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29-06-26 A couple of days later and I decided to do a favourite route; Longniddry to Gullane off the NB train. Partly because nothing else called out for attention, partly because there might be a few DGFs lurking about the dunes near...
One of you must have suggested Nigel Davenport (1928-2013) for an MCM because I can’t
I wrote about semantic HTML as interface infrastructure a few weeks ago. The response surprised me. Not because the argument was new. Native elements carrying behaviour for free isn’t a hot take. It surprised me because of how many...
At this point it’s been a little over a year since we moved into our new house, and we’ve gotten settled quite nicely. All of the big things we needed to get done have been dealt with so now it’s time to starting working on all the fun...
Last week I had a really enjoyable conversation with Joe Bignell on his podcast, Joe’s room. Some of the things we talked about: The value from AI doesn’t just come from adoption, it comes from changing how your organisation operates...
Today I used JavaScript to mass-unsubscribe from a website’s email notifications. Here’s the code, followed by what I did and why. document .querySelectorAll('[role="switch"]') .forEach((element) => element.click());
Marvel Entertainment / YouTube: Doomsday arrives December 18th. Released today to coincide with the availability of tickets in “Infinity Vision”1, we have ourselves our first, official proper trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. That sure is...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
The link. The paragraph: This was the first time when I thought: has science gone too far? Has non-alcoholic Helles been optimised so much in an attempt to make it as clean-tasting as possible, that it has actually lost some of its...
At the Wall Street Journal, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) explains why she will be voting against Donald Trump's ill-considered and disingenuous attempt to federalize and overhaul American elections.Many of her objections sound like...
We were all afraid of Mr. Turner. He was the principal at Meadowfield Elementary in Columbia, SC, and, it was rumored, he had a wooden paddle in his office with "holes drilled in it" so he could swing it faster. Even as an...
In a reply to my post Blank blogging counts too, Scholarch describes my writing as banal, repetitive, redundant, and a bunch of other words. I get it, and I'm honestly a bit surprised no one's brought it up before now (or maybe some...
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In 2021, the United Nations proclaimed July 20th as International Moon Day, via the resolution 76/76 on “international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space”. Some key goals of the day are to promote awareness about our Moon’s...
In a post entitled, “You’re Writing a Book. So Stop Writing a Movie,” Rebecca Makkai writes: You want to set your movie in a futuristic New York where every building has a flying car port on top and there are highways through the air and...