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Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: You know he did other things than Larry, right? We talked with Al Lowe about Leisure Suit Larry, but mostly other stuff. This was Roar’s first interview and he ran out of time before he could dive into what Al is mostly known for. Al Lowe is an American software developer who started making games in the early eighties. His is mostly known for the Leisure Suit Larry games, created with Sierra, but he is also a musical man who loves playing his sax…
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Lord of the Flies: The Outcast Classic Is Surreal Horror So Excellent You’ll Feel Sick The Whole Time | TV and radio

Lord of the Flies: The Outcast Classic Is Surreal Horror So Excellent You’ll Feel Sick The Whole Time | TV and radio

🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CFar-flung stories, from Cast Away to The Martian, are often feel-good classics. They are tales of a brilliant person overcoming enormous odds, a triumphant metaphor for the human spirit. Here's a funny thing: Outcast stories that depict large groups of people do exactly the opposite. Forced to self-organize, they ended up eating each other. Exception missing; I don't know what that was about. Polar bears?Needless to say I love them all. So it's exciting to see a new kid on…
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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain: Midfielder says Celtic is ‘perfect fit’ after joining until summer

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain: Midfielder says Celtic is ‘perfect fit’ after joining until summer

💥 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain says Celtic are the “perfect team” for him after joining the Scottish champions on a deal until the summer.The former Arsenal and Liverpool midfielder has been on a free transfer since leaving Turkish side Besiktas in August, and has not played since May.However, the 32-year-old understands the expectations of him as he looks forward to working under Martin O'Neill.“Talking to the coach, I felt like I was the perfect fit and I feel like I can come in and help the players,” Oxlade-Chamberlain…
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Stories From 25 Years of Software Development

Stories From 25 Years of Software Development

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: By Susam Pal on 06 Feb 2026 Last year, I completed 20 years in professional software development. I wanted to write a post to mark the occasion back then, but couldn't find the time. This post is my attempt to make up for that omission. In fact, I have been involved in software development for a little longer than 20 years. Although I had my first taste of computer programming as a child, it was only when I entered university about 25 years ago that…
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Six Nations: Italy punish lackluster Scotland in rain in Rome

Six Nations: Italy punish lackluster Scotland in rain in Rome

🚀 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Scotland face losing their Six Nations campaign after suffering a frustrating opening loss to Italy in a rain-soaked Rome.Having come back from a 12-point deficit to surprise the Scots in 2024, the Italians this time lead by 12 points.The deficit was down to three by full time but Scotland could not do enough as the home side made the most of their fast start, superior set-pieces and solid discipline.Italy scored from the first attack when Lewis Lynagh slid in to finish off a brilliant…
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‘We’re used to crowds’: Recent noise in Wuthering Heights doesn’t bother Yorkshire residents | Wuthering Heights

‘We’re used to crowds’: Recent noise in Wuthering Heights doesn’t bother Yorkshire residents | Wuthering Heights

💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Wuthering Heights,Yorkshire,Film,Travel,Margot Robbie,Jacob Elordi,Emily Brontë 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe four-mile track from the village of Haworth to Top Withens in West Yorkshire is well known; Many footprints crushed in the muddy ground by those searching for the view said to have inspired the setting of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. The landscape rolls in desolate waves of brown fern. A lone tree punctuates the scene. It's bleak and hauntingly beautiful.With the release of Emerald Fennell's new take on the gothic masterpiece starring Margot Robbie and…
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World Grand Prix: Zhao Xintong and Zhang Anda meet in an all-Chinese final

World Grand Prix: Zhao Xintong and Zhang Anda meet in an all-Chinese final

🔥 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Zhang, ranked 23rd in the world, had to fight hard to reach his fourth ranking final.Zhou, who beat England's Ali Carter in a play-off to reach the semi-finals, was well placed to win the final frame but ran out of position in blue when he looked set for victory.Then 28-year-old Zhou put the cue ball into the blue zone during a safety exchange, and Zhang, 34, sealed the win.“I was nervous in the last frame and I'm still nervous here,” Zhang said."My hands are shaking.…
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Software Engineering is back – by Alain

Software Engineering is back – by Alain

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I don’t post a lot. But when I do, it’s because I think few people are saying out loud what I’m noticing.I’ve been building a product from the ground up. Not the “I spun up a Next.js template” kind of ground up. I mean from network configuration to product design to pricing decisions. Truly end to end. And I’ve been doing it using frontier models and coding agents for hours and hours every single day, both on this project and in my full time work.…
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European Premier League: Barcelona withdraws from the project

European Premier League: Barcelona withdraws from the project

🚀 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Barcelona's withdrawal from the European Super League project had been expected for months.It is just the latest step in the slow death of what has generally been accepted as a poorly planned, and disastrous, attempt to move away from the Champions League.The closed store project will be completed once the six Premier League clubs withdraw in 2021.With fan-controlled Bundesliga teams uninterested and PSG also disapproving, it was not financially viable.Juventus had pulled out by the time A22 Sports, the company behind it, attempted to relaunch…
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Evidence #229: How an independent film distributed by a lone player destroyed the US box office | culture

Evidence #229: How an independent film distributed by a lone player destroyed the US box office | culture

🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Film,Games,Melania,YouTube 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TTwo very unusual films were released last weekend. You've almost certainly heard of it: Melania, the documentary centering on the biography of the First Lady of the United States, which was screened in thousands upon thousands of often completely empty movie theaters around the world by Amazon and Jeff Bezos in what is widely seen as a White House push. Melania's $7 million in the US was a little better than expected (and much higher than the film's staggering numbers elsewhere), but…
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