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So here’s a confession that’s been sitting in my chest like a swallowed marble: I haven’t built a puppet in an embarrassingly long time. I don’t even want to count the months. You know how it goes — the foam goes in a bin, the bin goes...
Thomas Jefferson wrote out the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, but he did not do so alone and without guidance. After all, he had been a member of the Continental Congress that summer, listening to the discussions about...
I don’t suppose the Isle of Man gets much attention, on a global scale at least. I suspect (rather despondently) that quite a few people who would describe themselves as Britain would have no idea where it is on a map – and that even...
I was very sorry to hear that Books Galore in Erie, Pennsylvania is closing.I went to college at Gannon University in downtown Erie, and Books Galore was my comics shop during those years...and the year or so after I graduated but before...
GExperts stores its settings in the Windows registry, under a key that is specific to each installed Delphi version. Copying that configuration to another machine, or from one Delphi version to another, used to mean exporting registry...
I like the “Burgle Bros”, this rack-tag gang of burglars that—unlike most of their colleagues in the heist business—somehow always seem to forfeit extensive planning and just wing it. It’s one of the few co-op systems I continue to enjoy...
A quick look at how TypeScript conditional types behave with union types.
We want to be desired by everyone we meet. This puts us in constant conflict with other people and with our own inner nature. It is impossible to be liked by everyone. Ninety five percent of the people you meet in life will eventually...
I haven’t read Martyn Cornell’s Porter and Stout, but I wanted to join this Session anyway, largely to pay my respects to Martyn. He was the first beer blogger I ever read, back in the mid-00s; the second and third were The Pub...
Ambassador Stefanishyna’s reference to citizens having “both the right and the responsibility to build their own futures” is a very Ukrainian thought, I believe. Too many of us in democracies that have enjoyed many decades of peace think...
“South African-born pioneer of the British tech industry David Potter, the man behind the iconic Psion pocket computers, passed away on 28th June, six days before his 83rd birthday. Potter was the founder of the company of the same name,...
I had no intention of doing a Fourth-themed post, but JWB slyly sent me a link to Sophie Hardach’s BBC piece “The Viking word hidden in the Declaration of American Independence,” calling it a “simple but not actually wrong BBC piece on...
I wrote this five years ago but can’t find where I posted it. It still holds true today so why not post it here, now? My message for today’s celebration of America’s Independence… The dream of the United States of America has never...
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ It’s been super hot and humid in Virginia this week so I’ve been staying inside as much as I possibly can. I did manage to get to Grit yesterday and work on Stream. I need to write up the...
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of a declaration that had a passage decrying slavery removed because southern states complained by eating carcinogenic mass produced meat tubes while the President tells half of us we’re evil Marxists...