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Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
Do not alight On 4 September this year, as a result of a door malfunction, Passenger X was able to disembark at a disused ThamesLink platform when the 20:51 from St Pancras to Bedford was briefly held at a signal on the approach to...
Back to the boardgame café.
While most of my Women in Translation Month picks this year have been books found on my shelves at home, this week will be a little different as I’m taking a look at a couple of review copies. I was recently contacted by Seven Stories...
I have read most of Isaac Asimov's science fiction novels. So when I was recently in a mood to read another of his books, I turned to one of the few that I hadn't yet read: Nemesis. If you like Asimov's style and/or other books, then you...
Baltimore in August: I was out on my early-morning walk, I don’t even know the temperature or humidity or feels-like combination, I’ve given up caring but all numbers were high, and I ran into a neighbor going the same way so we walked...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this aerial view of a private island home in the Thousand Islands, Ontario, Canada. The small forested island sits surrounded by clear river water, with a single residence visible among the dense green...
Singburi used to be the best Thai restaurant in London, but things have changed. Cities change and they always have (despite what some nostalgic right-wing fantasists would have you believe). People meet, create something new, grow old,...
The pale ales, they drop slowly. Here's a handful of recent-ish releases from Ireland's breweries."It Ain't Easy" opined Hopfully on an IPA label in 2022. They've changed their tune since they moved from running a brewery back to getting...
I haven't posted in a few months, but there's a good reason for that: I've been working on an app which I'm about to release as well as the service related to it. I think it'll be good. In fact, I ...
➜ wow, 6 weeks of school holiday flew by! our last week started now and it went by slow and fast at the same time. just one more week before the school run starts again... I'm happy to get back into my normal routines, but I'm also a bit...
This is the second of Elizabeth Chadwick’s two novels about Jeanette of Kent. If you haven’t read the first, The Royal Rebel, it’s not essential, particularly if you’re already familiar with this period of history, but I would still...
Sean Goedecke wrote a post arguing that you should never be angry at work — a post with which I strongly agree. Anger can be a useful signal, but being angry at work rarely improves the situation. More often, it makes life worse for the...
In the preceding essay I put the competence problem at the moment of appointment; in this one I ask who carries the cost of it, and the answer sits in Champniss's own data, largely unremarked.Employees in their first five years of...
This is a recap-ish of the latest podcast episode. You can listen to the episode below before or after you read. That’s because I tend to expand on topics from the pod as well as straight-up write about things that we did not discuss....