# world book (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover world book. Page: Feed: --- ## [Who is evil?](https://fabfourblog.com/2026/08/10/who-is-evil/) _2026-08-10 · Klausbernd · FabFourBlog_ You shouldn’t discuss evil on a Saturday morning. Certainly not before breakfast, nor even during it. But at our kitchen table, things often turn out differently.One morning, clever Siri asks a question that sounds rather naive: “Can nature be evil?”“Well,” says Kb, “there’s something fascinating about evil.”“Kindness is boring!” Selma interjects immediately, thinking of Pippi ... ## [Garden Gnomes](https://fabfourblog.com/2026/06/16/garden-gnomes/) _2026-06-16 · Klausbernd · FabFourBlog_ Selma had been visiting her friends Hildi and Hulda in Cornwall and, as she emphasised, had spent “a thoroughly lovely time” there. People who say “thoroughly lovely” often bring things back with them.When she arrived back at our place yesterday afternoon, she was first greeted with great enthusiasm. Kisses. Hugs. A joyful commotion. Then she ... ## [POPPIES](https://fabfourblog.com/2026/06/03/poppies-2/) _2026-06-03 · Klausbernd · FabFourBlog_ “You know,” asks Selma as we chug along a narrow country road in North Norfolk on our way to buy milk and strawberries, “what do we like best about this place?”“The thousands of seals in winter and the hares in spring,” replies Dina without a moment’s hesitation.“Nah, Dina and Kb,” interjects Siri with a grin. ... ## [Can a Photograph Tell a Story?](https://fabfourblog.com/2026/05/14/can-a-photograph-tell-a-story/) _2026-05-14 · Klausbernd · FabFourBlog_ It began, as so many philosophical disputes do in our house, with a photograph and a cup of tea. Dina had spread several of her wildlife photographs across the table: seals staring thoughtfully into the mist, a hare frozen mid-leap in the twilight, fungi glowing mysteriously like tiny forest lanterns. Selma studied them with the ... ## [Followers?](https://fabfourblog.com/2026/04/14/__trashed/) _2026-04-14 · Dina · FabFourBlog_ “What on earth is going on?” – This question floats through our kitchen like a soap bubble. We were just about to crack open a bottle of our finest, because over 400 new followers in just one week! A record! Normally, it takes us months to achieve that. Siri and Selma are immediately in agreement: ... ## [The Image of the Pirate](https://fabfourblog.com/2026/04/11/the-image-of-the-pirate/) _2026-04-11 · Klausbernd · FabFourBlog_ Siri and Selma have recently become fascinated by pirates after seeing Barbara’s post https://aigantaigh.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/neues-logbuch-neuer-kurs-meine-neue-uber-mich-seite/Klausbernd, alias Masterchen, sets them straight: Siri und Selma schwärmen seit neuestem für Piraten, nachdem sie Barbaras Post… ## [book: Semiosis , Sue Burke](https://osedax.bearblog.dev/book-semiosis-sue-burke/) _2026-03-31 · osedax · bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff_ as a speculative bio enjoyer, it did take me a bit to get in-tune with Semiosis . I kept distracting myself with questions about why an alien planet would have plants and animals very much within a reasonable Earthen frame (like the fippokats). I had to get over myself. The words (e.g. bamboo, lentil, tulip, eagles, slugs...) referred to aliens that were non-Earthen in nature, and they were not… ## [What to Blog About? (part II)](https://fabfourblog.com/2026/03/27/what-to-blog-about-2/) _2026-03-27 · Klausbernd · FabFourBlog_ “Could you please have a think about what we could blog about?”Dina: What about my early morning visit to the hares? Or my first Dartford Warbler building a nest? Goodness me! We really are never spared anything.What on earth are you supposed to blog about when you haven’t experienced anything spectacular?No exhibitions. No trips. No dramatic ... ## [Status update - 26th March](https://coleslaw.bearblog.dev/status-update-26th-march/) _2026-03-26 · coleslaw · Coleslaw_ Since moving to the coast, my current life mantra comes courtesy of Josh Pyke and his song The Summer , "And there’d be sand in your pockets and nothing on your mind." Is it actually possible to have 'nothing' on your mind in 2026? Probably not. But as I keep finding sand in my car, my shoes and my pockets, I’m at least 50% of the way there. ## [I crossed that damn road](https://osedax.bearblog.dev/i-crossed-that-damn-road/) _2026-03-21 · osedax · bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff_ I crossed that damn road . I found a tunnel running underneath. I wonder if non-human animals use it...? across the road there are interesting observations on human influence I can make. firstly, there is a reservoir which seemed host to the highest population of breeding toads I'd seen in... not sure, in a long time. Saw two males trying to mount one female. One male was clinging to her underside… ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dIjlNS5DcMrp) _2026-03-21 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [book: The Children of Memory , Adrian Tchaikovsky](https://osedax.bearblog.dev/book-the-children-of-memory-adrian-tchaikovsky/) _2026-03-19 · osedax · bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff_ I could summarise the previous two books in The Children of Time series. First one: intersecting narratives detailing the history of the sophont spiders, the Portiids, + the journey taken by humans to the Portiid planet, Kern's World. Second one: another joint narrative, Human-Portiid meeting with the Damascan octopi, and the interwoven histories of the planets Damascus and Nod. Third book...?… ## [I found a hidden library of podcasts (and it’s brilliant)](https://coleslaw.bearblog.dev/i-found-a-hidden-library-of-podcasts-and-its-brilliant/) _2026-03-18 · coleslaw · Coleslaw_ Every so often you stumble across a little corner of the internet that makes you smile. Not because it’s flashy, or complicated or powered by the latest AI breakthrough… but because it’s simple, clever, and genuinely useful. Recently, I found one of those places. It’s called Fourble. And if you like podcasts even half as much as I do, you might end up bookmarking it too. The idea behind Fourble is… ## [book: The Struggle for Food Sovereignty , Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau](https://osedax.bearblog.dev/book-the-struggle-for-food-sovereignty-remy-herrera-and-kin-chi-lau/) _2026-03-18 · osedax · bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff_ the book is open access. JSTOR has it . I do love a hard copy for annotation purposes... I'd recommend this if you're looking for a very zoomed-out view of the struggle for food sovereignty (both the struggle itself, and the history of what it is struggling against) in a few places around the world. The book covers latin america, southern Africa (distinct from, but including, South Africa), China,… ## [book: The Children of Ruin , Adrian Tchaikovsky](https://osedax.bearblog.dev/book-the-children-of-ruin-adrian-tchaikovsky/) _2026-03-13 · osedax · bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff_ not sure how many people were introduced to Tchaikovsky's work along the lines of: the first book is about sophont spiders, and the second one is about sophont octopi. You might wonder if the premise gets stale. the thing about these books is that there is so much more that explodes out of that single premise. Even while keeping the "collision course" formatting of the previous book (where the… ## [World Book Day Props: Building with Claude](https://danielepolencic.com/world-book-day-claude-props) _2026-03-13 · Daniele Polencic · Daniele Polencic_ For World Book Day, my daughters needed to dress up as brave characters from their favorite books. One chose Paddington, and the other went with Skye from Paw Patrol. My wife handled the costumes, while I handled the props. Paddington needed a suitcase, and Skye needed a jetpack with wings that could fold out, just like Buzz Lightyear. After about twenty minutes of prompting, I had two design… ## [A Future Where Human Creativity Costs More](https://coleslaw.bearblog.dev/a-future-where-human-creativity-costs-more/) _2026-03-12 · coleslaw · Coleslaw_ One day, it might cost more to listen to music made by humans. I think something interesting might happen as AI gets better. Right now we’re in a strange middle period where AI can produce images, music, writing and video that are… convincing enough. Good enough that most people can’t immediately tell what’s real and what isn’t. And the technology is improving fast. Which means the internet will… ## [book: The Sting of the Wild , Justin Schmidt](https://osedax.bearblog.dev/book-the-sting-of-the-wild-justin-schmidt/) _2026-03-12 · osedax · bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff_ You might know the late Dr Schmidt: he's the guy who got stung by as many stinging insects as possible & created the Schmidt pain index . This is that guy. The Sting of the Wild weaves between an autobiography of an entomologist-chemist who gained pop-culture notoriety, and precise science pertaining to the stinging insects he loved. This feels right to read, the idea of Dr Schmidt, the pain… ## [The Specification Is the Product Now](https://danielepolencic.com/specification-is-the-product) _2026-03-09 · Daniele Polencic · Daniele Polencic_ The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead by Boris Tane. The argument: AI agents haven't merely accelerated the software development lifecycle (SDLC). They've collapsed it. Requirements, design, implementation, testing, code review, deployment, and monitoring — those used to be separate phases. Now the loop is shorter: intent, agent builds and deploys, observe, repeat. The new skill is context… ## [Happy World Book Day](https://fabfourblog.com/2026/03/05/happy-world-book-day/) _2026-03-05 · Klausbernd · FabFourBlog_ We wish you all a wonderful World Book Day! A day when you can officially do what we do all the time anyway: love books, buy books, read books, and stack books. Today we celebrate this cultural treasure that transports us to other countries without leaving the sofa, and lets us travel through centuries without ... ## [status05](https://coleslaw.bearblog.dev/status05/) _2026-03-05 · coleslaw · Coleslaw_ I’ve noticed I’ve been listening to a lot more country music lately. I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe it’s the storytelling. So many country songs feel like small, perfectly crafted stories. Like little windows into someone’s life. ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VWH4RMoxdGGI) _2026-03-05 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## [Why World Book Day Matters](https://coleslaw.bearblog.dev/why-world-book-day-matters/) _2026-03-05 · coleslaw · Coleslaw_ World Book Day, a slightly questionable costume fix, and a reminder that access to books isn’t a given for everyone. I spent an absurd amount of time this morning trying to fix a tiger tail to a tutu. It must be World Book Day. I’m actually a big fan of it. But this week I came across a few things that made me pause and think a bit more about it. In 2024, the National Literacy Trust estimated that… ## [You Can't Hide a Secret from a Process That Runs as You](https://danielepolencic.com/hiding-secrets-from-ai-agents) _2026-03-05 · Daniele Polencic · Daniele Polencic_ I have a handful of CLI tools I built for myself: gmailctl searches and drafts emails. gdrivectl reads and edits Google Docs. transcriber processes podcast, interviews and announcements for KubeFM . They all stored their OAuth credentials (the tokens that let them act on my behalf with Google) in plaintext JSON files on disk, the same way the AWS CLI stores credentials in ~/.aws/credentials . This… ## [Status](https://coleslaw.bearblog.dev/test-status/) _2026-03-02 · coleslaw · Coleslaw_ The internet definitely feels better when you wander rather than scroll. Currently reading "Red Rising" and slowly building this site. ## [Day One](https://coleslaw.bearblog.dev/day-one/) _2026-02-27 · coleslaw · Coleslaw_ Starting again. I’ve been meaning to start a small website like this again for a long time. I’ve had a few over the years. I was part of the Geocities gang back in the mid-to-late 90s. But as you know, the internet went and changed and not really for the better. We lost our small, quiet spaces where we could just be ourselves. Somewhere to write, collect ideas, leave messages for each other.… ## [Trees with trunks like narwhal tusks](https://osedax.bearblog.dev/trees-with-trunks-like-narwhal-tusks/) _2026-02-23 · osedax · bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff_ with a kind of desperation I've started wandering off again. Helps the thoughts. (Not yet am I at the point of curling up gainst a moss hummock and not returning home till late. Delusions teeter but I do not need to flee.) In this state I talk to fellow life and I am learning its shapes and patterns. Much of the forest nearby is ex-lumber-plantation, therefore consists of quick growing Pinus… ## [Streaming Zod: How Tambo Actually Works](https://danielepolencic.com/streaming-zod-tambo) _2026-02-21 · Daniele Polencic · Daniele Polencic_ Looks like they've hacked Zod to do validation on partial/streaming data. Very clever. by Colin Hacks (@colinhacks), creator of Zod. Colin tweeted about Tambo , a React toolkit for generative UIs that streams structured data from LLMs into React components. He claims they found a way to use Zod for validating partial, streaming data. My first thought was: how does that work? Streaming schema… ## [Software Is Cheap Now](https://danielepolencic.com/software-is-cheap-now) _2026-02-15 · Daniele Polencic · Daniele Polencic_ I am the bottleneck now by Thorsten Ball (@thorstenball). Thorsten shared a story about receiving a bug report on Slack. He took a screenshot, uploaded it to Codex, and had the fix completed in 5 minutes. The code looked solid, all tests passed, and he pushed. Then he realised he was the bottleneck. The process could have gone directly from Slack to Codex to a review thread, without him in the… ## [Email from WordPress this morning](https://fabfourblog.com/2026/02/12/email-from-wordpress-this-morning/) _2026-02-12 · Dina · FabFourBlog_ Just as we were packing the car and getting ready for the Peak District, Selma s Fairyphone vibrated heavily on the rooftop of our Volvo, and Siri just managed to rescue it in time. It s an email from the WordPress.com team. We did pay the yearly subscription, didn t we? Yes, we did , Dina-Hanne said, let s get on ... ## [Why Talking to LLMs Has Improved My Thinking](https://danielepolencic.com/llms-improve-thinking) _2026-02-10 · Daniele Polencic · Daniele Polencic_ Why Talking to LLMs Has Improved My Thinking by Philip O'Toole, creator of rqlite ( via HN ). Philip's thesis: LLMs help articulate tacit knowledge, the understanding we have but can't easily put into words. This isn't learning new things, it's recognition: mapping latent structure to language. As programmers and developers, we build up a lot of understanding that never quite becomes explicit.This… ## [In Praise of Laziness – Why Staying at Home Might Make You a Better Photographer](https://fabfourblog.com/2026/02/03/in-praise-of-laziness-why-staying-at-home-might-make-you-a-better-photographer/) _2026-02-03 · Dina · FabFourBlog_ In our work-obsessed civilisation, laziness is anathema. For centuries, philosophers, politicians and self-help gurus have criticised idleness. Solon, the founder of Athenian democracy, supposedly said that laziness is the mother of all evil . One suspects that Solon had never owned a camera, or considered his carbon footprint.Like everything else, photography has swallowed the productivity myth… ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UcxYJxuRxoOv) _2026-02-03 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [Comfort zones vs scientific integrity: "They might say things you don't want to hear"](https://osedax.bearblog.dev/comfort-zones-vs-scientific-integrity-they-might-say-things-you-dont-want-to-hear/) _2026-01-21 · osedax · bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff_ I was audience to a discussion about a rewilding project. There was a PhD student who wanted to talk to the communities impacted by the project, as a part of her thesis. This PhD student was encouraged with something along the lines of: "...Very brave, they \[members of the impacted communities\] might say things you don't want to hear. " ...I'm sorry...??? there is the low-hanging fruit of: if the… ## [book: WE , Yevgeny Zamyatin](https://osedax.bearblog.dev/book-we-yevgeny-zamyatin/) _2026-01-17 · osedax · bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff_ WE is one of the Original authoritarian Utopias, written in the 1920s, predating 1984 and Brave New World . The book is a short, masterful piece that did not go down very well with the Soviets. The main character, Δ-503 (in my translation) or D-503, serves as a narrator who has grown up generations-deep in the One State, a regime which tightly controls as much of human life as it can. society is… ## [book: The Children of Time , Adrian Tchaikovsky](https://osedax.bearblog.dev/book-the-children-of-time-adrian-tchaikovsky/) _2026-01-05 · osedax · bone-eater: Grim's blog about biology and other stuff_ a brilliantly thought-out piece ruminating on sentience in non-humanoid organisms. How would a creature with different senses and a different body plan organise their society? The pitch I was given was spoiler-free (it doesn't even scratch the surface of the actual goings-on of the book) so I'll paraphrase it here. Tchaikovsky describes a future humanity that seeks to create new humans out of… ## [Why Design Is Hard: New Book](https://designmtw.com/2024/10/31/why-design-is-hard-new-book/) _2024-10-31 · Scott Berkun · How Design MAKES THE WORLD (The book)_ I m proud to announce the sequel to How Design Makes The World. When I wrote HDMW, I knew someday I d want to write a follow up that what was written just for designers. Then I could focus on the situations that we struggle with and directly give advice on how to overcome them. That s what