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We'll spend some time going through most of the options, in the end you'll have confidence to set up a system to your liking.
I really enjoy re-implementing things that already exist. Sometimes it's just out of interest, sometimes it's to make it faster, or work in a different way, or improve the code quality, but I love having that concrete expectation of what...
Ben Nadel replaces the nginx proxy and URL rewriting with CommandBox in his local ColdFusion development environment....
From Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2010), Kindle pp. 319-323: THE FBI REMAINED confident that the warrant they’d issued the previous day...
These Maple-Miso Smashed Cucumbers are a crunchy, no-cook summer side dish with Persian cucumbers, vinegar, white miso, maple syrup, sesame oil, red pepper flakes, and sesame seeds. Salting the cucumbers first keeps the salad punchy...
As long-time readers of this site will know, I have a fascination with television pilots. Let’s be specific about what I mean, here: a true pilot isn’t just the first episode of a TV show. It’s something made separately from the rest of...
After a digression to the interior last time – which will be revisited in a post or two as the exterior heads toward completion – we’re back watching the exterior of the Equitable Trust building at 15 Broad Street inch forwards. As of...
The drift from skeptical user to autopilot, and the discipline I built to fight it.
5th May 2026 The real reason we need rules and procedures in public administration * It is a paradox that in the weeks and days before an election people tend to become less interested in law and policy. The focus instead turns to...
Three months ago we noted a reference to the City and Guilds sell off scandal during a meeting of the General Purposes Committee of Aldermen. The scandal hasn’t gone away but as what we quoted from the council meeting illustrates, our...
A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers