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In times of great distress, I don't feel like doing art at all. However, experience informs me that this is yet another trick the brain plays on me. If I start, I'll get into the flow and actually feel better. So far, I have only missed...
Twenty-three-year-old Edwin Herbert Hall discovered the Hall effect in 1879, while working on his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. He found that when electric current flows through a conductor in a perpendicular magnetic field, a...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Like many Emacs users, I’m a heavy Org mode user. Some time ago I decided that I need a way to access at least some of my Org files on my (Android) phone.
Monday, Monday, Monday… so, as usual, I’ve got a Fantasy with Friends post for you! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is on anachronisms in fantasy: Do anachronisms in fantasy...
Taking things a bit easier today, after the crash. Pottering around the house and looking the Eleventy docs right from the beginning (rather than trying to reverse engineer). This was helpful. One of the things we did yesterday that I...
I've seen a lot of posts here and elsewhere that have this little badge at the bottom: At first I found it kinda cute and made a mental note to add it to my template, but after a very short time I changed my mind. I don't want to do it....
Book title: Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences Author: Neal Allen Rating: 4.25/5 I don't know what I prefer: Neal's writing rules (which I added to my editing tool), or Anne's complaints and pushback on her husband's rules....
I'm in a mood and that mood is hot air balloons, steampunk time travel, The Mummy (1999, obviously), discovering Atlantis, mild peril, clunky submersibles, lost jungle temples, cursed relics, accident-prone botanists and their...
I was going through my old files on my external and found some old digicam pics from 2006. At first my sister and I had to share a desktop computer, but eventually my dad got me my own since my sister took over the shared computer (for...
This was a super interesting and SUPER LONG week. I learned a lot about this two-faced world, not just from work, but also from a friend, and finally a refurbished fridge dealer (you already know where this is going 😂). I finally moved...
I've been writing versions of this guide since 2008. The most recent big one was the 2019 update, which covers the full tactical ladder—education, building a lab, projects, bug bounties, certifications, conferences, networking—and I...
This case naturally raises some questions that Musk might choose to pose to Grok, like: “Grok, is it bad when TOS formation fails?” “Grok, what are best practices for TOS formation and does our current TOS formation process satisfy...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. From what I’ve read about this week’s challenge, it seems that this was originally aimed at giving appreciation for games developers. Well,...
Every time Claude Code uses the Chrome MCP it adds a new tab group, but it never cleans up after itself. This was of course already reported many times in the 5000+ open issues Claude’s GitHub.