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For no particularly good reason, here, have some pictures of flowers and plants from around my house that I’ve taken in the last couple of days, which I then photoedited to look dramatic and possibly gothy. In order: Dahlia, Gooseneck...
America, I need to address you like this again, hopeful and hopeless and frustrated with those who wave their fist and scream for justice and anarchy or for whatever else comes in-between. I see them often too, those who call themselves...
23 June 2026 Halfway into the 2026 Peregrine Season I thought our region would have lower than usual nesting success because we had fewer active sites than last year. But peregrines always surprise me. This month observers found...
Inland, they have a red warning for heat up to 40°C. We only have an amber warning. It’s 24°C where I am.
"The Road Goes On Forever" by Robert Earl Keen Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Describe the perfect song for a road trip and why it works. - The Road Goes on Forever by Robert Earl Keen The song is...
Open source web application for learning to play piano that listens to your MIDI instrument input while you play to songs displayed as sheet music or falling notes, both with extra notation to help beginners such as named notes...
This section of a great interview with Magic Tuber Stringband in the June 2026 copy of The Wire really struck me. It relates to the influence band member Courtney Werner’s field recording work on a former nuclear weapons production site...
While I ran websites and newsletters before, I've only been blogging for almost 2 years. By coincidence I found Bear, and I immediately got drawn to it. Not only did it look like a good platform, it also hosted a great community. So...
Learn how Expressive can improve a Laravel application by keeping Eloquent as the database layer while moving business logic to fully typed objects. Read more
Your monthly hit of all the things that are fit to print without a better place to live. Today is election day here in New York City, so again a reminder that if you are a registered Democrat and live … Continue reading →
We constantly see different variations of "just build it, you can make it better later" on LinkedIn and other places dedicated to recycling cliches. Normally, the writer is a CLUMS (short for cliche-loving, unimaginative, mindless soul)...
The ethics of fly fishing for bull trout are nebulous. They’re also a bit ephemeral, depending on where you’re fishing and your intent. The endangered char of the Northwest is protected by law in both the United States and Canada, but...