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A few days ago, after getting annoyed that Apple Mail doesn’t have a normal Zoom-in function (Magnifier isn’t what I consider normal), I downloaded Thunderbird for my personal/blog emails. I’m impressed. I remember it being a mess. It’s...
Jazz & Τζαζ, the prominent Greek monthly founded by Giorgos Charonitis in 1993, chronicled the Greek and international jazz scenes for 245 issues before ending in July 2013. Each issue carried a compilation CD, turning the magazine into...
THE MAD WORLD OF HARVEY KURTZMAN, screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, celebrates the creator of Mad Magazine and shows there was much more to the man than just one paradigm-changing publication which permanently altered...
Dune is, it’s fair to say, a fairly troubled franchise. In terms of the novels, the original book is a landmark of science fiction by any measure, but its sequels are a bit of a bumpy ride, incorporating thoughtful and welcome...
This looks like a Rubik’s Cube, but it’s not: It seems that an open-cab truck filled to the brim with Rubik’s Cubes hit a bump in the road, causing some of the cubes to spill out of the truck bed and onto the roadway. When, mere moments...
I don't feel up to a full post today, but I will be writing a eulogy for ZZ Top's drummer Frank Beard, who died on August 17, 2026. With that in mind, I will leave you with what might be ZZ Top's most successful single, "Sharp Dressed Man."
To target multiple classes that share the same prefix, you’d typically have to resort to brittle attribute selectors or add extra base classes to your markup. To make things easier, CSS is getting a new selector: The Class Prefix...
It was June 1893, and the Fram expedition had just set off. On board the Fram were Otto Sverdrupp as captain, Fridtjof Nansen as science lead, and 11 other crew members. The goal was to reach the North Pole with the least amount of...
One of my favorite games ever designed is getting a new edition. Apart from some component upgrades and better availability, nothing has changed. Which is precisely what this title needed. So come on in. The tea’s hot and the fire is...
Matty Burnham is an English artist and illustrator working in ink and watercolor. His subjects are usually architectural, often of modest little cottages and houses. He captures these with varied ink lines drawn with a fude fountain pen,...
Cheltenham Open Data is now on Version 2.0 – a design refresh on the front end, and a fair bit of unglamorous work behind the scenes to improve scalability as the site grows. Why I started with tools, not articles One of the earliest...
We’re right around the halfway point of August now (what‽ already‽) and I have not been nearly as active around this blog as I would have liked to be. I haven’t even read many blog posts! And there are so many great posts coming out,...
Resonant Arc Resonant Arc create the gaming podcast/YouTube series State Of The Arc. While they do episodes on various topics, the main focus of the series is long-form book-club style analysis of video game stories. They play through a...
Since running agents in a bunch of workspaces, I've been running out of storage on my mac FAR more often. Granted, this is largely due to cargo being such a hog, and I need to run cargo clean more than I do. But it's also due to years of...
Is your note collection making or unmaking the world? A reflection on institutional collecting, personal note archives, and why output matters more than input. writingslowly.com/2026/08/1… #Zettelkasten #Writing #NoteTaking #PKM #Blogging