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Music is my safe space. It always has been. No matter what life had in store for me, there was always an album that made everything feel a little better. And that hasn’t changed.
Deuel County, South Dakota, c. 1995: This was an abandoned farm that I visited in the 90s, shooting mostly black and white film (TXP 120, Pentax 6x7) but I did do some in color, the coating of dust definitely put a mellow patina on...
You push a new image, update an ECS service, and the console says Deployment in progress. Then it sits there. A new task appears in PENDING. It changes to RUNNING, but the old task does not go away. A minute later the old one starts...
How does the database decide on the order, when it is not specified? What about performance? Can returned pages overlap? Meaning: might item from page 1 suddenly appear on page 2, even if the underlying data stays the same?
While reading the history plays again I’ve been keeping a list of peculiar, amusing, exotic-sounding words, and words I don’t remember having encountered before. I love these choice little discoveries. My only disappointment is that such...
Hey friend! Welcome to new subscribers that joined since last week. It's great to have you here!Stuff I've WrittenYou synced to your company's pace for years. That borrowed tempo is exactly what makes you decide badly. Discover the...
I suspect that some people find this blog too dull, or weirdly obsessed with mundane topics, so I’m here to prove those assumptions wrong by talking about my too-rapidly-growing fountain pen collection. I’ve already rocked the internet...
I have been using Gmail since I got my first electronic device. To be fair, I barely had any problems with it, as it was the only email I used and I did not really feel the need to switch to another app. However, things have changed a...
I remember. I remember the stumpy glass bottles of milk we had for ‘play lunch’ in primary school.I remember hearing them being delivered in stacks of purple-brown or purple-red plastic crates. I remember sitting cross-legged on the...
A rather more useful selection of goodies from Covrail than normal. No weird kits, although I looked hard at a Roundhouse HO scale loco that would have been interesting to put together, but decided I really don't need any more loco...
It’s been a long afternoon. Making a list, checking it twice, heading to the store for milk, bread, and rice. Brother, let’s face facts: when you finally wheel onto your slippery leaf-covered driveway with a trunk full of wet celery,...
Summer is the perfect time for peaches, and I've been craving them a lot lately. Today, I decided to whip up a peach crisp. I used this recipe, but I made a couple of adjustments: I didn't have oats, so I just used more flour, and...
Security theater prop: Frank Gehry’s Icehenge desk looking its absolute best, images all via Freeman’s I knew but didn’t really clock that Frank Gehry made his massive cast glass security guard station specifically for the lobby of...
One of the things that Tailwind unlocked for me is this ability to build responsive layouts without writing more CSS. What I’m talking about is not simply writing the CSS in HTML, unlike what most Tailwind fans suggest. <!-- Not just a...
Every article about propagating tomato suckers says pretty much the same thing. Take a small sucker, remove the flowers, root it in water, plant it. I wanted to know what would happen if I did everything wrong (easier). If you think you...