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“Drawshaving at shaving horse”Don Weber This is the second post in a three-post series featuring images from a carousel of Don Weber’s slides, which he found while working with us on a profile for The Stick Chair Journal No. 4. These...
Everyone seems to be looking into their own niche and isolating more and more. They go into the deepest rabbit holes trying to diagnose why the thing they love the most is not in its prime anymore.
This piece was originally published in Waging Nonviolence.Last September I made a short video that was by far the most viral piece of content I’ve ever put out.I can’t trace all the views, but at least a million people watched it across...
Helen of Nowhere is the fifth book on this year's Booker Prize longlist that I've read, and it's easily the strangest reading experience I've had this year. I read it twice within about twelve hours. Once on my Kindle one evening,...
I did not go back to the Asheville Quilt show yesterday, so I was so happy this morning that a quilting friend of mine made a Facebook post that included this picture of the quilt that captured my imagination, but I neglected to get a...
Legally Distinct Fantasy China.
After writing one article on how to speed up Unreal’s editor launch by not spawning 38000 tooltips and one on how to speed it up further by not opening 5500 files and getting the described fixes merged in for 5.8, I sort of stopped...
I have wanted to write a roguelike since roughly the first time ADOM killed me in the Small Cave. A few months ago I finally started one, mostly because I wanted a Rust project that was large enough to be interesting and small enough to...
This article shows how to build an Autonomous AI Agent with SqlFlow and Java.
I was recently asked to review a paper that piqued my curiosity. From the abstract it sounded as if it was a secondary analysis of a dataset that I had deposited in a repository. But the described data didn't quite match what was in the...
I really feel like writing some words about my experience managing this website after Zola release 0.23 and the next steps from here. This blog is mostly going to be a critique of Zola static site generator and how my opinion has changed...
This week wasn't particularly eventful. On Thursday, I rewatched Brand New Day, but on the PCX screen, this time. Wow, this year is shaping up to be a year of movies for me. I mean, the amount of the movies I’ve watched this year alone....
How do I comfort someone? Is that even the thing I should do in this situation? I can listen, and of course I did, but that was because I didn't know what else to do. I guess this is in fair part because I haven't known them long enough...