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NPR plans to move its public editor partnership from the Poynter Institute to the University of Maryland in 2027, as public editor Kelly McBride leaves the role (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2026/10/npr-to-move-public…

NPR to move public editor partnership to University of Maryland
Kelly McBride, the current public editor, will leave the role at the end of this year.

Raiders must move on from competitive losses to find 'winning mindset' https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/10/22/raiders-move-on-from-competitive-lo…

Using #PHP arrays as pseudo-objects is almost never the right answer. They're less self-documenting, slower, worse on memory, and more bug prone.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/php-list-ben…

PHP: Use associative arrays basically never
The other day I was working on some sample code to test out an idea that involved an object with an internal nested array. This is a pretty common pattern in PHP: You have some simple one-off internal data structure so you make an informal struct using PHP associative arrays. Maybe you document it in a docblock, or maybe you're a lazy jerk and you don't. (Fight me!) But really, who bothers with defining a class for something that simple? But that got me wondering, is that common pattern r…

#Breaking
Astronomers have been watching an asteroid that is on a path to collide with Earth with a force 24 times that of the largest nuclear bomb. Not as large as the #Chixculub impact that took out the dinosaurs, but big enough to cause “continental devastation”. Mark your calendars and maybe d…

There've been plenty of opinions proffered on the BAAJA bill over the past few weeks (mine here: https://www.transitiontimes.net/tt-17-my-verdict-on-baaja/) but those don't move markets.
What moves markets is the companies themselves, and the energy transition …

TT#17 – My Verdict on BAAJA
The bipartisan permitting reform bill would remove key hurdles to the energy transition—especially hurdles to siting transmission—and unlock vast amounts of wind and solar power. On the whole, it would be a net benefit to the climate and the energy transition.

Das Buch der Woche der @… Bibliothek:
PC Power '97 – 1111 Profi-Tips zu: Hardware, Windows 95, Internet
Wer vergessen hat wie man MSCDEX richtig konfiguriert, wird auf Seite 593 fündig. Im Teil "Internet-Tricks" lernt man wie Netscape Navigator 2.0 mit nur 8 MB RAM genutzt werden kann. Der Eintrag "IRC-Clients installieren und konfiguriere…

Could your website be static? Could you do things like header/footer includes when you do the updates instead of on every page read?
OK, maybe you have a search or something - but could everything else be static?

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A look at Swiss producer Simon Afram's unconventional journey to get WWII thriller Fortitude made and his Netflix lawsuit after a hard drive copy was stolen (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

A Quebec publisher cuts ties with author Thélyson Orélien and will not reprint his novel It Was Either That or Die after an analysis found evidence of AI use (Zane Irwin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/wo…

Thélyson Orélien's Quebec Publisher Cuts Ties Over A.I. Accusations
Thélyson Orélien, a celebrated novelist, used artificial intelligence while writing a breakout book, his publisher says.