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Jude, in her need to safely navigate the treacherous world of Faerie, finds herself catching a tiger by the tail. I’m not the target audience for this, and that’s fine. The writing is fine, as is the world-building, and the characters....
I’m inclined to skip cardio. By the time I’m done lifting weights each morning, I’m feeling beat. Also, I’m anxious to get back to my desk and start the big editorial lift of the day, which can feel heavier than any dumbbell.In that...
This post follows the journey of Hawkgirl in the DCU from July 11, 2023 ( the day Isabela Merced was announced as Hawkgirl)! It has been confirmed that Hawkgirl will be in the Superman sequel and may also make some more appearances in...
My writing elsewhere ▷ In the software-company circles I’m in, the talk is all about using AI to go faster. The presumption is that you can take that thing you estimated at a year and build it in a month. I say you’re solving the wrong...
Tracing the life of a English Baron’s daughter, who, on her way to becoming US ambassador to France, was Winston Churchill’s beloved daughter-in-law. I knew nothing about Pamela Harrison whatsoever when I started reading this, and I...
For someone who spent over thirty-five years living in New York apartment hotels and increasingly not getting out much (in his last years he seldom ventured beyond the hotel lobby), Cornell Woolrich had a surprisingly cosmopolitan...
583 active days, 14,111 XP and roughly 235 hours: what two and a half years of Math Academy actually looks like.
Currently reading this book and enjoying it so far. In here a facist party seize power in Ireland. It’s told from the perspective of a woman with multiple children. Interesting and current topic in our political situation with the rise...
A while back I shared a small tool for styling Bear blogs without wrestling with DevTools overrides: bear.css.observer. I've improved the UI a bit since then. The panel is cleaner, the editor is easier to live with, and the overall flow...
Take two banana tree trunks, lash them together, point them downhill and jump on board. Get your mates involved and turn it into a competition. You might not associate Easter Island with extreme sports, but they have been part of the...
Back to the boardgame café.
One of my favourite tiny details in this website is my non-breaking spaces. I have code that looks for phrases like “5 cm”, “New York”, or “Objective‑C”, and inserts a non-breaking space/hyphen so they’ll never be split across multiple...
This article appeared in Inside Higher Ed, July 8, 2026. For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this stone castle from above in the 1000 Islands region of Ontario, Canada. The structure features red clay tile roofs, multiple turrets, and walls built from locally quarried stone. Mature trees frame the...