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I can only imagine what it's like learning the skill of programming in this day and age. What does an average college class look like? What is the CS professor teaching? And students, how do you reconcile what you are learning vs the...
2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the weeks of May 4 – 17. Stats Submissions and Responses In the past two weeks I had a single...
Time to get into functions, which ends up mostly being about the weather. Shock.
Kick plates are supposed to protect your door’s paint job from getting…well…kicked. That sticking door that needs an extra nudge to open or the challenge of opening a door with your hand filled with Stanley cups makes the kick plate...
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a...
The link. The paragraph: Amid these waves of profound transformation (in Vietnam), the Bia hoi côc (beer glass) has remained unchanged. Cheap and easy to acquire, the glasses continue to be made by hand with recycled glass in small...
Read the full post at - 6+ Favorite Books on Arctic and Northern Exploration (So Far!) A Roundup of My Favorite Books on Arctic and Northern Exploration...so far.
A phone battery experiment: Manu is considering charging his phone once twice a week. He lives in a “quiet place” that, I suspect, makes that possible. Meanwhile, I usually charge my phone once a day, even though the battery is still OK....
The last two Saturdays have brought me to Chichester for my first two productions of the new spring/summer season – so what better to pair together in this post? Two ostensibly different plays, tailored perfectly to their auditorium of...
A huge dump of links to catch up on things
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why more and more local stores are going defunct. A short trip downtown makes the destructive nature of Amazon et al. apparent: the city centre is littered with for-sale or for-rent signs, stuck on...
Alexander Zeldin’s new play Care, making its UK premiere at the Young Vic is a hard one to categorise and its effect on audiences will be hard to gauge. It has a story about life in a care home filled with older people living out their...