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People look at you differently once they know you’ve hurt yourself badly enough that some part of it can never be undone. Even when everything has healed and you’re doing better, there’s sometimes this hesitation that wasn’t there...
Monday Lunchtime TickingNever the best day for visiting pubs, but I don't do too badly in Sedgley. I was here on the trail of a Victorian Widow (read on, if interested) but in the back of my mind, I knew there was another Sedgley item on...
Under no circumstances should grass in England crunch and crackle when you walk on it. And yet, in officially drought-ridden Hastings, that is exactly what much of the grass on and around the Pilot Field now does. Credit to the staff and...
ArcBrush editing a texture through a node graph ArcBrush is a native C++ node-based image editor for Windows, macOS and Linux, built around reusable, non-destructive processing graphs. Its 97 nodes cover image input, colour and palette...
Vanya on 42nd Street is, to date, my favorite film of the year. The more I revisit it, the more I suspect it might be one of my favorites of all time. So discovering that Wallace Shawn had attempted something of a spiritual successor —...
I'm writing this from a homely Jacobean-manor-turned-hotel in the West Country, covered in layers of green vines and circled by centenarian trees, on a rare weekend away. Everything is warm: the late afternoon sun, the mustard armchairs,...
Some lovely bits from Sophie Alpert: Spending time on the writing process — on deciding what to emphasize and how to structure your ideas clearly — teaches you more about your topic. If you circumvent this process, you will probably walk...
This Iron Age broch in Sutherland is one of the most isolated places we've ever visited
I've been on Brave for a looong ass time and I love it. Same with KDE (I used to use Arch, btw, but now I just use Kubuntu). KRunner is the best thing in KDE. Alt+Space, three letters, enter, done. Except fucking bookmarks. KDE ships a...
1. Oh damn, you caught me in the middle of something. I was just trying to make a list of Windows versions for a friend – in Google Docs, of all things. Should be easy. I already grabbed this one off of Wikipedia and massaged it a bit,...
This is my 10th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. I have a couple of table lamps with smart bulbs. Years ago, I set these lamps up with Philips Hue smart bulbs. One lamp...
Hello, loves! Let’s take a look at displaying Dot’s inventory in some reasonable way. Some spiking yields a bit of insight. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. If this program were a game, there would be a display of the current values of Dot’s...
Thanks again to my brother Paul for scanning this, cheers Paul! APHEX TWIN Pic by: Steve Double Dangerous Didgeridoo Aphex Twin I DON’T know, some bloody odd trends crop up in the wondrous world of techno. A recent one has been the use...
There’s a standard problem in the social sciences in moving from the results of a smaller-scale study to larger-scale applicability. Consider a program in a certain school district that seems to increase academic performance and high...
I was “discussing” with Claude about using #define guards vs. #pragma once for C++ header files. At some point, Claude wrote that: If your library is only ever going to target modern mainstream compilers (which, realistically, is true...