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🌪️ Peace and quiet is over, (for a long time) I’m afraid. The boys have returned from their week(s) off with the grandparents, and now it’s all sports and school again 🫠 I was actually getting used to peaceful mornings and evenings.
Code Is Cheap. Being Wrong Isn’t. There are four sentences I increasingly hear around software development: “The tests passed.” “Copilot suggested it.” “It looked fine in review.” “The agent handled the implementation.” None of them...
Eary this months I´ve been mention what games I´ve been playing this summer. As august s ending I´ve added some new ones to my roster
Cover art for Japanese Rivers by Vlisa Release Information Artist Vlisa Title Japanese Rivers Date March 15, 2013 Download BandCamp, Internet Archive Introduction My original review of Japanese Rivers by Vlisa came a few weeks after its...
HTML web components are perfect for this.
Today is very much working around the edges, because I've had to pack everything up for a bit. I did some useful editing yesterday (oh what a difference it makes!), but just now I had a go at adding some contributors' stuff to one of the...
I went out to my local park earlier today. The sun is getting stronger and I am being hurled closer to spring. I have already noticed the Earth around me changing. Most notably the golden wattles, the longing Currawong calls, more...
Olaf Stapledon writing to H G Wells, June 1937: “I can’t help thinking about the universe as a whole, even though philosophically it is futile. So I let it come out as myth, and I find it gives me a sort of emotional stability, much...
📷 213/365 - Hand washing in style.
As widely reported, Meta has settled a lawsuit brought against it by 52 American state and local attorneys general representing most states, the District of Columbia, and several territories The company will, Cecilia Kang and Eli Tan...
It took three summers of enthusiastically reading a hundred pages, then reluctantly having to put it aside, but I finally finished Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya’s Ursa Major (Большая медведица, 1870–71). I want to put down a few spoiler-laden...
The follow up session to my CPAD assessment for ME was effectively a carbon copy of the previous session, just without the introductory interview and history data collection. Structure of the assessment The session had four parts, in...
This post continues to elaborate on Virtual Consensus and the new Loglet abstractions of the AtomicLog and LogDrive. My last post focused on composability, this post looks at log sealing.A common aspect of segmented logs is that when...
I saw a lot of people posting daily this past month while I struggled just to come up with weekly posts. Generally speaking I just don’t feel like I’m all that interesting. I also noticed a lot of people putting together weekly recaps...
Man is nothing else, but what he makes of himself. ~Jean-Paul SartreAmong the founding principles of our American democracy is the ideal that we each be free to pursue "happiness." That's not a guarantee of happiness, but rather an...