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Last year, as I was rewatching the Star Wars movies I decided to write 100 word summaries of them. I managed to complete the following, in this order: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 100 words Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 100...
The Daily Heller celebrates the ninetieth birthday of Ferdinand the bull. Sensitive Ferdinand was introduced to the world in the book The Story of Ferdinand, which was published in 1936 by Viking Books and has been in print ever since....
From time to time, WWDC gives us a glimpse of what’s coming in the next year, like when Apple wanted developers to make sure their iOS apps could run on iPhones of different sizes. As Dan Moren writes, this is one of those times, with...
After mentioning Salvador Dalí in the previous post, here’s the man himself in a UK TV profile from 1973. I wouldn’t usually return to something like this but for years the only copy of Hello Dali! on YouTube was spoiled by having been...
In the early 1900s, pushball had Harvard, the British military, and crowds of thousands in its grip. A six-foot ball, two teams, and thirty years of glorious chaos. The full story.
The effect of AI on PRs has gotten a lot of press. Slop PRs, untested PRs, just the profusion of PRs. Slop bugs, slop security reports, all sorts of slop problems. Definitely a problem. But I would also propose that something else...
In Apple Shortcuts I use “lists” a lot. Especially in my Journaling shortcut and my upcoming new “Clipboard Manager” which I’m using every day. The lists are not very well documented so it’s a question of trial and error to figure out...
For the past year of software consulting I've been using nix to define the development environments. I had been using flakes, but recently I've been using devenv.sh. Devenv is a system on top of nix that makes creating common dev...
Every night I batheIn the light of a billion stars so far awayThat some of them are already no more,And their light only reached me tonight.It also means that someone out thereStill basks in the light of our SunThat was sent to them...
A philosophical system and a practical guide for the cultivation of dramatic genius.
Read the full post at - Sacred Places of a Lifetime by National Geographic Sacred Places of a Lifetime by National Geographic is an excellent coffee table style reference book showcasing some of the great sacred places around the world.