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A few bits and pieces this time around. Lunch at an award-winning pub, some thoughts on the passing of Humphrey Smith, the owner of Samuel Smiths Brewery in Tadcaster, and a return to one of Halifax's most popular pubs a few months into...
Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday. We start this week with Eric who has been using the slap chop painting method to good affect on some Dreadball players. He has also used it on some fantasy human guards. Next up and Stephen...
1928 RouteNikon Df, 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6G AF Nikkor2026 In Indiana, the Lincoln Highway between Fort Wayne and Valparaiso has two major alignments: the original from 1913 that went northwesterly through South Bend and then southeasterly to...
I spotted this challenge on James' Coffee Blog and couldn't resist. I am perhaps not an obvious Swiftie but my Last.FM account will tell you exactly what I am: Screenshot of Last.fm profile showing 771 listens to Taylor Swift in the last...
Book title: I Cheerfully Refuse Author: Leif Enger Rating: 3.5/5 Slow plot. It took me a while to read this. Not a lot happens, and there is barely any world building. The characters shine, however. Especially Rainy and Lark. I...
Three years ago, I wrote a series of blogs trying to determine which EV would be the best fit for us. I spent far too much time evaluating just about every electric vehicle on the market. Our criteria, however, were a bit different from...
Requirement You are on a web page, using JavaScript, and have a reference to an element node. And you want to select the immediate children of that node using the general syntax used by querySelectorAll, maybe with some extra...
Our Lego Duplo blocks are in short supply meaning we’ll have to get creative to assemble, build, and rebuild new things. I want a house on wheels! is by far the most popular request here. No problem, we can do that, only to do that,...
Since I started getting back into RSS and blogs I have been reading them every day through my RSS reader app on Android. This has been set up to pull in the blog content and I usually read it in-app for convenience. In February Mastofeed...
How a four-minute video taken on a Scottish train destroyed multiple bad tech policy arguments at once.
I've mentioned in my three years bloggoversary post, that I never run out of writing ideas. Over the years, dozens have accumulated. This is something I'm thankful for. However, a million writing ideas without discipline of execution are...
How to use AI for coding well? Practical tips for using AI coding tools, including context management, AGENTS.md files, planning, reviews, tests, and MCPs.
Back to the Star Wars miniatures today to begin June’s models with two squads from the original 1st Editon Starter Set – the boys in white, the Stormtroopers. The original set comes with two squads of seven stormtroopers, including one...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this aerial view of Blockhouse Island and the Tall Ships Landing Coastal Resort in Brockville, Ontario, during spring 2025. The frame looks down over the marina, the tall residential tower, and the...