# sink (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover sink. Page: Feed: --- ## [EVERYTHING BUT THE BATHROOM SINK No.3](https://takecare.substack.com/p/everything-but-the-bathroom-sink-128) _2026-08-05 · Allison · Take Care of Yourself_ What's bringing me joy lately – and what's not ## [Bobbi Brown on Aging Honestly at 69](https://takecare.substack.com/p/bobbi-brown-on-aging-honestly-at) _2026-07-19 · Allison · Take Care of Yourself_ The beauty of looking like yourself – L'Argent 005 ## [we should be having parades about the fact that clean water comes out of the sink](https://pompomette.bearblog.dev/we-should-be-having-parades-about-the-fact-that-clean-water-comes-out-of-the-sink/) _2026-06-14 · pompomette · pompomette zᶻ ૮˶- ﻌ -˶ა⌒)ᦱ_ Today I went to get some water from the sink. We’re in a heat wave, and the water ran warm for a couple seconds before going cool. As I stood there, I was struck by the realization that this is absolutely unthinkable for the vast vast majority of human history (and I’m sure to millions of people right now). Clean, safe water whenever I want it??? Right there in my house????? And it’s even COLD????… ## [Crème de la Crèmes](https://takecare.substack.com/p/creme-de-la-cremes) _2026-06-14 · Allison · Take Care of Yourself_ Sometimes you do have to pick ## [Learning a language has rewritten the code of my brain](https://pompomette.bearblog.dev/learning-a-language-has-rewritten-the-code-of-my-brain/) _2026-05-25 · pompomette · pompomette zᶻ ૮˶- ﻌ -˶ა⌒)ᦱ_ A few months ago I remarked to my partner that I keep encountering people who are traveling to Japan. I mentioned I’d love to do this someday. He mentioned that the traveling he has done was much more fun when he went to places where he knew the language. This also happened to be a time where I had sustained a habit of avoiding The Scrolling Things for long enough that I found myself with some… ## [EVERYTHING BUT THE BATHROOM SINK No.2](https://takecare.substack.com/p/everything-but-the-bathroom-sink-3fb) _2026-05-20 · Allison · Take Care of Yourself_ What's bringing me joy – and what's not ## [i carry your heart(i carry it in my registrar)](https://pompomette.bearblog.dev/i-carry-your-hearti-carry-it-in-my-registrar/) _2026-05-20 · pompomette · pompomette zᶻ ૮˶- ﻌ -˶ა⌒)ᦱ_ In my last post, I talked about getting stuck trying to find a domain. Yesterday, I encountered an important fork in the road I am calling The Face Test. This requires a little context. Using a custom domain is not new to me. I come from a proud lineage of nerds, and I’ve had my own domain as long as I’ve had an email. It was bought a maintained for me by my dad, and after I established myself as… ## [A Centenarian on Aging Honestly at 104](https://takecare.substack.com/p/a-centenarian-on-aging-honestly-at) _2026-05-17 · Allison · Take Care of Yourself_ L'Argent 004 ## [What’s in a name?](https://pompomette.bearblog.dev/whats-in-a-name/) _2026-05-16 · pompomette · pompomette zᶻ ૮˶- ﻌ -˶ა⌒)ᦱ_ For the past couple weeks, I’ve been trying to think of a fun domain name. I have an uncommon last name so I have lastname.tld, but I also want something just fun. Some of the new TLDs (top level domains, if you’re unfamiliar) are pretty sparsely populated, so you can get a fun snappy one with relative ease. Problem is, my mind has gone blank. I get stuck here a lot. I find myself before some… ## [Makeup that meets you there](https://takecare.substack.com/p/makeup-that-meets-you-there) _2026-05-03 · Allison · Take Care of Yourself_ Products for when you're short on time, skill, and patience ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cjhDRibz6luR) _2026-05-03 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [It's juuuuust that easy!](https://pompomette.bearblog.dev/its-juuuuust-that-easy/) _2026-04-29 · pompomette · pompomette zᶻ ૮˶- ﻌ -˶ა⌒)ᦱ_ First blog post! I have been enjoying the buzzing about of folks participating in the "indie web revival", especially on neocities. I realized that the only thing I'm really fired up about sharing for myself is a blog, and while you can certainly do that on neocities, it doesn't seem like that's it's strong suit. I've begun to be comfortable learning new things, but I like how this blog is already… ## [Not Another Sephora Sale Post](https://takecare.substack.com/p/not-another-sephora-sale-post) _2026-04-12 · Allison · Take Care of Yourself_ Well, kind of ## [50 Shades of White (outfits)](https://takecare.substack.com/p/50-shades-of-white-outfits) _2026-04-05 · Allison · Take Care of Yourself_ Keep your clothes on for this love story ## [10 "Uncool" Things I Find Extremely Cool](https://takecare.substack.com/p/10-uncool-things-i-find-extremely) _2026-04-02 · Allison · Take Care of Yourself_ On being warm ## [EVERYTHING BUT THE BATHROOM SINK No.1](https://takecare.substack.com/p/everything-but-the-bathroom-sink) _2026-03-27 · Allison · Take Care of Yourself_ What's bringing me joy – and what's not ## [Trace sampling in SerilogTracing](https://nblumhardt.com/2024/10/sampling-in-serilog-tracing/) _2024-10-15 · Nicholas Blumhardt_ Sampling in SerilogTracing is taking shape. If you haven’t heard of SerilogTracing, that’s not surprising - it’s a brand new project launched in January 2024 . But, we’ve reached 250k downloads of the core package , and we’re still picking up steam. 😎 This post takes a look at the sampling functionality that’s arrived in SerilogTracing 2.2. Trace sampling There are a few things we can do to… ## [.NET's ActivityListener sampling API](https://nblumhardt.com/2024/10/activity-listener-sampling/) _2024-10-04 · Nicholas Blumhardt_ Distributed tracing can generate a lot of data, and sampling is the most established method to keep data volumes manageable. In .NET, the System.Diagnostics.ActivityListener class exposes two properties to control sampling: Sample , and SampleUsingParentId . How do these work? If you just switched browser tabs to check the documentation, I know why you’re back. There’s barely any useful… ## [Visualizing the Serilog 4.1 batch retry algorithm](https://nblumhardt.com/2024/10/retry-time-limit/) _2024-10-03 · Nicholas Blumhardt_ This is a quick post exploring how Serilog 4.1 (currently in preview) schedules retries when logging fails. Logs tucked away in a file on a remote server aren’t very useful, so sending log events across a network to a centralized collector, log server, or service is very common. But, networks are unreliable and services have outages, so logging systems need to support retries when a network… ## [Serilog fallback sinks](https://nblumhardt.com/2024/10/fallback-logging/) _2024-10-02 · Nicholas Blumhardt_ Currently in preview , Serilog 4.1 adds support for falling back to a second sink when the first sink fails. This scenario shows up in a few variations, usually revolving around a network-based log collector, and a local, persistent destination such as a rolling log file that’s used when the network-based collector is unavailable. Some low-volume scenarios use email logging or a Slack channel as…