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Today (26th August 2026) was the day that students across Ireland received offers of places at Third-Level Institutions to start next month. The offers for all courses and all institutions are available on the official CAO website here;...
Hello, loves! I did a little refactoring on the zoom-scrolling1 code. I think it was the right thing to do. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. While I do not question that I spent more time on the zoom-scrolling code than was appropriate, I do...
I took this from Roy Porter’s The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity, a marvellous book. In 1821 the City of Paris published a massive demographic study of the city Recherches statistiques sur la ville de Paris...
Earlier this year, the head of the Berlin Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle, was criticised by Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, for standing next to filmmakers wearing keffiyehs and brandishing Palestinian flags.“So what?” you...
Some time ago I installed minidlna to serve my contents in my home lan. Even though VLC installed on my phone always discoved the minidlna server, VLC on my Linux machine didn’t do it: it often couldn’t discover it. The problem was the...
Dolly Parton - Musikladen 1977Goodbye to real American dreamer Dolly Parton! Yesterday after the sad news broke, the various online timelines overflowed with love and appreciation for the...
Feeling saturated with life is inevitable. You are bound to feel cramped and bored with everything you do repeatedly. Like monkeys, we are wired to seek novelty, and we constantly attempt to find it in the world around us. Almost...
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 Since the availability of GitHub's Stacked PRs finally landing for repositories that use a Merge Queue, I've been "kicking the tyres" with some of my contributions to Renovate. They're...
So I decided that instead of trying to remember JavaScript, I'm going to jump into something else. Being as the next module in my masters focuses on information and visualisation, what better than trying to figure out data science? Since...
In a previous video, I asked the community for tips on how they deal with social anxiety in FFXIV grouping situations. I got quite a few responses, and some of them were very helpful! While I tried to think up all the tips I could in my...
I don’t particularly care for Dolly Parton’s music, but I loved Dolly Parton. She was literally the best of us. Unapologetically herself whether people liked it or not. Did not give a single fuck about what was “expected” of her based on...
Singapore, being the small state that it is, has always been careful about the foreign policy statements it makes. But if even Singapore speaks out against something, you know it's really a problem. What more if it's in opposition to a...
The past few days have had me wondering what our motivations were to do anything long term and what that meant for our happiness. Are we happiest when our reward is in the future or the present? Are we happiest when we do something for...
The user of the library shouldn’t need to know whether you found the title in , <title>, OpenGraph, Twitter metadata, or because a small goat whispered it to you. ChatGPT
I can't remember when the last essential American 60s garage rock compilation was issued... sometime in the early 00s with the ace Teenage Shutdown cd series and those seven volumes of Fuzz, Flaykes & Shakes. This month however an...