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With all the fuss on (my) Twitter about social housing in London, I thought it’d be worth trying to understand things using public data. It turns out, England’s social housing system delivers a £21 billion annual subsidy that I’ve never...
Crochet Triangle shawl by Briana K. Designs No progress on the shawl. I have been too busy with a new obsession about filet crochet - see below. Crochet Pouch Since my last post, I have completed the strip of fabric that will eventually...
I decided to check AppGoblin to see how many apps LiveRamp had when Publicis acquired it for $2b, the answer seems to be ~300 mobile apps out of the top 200k apps. This is based on apps found with the LiveRamp SDKs. The apps also have a...
Double Maths First Thing has been blown away by a puzzle Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight in mathematical thinking, in figuring things out, and in doing things that make you feel...
It would appear that Ihtesham Ali, with his 29.5k followers on Twitter, is a repeat offender. After having totally ballsed up an account of al-Khwarizmi’s al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah, he then took on Ibn...
Today I learned that collections.deque is implemented as a doubly-linked list of blocks. collections.deque I've written about the data structure deque from the module collections extensively. In particular, I wrote a deque tutorial with...
Mike Masnick of Techdirt: But at a time when the Supreme Court keeps telling us we shouldn’t believe that they make decisions on partisan grounds, it sure would help if they actually stopped doing things differently depending on the...
May 20, 2026 So pretty! And a top that will cover bra straps, for those of us who founded our “lingerie under wraps” opinions decades ago: I’ve been thinking of a system by which one could evaluate a two-piece set… Can it be worn with a...
And so it came to pass, in the mid-1980s, that John Byrne wrapped up his five year run on Fantastic Four, as reported here in the March 1986 issue of The Comics Journal: (Please forgive the pixelation, as I increased the size from the...
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up...