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John: "What are you working on?"Jen: "Finding cakes for National Moon Day." ...
(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Bluesky. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree...
Yesterday was a braindrain day, so my plan is to mostly check out for the next couple of days and just get Sunday’s newsletter done.…
After an extended detour courtesy of Fedex, our most recent shipment of Tono & Lims Fountain pen inks has arrived! We’ve added additional inks from the Friendship li...
Hey people! 🙂 Today I’d like to feature a traditional English ballad. Like a lot of traditional songs, it exists in quite a lot of versions that differ only slightly from each other and are known under varying titles – “I Will Give My...
For my entire life, I have been against the death penalty. Murder is wrong. Period. Even if (insert ghoulish crime here)? Yes, even then. A life sentence without parole is acceptable to me. Except. The murderer of seven-year-old Athena...
I asked Claude: “What are the most effective and impactful ways you can help me?” One of its ideas was to ask it: What are the three questions this field has not resolved, where the disagreement is substantive and not just semantic? Who...
There’s a symptom of CPTSD that I don’t think people talk about enough. And that’s the emotional whiplash of being completely overwhelmed one minute and then absolutely nothing the next. Like your nervous system just slams the emergency...
A deep dive into idempotency, from the theory behind safe retries to a practical Laravel implementation using the Laravel Idempotency package. Read more
It’s time for more clever deducktions! In the second episode in the Duck Detective series, The Ghost of Glamping, our favourite feathered investigator arrives at a camp site only to find out the place is being haunted by a creepy ghost....
Bison move across the prairie like living storms, vast and steady, with the weight of centuries in their stride. Their dark eyes hold a quiet, unwavering depth—as if they’ve looked into the heart of time itself and carry its secrets in...