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We usually talk about engineering like it's a technical discipline. We focus on the technical aspects — algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, the right partition key, etc. It's not wrong to think about it this way, but...
# The kindness of strangersYesterday, we went out on one of our usual Sunday drives. After stopping off for a few bits and some lunch, I wanted to take Sal up to Surprise View — a beauty spot with views over the whole of Derwentwater in...
Worthy Read is an ongoing series here at the blog where I link out to a piece I think is worth your valuable time. Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: “Zuckerberg suggests that using an AI to assist me in these tasks will let me accomplish...
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Simon Carter, Keeper of Collections at St Paul’s In a hidden chamber within the roof of St Paul’s sits Christopher Wren’s 1:25 model of the cathedral, looking for all the world like the...
got to check out the new stations for the SkylineThis was the one at Middle Street, it is called Kahauiki Thought there were more riders especially with bicycles than when the rail first started runningThis is the bus station at Middle...
Movies Double Danger (1938) D: Lew Landers. S: Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Donald Meek, Cecil Kellaway, Samuel S. Hinds. Inoffensive but mostly charmless B picture about police commissioner Hinds inviting his two prime suspects for...
other things said licorice Yesterday :: Monday, 10th August 2026
When I was working full time, I would have this burst of motivation and energy overtake me and often on days when I was really busy with work so I couldn’t get away to work on my own projects. Of course, after awhile, the energy would...
I’ve long known about techniques for giving good feedback. But it hadn’t occurred to be that knowing how to receive feedback matters too — and that the more you know about giving feedback might make you worse at receiving it. Why? As...
The other day I was talking with someone about the OG Image series and which ones were still around. The subject came up in regard to, "The Savage Dragon," and, "Spawn." We mentioned how there was also Rob Liefeld with his, "Youngblood,"...
The Blog's New York-based roving reporter Brian Berke, seriously anticipating Rack Toy Month, sent these shelfies, back at the start of January, although he was probably aiming at the novelty-post element of the Christmas season, but for...
Eternity and a Year gathers music from ECM’s 2002 production year, the label’s 33rd, when more than 40 recordings appeared. The double album forms a two-way mirror. Disc 1 returns the listener’s altered image; Disc 2 stands behind the...
lingthusiasm:Bonus 114: How poetry reveals the structure of languages | LingthusiasmRoses are redViolets are blueEnglish poems are stress-basedThis is not a haikuIn this bonus episode, Gretchen and Lauren get enthusiastic about how the...
“While he was still a long way off,” from the parable of the Prodigal Son, is one of my favorite minor phrases in the Bible. What’s yours?
Detail of a grain elevator in Downtown Salina, Kansas. The post Silo Gap appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.