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I had a short domain doing nothing, so I built a permashortlink system for my blog posts based on Base36. Did it using Next.js middleware and saw one YYMMDD mistake I definitely should have caught earlier.
We watched the first three episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy before rejecting it as Not For Us, primarily on the basis of the writing. (And the set dressing – what were you people thinking? Glare-and-darkness does not make a...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 55-57: Throughout the first week of July 1876, the week of America’s hundredth birthday, the...
Tall evergreens frame distant snow-capped mountains at Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. The post In the Winter Forest appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
APEX 26.1 was finally released yesterday. Learn how to quickly set it up locally and test the new features with uc-local-apex-dev.
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with RMF, whose blog can be found at baccyflap.com/prs/blog. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a...
The rich and powerful used to pose with a hand inside their waistcoat, like Napoleon. Now they pose with thumbs up, like Trump.
Talking of Examinations, I saw an article on the BBC website about a recent Higher Maths paper in Scotland which has generated complaints and a petition because it was allegedly unfair. The introduction to the petition states: This is...
Sometime in the late 1990s, I was asked to be a token skeptic on a TV show featuring three people who claimed they were immortal. The production team didn’t take them very seriously. Probably no one did, but the three – all Americans –...