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"Untitled (How Does It Feel)" by D'Angelo Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song you love that has parentheses (in the title). D'Angelo hit this one out of the park. I remember a couple of my...
I’ve read a lot of Greek mythology retellings but only one or two Norse ones, so I was curious about Sally Magnusson’s most recent novel, The Shapeshifter’s Daughter, described as a reimagining of the story of Hel of the Underworld. I’ve...
I found myself in Meguro a couple of weeks ago, and along the way decided to stop by the Institute for Nature Study as I heard it was a good birding spot. Looking at its splotch of green on Google Maps I'd envisioned some sort of small...
We just released v7.3.0 of laravel-query-builder, which adds a new way to group multiple filters under a single URL parameter. Before getting into the new feature, let me show you how the basics work, so the new bit makes sense in...
The real thing, what follows is largely a product of web browsing and AI prompts. Real leather on a spiral notebook is some crazy shit, now when I think about it, those black luxor notebooks have always kind of tried to emulate a leather...
ft. Kendrick Lamar, Tupac Shakur, and Caroline Polachek
2016 non-fiction, aviation history. Wrigley looks into a number of aircraft incidents.
In many countries around the world, the football season is drawing to a close, and as I bask in the reflected glory of my hometown team Coventry City’s glorious return to the English Premier League (and look forward with trepidation to...
I recently watched the 2023 movie Anatomy of a Fall. I thought it was an excellent mystery / crime drama show, and really enjoyed the great acting and intense plot. If you like slow burn movies with lots of cerebral tension then I...
This post is part of the Game Boy series (#10). In my last post, I wrote about how retroachievements.org works, and I am currently creating achievement for the GameBoy game Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs. When I started out, I couldn't...
See those little round plants? The flat ones? They’re ferns. Ferns! Did you even know ferns came like that? Not a frond in sight? Little flat discs? Well, they do! They grow in many, many wet places in Japan, often among the wee mosses...