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Ruth, JTA, the kids and I are all back in the UK1 after a three week period during which some or all of us were consistently in Spain. The whole adventure was the kind of masterpiece of epic planning that only Ruth could have pulled off,...
There are some books that you read and love and want to press into people's hands, and then you get to the end and realise you have absolutely no idea how to talk about them. Ruins, Child by Giada Scodelaro is one of those books. It's...
This summer, I decided to try growing cherry tomatoes on my balcony! I loooove cherry tomatoes, and I'm also a big fan of those farming simulators like Stardew Valley so I wanted to give the real thing a go. We had also recently moved...
Time is moving too fast for my liking currently. Thought I only updated this the other day, turns out it's almost been 3 weeks. I went along to my first shift at my new random part time job. There was 2 of us plus the boss person. We had...
DOWER HOUSES IN LITERATURE Sometimes when I do a theme post, I think 'will anyone else care?' But - I can’t be the only person who is intrigued by the idea of Dower Houses, and the role they play in fiction. There’s something about the...
Here’s a dilemma. A conundrum. A thought experiment, perhaps? If you know you’re going to be shagging someone for the very last time ever, how do you do it? You know your relationship has to end, and will soon be over for good. The pair...
I've moved all my book reviews, both archival and ongoing, onto the StoryGraph (link also available in the header along with my other media review accounts). If you want to see what I think about books, go give it a follow; if I...
From the CEO who once drove a forklift to game developers taking 250,000 photos of New York, real experience beats abstraction every time and can make the difference between good and groundbreaking. | Read full post >>
Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
At the time I posted the results of the first round, it seems there was still some interest in the topic of how long a rewritable DVD could last, even though the technology is considered by many to be outdated. Some people were not aware...
This shield bug sure is a thrill seeker seeing as he’s climbed an entire cactus 😳
Turns out all you really need for automatic differentiation at compile time is to encode your tensor shenanigans, differential geometry as algebraic data types with the resulting type theory. The derivatives aren't magically evaluated...
At the peak of my burnout in 2023, I wrote a note this note on my phone: “I want to wake up before the alarm rings. I want to wake up motivated and eager to work. I want to follow my morning routine: workout, writing, silence, and...
From the 1930s to the 1950s various lobbies expressed anxiety over the arrival of the “super pub” – public houses that were bigger and flashier, with broader appeal and less soul. We’d previously come across the term superpub in a quite...