Latest posts from blogs rated good or better https://curious-engineer.pages.dev/ 2026-10-31T16:35:06Z https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4922-monitoring-my-coldfusion-scheduled-tasks-with-grafana-cloud.htm 2026-10-31T16:35:06ZBen Nadel's Web Development and User Experience Feed @ BenNadel.com

Ben Nadel adds Grafana Cloud to his ColdFusion blog so that he can monitor scheduled task health (via StatsD metrics)....

https://www.rubenerd.au/i-miss-my-swedish-keyboard/ 2026-10-31T12:04:30ZRubenerd

I don’t think I’ve ever talked about this before, but there was a time in the 2000s where I used a Swedish keyboard. Apple used to offer a range of different keyboard options at checkout (at least in Singapore), and I chose Swedish. It had dedicate

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/why-adam-smith-denounced-slavery 2026-10-31T12:02:11ZAdam Smith Institute

Adam Smith was clear about the evils of slavery. In both The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations , he exposed the injustice of the institution and the commercial interests that helped sustain it. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments , Smith invit

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html 2026-10-31T12:00:00Zmovq.de (en)

Novellas with groff I recently finished my second “novella”. Don’t even think about it: I won’t publish this. Nor send it to you privately, which is mostly the same as publishing it. The first story is roughly 50 A5 pages long (~15k words), the second one is a

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/10/on-reading-with-my-cat-on-my-lap.html 2026-10-31T12:00:00Zbookofjoe

One of the things I like best in this world is reading a book or working at my computer or going full-on BrainDead watching TikTok in the dark while my calico cat Vanta sleeps on my lap.I'll sit there without moving a long time even if I have other stuff to do

https://gardinerbryant.com/costume-quest-the-halloween-rpg/ 2026-10-31T12:00:00ZThe Bryant Review

Earlier this month we celebrated the 19th anniversary of Double Fine's Brutal Legend with a retrospective article . For Halloween, I wanted to talk about another of my favorite Double Fine games. And, appropriately, this one is Halloween-themed! Costume Quest

https://idiomdrottning.org/dooh-myths 2026-10-31T11:57:17ZIdiomdrottning

The single biggest myth around advertising in public spaces and in public transit is that “it generates money for the municipality”, “it pays for the busses and trains”. The truth is that they do not generate resources. They only use resoures and quite a lot o

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/10/31/saturday-hili-dialogue-606/ 2026-10-31T11:45:14ZWhy Evolution Is True

Welcome to CaturSaturday, October 31, 2026: shabbos for Jewish cats, the last day of the month and Halloween! Here’s a short Tik Tok video from The Quack House featuring ducks and an appropriately carved pumpkin: It’s also Carve a Pumpkin Day, Girl Scout Found

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/managing-yoast-seo-sitemaps-on-staging-sites/ 2026-10-31T11:36:00ZVincent Schmalbach

A staging site is a separate copy of a WordPress site where you review or test changes before publishing them on the… Read More…

https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/10/31/richard-powers-music/ 2026-10-31T11:33:17ZThe Marginalian

“The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.”

https://blog.didierstevens.com/2026/10/31/quickpost-wt20-welding-electrodes-radiation/ 2026-10-31T11:31:22ZDidier Stevens

I found another material that I can buy freely and test with my Radiacode 103 radiation detector: WT20 Welding Electrodes. These are tungsten welding electrodes with 2% thorium. Thorium is a little bit radioactive and shows up in the spectrum that I measured o

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/testing-your-package-readme-code-snippets/ 2026-10-31T11:28:51ZVincent Schmalbach

Package maintainers use a README to show readers how to install a package, configure it, and complete a task. If the package… Read More…

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/syntax-and-procedural-differences-in-postgresql-and-mysql/ 2026-10-31T11:22:19ZVincent Schmalbach

When you compare PostgreSQL and MySQL or move a database from one to the other, SQL statements that look alike can follow… Read More…

https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/10/van-helsing-could-this-be-another-c64.html 2026-10-31T11:14:13ZIndie Retro News

Psytronik Software, the retro-publishing powerhouse behind recent hits like Sherwood and Musketeer, has officially launched Van Helsing on the Commodore 64. Developed by GriffonSoft as their most ambitious project to date, this atmospheric side-scroller transp

https://gardinerbryant.com/a-forgotten-playstation-horror-rpg-is-finally-getting-an-english-translation-for-halloween/ 2026-10-31T11:11:27ZThe Bryant Review

Released exclusively in Japan more than 26 years ago, Ningyo no Rakuin is a Lovecraft-inspired tactical RPG that most Western players have never experienced. A dedicated group of fan translators is finally changing that, with an entirely human-made English pat

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/conservatives-are-mad-at-indians 2026-10-31T11:10:38ZRichard Hanania's Newsletter

A movement that has now shown its true colors

https://swling.com/blog/2026/10/radio-waves-ewtn-to-end-shortwave-service-silver-lake-fm-pirate-kblt-and-nbc-100-years-ago/ 2026-10-31T11:09:44ZThe 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 David Iurescia, Dan Van Hoy, and T

https://feed.mccormick.cx/@chris/117535201760022292 2026-10-31T11:07:31ZChris McCormick https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/gk-chesterton-the-man-who-was-thursday-a-nightmare 2026-10-31T11:03:53ZMILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

The Breakneck, Surrealist Spy Thriller That Works Like a Dream

https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/the-1960s-space-program 2026-10-31T11:03:52ZIn My Tribe

Drafted by Claude for the lecture series

https://ea.rna.nl/2026/10/31/serious-coding-with-llms-lab-notes-2026-10-31-teaser-demo-of-the-llm-coded-eacmp-application-and-a-quiz/ 2026-10-31T11:01:20ZR&A IT Strategy & Architecture

The seventh 'lab note'. Watch a teaser video of what my serious LLM-coded application is capable of.

https://www.noel-friedrich.de/hqr/?c=https%3A%2F%2Fsebsauvage.net%2F 2026-10-31T11:01:13ZLiens en vrac de sebsauvage

Haha c'est mignon, j'aime bien l'idée : générer un QR code, make avec du texte DANS le QR code. (Bon ça fait des QR codes plus gros, mais c'est amusant) ( Permalink )

https://hackaday.com/2026/10/31/learn-to-edit-stl-files-in-just-a-few-minutes/ 2026-10-31T11:00:45ZHackaday

Sometimes an STL file needs a bit of editing, but if one doesn’t already know how to use a mesh editor it’s unlikely that one has the time to sit …read more

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/erik-visits-an-american-grave-part-2264 2026-10-31T11:00:00ZLawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Edward Murray East. Born in 1879 in Du Quoin, Illinois, the son of an engineer, East lived a kind of typical late 19th century childhood for someone who came from a small town but also had a touch of money, which was that one still worked

https://flaviocopes.com/parallel-saas-replacement/ 2026-10-31T11:00:00ZFlavio Copes

Run a homemade SaaS replacement beside the original with read-only inputs, compare real outputs, and rehearse recovery before switching over.

https://swling.com/blog/2026/10/mark-spots-radios-in-the-korean-zombie-film-peninsula/ 2026-10-31T10:53:31ZThe SWLing Post

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who writes: I spotted this collection of radios being used by survivors of a zombie outbreak in the Korean movie Peninsula. A follow-on from ‘Train to Busan’, the survivors are in contact with the outside worl

https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/10/rocn-rope-konamis-1983-arcade-climber.html 2026-10-31T10:52:33ZIndie Retro News

Broken Bytes has began a project to bring over Konami’s 1983 arcade classic Roc’n Rope to the Commodore 64 without any AI! This faithful conversion tasks players with ascending treacherous, multi-tiered stages using nothing but a harpoon gun and sheer determin

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm9qzdqpxy48o 2026-10-31T10:46:42ZLiens en vrac de sebsauvage

La valuation boursière de Google vient de chuter de 500 milliards. Parce que les investisseurs sont inquiets et que les revenus publicitaires de Google sont en baisse à cause de ses résumés IA. ( Permalink )

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1271-the-trump-orgs-network 2026-10-31T10:45:39ZChartbook

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

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/10/31/occasional-halloween-paper-a-mother-gives-her-all/ 2026-10-31T10:42:48ZCrooked Timber

“Spiders don’t socialise. Spiders don’t work together. Spiders don’t hunt as packs. Spiders don’t use tools. Spiders don’t organise large structures. “Because if they did, we’d all be dead.” — As it turns out, this isn’t quite correct. Some spiders do work tog

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/azeem-azhar-on-the-explosion-of-hacking 2026-10-31T10:30:56ZPaul Krugman

The threats just keep coming

https://cafehayek.com/2026/10/some-links-3223.html 2026-10-31T10:06:21ZCafe Hayek

TweetJoseph Schumpeter would not be surprised: A successful entrepreneur in America’s market economy funds ‘research’ carried out by intellectuals who are hostile to successful entrepreneurs in America’s market economy. (HT Phil Magness) The Editorial Board of

https://nesbitt.io/2026/10/31/this-week-in-package-management.html 2026-10-31T10:00:00ZAndrew 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. Security The Go blog’s eMudhra post-incident writeup covers Go’s first URGENT-track security release: M

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/nasdaq-faces-2-trillion-wipeout-october-ai-spending-fears-deepen-2026-10-30/ 2026-10-31T09:40:09ZLiens en vrac de sebsauvage

Is it éclatement de la bulle yet ? Probablement pas encore, mais on sent la fébrilité un peu partout. Quand ça va tomber, ça va être violent. ( Permalink )

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/10/31/ecological-modeling-job/ 2026-10-31T09:18:09ZAzimuth

One of my dreams is finally coming true: ecological modeling with the help of category theory! Topos Research UK, run by my friends and colleagues, will be providing computational support to ecological modelers using CatColab, their modeling software based on

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/configuring-base-urls-in-the-laravel-http-client/ 2026-10-31T09:12:00ZVincent Schmalbach

When Laravel code sends several requests to the same API, each request can include the API’s host and path prefix. Laravel’s HTTP… Read More…

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/10/how-to-navigate-roman-empire.html 2026-10-31T09:06:21ZMaps Mania

The Tabula Peutingeriana is one of the most remarkable surviving maps from the ancient world. Held at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, it is a medieval copy of a Roman road map, originally drawn on a parchment scroll almost seven metres long and just 3

https://seths.blog/2026/10/the-hallmark-dilemma/ 2026-10-31T09:03:00ZSeth's Blog

The slogan is “when you care enough to send the very best.” But more accurately, it’s “when you don’t care enough to be on the hook.” For a low-stakes social interaction, the Hallmark card is a convenient and safe solution. Low-risk, it gets the job done. Peop

https://newsletter.doomberg.com/p/gating-functions 2026-10-31T09:01:08ZDoomberg

Foundational lessons from Venezuela’s wild oil journey.

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/10/31/saturday-mac-riddles-384/ 2026-10-31T09:00:00ZThe Eclectic Light Company

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

http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/10/support-for-office-2021-has-ended.html 2026-10-31T09:00:00Zdiamond geezer

I bought my laptop in August 2024 and it's worked absolutely fine ever since. I made sure it came with proper Microsoft Office, and I made sure I bought it via a one-time-purchase, not some online subscription version. That's all worked fine too, but yesterday

https://cafehayek.com/2026/10/quotation-of-the-day-5546.html 2026-10-31T08:30:00ZCafe Hayek

Tweet… is from page 117 of the “The General Interest” which is Chapter x of the 1932 report of a commission in the U.K., chaired by Sir William Beveridge; the title of the collection is Tariffs: The Case Examined: National policy in the economic sphere, as in

https://hackaday.com/2026/10/31/3d-printed-einstein-szilard-refrigerator-cools-with-fire/ 2026-10-31T08:00:42ZHackaday

They may not deliver the highest efficiency, but absorption refrigerators have earned a persistent place in camper vans and industrial plants thanks to a few distinct advantages: they can operate …read more

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/10/31/new-products-for-new-species-revisited/ 2026-10-31T08:00:00ZThe Eclectic Light Company

Ten years ago, Microsoft launched its Surface Studio, and it looked like Apple was going to offer its first touchscreen Mac. What has changed over that decade for Apple to do that now?

https://smashingmagazine.com/2026/10/desktop-wallpaper-calendars-november-2026/ 2026-10-31T08:00:00ZSmashing Magazine

Let’s kick of November with a new collection of desktop wallpapers! Designed by creatives from across the globe, the wallpapers come in a variety of screen resolutions and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!

https://flaviocopes.com/saas-data-export/ 2026-10-31T08:00:00ZFlavio Copes

Design a useful SaaS export with stable IDs, attachments, and import checks, then handle account deletion through a durable, verifiable process.

http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/10/tfl-foi-requests-in-october-2026.html 2026-10-31T07:00:00Zdiamond geezer

25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in October 2026 1) Over 600 buses now have air-conditioning in the passenger saloon, with approximately 700 more on order. 2) The key unresolved issues with digital Oyster wallets are around the user experience to ensu

https://philippdubach.com/posts/mario-draghi-europe-growth-debt/ 2026-10-31T07:00:00ZPhilipp D. Dubach

I had the privilege of attending the Karl Brunner lecture by Mario Draghi 1 at ETH Zurich on 1 October. In his lecture , the former ECB president described an arrangement with two parts: an independent central bank responsible for price stability, and governme

https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/spooky-speedbrake-on-the-way-to-the 2026-10-31T06:44:15ZCampbell Ramble

Punter Portfolio Ramblings v002: Revisiting the Air Pocket, Nine Months In

https://freenode.net/article/ubuntu-lts-kernels-still-unfixed-for-critical-cve-2026-98432 2026-10-31T06:33:31Zfreenode news

No patched kernels are available yet for 22.04, 24.04, or 26.04 despite a CVSS 9.8 rating.

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/baked-bean-tariffs-benefit-baked-bean-manufacturers 2026-10-31T06:30:05ZAdam Smith Institute

A basic truism is that tariffs benefit the domestic capitalists inside the tariff barriers : However, British food bosses have warned that cheap exports from the US and China could undermine the country’s major bean processing industry. If we reduce tariffs th

https://blog.lauramichet.com/yet-another-level-design-update/ 2026-10-31T06:24:00ZLaura Michet's Blog

I took some time and tried to make a "nature" environment, with rock cliffs and a cave. This ended up being a lot more laborious than making a hallway. This screenshot is extremely unimpressive but it took me forever to make, lmao: I then played a few modern g

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/10/31/poles-apart/ 2026-10-31T06:03:51ZFutility Closet

A problem by Russian mathematician Viktor Prasolov: A circle is divided by points into 3k arcs such that there are k arcs each of length 1, 2, and 3. Prove that two of the division points are diametrically opposite one another.

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/building-a-webhook-incident-runbook/ 2026-10-31T05:58:06ZVincent Schmalbach

A webhook is a message that a provider sends to your service when an event occurs, such as a payment update or… Read More…

https://tracydurnell.com/2026/10/30/weeknotes-oct-24-30-2026/ 2026-10-31T05:42:55ZTracy Durnell's Mind Garden

Win of the week: compared health plans and completed Open Enrollment — astonishingly our health care plan is only going up $5 per month 😯 Looking forward to: upcoming trip to see my family! Stuff I did: 0.75 hours consulting 8.75 hours outline voted and droppe

https://alexkras.com/reading-anthropics-s-1-as-a-claude-code-user/ 2026-10-31T05:26:34Zalexkras.com

Anthropic filed its S-1 on October 26. Here is what stood out for me. Key points Revenue passed compute Our compute efficiency is demonstrated by revenue that grew 1,368% year over year for the three months ended June 30, 2026 compared to compute and infrastru

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2026/10/el-ninos-nemesis-pdo-helps-protect.html 2026-10-31T05:24:35ZCliff Mass Weather Blog

We are now at the height of a very warm El Nino and some folks are worried.Some worry about lack of precipitation and snowpack.But as I have noted in a previous blog, the very strongest El Niños generally bring near-normal precipitation and mountain snows to o

https://boston.conman.org/2026/10/31.1 2026-10-31T05:09:17ZThe Boston Diaries

Harry Houdini, magician, escape artist and obsessed with talking with his dead mother and in pursuit thereof, debunked hundreds of spiritualists and mediums, died exactly 100 years ago today … Hallowe'en! So, to learn more about his death, and celebrate it wit

https://freenode.net/article/ucsi-retry-floods-boot-logs-after-usb-merge-for-7-4-rc1 2026-10-31T05:03:39Zfreenode news

A Type-C init retry meant for flaky PPM responses spammed every boot until its author narrowed the logic.

https://latent.space/p/ainews-google-admits-ai-mode-hurts-search-revenue-15-500b-drop-worst-since-2004-ipo-ai-bear-market-c/ 2026-10-31T05:00:48ZLatent.Space

It turns out you cannot have your cake AND eat it

https://hackaday.com/2026/10/30/novelty-camera-to-usb-camera/ 2026-10-31T05:00:23ZHackaday

The Godox C100 is a cheap camera that’s best described as a toy, its party trick being a large clear viewfinder with a head-up-display light meter. It’s by no means …read more

https://www.readtrung.com/p/anthropic-s-1-the-claude-loop-and 2026-10-31T04:52:46ZSatPost by Trung Phan

The AI startup was founded less than six years ago and is headed for a $1.5T+ IPO.

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/eternal-black-october/ 2026-10-31T04:50:57ZPixel Envy

Rusty Foster, of the excellent Today in Tabs newsletter you should probably be reading: Neat! There’s a remote-exploitable kernel memory race condition in the Linux IPv4 TCP code. A bunch of other linux kernel vulnerabilities were accidentally posted to a publ

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/north-korea-binance-theft/ 2026-10-31T04:37:29ZPixel Envy

Molly White, writing at Citation Needed: A notorious North Korean cybercrime group has stolen around $6.4 billion in cryptoassets from multiple hot wallets belonging to Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and still controls around $3 billion

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/building-the-internet-we-want-law-for-a-connected-world.html 2026-10-31T04:13:03ZPatently-O

Prof Dennis Crouch introduces Building the Internet We Want, a new book on speech, privacy, AI, contracts and the laws shaping our digital lives. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

https://wolfstreet.com/2026/10/30/the-13-ai-giants-from-alphabet-to-oracle-sit-on-1-13-trillion-in-cash-they-can-keep-spending-on-ai-even-if-markets-get-ugly/ 2026-10-31T04:08:53ZWolf Street

They’ve invested huge amounts in AI infrastructure, but they’ve raised cash even faster.

https://feld.com/archives/2026/10/life-imitates-art-binance-hack/ 2026-10-31T04:03:55ZFeld Thoughts

Someone stole $6.3 billion from Binance ten days after I published the last chapter of Zero Knowledge. Some of the coverage reads like chapters I already wrote.

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/ 2026-10-31T03:38:07Znull program

I’ve been fascinated with local LLMs for a couple of years now. The better open weight models, including some that inference on regular, higher-end consumer hardware at tolerable speeds, are now reliable enough to handle simpler programming tasks. This require

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/30/__trashed/ 2026-10-31T03:07:00ZWhat's new

[This is a guest post by the organizers of the Summit on Math Research in the Age of AI: Dan Freed (Harvard), Larry Guth (MIT), Bryna Kra (Northwestern), Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins), and Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford). This blog post was initially written in a d

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/PylspBeSelectiveOnPluginsII 2026-10-31T02:56:38ZChris's Wiki

I use python-lsp-server (pylsp) as my primary LSP server Server Protocol ]] in my GNU Emacs environment; although there are other options , I prefer pylsp for various reasons. Pylsp has a bunch of core features and can also be extended with plugins (what it ca

https://wadetregaskis.com/dns-resolution-failures-in-macos-26-27/ 2026-10-31T02:22:34ZWade Tregaskis

Sporadically (once every week or two) on macOS 26, domain name resolution will just abruptly stop working. But, it gets worse. I recently updated to macOS 27.2, and now the problem occurs multiple times an hour. That is, name resolution fails if done through A

https://hackaday.com/2026/10/30/vr-headset-ditches-the-base-stations-with-diy-tracking/ 2026-10-31T02:00:41ZHackaday

Those in the virtual reality scene might be interested in [Prohurtz]’s add-on for the Bigscreen Beyond VR headset. BSB-SLAM adds SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) tracking to the headset by attaching …read more

https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/31/nine-video-games-part-one 2026-10-31T01:57:34ZThe Fishbowl

It's only an origin video game if it's from Origin Systems. Otherwise it's sparkling nostalgia.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/farewell-my-captain 2026-10-31T01:39:39ZNoahpinion

A TV character gave us a glimpse of what humanity might become.

https://www.nonzero.org/p/is-an-ai-bubble-bursting-robert-wright 2026-10-31T01:19:09ZNonZero Newsletter

Listen now (80 mins) | 0:00 Teaser 0:55 Nonzero Doom returns 3:12 A foom in slow motion 7:52 Is AI winter canceled forever? 10:38 Will Google’s Genie 4 lure us into the Matrix? 16:59 Liron’s bull case for Google stock 24:39 Does Google have big-company disease

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/10/30/inside-malicious-claude-code-branded-cursor-extension-persistent-ssh-backdoor/ 2026-10-31T01:02:57ZMicrosoft Security Blog

Microsoft analyzes a malicious Claude Code–branded extension, its persistent SSH backdoor, and guidance to detect and remediate it. The post Inside a malicious Claude Code-branded extension and its persistent SSH backdoor appeared first on Microsoft Security B

https://dejan.ai/blog/google-store-alt-text/ 2026-10-31T00:58:20ZDEJAN

Google Store's Pixel Watch 5 page has 109 images. 47 had no alt text and menu images carried labels like "Browse all offers". After a page scan in Image Optimizer, the average match between alt text and image rose from 30% to 84%.

https://aaronparecki.com/2026/10/30/19/oauth-id-jag-draft-06 2026-10-31T00:55:21ZArticles by Aaron Parecki

We've just published draft -06 of the Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant (ID-JAG):

https://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=28898 2026-10-31T00:40:57ZKen's Blog

Speaking of prototypes, I have an idea for future XR glasses. By “future”, I mean maybe about 10 years from now, when Moore’s Law predicts that computation will be about 100 times faster than it is now. So we won’t really need to worry as much about things lik

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/common-clay-of-the-west-returning-to-the-democratic-party 2026-10-31T00:39:29ZLawyers, Guns & Money

Another data point for “lying and/or allowing low-information voters to get an erroneous impression of what your presidency would be like” is a better strategy for campaigning than for governing: Democrats are getting a lot of support from people who don’t usu

https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2026/10/30/cascade-i-001-and-i-638-would-harm-youth-bike-education-and-be-profoundly-inequitable-for-youth-athletes/ 2026-10-31T00:08:02ZSeattle Bike Blog

Cascade Bicycle Club is urging people to vote NO on I-001 and I-638 “because they are in direct opposition to the core values we represent” and “will have direct negative impacts on our work,” according to a statement from the organization. Seattle Bike Blog h

https://www.ianwelsh.net/lambert-strethers-new-blog/ 2026-10-31T00:06:00ZIan Welsh

There’s a lot of overlap between my readership and Naked Capitalism’s. Lambert Strether was Yves right hand man for years, and when he left he had to be replaced by multiple people. He has a new place, THE JACKPOT BLOG. Lambert posts multiple times a day, show

https://www.wholetomato.com/blog/visual-assist-code-inspections/ 2026-10-31T00:05:01ZVisual Assist Blog

Most people use Visual Assist to get around a codebase and refactor safely. But there’s a whole set of checks and one-click fixes, just one checkbox away, that most users don’t know about—Code Inspections. Code…

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/10/31/upon-the-nature-of-fear-iii/ 2026-10-31T00:01:16ZSpitalfields Life

I believe I was born with a medieval imagination. It is the only way I can explain the explicit gothic terrors of my childhood. Even lying in my cradle, I recall observing the monstrous face that emerged from the ceiling lampshade once the light was turned out

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/10/31/rc2026-soggy-camelforth-happy-halloween-demo.html 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZLeaded Solder

It’s time to close out this year’s RetroChallenge project. Since it’s October, why not use the Forth interpreter that I’ve been slowly building up all month to do a sort of demo? I hear decorative squash is hot this time of season. The goal My mission was to a

https://joelsiks.com/posts/aarch64-atomics/ 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZJoel Sikström

How atomics are implemented on AArch64: LSE instructions vs. exclusive operations, GCC’s outline atomics, and how OpenJDK HotSpot picks between them at run-time.

https://isocpp.org/blog/2026/10/upcoming-cpp-user-group-meetings-in-november-2026 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZBlog : Standard C++ https://www.codenameone.com/blog/compose-on-more-screens/ 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZCodename One

Kotlin Multiplatform code with Compose now builds as a Codename One app, with about a quarter of the CPU work per frame on our benchmark screen.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-ai-contradiction/ 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZJacques Mattheij

The AI Contradiction I’ve begun to notice that a lot of endlessly repeated statements about AI by the vendors of hosted AI inference and their sympathizers are strongly contradicting reality, and yet, they keep making these statements. A short list of the ones

https://vitalik.ca/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZVitalik Buterin's website https://blog.veitheller.de/cyberwitchery.html 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZVeit's Blog

I’m starting a company. It’s called cyberwitchery, and it’s a small product and consulting studio. For now, it’s just two people: Erik Svedäng and me. If…

https://usesthis.com/interviews/jim.capobianco/ 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZUses This

Animator, writer, director

http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/10/how-to-remove-unwanted-elements-from-a-website-with-browser-extensions/ 2026-10-31T00:00:00Z82MHz

There's a website you enjoy visiting, but it contains some elements that for whatever reason you don't like. Maybe they're distracting or you just find them ugly. What do you do? You could put up with it, but you can also take matters in your own hands and rem

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/31/this-week-in-plasma-an-avalanche-of-performance-improvements-and-bug-fixes/ 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZKDE Blogs

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team continued to polish up Plasma 6.8, fixing many bugs. Most of the regressions reported in Plasma 6.8 have been resolved now, so the team moved onto older bugs and squashed a very large num

https://blog.didierstevens.com/2026/10/31/quickpost-ghost-usb-c/ 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZDidier Stevens

You’ve probably encountered devices that are powered via a USB-C connector, but that don’t work when you connect them to a USB-C charger or powerbank. They only work with a USB-A to USB-C cable, not with a USB-C to USB-C cable. I used to encounter such devices

https://isene.org/2026/10/Bridge.html 2026-10-31T00:00:00ZGeir's Everything

Loved sci-fi since I was a kid, when I first saw Space: 1999 . The genre has been a great inspiration throughout my life. When I saw Star Trek, I was intrigued by the cool-looking screens. Yeah, I just had to do this. gluon is where I start my day. Mail, calen

https://awanderingmind.blog/posts/2026-10-31-artificial-intelligence-and-power.html 2026-10-31T00:00:00Zawanderingmind

I have been surprised by the lack of critical discourse around the politics of artificial intelligence. More specifically, what could be called the politics of expectation - our underlying mental models of how the social and economic world works, and how we th

https://blog.michielborkent.nl/oss-updates-sep-oct-2026.html 2026-10-30T23:59:59ZREPL adventures

In this post I'll give updates about open source I worked on during September and October 2026. To see previous OSS updates, go here . Sponsors I'd like to thank all the sponsors and contributors who make this work possible. Without you, the projects below wou

https://www.public.news/p/romantic-dream-world-and-need-for 2026-10-30T23:52:36ZPublic

Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest bought the hype and now he and Australia are paying a heavy price

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/how-to-audit-your-yoast-seo-sitemap-output/ 2026-10-30T23:36:00ZVincent Schmalbach

When you audit a WordPress site, check both Yoast SEO’s sitemap settings and the XML the site serves. An XML sitemap is… Read More…

https://idiallo.com/blog/college-will-cost-20-dollars 2026-10-30T23:35:13ZSoftware and Tech stories from an Insider

From 2020 to 2022, I've encouraged a steady stream of students to pursue their education in computer science. Tech companies were hiring like crazy. I would interview 3 candidates a week on some occasions. The future of tech seemed to be paved with gold. Any d

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/mirroring-your-socials/ 2026-10-30T23:31:30ZA Whole Lotta Nothing

Ever since I left Twitter, back in 2022 when the world's saddest loser bought it, I've had a fraught relationship with social media. I was pissed that I put so much time and effort into something one jerk could buy outright one day and ruin instantly,

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/documenting-spatie-laravel-package-tools-integrations/ 2026-10-30T23:28:51ZVincent Schmalbach

Spatie package maintainers need installation docs that tell users what each package asks Laravel to do. Laravel Package Tools helps package authors… Read More…

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10232 2026-10-30T23:27:34ZShtetl-Optimized

In my “Mathocalypse” post, I mentioned that my wife Dana—who’s been working on Subhash Khot’s Unique Games Conjecture since ~2009, for the entire time I’ve known her—has for the past few weeks (while on sabbatical at the Simons Institute in Berkeley) been spen

https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/30/fridays-with-nicole-sandler-with-lolgop/ 2026-10-30T23:27:27Zemptywheel

On the several ways Republicans might lose Texas, and other weekly round up topics.

https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/30/the-granite-act-reasserting-americas-border-online-no-more-no-less/ 2026-10-30T23:27:03ZPreston Byrne

Today John Rosenthal, writing in American Mind, wrote what is, as far as I can tell, the first piece opposing the federal GRANITE Act. His complaint is not that GRANITE goes too far; it’s that GRANITE doesn’t go far enough. Rosenthal argues that U.S. platforms

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/transaction-locking-differences-in-mysql-and-postgresql/ 2026-10-30T23:22:19ZVincent Schmalbach

When a database transaction reads or changes rows, locks determine whether other transactions must wait before they can make conflicting changes. MySQL’s… Read More…

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/midterms-deep-dive-an-exclusive-election 2026-10-30T23:16:36ZThe Argument

A recording from Lakshya Jain's live video

https://ludditus.com/2026/10/31/ok-so-maybe-the-ai-crash-is-here-now-what/ 2026-10-30T23:11:49ZHomo Ludditus

I’m still not sure if AI is supposed to kill us all or whether the AI bubble will soon crash, leading to a new Great Depression of sorts. For the […]

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/a-80ak/sumatrapdf-new-features-2026-06-21.html 2026-10-30T23:10:58ZKrzysztof Kowalczyk blog

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds : New find bar and floating find window The old find box on the toolbar is gone. The toolbar now has a single search button, and it or Ctrl + F opens a compact, Chrome-style find bar with a search box, an “n / m” match

https://www.rubenerd.au/binances-latest-adventures/ 2026-10-30T23:05:42ZRubenerd

ABC News : Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has suffered the largest hack in the sector’s history, with attackers attempting to steal $US6.3 billion ($8.9 billion) in digital funds this morning. Remember when we were told crypto-“currency” wou

https://www.hackster.io/news/this-diy-arcade-cabinet-accepts-strange-cuboid-concrete-cartridges-b430157d3dcf 2026-10-30T23:05:09ZHackster News

Asger Kjærholm built his own stylish arcade cabinet that accepts stylish concrete cartridges.

https://hackaday.com/2026/10/30/a-1982-modem-for-100/ 2026-10-30T23:00:57ZHackaday

[Dave Farquhar] takes a walk down memory lane about the Commodore 1600 VICModem, perhaps the first phone modem to sell for less than $100. Commodore, of course, was famous for …read more

https://blog.hofstede.it/linux-foundationals-from-silicon-to-userspace-the-boot-and-init-chain/ 2026-10-30T23:00:00ZLarvitz Blog

The first article in the Linux Foundationals series. It traces a Fedora system from the UEFI handoff through shim and Secure Boot, MOK enrollment with mokutil, GRUB2 and Boot Loader Specification entries, the dracut initramfs and switch_root, all the way to sy

https://www.wiz.io/blog/black-october-for-ai-developer-platforms 2026-10-30T22:51:44Zwiz.io https://www.servethehome.com/intel-q3-2026-earnings-data-center-foundry-client/ 2026-10-30T22:43:29ZServeTheHome

Intel’s Q3 2026 earnings highlighted how well the data center segment is doing and how rough the client segment is due to DRAM and NAND pricing

https://freenode.net/article/pytorch-adds-system-onednn-option-for-cpu-and-xpu 2026-10-30T22:43:09Zfreenode news

Distros can link one shared library instead of two static bundled copies, enabling offline builds and faster security updates.

https://skamille.medium.com/a-sidebar-on-code-review-e75438fdfa5d?source=rss-12421a4f856------2 2026-10-30T22:40:18ZStories by Camille Fournier on Medium

My favorite way to troll some of my friends is to talk about how much I hate code review. Some of my colleagues might be surprised to hear this, because I’m often tasked with making sure that we are doing it “correctly”, but I have never been a huge fan and wo

https://storytotell.org/things-i-learned-about-emacs-this-week 2026-10-30T22:31:58ZDaniel's Blog

Configuration Here are some things I put in my ~/.emacs lately. (bind-key "M-z" #'zap-up-to-char) zap-up-to-char is a lot like doing dtX in Helix, where X is some character to delete up to. I have Avy installed but haven’t yet made a big habit of using it. Kar

https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/ 2026-10-30T22:30:54ZDaring Fireball

Sponsorships have continued selling briskly, of late . Knock on wood. As of yesterday, the next opening on the schedule wasn’t until the last week of December, and the Q1 2027 schedule is already filling up. However, due to some schedule rejiggering, next week

https://www.kasurian.com/field-notes-salons-oct-26/ 2026-10-30T22:27:59ZKasurian

Conversations on AI, industry, power, and civilisation—this October in the Society.

https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202610301811 2026-10-30T22:13:53ZMolly White's activity feed

In July 2024, I reported that Coinbase appeared to be violating campaign finance law by making contributions while holding federal contracts. I filed an FEC complaint alongside Public Citizen. The FEC hasn’t acted. Since, Coinbase has given $60M more and lande

https://www.slowboring.com/p/friday-discussion-post-ef3 2026-10-30T22:01:14ZSlow Boring

Is it all rage bait? Matt finally comes clean.

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-slightly-better-threadpoolexecutor-in.html 2026-10-30T22:00:32ZNibble Stew

In the previous post we looked at a simple multithreaded task executor that behaves roughly like its Python standard library counterpart. The biggest missing feature was being able to return values from run tasks via future objects. In a fully dynamic language

http://apievangelist.com/2026/10/30/find-and-verify-business-email-addresses-and-build-lead-lists-with-hunter/ 2026-10-30T22:00:00ZAPI Evangelist

If you sell to other businesses, you know the job: you have a list of companies you would like to work with, and you need to reach the right person at each one. So you end up guessing at addresses, watching emails bounce, and pasting names into a spreadsheet t

https://www.aiweirdness.com/blacklight-candy/ 2026-10-30T21:59:32ZAI Weirdness

I got ahold of some Sour Patch Glow Up Ghosts to see how good they are at glowing under UV light.

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/30/nesformer/ 2026-10-30T21:59:22ZSimon Willison's Weblog

dbreunig/nesformer Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B. You can now play NES ROMs such as Super Mario Bros (very slowly) running inside Qwe

https://www.aiweirdness.com/bonus-jolly-ranchers-lasers/ 2026-10-30T21:57:28ZAI Weirdness

In which I shoot a variety of lasers at Jolly Rancher candies and see if any of them light up.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/10/macbook_pro_pricing_and_configurations_for_m6_m5_pro_and_m5_max 2026-10-30T21:56:10ZDaring Fireball

I find it useful to organize all of the configuration options into tables on a single page, and I figured it might be useful to share this now, before I finish writing my full thoughts on the redesigned hardware and displays for the PROLED XDR models.

https://freenode.net/article/pytorch-locks-down-export-load-against-unsafe-operator-names 2026-10-30T21:48:10Zfreenode news

A security fix makes torch.export.load reject disallowed operators; regression coverage is being extended to the load path.

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/the-en-banc-queue-for-october-2026.html 2026-10-30T21:45:00ZPatently-O

Eight en banc petitions are pending at the Federal Circuit, though two are pro se. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/a-very-abbreviated-list-of-a-few-corruption-scandals-from-the-first-half-of-trumps-second-term 2026-10-30T21:44:15ZLawyers, Guns & Money

The following is merely a list of a few highlights, and omits many items: *Trump founded a cryptocurrency firm at the same moment he was deregulating the entire crypto industry. He then bought a separate firm that he used to buy his own cryptocurrency, while a

https://www.dragonflydb.io/blog/dragonfly-for-ai-frameworks 2026-10-30T21:43:38ZDragonflyDB Blog

Dragonfly is a Redis-compatible backend for AI search, memory, and runtime in LangChain, LlamaIndex, Agno, Semantic Kernel, and more.

https://freenode.net/article/kvm-nested-vmx-teardown-can-corrupt-unrelated-process-memory 2026-10-30T21:42:51Zfreenode news

A 23-patch series from Sean Christopherson fixes the uaccess failure mode and hardens VM destruction so guest memory writes cannot hit the wrong mm.

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/handling-failures-in-the-laravel-http-client/ 2026-10-30T21:12:00ZVincent Schmalbach

When PHP code sends an HTTP request with Laravel’s HTTP client, failure takes one of two forms: the server returns an error… Read More…

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/its-hard-to-win-a-schedule-a-case-without-filing-the-schedule-a-speedy-simulator-v-schedule-a-defendants.htm 2026-10-30T21:11:35ZTechnology & Marketing Law Blog

Hanlon’s razor says, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by [incompetence].” (Consistent with a standard substitution, I’ve replaced “stupidity” with “incompetence”). This adage is constantly on my mind when I read SAD Scheme opinions

https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/30/predictably-stan-woodward-contemptuously-stomps-into-the-broadview-6-case/ 2026-10-30T21:10:15Zemptywheel

Stan Woodward predictably stomped into the Broadview 6 case to tell Judge April Perry to fuck off.

https://johnaugust.com/2026/austin-2026-three-page-challenge 2026-10-30T21:00:28ZJohn August

This year, like most years, we’re doing an installment of the Three Page Challenge at the Austin Film Festival. Here are the three scripts we’ll be discussing. Links to PDFs, so you can read along. It Gets Worse written by Terry Rietta Ship Happens written by

https://interconnected.blog/q3-2026-performance-update-suitably-paranoid/ 2026-10-30T21:00:00ZInterconnected https://brett.trpstra.net/link/535/17511743/web-excursions-for-october-30th-2026 2026-10-30T21:00:00ZBrettTerpstra.com

Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Tower , the absolute best Git GUI for macOS. ‎Masoc masoc is a photo and video editor built only for Apple devices, as a modern alternative to Lightroom. The same tools run on iPhone, iPad and a native Mac app

https://danq.me/2026/10/30/anthropic-profitability/ 2026-10-30T20:48:25ZDan Q

Anthropic's latest numbers seem to suggest that they're the first GenAI company to actually make money! But we ought to take that with an enormous pinch of salt.

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2026/10/the-stock-market-earnings-bonanza/ 2026-10-30T20:30:37ZA Wealth of Common Sense

Why are earnings up way more than the stock market this year?

https://freenode.net/article/qemu-fixes-qed-heap-leak-to-guests-cve-2026-118594 2026-10-30T20:30:31Zfreenode news

A copy-paste error in cluster math could expose host heap memory through crafted QED images.

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/a-note-ahead-of-tuesdays-midterms 2026-10-30T20:30:27ZSeymour Hersh

We are all focused on the election next week, but there is still a war on between Russia and Ukraine, and I will have something to say about it next week.

http://scripting.com/2026/10/30.html 2026-10-30T20:29:37ZScripting News

I've been watching short videos about training dogs, and really opening my eyes, and it helps when working with Claude. Always try to be positive, until there is behaviour you have to correct and then yank the leash, and when they do the right thing reward the

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/10/30/childhood-and-education-22-voice-without-exit/ 2026-10-30T20:26:26ZDon't Worry About the Vase

Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a brave self-critical piece in The New York Times, centrally about how she intentionally sent her daughter to a well-funded but failing school, PS 307, in the hopes of using voice to improve it, and how that … Continue reading →

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/childhood-and-education-22-voice 2026-10-30T20:25:47ZDon't Worry About the Vase

Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a brave self-critical piece in The New York Times, centrally about how she intentionally sent her daughter to a well-funded but failing school, PS 307, in the hopes of using voice to improve it, and how that utterly failed her daughte

https://www.loweringthebar.net/2026/10/assorted-stupidity-176.html 2026-10-30T20:21:52ZLowering the Bar

In this edition: Anthropic tells potential investors its product might kill them (and the rest of humanity); some guys fail to steal 13 tons of chicken; election shenanigans; other nonsense.

https://kottke.org/26/10/0049876-henri-matisses-the-red-st 2026-10-30T20:19:00Zkottke.org

Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio . “Even Matisse wasn’t entirely sure what he had created and nobody wanted to buy it.”

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/trump-furious-that-associate-would-take-a-50-million-bribe-without-giving-him-tribute 2026-10-30T20:16:00ZLawyers, Guns & Money

Who says Trump doesn’t think there should be consequences for misconduct he is personally involved with? President Trump erupted last week after he learned that one of his former lawyers, Alina Habba Mildon, secured a contract worth more than $50 million to wo