Articles by Tomte
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Online Friends Are Real Friends (toska.bearblog.dev)

9

Another Reason Not to Use "AI" for Your Writing (scalzi.com)

2

Let's Make the Worst Htmx (zserge.com)

4

Star Trek the Next Generation Series Bible (Season One) (1987) (archive.org)

1

Studying AI in the Wild: Reflections from the AI Work Research Group (2025) (wiley.com)

1

RimWorld's Code Defines Strict Gender Roles (2016) (rockpapershotgun.com)

3

M64 – ModRetro (modretro.com)

2

Origin of Life (hhu.de)

1

Florentine monks find 19th century recipe for cola drink (dpa-international.com)

1

Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ) (spoj.com)

3

Apache Traffic Server (apache.org)

2

Emacs-Gnosis – Knowledge System for GNU Emacs (thanosapollo.org)

8

AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype (theregister.com)

3

Hierarchical File Systems are Dead (2009) (dash.harvard.edu)

6

College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure (arstechnica.com)

3

When the Walls Came Down (scripting.com)

2

Jason Arday (unherd.com)

1

International Aerial Photographer of the Year (internationalaerialphotographer.com)

4

Tory MP accuses French Navy of firing 'warning' shots near him in Channel (theguardian.com)

2

When the Future Doesn't Need Us (borretti.me)

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Verso is a platform for writing documents, books, course materials, and websites (lean-lang.org)

1

Most of Your Backfills Didn't Have to Happen (luminousmen.substack.com)

1

Mango – Modern IRC Client for Mac, iPhone and iPad (mangoirc.chat)

1

Prickly present: dancing cactus toy that raps in Polish about cocaine goes viral (theguardian.com)

1

Japan Launches Domestically Produced Quantum Computer (quantumcomputingreport.com)

1

We write code by hand: We use Natural Intelligence to build software (handcraftedcode.org)

5

Repairing a "for parts" Canon 7D Mark II (boxfish.be)

8

Berlin cancels CSD Pride parade after police incident (dw.com)

2

Grandmother says staged arrest for reality TV show left her injured (cnn.com)

2

The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory (supakeen.com)

2

Please let me phone my podcasts app (interconnected.org)

2

Open Hardware and Free Software: Teufel Mynd, a Case Study (fsfe.org)

1

Australia's Greater Gliders Fly Majestically from Tree to Tree (nautil.us)

1

World Postcard Day 2026 postcard and theme (postcrossing.com)

5

Proofs (omg.lol)

6

Sorry, the open web is political (endonend.org)

1

Unranked, Systemd, Crawls (marginalia.nu)

2

Ignition (1972) [pdf] (sciencemadness.org)

7

Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work (sciencedirect.com)

2

What Is the "Mffam" Policy? (nearlyfreespeech.net)

3

Tate brothers arrested in US as further UK charges take total to 59 (bbc.com)

3

Lawyers risk being sued for failing to use AI (legalcheek.com)

1

Why Captain Disillusion Is Still the Goat [video] (youtube.com)

2

Moldable Development (moldabledevelopment.com)

1

Glamorous Toolkit (gtoolkit.com)

2

The Java Story – The Official Documentary [video] (youtube.com)

5

An Open Letter to A24 about Backrooms Copyright (backroomsmovie.com)

5

Israel changes crocodiles legal status in push for Ben-Gvir's 'crocodile prison' (jpost.com)

4

Overgrown (blender.org)

2

The curious case of Elias Thorne – and what he tells us about AI inbreeding (theguardian.com)

2

Identifying JDK value class candidates (openjdk.org)

2

Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal (kottke.org)

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Amid an AI's infinite memory, an animator ponders his place [video] (aeon.co)

1

The Linux.org Story (linux.org)

8

Buffett drops Gates Foundation from his annual donations (cnn.com)

1

Mensfeld/code-on-incus: Give each AI agent its own isolated machine (github.com/mensfeld)

2

Come Friendly SBOMs (freebsdfoundation.org)

1

U of Melbourne opens formal investigation into education researcher John Hattie (retractionwatch.com)

5

Oracle Corp. Downgraded to 'BBB-/A-3' from 'BBB/A (spglobal.com)

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GLP-1s are shrinking bodies. Enter cadaver fat injections (cnn.com)

2

2026 Spiel Des Jahres Winners: JinxO, Rebirth and Mooki Island (wericmartin.com)

2

The Five Sisters Race is underway (instagram.com)

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Neocities: Create your own free website (neocities.org)

7

Communities turn to barter-style crop swaps to combat cost-of-living crisis (abc.net.au)

2

Programming thought experiment: stuck in a room with a PC without an OS (reddit.com)

2

Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal Forth compiler and tutorial (2007) (github.com/nornagon)

29

TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024) (atthis.link)

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The secret operation to move the Bayeux Tapestry (nationalgeographic.com)

14

Lindsey Graham has died (washingtonpost.com)

2

RetroAchievements (retroachievements.org)

2

Sodas with a Doctorate (bsky.app)

1

Generating Effects (othermeans.substack.com)

5

Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong (thebulwark.com)

2

The Chud Vision of Roman History (acoup.blog)

1

Associate Editors resign from Statistics and Computing editorial board (columbia.edu)

1

Whitegoods that aren't, but should be (rubenerd.au)

1

Earliest example of right-handedness found in Australian fossils (cnn.com)

3

Anne Frank Diaries: ECJ strengthens geoblocking despite VPN circumvention (heise.de)

2

Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech (theringer.com)

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Bonnie Tyler latest: Legendary rock singer dies 'unexpectedly' in Portugal (sky.com)

3

The potential role of iron fuel in Europe's clean energy transition (cell.com)

4

What's the Point of Sex, Anyway? (newyorker.com)

1

Is Life Just Different? (quantamagazine.org)

2

UK Farage's election gamble could see him face one challenger Count Binface (reuters.com)

1

WebAssembly runtime may still be no runtime at all (00f.net)

1

Off By: Exploiting a Use-After-Free in the Linux Kernel (exodusintel.com)

5

How feminism has made me a better scientist (2018) (columbia.edu)

1

PDF 2.0: New Features, Real-World Impact (pdfa.org)

1

Celebrating 15 years of SAP's involvement in the OpenJDK (mostlynerdless.de)

1

Roosevelt Pursues the Boat Thieves (2015) (nps.gov)

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Trump's red card call stirs political storm around World Cup (cnn.com)

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Chamberlain murder trial artefacts paint picture of frenzy around 1982 case (abc.net.au)

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FIFA lifts Balogun's World Cup suspension after Trump calls Infantino (france24.com)

4

Eclipse Enclave (eclipse.org)

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Describing All My Photos (alexwlchan.net)

2

Systemd by Example – The Systemd Playground (systemd-by-example.com)

1

code-on-incus: Give each AI agent its own isolated machine with root (github.com/mensfeld)

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Rare things become common at scale (2014) (asmartbear.com)

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Floci: a fast, free, and open-source local AWS service emulator (floci.io)

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China's electromagnetic rocket launch technology (indiatimes.com)