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My reading break ended last Thursday. This was part of the week-4 tasks in The Artist's Way. Basically, I didn't read any blog posts, articles, personal emails or any other social media, and didn't read any books. Here are a handful of...
A quick one from me, because I’m back home late after driving home from Hay-on-Wye (haul to be revealed at some point, possibly after May), via an afternoon at Hidcote National Trust and Chipping Camden, and then straight to Devil
We meet monthly to discuss Django, Python, the web, and related topics. The meetups are open to all with an interest in building websites with Django.
I built a native iOS client for linkding and launched it, as I usually do, with a sarcastic-ish Mastodon post. I'd been using my instance as a PWA (inasmuch as PWAs are supported on iOS) and found it to be ok but not terribly satisfying....
It’s been decades since I Iast watched this film so, in a nostalgic mood, I watched it again recently. So many problems… I’ve always had mixed feelings about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 fantasy-musical film, improbably made by the...
Speculation over unexplained or mysterious events overshadows important facts and reasonable conclusions.
I’ve been thinking about Australian’s recent Open Access (OA) deal now that the dust has settled on the recent showdown with Elsevier. After all, we’d been spending some $500 million to $1 billion per year on journal subscriptions (an...
I’ll return soon. I’ve not been feeling like myself of late—I wish I could verbalize the issue or pinpoint the problem, but I just don’t have any “Get up and Go” in me outside of work. I intend to conserve my mental energy as much as I...
Today is 4th of May, so “May the 4th… be with you” or in Star Wars parlance: “May the force be with you”. I’m celebrating this “Star Wars day” by building the Darth Vader’s ship: Tie Fighter from Lego with a Smart Brick and it’s weird...