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Greetings, programs. Once again, I'm a bit behind on these posts, but I just got back from two weeks of travel and I'm so happy to be home for a while. My last trip was pretty stressful. On the way out, our plane blew a tire (or tires)...
Special functions are special because they’re useful. They can also be shrouded in arcane terminology. These two facts are related. The more widely useful a function is, the more likely it is that the function will be discovered...
Welcome to Libby. As we pulled into Libby, the sign welcoming us to town was fantastic. Unlike the other small towns we'd been through in northwestern Montana, there was no WordArt here. Surely a sign doesn't say much about the people in...
Abandoned Iron Truss Bridge, Denton TX. I've been thinking about love, lately. What it really means. I used to think love meant you'd do anything for the other person, but now that I'm older, I realize that's not love, that's...
A useful agent trace must show what it missed, not just what it recorded.
Pretty sure it’s time for bifocals or progressive lenses and I’m just about due for my annual eye exam, so this should work out well. 👓
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 39-41: Even at the lowest sea levels of the last ice age, there was deep water between Bali on the edge of the Sunda...
Northolt is a town in the London Borough of Ealing, west London, with a population of around 30,000 people. The first recorded evidence of a human settlement here is from 872 where an Anglo Saxon place is recorded as Nord Healum. It then...
here it comes again every single day the pavement whispers screams of the seed of the fall other things said Fadd9 Yesterday :: Sunday, 23rd August 2026
Some rapid prototyping to help us explore our next big service iteration. I got to do some quick and dirty prototyping work this week. We want to add invites and reminders to the service. This will initially be used to send text messages...
I used to frequent India with my family, especially South India when I was younger. I became quite accustomed to the sights and sounds of busy cities like Chennai. But having not been in India for more than a decade, it is taking me a...
Coding/Tech I've been doing more fixing up of my CI pipelines and I'm happy with most of them. There are 3 outstanding things: the rust crossbuild (AHRHRAHHRAHRHAR), auto release notes (need to try git cliff), and how I manage my Helm...
I’ve been reading very little this week and reconciling with nature instead—swimming, cycling, and applying large quantities of sunscreen—but I’m here to share 3 announcements and 5 recent favorites:Everyone wrote about taste this year,...
This was a very lucky chance find the other day. I'd previously played the second album on here, but that one's available on Youtube and I wasnt sure I'd ever stumble into the first. Well, lo and behold, I happen to find a physical CD...