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After a multi-year detour wading through the quagmire of bloatware that is modern software I’m back to coding in Sublime Text.I am finally at peace! Do you know how relaxing it is without the daily “update available” and “view release...
Andrew Kemp: Between 150 and 500 million people may have lived and died in Australia before 1788 (British colonisation). I always enjoy these kinds of posts. ↬ ∙ Tagged in Trivia.
Wow, 30 years. Part of that seems to have whizzed by, and it has been a long while since I last played Quake. I always hated the hellish look, but the technology was irresistible–and looking back, it is pretty amazing how much it shaped...
Alison Weir has written so many novels about the Tudors it’s surprising that she’s still able to find different angles and perspectives to write from. In The Boleyn Secret, she tells the story of Kate Carey, daughter of Anne Boleyn’s...
Hey there. Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week: #1. Here’s an alternative to avoid cognitive debt (5min). #2. With AI, almost everyone is euphoric but nothing works (4min). #3. “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is...
If you are one that has been clamoring for IndyCar races every weekend, then this is your time. Beginning with this weekend, The NTT IndyCar Series will have six races over the next five weekends. Exactly one-third of the IndyCar season...
Spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day -- it's very good, I've seen it twice! -- follow. In the film, a significant moment hinges on Hulk recognising Peter Parker, and I've been trying to work out how that could be, barring any...
Things change on the old roads all the time, so it’s good to revisit them from time to time. Not long ago I went out to see a few key places on the National Road in western Indiana. One of them was the Walker Motel, in Putnam County....
Every once in awhile, I fall into a deep, existential panic over the concept of moral luck.Moral luck, per the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "occurs when an agent can be correctly treated as an object of moral judgment despite the...
yesterday i sent my first ever postcrossing little postcard and letter! it felt like such a rush, to be honest. last weekend i've been just sitting there, missing the feeling of writing a letter, when i remembered postcrossing exists,...
Erling Haaland, the cool Norwegian soccer player, has a pretty fun and slightly unhinged social media presence. During the World Cup, a clip from his Instagram account resurfaced where he claimed, “Just raw dogged a 7 hour flight. No...
It’s been a while since I’ve celebrated the glory of real names that sound as if they were invented by Thomas Pynchon or Kurt Vonnegut, and then two come along at once. Please be upstanding for Manila-based crimebuster Winston Casio and...
I love climbing and bouldering. Like, an inordinate amount, and it would not be a stretch to say that climbing has changed my life for the better since beginning this journey in 2019, as my climbing addicted friend and I walked the...
I love guest posts about people’s relationships to their bodies, especially when those bodies are changing and there’s this burst of new discovery. Even better when those discoveries are hot and full of joy. So I’m especially delighted...
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