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165,000 Requests Later: The Daily Smark's v1.0 Launch

Four months after the v1.0 launch, a look back at what the numbers say: what fans use most, free accounts, and the updates shipped since.

The Daily Smark Blog

Android App Update: Testing Is Going Great

A progress update as The Daily Smark works through Google's 14 day closed testing.

Karn Wong
• Unknown

What are (agent) sandboxes useful for?

If you use coding agents, a lot of things happen between your prompt and the LLMs your agents use. But given agents work with something on your machine (that's your codebase), agents need to and can execute commands on your machine. Can you trust the machine overlord? LLMs ...

Karn Wong
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Desserts

Rice Pudding

Cook rice in milk. Add tiny amount of salt and a lot of sugar to taste. Can spice it up with tumeric.

Protein Fruit Dip

Mash peanut butter and banana until smooth. Add a tiny amount of honey. Dip with fruits.

Karn Wong
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Main Dishes

Rice Rinse with water a few times. Put rice in pot, add 2.5 cups of water. For Japanese rice, add 300 ml of water. High heat until boiling, then low heat for 13 minutes. Pour out the excess water, let it sit in the pot For rice cooked in stock, check the pot periodically t...

Karn Wong
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Side Dishes

Mashed Potatoes

  • Dice potatoes, add water covering the potatoes, medium heat for 30 mins.
  • Rest to let water evaporate
  • Add salt, black pepper, cream cheese / greek yogurt, honey, butter - then mash

Potatoes Soup

  • Start with mashed potatoes, and dilute with cream or broth

Karn Wong
• Unknown

Soups & Stews

Bone Broth Soup Bring 3-4 cups of water to a boil Add ribs, {meat}, {carrots}, potatoes, onions Simmer for one hour Add greens and a few beaten eggs Continue simmer for 10 minutes Goulash Melt butter / add oil and add onions Add meat Add garlic, tomatoes, bell peppers A...

Weak Notes — The Everything Feed Supports Webmention

Film Review - Compulsion

Compulsion (2024)

Rated: 10/10

Added: 2026-07-10

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Film Review - Kick-Ass 2

Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Rated: 3/10

Added: 2026-07-10

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Film Review - Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass (2010)

Rated: 3/10

Added: 2026-07-10

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Music of Sound
• tim

Thats a wrap!

And thats a wrap! After many, many months of field recording, sound editing & design work, and collaborating with lovely humans (and no fckng AI!) with the last month spent at awesome Park Road Post for the mix, the film…

text-based media

Notes for July 9, 2026

Cyborg cockroaches, Schrödinger's mountain lion in Ohio, and a few links I liked today

Weak Notes — The Everything Feed Supports Webmention

Blog - Week Notes Origins

Having seen discourse on bubbles.town about bloggers using week notes and it being seen as positive and negative (can we have better titles) so thought I would document the origins of the week notes term and my WeakNotes alternative. During the 2010s the Government Digital ...

James Leighton Supports Webmention
• semaj

A Whirlwind Weekend in London

A packed London weekend taking in the British Museum, My Neighbour Totoro at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, Kew Gardens, a family birthday party, and a stop at Hughenden Manor on the way home

Scripting News Valid

All I wanted for Christmas

Back in 2022 I wrote a bit called textcasting. I felt it was so important it deserved its own domain. Textcasting summarized the wrong turn we took when Twitter took over discourse, basically stripping all the features the web needed to be a great writing environment. Textc...

Take 5, D.
• yepitsdsk

Randoming on July 9, 2026 ✍️🪦🎆💸🔌

Thoughts assembled in a slapdash manner.

Exploring Kubernetes

cert-manager: Certificates as Cluster Resources

Issuers, Certificates, and one Gateway annotation: how cert-manager turns TLS issuance into desired state — plus the debug chain for when it won't issue.

Exploring Kubernetes

Pointing Your Domain at the Cluster with external-dns

The last manual step, automated: external-dns watches your HTTPRoutes and writes DNS records — to a cloud provider, or to authoritative DNS you run yourself.

Exploring Kubernetes

Gateway API with Traefik: The Standard Front Door

Stop writing Ingress annotations. How Gateway API's role-split design works — GatewayClass, Gateway, HTTPRoute — wired end to end with Traefik, TLS included.

Exploring Kubernetes

Kubernetes Ingress: Reading the Front Door You Inherit

Every existing cluster still routes through Ingress. Read rules, pathTypes, TLS, and annotations fluently — and plan the Gateway API migration off ingress-nginx.