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Vote Early and in Person (Gus Van Horn)
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Donald Trump's looniness about elections is both red meat for his base and a pretext for doing whatever he thinks he can get away with to "find the votes" he wants in the next election. Accordingly, his legislative efforts at "reform" should serve as a shot across the bow. It…

Fresh Bubbles

First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Food

  1. Garza Coffee (Christiano Anderson)
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    As a specialty coffee enthusiast, I’m always visiting different local roasteries. There’s something special about this ritual: independent roasters offer…

Gaming

  1. Here, Have a Moose Light (The Virtual Moose)
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    Here is a photo of a light taken a while ago at Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City, Michigan. When things may be dark, consider the moose to light the way

Life

  1. why do you care how other people write? (a personal site)
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    There have been several posts on here lately lecturing people on how to write and on literacy.1 I’m throwing my own dumb opinion into the fire here and saying:…

  2. Over the hill (jasper.tandy.is)
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    Driving up over the hill on the way back from badminton; I love it when the clouds are uplit like this.41 words · 1 image

  3. They are killing the village where my base is. (Uncertainty)
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    Hey, Bear. I have returned from the basement. It was chill and smooth run. Didn't lose a single drone, the fresh guy who was with me also didn't lose one. The…

  4. Weeknotes: 2026-W36 (Thomas Rigby)
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    In which I write code, think about basts and science, and feel guilty about apples

Tech

  1. Ruining a Blog by Using an LLM (Ben Tasker)
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    The subject of using AI for blog posts is one that keeps coming up, whether it's writing posts entirely or "just" proof-reading. Readers, generally, don't like…

  2. It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis (Xe Iaso)
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    After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my…

  3. The Chasm: The Shape of Unfinished AI Codebases (jimmyhmiller.github.io)
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    Jimmy Millerprojectspostsadventtalksgithub It's 2 am. You've stayed up all night trying to get your program working. You finally figured out that one bug. The…

  4. Postmortem: Forgejo Compromise (Courtney Rosenthal)
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    My self-hosted Forgejo instance was compromised through a known vulnerability in an end-of-life release. This is the incident report.

Still Bubbling

Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

  1. The purpose of DNS is to spread scams (Terence Eden)
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  2. Programming is art (Orchid Files)
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  3. Guys, we really, really suck at this! (Unattributed)
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  4. Right said fred (Bez Lightyear)
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  5. Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (The Desolation of Blog)
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  6. I changed my license (Henri Bergius)
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  7. Make bad art (Sylvia’s Studio)
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  8. Handwritten code (Katherine Yang)
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  9. Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation (The Fine Print*)
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Tiny Bubbles

Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.

Nature

  1. Mt Usu and Showa-shinzan (Emma Goto)
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  2. Mt Yotei (Emma Goto)
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