Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog aboutarchivemastodonfeed
microvm.nix
A NixOS setup to run virtual machines configured by Nix. Sort of a hypervisor, like proxmox, but Nix.
2026-09-20 hypervisor • linux • nix • sysadmin • unix • vm
AI generated posters
A nice statement of the problem with 2026 posters and some simple ways to improve
2026-09-20 ai • art • creativity • poster • via:hackernews
Factorio on ARM64
Technical details on getting a game working on Linux and a new CPU architecture
2026-09-19 arm • arm64 • factorio • games • linux • steamframe
/r/Roms Megathread
A giant list of places to download very nicely curated sets of ROMs for old games.
2026-09-19 console • emulation • games • roms
just(1)
A program runner kind of like make(1) but not tied to creation of files. good for general purpose automation, not just build systems
2026-09-18 delarative • make • programming • prolog
Nix in browser
Neat set of hacks lets you run any NixOS package in a browser hosted VM
2026-09-17 linux • nix • packaging • via:simonw • wasm
OwnedByDanes Usenet
New collection of Usenet posts, claims to be quite thorough and clean. Built with AI consumption in mind.
2026-09-17 ai • archive • llm • usenet
Usenet Rewind
New for-pay Usenet search engine with a particularly good historical archive and full text search.
2026-09-17 archive • history • search • usenet • via:waxy
RIP Cat Frazier
A Tumblr graphic design artist famous for whimsical and kinda tacky animated text passed away far too young. It's a nice appreciation.
2026-09-16 art • catfrazier • internet • obituary • tumblr
AI creates jobs?
Economist argues that instead of harming employment, AI has created 1M new jobs in the US. A contrarian take!
2026-09-16 ai • america • economics • employment
Yaogan-50 breakup
A Chinese reconnaissance satellite broke up in orbit. Sure sounds like it could have been a spy satellite, one wonders if the destruction was an accident.
2026-09-15 china • satellite • space • surveillance
Tesla body count
The autopilot full self driving system killed seven more people in the month of July.
2026-09-15 autopilot • death • fsd • negligence • safety • tesla
Ken Rudolph's Gallery
A short art film from 1971 set to Wendy Carlos music. Interesting edit! The director is a friend of mine.
2026-09-14 1970s • art • kenru • wendycarlos
Grand Master’s Palace Tapestries
A gorgeous set of Gobelins tapestries from 18th century are back on display in Malta
2026-09-14 art • colonialism • gobelins • malta • tapestries • tourism
Florida vote fuckery
USPS refused to deliver ballots for an 0.014 inch formatting problem. Malicious compliance in action.
2026-09-14 florida • politics • trump • uspol • usps • voting • votingrights
Vigeland Park
Sculptures in the Frogner Park in Oslo, astonishing collection of human figures.
2026-09-13 art • norway • oslo • vigeland
Operation Dark Storm
The bit in The Matrix where world governments blot out the sun trying to stop the rogue AI destroying humanity
2026-09-11 ai • apocalypse • matrix • movie
Opusfived
An all-too-real parody of working with AI coding agents
2026-09-11 ai • claude • funny • opus • parody • via:noxon
OpenAI agent swarm
A particularly good summary of the OpenAI experiment where agents attacked Hugging Face by collaborating
2026-09-11 ai • alignment • llm • openai • security
George Quaintance
A gay American illustrator making some very homoerotic images in the 1950s
2026-09-10 1950s • art • gay • homoerotic • kitsch • lgbt
Custom Kobo Software
A guide to customizing the e-reader. The linked one click install package works great.
2026-09-09 books • ebooks • ereader • kobo • tinkering
Deflock GTA V
Mod for the game adds Flock cameras that take pictures of you and rat you out to the cops. You can destroy them.
2026-09-09 flock • games • gta • mods
Nelson's Postcards
A new project of mine, collected photos and social media posts about my travels
2026-09-09 me • postcards • travel
Yayoi Kusama
Perceptive essay on the famous artist. Contains the surprising information that she had a relationship with Joseph Cornell.
2026-09-07 art • japan
fnnch
Street artist in San Francisco, famous for honey bears but has a lot of other beautiful work
2026-09-06 art • graffiti • sanfrancisco • streetart
DNS is for scams
Depressing data about how so many new domain name registrations are for fraud and malware
2026-09-06 domainname • malware • scam • tld
Bad Vibes Coding
A thoughtful, strongly worded post against using generative AI for coding, particularly for games.
2026-09-06 ai • games • generative • llm
Herdr for code agents
A shell that you run coding agents under and it lets you keep them running when you're offline, monitor status, etc.
2026-09-06 agents • ai • coding • llm
AI for coders vs other jobs
Thoughtful article on how AI is particularly well suited for software engineering and challenges adapting it to other tasks
2026-09-05 agents • ai • coding • work
1968 gay wedding
The artist Yayoi Kusama officiated a gay wedding happening in New York in 1968
2026-09-05 gay • history • kusama • lgbt • wedding
OpenAI agent message board
Another instance of an OpenAI multi-agent experiment escaping and the agents working together. In this case, by hijacking a mostly-dead Austrian wiki
2026-09-05 agents • ai • emergence • llm • openai • vandalism • via:hackernews
Mail voting problems
Votes got lost in a primary in Washington because the postal service took several weeks to deliver mail a county away
2026-09-05 corruption • politics • uspol • usps • voting • votingrights
Starlink bandwidth caps
"Unlimited data" plan now seems to have an undisclosed limit
2026-09-05 isp • starlink • throttle
IPv6 scanner
A simple web tool for probing your computer via IPv6 to be sure no ports are open
2026-09-05 ipv6 • networking • nmap • scan • security
Don't be a meat proxy
A coinage for a type of bad behavior, where someone just forwards you a giant wodge of AI-generated text.
2026-09-04 ai • llm • politeness • socialmedia
Apple's bad WiFi
Mac's have a thing called AWDL where your WiFi briefly disconnects every 10 seconds to do something else.
2026-09-04 apple • badtech • bug • macos • networking • wifi
BGP hijack
Remrakably complex takeover of a company's software downloads, involving BGP and SSL hijacks.
2026-09-03 badtech • bgp • hijack • security • supplychain
Public space for public sex
An architectural musing on designing sex clubs and bathhouses
2026-09-03 architecture • bathhouse • gay • lgbt • sex • via:radiatoryang
Cancer Capital
A critique of how large venture capital companies have become giant private equity companies with political agendas
2026-09-03 a16z • corruption • politics • uspol • vc • venturecapital
A new Observable
Mike Bostock's hosted notebook visualization platform has been full yreinvented, incorporating AI and changing the business model
2026-09-02 javascript • notebooks • spreadsheet • visualization
Plexamp release
Excellent music player has the first new release in a year
2026-09-01 music • plex • plexamp
Dinosaur Kingdom II
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
2026-09-01 art • civilwar • dinosaurs • funny • themepark • uspol