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One step forward and then slam into reverse and go backwards at 80mph. Ran face first into a a huge boo boo, me-steak, brain fart extraordinary loud and stinky. Survivable and recoverable but it certainly let the wind out of my sails. It...
The BBC's science magazine show Tomorrow's World never quite delivered on what it promised - but not in the way we might have expected...
Ben Nadel creates string interpolation templates using both Java's Pattern Matcher and ColdFusion's native variable interpolation....
Some services do not need PostgreSQL, Redis, an object store, three containers, and a deployment manifest long enough to qualify as literature. Sometimes I need a wiki: a place for notes, runbooks, snippets, and the sort of documentation...
I cyk, udało się. To żyje!Jako zachwycony użytkownik Steam Decka obserwowałem zapowiedzi nowej Steam Machine. Jak wszystkich rozczarowała mnie cena kiedy wreszcie ją ogłosili, chociaż oczywiście ją rozumiem, podobnie jak niedawne...
Well, that was interesting. Some quick thoughts below the cut.So I’ve recently become much more aware of the Discourse about air conditioning that is common to much of northern Europe. There’s a lot of weirdness generally, but there are...
The Temples of Offal/Return of the AncientsOut 10th June on ATMF (originally released in 1991) One often forgets that – along with the likes of Massacre and Napalm Death- Absu were another Trigger’s broom band. (That’s bands whose latest...
Getting good by forgetting to get good
I don’t have photographs of ancient ruins or quaint Mediterranean scenes this week. Instead I have a photos of my walk with my dad’s Nikon D600 (and my dog… not shown). This next one is a bit meta. My new toy:
When I’m not fighting WordPress I deliver static HTML or the occasional JavaScript framework integration. For personal projects I have ‘fun’ with my own static site generator.This week was a side quest (soon to be main quest) to build my...
Time + Space + Materials = Work
After watching our chancellor at the NATO summit and during the last session in parliament, we can conclude that he has completely lost contact with reality. At least to the reality that the people he is supposed to govern inhabit. We...
The Lincoln Highway was routed in 1913 to great fanfare. It was among the first roads where motorists could just follow the signs and drive from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It’s hard to overstate how big of a deal this was. Hundreds of...
On this day in 1863, my husband's 1c3r answered the call to enlist in the Indiana "minute men" Infantry and prepare to defend against attack from Confederate forces during the US Civil War.Wilson Caldwell (1845-1921) was just 18 and...
What’s going on, Internet? Mānawatia a Matariki, Happy Māori New Year! Today is a time for remembrance, celebrating the present, and looking to the future. In Māori culture, Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster and a celebration of its...