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PyPI is the main repository for Python packages. One thing that I've noticed recently is the number of published packages per week. Let's look at published counts of new package versions per week: There are some dips in the data, but...
I had the opportunity to attend our 10-year graduate school reunion recently. One of the themes that kept coming up for me: reminiscing about moments of impact. For example, I met with someone and we swapped memories. I remembered a...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dick Tracy,...
The first volume of Itaru Kinoshita’s Dinosaur Sanctuary was definitely the light reading I needed on the particular day I finally picked it up. It’s aimed at a younger audience, but […]
Sun glimmering through a scrim of cirrus. The aftermath of the dawn chorus isn’t exactly silent; it just has longer pauses for breath… until the goldfinches go gadding about through the treetops like a rickety circus.
At some point, 'practicality' stops being the interesting question. What's left is how identical everything has become.I've been thinking about that a lot lately, because most of the devices I carry now (phone, earbuds, handhelds,...
Batman continues to think deep thoughts about the past, as he looks at the Gotham Stock Exchange and its very slender Corinthian columns: The New York Stock Exchange shortly after the NYSE extension (on the right) had its exterior...
Sunday Asides #95 So over the past 7 months of turmoil in this country, the U.S. government has been shooting a reality show from the Department of Transportation, and the trailer for it dropped this week. Tone deaf and fucking GROSS....
I couldn't resist counting how many books on the list I have read. If you want to know the answer, it is 42.
Travel day 😢 Holiday over already! We’ve got a flight at 12:30 to make! So let’s get ready! We’d done most of our packing the previous night, so all we had to do was give the property a good clean and tidy, double check we’d packed...
This weekend guide to Maine’s Blue Hill Peninsula and Deer Isle covers where to eat, stay, and explore, with stops at Aragosta, Tinder Hearth, 44 North Coffee, Blue Hill Wine Shop, Sand Beach, and Settlement Quarry Preserve, plus...