Blogs

Latest posts from various interesting blogs related to programming, system administration and other software-development-related topics. See also Links and Bits for the curated feeds.

Ebay’s 1995 debut
Aug 4, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Testing races with a synchronizing Decorator
Aug 4, 2025 | blog.ploeh.dk

Let the Good Times Roll, Louis Jordan
Aug 4, 2025 | rubenerd.com | media, blues, music, music monday

ImageMagick accepts percentages
Aug 4, 2025 | rubenerd.com | software, graphics, guides, imagemagick, photos

UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector!
Aug 3, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Government, Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom

A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known
Aug 3, 2025 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

NetComm is/was Australian
Aug 3, 2025 | rubenerd.com | hardware, australia, networking

How to Form an Opinion
Aug 3, 2025 | idiallo.com

Finally getting the new apartment sorted
Aug 3, 2025 | rubenerd.com | thoughts, home

Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source
Aug 2, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Chatbots, Security, Lumo, proton

Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product
Aug 1, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Humanoid robots, BMW, BotQ, Brett Adcock, Figure

Go Ahead and Rage at Boomers, But the Problem Is the Entire Economic Order
Aug 1, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Colecovison: the hard-luck 1982 console
Aug 1, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Gaming

How Spectrum made me write this post
Aug 1, 2025 | idiallo.com

Top picks — 2025 July
Aug 1, 2025 | pawelgrzybek.com

When the interwebs went down
Aug 1, 2025 | rubenerd.com | internet, home, isps, networking

Edward Saatchi: pay to make your own bad AI South Park episodes!
Jul 31, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Image generators, Edward Saatchi, Exit Valley, Fable Studio, Metaverse, NFT, Showrunner, virtual reality

Pepsi Max Pencil Case
Jul 31, 2025 | rknight.me

Windows NT 4.0: Released to Manufacturing July 31, 1996
Jul 31, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Homelabs and hyperscalers
Jul 31, 2025 | rubenerd.com | internet, security

CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes
Jul 30, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Journalism, Cosmos, CSIRO, David Ho, Melissa Cristina Márquez

AI for Dummies: AI Turns Us Into Dummies
Jul 30, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Weeknote #1959
Jul 30, 2025 | rknight.me

Clive Sinclair: a US perspective
Jul 30, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

What a bit bucket is
Jul 30, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

The Correct Term for “Upsert” is “Save”
Jul 30, 2025 | idiallo.com

My Hatsune Miku mug
Jul 30, 2025 | rubenerd.com | hardware, hatsune miku, mugs

Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft
Jul 29, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Enterprise, Copilot, Copilot Vision, Microsoft

Unorganised Thoughts about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Jul 29, 2025 | rknight.me

My favourite GUI software, from the kitchen
Jul 29, 2025 | rubenerd.com | software, lotus organiser, microsoft bob, nostalgia, skeuomorphism, winamp

IBM PS/2 E: The first Energy Star computer
Jul 29, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

genAI bills coming due
Jul 29, 2025 | rubenerd.com | software, business, genai, slop

What RussiaGate Did to America--and to Me
Jul 28, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen
Jul 28, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Consumer, Enterprise, Copilot, Copilot Appearances, Microsoft, Mustafa Suleyman

Nuby RapidCool Formula Maker
Jul 28, 2025 | rknight.me

When Nintendo sued Blockbuster
Jul 28, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | 1980s, Retro Gaming

Song recommendations with F# agents
Jul 28, 2025 | blog.ploeh.dk

What Learning React Won't Teach You: Image Formats
Jul 28, 2025 | idiallo.com

Help fund Pivot to AI’s work — send a few dollars to keep the stories and videos coming
Jul 28, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Site news

Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again.
Jul 27, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Image generators, Andreea-Laura Petrescu, Guess, Seraphinne Vallora, Valentina Gonzalez, Vogue

How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy
Jul 27, 2025 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

Installing Windows 3.1 on DR DOS 6.0
Jul 27, 2025 | rubenerd.com | software, digital research, dos, dr dos, nostalgia, retrocomputing, windows 31

Zigzag Number Spiral
Jul 27, 2025 | susam.net

Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now
Jul 26, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Search engines, AI Overviews, Google, HouseFresh, Sundar Pichai

Over-engineered Side Projects have Utility
Jul 26, 2025 | idiallo.com

KnightPrint's First Run
Jul 25, 2025 | rknight.me

Is the Epstein Affair a Watershed Moment?
Jul 25, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

16% of employees pretend to use AI at work to please their boss
Jul 25, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Enterprise, Howdy

What went wrong for Yahoo
Jul 25, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews
Jul 24, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Search engines, 404 Media, AI Overviews, Google, Pew Research

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