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An interesting idea; start your work surface with nothing: The next time you begin your workday, try this: clear your work surface completely. Close all browser tabs. Create a fresh page in your notebook. Open only the one file you need.
It’s been a fruitful week for synthwave fans who love well-crafted pop songs from talented Scots fowk. A week after we got a new FM-84 track, out comes the inimitable Michael Oakley with the massive single “World of Promises” (with...
I wasn’t feeling inspired by this week’s topic, since the only answers that leaped to mind for deceased authors I wish were still writing were Tolkien and Le Guin. I […]
Over the years, I’ve learned that being a Technical Program Manager (TPM) is a bit of a strange hybrid role. You’re expected to understand the tech well enough to contribute meaningfully, but you’re not the one writing and deploying the...
One of the recurring hobbies of the programming community is to self-righteously self-flagellate about how we don’t do Real EngineeringTM like those other engineering disciplines do, with their blueprints, and licensing processes for...
“Like a snail I have lived in a small shell, which I found snug and comfortable, yet longed to desert often to inhale outside atmosphere. Each time I thrust my tentacle out, I felt it touching something unfriendly and drew it back to the...
Oh we here at Set Side B try to make all kinds of posts, but among my personal favorite kind are finding some deep dive into some aspect of a game’s inner workings and presenting it. These days, for multiple reasons (such as ease of...
Please click on this link for my Substack reviews of: Guerlain L’Homme Ideal Cologne Forte; Diptyque Orpheon eau de toilette and new candles; Marc-Antoine Barrois B87.135; Balmain Rose De Soie; Miller Harris Tea Tonique eau de parfum and...
Yup. More snow. At least the rhubarb (second picture) can handle it. The garlic seems fine, too. I think my winter sown beds are toast. I’m skipping the dump run today. On another note, I got the new topical painkiller, diclofenac,...
If I were asked to give a young man or woman a bit of advice taking only a minute or two, it would run as follows: Try to regard your states of minds as visits to places. Now I am in the angry place or the melancholy place or the...
There’s been talk going around about a new protocol, humans.json - not to be confused with humans.txt, of course. The purpose of this protocol, as I understand it, is to provide yet another way for us on the open web to differentiate...