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People are listing their top ten science fiction films to "celebrate" Star Wars Day. I "celebrated" Star Wars Day in my own way yesterday, but here's my list anyway. I'm discounting superhero films in general, although some of them...
There are a lot of folks out there tell you that what matters now is 'taste'. Some loosely defined term that boils down to "know if the output is slop or not slop". While it is probably a useful skill, I'd argue the thing
To mark the publication of Issue 29, we bring you an extract from John Wetherell's piece about finding affinity with animals through the prism of homelessness, accompanied by Maeve Fellerhoff's image 'Gloves'. The post Boundary? What...
A short glance at the few steps I’ve taken to optimize images on this website, without compromising on build time.
Ever since Cameron Beccario’s Earth.nullschool.net animated wind map was first released back in 2014 the 'particle flow map' aesthetic has become the gold standard for meteorological visualization. There is something inherently...
The seventh story in my new collection, Thin Places in Hard Concrete, is just as long as it needs to be. Which is another way of saying it’s very short – just shy of a thousand words. I’ve mentioned before how inspiring I found ‘24 Rules...
One Kamal accessory for encrypted Rails database and Active Storage backups, restore drills, and redacted evidence for security reviews.
UK Games Expo is coming up again. I've been going to it since 2009, when it was in the Masonic Hall (now I think demolished) and very much smaller, and I think I have some potentially useful suggestions on how to get the most out of it.
There was a big anniversary at the Greater Cincinnati Water Works this year, but it does not appear that anyone celebrated the occasion. Fifty years ago, on March 15, 1976, after more than 25 years of controversy, the million-plus...
I’ve spotted this in a couple of places over the last few weeks and find it an interesting approach. You post a bit of JSON script on your site, and then someone can ‘vouch’ that you are human if they have the required browser...