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Apptorium, the developers best known for SideNotes, is running a sale from July 20–31 on some of the most recommended apps in their category. Get Details . Apps on Sale from Other Developers CleanShot at 20% off DaisyDisk at 30% off...
At the end of Four Letters of Love, his first and lovely novel, Niall Williams explains briefly how he wrote it. He and his partner had moved back from New York to the West of Ireland determined to become writers. They’d risked...
Six years and four months ago to the day, I received my first hashcard – an achievement-earning postcard sent while out on a geohashing expedition, to another geohasher. This experience went some way to my acquisition last year of a PO...
Writing about powerful men comes with real professional and personal risk. If you believe it’s worth doing, please subscribe. Your support is what makes all of this possible. Can’t do this without you!!Yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete...
PC My cursor keys are weeping. They’ve taken such a hammering over the last week, as I’ve blasted my way through splendid little arcade game Kaz (from Kalinarm, the team that brought us the incredible Linkito). The deceptively...
An interesting email has reached me, noticing that work seems to have resumed at Google Books: I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but Google Books has been adding new material this year from a number of university libraries that have...
After (re-)discovering an old Weekly Airwaves episode I made nearly 15 years ago, I now know the format to follow to get back into music podcasting After picking up a new action camera, I'm getting all sorts of ideas for how to use it:...
Wildfire smoke in Pittsburgh before sunset 16 July 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 17 July 2026 Yesterday while I wrote about the raging wildfires in western Ontario, 1000 miles from Pittsburgh, their smoke was blowing in our direction. By...
Thanks to Rana Z., Stacy H., Brooke P., Cheyenne W., Shaelyn, Vanessa N., Heather H., & A.H., who can't believe that anyone would ever misspell professional. I mean, that's just crazy, right? [sheepish grin]*****P.S. A friend recently...
We are on the verge of a two-week trip involving time with my parents, and then a road-trip to visit Rob and to visit a bestie who lives in the town where Paul and I got married and where Rob was born. I get a little flustered packing...
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Introduction A few years back I became interested in the idea of getting a smartwatch. However, what I found when I started doing research into them was nothing short of horrifying. Take the journey...
Dare to suck is, for all intents and purposes, my friend Pete’s motto. I’ve been playing Irish music with Pete since about 2010, and for as long as I’ve known him, he has encouraged people in his seisiúns to dare to suck. (I recently...
Keeping track of which developer is connecting to which server can be a job in itself. There are plenty of ways to handle it, from sending logs to dedicated software to writing them to a file that someone has to check manually. Our...
The remnants of last night’s weather lingered into the sunrise hours this morning. This bit of storm cell to our west continued to evolve as I embarked on my morning walk. The two photos are taken 15 minutes apart.