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George "Buzz" Beurling shot down 31 enemy planes over Malta, got fired for shooting at his own commanding officer, and died on a covert arms run to Israel at 26. Canada's most celebrated fighter ace had a life stranger than any war film.
Neither too cool nor too warm, with clouds yet to find the sun. The irises are at their peak of blooming in my front garden, and at the woods’ edge where several yellow ones survive as relics from an era of moved lawns and decorative...
I recently started building products focused on healthcare affordability in the US. As I was ramping up on a new space, the biggest question that sparked my curiosity was: how did we get here? I plan to write about this weekly with the...
In this newsletter we cover : Context Management. The Last Software Engineer. IC Work Is the New Career Flex. Building Pi in a World of Slop. I Started Using Stacked PRs. Smarter Tools and Dumber Us. TV Series Graph, and much more
Since GIMP (aka GNU Image Manupulation Program) is still a complicated raster graphics editor, kinda like Photoshop, it has same problem of having a ton of tools and options which can be easy to forget. And especially for some same-y but...
In a recent piece, David Pierce shared this: The Pixel 10 Pro solidified a feeling I’d been having through all of my tests: Android is a better operating system than iOS. Gemini is a useful and usable voice assistant, neither of which...
From 1915 or so, a postcard showing the Brooklyn Bridge: I suspect this was hand-painted over a photo. The detail of the bridge would be very difficult to get this accurate without a guide, but the Woolworth Building (the tallest in...
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Following its sell-out debut at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre in 2024, and a recent West End run at @sohoplace, David Eldridge’s adaptation of the John Le Carré classic The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is now on a nationwide tour....