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The last few weeks I've pushed a series of updates to the site. First, I enabled Gift Subscriptions. Now you can buy anyone a month or a year of Premium Subscription at any tier!Screenshot of the front page of the site for Premium...
I let this series languish for a while… The stoop of an 1825 rowhouse, with a simple wrought-iron handrail: The newel post is, of course, cast iron, but the rest of the rail is wrought iron. If you look carefully at the stone steps, you...
Up until 2019, I regularly donated blood. According to the Red Cross Life Blood app, my first donation was in 2012. However, it has been almost six years since my last donation. That changed today 🥳In 2019, an unpleasant experience,...
St Colluthus was a Coptic physician who was tried and executed in 314 AD. This was part of the great persecution of Christians ordered by the emperor Diocletian. The original court record survives, more or less, preserved as a martyrdom...
Spent last night reading a stack of issues of the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT that had piled up over the last few months. As I said in the newsletter the other week (Unphoning), I have been disconnecting from as much of the internet as I...
Joy on the command line.
I feel like building a canoe on Alone rarely pays off. 🔗
I recently finished listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks written by Matt Dinniman and performed by Jeff Hays. I then immediately went back to the beginning of Book 1 and began reading the whole thing over again from the...
Michael explains why exit() can make parallel test workers crash without useful diagnostics, and why verbose flags do not help when the process dies outside PHPUnit's control. The fix is simple: throw an exception instead, so the failure...
Stairs rust in the elements on the UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Purchasing Department building in Dallas. The post Rusty Stairs appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Ross McWhirter spent his career counting things. He and his identical twin brother Norris built the Guinness Book of Records out of a talent for tracking down the fastest, the tallest, the heaviest and the most, and it made both of them...
📸 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 6/? posts in August. A lot of these were of my friends or me at the beach, so I can only share the ones without faces. I wrote a post about some of the things we did here. I used Kodak 400TX for...
it fitsI had my 2nd chemo cocktail this AM but before I left I checked the base and how/if the molding fitted. The base fits well along the front gap free not that it matters much.left sideThis gap is tapered going wide at the front to...
This week, I’m living in a villa on a vineyard about 9km North of Tarragona, on the East coast of Spain. Gotta say, it’s a pretty place to walk the grounds of. A large part of our choice of location for this trip was, of course, the...