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I am terribly saddened at word of the death of Donald Newhouse, the last great gentleman of the newspaper business. Soft-spoken, unassuming, humble, kind, and generous, Don Newhouse was at the same time a publisher of vast experience,...
From Things I Have Learned From Being In Unhealthy Connection by Rosa Lewis:Healthy interdependence looks like meaningful, nourishing human connection where the whole of you can be present, where you feel appreciated for who you are and...
Some years, the black locust trees here never bloom at all. Or at least not enough to notice. Not enough to scent the… The post The Brief Bloom of Black Locust appeared first on Appalachian Ground.
From Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch:Bushnell Keeler, the father of my friend Toby, always had this expression: “If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”
Roughly a year ago (actually closer to thirteen months), a chair arrived at the house: an Eames Lounge Chair, that classic piece of midcentury furniture, beloved of tweedy intellectuals and pretentious jazz aficionados everywhere. I had...
A decade ago, I settled on iozone for disk benchmarking on all my systems. Tools like fio ('Flexible IO' tester) are a little more capable for raw disk performance testing, and other tools test network-scale filesystems better, but...
What begins as a nerve-wracking return to a high school reunion becomes one of the most affirming, chaotic and memorable nights of the year
Tonight I am studying PowerBI, Dax, and more about Fabric Model Context Protocol. Again for Reasons.
From How to Travel by The School of Life:
Cotypist developer Daniel at Accelerated Thoughts GmbH sent beta users an email (“a sale for the people who got here first”) sent an email on May 20th letting early adoptersl know that Cotypist would be on sale starting today, with a...
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many other good ones like The Cutting Edge...
NOTE: Almost certainly this piece will travel beyond my usual readership, so I thought it wise to add a quick preface. I am not a journalist by trade or training. I am a writer who traditionally has written long-form pieces commenting on...