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From Seventy Flavours, Vanilla by Clark MacLeod:The actual highlight of the day was a visit to Pictou, a town I’ve driven past many times and always wondered about. There isn’t much to see — an expensive leather goods shop, the usual...
In the past couple of months, I’ve been pondering my life choices more. I’m what Samantha from Sex and the City always resisted becoming: Not merely someone who changes partners like underwear, but someone who changes groups of partners...
Leica M11-P · Summicron-M 35 f/2 ASPH. · 35 mm · f/3.4 · 1/125 s · ISO 250
Steve King builds a real order fulfilment flow to show how a workflow engine handles long-running processes in Laravel. The post covers steps, signals, retries, branching, human approval, compensation, and the surrounding tooling in one...
Die Stiftung Zollverein zeigt noch bis zum 2. August 2026 in der Mischanlage der Kokerei Zollverein die Ausstellung bau1haus – die Moderne von Essen bis Asmara. Rund 300 Fotografien des in Berlin geborenen Fotografen Jean Molitor, in...
I think of myself as a reasonable man of the world, one with a certain amount of cynicism and weariness about what goes on. Then something happens and I get a reminder that no, I am in fact a tiny naïf who probably shouldn't be allowed...
(July)replying to the Absurd Pirate's post. The Absurd Pirate writes: I think of a friend who moves away, and that you only talk to online anymore. By all intents and purposes, they're now mostly an "online" friend. But does that really...
We’re used to thinking about how Dostoevsky read Pushkin, or Balzac, or Sand. But we hear less about what he made of Gan or Panaeva as writers. You can repeat this pattern for generations of nineteenth-century Russian writers. Russian...
Dear Chief Justice Surya Kant: I commend you for your discovery this week that time is finite. On Wednesday, when a petitioner confronted you with video evidence of police brutality on July 20 against the students protesting peacefully...
Today we celebrate the life of James, one of the 12 disciples, the first to be martyred (Acts 12:1 tells us by Herod's sword). He's known as James the Greater (to distinguish him from James the Lesser, James the son of Alphaeus). He's...
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Guy Fawkes said that, and so did Esmerelda, Gustavo’s daughter, when I went to visit him at the hospital. Gustavo is my landlord of seven years, owner of the place I landed once the scripts...
Blog is on a summer break until Sep 2. I plan on enjoying my time off and figuring out next steps in my personal and professional life. Wishing everyone peace of mind and good vibes.
Horse laugh. Near Riceville, McMinn County, Tennessee. A few weeks ago I took on the issue of "photographs" created by AI. Are they photographs, or are they not? My position is that they are not photographs. As I wrote before, the...
Well, look at who's on the cover. Groucho! And he's either pulling our leg, or he's undergone something of a change during the six years he's been doing You Bet Your Life on radio and television. Oh, he's still the wisecracking...
“Roughly one in two smartphones sold in Africa is made by a company most buyers have never heard of. Transsion, a Shenzhen-based manufacturer, owns the Tecno, Infinix and Itel brands, which together accounted for about 48% of African...