The Rambler crew’s Session 42 notes celebrate inventive Traveller play—soldiers dreaming up traps, techies building RC decoys, and a campaign cruising toward a record year of sessions.
Bhagpuss wanders New World’s cozy horror, happily looting, sightseeing, and klepto-foraging his way through zombies and skeleton bridges instead of rushing the main quest.
Kimimi marvels at Jumping Flash’s confident 3D design, lovingly detailed polygons, and surprisingly smooth PlayStation performance that still make Robbit’s world feel solid and fair.
Wilhelm recaps Fantasy Critic League week 46, where Kirby Air Riders’ wobbling score lets Shawn claw into third while the top spots remain up for grabs.
Tipa thought she was done with Pokémon Legends: Z-A, then Infinite Battles, Mega Floette, and a full legendary lineup dragged her well past the credits—and probably into the DLC.
Anarchae recaps a week of Ottolengui, Traitors Canada, surprisingly good Raptors basketball, Fantasy Life i, FFXIV—and muses about splitting these sprawling digests into standalone posts.
Warner’s Sunday Morning Reading curates essays on feeling insane, listening, resistance cinema, Pluribus, Kennedy Center turmoil, and even the accidental birth of the emoticon.
Juhis shares the freshly published video of his PyCon Finland talk on debugging Python, plus links to the written version, event recap, and the full conference playlist.
Bruce Schneier highlights how the IACR had to void an online Helios election after a trustee lost their decryption key, prompting a move to a 2-of-3 threshold scheme.
Dave Winer riffs on ChatGPT as a feed validator, ActivityPub-powered WordPress, open source ownership, and a small FeedLand tweak, all wrapped in post-WordCamp reflections on healthier social networks
JJM details how dumb, rule-breaking LLM crawlers pushed him to ditch cgit and strip his self-hosted git repos down to a simpler, bare-bones web presence.
Tofutush unpacks why English became her default for reading and writing, revisits Chinese childhood books, and dreams of someday tackling Uyghur (and maybe Uzbek) too.