Cloudy weather may prevent many people in Norway from seeing Wednesday evening’s major solar eclipse, the first extensive one visible in the country since 2015.
Just added JPEG XL support to ServeProxy. Add ?jxl=true before your existing ?url= parameter and it'll convert and cache the image as JPEG XL on the fly. AVIF is the default output format on Serveproxy, so this gives you a second modern format to compare against.
Example: https://serveproxy.com/?jxl=true&url=https://picsum.photos/1000/750
Browser support is still limited so test before you rely on it in production, but if you want smaller images with good quality it's there now. 🙂
Iceland's upcoming referendum on resuming EU membership talks, set for August 29, is being watched closely in the Faroe Islands, where fisheries policy makes EU membership a sensitive topic. Faroese minister Bárður á Steig Nielsen noted the relevance given both territories' reliance on fishing and Brussels' control over EU fisheries policy. A June poll showed just over 53% of likely Icelandic voters support resuming negotiations, with support strongest among those aged 40 to 49 and in the capital region, and weakest among older voters, eastern Iceland and supporters of the Centre and Independence parties. Despite this lean toward reopening talks, most Icelanders still appear opposed to actual EU membership.
Bavaria had 588 breweries in 2025, 13 fewer than the previous year, according to figures reported by BR. The number has fallen by almost 100 since 2000 as alcohol consumption declines.
iShares just announced the next quarterly dividend for WINC, and it's roughly in line with last summer's payout, which is good news.
Ex-date is July 16, pay date is July 29, and the dividend is $0.1705 (compared to $0.1700 in July 2025).
Adding up the last four quarterly dividends gives a total of $0.5703. At the current price of €5.181, that works out to a 9.6% yield.
WINC has performed well since launch a couple of years ago. Total return has kept pace with a cheap global index fund over time, which is unusual for this type of fund. Normally you'd expect to give up some total return in exchange for a high reliable dividend, but WINC does something a bit different from most covered call funds and has managed to perform very well for its category. It also uses futures to make up for some of the upside it misses above the option strike prices.
Hi all,
I've been working on my own uptime monitoring tool called Hesklo for the past few months. It started with the goal to make my own monitoring more reliable and flexible, but has grown into a full product with advanced flows, loads of notifications options and public status pages. It offers a visual and very flexible way to setup monitoring via http, ping, tcp or ssh, configure on-call automation and alerts.
Now I've introduced a lifetime deal especially for members of r/indie_startups other early adopters. A one-time fee of $39 will get you;
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There's a free tier available with all functionality (except public status pages) so feel free to check that out before considering a purchase. Also all product feedback is more than welcome. 🙂
Hi all,
I've been working on my own uptime monitoring tool called Hesklo for the past few months. It started with the goal to make my own monitoring more reliable and flexible, but has grown into a full product with advanced flows, loads of notifications options and public status pages. It offers a visual and very flexible way to setup monitoring via http, ping, tcp or ssh, configure on-call automation and alerts.
Now I've introduced a lifetime deal especially for members of r/SideProject and other early adopters. A one-time fee of $39 will get you;
https://www.hesklo.com/lifetime
There's a free tier available with all functionality (except public status pages) so feel free to check that out before considering a purchase. Also all product feedback is more than welcome. 🙂
Hi all,
I've been working on my own uptime monitoring tool called Hesklo for the past few months. It started with the goal to make my own monitoring more reliable and flexible, but has grown into a full product with advanced flows, loads of notifications options and public status pages. It offers a visual and very flexible way to setup monitoring via http, ping, tcp or ssh, configure on-call automation and alerts.
Now I've introduced a lifetime deal especially for members of r/StartupSoloFounder and other early adopters. A one-time fee of $39 will get you;
https://www.hesklo.com/lifetime
There's a free tier available with all functionality (except public status pages) so feel free to check that out before considering a purchase. Also all product feedback is more than welcome. 🙂
Hi all,
I've been working on my own uptime monitoring tool called Hesklo for the past few months. It started with the goal to make my own monitoring more reliable and flexible, but has grown into a full product with advanced flows, loads of notifications options and public status pages. It offers a visual and very flexible way to setup monitoring via http, ping, tcp or ssh, configure on-call automation and alerts.
Now I've introduced a lifetime deal especially for members of r/microsaas and other early adopters. A one-time fee of $39 will get you;
https://www.hesklo.com/lifetime
There's a free tier available with all functionality (except public status pages) so feel free to check that out before considering a purchase. Also all product feedback is more than welcome. 🙂
Hi all,
I've been working on my own uptime monitoring tool called Hesklo for the past few months. It started with the goal to make my own monitoring more flexible, but has grown into a full product with advanced flows, loads of notifications options and public status pages.
The core idea: drag your monitor onto a canvas, wire it to waits, branches and notify steps, and that diagram is your escalation policy. A very visual way to setup monitoring flows and automation.
It's still early but it's working and I'm using it for myself and customer sites. It's pretty fast, reliable and working well for my use case. The docs can be found here if needed: https://www.hesklo.com/docs
So feel free to test it out! There's a free tier that includes one monitor and all functionality, except for the public status pages. Any feedback or product requests are more than welcome of course. 🙂
Hi all,
I've been working on my own uptime monitoring tool called Hesklo for the past few months. It started with the goal to make my own monitoring more flexible, but has grown into a full product with advanced flows, loads of notifications options and public status pages.
The core idea: drag your monitor onto a canvas, wire it to waits, branches and notify steps, and that diagram is your escalation policy. A very visual way to setup monitoring flows and automation.
It's still early but it's working and I'm using it for myself and customer sites. It's pretty fast, reliable and working well for my use case. The docs can be found here if needed: https://www.hesklo.com/docs
So feel free to test it out! There's a free tier that includes one monitor and all functionality, except for the public status pages. Any feedback or product requests are more than welcome of course. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IApLJN9h9v0
Interesting insights on life as a servant 50-60 years after the Downton era 🙂
They were quite late with announcing the dividend this time, maybe there will be some kind of permanent shift in ex-date and pay date in the future?
The Directors of JPMorgan ETFs (Ireland) ICAV (the “Company”) wish to announce the following dividends which are ex dividend as of the 21 May 2026, record date as of the 22 May 2026 & payment date is the 05 June 2026:
Looks like a good month to me 🙂
So Calamos has recently launched the "Calamos Autocallable Income UCITS ETF" at the Xetra, LSE and SIX exchanges. It's a monthly paying ETF with a 14% yield.
https://www.calamos.com/about/news/press-releases/2026/worlds-first-autocallable-ucits-etf/
Since understanding autocallables is above my paygrade, I've asked Chat to explain this ETF's strategy;
>The ETF does not simply hold stocks or bonds; instead, it gains exposure through swaps to an index of more than 50 autocallable structured notes that are continuously rolled and refreshed, where each note is typically linked to a stock index such as the S&P 500, pays a fixed coupon as long as the underlying market stays above a specified level, includes a downside barrier often around -40% that defines loss protection, can be called early if market conditions are favorable, and otherwise runs to a maturity of up to around five years if it is not redeemed beforehand.
Right! How I see it this ETF has the following pros and cons:
Pros
Cons
It's good to see more and more income focused products that become available for European investors. I'm not entirely convinced yet, but will keep an eye on it to see how it performs.
Any thoughts on this one?
This one is pretty new. L&G launched it in January 2026, and it's domiciled in Ireland. It tracks the FTSE Developed All Cap Dividend Growth with Quality index, which picks stocks from developed markets based on dividend growth and quality criteria. Stocks are equally weighted and run through an ESG filter.
The monthly distributions are probably the main draw for income investors. The forward yield is sitting around 3.97%, paid in US dollars. Biggest sector bets are Financials, Industrials, and Utilities, which feels about right for a dividend-quality screen.
At 0.29% TER it's the cheapest option tracking this index, and with around 122 million euros in assets it's got decent size for such a young fund. The equal-weight approach is a nice touch too since it keeps you from being overly exposed to a handful of large-cap names, which is a common issue with market-cap-weighted dividend ETFs.
The one thing to keep in mind is that it only launched a few months ago, so there's basically no track record yet. The yield and methodology look solid on paper, but you won't really know how consistent the distributions are until you've watched it through a few different market conditions.
Ticker: LDGL
ISIN: IE0005AJA0P1
TER: 0.29%
https://fundcentres.landg.com/en/uk/institutional/fund-centre/ETF/Global-Quality-Dividends/