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Matthew Haughey, who has a masters degree in soil chemistry, writes about why some farms plant red clover in the spring. Haughey jokingly swears he’s fun at parties, but people with specialized science knowledge are precisely the folks I...
I've written a Swift script that uses the FSEvents API to get notified of file changes, then I'm using stdout as a bridge to forward those notifications to Python.
Washington wrote a $700 million check for the American rancher. Not a bailout. Not a disaster payment assembled in a scramble after a hurricane. A proactive, structured, forward-looking investment in the way American ranchers manage...
One of the common challenges I face as a teacher is getting developers to move forward by putting one sure foot in front of the other, instead of trying to do it in risky leaps and bounds. One activity in particular where this friction...
외국인들이 한국어를 배울 이유는 어느 때보다도 많다. 외국인들은 K팝 노래의 가사를 알아듣고 싶어 하고, K드라마나 영화의 대사를 더 깊이 있게 이해하고 싶어 한다. K문학을 번역본을 넘어 원문으로 읽고 싶어 한다. 여행지로 인기를 끌고 있는 한국을 방문하는 꿈을 꾸는 외국인들도 적지 않다. 하지만 예전부터 문화적 영향력이 컸던 일본의 언어와 정치적·경제적 영향력이 날로 커지는 중국어가 아닌, 특별히 […]
On the entire opposite side of the planet from England, in the jungles of Northeastern Australia, the Mbabaram people independently invented the word “dog” for our canine companions by sheer linguistic coincidence.
Two cracking paragraphs here from Carl Trueman:Today we live in an oddly neo-Donatist age where there is still a tendency to conceptualize ministry in terms of personal qualities and experiences, although these are now determined by the...
Recently, the father of a former work colleague died. The former colleague posted a lot about this on a social-media channel. There's nothing notable about this; to communicate a tragedy is to, hopefully, get over the worst of feelings,...
Everything has to happen sometime. I mean, not everything that could happen actually comes to pass, but the stuff that does happen always has its time and place. It’s easy to forget that, in retrospect. The biggest events of human...
Over on the Lazy RPG Talk Show I talked about defining the OSR, my attempt to try to better define what separates one RPG from another. I think it's useful for GMs to be able to describe RPGs to one a
A walkthrough of how I audited my 11ty build benchmarks and cut cold-start time from 14 seconds down to 2.6 seconds by caching two custom filters and swapping out a bare network fetch.