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A year or so ago, Chris and I began writing together about a layout design, no, a layout we just haven’t built yet. Titled ‘Let’s build Rome’ there was no real thought of publication but the enjoyment of co-creation and exploring an...
A couple of months ago I wrote about making my Eleventy build five times faster by fixing a handful of embarrassing filters. I wrote about developer experience and the feedback loop of "I write a line" and "I see the result." Why am I...
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The final model post for June is this one – a trio of 3D prints with a slight difference. These three models from left to right are “Authority Field Commander” from Skullforge, “Authority Old Captain” from Black Remnant and “Muddy...
Huh? The Platoon School? My hunch is that very few readers have ever heard of this widespread Progressive reform that began in Gary (IN) in 1907. Praised by John Dewey and Evelyn Dewey in 1915, the innovative way of schooling native,...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this small island near Tar Island in the 1000 Islands region of Ontario, Canada during October 2025. The aerial view reveals a rocky granite outcrop crowned with trees displaying fall colors—bright...
The Friendly Ghost, Casper #206 Date: October 1979 Publisher: Harvey Publications, Inc. Cover Price: 40¢ 2013 Price Range: $1.00 - $9.00 Stats: 23 color pages plus ads Writers: ? Artists: ? Notable Notes: Casper visits Cardland! Another...
The letter Q evolved from a hieroglyph of a monkey. The Q’s tail is a monkey’s tail. The best acronym, in this our golden age of acronyms, is TIL, for Today I Learned. I love it. People use #TIL as a hashtag on social media, but not to...
Moving is not for the faint of heart! The surgeon general should issue a warning against moving houses after age 50. Coordinating our cross-country move was one of the hardest thing I had done. Selling our house in Buffalo, finding a...
On a recent trip to Blackrock Cellar I picked up a couple of bottles from two of the lesser-seen Donegal breweries. At least I think it's two breweries: they have a brewer in common and I see their bottlecaps are the same. Otterbank...
Can machines think? Alan Turing may have shortened the war by cracking Enigma, but it was answering this question that may well have been his greatest achievement. This great, highly informative video from History Extra shows how, as...
There are two things the Midlands does exceptionally well. One is roundabouts that lead to more roundabouts, and the other is Indian restaurants. Every village, town and trading estate seems to have one these days, which is marvellous...
Yes. Next question! Oh, you’re still here? In that case let’s apply Rigorous Science (TM) to support our claim and to satisfy the never-ending hunger of artificial language models that are only able to answer this question by applying...
July 13, 2026 I’m finally ready to tell you about my trip to Paris! I think the “big picture” insight that I took from this trip is that things change… Our planet is changing, and the way people live as they adapt is full of changes,...