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A short film of this risky rescue mission at Ridglan Farms and the brave activists who carried it out: shot in real-time by the documentary filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse.
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Blondie,...
Been a busy week. Heavy on the HVAC. The "conventional wisdom" is that I shouldn't run the air-to-water heat pump in reverse to cool the floors because of condensation. Everyone thinks a fan coil would be better, because it's built to...
Docker is great for tinkering, slap containers together and off you go. Then you add Vaultwarden or JumpServer and start worrying about security. Don’t panic: small, sensible tweaks close the easy doors. 1) Don’t run everything as root...
I finish off the Functions section by going through Expressions, learning about Arrow Functions, and then taking a quiz like the nerd I am.
The key to avoiding spyware is to not use any of the things that bring it in. I bought a new tablet as a media consumption device: books, comics, music (control, mostly) and random web stuff. Priority went to screen size and resolution,...
We danced through the Ethernet, tripping the fibre fantastic, Under the transistor moon
I’ve always been a fan of eclectic words. So, inspired by The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, I thought I’d coin my own: keyslip The sudden, sinking pang of anxiety that accompanies the realisation that one has been typing into the wrong...
From 29th Street east of Second Avenue, the spire of the Empire State Building, hidden behind a nearby fence and a far away apartment house water tank: No matter where you go, there you are.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about building a point cloud visualisation tool in OCaml, and I've found a little time this week to crunch of that more, mostly by contributing to the various existing geospatial libraries that Patric Ferris...