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I drink a lot of coffee and I keep forgetting which bags were worth reordering. So here's the list. I'll keep adding to it as I work through more roasters. Ratings are out of 10 and entirely my own taste. Blanks are ones I've tried but...
In the final comment on my most recent CT post, John Q strategically grants a premise from an earlier comment by poster Matt: John Q grants that “it’s perfectly plausible that the number of US golfers exceeds the population of...
I'm at JSM, which is always a fantastically rich event. One is awed by the variety and breadth of topics over hundreds of sessions of talks. Each year, someone will mention a pet peeve. The other day, a speaker explains why...
In a flash, I was 16 or 17, at my friend’s house round the back of King’s Cross, and trying to work out what in the world to do next. A link from Gwern had sent me to The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds, in which David Hill took his...
I've been deleting images from Photos trying to recover some disk space. That inevitably brings to mind various cameras I've owned and enjoyed. For reasons that are unclear to me, I've always just enjoyed the jpeg renderings from the...
🖼️ I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 4/hopefully 31 posts in August, about a visit to an art exhibit I started in June 2026. Back in June I got the train to Cardiff to visit Strange Beauties, an exhibit of the artist Gwen John's work...
Last year, I began a journey of watching Kung Fu, the 70's television show starring David Carradine. I'm not a huge fan of binge watching, especially a show like this that is so slow, but I'm working my way towards the end of the series...
Slightly bent tooth on my Pivot Trail 429. I like troubleshooting things. It’s basically what I do at my day job, and I’m kinda good at it. Sometimes I’m asked for illustrations of how I troubleshoot stuff, so I’m sharing this example of...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Craig Mod writes about hearing Matthew Dicks speak about storytelling:The other takeaway from Matthew’s talk was people tend to “report” stories rather than tell them. So they report what happened and what was said, but they leave out...
Brent surveys the most notable additions coming in PHP 8.6, including partial function application, the new polling API, readonly property defaults, and several smaller improvements and deprecations. Read more
This may be a fairly niche topic for those in the UK, but it’s a hack I now use daily so I thought I’d share. Unlike many other radio stations, it’s not possible to ask your Apple HomePod to directly play radio from the BBC. If I say,...
I was listening to a podcast featuring the therapist Jerry Wise who had these parting words: Remember that you can't solve the problem using the thinking and emotional dynamics that have caused it. So you cannot break out of the box by...
When you have a lot of browser tabs open it can be very hard to tell them apart, especially if they're from the same site: Since monitors are wide and websites are tall, we should very clearly put tabs on the side in a vertical stack. I...
It’s been a year since I wrote about New York City and two years since I’ve visited. Who knows when I will be back. I do know I still love to read about it, which isn’t hard, since it’s often in the news. So here’s my annual post on NYC,...