# simple (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1151 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover simple. Page: Feed: --- ## [Encountered a texting tech glitch today...](https://jasonjournals.com/posts/2026-08-22-encountered-a-texting-tech) _2026-08-22 · JASON JOURNALS_ Encountered a texting tech glitch today. RCS messages from my Android phone were unsent to one person because the recipient, using an iPhone, appeared offline. SMS/MMS texting worked fine though.... ## [\[Finished reading The Bullet Journal Method.\]](https://jasonjournals.com/posts/2026-08-22-finished-reading-the-bullet) _2026-08-22 · JASON JOURNALS_ \[Finished reading The Bullet Journal Method.\] ## [15 Must Buy Dollar Store Items That are Actually Worth It](https://www.simplyfrugal.ca/must-buy-dollar-store-items/) _2026-08-22 · Taya | Simply Frugal · Simply Frugal_ 15 Must Buy Dollar Store Items There are definitely some things I wouldn’t recommend buying at the dollar store, but that doesn’t mean you should write off the whole place! There are tons of items that can save you money, especially when you’re shopping for things that don’t need to be fancy or last forever. \[…\] ## [How to Create a Spending Journal to Take Control of Your Money](https://www.simplyfrugal.ca/how-to-create-and-keep-a-spending-journal/) _2026-08-22 · Taya | Simply Frugal · Simply Frugal_ How to Create a Spending Journal to Take Control of Your Money We journal our thoughts, our meals, our goals and sometimes even our workouts. But how often do we actually write down what we’re spending? A spending journal is one of the simplest ways to get a clearer picture of where your money is \[…\] ## [Anger Is Not Fun](https://jasonjournals.com/posts/anger-is-not-fun) _2026-08-22 · JASON JOURNALS_ “Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger…” — Ephesians 4:26 Today’s devotional talks about anger between people in a relationship. Anger happens. We’ve all felt it before. I like the scripture above that acknowledges this unfortunate fact because it’s realistic. The Bible does not pretend that Christians never get angry. And because it admits this problem, it can also… ## [Full Measure](https://dittytoy.net/ditty/7a716f887f) _2026-08-22 · Dittytoy_ Goose - Full Measure - original at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cGhxh9gm4 - transcribed from https://onlinesequencer.net/5261760 Technically it's Half Truths, given there is no drum track here. ## [Sicker Medicare Advantage Enrollees, Including in Nursing Homes, More Likely to Switch to Traditional Medicare](https://skillednursingnews.com/2026/08/sicker-medicare-advantage-enrollees-including-in-nursing-homes-more-likely-to-switch-to-traditional-medicare/) _2026-08-21 · Zahida Siddiqi · Skilled Nursing News_ Older adults with newer, more complex medical conditions were more likely to leave a Medicare Advantage plan for traditional Medicare, and this likelihood increased as medical complexity increased, according to a new study released Friday. The study published in the JAMA Health Forum builds on earlier research showing that people who develop serious illnesses, including cancer, were more likely to… ## [How Nursing Homes Can Prepare for the Risk-Based Survey Era Amid Lingering Underfunding and Surveyor Subjectivity](https://skillednursingnews.com/2026/08/how-nursing-homes-can-prepare-for-the-risk-based-survey-era-amid-lingering-unfunding-and-surveyor-subjectivity/) _2026-08-21 · Amy Stulick · Skilled Nursing News_ In the upcoming era of risk-based surveys, consistency in storing and accessing patient data across facilities, especially following mergers and acquisitions, is ever more important. Providers will have to reconcile with some things remaining the same, however, including surveyor subjectivity. Even as the change to the risk-based survey process has been lauded by the sector \[…\] The post How… ## [KDE Linux experiences](https://akselmo.dev/posts/kde-linux-experiences/) _2026-08-21 · Akseli · AksDev_ I daily drove KDE Linux for almost a year and I liked it, but I'm also switching back to Fedora KDE . Here's my ramblings about it all. KDE Linux is the hot new Linux distro from KDE themselves. At the moment it uses Arch Linux as it's base but with heavy modifications and changes. You can read more about it on the site, but to sum up: It's an atomic/"immutable" distro that does not have any kind… ## [KDE Linux experiences](https://akselmo.dev/posts/kde-linux-experiences/) _2026-08-21 · Akseli · AksDev_ I daily drove KDE Linux for almost a year and I liked it, but I'm also switching back to Fedora KDE . Here's my ramblings about it all. KDE Linux is the hot new Linux distro from KDE themselves. At the moment it uses Arch Linux as it's base but with heavy modifications and changes. You can read more about it on the site, but to sum up: It's an atomic/"immutable" distro that does not have any kind… ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sV7g5tPrVBWe) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [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. ## [An experiment in concurrent agents using vllm](https://brainwagon.org/blog/2026-08-21-an-experiment-in-concurrent-agents.html) _2026-08-21 · Brainwagon_ I analyzed a video showing AI agents operating within a persistent, game-like world, and I realized the real appeal isn't the premise, but the technical stack. I want to build a system featuring many narrow agents, each with memory and real-world tool access, which coordinate through a visible, spatial interface. ## [“The First Bank That Understood Us”: How One Small-Care Provider Found Its Partner in Growth](https://skillednursingnews.com/2026/08/the-first-bank-that-understood-us-how-one-small-care-provider-found-its-partner-in-growth/) _2026-08-20 · Jack Silverstein · Skilled Nursing News_ Assured Senior Living was ready to grow. If only they could find a bank ready to grow with them. The year was 2018, and the Wheat Ridge, Colorado-based provider of assisted living and memory care services needed a lending partner to help them expand in the residential AL market. The model of 8-16 residents per \[…\] The post “The First Bank That Understood Us”: How One Small-Care Provider Found Its… ## [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… ## [Using my Moto Razr flip phone, I forgot...](https://jasonjournals.com/posts/2026-08-20-using-my-moto-razr) _2026-08-20 · JASON JOURNALS_ Using my Moto Razr flip phone, I forgot that simply opening it automatically answers a phone call — cool! And closing/folding it hangs up with a nice snap. I'm still... ## [Cancer vaccine breakthrough: Moderna, Merck’s mRNA shot cuts melanoma return and spread](https://www.medicalnews.pk/20-Aug-2026/cancer-vaccine-breakthrough-moderna-merck-mrna-melanoma) _2026-08-20 · Reuters · Medical News Pakistan - Trending_ A personalized cancer vaccine from Moderna and Merck has delivered one of the most important clinical results yet for mRNA technology outside infectious diseases, reducing the risk of high-risk melanoma returning and spreading when added to Merck's immunotherapy Keytruda. ## [The Cost of AI Subscriptions](https://brainwagon.org/blog/2026-08-20-the-cost-of-ai-subscriptions.html) _2026-08-20 · Brainwagon_ I use a combination of paid AI subscriptions, like Anthropic and Google, for intensive coding tasks, but I also enjoy supplementing my workflow with free, local models running on Ollama. This setup lets me build custom projects, like my own YouTube algorithm, without paying per-token costs. ## [Inside the Litigation Impact of CMS’ New Risk-Based Survey Process on Nursing Homes](https://skillednursingnews.com/2026/08/inside-the-litigation-impact-of-cms-new-risk-based-survey-process-on-nursing-homes/) _2026-08-19 · Zahida Siddiqi · Skilled Nursing News_ The new risk-based nursing-home survey process, set to begin September 8, could raise litigation concerns because the streamlined approach uses fewer survey activities and a smaller resident sample, potentially allowing problems relevant to civil liability cases to go undetected. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) surveys are also only a snapshot of a facility at a particular… ## [Rethinking Nursing Home Closures: True Market Exits Versus Org Restructuring](https://skillednursingnews.com/2026/08/rethinking-nursing-home-closures-true-market-exits-versus-org-restructuring/) _2026-08-19 · Amy Stulick · Skilled Nursing News_ Decades-long data on nursing home closures reveals that ownership changes have become an increasingly important pathway for facilities to remain open, while homes that don’t undergo a change in ownership may be more likely to close. While nearly half of nursing homes from 1985 to 2025 followed a simple entry-to-exit pathway, one-fifth remained open via \[…\] The post Rethinking Nursing Home… ## [There May Be Nobody There](https://yusufaytas.com/there-may-be-nobody-there) _2026-08-19 · Yusuf Aytas_ Why AI;DR immediately makes sense: readers are looking for a human mind behind the words, not just useful information without effort, personality, or authenticity. ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kq9rPQDF9mj8) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [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… ## [Nobody Could Have Written the Ticket](https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/nobody-could-have-written-the-ticket/) _2026-08-19 · James Randall_ This is part of a pair of articles on the impacts of agent driven development - you can read thoughts on the review process here. I threw away the entire AI for Annhexation and started again. Annhexation is my 4X strategy game (which incidentally you can wishlist on Steam!). Not refactored it. Deleted it, wrote a new spec, built the second one from scratch. If you look in the source you'll find a… ## [One Art Please!](https://brainwagon.org/blog/2026-08-19-one-art-please.html) _2026-08-19 · Brainwagon_ I wrote a simple script to test the true cost of generating images using various AI models hosted on OpenRouter, since the listed price and the actual bill are often different. ## [Shorter MDS Reporting Window and Growing Emphasis on Accuracy Underpin CMS’ Quality Reporting Push](https://skillednursingnews.com/2026/08/shorter-mds-reporting-window-and-growing-emphasis-on-accuracy-underpin-cms-quality-reporting-push/) _2026-08-18 · Zahida Siddiqi · Skilled Nursing News_ Minimum Data Set (MDS) submissions are about to become a lot more complicated for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) places greater emphasis on the accuracy and timeliness of quality reporting while tightening the MDS reporting window in its final payment rule. Under the FY 2027 SNF Final \[…\] The post Shorter MDS Reporting Window and Growing… ## [Guardian Shortage Causing Hospital-to-Nursing Home Bottleneck, With $31M to $54M in Estimated Impact](https://skillednursingnews.com/2026/08/guardian-shortage-causing-hospital-to-nursing-home-bottleneck-with-31m-to-54m-in-estimated-impact/) _2026-08-18 · Amy Stulick · Skilled Nursing News_ A shortage of guardians, or those empowered to make medical decisions on behalf of incapacitated patients, is contributing to a hospital bottleneck in Massachusetts, according to a report published by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) and Eastern Research Group, in collaboration with the Bureau of Health Safety and Quality. The DPH estimates there \[…\] The post Guardian Shortage… ## [How to Feed a Family on $50 This Week: A Practical Grocery Budget Plan](https://www.simplyfrugal.ca/feed-a-family-on-50/) _2026-08-18 · Taya | Simply Frugal · Simply Frugal_ How to Feed a Family on $50 This Week: A Practical Grocery Budget Plan One of the things I love most about home cooked meals is how they bring a family together. There is something pretty special about gathering around the kitchen table, eating something delicious and talking about what happened during the day. Unfortunately, \[…\] ## [Someone Still Has to Sign It - and the Research Says They'll Stop Reading](https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/someone-still-has-to-sign-it/) _2026-08-18 · James Randall_ This is part of a pair of articles on the impacts of agent driven development - you can read thoughts on backlog here. Excitement continues around coding assistants and we're really now at the point where fully agentic loops are possible - pull a ticket, understand it, change the code, open the PR, respond to review comments. Not toy tickets either. Real ones, off the real board. It works. That's… ## [Canning for Beginners: How to Get Started Safely and Easily](https://www.simplyfrugal.ca/canning-for-beginners/) _2026-08-18 · Taya | Simply Frugal · Simply Frugal_ Canning for Beginners: How to Get Started Safely and Easily There’s something incredibly satisfying about opening a jar of homemade jam, pickles, peaches, or tomato sauce in the middle of winter and remembering that you preserved it yourself. If you’ve never tried it before, though, canning for beginners can feel a little intimidating. There are \[…\] ## [Nicotine pouches emerge as Big Tobacco’s next growth engine](https://www.medicalnews.pk/18-Aug-2026/nicotine-pouches-big-tobacco-future-beyond-cigarettes) _2026-08-18 · Reuters · Medical News Pakistan - Trending_ Nicotine pouches are emerging as one of the tobacco industry's biggest bets for a future beyond cigarettes, with rapid sales growth, high margins and relatively lighter regulation helping products such as Zyn and Velo attract growing attention from investors and tobacco companies. ## [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… ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7QCzFbDuV8JH) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## [Slack is live in DirectFlow](https://yeldar.org/blog/slack/) _2026-08-18 · Yeldar Kudaibergen · Yeldar Kudaibergen_ We just added Slack as a delivery channel in DirectFlow. You can now follow a website, blog, podcast, or YouTube channel and choose Slack as the place where you want to receive new updates. The flow is simple: Source → Follow → Slack → choose a channel → done. New publications will be delivered directly to the Slack channel you selected. One more destination for the same DirectFlow: Follow once.… ## [Second brain in practice: fewer files, more connections](https://alexbrodt.com/second-brain-in-practice) _2026-08-18 · Alex Brodt – Articles_ How to turn notes, sources, and ideas into a living knowledge system, with real examples from study, work, and writing. ## [Torn Between Analog Or Digital](https://jasonjournals.com/posts/torn-between-analog-or-digital) _2026-08-17 · JASON JOURNALS_ I thought and hoped that this time I’d settle into the analog lifestyle. But digital called me back again. So now I’m intentionally using some apps as a bullet-journal replacement. Whether you go analog or digital, there are trade-offs. I’m just a little torn between the two, wanting the best of both worlds — impossible. You can't have your cake and eat it too. ## [Venza CNO Lisa Chubb Urges Clinical Leaders to Put Their ‘Oxygen Mask on First,’ As Burnout, Policy Changes Fray Nerves](https://skillednursingnews.com/2026/08/venza-cno-lisa-chubb-urges-clinical-leaders-to-put-their-oxygen-mask-on-first-as-burnout-policy-changes-fray-nerves/) _2026-08-17 · Amy Stulick · Skilled Nursing News_ Constant policy changes with already excessive compliance in place have long been a source of burnout for nursing home staff. But for skilled nursing industry veteran, Lisa Chubb, chief nursing officer for Venza Care, creating a culture designed specifically to support staff, what she refers to as “putting your oxygen mask on first, ” has \[…\] The post Venza CNO Lisa Chubb Urges Clinical Leaders to… ## [Skilled Nursing Dealbook: Nursing Home Portfolios Change Hands in Michigan, New Mexico](https://skillednursingnews.com/2026/08/skilled-nursing-dealbook-nursing-home-portfolios-change-hands-in-michigan-new-mexico/) _2026-08-17 · Zahida Siddiqi · Skilled Nursing News_ A three-facility, 347-bed skilled nursing portfolio in Michigan changed hands. Meanwhile, a three-facility, 360-bed portfolio in New Mexico was also sold. 347-bed SNF sold in Michigan Evans Senior Investments (ESI) completed the sale of a three-facility, 347-bed skilled nursing portfolio in Michigan on behalf of an institutional owner exiting the state. Welltower acquired the \[…\] The post Skilled… ## [How to Live Below Your Means: 9 Simple Ways](https://www.simplyfrugal.ca/how-to-live-below-your-means/) _2026-08-17 · Taya | Simply Frugal · Simply Frugal_ How to Live Below Your Means: 9 Simple Ways to Spend Less Than You Earn Living on less than you make is one of the simplest ways to create more breathing room in your finances. And despite what you might think, living below your means doesn’t mean living a boring life or never buying anything \[…\] ## [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… ## [My open-source contribution of a long-awaited feature was accepted](https://kevinquinn.fun/blog/contribution-to-loop-habits/) _2026-08-17 · Hoarding Minimalist. Product-minded Software Engineer. Usually confused. on Kevin Quinn_ After a long hiatus, I can finally say that my PR to add a long-awaited search bar into the Loop Habits app has been merged 1 for the next release! The maintainer made some tweaks to better fit their long-term vision, but I'm excited that the work I put in was enough to catalyze a feature addition that had stalled for over 5 years with regular requests to add it 2 . This is the most used app on my… ## [Abusado - Caco Barcellos](https://alexbrodt.com/book-abusado-caco-barcellos) _2026-08-17 · Alex Brodt – Articles_ My impressions about Abusado, a detailed and immersive portrait of Santa Marta and the story of Marcinho VP. ## [Start here](https://peterstuifzand.nl/start-here/) _2026-08-17 · Peter Stuifzand_ This site is a long-running collection of notes, essays, and small software projects. These articles are good introductions to some recurring concerns: clear thought, making things in the real world, and software that leaves room for people to choose and build. Notes as thinking Questions for Notes — Questions give a note a place in a larger structure of claims, answers, and next actions. How to… ## [How to Have a Healthy Money Mindset](https://www.simplyfrugal.ca/how-to-have-a-healthy-money-mindset/) _2026-08-16 · Taya | Simply Frugal · Simply Frugal_ How to Have a Healthy Money Mindset: 7 Simple Ways to Feel Better About Your Finances When I first started paying closer attention to my spending, I didn’t necessarily think I had a problem with money. I was simply curious about where all of it was going. Back in 2008, I decided to try something \[…\] ## [The SDLC Was Designed for Humans](https://yusufaytas.com/the-sdlc-was-designed-for-humans) _2026-08-16 · Yusuf Aytas_ AI agents are entering a software delivery system built around human speed, judgment, and accountability. The next SDLC needs machine-readable context, enforceable limits, reproducible environments, and new measures of safe work. ## [The SDLC Was Designed for Humans](https://yusufaytas.com/the-sdlc-was-designed-for-humans) _2026-08-16 · Yusuf Aytas_ AI agents are entering a software delivery system built around human speed, judgment, and accountability. The next SDLC needs machine-readable context, enforceable limits, reproducible environments, and new measures of safe work. ## [The SDLC Was Designed for Humans](https://yusufaytas.com/the-sdlc-was-designed-for-humans) _2026-08-16 · Yusuf Aytas_ AI agents are entering a software delivery system built around human speed, judgment, and accountability. The next SDLC needs machine-readable context, enforceable limits, reproducible environments, and new measures of safe work. ## [unethical life hack to get 2nd carry-on for free](https://kevinquinn.fun/til/2nd-carry-on-free-only-pay-anxiety/) _2026-08-16 · Hoarding Minimalist. Product-minded Software Engineer. Usually confused. on Kevin Quinn_ Til: if you're willing to sit with discomfort and a bit of anxiety, you can get a 2nd carry-on for free. The strategy seems to be bringing two carry-on size bags, one that is plausibly smaller than the other, then feign trying to make it fit under the seat until you finally request a stewardess's help. Woman next to us on a flight did this and it worked, no one charged her. No way it works on… ## [The Creation of Abulafia](https://blog.veitheller.de/abulafia.html) _2026-08-16 · Veit's Blog_ In 1988, Umberto Eco published Foucault’s Pendulum. In it, three editors at a Milan publishing house (Belbo, Diotallevi, and Casaubon) spend their working… ## [\[Starting reading this book today...](https://jasonjournals.com/posts/2026-08-15-starting-reading-this-book) _2026-08-15 · JASON JOURNALS_ \[Starting reading this book today. So far, it’s great.\] ## [Took the kids to see Toy Story 5...](https://jasonjournals.com/posts/2026-08-15-took-the-kids-to) _2026-08-15 · JASON JOURNALS_ Took the kids to see Toy Story 5 last night. Fun! ## [I’m Writing a Book on WebAssembly and Spin](https://thorsten-hans.com/i-am-writing-a-book-on-wasm-and-spin/) _2026-08-15 · Thorsten Hans_ Hey friends 👋🏼, If you’ve been following my activities over the recent years, you know I can’t stop talking about the third wave of cloud computing . Server-side WebAssembly is completely changing the game for cold-start latency and container bloat. Today, I’m thrilled to announce I’m turning those talks and architectural patterns into a practical, hands-on guide: Building… ## [Meshtastic meets Tomagotchi: Long Range Mesh Radio Network](https://jch.github.io/posts/2026-08-15-meshtastic-tomagotchi.html) _2026-08-15 · Jerry Cheung_ Dennis (AD6DM) told me about Meshtastic before Defcon 34, so I bought 2 little radios from the merch area to try it out. If I'm being honest, what hooked me was the adorable 3d-printed tomagotchi 1 case and the custom firmware that gives you a pet to feed and take care of. The radio is cool too! Defcon was a great place to try it out because there were nodes everywhere, making it easy to trace how…