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After I finished my Time in C++ series, a reader asked a seemingly simple question: “What is the portable way to extract the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second from a file’s modification time? I tried, and I couldn’t get it to...
Ludvig Aspling, migration-policy spokesperson for Sverigedemokraterna. There's a reason for why I include a date in the title of this blog post: boundaries keep shifting. A word that was spoken in 2025 may not mean the same thing in...
In a recent blog post, Nachum Kaplan claims that the shift in Israel's security orientation post-10/7 stems from its rejection of "the West's most dangerous illusions." It begins as follows:October 7th was a catastrophic security failure...
The leadership literature, and the organisations that consume it, share an unexamined assumption about direction. Progress means ascent. One begins as an individual contributor, demonstrates competence, and is rewarded with the...
A completely random pick from the fridge at Craft Central landed me this can of triple IPA from Canadian brewer Nano Cino. It's called Innovation #6, it's 9.7% ABV and it cost more than €10. What does that get me?The big floaty gobbets...
Another day of rain. Dot and Jane came at dinner time and took me home in the car and brought me back at 1p.m. Did some more hedge cutting but very wet.
July 20, 2026 I used this painting here on The Vivienne Files back in April of 2020. Doesn’t that seem like a century ago? This color palette comes up at a great time – one among you is going to be an election observer in a town A LONG...
At 30 years old, I am saddened that I beat all of my computer science students when it comes to AI workflows.
09012 lacks details and ‘Dick Hardy’ nameplates (on order) but already looks the part in her InterCity Mainline colours. She is the latest in a parade of Farish models, as the collection swells - and another fitted with sound and stay...
I'm always happy to find photos from the classic Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland attraction, gone nearly 50 years now. These aren't the greatest pictures in the world, but I still like 'em.If there's one thing I know about bobcats...
Lovely publishers have been kind enough to send me some GA crime reprints recently, which turned out to be the perfect reading at the end of the school term – I really needed some distraction!! As there a few, I thought I would round...
"HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3"I just heard a spectacular sound system that was set up as part of an exhibit, The Art of Noise, at the Cooper Hewitt Museum a Smithsonian museum that focuses on design (above). The exhibit "HiFi...
Born within the slipstream of our father’s andmother’s lives, we follow involuntarily in their wake. True dat! It's a sentence from early in My Father's Wake, how the Irish teach us to live, love and die (2017) by Kevin Toolis. Toolis...
I am deeply bored and I simply can't sleep. So now this site will now have an no-AI statement. Every word on the domain was personally written by me, with my hominin appendages.1 I might occasionally throw a draft into The Machine and...
For those of you who read my blog via RSS or some other push method, a quick note: You might have wondered about a couple of odd or unexpected blog posts (a blog post about donuts, a sub page citing Snow White). Those were simply...