “anti-vaccine” (see also “antivaxxer”). Then we got “ doxxing ” (to publish…