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Two years ago me and my wife spent two weeks exploring the Dominican Republic by car. While staying in the beautifully green El Valle, we drove to the Salto El Limón waterfall. There, while we were enjoying the refreshing pools at the...
Ciclamini. Is it time for the cyclamen to flower in the mountains nearby. Until now I had not noticed but in these mountains I climb with their tiny presence, resilient and kind, tiny flowers that create a stream of violet nearby.
Microsoft vent #213: Outlook on Mac has shortcomings compared to the web version. Searching on the web client defaults to “all folders,” and on a Mac to the current folder. Can’t change it either. So you forget. The result is this...
Ahhh... There she blows! Eggnob is running on the Nintendo Switch! And the port was incredibly simple, once I worked out how to get access to the SDL3 Switch Sku. (Derp) Massive thanks to Ryan and co for an awesome piece of software....
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of artists founded in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
As Brits, we largely think of no-frills budget airlines as a way of jetting ourselves off to sunnier places (or more accurately this year, just as blisteringly hot but with cheaper drinks) for our holidays, but are less likely to...
i walk into the bar alone i feel so many eyes on me i think they're judging me but secretly i wish they would embrace me i ask the bartender for a red ale could i have a schooner i say she says no because they only do pints or pots why...
★★☆☆☆ 2018, 92 minutes General Magic was a company started in 1990 by some of ex-Apple staffers, working on a pocket communication device and its operating system (Magic Cap, sporting a fascinating room user interface). The product...
SpotCheck A collection of free bookmarklets that test for common accessibility issues directly in the browser. Each one maps to its related WCAG 2.2 success criteria. [ 📌stephanieleary ] Butter Box Power your own hotspot to share...
Link: Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID - Anil Dash Anil did a nice job building and publishing a fun project: a DIY Touch ID-like fingerprint sensor that can unlock your Mac, called Dashboard Touch. I...
Hey people! Tomorrow, in the traditional Catholic calendar used until 1969, is the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which also happens to be the patronal feast of my local SSPX church that has been my and my family’s parish for the...
I find them on escalators, walking up the left side. I find them in our building’s stairwell. I find them somewhere in the long, multi-level stairs of Hong Kong’s Central station, breathing a bit hard in the air-conditioned quiet. I find...
Wassup, Traipser! Dakota here with my newsletter about creativity, travel and living an intentional life, which I started years ago when quill pens were more popular than iPhones. I didn’t use AI to write then and I still don’t! (Please...
A few weeks ago I wrote about the number system used in labeling spreadsheet columns. Labels run from A through Z, then AA through AZ, etc. This looks a lot like base 26, but it’s not quite the same. It has no analog of zero. If Z were...
Not long ago, one of our toilets stopped flushing: the chain that connects the tank lever to the flapper had broken. I cycled to the hardware store and located the replacement part I needed. Back home, I turned off the water to the...