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For the past few years I've been lucky enough to travel to a large European city to visit all the stations on their metro. It started with Amsterdam, then there was Stockholm, and last year it was Helsinki. This year, I planned on it...
CHINA (AND EVERYONE ELSE) IS WATCHING THEM; THEY MIGHT AS WELL WATCH BACK: Japan Builds Its First Central Spy Agency in 80 Years, With Quiet Help From the U.S. and Allies.
Geoffrey Lowe Heidi: What happens when the dream of becoming an Olympian evolves into a lifelong pursuit of documenting greatness, how has that changed the way you tell stories through sport? Geoff: I think it gave me respect and...
I listening to Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series this year, and I'm already almost at the latest book, Book 8. That's nearly 138 hours of listening! In the same time period, however, I've abandoned more than my fair share of...
wait, you said you saw it in a dream? Jasper Johns, 24, with Flag and saw, the lean-in variation, 1955, photographed by Robert Rauschenberg, who had a combine upstairs called Rebus, via RRF What if I’ve been wrong all along about the...
Over on Bluesky, Melanie Walsh asks: Favorite and least favorite file formats? I’ll start. Favorite: TXT Least favorite: HEIC The answers – both replies and quote posts – are really interesting because most of the time they’re not about...
My wife has been feeding backyard wildlife for years. We have six bird feeders, two squirrel platforms, a suet feeder, a hummingbird feeder, and a birdbath. Our birdseed and suet bill is a budget item. Our porch is situated like the...
So instead of asking “why not React?” we asked: Which of our actual problems would React solve? We went through the list. There were none. Also, this is good advice when you’re about to make a web component: Every component starts with...
Last night we had a really great ladies rehearsal at my old workplace. I love rehearsing with Ruth and Karina, it's always surprising how well our voices go together (well, particularly theirs- I can't hear mine!). I bent down to pick up...
I took a look at the above-titled book by economists Duncan Foley and Ellis Scharfenaker. It’s an interesting read, in many ways a throwback to the 1950s when a group of mathematicians brewed a heady mix of operations research, game...
On indentation, repo architecture, Twitter/X support, llms.txt, email address escaping, GitHub workflows, Dependabot configs, and test triggers.
Feeling off today. Took my temperature and it's fine, but I just feel bleh. (Note as I'm writing this, appearantly we're under a boil water advisory, hopwfully that isn't the cause) I went ahead and called out, even though I probably...
When Little House on the Prairie premiered, I intended to write a post introducing the hats and bonnets I made. Instead, I found myself swept into the conversations surrounding the bonnets. Questions about their shapes, styles, and...
Graphics used to be the headline act. For years, gaming’s biggest selling point was simple. How real can we make this look? Each new console generation arrived with a quiet sense of anticipation, bringing sharper textures, richer...
Located three hours east of Vancouver, most folks head to Harrison Lake to enjoy its crisp waters, soak in the hot springs, camp or four-wheel-drive immersed in rugged scenery, or look for the elusive Sasquatch reported to live in the...