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We’ve been reporting on the threat to the vital early years service at the Aldgate School since October 2024. Our last post on the matter is here. For ideological reasons the neo-liberal City of London council decided to defunded this...
As software engineers, we want everything to be perfect: the code, the variable names, the architecture, the tests, the documentation, the CI/CD pipeline, and so on.We build 90% of a project in 10% of the time, but the last 10% to make...
A halo coronal mass ejection was observed on 30-Jun, associated with an X1.0 flare. Modelling suggests this CME will have a glancing impact with Earth on 03/0500UT +/- 10 hours (early evening on the 3rd AEST). Intervals of G2 geomagnetic...
Don’t avoid writing something down just because you think it’s obvious.
Rand’s perspective on All Hands is worth a read this week. I did enjoy the interview with the airline pilot. Quote of the Week The first rule is that a measurement—any measurement—is better than none. High Output Management Andrew S....
I’m a front-end developer not a medical practitioner. If you’re bleeding IRL visit the hospital and stop googling medical issues!The full-bleed layout — as described there by Josh Comeau — can be done with CSS grid (and subgrid)....
I have been holding back from posting another entry, because the previous postSpelling Grammar Words Languagewas so popular - the number of comments is heading for 100, the sign of high interest. A key feature is that the word 'fancy'...
TL;DR: Apple Books is a storefront that happens to read ebooks. If you own your library, the real choice is between two apps. Readest is open-source, runs on everything (Mac, iOS, Windows, Linux, Android, web), and has the deepest...
TL;DR: Apple Books is a storefront that happens to read ebooks. If you own your library, the real choice is between two apps. Readest is open-source, runs on everything (Mac, iOS, Windows, Linux, Android, web), and has the deepest...
Yesterday I stumbled across ScribblyPam's article on The Gentrification of Air-Drying Clothes and realised this "vintage" value can also be applied to my type of house. I also realised this would fit nicely as a post for JulyReply! I...
It has been nearly two weeks since I last posted here. I’ll promise that was not planned, it just sort of happened. That would sound better if there was some family emergency or something, but there wasn’t (thank goodness). My excuse is...
I make many of my road trips alone, but when I can I bring a friend. I’ve managed to photograph all of them along the way. Dawn is my first and most frequent road-trip friend. She was along on my very first road trip in 2006, when we...
Last Saturday I participated in the Art Explora Festival where I got to visit the boat-museum where you get to do a VR experience visiting Venice, Athens or Alexandria (I did the last one) using Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed maps. For a 7...
It has been an exciting week. Despite a few days off, including today, there is still plenty to talk about today so grab a drink, get comfortable and find your wallet…First of all, massive exciting news! A GWR ‘what-if’ Kerr Stuart -...
VAR instigated a retake of my old retake of Billy Bragg’s “A New England”. I wasn’t even born when we won the World Cup I’m fifty-nine soon and all hope I’d given up My wife asks me now ‘Why don’t you be a better fan?’ But all the...