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Released in 1994 by Musica Jazz for ECM’s 25th anniversary, ECM Story surveys the label through a deep sense of affinity. Produced in close collaboration, it gathers European innovators such as Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Louis Sclavis,...
Apologies if this post looks somewhat familiar, as this isn't the first time that it's seen the light of day. I'm re-publishing the article, with the odd tweak here and there, because the last week in July is when one of the world's best...
I didn’t want to buy a trampoline. It wasn’t the money. It was the fact that just about every trampoline I’d seen in somebody’s garden looked like a sad, weather-beaten thing. And I never saw children playing on them. I reasoned that the...
I like infinite games. These are things you do over and over because they are fun and you want to get better at it. You want to get better at it so that you can make the game more fun and want to play it more. The game is the point. But...
a day of pain then the fog clears and there you are
On Tuesday, after the resignation of Jacinta Allan followed by a long Cabinet meeting, Ben Carroll emerged as Premier. Current transport minister Gabrielle Williams is his deputy. Election analyst Antony Green noted that that long-term...
View from the Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Sort of cloudy, but calm. I figured I was ready for another 5K, so I attempted one today and succeeded, woo. Also good: my training status is productive, which pleasantly surprised me, and my BPM was a...
What does it mean when people talk about a "self-asserted" BIMI logo, and should you set one up? That's the topic of my latest Valimail "Ask Al" video.A standard BIMI record does two things. It publishes a link to an SVG file, which is...
Thrilled to celebrate a year of the TBR blog with a live playtest! Last July I caught the mechanical design bug and today you can role play as a mechanically designed bug - specifically a honeybee! Check out the itch page here:...
Hey people! In today’s “Bibiel Hears Things” post, I’d like to feature a song which I have really good memories of. The song itself is great, but what has made it special to me is that I happened to listen to it for the first time during...
This one's a bit of a ramble, but I mean to get it out quick. I want to thank the people who emailed me and wrote in my guestbook regarding my recent post; both supportive and challenging messages have prompted me to think about free...
Today I ran cliffcrawl v0.0 for the very first time at the Ancient Robot Workshop's monthly playtest night. Many thanks to the intrepid playtesters Fred, China, and George. scenario: PolyniaFor the scenario, I bashed together a quick...
From Raymond N. MacKenzie’s LRB review (9 July 2026; archived) of David Coward and William Butcher’s new translation of Jules Verne, Journey to the Moon, some passages about how his publisher and his translators treated him: By the last...
Some of my recent experiments have combined almost every major theme of this blog: I've put a bunch of work into expanding, documenting, and testing the Zippyflash API. This has been useful for creating sets of flashcards based on a...
Hello, loves! I’d like to make the KeyPress code simpler. Here’s something that works. Do we like it? Yes, but we don’t love it. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Here’s the KeyPress code for D: class KeyPress: elif symbol == arcade.key.D:...