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I wanted to learn Vitest Browser Mode properly. Not with a counter component. Not with five tests written specifically for a demo. I wanted a real component library with years of testing history and enough sharp edges to punish bad...
Genesis 31.3 (KJV): And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. Id. 31.13: Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
This is a 'title trade': where folks interested in writing collaboratively in a style I'd describe as 'alone together' trade a title for the other to write about. I've done several over the last two years! This is with Brendan, who wrote...
Are you trying to find your voice? Searching but never finding it. Like it’s always a step ahead of you, impossible to catch. Here’s the good news. You can’t find it. You already have it. Finding your voice ain’t like finding lost keys....
First launch of Skyroot’s Vikram-1 rocket from ISRO’s Sriharikota launch complex. Images: Skyroot AerospaceThe successful launch of Skyroot Aerospace’s small Vikram-1 rocket on July 18, sans the mixed outcome for payloads, has been...
The Anbernic RG Rotate has been out for a few months now, which feels like a good time to come back to it and look at some of the things that have grown around it since launch. I said when I reviewed it that it might be my favorite...
Working at Blockbuster brought me into contact with personalities I never would have encountered in my sheltered life. Some of my coworkers were kind. Some were reckless. A few were complete disasters. Every one of them taught me...
I’ve talked more than once about the Reuse Reduce Recycle mantra and how it relates to our work. Here’s a very small, but not negligible, example: That’s from 2017, right about the time we moved to our current office. (The carpet is...
I’ve been a fan of football (soccer) for almost as long as I remember. I remember going to my first match at Anfield when I was seven years old in 1997. A pretty dull 0-0 draw from what I recall. Despite the scoreline I was hooked. The...
I like trying out new roasters and I like funky packaging, so this pick-up from Edinburgh’s own Cult Coffee Roasters is a win-win for me. Actually, a triple win: check out the neat tarot card-style pack-in that was foil-wrapped...
Back from holiday; this year's miscellaneous observations on Darja follow. Gemination of intervocalic p in loans seems intuitive enough, but how to explain the gemination in سيرّو sirru "syrup"? Internal-a plurals normally preserve...
nice feelingMy layout triangle is correct front and back and side to side. I have only been labeling my stuff this way for a few years and it has saved my bacon numerous times. The sides are solid with an inch of dowel spanning each...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. CLMooC flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: We aim to learn good...
2013 Chris Sheldrake and friends set up What3Words Limited. https://what3words.com ‘Chris had asked ‘a mathematician friend for the idea of dividing the world into 3-metre (10 ft) squares, and the linguist Jack Waley-Cohen with using...