I joined my local library when I moved to Brighton (UK) in 1987. I didn't go that often. I would take my kids now and then when they were little and they would choose books. But I had a 50-hour-a-week job and the two small kids. The...

Give three Mississippi pauses before talking or asking another question. Use “I noticed…” and be a mirror to the person. In the end, ask, “What’s your key takeaway here?” and ask what they will do when they will do it and how to ensure...

Commissions price has increased to take into account inflation, benchmarked to the base Australian industry rate for graphic artists.

Bluesky continues to blow up. I hear about it everywhere. It's so backed up the Brid.gy system has slowed to a crawl.

Articles on Hearthside are written in Markdown (GitHub-flavored), but the file extension is .md.yaml as they also make use of Jekyll-style front matter. My Frontmatter gem requires that files it handles end in .yaml or .yml, so this is...

My humble Fujitsu Futro S720 running Debian makes a decent home server. But it has one weakness: the power button is too easy to press by accident, which shuts down the machine. I know that, because I've done it several times. Not the...