Latest posts from blogs rated good or better https://curiousengineer.eu/ 2026-11-08T00:00:00Z https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-guardian-proves-that-renewables-are-not-in-fact-cheaper 2026-11-08T00:00:00ZAdam Smith Institute https://birchtree.me/blog/the-weather-channel-retrocast/ 2026-11-07T14:35:40ZBirchtree

The Weather Channel just put up RetroCast , which lets you see your current weather in the way many of us millennials remember it many years ago. Fun!

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/11/protocols-of-the-elders-of-maga 2026-11-07T14:35:06ZLawyers, Guns & Money

Here’s an interesting discussion between Greg Sargent and Nicholas Grossman about, among other things, the brewing fight within the Republican party over how Israel is going to fit into the right wing demonology masquerading as foreign policy: Grossman: And Va

https://www.racket.news/p/free-speech-will-survive 2026-11-07T14:34:29ZRacket News

At FIRE’s Soapbox conference in Philadelphia, speech proponents helped keep the “spark” of free thought alive.

https://www.ianwelsh.net/information-overlord-can-jeffries-and-schumer-dam-the-blue-wave/ 2026-11-07T14:30:06ZIan Welsh

What I Released This Week Election night kind of overwhelmed me; I’m not used to staying up that late! Will be more productive next week. The Democrats are the dogs who caught the car and think they’re really fast and have strong jaws when in reality voter rag

https://www.ianwelsh.net/open-thread-361/ 2026-11-07T14:29:20ZIan Welsh

Use this post to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.

https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/11/time-pilot-konamis-1982-arcade-game-has.html 2026-11-07T14:27:41ZIndie Retro News

Even more Amiga news for you today as RMJ and JoeJoe, has released a 1:1 conversion of Konami’s 1982 classic Time Pilot to the Amiga 500 and 1200. Rather than a standard emulation or loose recreation, this involved translating the original arcade machine's Z80

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/lite/ 2026-11-07T14:26:12ZLiens en vrac de sebsauvage

Et voilà ce que devrait être Google : Un moteur de recherche simple avec des résultats qui s'affichent immédiatement et sans fioritures. ( Permalink )

https://paulkedrosky.com/daily-brief-november-7-2026/ 2026-11-07T14:19:58ZPaul Kedrosky https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-end-of-purple-colorado 2026-11-07T14:02:40ZSlow Boring

Colorado Democrats won supermajorities in the state legislature — is it a blue state now or just a blue wave?

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-empire-strikes-out 2026-11-07T14:02:37ZThe Argument

The Anakin Skywalker theory of MAGA decline

http://apievangelist.com/2026/11/07/create-autofill-and-export-on-brand-designs-automatically-with-canva/ 2026-11-07T14:00:00ZAPI Evangelist

You have a brand template in Canva and a spreadsheet of names, prices or event dates, and you need a finished graphic for every row: a social post per product, a certificate per attendee, a price card per store. Doing that by hand means opening the template, t

https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/11/an-audience-of-one-is-enough/ 2026-11-07T14:00:00ZMacSparky

Some of the most useful software I own has exactly one user. Me. Lately, I’ve been building little applications with artificial intelligence to solve particular problems unique to me. It’s an expansion on the automation I’ve done my whole life, but now "build

https://freenode.net/article/nixpkgs-cuda-team-fractures-over-funding-and-scope 2026-11-07T13:51:50Zfreenode news

A longtime maintainer alleges a breakaway faction seized NVIDIA talks and infra; others say he was removed, not that the team ended.

https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/11/wing-commander-ii-dx-origin-systems-pc.html 2026-11-07T13:42:49ZIndie Retro News

Amiga owners you could be in for a bit of a treat, as Origin Systems PC classic space combat simulator sequel Wing Commander II could be coming to the AMIGA AGA via AcidBottle. Following recent news regarding community efforts to enhance classic Amiga titles w

https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/why-solve-a-murder-when-everyones-doomed-akane-araki-murder-at-the-end-of-the-world 2026-11-07T13:33:31ZMILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

A Serial Killer, a Doomed Planet, and the Stubborn Human Need for Justice: Reviewing Akane Araki’s Apocalyptic Whodunit ‘Murder at the End of the World’

https://asymco.com/2026/11/07/asymco-office-hours-apple-fy2026-q4-recording-transcript/ 2026-11-07T13:30:00ZAsymco

Recording and transcript of Asymco Office Hours on November 4, 2026, reviewing Apple’s fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and full year, John Ternus’s first earnings call as CEO. Horace reviews the quarter slide by slide. The presentation is below, edited to read as a

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/reading-list-1172026 2026-11-07T13:23:36ZConstruction Physics

Florida’s property tax rollback, projected PCB shortages, the end of Tesla’s Cybertruck, the lack of progress in carbon storage, and more.

https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/fp-week-in-review-55 2026-11-07T13:16:48ZFaster Please!

Also: Key Up Wing news from the week that was

https://codecapsule.com/2026/11/07/rise-of-the-product-engineer/ 2026-11-07T13:06:27ZCode Capsule

AI is increasingly enabling technically skilled engineering managers to identify business needs, collaborate with stakeholders, and build features independently. This may drive product and engineering roles to merge within 1.5-3 years, creating AI-native “prod

https://doctorow.medium.com/object-permanence-7bb1dda62add?source=rss-eba9888d741b------2 2026-11-07T13:04:22ZStories by Cory Doctorow on Medium

Cat causes kernel panic; HK erupts; National Guard x 1 weed plant; Enshittification of labor. Cat causes kernel panic; HK erupts; National Guard x 1 weed plant; Enshittification of labor. #20yrsago UK airport cop: gun-shaped shirt decoration is illegal https:/

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-11-07-aeiou-but-sometimes-why-unrecognizable-playbook-dd970e55bc7c?source=rss-eba9888d741b------2 2026-11-07T13:04:21ZStories by Cory Doctorow on Medium

Inventing a new labor playbook for a unique and powerful industry. If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/11

https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/07/aeiou-but-sometimes-why/ 2026-11-07T13:03:46ZPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Today's links JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine's "Against Tech Oligarchy": Inventing a new labor playbook for a unique and powerful industry. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: EMI x Gnutella; ETCON photos; Piracy loss claims are "self-serv

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/11/knock-on-wood.html 2026-11-07T13:00:00Zbookofjoe

Tree-mounted Machines Connect to Web App to Let Users Knock on Wood RemotelyKnock on Wood is an internet-connected device that performs the familiar gesture of knocking on wood, allowing users to follow the superstition remotely when no wood is nearby.Through

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/11/07/saturday-hili-dialogue-607/ 2026-11-07T12:45:57ZWhy Evolution Is True

Welcome to CaturSaturday, November 7, 2026: shabbos for Jewish cats and also Hug a Bear Day. Of course I complied: It’s also International Merlot Day, Learn to Homebrew Day, National Bison Day, Book Lovers Day, National Wine Tasting Day, and World Numbat Day.

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/how-noindex-tags-affect-yoast-xml-sitemaps/ 2026-11-07T12:39:27ZVincent Schmalbach

On a WordPress site, Yoast SEO uses search-visibility settings to decide which content belongs in its XML sitemaps. An XML sitemap is… Read More…

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/11/book-review-when-the-dust-settles-stories-of-love-loss-and-hope-from-an-expert-in-disaster-by-lucy-easthope/ 2026-11-07T12:34:34ZTerence Eden’s Blog

This is a difficult but essential book. I was initially put off by how graphically autobiographical it is. The disaster planning I came for was frequently interrupted with the author's loves, disasters, health issues, pains, and domestic issues. As the book wo

https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-11-07-07h33m45s/ 2026-11-07T12:33:45Zjustin․searls․co

Cool to see Rust finally taking off, now that it's overcome the biggest barriers facing it—namely, having to learn, write, or engage with anything about Rust windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-just-showed-why-no-

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/11/07/painting-the-whole-truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth-1/ 2026-11-07T12:30:00ZThe Eclectic Light Company

She started as a now lost painting by Apelles, then later gained a mirror and a well, following old proverbs. She has ended up with a burning torch, and the support of Father Time.

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-admin-claims-homelessness-is 2026-11-07T12:27:28ZThe Existentialist Republic

HUD credits sweeps and border enforcement, a judge ruled in June it broke the law cutting housing grants, and the countries said to have solved homelessness count the people America leaves out.

https://decipher.sc/2026/11/07/sonicwall-warns-of-exploited-ssl-vpn-flaw-cve-2026-19868/ 2026-11-07T12:25:00ZDecipher

SonicWall warns that attackers are exploiting a high-severity SonicOS SSL VPN authentication bypass flaw (CVE-2026-19868) that can circumvent SAML-enforced MFA.

https://emptywheel.net/2026/11/07/one-less-person-in-the-room/ 2026-11-07T12:18:55Zemptywheel

Trump’s elevation of Stephen Miller over Susie Wiles won’t change much. It’ll just mean sane people are less likely to be among the last person in the room with Trump before he decides on something.

https://swling.com/blog/2026/11/radio-waves-automated-overnight-shortwave-dxing-17m-aroostook-superstation-on-the-market-blessing-ewtn-radio-bulgaria-qsl-no-11-and-fm-deserves-protection-too/ 2026-11-07T12:11:56ZThe SWLing Post

Radio Waves: Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to the SWLing Post’s Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio. Enjoy! Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Dennis Dura and David Iurescia for

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/11/07/when-does-the-eu-directive-against-using-excessive-packaging-sizes-go-into-effect/ 2026-11-07T12:10:03ZRandom Thoughts

No, I haven’t removed any packaging material. But by coincidence, after schlepping out to fetch the above box, I then had to schlep out to get another box: Packaging material! But: Again, a gross violation of the EU charter! Straight to jail!

https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/response-to-comments-on-data-centers 2026-11-07T12:03:31ZIn My Tribe

My libertarian position stands

https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/the-hidden-microcontroller-inside-a-lora-chip/ 2026-11-07T12:00:34ZHackaday

If you’ve ever done anything with LoRa, the chances are you’ve used a LoRa chip or module as a peripheral for a microcontroller, and left it at that. But that’s …read more

https://birchtree.me/blog/iphone-duo-owners-thrilled-to-get-this-samsung-feature/ 2026-11-07T12:00:00ZBirchtree

Stephen Hackett: I Fixed My iPhone Duo with This One Weird Trick Thankfully, Stephen Robles has created a Shortcut that makes the Duo work exactly how my brain says it should:If the inner display is on the Home Screen, lock the phone when it closes.If the inne

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/11/erik-visits-an-american-grave-part-2271 2026-11-07T12:00:00ZLawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Cherokee Bill Goldsby. Born in 1876 in San Angelo, Texas, Crawford Goldsby grew up as a poor person of color. His mother was a Cherokee, but a racial mixture, part of the introduction of chattel slavery into Cherokee Nation in the mid 18th

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1278-the-cost-of-building 2026-11-07T11:45:32ZChartbook

Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

https://blog.gnoack.org/post/landlock-update-2026-video 2026-11-07T11:35:39Zblog.gnoack.org

📢 This is the recording of the “Update on Landlock talk” that Mickaël Salaün and me gave at the Linux Security Summit Europe in Prague. It gives an update on Landlock development over the past two years and reflects our current thinking about the direction of

https://cafehayek.com/2026/11/some-links-3229.html 2026-11-07T11:33:36ZCafe Hayek

TweetArnold Kling rants justly. Two slices: Who gave you the right to tell someone that they cannot put up a data center? I thought that this country was founded with a belief in property rights. That means an absolute right to decide what to build on your pro

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-to-martin-wolf-about-the 2026-11-07T11:30:57ZPaul Krugman

A conversation with the legendary Financial Times writer

https://www.humanite.fr/social-et-economie/budget-2027/cadeaux-fiscaux-macron-a-prive-les-finances-publiques-de-929-milliards-deuros 2026-11-07T11:28:09ZLiens en vrac de sebsauvage

"929 milliards d’euros les pertes de recettes entre 2018 et 2025, imputables aux allègements fiscaux. Tandis que les dividendes ont triplé sur la période, en frôlant le record de 2 000 milliards d’euros. " Et encore ! «par prudence méthodologique, cette évalua

https://ankursethi.com/blog/a-few-assorted-thoughts-about-llms-in-november-2026/ 2026-11-07T11:23:00ZAnkur Sethi's Lab Notebook https://kevinboone.me/efi32.html 2026-11-07T11:17:26ZKevin Boone's website

...and why you might want to.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=74546 2026-11-07T11:05:02ZLanguage Log

Over the past decade or so, this right here and that right there have become increasingly common as fixed expressions, emphasizing what might earlier have been simple demonstrative pronouns this and that. Or so it has seemed to me — and Google Ngrams confirms

https://flaviocopes.com/local-ai-feature/ 2026-11-07T11:00:00ZFlavio Copes

Build a Node.js feature on a local Ollama model: what's in the model file, schema output, validation, timeouts, a fallback, evals, tests and real speed.

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/11/next-level-benchmarking-overfitting.html 2026-11-07T10:14:11ZDatabase Architects

.sourceCode { background-color: transparent; overflow: visible; } pre > code.sourceCode { white-space: pre; position: relative; } pre > code.sourceCode > span { display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25; } pre > code.sourceCode > span:empty { height: 1.2em; } .

https://phillipreeve.net/blog/review-leica-35mm-2-0-summicron-m-iv/ 2026-11-07T10:10:30Zphillipreeve.net

Introduction There have been many different versions of the Leica 35mm 2.0 Summicron-M over the years, but version “IV” – the last version without aspherical elements – seems to be especially popular, also because of its appealing form factor. Let’s have a clo

https://ribafish.com/pazi-sto-jedes-laboratorij-nostalgija-znanje-i-istrazivanje-kulture-prehrane/ 2026-11-07T10:03:04ZRibafish

Pazi što jedeš Laboratorij: nostalgija, znanje i istraživanje kulture prehrane Izložba kroz tri velike teme: nostalgiju, znanje i terensko istraživanje donosi priče o hrani, prehrambenim navikama te kulturi prehrane jer hrana nije…

https://seths.blog/2026/11/start/ 2026-11-07T10:03:00ZSeth's Blog

The cultural impresario has always had leverage. Invest time and money and put on a show. Start a cable network, a book publishing company or become a concert promoter. You’re the gatekeeper, an adjudicator of status, a person who can transform people’s lives

https://newsletter.doomberg.com/p/attrition-pocket 2026-11-07T10:02:27ZDoomberg

Eastern Ukraine through the lens of World War III.

http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/11/the-five-london-boroughs-without.html 2026-11-07T10:00:00Zdiamond geezer

1 post I did have time to write this morning The five London boroughs without a Waitrose

https://nesbitt.io/2026/11/07/this-week-in-package-management.html 2026-11-07T10:00:00ZAndrew Nesbitt

This week’s package management news, gathered from the package manager OPML feed collection , my posts and boosts on Mastodon , and anything people sent me. Version control and forge news is in the Wednesday This Week in Source Control roundup. Security Vox Pu

https://gardinerbryant.com/hands-on-with-the-ayn-odin-3-portal-all-you-need/ 2026-11-07T09:55:05ZThe Bryant Review

The Odin 3 Portal combines extraordinary power, a gorgeous 7-inch OLED and superb ergonomics. I put AYN's finest handheld yet through its paces, from classic consoles to modern PC games, and speak with the developers behind Eden, ARMSX3, GameNative and DroidDe

https://goughlui.com/2026/11/07/tested-creation-optical-media-dvd-r-data-storage-ver-2-0-a-greek-relic/ 2026-11-07T09:39:05ZGough's Tech Zone

Being all the way in Australia, even at the tail-end of optical media’s relevance, I am surprised by just how much we’ve missed out on. While we get inundated with the Taiwanese-regulars along with occasional samplings of Japanese and Indian … Continue reading

https://blog.mastykarz.nl/falling-behind-someone-else-ships-more/ 2026-11-07T09:34:02ZWaldek Mastykarz

Everyone seems to be shipping faster than ever. Scroll through your feed long enough, and it's hard not to feel like you're falling behind. Someone merged 100 PRs last week. Someone else built an entire app over the weekend . Meanwhile, you're still working on

https://cafehayek.com/2026/11/quotation-of-the-day-5553.html 2026-11-07T09:30:00ZCafe Hayek

Tweet… is from pages 26-27 of GMU Econ alums Scott Burns’s and Caleb Fuller’s forthcoming (in February 2027) book, Trade Wars: Why Freedom Trumps Tariffs: When Americans buy clothing from Vietnam, the dollars we send overseas do not evaporate. Foreigners who r

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/restricting-laravel-routes-with-regex-constraints/ 2026-11-07T09:11:04ZVincent Schmalbach

In a Laravel web application, a route connects an HTTP request, such as GET /users/42, to the code that handles it. A… Read More…

https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0264-open-bear-by-id/ 2026-11-07T09:10:56ZJohnny.Decimal

You can now 'Open in Bear/Obsidian' from the site by matching only the ID, not the full title. This will suit those of you who have tweaked the titles, e.g. to another language.

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/11/axis-maps-contours.html 2026-11-07T09:10:01ZMaps Mania

Today's #30DayMapChallenge is 10 minute map.My Mount Fuji map took 30 seconds.Vibe-coding might be cheating (and perhaps even the end of civilisation as we know it), but it really can help developers create online maps very, very quickly. To create my map, I s

https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/a-bike-friendly-diy-action-cam-stereo-microphone/ 2026-11-07T09:00:02ZHackaday

[DJJules] had two problems. Being an avid biker, recording audio on a bike-mounted action camera was less than ideal due to wind. In addition, the built-in microphone on action cameras …read more

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/11/07/saturday-mac-riddles-385/ 2026-11-07T09:00:00ZThe Eclectic Light Company

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A cross […]

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/11/07/how-many-tries-we-need-using-coding-agents-may-say-more-about-standards-than-competence/ 2026-11-07T08:58:36ZCodemanship's Blog

In a conversation between a group of software developers recently, one of them talked about how many attempts it took them using Claude Code to get a good result. The consensus was that devs who needed fewer tries were better at using the tool. But I’m not so

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/11/07/the-ultimate-windows-nt-mips-vm/ 2026-11-07T08:37:42ZVirtually Fun

(This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox) In my previous posts I covered NT MIPS on QEMU Jazz and on the Siemens RM-200. Time for the ultimate one! Behold! Windows NT 4.0 Server with 4-way MIPS SMP! … Continue reading →

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/11/writing-as-thinking-tool.html 2026-11-07T08:22:10ZMetadata

In middle school I could not get through long passages no matter how hard I tried. I would read an entire page and find that nothing had registered, so I started taking notes out of desperation. This was the late 80s, and Tony Buzan's mind maps had just reache

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/11/07/a-brief-history-of-recovery-mode/ 2026-11-07T08:00:00ZThe Eclectic Light Company

It replaced Single User Mode in 2011, since when it has steadily become more complex. Redesigned for Apple silicon Macs, it now has control over boot security, Recovery Assistant, and Diagnostics & Repair.

https://flaviocopes.com/ghost-to-emdash/ 2026-11-07T08:00:00ZFlavio Copes

Export Ghost, scaffold EmDash, keep every URL, move posts, tags and images with a script, publish them with their original dates, and shut the VPS down.

https://flaviocopes.com/wordpress-to-emdash/ 2026-11-07T08:00:00ZFlavio Copes

The built-in WordPress importer, the exporter plugin, what moves and what doesn't, how statuses and dates come across, and a checklist to run the migration from export to cutover.

https://ribafish.com/dalmatinske-vinske-ikone-2026-vrhunac-dalmatinske-vinske-scene-u-zagrebu/ 2026-11-07T07:55:26ZRibafish

Dalmatinske Vinske Ikone 2026. – vrhunac dalmatinske vinske scene u Zagrebu Dalmatinske Vinske Ikone, godišnje kušanje najboljih vina Dalmacije, održalo se u četvrtak, 29. listopada u Hotelu Esplanade u Zagrebu. Događaj je…

https://blog.lauramichet.com/i-downloaded-a-website/ 2026-11-07T07:46:00ZLaura Michet's Blog

Misty wrote recently about how to archive websites locally on your own computer. I've never done this before! I decided to give it a shot!! I downloaded the app she mentioned in her post, Archive Webpage, and used it to archive my own website. It's a manual pr

http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/11/50-posts-i-didnt-have-time-to-write.html 2026-11-07T07:00:00Zdiamond geezer

50 posts I didn't have time to write yesterday How to watch the Blackheath Fireworks for nothing London's most peripheral bus route Why I'm allowed to drink my tea how I like it not how you'd make it Egg Custard Tarts - an appreciation Banknote dimensions then

https://journal.hexmos.com/introducing-livereview/ 2026-11-07T06:35:37ZHexmos Journal

Auto Approve 40-50% of Your Low-Risk PRs, Safely

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/sir-simon-identifies-the-problem 2026-11-07T06:30:50ZAdam Smith Institute

Given that this is Jenkins of course he gets the solution wrong but still, halfway is halfway : The building, it recommended, should become a construction site for between six and 32 years at a cost of between £3.5bn and £5.7bn. These estimates depended on how

https://ashishb.net/travel/slovenia/ 2026-11-07T06:00:57Zashishb.net

A 2-day Slovenia travel guide covering Ljubljana’s old town, the castle hike, walking tours, and tips on the Slovenian language. Some notes on the Slovenian language As with most Slavic languages, the j is pronounced like the English y/य , so “Ljub

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/11/07/whiplash/ 2026-11-07T06:00:40ZFutility Closet

The dwarf reed snake escapes predators by leaping into a continuous cartwheel that’s four times as fast as slithering. “The acrobatics involved in rolling are a fascinating example of how much snakes can accomplish with their limbless bodies,” Toho University

https://hackaday.com/2026/11/06/automate-that-halloween-treating/ 2026-11-07T06:00:03ZHackaday

We live a Jetsons future of ubiquitous automation, in which the most trivial of human tasks has a machine to take the work out of it. Take doling out Halloween …read more

https://freenode.net/article/squashfs-maintainer-closes-overflows-and-crafted-image-exploits 2026-11-07T05:59:41Zfreenode news

Phillip Lougher’s 18-patch series hardens on-disk parsing against OOB access, hangs, privilege tricks, and multi-megabyte mount-time allocations.

https://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2026/11/netaddrip-4080-08-another-trial-please-smoke-test.html 2026-11-07T05:49:21Zblogs.perl.org

NetAddr::IP 4.080_08 is on CPAN as a trial release. If you use NetAddr::IP, install it and run your code against it before 4.080 goes stable. The last post here covered 4.080_05 . Since then, 4.080_06, 4.080_07 and 4.080_08 changed constructor, parsing, compar

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/how-long-can-life-wait 2026-11-07T05:27:10ZMars For The Rest of Us

Just because you haven’t moved from the sofa doesn’t mean you’re dead.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2026/11/07/the-good-news-keeps-coming-the-cybertuck-is-history/ 2026-11-07T05:21:41ZFreethought Blogs

Elon Musk has decided pull the plug on his vanity project of the hideous cybertruck. Elon Musk has announced that Tesla will wind down production of its Cybertruck, marking the end of a failed effort to take a chunk of the lucrative market for pickups in the U

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/11/07/aix-4-3-3-5-1-5-3-6-1-7-1-7-2-on-qemu-w-graphics/ 2026-11-07T04:42:48ZVirtually Fun

(This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox) AIX on QEMU is nothing new. Neozeed ran AIX 4.3.3 years ago on Artyom Tarasenko’s QEMU 40p fork — but it was serial console only, no graphics, and the emulated … Continue reading →

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2026/11/a-superfront-will-cross-northwest-this.html 2026-11-07T04:35:05ZCliff Mass Weather Blog

Most weather fronts that cross the region are unremarkable due to their passage over the relatively warm, uniform waters of the northeast Pacific. This weekend will be different: a SuperFront will make landfall late tomorrow (Saturday). Some of you will lose p

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/PerlEasyHacksCanBeGood 2026-11-07T04:33:01ZChris's Wiki

Over on the Fediverse, I shared a hack : Ah, yes, Perl, land of perfectly sensible terrible hacks: #my $line_length = 80; my $line_length = `tput cols 2>/dev/null || echo 80`; yes there are better ways but this is short and zero-dependency and solves a little

https://www.nonzero.org/p/the-last-two-years-and-the-next-two 2026-11-07T04:25:58ZNonZero Newsletter

The hidden contours of the Trump 2.0 challenge

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-using-ai-should-be-joyful 2026-11-07T04:06:55Z12 Grams of Carbon

Monitoring the situation, having fun while doing it

https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0262-stress-free-travel/ 2026-11-07T04:04:17ZJohnny.Decimal

I was recently 'that guy' who held up an immigration line because he forgot where his QR code was. In this post, with an accompanying video, I show you a simple process to make travel less stressful.

https://johnnydecimal.com/support/updates/2026-11-07-system-edits-new-05/ 2026-11-07T04:03:43ZJohnny.Decimal

New standard zero for AI and small system edits

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2026/11/07/saturday-picdump-for-saturday-november-7/ 2026-11-07T04:00:36ZGlobal Nerdy

Happy Saturday, everyone! After three weeks on vacation in Japan and the Philippines, the Global Nerdy Saturday “picdump” is back! Here’s the return of the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting work- and tech-related pictures, comics, and memes I found o

http://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/mourning-joe-wahrhaftig/ 2026-11-07T03:50:45ZCogito, Ergo Sumana

Several days ago, my friend Joe Wahrhaftig died.I met Joe in 2002, because he and I went to the same stand-up comedy open mic at A Cuppa Tea (near the Berkeley-Rockridge border), and he came …

https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/renters-desperately-need-us-to-wise 2026-11-07T03:46:26ZErdmann Housing Tracker

There have been a couple small delays on getting my new papers on single-family real estate investors posted.

https://latent.space/p/ainews-anthropic-ipo-whither-now/ 2026-11-07T03:04:53ZLatent.Space

November 6, 2026 — ARC Prize tests Inkling 2 Small, and Thinking Machines explains how it caught early checkpoints bypassing guardrails.

https://hackaday.com/2026/11/06/diy-rooftop-tent-sets-up-in-a-jiffy/ 2026-11-07T03:00:30ZHackaday

[CraftAndu] shares his DIY car rooftop tent design that looks like a pretty accessible build. It allowed him to test drive the concept to his satisfaction while spending a fraction …read more

https://blog.rinesi.com/2026/11/the-sfi-index 2026-11-07T03:00:00Zblog.rinesi.com

To a first-order approximation the economy ~ AI : there's no doubt that sci-fi has moved from...

https://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=28914 2026-11-07T02:57:06ZKen's Blog

Breaking news in The NY Times: The President Elevates Hannibal Lecter, a Hard-Liner, to Chief of Staff The president is elevating Hannibal Lecter, his powerful domestic policy adviser, to be his next chief of staff in the wake of shattering Republican losses i

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/11/06/artex-abuse-expands-as-cybercriminals-target-financial-sector/ 2026-11-07T02:44:34ZMicrosoft Security Blog

In October 2026, the financially motivated threat actor Storm-3358 began targeting organizations in the financial sector using the agentic AI offensive framework ARTEX. The post ARTEX abuse expands as cybercriminals target financial sector appeared first on Mi

https://bartongeorge.io/2026/11/06/scoring-the-2015-kubernetes-predictions-what-a-community-can-build/ 2026-11-07T02:39:06Z808labs

With KubeCon North America just days away, I decided to revisit the promises, predictions and goals laid out when Kubernetes 1.0 and the CNCF were announced at OSCON 2015. Which were delivered on, which fell short, and which were abandoned? To find out, I went

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/11/why-are-trumps-son-in-law-and-business-buddy-bad-at-diplomacy 2026-11-07T02:35:25ZLawyers, Guns & Money

I will freely admit that I did not have this question on my “pressing foreign-policy matters for Election Day, 2026” bingo card. But I guess that’s why I don’t earn the big bucks at Foreign Policy magazine. Steven Walt writes that: Jared Kushner and Steve Witk

https://blog.ptidej.net/the-layoff-trap/ 2026-11-07T02:31:14ZPtidej Team Blog

Hi everyone 👋 As a software development student, I read some version of "is coding dead?" almost every week. Big company, big layoff, and the same explanation: we're using AI now, so we need fewer people. This week I watched an episode of BBC's

https://danq.me/2026/11/07/totpoem/ 2026-11-07T02:28:30ZDan Q

Once, I saw a six-digit sequential sequence of my phone number appear in an 'authenticator app' TOTP code. What are the odds? Incredibly rare. And yet, given long enough, inevitable. Here's how I put it...

https://unsung.aresluna.org/crammed-and-dangerous 2026-11-07T02:08:34ZUnsung

This is what happens when I search through photos on my iPhone: I’ll repeat and emphasize the last frame below, because it’s a resting state that doesn’t offer much rest. I am happy with the train results and I just want to look at them in peace – but now ther

https://thebuild.com/blog/all-your-gucs-in-a-row-scram_iterations/ 2026-11-07T02:00:00Zthe build

`scram_iterations` embeds itself in each password when set and stays there forever, making it a per-password property masquerading as a server setting. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)

https://brennan.day/the-pendulum-cycles/ 2026-11-07T02:00:00Zbrennan.day

Democrats flipped both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, and the markets shed $2 trillion. What we want is safety rather than power, and the Seville Statement's insistence that war isn't in our nature. On Salon announcing its end after thirty years, and why not

https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/qt-creator-pico/ 2026-11-07T01:41:14Znyanpasu64's blog

Qt Creator is tricky to set up for RP2040/Pi Pico development, but fairly quick once you know the steps. I was unable to make Pico projects run correctly under VS Code using Raspberry's suggested editor extension. Note: These are personal notes from setting up

https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0263-cli-v5/ 2026-11-07T01:37:38ZJohnny.Decimal

The JD command-line utility now supports Bear. As a result, the config file has a breaking change. Please update.

https://freenode.net/article/kvm-rfc-extends-guest-memfd-with-vfio-and-alternate-memory-providers 2026-11-07T01:28:11Zfreenode news

Google engineer Ackerley Tng’s 88-patch RFC sketches how confidential guests could back private memory with tmpfs, custom providers, and device BARs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/seymour/2026/11/06/stephen-miller-promotedseriously/ 2026-11-07T01:07:53ZFreethought Blogs

Trump still has almost two months until the Democrats take control of Congress, and over two years still as president. It looks like the Trump regime will be doubling down on pridefullness, hatefullness and name-calling.

https://www.manton.org/2026/11/06/good-blog-post-from-david.html 2026-11-07T00:42:52ZManton Reece

Good blog post from David Sinclair about working with AI for his app Time Out, which he’s been developing since 2003: With AI tools like Codex or Claude, I and other indie developers can much more quickly turn a suggestion into a shipping feature. I still spen

https://freenode.net/article/bpf-verifier-scopes-callback-args-to-close-kernel-stack-escapes 2026-11-07T00:18:21Zfreenode news

Temporary pointers from ringbuf drain and array map iteration could outlive their helpers, enabling arbitrary kernel read/write and stack leaks.

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/11/07/bloomsbury-jamboree-2026/ 2026-11-07T00:01:50ZSpitalfields Life

In gleeful collaboration with Tim Mainstone of Mainstone Press and Joe Pearson of Design for Today, I am hosting our annual BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE, a festival of books and print, illustration, talks and seasonal merriment on SATURDAY 14th & SUNDAY 15th NOVEMBER f

https://hackaday.com/2026/11/06/its-alpine-linux-on-a-kindle-paperwhite-3/ 2026-11-07T00:00:35ZHackaday

As computing power becomes cheaper and microprocessors become more capable, a steady trend over recent decades has been to see more everyday devices hiding Linux under the hood somewhere. Sadly …read more

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/what-on-earth-are-the-city-firms-doing-here 2026-11-07T00:00:00ZAdam Smith Institute https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/why-are-there-so-few-rough-sleepers-in-japan 2026-11-07T00:00:00ZAdam Smith Institute https://oshub.org/projects/soke/posts/soke-devlog-acpi-bios 2026-11-07T00:00:00ZOSHub https://oshub.org/projects/soke/posts/3a224e 2026-11-07T00:00:00ZOSHub https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/an-ode-to-livelyness-analysis/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00Zxnacly

Liveness analysis on block local SSA IR + a bit of ralloc for a vm and an x86 jit

https://www.codenameone.com/blog/build-an-endless-runner-in-java/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00ZCodename One

Dash is a full-stack endless runner template in Java: 2D that turns into 3D mid-run, runs built from real streets, cheat-proof leaderboards, races with voice chat and a level editor.

https://seangoedecke.com/working-with-designers/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00Zseangoedecke.com RSS feed

I love working with designers, in part because (unlike managers and product managers) they’re culturally different from engineers. However, having more than one designer on a team is asking for trouble, and I have complicated negative thoughts about design sys

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/11/friday-sports-thread-5 2026-11-07T00:00:00ZLawyers, Guns & Money

We haven’t had a late week sports thread in awhile because there hasn’t been good college football games I wanted to pick. But here’s one. First, some other stuff. And in a week where Democrats had a glorious wave election, it is appropriate that LIV Golf is d

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/11/07/this-week-in-plasma-widgets-widgets-widgets/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00ZKDE Blogs

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week many widgets shipped with Plasma got quite a bit of polish. Feature work and performance work were also notable this week… really, a bit of everything! Have a look: Notable new features Plasma 6.9 There’

https://paulhammant.com/2026/11/07/feature-flag-backing-stores-and-flip-latency/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00ZPaul Hammant's blog

I’ve been poking at the OpenFeature website’s list of providers, with Claude doing much of the code-reading and running of experiments. OpenFeature is the vendor-neutral API for feature flags, and its site lists around sixty providers. A provider is the adapte

https://studio.blender.org/blog/new-in-rigging-fundamentals-training/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00ZBlender Studio https://isene.org/2026/11/Crypt.html 2026-11-07T00:00:00ZGeir's Everything

Yesterday a die rolled a six in Blender . Today I went deeper. Before heading into town, I gave Claude one task: take me into a dungeon. Scary, but not so dark you can’t see. Torches, skulls, bones on the floor, frescos on the walls, an open coffin. A touch of

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/11/06/safaris-autofill-feature-may-be-distorting-time/ 2026-11-06T23:58:19ZMichael Tsai

Thomas Claburn: The autofill feature of Apple’s Safari browser appears to be suffering from a date handling error that occasionally leads it to supply an incorrect credit card expiration date when filling out forms. The supposed issue has been a sore spot for

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/11/06/goodbye-salon/ 2026-11-06T23:58:10ZMichael Tsai

Salon (via John Gruber, Hacker News): The business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years. After careful consideration, we have reached the difficult decision that our publishing model is no longer sustainable. We kn

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/11/06/castro-sold-yet-again/ 2026-11-06T23:56:59ZMichael Tsai

Dustin Bluck: I’ve decided to sell the app to Maple Media. Maple Media is a mobile media and technology company that owns and runs category-leading entertainment, productivity and podcasting apps, including Player FM. Previously: Indie Podcast Apps Not Growing

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/how-to-set-postgresql-transaction-isolation-levels/ 2026-11-06T23:53:06ZVincent Schmalbach

In PostgreSQL, a transaction groups database statements that commit or roll back together. Its isolation level controls which changes from other transactions… Read More…

https://chriscoyier.net/2026/11/06/got-them-little-side-projects-moved-to-codepen-hosting/ 2026-11-06T23:42:31ZChris Coyier

I had my little Smashburgers in Bend website on Astro on Cloudflare Pages. While I 💜 both of those things, CodePen hosting is more than capable, and that’s obviously extremely fun and satisfying for me. I had the Smashburgers site on Astro way back when becaus

https://goughlui.com/2026/11/07/tested-yzx-studio-zypdfs-pd3-1-140w-28v-5a-usb-c-pd-trigger-decoy-board/ 2026-11-06T23:30:46ZGough's Tech Zone

The USB-C Power Delivery protocol has made life easier for many devices, being a viable means of providing DC power at a range of voltages and power levels. Standard USB-C PD The YZX is limited to 60W (20V/3A) with cables … Continue reading →

https://www.hackster.io/news/thieves-make-off-with-11-4-million-in-nvidia-hardware-2ed97d47eff2 2026-11-06T23:27:35ZHackster News

We've all heard about AI stealing jobs, but these thieves turned the tables by making a job out of stealing $11 million in AI hardware.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/11/06/what-could-possibly-leave-a-viking-shell-shocked-and-tired/ 2026-11-06T23:13:37ZFreethought Blogs

My son Alaric is looking worn out. The cause? That’s baby Vittorio in his arms. I remember that feeling, the first month or six after the delivery. I’d share a picture of the mother, too, but I’m aware that women don’t care to have their picture taken immediat

https://www.slowboring.com/p/friday-discussion-post-0d9 2026-11-06T23:01:50ZSlow Boring

Roy Cooper Blindness :(

https://birchtree.me/blog/think-bigger/ 2026-11-06T23:00:00ZBirchtree

What what was once hard becomes easy, what do you do?

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/11/iphone-duo-the-apps-are-coming/ 2026-11-06T22:59:50ZSix Colors

Indigo (left) and Skipper in an iPhone Duo split view. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been using the iPhone Duo as my iPhone and iPad for two weeks now, but here we are. I’m slowly working on a review when I’m not writing a zillion other things related to Appl

https://www.hackster.io/news/your-airpods-are-now-a-mouse-35086dea3d9a 2026-11-06T22:31:46ZHackster News

MousePods turns your AirPods into a hands-free mouse, letting you control your computer's cursor just by moving your head.

https://hunterwalk.com/2026/11/06/focus-on-finding-role-models-not-mentors/ 2026-11-06T22:26:24ZHunter Walk

I don’t have mentors, I have role models. True mentorship is powerful but it’s become self-proclaimed, over-used and diluted to the point where, in many situations, it’s basically value signaling and social proof instead of a true commitment. It particularly r

https://newsletter.chipstrat.com/p/amd-q3-fy26-annotated 2026-11-06T22:14:40ZChipstrat

HBM and margins, Helios’s first revenue, AMD vs. Intel on supply, more

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/11/friday-squid-blogging-new-jurassic-squid-predecessors.html 2026-11-06T22:05:12ZSchneier on Security

News story: “ Scientists discover a bizarre Jurassic ‘squid’ unlike anything ever seen .” Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovered, a bizarre, barrel-shaped squid relative that lived in Wyoming’s ancient seas 160 million years ago. Th

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/11/john-lewiss-revenge 2026-11-06T22:05:04ZLawyers, Guns & Money

One of the factors behind the remarkable results in South Carolina and Mississippi was a huge increase in Black turnout: Few handicappers, if any, expected that outcome. Most major forecasters rated the race Likely or Safe Republican. Trump carried Mississippi

https://kottke.org/26/11/0049945-they-found-a-chunk-of-mar 2026-11-06T22:00:00Zkottke.org

They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert . A recent reveals that a rock found a few years ago in Mali is more than 4.1 billion years old and “has a mix of igneous minerals that tells a story about how [Mars’] crust formed”.

https://sixcolors.com/member/2026/11/this-week-in-apple-add-information/ 2026-11-06T22:00:00ZSix Colors

This post is restricted to members only.

http://apievangelist.com/2026/11/06/add-dns-records-block-attackers-and-balance-traffic-with-cloudflare/ 2026-11-06T22:00:00ZAPI Evangelist

Your website sits behind Cloudflare, and most days you never think about it. Then a new service needs a DNS record, a bot starts hammering the login page, a lookalike domain shows up pretending to be you, or a sale is coming and one server will not cope. Each

https://tinyapps.org/blog/culmination-of-spiritual-life.html 2026-11-06T21:58:00Ztinyapps.org / blog

"[W]hen the normal relationship between husband and wife, which is the strongest foundation of the worldly life, has been transcended and a man sees in his wife the divine presence, he then sees God everywhere in the universe. This is the culmination of the sp

https://freethoughtblogs.com/gas/2026/11/06/how-you-get-zizians/ 2026-11-06T21:57:59ZFreethought Blogs

So the Blue Wave did not impress radical leftist trans folks on tumblr, of course. Some of the blues that got elected had supported transphobic policies during the election cycle, and multiple transphobic laws were passed in various states. Big ‘but’ inbound.

https://freenode.net/article/bpf-series-auto-discovers-fmod-ret-targets-via-llvm-ir-scan 2026-11-06T21:56:32Zfreenode news

Anton Protopopov’s v1 set uses a clang plugin and BTF tags so modify-return programs can attach far beyond hand-picked hooks, with verifier-enforced return values.

https://wolfstreet.com/2026/11/06/where-are-the-jobs-winners-and-losers-by-industry-in-october-and-over-the-years/ 2026-11-06T21:55:01ZWolf Street

How employment changed by industry amid big structural shifts in the US economy.

https://ftrain.com/bsky-3mzoekezb522o 2026-11-06T21:52:25ZFtrain.com https://www.hackster.io/news/this-modular-minecraft-train-spans-the-hacksmith-office-2b5d87bf4fd8 2026-11-06T21:41:15ZHackster News

Hacksmith Industries targets the youth with a modular Minecraft-themed model train layout that spans their entire office.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-orality-and-literacy 2026-11-06T21:31:52ZAstral Codex Ten

Finalist #15 in the Book Review contest

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2026/11/diversification-drawdowns/ 2026-11-06T21:30:42ZA Wealth of Common Sense

We had some big drawdowns in the market this week.