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Hi everyone. I’m once again joining in with #WeekendCoffeeShare. I just had my last cup of coffee for the day. I drank it out of my 40th birthday mug. That is, one of my two 40th birthday mugs, the one with the unicorn. I also had a...
Rust Glancer Aug 21, 2026 Rust Glancer, a functional LSP server for Rust which uses two orders of magnitude less RAM, is incredibly cool. Go check it out! This post started as a comment on lobste.rs, but I figured it out that it’s better...
Sheryl and I at the top of some hill. I did a lot of walking, hiking and running in Ireland, some days upwards of 40k, which my knees protested.
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On the curious economics of a revolution with two paying customers Every gold rush has its shovel salesmen. The AI boom has improved on the formula. Here the shovel salesmen fund the prospectors, the prospectors spend the funding on...
This is part two of an ongoing series about AI hype. Read part one here. And if you want a livelier retelling of this OpenAI hack, filled with rowdiness and Rugrats references, listen to episode 7 of The Last Enclosure podcast wherever...
There is a neat paper https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9405205 Seven Trees in One, where it is shown that there is a nice isomorphism between 7 trees and one tree.
Portrait of a Shameful Bug ## Forgive me, Eye, for I have sinned Accessibility process is my core job at work which means directing company procedure for design and testing of all our code to ensure it interoperates with screen reader...
After a few weeks of fiddling with margins and tabs in Word documents, wrestling with anxiety over font sizes and being driven up the wall by Amazon, the paperback version of 172 Forgotten British Children's TV Shows From The 1980s is...
There's a lively debate going on over whether theme toggles should have two options (light/dark) or three, with an added "system" option. I maintain two-state toggles are better in most cases (though not all), and that the case for a...
. The Observer‘s Sunday supplement pays homage to Katharine Hamnett in 1985 (Dec 29) Magculture is hosting a talk on 19 September about political T-shirts. ‘Making Trouble: 40 Years of Political Tees’ brings activist designer Katharine...
On the night of December 3rd, 1926, the best-selling crime novelist in the world went missing from her own house. No note, no witnesses, no body. Just an abandoned car hanging off the edge of a chalk pit and a country that spent the next...
Early Release: Mike speaks with Professor William Kovarik an expert on the history of leaded gasoline
Early Release: Mike speaks with Professor William Kovarik an expert on the history of leaded gasoline