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The Emu Café SocialJul 25, 2026

On Tactics to Hit the Hacker News Front Page

I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page. I had six New Leaf Journal articles make Hacker News page one between April 2021 and January 2024, and can say with certainty that I never employed any of Mr. Lui's recommendations or things not to do. I...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 24, 2026

Tadej Pogacar Shatters Pantani’s 1995 Alpe d’Huez Record by 1:15

I haven't watched the Tour de France since 2016, mainly due to the fact I dropped cable and would need to subscribe to a streaming service that may or may not work with my all-Linux set-up. But I stay abreast of the big stories, as I proved last year with my articles on the superhuman...

JulyReplyroad bicycle racing

The Emu Café SocialJul 22, 2026

Were AI Blog Post Images Ever Cool?

I read an interesting blog post by Panagiotis Vryonis titled AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more. My first thought was "they were never cool." But I read on to see his perspective. While I and many others serve as proof that asserting that "everyone does it" is flippant, he does offer a...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 22, 2026

Light Phone Continues to Fail QWERTY Test

I have read some articles about the Light Phone and other "minimalist" phones. As someone who wrote not one but two articles on my "ideal" phone concept (creative concept photography included), I am always interested in seeing new ideas in the space. I called for open source software, QWERTY keyboard, and an e-ink screen. The...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 17, 2026

Cup Noodle (Cold Edition) in Japan

SoraNews24, which covers news from Japan, is a long-time member of my feed collection and a regular article contributor to the "Around the Web" secution of my weekly newsletter. They cover some "news" news, see for example an article I wrote based in significant part on a SoraNews24 report about dress code rules in Japanese...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 15, 2026

Fortunate NBA Champions (2001-2016)

Writing for The Pudding, Russell Samora recently put together a list of the "most ethical" NBA champions, wherein he used a formula (with many entertaining graphs) to determine, going back to 2001, which NBA champions benefited the least and most from missed games against their playoff rivals. I followed the NBA closely for most of...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 14, 2026

DRM-Free Ebook Sources

I read a blog post on Schemescape titled Using the Xteink X4, a minimalist e-reader. I have one, and I will have everyone know that I ordered mine in fall 2025 after reading about it in Liliputing before it apparently became an online "thing." But that aside, the Schemescape post, in noting that the X4...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 12, 2026

The Sinking of Victory Chimes

In late 2024, I wrote a research article on Victory Chimes, a historic schooner that was docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park and was in the process of being converted into a restaurant boat. My article perfomed well on NLJ, earning a Wikipedia citation and rating as my 22nd most-visited article of 2025. Granting its past...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 12, 2026

Nagoya Basho Predictions

The Nagoya Basho grand sumo tournament is about to begin. I watched the first three tournaments of the year (January, March, and May) and am excited for the fourth. I would not yet deem myself competent to predict the records of all the participants like Tim Edwards does on his always-interesting Sumo Stomp! blog, but...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 3, 2026

Google Hardware Complaints Remind Me of BlackBerry Classic

I read an article on マリウス.com titled I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware. The author, Marius, goes through the issues he has had with various Google phones and tablets over the years. One of the issues, the Google Pixel 6a battery problems, struck a chord with me since my Pixel 6a was affected by the...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 2, 2026

Settings in “No AI” DuckDuckGo

Back on June 8, 2026, Chris Wiegman published a blog post titled You Don't Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain. For those not in the know, noai.duckduckgo.com is a subdomain of DuckDuckGo search which removes DuckDuckGo's new "AI" features. I wrote about how to add the "noai" version of DuckDuckGo as a search engine to Chromium-...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 2, 2026

Joining Robert Birming’s JulyReply 2026

Last month, I participated in Robert Birming's "Junited" project, wherein I (and others) shared good blog posts from around the web. I joined late (see my Junited 2026 posts) and failed to share a few that I saved (I was busy in late June), but I nevertheless managed to share 19 blog posts and articles...

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The Emu Café SocialJul 1, 2026

On Markdown Editors and Fluff

Rodrigo Ghedin published a short "hot take" on markdown: "[I]f you feel comfortable with Markdown, you don't need an editor that displays the formatting." I largely agree, although I personally use using KDE's Ghostwriter, which displays some markdown formatting and has some other nice quality of life features (built-in exporting UI being my favorite) that...

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ege's weblogJul 1, 2026

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