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About six months ago I wrote that I no longer enjoyed software development. At the time I blamed meetings, Jira tickets, endless processes and everything surrounding programming. Looking back at that post today, I do not think I was...
There’s something wonderfully comforting about a good potato salad, isn’t there? For many of us, it’s a dish woven right into our family memories — scooped onto summer plates at picnics, potlucks, and backyard barbecues. I grew up with...
30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in June 2026 1) In the last 5 years no accidents have been recorded at Liverpool Street Station involving pushchairs being taken through ticket barriers. 2) During 2025 defibrillators were used...
After reading Sylvia's answers and falling down the rabbit hole of other folks answering it, I'm throwing my hat into the ring! 1. What's the best sandwich? I will never not be excited for a grilled cheese sandwich. 2. What was your...
Nothing! I now wear the surgery like an old coat, familiar and a bit lumpy. I don’t think about it much, though occasionally I get a reminder, like a sudden twinge in one of the incision areas–the VCI1 is still sensitive if I poke it....
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As promised, the latest from the Visible Zorker project: Visible Starcross! "The challenge was issued eons ago, from light-years away." As usual, the source code repository is also live, licensed with the open-source MIT license. This...
This June I have been the host of the RPG Blog Carnival and my chosen topic was "Cyclopes, Ettins, Hill Giants, and Ogres." My intention was that we could collectively make these big folk more interesting: "I've chosen this topic for a...
As I thinker with Classic Traveller, I think that later versions lose something by re-framing the "Prior Service" tables as a universal background system. It's interesting and provocative that each of the 5 original options is framed as...
Ember was a small ant with a strong back, sharp eyes, and a habit of arriving before the dew had left the grass. She joined the Great Golden Hive on the same morning as Flicker, a lantern beetle with polished wings and a voice that...
I'd forgotten I'd picked the bits up from the storage unit, to do a comparison, so here's a bit more on the small or 'micro' vessels we looked at a couple of days ago, and some more bits from the Internet downloads folder on naval stuff....
constexpr has come a long way since its introduction in C++11. Back then, constexpr functions were extremely restricted and could essentially contain only a single return statement. C++14 relaxed those restrictions, allowing local...
Twenty Years Ago on FITK Barry, Brian, and Me. On a juvenile fireworks shooting spree, through the northernmost fringes of Minneapolis, 40 years ago. I don't remember how I hitched up with those two: Brian the carefree, Barry the...
The Battle of Malvern Hill was fought near Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy, on July 1, 1862. Not as well remembered as Antietam or Gettysburg, it was the last of the Seven Days Battles in the Peninsula Campaign, and...
I finally caught Bob Dylan last night in Austin. He, of course, came out, played, said nothing, waved, and left. No encore. Historically a lot has been said about what he’s doing and what he’s up to, and why is he not doing this or that....