# rsquo (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4767 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rsquo. Page: Feed: --- ## [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… ## [On being the right size](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-26-on-being-the-right-size/) _2026-08-26 · Big Muddy_ During my undergrad in biology, we were assigned to read biologist J. B. S. Haldane 's essay " On Being the Right Size ", collected in his 1927 book Possible Worlds and Other Essays . The essay centers on the inextricable link between an organism's size and its form; for example, the mechanics of a rabbit would not work at the scale of a hippopotamus, nor would the mechanics of a whale work at the… ## [Lambdas (again) and def syntax](https://blog.poleprediction.com/posts/lambdas-and-def-syntax/) _2026-08-26 · Allanderek's blog_ I have written about lambdas several times: First regarding lambda syntax in Python Then again about lambda syntax in Elm Then again critiquing a post about Python lambdas The common theme in all of these is roughly: Does lambda syntax really need to exist? I think the answer is quite clearly, "no". We could get by just fine if we were forced to use definition syntax to create all functions.… ## [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… ## [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! ## [The exception that proves the rule](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-25-the-exception-that-proves-the-rule/) _2026-08-25 · Big Muddy_ I first learned a more useful meaning of the expression "the exception that proves the rule" from the essay "Death Before Birth, or a Mite's Nunc Dimittis " in The Panda's Thumb , a 1980 collection by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. (I would link to the full version of the essay, but it seems the only website freely hosting it is an archive dedicated to Ted Kaczynski , so, uh, yeah.) In common… ## [Daily plans, scheduled by AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KVNqIwtEBMqt) _2026-08-25 · **Sponsored**_ AI-made daily plans that schedule tasks and protect focus time. ## [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. ## [I am once again reminded that LLMs don't really "see" anything](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-24-i-am-once-again-reminded-that-llms-don-t-really-see-anything/) _2026-08-24 · Big Muddy_ I shared the above image with ChatGPT with the following prompt: "I need to write about this marvelous scene." I was curious about what the AI would have to say. I was immediately disappointed by the response: a long paean to the USS Indianapolis speech from Jaws . It's a marvelous scene, to be sure, but it's not the scene in question. The still depicts the railway baron Mr. Morton from Sergio… ## [Over/Under #80 with Eric Bower](https://lazybea.rs/ovr-080/) _2026-08-24 · hyde@lazybea.rs (Hyde Stevenson) · Lazybear_ T his week my guest is Eric Bower . Eric lives in a terminal. He also maintains pico.sh and zmx . His blog is bower.sh , go check it and subscribe to his RSS feed . Eric has also a YouTube channel , and a GitHub page with his projects. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ POSIX Both. Overrated because the specification has a lot of unspecified behavior that makes relying on it quite tumultuous. Even… ## [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. ## [Little Muddy](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-23-little-muddy/) _2026-08-23 · Big Muddy_ I launched another blog yesterday: Little Muddy . For the next thirty days, GPT-5.6 Sol will choose a topic, research it if necessary, write a post, and publish it once a day without any intervention from me. I have given it a fixed editorial guide loosely describing the style, habits, and subject matter of Big Muddy, along with a suggested length of 150–500 words. It has access to web search, but… ## [Interesting Stuff - Week 34, 2026](https://nielsberglund.com/post/2026-08-23-interesting-stuff---week-34-2026/) _2026-08-23 · Niels Berglund_ A short roundup this week, but the two posts pair up better than they have any right to. Both are about doing useful work when you can't see the whole picture yet: one at the level of streaming telemetry, the other at the level of a project you haven't fully figured out. First, Microsoft Fabric Eventstream feeding a KQL Database, with materialised views and in-engine anomaly detection landing in… ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/30ora5Z5iiw8) _2026-08-23 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [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… ## [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… ## [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. ## [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,… ## [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 . ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZRyPlberw1hj) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [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… ## [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… ## [ChatGPT is not Reddit](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-21-chatgpt-is-not-reddit/) _2026-08-21 · Big Muddy_ A few months ago, I wrote a post entitled " Google AI Overviews is Reddit ". Today, I am here to bring you the news that ChatGPT is no longer Reddit. Promptwatch, an AI search monitoring and optimization company, reported that ChatGPT citations of Reddit collapsed between August 13 and August 14. Assuming the company's data are even halfway representative of typical source citation behaviour, this… ## [The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon](https://enhaq.com/the-everything-store-jeff-bezos-and-the-age-of-amazon/) _2026-08-21 · My Ledger_ In February 1994, a Texas publisher named John Quarterman printed a chart in a monthly newsletter called Matrix News. It showed that the number of bytes transmitted over the World Wide Web had grown by a factor of 2,057 between January 1993 and January 1994. Packets sent over the Web had jumped by a factor of 2,560 in the same twelve months. A twenty-nine-year-old running a quantitative fund's… ## [I get faster speeds when i update my linux laptop with bpn on. Indian problems ig](https://blackpiratex.com/thoughts/i-het-faster-speeds-when-i-update-my-linux-laptop--298724/) _2026-08-21 · BlackPirateX - Unified Feed_ I get faster speeds when i update my linux laptop with bpn on. Indian problems ig ## [Installing Linux vs Windows 98 in 2000](https://www.sweharris.org/post/2026-08-20-win98-vs-linux-in-2000/) _2026-08-21 · Ramblings of a Unix Geek_ There's been a lot of push recently (especially on some youtube channels) for "The Year Of Linux On The Desktop". Partly because of the crap Microsoft has been pulling. Partly because Windows is turning into a bigger pile of shit than it's always been. And maybe there's some contrarianism involved. And it seems Linux is slowly moving up the Steam charts. I find this amusing; I've been a Linux user… ## [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,… ## [Making a notes app feels simple, Until it’s not.](https://blackpiratex.com/thoughts/making-a-notes-app-feels-simple-until-its-not-518281/) _2026-08-20 · BlackPirateX - Unified Feed_ Making a notes app feels simple, Until it's not. ## [Modular CSS Classes and Elements](https://jakeworth.com/tils/modular-css-classes-and-elements/) _2026-08-20 · Jake Worth_ A goal of modular CSS is to scope styles to components. Globally styling elements like h1 is to be done sparingly. Instead, we use class syntax: /\* Component.module.css \*/ . header { color : purple ; } // Component.tsx import { styles } from './Component.module.css' ; const Component = () =\> { return ( \< section \> \< h1 className = { styles . header }\> A purple header here 💜 \ \… ## [The Power of One Test](https://jakeworth.com/posts/the-power-of-one-test/) _2026-08-20 · Jake Worth_ A developer experience and quality control measure I take on programs I'm building, even small ones, is always to write at least one test. ## [Trustworthy polling, rebuilt](https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-08-20-trustworthy-polling-rebuilt/) _2026-08-20 · Big Muddy_ On Monday, the L.A. Times broke the story that a supposed polling firm that had just released a poll favourable to incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was fake. In response to basic questions posed by the newspaper, the previously unknown firm, Median Strategies, wrote that the company "was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and… ## [Link: Mojo is now open source](https://blog.poleprediction.com/posts/mojo-is-now-open-source/) _2026-08-20 · Allanderek's blog_ Mojo is now open source , via Simon Willison . I was also struck by the same quote as Simon in the Mojo road map : As Mojo matures through phase 3, we believe it will become increasingly compatible with Python code and deeply familiar to Python users, but more efficient, powerful, coherent, and safe. Mojo may or may not evolve into a full superset of Python, and it's okay if it doesn't. We're… ## [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.