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Last year, I began a journey of watching Kung Fu, the 70's television show starring David Carradine. I'm not a huge fan of binge watching, especially a show like this that is so slow, but I'm working my way towards the end of the series...
Slightly bent tooth on my Pivot Trail 429. I like troubleshooting things. It’s basically what I do at my day job, and I’m kinda good at it. Sometimes I’m asked for illustrations of how I troubleshoot stuff, so I’m sharing this example of...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Craig Mod writes about hearing Matthew Dicks speak about storytelling:The other takeaway from Matthew’s talk was people tend to “report” stories rather than tell them. So they report what happened and what was said, but they leave out...
Brent surveys the most notable additions coming in PHP 8.6, including partial function application, the new polling API, readonly property defaults, and several smaller improvements and deprecations. Read more
This may be a fairly niche topic for those in the UK, but it’s a hack I now use daily so I thought I’d share. Unlike many other radio stations, it’s not possible to ask your Apple HomePod to directly play radio from the BBC. If I say,...
I was listening to a podcast featuring the therapist Jerry Wise who had these parting words: Remember that you can't solve the problem using the thinking and emotional dynamics that have caused it. So you cannot break out of the box by...
When you have a lot of browser tabs open it can be very hard to tell them apart, especially if they're from the same site: Since monitors are wide and websites are tall, we should very clearly put tabs on the side in a vertical stack. I...
It’s been a year since I wrote about New York City and two years since I’ve visited. Who knows when I will be back. I do know I still love to read about it, which isn’t hard, since it’s often in the news. So here’s my annual post on NYC,...
New England’s investment in solar has paid off in electricity savings during this summer’s heat waves. Italy could be the next country to build a solar railway after Switzerland’s successful trial. MIT engineers have created an...
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve dreamed of constructing a giant labyrinth. I used to draw elaborate mazes1 on napkins during family dinners, dreaming of one day building one big enough to wander in forever. I’ve spend days...
On the road at an industry event all week in Louisiana, so we’re taking a knee on Warship Wednesday. In its place, how about this amazing photo essay by LIFE Photographer Peter Stackpole of the Colorado-class “Super 16” dreadnought USS...
Life is a horror story. Human beings are born in a bloody process, and there are a million miserable ways to die. Lucky people die suddenly after a long life with fewer of the horrifying events than the average person suffers through...
Our new home in the Netherlands sits in a mundane residential area full of young families like ours. The street name comes from mate / made / maat (‘meadow’) — a field that once lay here and now survives only in the name. Cycling through...
So, three weeks to the day since I completed the online formalities, I received delivery today, by courier, of my new UK passport. Fair play to the Passport Office for their extremely efficient service. The only thing I don’t have is my...