#warstories — Public Fediverse posts

Naylor speaks to those who were there, bringing the human side of warfare into focus.
#books #WarStories #RelentlessStrike
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

Naylor speaks to those who were there, bringing the human side of warfare into focus.
#books #WarStories #RelentlessStrike
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

Naylor speaks to those who were there, bringing the human side of warfare into focus.
#books #WarStories #RelentlessStrike
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

Naylor speaks to those who were there, bringing the human side of warfare into focus.
#books #WarStories #RelentlessStrike
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

Naylor speaks to those who were there, bringing the human side of warfare into focus.
#books #WarStories #RelentlessStrike
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

The Siege of Jadotville is a story of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances. It’s a reminder of the sacrifices made by peacekeepers.
#Bravery #WarStories #BookClubPick
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/siege-at-jadotville-book-review-irish-army-forgotten-battle/

The Siege of Jadotville is a story of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances. It’s a reminder of the sacrifices made by peacekeepers.
#Bravery #WarStories #BookClubPick
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/siege-at-jadotville-book-review-irish-army-forgotten-battle/

The Siege of Jadotville is a story of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances. It’s a reminder of the sacrifices made by peacekeepers.
#Bravery #WarStories #BookClubPick
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/siege-at-jadotville-book-review-irish-army-forgotten-battle/

The Siege of Jadotville is a story of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances. It’s a reminder of the sacrifices made by peacekeepers.
#Bravery #WarStories #BookClubPick
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/siege-at-jadotville-book-review-irish-army-forgotten-battle/

Oops, I wrote a database. I discuss some of challenges I faced getting full ACID guarantees working in my latest post: https://dafoster.net/articles/2026/02/23/oops-i-wrote-a-database/ #databases #warstories #programming

The forgotten #African #soldiers of #WorldWarII: #Courage, #sacrifice, and untold #history
The legacy of African soldiers in World War II is not just a footnote; it is a testament to resilience, courage, and the human cost of a war that reshaped the world.
#AfricanHistory #WWII #HiddenHistory #ColonialTroops #WarStories #GlobalHistory #UnsungHeroes
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-forgotten-african-soldiers-of-world.html

The forgotten #African #soldiers of #WorldWarII: #Courage, #sacrifice, and untold #history
The legacy of African soldiers in World War II is not just a footnote; it is a testament to resilience, courage, and the human cost of a war that reshaped the world.
#AfricanHistory #WWII #HiddenHistory #ColonialTroops #WarStories #GlobalHistory #UnsungHeroes
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-forgotten-african-soldiers-of-world.html

The forgotten #African #soldiers of #WorldWarII: #Courage, #sacrifice, and untold #history
The legacy of African soldiers in World War II is not just a footnote; it is a testament to resilience, courage, and the human cost of a war that reshaped the world.
#AfricanHistory #WWII #HiddenHistory #ColonialTroops #WarStories #GlobalHistory #UnsungHeroes
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-forgotten-african-soldiers-of-world.html

The forgotten #African #soldiers of #WorldWarII: #Courage, #sacrifice, and untold #history
The legacy of African soldiers in World War II is not just a footnote; it is a testament to resilience, courage, and the human cost of a war that reshaped the world.
#AfricanHistory #WWII #HiddenHistory #ColonialTroops #WarStories #GlobalHistory #UnsungHeroes
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-forgotten-african-soldiers-of-world.html

The forgotten #African #soldiers of #WorldWarII: #Courage, #sacrifice, and untold #history
The legacy of African soldiers in World War II is not just a footnote; it is a testament to resilience, courage, and the human cost of a war that reshaped the world.
#AfricanHistory #WWII #HiddenHistory #ColonialTroops #WarStories #GlobalHistory #UnsungHeroes
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-forgotten-african-soldiers-of-world.html

No Easy Day isn’t just about the raid. It’s about how men are made for the hard roads. It’s about what they carry inside.
#WarStories #NoEasyDay #Readers #books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/mission-that-killed-osama-bin-laden/

Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70n2x7p22do

#HackerNews #Palestine #Conflict #HumanRights #WarStories #ChildrenVoices #NewsCoverage

Friday, February 27, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/

Friday, February 27, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/

Friday, February 27, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/

Friday, February 27, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/

Friday, February 27, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/

Dive into the story of heroism, sacrifice, and the cost of war.
#OutpostBook #USMilitary #WarStories #BookReview #books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/outpost/

What I share here is only a very small part of our story—mine and my children’s—under this war. Behind every word lies fear, hunger, and displacement. Behind every picture, a tear unseen. Our story is filled with pain, yet it is also a cry for life… we hold on to hope despite everything.

#Gaza #ChildrenUnderAttack #WarStories #Humanity #StandWithGaza #HopeInDarkness #EndTheWar
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-thaer-give-his-children-safety-again

”Friends don’t let friends do feature creep!”
#development #warstories

A clip from my Substack Live conversation today with Jennifer Holik. It's a fascinating discussion about #WarStories and other forms of #Trauma and how we relive the experiences in #FamilyHistory. Join us Thursday for "War Stories and Healing Paths with Jennifer Holik" Projectkin.org/events

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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#navalhistory #ww2 #worldwartwo #commandos #warstories #normandy #operationchariot #thegreatestraidofalltime #militaryhistory #history #navy #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #historyfacts #warfacts #military #army #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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#navalhistory #ww2 #worldwartwo #commandos #warstories #normandy #operationchariot #thegreatestraidofalltime #militaryhistory #history #navy #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #historyfacts #warfacts #military #army #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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#navalhistory #ww2 #worldwartwo #commandos #warstories #normandy #operationchariot #thegreatestraidofalltime #militaryhistory #history #navy #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #historyfacts #warfacts #military #army #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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#navalhistory #ww2 #worldwartwo #commandos #warstories #normandy #operationchariot #thegreatestraidofalltime #militaryhistory #history #navy #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #historyfacts #warfacts #military #army #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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#navalhistory #ww2 #worldwartwo #commandos #warstories #normandy #operationchariot #thegreatestraidofalltime #militaryhistory #history #navy #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #historyfacts #warfacts #military #army #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

When I hear about AI-based programming, I think back several decades to a time when I was dealing with a hairy set of data, and I wrote a pretty complex bit of code generating an even more complex bit of SQL. I don't remember now if it ended up proving useful or not, though I think it did. But that's not the point.

The point was when I came back to it after a few months ... I couldn't figure it out at all. Neither the generator, nor the generated code.

And I HAD WRITTEN IT. Myself, from scratch, sorting out what I wanted and how to get there.

There's a principle in programming that debugging and maintenance are far harder than coding. Which means you should never write code that you are too stupid to debug and maintain. Which is precisely what I'd failed in my anecdote.

And of course, Management, in its infinite wisdom, typically puts far greater emphasis on new development than on testing, or Heavens Forefend!!! maintenance. So all the brightest talent (or so perceived, at any rate) goes to New Development.

(There's a great essay from about a decade ago, "In Praise of Maintenance, which you, and by "you" I mean "I", should really (re)read: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-maintenance-rebroadcast/).

With AI-based code generation, presuming it works at all, we get code that's like computer-chess or computer-Go (the game, not the lang). It might work, but there's no explanation or clarity to it. Grandmasters are not only stumped but utterly dispirited because they can't grok the strategy.

I can't count the number of times I've heard AI referred to as search or solution without explanation, an idea I'd first twigged to in the late 2010s. That is, if scientific knowledge tells us about causes of things, AI ML GD LLM simply tells us the answer without being able to show its work. Or worse: even if it could show work, that wouldn't tell us anything meaningful.

(This ... may not be entirely accurate, I'm not working in the field. But the point's been iterated enough times from enough different people at least some of whom should know that I tend to believe it.)

A major cause of technical debt is loss of institutional knowledge over how code works and what parts do what. I've worked enough maintenance jobs that I've seen this in all size and manner of organisations. At another gig, I'd cut the amount of code roughly in half just so I could run it in the interactive environment which made debugging more viable. I never really fully understood what all of that program did (though I could fix bugs, make changes, and even anticipate some problems which later emerged). Funny thing was when one of the prior Hired Guns who'd worked on the same project before my time there turned up on my front door some years later ... big laughs from both of us...

But this AI-generated code? It's going to be hairballs on hairballs on hairballs. And at some point it's gonna break.

Which leaves us with two possible situations:

• We won't have an AI smart enough to deal with the mess.
• Or, maybe, we will. Which as I think of the possibility whilst typing this seems potentially even more frightening.

Though my bet's on the first case.

#AI #AiProgramming #Hairballs #WarStories #Maintenance #TechnicalDebt

🪖 They sent him to fight a war across the sea. What he faced was far worse: a war within his soul.
📖 Letters to a Broken Nation is a searing novel of race, war, betrayal & resilience in Vietnam.

🔗 https://a.co/d/bE7bbeY

#HistoricalFiction #VietnamWar #BlackVoices #WarStories #AmWriting #MohamedDosou #LiteraryFiction #MustRead

🪖 They sent him to fight a war across the sea. What he faced was far worse: a war within his soul.
📖 Letters to a Broken Nation is a searing novel of race, war, betrayal & resilience in Vietnam.

🔗 https://a.co/d/bE7bbeY

#HistoricalFiction #VietnamWar #BlackVoices #WarStories #AmWriting #MohamedDosou #LiteraryFiction #MustRead

🪖 They sent him to fight a war across the sea. What he faced was far worse: a war within his soul.
📖 Letters to a Broken Nation is a searing novel of race, war, betrayal & resilience in Vietnam.

🔗 https://a.co/d/bE7bbeY

#HistoricalFiction #VietnamWar #BlackVoices #WarStories #AmWriting #MohamedDosou #LiteraryFiction #MustRead

🪖 They sent him to fight a war across the sea. What he faced was far worse: a war within his soul.
📖 Letters to a Broken Nation is a searing novel of race, war, betrayal & resilience in Vietnam.

🔗 https://a.co/d/bE7bbeY

#HistoricalFiction #VietnamWar #BlackVoices #WarStories #AmWriting #MohamedDosou #LiteraryFiction #MustRead

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?#darkphotography #darkart #darkartists #darkness #darkaesthetic #darkmood #darkgram #darkartwork #darkphoto #darkstyle #darkvisuals #darkportrait #darkimagery #darkbeauty #darkatmosphere #darkmoody #darkvibes #darkside #darkandmoody #darkesthour #warphotography #warart #wartime #warstories #warhistory #warzone

"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite

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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite

Amazon - http://mybook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWIIFiction #WWIIRomance #WW2Romance #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WartimeRomance #WarStories @bookstodon

Nothing Less Than Full Victory! – War Stories: Rendezvous With Destiny

https://wp.me/p4dlMq-5yy

#BoxcarNation #Review #ttrpg #WarStories #WWII #WW2 #YearZero @FirelockGames @FreeLeaguePub

http://rollingboxcars.com/2024/11/27/nothing-less-than-full-victory-war-stories-rendezvous-with-destiny/

Breaking news: Russia takes a hit, literally! A fresh drone strike on Kyiv, while a commander gets sacked for spinning tales about war progress. It seems honesty really is the best policy… unless you're in the Kremlin! #UkraineWar #Kyiv #WarStories #SkyNews Source: https://theinformer.uk

#WarStories: Mission 1 failed, the Agents died. #OccupiedFrance feels like a fine mashup of (advanced) #FightingFantasy, old exciting #spy / #war #thrillers and a stripped, but deadly version of a skirmish #wargame. I like the game. I'm not so sure about the replay value. #boardgames

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xdjqpqlccq57rplc6ulr73rp/post/3l5tgt6ooiq2p

#WarStories: 18th Oct. 1943 - We’re running out of time to help the French resistance… Mission 1 starts now. #Wargames #boardgamesky #OccupiedFrance #OperationLightning #SoloGaming

"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite

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Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

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Kate Sheridan leaves Ireland for London seeking freedom and work. But war looms and danger lurks. She meets Charlie Butler, a dashing pilot who charms her, but can she trust him? Will their love survive their families' objections and the trials of war?

Amazon - http://myBook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWII #WW2 #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WarStories @bookstodon

"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite

Amazon - http://mybook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWIIFiction #WWIIRomance #WW2Romance #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WartimeRomance #WarStories @bookstodon

"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite

Amazon - http://mybook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWIIFiction #WWIIRomance #WW2Romance #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WartimeRomance #WarStories @bookstodon

Kate Sheridan leaves Ireland for London seeking freedom and work. But war looms and danger lurks. She meets Charlie Butler, a dashing pilot who charms her, but can she trust him? Will their love survive their families' objections and the trials of war?

Amazon - http://myBook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWII #WW2 #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WarStories @bookstodon