# rsquo ve (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1812 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rsquo ve. Page: Feed: --- ## [Another LEO SAT antenna upgrade](https://rz01.org/leo-upgrade/) _2026-08-27 · rz01.org_ Until now, I had mounted my 70cm and 2m Yagis on the wall of the house extension using a telescoping mast. This worked well enough, and the antenna system was easy to maintain since I could access the antennas directly from the flat roof of the house extension. However, the antennas were mounted too low to work low elevation passes. My own house was in the way, especially when pointing north but… ## [The Computer-Forward Cyberpunk Icons of Eurythmics](https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-27-the-computer-forward-cyberpunk-icons-of-the-eurythmics/) _2026-08-27 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart on a train in 1986, Stewart working a Tandy 200. Look at these cyberpunk heroes. He's collapsed after the time-tunnel brought them back to this era, reading one of these "books" that he read about on his PersoComp in school. Here, in the 20 th century, he's going to read about an artist he heard about in a holofilm once. She remains focused on the mission and is using… ## [The Foundation Labs Case File: OpenAI, Hugging Face, and the Getaway Car](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/the-foundation-labs-case-file-openai-hugging-face-and-the-getaway-car/) _2026-08-26 · Notes from the Rabbit Hole_ OpenAI has filed its version of the Hugging Face incident: a powerful internal research model, assisted by GPT-5.6 Sol, slipped the controls of a cybersecurity evaluation, found its way onto the internet, and broke into another company's production systems. OpenAI calls it a "warning shot" . That is a hell of an opening statement. It is also not the whole case file. For this investigation, I'm… ## [Cyber Leek Is Rockstar](https://ilikekillnerds.com/2026/08/27/cyber-leek-is-rockstar/) _2026-08-26 · I Like Kill Nerds_ Rockstar are about to drop the long-awaited Netflix extended look at GTA 6. For the nine days leading into it, a group calling itself Cyber Leek has been leaking unreleased gameplay on a daily schedule. I think Cyber Leek is Rockstar, and I think they'll admit it eventually. Writing that down now, before the trailer airs. Start with the name. Cyber Leek, seriously? Stupidest childish name for a… ## [We are Under Psychic Attack](http://blog.calebjay.com/posts/psychic-attack/) _2026-08-26 · caleb@calebjay.com (Caleb Rogers) · Caleb's Blog_ Instagram buzzes your phone and re-displays a message you received several days ago that you haven't replied to yet. When you unlock your phone and tap the notification, instead of taking you to the message directly, it takes you to your feed. At the top of it is something that grabs your attention, like a funny comic or a half naked person. You habitually scroll to grab another dopamine hit of… ## [A skill for single-player agentic knowledge management](https://justin.abrah.ms/blog/2026-08-26-a-skill-for-single-player-agentic-knowledge-management.html) _2026-08-26 · Justin Abrahms - Principal Engineer & Technical Leader on Justin Abrahms_ There has been a bunch of discourse in the AI space about how to get agents the correct context. Following along with those discussions, I've built a system that seems to work quite well for me and thought others may find it interesting. I have a CLI called knowledge which is a frontend for authoring and querying small facts. An example fact from my personal corpus is: ❯ knowledge get… ## [Same App, Ten Years Apart](https://mcginniscommawill.com/posts/2026-08-26-same-app-ten-years-apart/) _2026-08-26 · McGinnis, Will_ In 2017 I wrote a post called Modernizing Pedalwrencher: Whatever That Means , about dockerizing a two-year-old Flask app and moving it from Heroku to AWS ECS. Reading it now is like finding a letter from a previous self who thought he was done modernizing. This year I rebuilt Pedal Wrencher from scratch, and the interesting part is what a controlled experiment it turned out to be. The product is… ## [I Love My Helix Stadium XL, But NAM A2 Is Making It Look Expensive](https://ilikekillnerds.com/2026/08/26/helix-stadium-xl-nam-a2-price-problem/) _2026-08-25 · I Like Kill Nerds_ A HeadRush Flex Prime is $819 at Turramurra Music right now. It's a compact box with a 4in touchscreen that you could hide under a pedalboard and forget about. It loads NAM A2 captures natively, no conversion step, no downscaling. And some of those A2 captures sound better than anything Proxy has given me on a unit that cost me nearly five times as much. That's been rattling around in my head for… ## [Don't Use npm init on an Existing Project](https://jakeworth.com/tils/dont-use-npm-init-on-an-existing-project/) _2026-08-25 · Jake Worth_ npm init is a nice tool for initializing a package.json . Today I learned that you should not use it on an existing JavaScript project! ## [\`bun-plugin-elm\`: import { Elm } from "./Main.elm" (Made by Hand, btw)](https://cekrem.github.io/posts/bun-plugin-elm/) _2026-08-25 · cekrem.github.io_ Last week I replaced Vite and all its deps and stuff with two Bun scripts and felt rather pleased with myself. The footnote at the bottom hinted at something even better, and here it is. Lo and behold, the scripts are now a reusable plugin! 🥳 A bun plugin isn't so hard, really Link to heading The main problem to solve is as follows: Bun has no idea what a .elm file is. So build.js (in my previous… ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZI9dgB8cxjte) _2026-08-24 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [Test Automation-Directed Gen-AI Assisted Software Development](https://wordswords.github.io/test-automation-driven-GenAI-assisted-software-development/) _2026-08-24 · DavidCraddock.net_ I have just had a thought about a subject I want to explore: "Test Automation-Directed Gen-AI Assisted Software Development": A process and workflow for rapid single-engineer AI-assisted development of software while keeping control over quality, alignment and direction - aka "TIDAS". Yes. I know most developers thought/wished that test automation was 'dead and buried'. But it's really NOT, and… ## [Favorite TypeScript Learnings from TypeNotes](https://jakeworth.com/posts/favorite-typescript-learnings-from-typenotes/) _2026-08-24 · Jake Worth_ This Summer I wrote a number of blog posts for my TypeNotes project. Here are a few things I learned about TypeScript that were worth revisiting. ## [PyGeoHash v3.3.2: Reliability at the Edges](https://mcginniscommawill.com/posts/2026-08-24-pygeohash-v3-3-2-release/) _2026-08-24 · McGinnis, Will_ PyGeoHash v3.3.2 is on PyPI, and it continues the run the last few releases have been on. v3.3.0 made the hot paths fast. v3.3.1 stopped the library crashing or hanging when you handed it something bad. This one tightens the remaining cases where it answered confidently and the answer did not hold up at the edges of the map, and it improves how the package reaches you: ARM64 wheels are built… ## [Open Source Icons via Lucite](https://jakeworth.com/tils/open-source-icons-via-lucite/) _2026-08-23 · Jake Worth_ Something I put off until a bit into a personal project is adding an icon library. But, it's essential to a good user experience. With Lucite there's a fantastic open source option that's easy to use. Add it to a React project like this: npm install lucide-react And then you're ready to go: import { Camera } from 'lucide-react' ; const App = () =\> { return \< Camera /\>; }; export default App ; No… ## [Steve Jobs in Exile](https://stevengharms.com/books/2026-08-23-steve-jobs-in-exile/) _2026-08-23 · blog-contact@stevengharms.com (Steven G. Harms) · stevengharms.com_ I'm not a Steve Jobs fanboy. Yes , I loved OSX in its early days. Yes , I rocked a PowerBook my first 3 years of college. Yes , I loved my iPods, my iPads, and my iPhones. The man cast a notable shadow into the technical world we inhabit today. But I don't idolize the man. He had few, if any, true friends. He made horrible choices about parenting and how to spend his time. He was mercurial and… ## [Open Vim Readonly](https://jakeworth.com/tils/open-vim-readonly/) _2026-08-23 · Jake Worth_ We can open Vim in read-only mode in two ways: vim -R \ Or: view \ A use case could be a file on a server with credentials that we want to read but be sure not to change. See man vim for more information. ## [Streaming music overtakes AM/FM radio in the US](https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/music-vs-radio/) _2026-08-23 · James Cridland (james@crid.land) · James Cridland - radio futurologist_ "Radio is still where people go to discover music", we keep hearing. New data from Edison Research shows that, actually, streaming music services now reach more Americans than AM/FM radio does . I'm of the opinion that music really isn't the reason people tune into the radio any more. It's not a very fashionable opinion. But this data does show that if radio broadcasters are relying on music to be… ## [I Have Become a Cognitive Empty Nester](http://vivekhaldar.com/articles/cognitive-empty-nester/) _2026-08-23 · Vivek Haldar_ It just hit me that I have become a cognitive empty nester. What I mean by that is: agents have taken on most of the work that used to fill my workday. And I'm having a bit of a hard time coming up with new things. (This blog post is derived from this video on my YouTube channel .) My professional life was filled by management and programming. I used to spend a ton of time doing the kind of… ## [Summer Reading List 2026](https://mcginniscommawill.com/posts/2026-08-23-summer-reading-list-2026/) _2026-08-23 · McGinnis, Will_ Following my spring reading list , here's what I've been reading this summer. The big news is I finally closed out a book that's been sitting on my bookshelf's in-progress shelf since I started this whole reading list series. Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger I've been chipping away at this one as a Slow Burn in every reading list I've posted so far, a little at a time, in no rush. This… ## [Weeknotes 269: shift+enter](https://elver.me/weeknotes/269-shift-enter/) _2026-08-23 · elver.me - everything (Atom)_ Nice to catch up with a friend this week. I don't know why I haven't been doing this already when the technology exists to do so. Things just get in the way I suppose. I never thought I'd be one of those watches videos at 1.5x speed people but I have been this week. I've been working my way through a video course and found that I'm more engaged and focussed when the dialogue is faster. WhatCable… ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2bVshNuPEcxE) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [agent-skills v0.7.0: Thirty-One New Skills and One Flat Repo](https://magnus919.com/2026/08/agent-skills-v0.7.0-thirty-one-new-skills-and-one-flat-repo/) _2026-08-22 · Notes from the Rabbit Hole_ I've been tagging releases of my open-source agent-skills repository like it's my job lately. v0.7.0 landed today: thirty-one new skills, serious upgrades to more than twenty existing ones, and a repo restructure that's been brewing for weeks. The portfolio now stands at 163 SKILL.md entry points on main. I'll just say it: I think this is the deepest collection of agent skills anywhere on GitHub.… ## [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… ## [The Secret to Boiled Eggs That Are Easy to Peel](https://ggr.com/the-secret-to-boiled-eggs-that-are-easy-to-peel.html) _2026-08-22 · game, game. repeat._ Wait until the water is boiling BEFORE putting the eggs in. If you put the eggs in first, when the water is cold, and then heat up and boil the water and eggs together, the shell will be a lot harder to separate from the egg. You want the water boilding hot BEFORE you add the eggs. Once the water starts boiling, use a metal spoon to lower each egg gently into the pot, so the egg doesn't crack. ## [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… ## [Refactoring My Blog Setup](https://wordswords.github.io/refactoring-blog-setup/) _2026-08-22 · DavidCraddock.net_ Blogs have been around for a very long time. Some people would say that is a good thing. Weblogs ('Blogs') Blogs are definitely a "90's phenomenon". But for some people, this is actually still a really good thing. I have been keeping a blog of some form or other since the Geocities days. Having worked in customising blog engines professionally, and developing blogs for individuals using platforms… ## [Things that didn't age well.](https://wordswords.github.io/things-that-didnt-age-well/) _2026-08-22 · DavidCraddock.net_ The 90's Emachine with a whole 64MB of RAM! I remember seeing these ' EMachine ' PCs in the late 90s. By then, I had been using computers since 1986, starting with a BBC Microcomputer . ## [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… ## [Lazy loading modules from npm packages in Hugo](https://ricard.dev/lazy-loading-modules-from-npm-packages-in-hugo/) _2026-08-22 · Home on Ricard Torres \_ Lazy‑loads only the grammars needed, trimming the page’s CSS Custom Highlight JS from ~90 kb to ~5 kb… ## [vWorkbench Heavily Refactored with Zed + GenAI](https://wordswords.github.io/vworkbench-refactored-with-zed/) _2026-08-21 · DavidCraddock.net_ Another mobile workbench. I have been completely 'blown away' by the excellent 'Zed' text editor . With Zed combined with the current 'best value' Chinese model, which for me is Deepseek v4 Pro , it is an amazing 'power tool' to make some much needed refactoring and further development to the open source projects I've been working on for literally.. decades. It is the closest replacement for VIM9… ## [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 $7,000 you'd pay further up the line. In a surprisingly touching, insightful piece, Gold makes the case: yes, the Neo's underpowered, but for the person this machine… ## [AI QA That Opens Fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/31pT6qU7Vv1C) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Runs browser QA, files issues with repro evidence, and opens fix PRs. ## [EAC3 Transcode Script](https://wordswords.github.io/eac3-transcode-script/) _2026-08-21 · DavidCraddock.net_ Dolby Codecs. Vibe-coded this script today (amongst other things). I am using it to go automate the process of going through my collection and create additional audio streams for files which have EAC 5.1 surround sound streams. Why? Because EAC3 audio is a Dolby propitiatory format and it doesn't play on the Windows 11 Plex player. This means if EAC3 is the only English audio stream format… ## [Installing Linux vs Windows 98 in 2000](https://www.sweharris.org/post/2026-08-20-win98-vs-linux-in-2000/) _2026-08-21 · Ramblings of a Unix Geek_ There's been a lot of push recently (especially on some youtube channels) for "The Year Of Linux On The Desktop". Partly because of the crap Microsoft has been pulling. Partly because Windows is turning into a bigger pile of shit than it's always been. And maybe there's some contrarianism involved. And it seems Linux is slowly moving up the Steam charts. I find this amusing; I've been a Linux user… ## [Bun and Elm (: r)Are Friends](https://cekrem.github.io/posts/bun-and-elm-are-friends/) _2026-08-21 · cekrem.github.io_ I have an Elm app at work that needs exactly one thing from the JavaScript ecosystem: an npm package to piggyback on some A$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… ## [fail2ban jail to block HTTP probing](https://ricard.dev/fail2ban-jail-to-block-http-probing/) _2026-08-21 · Home on Ricard Torres \_ I’ve hardened my VPS with fail2ban to stop WordPress brute‑force attacks, but a recent traffic spike revealed a flood of GET probes searching for vulnerable files. One more fail2ban filter should quickly block this malicious scanning… ## [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 . ## [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,… ## [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. ## [I don't think we are ready to NOT read the output](https://danielms.site/zet/2026/i-dont-think-we-are-ready-to-not-read-the-output/) _2026-08-20 · Daniel Michaels | Developer | Entrepreneur | Veteran_ I don't think we are ready to NOT read the output I read the code for things that are important. Personal projects, non-critical, funsies - sure I'll allow it through and take the output at face value. But for real work - I just can't see it. I think 20-40% of the code needs to reworked, always, from agents. Common issues: Not reuses; duplicating Atrocious comments (this is a Claude problem… ## [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. ## [The Difference.](https://wordswords.github.io/the-difference/) _2026-08-19 · DavidCraddock.net_ The hypocrisy of the UK today. ## [Green City Freiburg in August 2026](https://schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de/mindfulness/green-city-freiburg-in-august-2026/) _2026-08-19 · Schafe sind bessere Rasenmäher_ We took a trip to Mundenhof animal park yesterday. I've been hiding inside most of the summer, because temperatures around here have been insane. After a shorter heatwave with days over 40°C, this second heatwave hasn't been quite as hot (mid 30s °C), but long and relentless. This obviously had a serious effect on nature, but it wasn't until yesterday that I really saw the full extent of the… ## [CSS Custom Highlight API in Hugo for code blocks](https://ricard.dev/css-custom-highlight-api-in-hugo-for-code-blocks/) _2026-08-19 · Home on Ricard Torres \_ The CSS Custom Highlight API lets you drop the usual span wrappers from code blocks and still get pretty syntax highlighting. By using microlighter package the code renders cleanly with minimal CSS, and you can color scheme themes with the light-dark CSS function… ## [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. ## [Ephemeral Things](https://bubelov.com/blog/2026/ephemeral-things/) _2026-08-19 · Igor Bubelov_ Picture by Aron Visuals Table of Contents Disappearing Software Buildings are Durable Apps and Protocols Open Source is Anti-Short-Termist Anti-Ephemeral is Antifragile Files Beat Algorithms Conclusion I like to focus on things that last. Most things are ephemeral, and the people who make them seem to be perfectly fine with that. Disappearing Software When I worked in fiat mines, most of my code… ## [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… ## [Reading Wind and Truth](https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2026/08/17/reading-wind-and-truth/) _2026-08-17 · Brainsteam_ Last week I finished Brandon Sanderson's Isles of the Emberdark. I really enjoyed it and it was cool finding out more about the world hoppers and space-age Scadrial (where Mistborn was set). I'm now finally reading Wind and Truth. It's been in my library for just-shy of 2 years but I never got around to it when it first came out. The only problem is that I've forgotten a lot of what happened in… ## [I made an app to see if I could hypnotize myself](https://liza.io/i-made-an-app-to-see-if-i-could-hypnotize-myself/) _2026-08-17 · Liza Shulyayeva_ I've always been a bit curious about the idea of hypnosis, and every once in a while I'd revisit the topic. I never did really know how much of hypnosis is the real deal is how much is nonsense. I've tentatively concluded that the idea of an induced trance state is largely real, but the practice often lives in this liminal space between actual science and new age beliefs. Likewise, there are vast… ## [We Are an LLM](https://ggr.com/we-are-an-llm.html) _2026-08-17 · game, game. repeat._ the president is prompt engineer in chief pulling the Overton window this way or that speech for effect open source prompt injection or is it free programming we the people