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Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature has been put together by a bunch of different writers based on their particular interests, so there are a few different names authoring this volume. […]
📥 Earlier this week I took a drastic action in my email inbox. I deleted everything older than a specific threshold and moved everything else to an action or later folder.And just like that, my inbox is manageable again.
I know who you are and I know where you used to hide. But even more, I know the reasons why you hid yourself, even from me.I know why you used to hate the saying, “No matter where you go, there you are!” because no matter how you ran or...
Wendell Berry, “Two Economies”: Some time ago, in conversation with Wes Jackson in which we were laboring to define the causes of the modern ruination of farmland, we finally got around to the money economy. I said that an economy based...
Another chart of prices
The cognitive dance I am doing day in, day out continues to be pretty exhausting. Am I fatigued because of the heat wave or because my diabetes is running wild? Is that twinge in my abdomen a precursor to another bout of pancreatitis or...
Yoeri shows how to automatically open a pull request when a new PHP security advisory appears. Nice little workflow that combines Laravel Health, Oh Dear, and GitHub Actions to keep apps patched quickly. Read more
I shipped specification.website, a platform-agnostic specification of what every good website should ship. Because two recent PRs taught me that patches fix one platform at a time, and the open web has no shared target.
Near-infinite intelligence baked into physical products & systems is just around the corner.
Canonical example The variance of a set of numbers is defined as the sum of the squared distances from each point to the mean. So it would seem that you first need to calculate the mean, then go back and compute the squared differences...
A new video from me, under The Film Data Scientist banner, examining the long-term decline of sexual content in mainstream cinema.