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Ten years ago, a man stood on a bridge.

In May 1942, the high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”, was attacked in Prague by Czechoslovak resistance agents in an assassination operation called Anthropoid.

Last year I bought a new teapot that I’ve since been using daily.

I like my city builder games as much as the next guy.

The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt outlines the rise of Nvidia, currently the most valuable company in the world, from the point of view of Jensen Huang, its CEO and one of the founders.

In June, Alex Hsu hosted an IndieWeb Carnival themed “No way!?”.

The post “I’d not buy a LG monitor” by Beko Pharm drew my attention to this recent video by Gamers Nexus.

I read JTR’s post about em dashes and found it resonating with my own thoughts.

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I consider myself quite lucky to have seen the time when computers were still pretty basic and the internet was almost unheard of.

Michael Harley recently commented on Thom Holwerda’s post commenting on Evangelos (Evan) “GeopJr” Paterakis’s post: Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis: Democratizing Abandonware ⤷ Thom Holwerda: Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of…

Last month, June 2026, I participated in Robert Birming’s Junited 2026 blog post sharing event.

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After finishing the excellent HBO Max show Hacks recently I was in dire need of something new to watch.

Last year, as I was rewatching the Star Wars movies I decided to write 100 word summaries of them.

Junited is a no-pressure blog post sharing event that takes place every June.

When I wrote about the Titanic someone asked me what’s my next cheerful topic going to be – nuclear disasters?

Former stock analyst Dan Davies has categorized and compiled in Lying for Money various frauds that people throughout history have used to try to extract money from others.

How do you find good, authentic, personal blogs these days?

In my previous Random Things Sunday post I linked to Matt Web’s article where he called for better discoverability of vibe-coded apps.

A while ago someone was showing off their LEGO creation in my social media feed: a brick-built QR-code containing the credentials to their WiFi network.

This week’s main topic is vibe coding, but there’s an aasinsilta,, “donkey’s bridge” as we say in Finnish, to it first: Vincent Ritter put together neat API documentation for Micro.blog at microblog.dev.

I recently stumbled upon the IndieWeb Book Club, where Jo was setting the book of the month for April: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987) by Douglas Adams. 📚 I recall reading it probably some 25 years ago and figured it’s high time to read it…

I’ve been tracking the number of visitors in my blog with Tinylytics.

Strava is the de facto standard of recreational cyclists for tracking their rides, and I use it too.