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Anthony Hobday shares a thoughtful framework for thinking about software quality, from reliability and speed to clarity, efficiency, and beauty. I liked his argument that quality depends on both individual care and organisational...
Last night I realized two things: I haven’t touched Elfeed in about a month I’ve been reading and interacting more with people’s posts than ever As I was looking at my Inkwell’s RSS feeds and cleaning up, I couldn’t help but notice how...
The minute I read this review by Pete Wells, I knew I had to go Libertine. I love a French bistro generally, and this one sounded especially good. On the night we went, everything about it was ideal. We snagged a lovely table near a...
There is a lot of scientific evidence in shit. A number of fungi species live in the shit of large mammals. Scientists take cores of sediment, carbon date the layers, and determined the species composition and abundance of dung fungus...
Best Record of 2001: Day 43 Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Janet Jackson’s ‘All For you’ as it takes on Jimmy eat World’s ‘Bleed American.’ In 2000, Janet Jackson found herself on the wrong side of a divorce filing from Rene...
Building the plane as I fly it.
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest...
Chandra Clarke Under Review:Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice. Eds. Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, and Jordan S. Carroll. The MIT Press, May 2026. When you hear the word...