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I picked this book up because I was going to see Paris and London soon, and thought that this would be a good primer to the milleu I was…
A week ago, I moaned that my Fastgate router kept re-assigning IPs after a power failure, which made my Pi-hole less than wonderful. I could not see how to force the router to assign a specific IP. Many kind people replied with...
This Maine-inspired spring dinner pairs golden seared halibut with seasonal fiddleheads, lemon-caper butter sauce, pea shoots, and fresh herbs. From Devin Finigan’s A Kitchen on Goose Cove, it celebrates the short window when local Maine...
Carolyn, my chief of staff, sat on the couch as I ran into my office. The Palo Alto building wasn’t built for tech; it’d been adapted to support the use case over the years. My office was in the center of the building, which had an inner...
After most of the other birds have run out of steam, a brown thrasher appears at the woods’ edge, singing loudly and repeating each phrase as he does, like a cheerleader for the sun just clearing the treetops.
Jakub shares a collection of small interface details that compound into a much better user experience, from text wrapping and concentric radius math to interruptible animations and optical alignment. It is packed with practical UI polish...
The internet was built on someone wanting to share something, we should share more
Sebastian explains why guestbooks are nice: But sitting down and working your butt off for several minutes to create a tiny, silly drawing on a screen that’s way too small in an interface that’s way too cramped, that’s the kind of...
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The second open-access monograph in the Publications of the Philological Society has just come out, in two volumes: Gary D. German, Benjamin Franklin: Orthoepist and Phonetician — Vol. 1: Language, Literacy and Social Mobility in...
Markov numbers are integer solutions to x² + y² + z² = 3xyz. The Wikipedia article on Markov numbers mentions that Don Zagier studied Markov numbers by looking the approximating equation x² + y² + z² = 3xyz + 4/9 which is equivalent to...
Here’s a teaser. I bought a box of records recently. A single box of records. Nineteen records in all. Here is a picture of the [...] The post Another Adventure in Jazz Collecting first appeared on jazzcollector.com.
May 19, 2026
It would be the same to me if you and I walked down the street and went a different way. In fact, it would be all the same to me if you and I walked away and came back to the same places we used to meet and feel like total strangers.Yes....