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As a frustrated artist, I not only gather links about artists, but I also gather links about art. Here are just some of the ones I’ve picked up recently: If you want to be an artist, it might be good to ask established artists what their...
Phil Gyford has a fascinating chart in his post Laboriously keeping track; it charts his yearly cash withdrawls from his bank account:
Yesterday I wrote a post showing that the trapezoid rule evaluates the integral very efficiently. But how do we know what the exact integral is for comparison? If you ask Mathematica, it will tell you the integral equals −2π J1(1) where...
Told ya I’d stick to it 🫡 Here’s another little list of photos found via Mastodon this week that have sparked joy or a creative influence within me. You can read more about these posts on its series page here. Anyway, onto this weeks...
June 5, 2026
A glimpse of hope for the future
In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: There are always more international rail lines to discover and understandBullshit Meter, retrospective: Frecciarossa Milano-Ljubljana in 2025Good week: Foundation of the European Rail Passengers'...
Some 70 years ago this week, the 968-foot Midway-class super carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42), is seen being pushed out by tugs at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 6 June 1956, offering a good view of her new hurricane bow and a...
In this book I attempt a new history of the Peloponnesian War designed to meet the needs of readers in the twenty-first century. It is based on the scholarship employed in my four volumes on the war aimed chiefly at a scholarly audience,...
I must admit I didn't have the best of mornings with my son, so when I dropped the boys off at school, I wanted to bike home as quickly as possible to clear my mind. I came to a crossing without lights where I was standing on the...
This is my software credo, adapted from the My Software North Star page of Loris Cro. Software should be useful, not a burden Software should be correct, malfunctions reduce the effectiveness Software should be maintainable and efficient...
Now that the dust has settled a bit, I thought I should probably reflect on the Sunny Afternoon tour that has somehow just come and gone. Unlike the previous tour, which I only managed to see once, this time I was ready for it and zipped...