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I'm flying back to Paros in two days, but this time with all the family and their partners.
I had the lovely privilege of playing in spuk's Ocean D&D game yesterday, and here is a quick recap and thoughts on it. Featuring Blubbub - Level 1 Octopod (Me!) Magnifico - Level 1 Hermit Crab (Weird Writer) Lots-of-little-stripes -...
The aim of the game here is to use as few macros as possible. I could just have one macro that parses an SQL query, but the fun here is to use the Crystal type system to check the query for us, similar to how I used the type system to...
Couch to 5K is finished, two months after I started it, and the Bellahouston 10K is a week on Saturday. Which leaves one taper week, one long run that matters, and a plan for running further than I ever have. Nine minutes running, one...
From Thomas Tuchel's dissatisfaction with a winning England performance to a man running in the 35-degree Austin sun – this month's Field Notes is about doing things properly, even in difficult conditions. | Read full post >>
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got shipwrecks, dive bars and Japan. First, by way of news, there’s a glimmer of hope in the latest stats from SIBA on UK brewery numbers: The...
This is the initial draft for uNUX (unsungNovelty user experience) design system. This has been an idea that’s been in my head for a while. The below page as of now is just theoretical version of what I want to achieve with this design...
In a large box of slides, I found this group of photos from a defunct amusement park in Ocala, Florida - Six Gun Territory! There isn't a lot of information about this park on Wikipedia. The short version says Six Gun Territory was a...
Sorely disappointed that the canon that dogs in the Swan Boy universe are in fact just small humans, as established in the third comic: Branson Reese wrote: Swan Boy Texts His Mom ...has now been definitively disavowed in today's comic:...
the secret is to do something as soon as you get a spark of inspiration. i have been ruminating over how to promote my business online for a year or so, i've got so many great ideas but the problem is that i do not actually do anything....
The Corgi Café promises a 24-hour, laptop-friendly space for the grindset crowd in a city that's never been able to match Silicon Valley's startup buzz. I dropped by to see if London's tech scene has finally arrived. | Read full post >>
A permutation generation algorithm in the work of 13th-century Kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (\(\mathbb{M}\), via). The resulting permutation sequence is the one you get by reversing suffixes whose lengths form the sequence \((((2, 3)^2, 2,...
When I posted about my zine I mentioned being surprised that there wasn't any tools for showing zines online like a web component or similar. Turns out there is, web search is just shit now. Andy pointed me to Zine Machine which is a...
I used to be scared about climate change; but then I read Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario. Now I think that the world will be lucky to reach four degrees. Annie Jacobsen’s nuclear war book described what might happen after a...