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Bridgy Fed is roughly 20k lines of code. If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own – granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc – it’s 51kloc total. (Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.) I’m not really proud of this, or...
Three and a half millennia ago, the people of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization revered the double-headed ax, which is conventionally known today as a labrys (plural form: labryes), as a religious symbol associated with powerful...
I've been practicing photography seriously for about as long as it takes to get a fine art degree. Looking back, I can see real growth in how I approach editing. These two versions of the same photo illustrate the shift: In the original...
DC has posted several preview pages from next week’s issue of Absolute Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features Wally and Linda back at the Mission and recovering after the events of last issue…but...
ThanKs to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for Their Sponsorship of This Post, via The Magic of Patreon. ***Who remembers Glenn Medeiros?I certainly do.And July 1988 was doing its best to make sure it stayed that way, as he spent almost...
Having both very much enjoyed the dam at Thompson Falls more than I thought we would - and having already completed two stages of the Montana Backcountry Discovery Route over the course of the day - we had no aspirations to make it deep...
Just to the right of the last set of bookshelves we discussed is a stack of books that I probably would have put on one of its shelves, if only there was room to do so. So instead, they are just kind of piled up alongside it, waiting for...
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Quick update. We celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary last week, first with one night of camping and then a planned night in Frankenmuth, Michigan. We survived the campout ok, but on our anniversary night I accidentally shaved off a...
Simon Goland describes an experience of travel that seems very common these days: When my parents were finally able to travel and start seeing the world, their travel looked like checking off boxes of countries, places, cities, and...
Jason Arday, the disgraced academic who committed suicide last week after he was exposed as a total fraud, did not die in vain. The case of Jason Arday has not only exposed the intellectual rot in the field of sociology; it has also...
I am a big believer in volunteering and charity work. It opens up opportunities and a good training ground to develop new skills. In fact, I have made friends who are sincere with a good heart. Through volunteering, the experience...
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions (a slogan from a manufacturer of breakfast cereals) was panned by the New York Times but then spent 56 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. Although Vonnegut himself gave the...
If you've read American Gods, this is really very similar, albeit focused more on action and less on mythology. Same rascally male character with an uncertain origin discovering a world of gods, monsters and that they're kind of the same...
Gebackener Joghurt mit Himbeeren ist super einfach und schmeckt unglaublich gut! Besonders schnell gelingt er im Airfryer. Direkt zum Rezept Manche Rezepte sind so gut, dass man sie teilen muss, auch wenn sie nicht auf dem eigenen Mist...