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Our final full day already! 🥲 This has been such a special holiday. We’ve been to more urban Scotland before (Edinburgh), Dundee, Aberdeen (For work) but this Cairngorms trip is the first real time I feel like I’ve experienced rural...
I’ve had the privilege of getting really, really good at two things in my life: developing electronics, and playing bluegrass music. Both have reaped significant personal and monetary rewards for me. (Significantly less of the monetary...
Look at this relic I found up in the storage loft! (I’m doing some in-depth tidying.) After the crash in 2008 (when the Dow Jones went from 13K to 8K) I bought these four books and mounted them into a frame and hung them on the wall. (I...
Cycling through the Bulscampveld forest, we spotted a sign for “Urban Café.” As that’s our demo right there, we diverted.The café is not urban: it’s in the forest. And it’s a “scene” as Lisa says. We arrived five minutes before lunch...
Sun from under a lid of cloud illuminates the western ridge. A hooded warbler just inside the woods’ edge moves into the yard as the sky clears, keeping up his insistent chant for more than an hour.
The Flare team explains how they built end-to-end integration tests for their Laravel package using a real Testbench workbench app, HTTP server, and queue worker. The post also shows how they swapped the sender to write payloads to disk,...
No aims, no goals and no motivation, I'm having a whole lot of fun lately.
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover standout literary writing across the blogosphere, keep pace with a host of anniversaries (including National Biographers Day and the birth of Adrienne Rich), announce Paris in July...
Been watching Common Side Effects 📺. Somehow I’m already mostly done with Season 1. Part sci-fi, part suspense, part drama, dark and appealing.
Daily Drawing 867
Some 45 long years ago today. First Lady Nancy Reagan christening the future USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) at Litton Ingalls’ West Bank Yard, Pascagoula, on Saturday, 16 May 1981. The lead ship of her class and the first warship designed to...