# week (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3124 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover week. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2026/08/jzo8w/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-27 · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ Listened to Open Source Security: CVEs vs Advisories with Paul Asadoorian Post details Josh chats with Paul Asadoorian about a tool he wrote called fettle and a recent report Paul published on CVEs. Fettle is a tool to help update and manage Linux systems. The big sell on this one is checking if your firmware is out of date. We then talk about a report Paul created that doesn't obsess over CVEs,… ## [4 Random Thoughts, 1 Proverb, and 2 Random Videos](https://canro91.github.io/2026/08/27/RandomIdeas/) _2026-08-27 · Just Some Code_ To make my doomscrolling session from yesterday feel more productive: 4 random thoughts #1. Writing an About page is the hardest part of starting a blog or newsletter. #2. Welcoming DMs on social media feel like a preamble to sales pitches. What are you trying to sell me, dude? Let’s skip this part. Maybe because I don’t like sales calls . #3. Keep writing because you don’t know who’s reading .… ## [Sex Talk: Why Men and Women Communicate So Differently](https://pdcn.co/e/http://www.toginet.com/podcasts/harvestinghappiness/HarvestingHappinessLIVE_2026-8-26.mp3?type=podpage) _2026-08-27 · Harvesting Happiness Podcasts_ \*This episode explores human sexuality and is intended for mature listeners. Do you wish your partner communicated better? Have you considered that they may not be wired to do so? Biology and chemistry play important roles in how we communicate. Testosterone and Estrogen play a major role in gender communication and social behavior from an early age. To better understand why men and women… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/http://www.toginet.com/podcasts/harvestinghappiness/HarvestingHappinessLIVE_2026-8-26.mp3?type=podpage) ## [Denzel Washington: Live Up to Your Potential](https://www.jermainebrown.org/posts/denzel-washington-live-up-to-your-potential) _2026-08-27 · Jermaine Brown on Entrepreneurship_ Denzel Washington’s 2011 University of Pennsylvania graduation speech offers a memorable lesson on leaving your potential unfulfilled. ## [(untitled)](https://dnitza.com/posts/d054fa05-3c8d-4bc3-ad14-d01d9239e659) _2026-08-26 · Daniel Nitsikopoulos_ More cyanotype experiments. Top left, 2hr exposure Bottom, 1hr exposure Top right, 40min exposure ## [Alice Cooper](http://christopherhimes.com/blog/2026/08/26/alice-cooper.html) _2026-08-26 · Christopher Himes_ During a call that ended early today someone added “school’s out” to the chat. I knew Alice Cooper was from Detroit but I was curious if he ever played East Detroit High School. For whatever reason there was a number of bigger acts that would play high schools back in the day. The one example I have is Bob Seger playing a benefit in 1975. I found no evidence that he ever did play the high school… ## [(untitled)](https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2026/08/hneon/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-26 · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ Listened to Postgres at PlanetScale with Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale (Changelog Interviews #684) Post details Sam Lambert is back after 4 years and he does not hold back! We cover $5 PlanetScale Postgres, the Neki "do-over" of Vitess, agents shipping schema changes through deploy requests, rolling back a 500TB table in seconds, and the very real question of whether to open source any of it.… ## [Determining if your branch is part of a GitHub Stacked PR](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/26/zsh-stacked-pr/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-26 · articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ 🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 Since the availability of GitHub's Stacked PRs finally landing for repositories that use a Merge Queue, I've been "kicking the tyres" with some of my contributions to Renovate . They're working mostly well so far, but I'm finding it a bit annoying trying to remember if I'm on a branch that's part of a stack. I'd started wiring this into my zsh… ## [(untitled)](https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2026/08/3sngu/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-26 · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ Listened to A Modest Proposal Proposal - Fallthrough Post details The proposal proposal gets the full Fallthrough treatment. Kris, Matthew, and Jamie dig into Austin's plan for taming the Go project's ever-growing proposal backlog. What starts as a recap becomes a… ## [Memory Loss ~ I am only 16 but am afraid I am losing my memory](https://www.drkenner.com/-L26mp3/260822210710cpod-memory-loss-amnesia.mp3) _2026-08-26 · The Rational Basis of Happiness® radio show_ Memory Loss ~ I am only 16 but am afraid I am losing my memory. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download… ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5GY6uVvvvPEp) _2026-08-26 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [Dolly and us](https://www.nicksimson.com//posts/2026-dolly-and-us.html) _2026-08-26 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ It look a few years of living in East Tennessee to fully comprehend what Dolly meant to the people. Shortly after Eleanor got accepted into graduate school at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, we learned the university was presenting Dolly Parton an honorary doctorate . I knew Dolly Parton for her music and as a pop culture icon. The university’s website featured a publicity photo of… ## [Dolly and us](https://www.nicksimson.com//posts/2026-dolly-and-us.html) _2026-08-26 · Posts and notes from Nick Simson_ It look a few years of living in East Tennessee to fully comprehend what Dolly meant to the people. Shortly after Eleanor got accepted into graduate school at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, we learned the university was presenting Dolly Parton an honorary doctorate . I knew Dolly Parton for her music and as a pop culture icon. The university’s website featured a publicity photo of… ## [20260826](https://perceptindex.com/field-notes/20260826/) _2026-08-26 · Anton Simanov · Percept Index — All updates_ Rahgah is a fourth density world. I decided that before the first panel saw the light of day, and this week I spent some time making sure I could say what I mean by it, because the term gets thrown around a lot and most of the people chucking it tend to be vague at best and confused at worst. ## [WIP Wednesday: Happy with my progress](https://aubreysambor.com/wip-wednesday-happy-with-my-progress/) _2026-08-26 · Aubrey Sambor_ I don't have much to write in regards to my work in progress today because, well, it's the same sweater I've been knitting all month! I'm very happy with the progress I've made on the Lillesol sweater this past week even though it doesn't look like I've gotten much done. I do see progress, though, if I compare it to the picture from last week: At some point I'll start another knitting project or… ## The Louis Theroux Manosphere Documentary _2026-08-26 · George Abbott's Blog_ This is a bit late, isn't it! Inside the Manosphere was released this year, but in March, so I'm a good five months behind the curve. Story of my life. I enjoyed it. There was a very interesting bit where he spoke to.. let me look up the name again, they're all the same... Amrou Fudl (Fresh and Fit). The interesting thing was with his girlfriend, or ex-girlfriend I guess now, who basically had… ## [Five Favorite Lines From Love in Times of Cholera](https://canro91.github.io/2026/08/26/Cholera/) _2026-08-26 · Just Some Code_ I just finished reading Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in Times of Cholera. Here are five drops of wisdom I couldn’t help but underline (my own translations): #1. “Wisdom comes when it’s no longer of any use.” I’ve often heard people say, “I wish I knew what I know now five years ago.” #2. “The weak would never enter the kingdom of love, it is a harsh and miserly kingdom, and women surrender only… ## [How to keep thinking](https://cocoweb.fr/blog/en/2026-08-26_tips-how-to-keep-thinking/) _2026-08-26 · Cocoweb_ Tips and discovery of the week. - Keeping critical thinking alive, Mistral OCR 4, local AI on Apple Silicon, AI-native students, Turbo fieldflare, Bunqueue, QR data transfer, and design picks. ## [LeBron James: The $300M Bond King?](https://www.jermainebrown.org/posts/lebron-james-the-300m-bond-king) _2026-08-26 · Jermaine Brown on Entrepreneurship_ A nearly $300 million bond deal tied to LeBron James offers a case study in how private companies can borrow against long-term revenue streams. ## [TidyTuesday 2026/35](https://karaman.is/blog/2026/08/tidytuesday-2026-35) _2026-08-25 · Georgios Karamanis_ This week’s data is country music lyrics, a spreadsheet Grady Smith built by hand over six years for his video Every country song has these lyrics. Right? . It holds 484 singles that reached the Top 30 of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart between 2013 and 2019, with the full lyrics of each one. I ranked words by the share of each year’s songs that use them at least once. A word repeated forty… ## [Week 34 of 2026: lowlands](https://seblog.nl/2026/08/25/1/week-34) _2026-08-25 · Seblog.nl_ Week 34 of 2026: lowlands I went to a festival! I've added a new section called "listened" to deal with that, but I must warn: I wasn't really there for the music, I mostly just enjoyed camping with my friends. My highlight was seeing my brother dj'ing in at the India stage on Thursday evening – he's half of Indie Gloria. It was great to have this must-see in at the beginning of the festival, so… ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rkquoEP2eqER) _2026-08-25 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Bring Her Back](http://christopherhimes.com/blog/2026/08/25/bring-her-back.html) _2026-08-25 · Christopher Himes_ A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.sd Media Type: movie Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A gut punch. Some horror movies commit to being mean to the audience and this is one of those. This is a body horror movie so you have to be up for that sort of thing. Spoilers ahead! I think the movie does a great job of establishing the relationship between the… ## [Progressively Enhancing Grid Lanes](https://kpwags.com/notes/progressively-enhancing-grid-lanes/) _2026-08-25 · Keith Wagner_ The more I think about it, the less sympathy I have for Grid Lanes. You create a DOM order that you think makes sense, then you mess it up with CSS. Then, if you're aware of the problem, you fix it again with CSS. Finally, you have a patched-up layout that may have created other issues you can't address. I'm looking forward to Chrome's, Firefox's, and Safari's next moves. Until then, to sum it up,… ## [Who Should I Watch in College Football?](https://kpwags.com/posts/2026/who-should-i-watch-in-college-football/) _2026-08-25 · Keith Wagner_ To go along with my delve back into live sports, if I were going to start watching college football, who should I watch? I went to Drexel University who didn't have a football team. I had no college team to cheer on. I grew up rooting for Lehigh University football as my dad went there. I went to several games as a kid cheering them on. Penn State has sort of been on the periphery as my uncle and… ## [How I Work On My Side Projects](https://kpwags.com/posts/2026/how-i-work-on-my-side-projects/) _2026-08-25 · Keith Wagner_ When I build my side projects, I will generally handle them the same way I would at work in my professional career. It might seem like overkill, but I find that it's been working for me pretty well. Issue Types Every project for me gets 4 basic labels in GitHub or Codeberg. Features: These issues involve brand new functionality or an enhancement on existing functionality. It's probably pretty… ## [My new workflow for local code review with \`tuicr\`](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/25/tuicr/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-25 · articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ I spend a fair bit of my life reviewing code. Even if you discount the increase in code review that comes from increased usage of the output from Large Language Models, I'm still doing a lot of code review. Not only am I doing internal code review at work, but as a maintainer on Renovate and oapi-codegen , I spend a lot of time reviewing community contributions, as well as those from our… ## [Updating dependent branches when rebasing, automagically](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/25/git-rebase-update-refs/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-25 · articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ I'm regularly rewriting my history, often with the lens of improving my commit messages . On the Renovate project, we use a Merge Queue with Squash Merge, which means that if I do want to have atomic commits, I need to split them across PRs, which adds a bit of noise to manage them. Alternatively, I could bypass branch protection requirements to do a rebase merge, but that's the only way to do a… ## [On Pause](https://pfy.ch/weekly/2026/34.html) _2026-08-25 · Pfy.ch_ Day late! But I've had a big last few days. I took a big long weekend for myself, due to personal stuff going on. I won't go too much into detail but I think the time off was nice. I played arcade games, went for high tea with some friends, and bought myself some new outfits. s.remove());this.src=this.src;console.warn('FYI - You missed alternative formats when converting!')"/\>… ## [Even more nonsense today](https://aubreysambor.com/even-more-nonsense-today/) _2026-08-25 · Aubrey Sambor_ I'm having another day where I feel like I can't catch up with everything I have to do. I haven't been sleeping the greatest recently and when I don't sleep well, it throws off the rest of my day. I at least got out for a walk today in the sunny, 80 degree, zero humidity late August day in New England and that made me happy. It's been one of those days where cooking dinner felt hard, but I got it… ## [Write To Create, Not Just To Fill Platforms With Content](https://canro91.github.io/2026/08/25/Create/) _2026-08-25 · Just Some Code_ “Spending 4 hours writing a post that goes nowhere.” That’s the opening line of a rant I found on LinkedIn yesterday. I get it! What spend hours on something nobody sees? The algorithm always favors trending topics and big names. That rant reminded me of Maria Popova’s take on content. Don’t call it content. Don’t write just to fill a platform. Instead, write for yourself . Write as if you were… ## [How to fix pfSense 2.7.2 to 2.8.1 Upgrade Bricks Booting VMs](https://jlsksr.de/notes/26082501/) _2026-08-25 · Julius Kaiser · Julius' Web Pages_ TLDR Updating pfsense 2.7.2 to 2.8.1 via normal in-place upgrade renders VMs unbootable, with the last message on the console being mostly Dual Console: Video Primary, Serial Secondary . Turns out upgrade installs a new kernel, reboots and fails going on with installing a new userland ( init , sh , etc). Booting a rescue ISO, mounting the broken system and resuming the upgrade from the rescue… ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tHZOK3U2UPUD) _2026-08-24 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [Show Me the Receipts: The Feature Every AI Coding Tool Needs](https://blog.technodrone.cloud/2026/08/show-me-the-receipts.html) _2026-08-25 · Technodrone_ Your AI coding agent did something wrong. Instead of blaming the model, debug what it actually saw. Here's the feature that would make that instant. ## [AI Is Unleashing Main Street Entrepreneurs](https://www.jermainebrown.org/posts/ai-is-unleashing-main-street-entrepreneurs) _2026-08-25 · Jermaine Brown on Entrepreneurship_ A home builder’s surprising success with ChatGPT hints at something much bigger: AI could unleash a new wave of Main Street entrepreneurs. ## [Hard rebooting](https://mort.io/blog/hard-reboot/) _2026-08-25 · Richard Mortier · mort’s mythopœia_ This is one of those bookmarks for future me, from https://infosec.exchange/@hal\_pomeranz/115220370083388046 , wherein it is stated that the following incantation against the /proc filesystem will trigger a hard reboot: echo 1 \> /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq echo b \> /proc/sysrq-trigger It does require a root shell to write to those “files”, and you get none of the usual protections like file system sync… ## [Moving to Django 6.X](https://fundor333.com/post/2026/moving-to-django-6-x/) _2026-08-24 · Fundor333_ Why I upgrade to Django 6.x and why I need it now ## [Welcome to Blaugust Week Three](http://christopherhimes.com/blog/2026/08/24/welcome-to-blaugust-week-three.html) _2026-08-24 · Christopher Himes_ Questions are taken from the Blaugust post here . I dropped a few questions I did not have good answers for at the moment. Top five (or 10 or 20) musical artists. # Bright Eyes Cursive Death Cab for Cutie LCD Soundsystem Rilo Kiley Iron & Wine Jesse Welles Run The Jewels Wu-Tang Kendrick Lamar Top five (or 10 or 20) YouTubers/ Twitch streamers. # Baumgartner Restorations Kurzgesagt Emongg… ## [Welcome to Blaugust Week Two](http://christopherhimes.com/blog/2026/08/24/welcome-to-blaugust-week-two.html) _2026-08-24 · Christopher Himes_ Questions are taken from the Blaugust post here . This is late but I wanted to attempt some of these anyway. Tell us ten random facts about the human behind the blog. # I am the oldest of three. The first concert I went to, that I’m aware of anyway, was Sharon Lois, and Bram. I prefer my coffee cold. I am trying to teach myself guitar. I prefer an IPA. I do not care for favorites (movie, band,… ## [Who are the Quantum Users? Special Report - The Week in Quantum Computing, August 24th](https://quantumpirates.substack.com/p/who-are-the-quantum-users-special) _2026-08-24 · Sergio Gago · Quantum Pirates_ Who are the real quantum computing users? This week, besides your usual weekly recap (with some interesting pieces) we wanted to analyze a paper on the quantum personnas. Read on! ## [Stream It This Week: TV Premieres August 17–30, 2026](https://billfrost.substack.com/p/stream-it-this-week-august-24-2026) _2026-08-24 · Bill Frost · Bill Frost | BillFrost.tv_ New on TV this week: Adults, Dark Matter, The Whisper Man, Blue Murder Motel, Beauty in Black, and more ## [📣 Events: Week of AUG 24, 2026](https://sapphicla.substack.com/p/events-week-of-aug-24-2026-paid) _2026-08-24 · Sapphic LA_ volume iv • issue 34 ~ here's your rundown of queer, sapphic-friendly events happening in Los Angeles this week. ## [things to do this week in nyc — monday, august 24 to sunday, august 30](https://nosleepclubnyc.substack.com/p/things-to-do-this-week-in-nyc-monday-a7b) _2026-08-24 · shaye weaver · NO SLEEP CLUB NYC_ blumhouse on broadway and block party bites: here's your guide to this week and the weekend in the city! ## [Series A activity: Week of August 16, 2026](https://postround.substack.com/p/series-a-activity-week-of-august-35e) _2026-08-24 · Aaron Harris · PostRound_ There were 20 Series As in the last week that raised a total of $986.5 million. The average deal size was $49.3 million while the median was $15.0 million. ## [How to Measure Returns on AI](https://kpwags.com/notes/how-to-measure-returns-on-ai/) _2026-08-24 · Keith Wagner_ In the beginning there was ai, and bosses everywhere lost their minds and said you must all use this technology no matter whether it is useful and no matter how much it costs. And they introduced ai leaderboards and came up with stupid words like “tokenmaxxing”. And lo, usage did indeed rise. And then the bosses remembered some very basic concepts like “budgets” and realised that this might not be… ## [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… ## [Reading Log - August 24, 2026 (#186)](https://kpwags.com/reading-log/186/) _2026-08-24 · Keith Wagner_ This week it's a look at using the repository pattern with Entity Framework in .NET, an important rule with the new customizable HTML select controls, an interview with EFF's new executive director, and more. .NET C#: What Is the Repository Pattern for Data Access with Entity Framework? - Chris Pietschmann Web Development The golden rule of Customizable Select - Saron Yitbarek & Tim Nguyen… ## [(untitled)](https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2026/08/ss7i8/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-24 · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-shepherd/id1511456063?i=1000593088130 . ## [The deep sea dilemma: how can you protect what you don’t know about?](https://www.britishscienceassociation.org/Blog/the-deep-sea-dilemma-how-can-you-protect-what-you-dont-know-about) _2026-08-24 · British Science Association Blog_ Eva Stewart discovers new species on the ocean floor. She even gets to name them. Eva, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Natural History Museum, will be at the 2026 British Science Festival in Southampton, delivering the Award Lecture for the Environmental Sciences: The deep sea dilemma. In this guest blog for the British Science Association, Eva discusses her research with writer and science… ## [(untitled)](https://niklas.fyi/2026/08/24/ra7/) _2026-08-24 · Niklas Siefke_ It’s annoying when you loose data and don’t have an export. Especially when you just backfilled a lot of it. You could also try sparkles for adding books to your micropub endpoint. I like it a lot. It also gives you a book cover by searching the web for… ## [Porn Discovery ~ My kids found porn on my husband's phone.](https://www.drkenner.com/-L26mp3/260822210710bpod-parenting-pornography.mp3) _2026-08-24 · The Rational Basis of Happiness® radio show_ Porn Discovery ~ My kids found porn on my husband's phone. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free… ## [New Thoughtpiece: Ancient Authors](https://www.moonspeaker.ca/FoundSubjects/ThoughtPieces/thoughtpieces29.html#grst) _2026-08-24 · The Moonspeaker_ Being as it is that spring cleaning time of year, loosely speaking, it was also time to do some general note tidying. This means inevitably also the wonders of procrastinating, which is never so sweet as when really, we ought to be doing something more constructive. In this case, I was finally tackling an unorganized pile of course and lecture notes in what is often referred to as greek and roman… ## [Random Site of the Week: Canadian Women's Movements Portal](https://mouvementfemmes-womensmovement.uottawa.ca/index.php/) _2026-08-24 · The Moonspeaker_ A major project run out of the university of ottawa library. For specifically canadian materials lacking easy to find descriptions or coverage in other feminist projects, usually because those projects have a narrower scope of work, since this project is national, those items will often show up in its records. The catalogue is searchable without javascript. Some material is included for unclear…