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#OurWorldIsAwesome – Edition 24 | Context on this series – we live in a beautiful world and National Parks are akin to the crown jewels of this planet. These landscapes remind us of the fine balance and complexity woven into the fabric...
If you could taste a summer meadow in bloom, it would taste like wild clover tea. One of my favorite foraged drinks to make in the summer, it's delicate, refreshing, and delicious hot or served over ice. The artistry here is...
When Henry Bolingbroke decided in 1399 to return from exile in France and force his cousin, King Richard II, to return to him the properties and titles of Henry's deceased father, John of Gaunt, he gained so much popular support that his...
My "New Model" mandolin (as I'm currently calling it) has now been completed. I'm incredibly happy with the final outcome and looking forward to building the next one! Here is the last video in the series and below that a whole batch of...
There's so little we in the global north can do to aid the historical struggle of Palestine. We can try to sabotage the military-industrial machinery, although that risks serious legal repercussions. We can send money, although many...
📍 Diana Memorial Playground Opening weekend after it being closed for renewal. So good! Location: London, Greater London, United KingdomComment by email
My parents were young when I was born, only 17, but despite the relatively small time gap, we are from distinctly different generations. They've been divorced since the 70s, so their needs and circumstances, while similar, are still...
No image can replace the intuition [of being], but many diverse images, borrowed from very different orders of things, may, by the convergence of their action, direct consciousness to the precise point where there is a certain intuition...
As is tradition when I take my holidays, I spend quite sometime configuring the machines around the apartment. Usually this is followed up with some homelab experiments I give up on in a few days. I thought I'd write some things about...
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Apparently I write like a machine. I’m 71. That’s not an excuse. It’s the explanation. In the 1960s I attended a grammar school in Wales, where spelling and grammar were, quite literally, beaten into you. You learned to write correctly...
By Devin MacKayTHorium 90 PrductionsOSR/ShadowdarkLevel 1 People in the poorer, more crowded neighbourhoods of the City of Copven are getting sick. Disease is spreading and swarms of biting and stinging insects have been reported...
If you’ve used CakePHP for any length of time, you’ve probably shipped apps with friendsofcake/bootstrap-ui — the plugin that makes $this->Form->control() output Bootstrap markup without a single hand-written class. It’s been a workhorse...
What I've been up to on RAVS core and RAVS plus. Work I think I've mentioned before, but I'm supporting 2 teams in my new contract. RAVS (record a vaccination service) is made up of the core team and the plus team. It's stretching me,...
I have a problem. Or, rather, I have two problems: I have been spending far too much time messing about with AI instead of reading. I end up zoning out in front of YouTube and, even with serious attempts at curating my feed, I spend far...