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Siccome sono in Italia, a inzio febbraio ho avuto un attacco di nostalgia e recuperato il mio vetusto, impolverato e scassatissimo (ma più o meno funzionante) Game Boy...
Last month, World Triathlon announced updates to the competition rules, and there’s been some conversation online about some of these changes, including relaxing the water quality standards for the swim and banning watches during the...
Kirsten Dunst had a great moment in a 2016 Hollywood Reporter roundtable in response to actresses lamenting that they don't work with female directors, saying that "[she's] worked with so many female directors" and that "it's up to us as...
Weekly Thing 310 comes to you from Cannon Lake, where the water is frozen but ideas are flowing — let's talk gas limits, playlists, and power. Good morning! ☕️ I've been playing around with some of the automation I use to create the...
This post follows on from this one. So, you’re deeply mired in the “writing-as-discovery” process, finding out all sorts of interesting things, swapping between writing and reading as you come across questions you need to answer, and...
A collection of strong opinions on URL design and structure covering topics including use of capitalisation, use of IDs, spaces, hyphens instead of underscores, trailing slashes, hierarchy, and other gripes and particulars I hold.
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Sublime Merge is a fantastic Git client. I’ve been using it for years, even after switching from Sublime Text to VS Code. VS Code has excellent built-in Git support, but I still prefer a dedicated app for staging files. Even when I used...
Learn how to resolve the “ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED” error on Ubuntu by adjusting SATA power management settings.
Yesterday, I uploaded 500th photo to Aircraft Photography.
I’ve been procrastinating putting together a talk I’m giving at the NCSOS Spring Congress, so I need to take a little break from posting until I get it done. Thanks...
It’s kind of held as a truism, at least in the west, that we become more cynical as we age. That’s certainly been my experience, though of late, I’d prefer to fight that impulse. With the ongoing decay of my personal mobile devices, and...
One day this page will pull some info from APIs to create a more interesting page but for now I just manually update it as needed. Video Games Balatro Tabletop Games Playing D&D 5e (2024) as a Human Cleric of Tyr named Sam. Shows and...
I list telly programmes I have enjoyed watching in each decade I've been alive
I'm somewhat frustrated at myself for how long it took me to finish off this post that Remy kindly tagged me in. The last time I participated in something like this was the "My Typical Day" write-up. Reading it now is an interesting...
The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal...
Announcing my new website and visual identity.