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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...
I built an LLM API gateway. Between that and all the infrastructure modernisation I’ve been doing at work, the months have blurred. I’ve been really busy, and there was never a good moment to write. But this is really exciting. So here...
The box-office performance of Spider-Man: Brand New Day shows that I miscalculated: spandex is still as trendy as it was a decade ago. The disinterest in superheroes was all mine.Which makes me wonder: if superhero fatigue is really my...
Coffee experiences anchor any visit to whatever town or city we visit - it's not always specialty coffee, but even Sackville or Saint John, New Brunswick, have nice places to sit and have an espresso. Visiting Dublin, everyone kept...
Just seeing if this is a workflow that i can pursue.
One of the biggest boss fights in Enshrouded is the Fell Dragon Youngling. I wrote about this battle almost a year ago when we first beat it, and what it took to actually finish the fight so that we could move on in the story.
I saw Miles Davis play live at the Hammersmith Odeon on 21 April 1982. As our first son Freddie was born on the same day I might describe this as the best day in my life, but the trouble with describing one day as the best is it that it...
Gary Cole as Mike Brady in A Very Brady Sequel (1996) Vitals Gary Cole as Mike Brady, architect and family man Los Angeles, Summer 1996 Film: A Very Brady Sequel Release Date: August 23, 1996 Director: Arlene Sanford Costume Designer:...
(Kimberly (she/her) took the express train down the fountain pen/stationery rabbit hole and doesn't want to be rescued. She can be found on Instagram @allthehobbies because there really are many, many hobbies!.)When Bryce Gillet from...
I’ve been using tmux on Mac for a very long time. It’s a simple way to get proper panes in Mac’s terminal without replacing the app entirely. Of course there are replacement apps that handle a lot of this out of the box, but from iTerm...
Detailing a build can take what is essentially a cardboard box, and turn it into something else, something special. My strategy for this, for the interior was that the detailing needed to be such that it didn't interfere with game play....
The Top 12 Cakes to Bring To Your Family Reunion:(Assuming your family has an excellent sense of humor.)(Or you just don't like them.) With this many grammar errors, you can always blame it on your younger cousins. Make sure you insist...