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Although producing our podcast has always been a lot of fun, this is the official end of it after almost six months of inactivity.At my company, I'm often the one who pushes for small experiments; that's how blogs or, in this case, a...
Just read Noel Tock’s Human Made Newsletter1 – they are always at the cutting edge of WP development – on how they are building a WordPress integration that uses the Abilities API and the MCP Adapter to basically optimize a website’s...
Hello You. It’s been a while, but I’m delighted to announce that FOGFEST returns for one last ride on Saturday August 1st at IKLECTIK, live from their new home at Peckham levels. Absolutely killer line-up too. Tickets available here via...
Hardwood is a minimal-dependency Java library for reading Parquet files. It currently has row-reader and columnar-reader APIs, with Parquet writing planned for the future.Gunnar Morling, Hardwood’s author, published some initial...
Prompt list for July's #writersCoffeeClub prompts. #WCC JUNE 2026 : fuse DATES Recently, how excited have you been to sit down to write? What are the limits of critique? What's the sign of a good critique? Who do you go to for...
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a blue baseball cap, blue T-shirt, tan shorts, white socks, and Stan Smiths. How does Dave feel today? Dave is calm and content. What are the factors affecting Dave's mood? Dave has managed to...
CW: reference to bodily processes, broad discussion of illness This year’s “once in a generation” weather Last week was brutally hot across Europe, with multiple countries recording their hottest ever temperatures. Others, including the...
At the age of 83, Leonard Nimoy tweeted his last, telling followers to ‘live long and prosper’, his character’s catchphrase from the sci-fi series Star Trek. Just five days later he passed away in his Bel Air home having been admitted to...
Sean Connery in Meteor (1979) Vitals Sean Connery as Dr. Paul Bradley, orbital satellite designer-turned-MIT professor Houston, Texas, Washington, D.C., and New York City, December 1978 Film: Meteor Release Date: October 19, 1979...
Heppy Birthdey... ...toooo you! HAPPY BIRtHYdAY No, hang on. Binthday? Birinthd? B? Let's go with B. Ahem hem hem. HaRRy Brithdy .Er, I mean..hPA PPy? Wait, here we go:BHIARY RHDPAYY ...dear Min-ionnnnnnnns! TOOOOO John: "Demon...
In 2013, the Breakthrough Bandwagon Books translated and published over half a dozen short stories by MORI Hiroshi, associate professor, engineer and somewhat of an experimental mystery writer, which included two short stories in his...
The Nahvalur Eclipse was one of the pleasant surprises of my 2025 review queue. The design is admittedly not for everyone, but as a retractable pen, it works well, and is fun to use. I have one Eclipse in the Cobalt with Rose Gold Trim...
Visualize me donning a big, pointy tin foil hat and speaking in my best ex cathedra voice: Babies are born knowing how to crawl. They're all just conspiring to hide it from us. Sure, when you set them down they put on an air of...
I know that maybe I say this too much. Or maybe I say too much period, and this is what causes distance between me and those who I wished were closer.I know that I often talk about going back to the beginning. But this is where I am . ....