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Alexander at the Hyphasis, 326 BCE - the finest motivational talk in antiquity, and why it bounced Alexander the Great never lost a battle. He lost exactly one argument, to exhausted men standing in the rain, and the speech he gave to...
As my interest in the micro-wildlife on our terrace has grown I have found myself wanting to know more exactly what I am looking at. I don’t have any way to catch things, but I do have a macro lens on my camera. Problem is, the focal...
Book 24 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Comfortably ahead with my reading. My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. Some books have an...
Excellent temperatures all week, low-mid 20s, lovely but not too hot, so it was ideal for… spending more time sat at the computer than I have for weeks. I did write some new code, which is a rare occurrence. Unfortunately I can’t use it...
margarete petersen and the othrysian tarot i brought these out a week early so this is actually a two-weeks-in report. margarete petersen... it's like a cross between the ritual tarot and the thoth? it has the elemental energy of the...
Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great...
Just a feverish musing. Most people are familiar with the idea that good UI/UX makes the user dumber. There was a headline floating around a while ago about engineering students not knowing what a folder was on their PC. I've been...
The headline news yesterday (8/8) was about a Jetstar plane nearly colliding with a Qatar Airlines plane at the Sydney airport. But what I heard from my tv was about, omigod, a Death Star plane. Death stalks Sydney. Well, jet and death...
Two articles have popped up in the wake of Cyan's fandom-rattling pitch reel for Anglerfish. To recap from last week: Anglerfish was the Myst-universe project that Cyan started prototyping in 2024. They teased it as "PREFALL" because it...
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At the end of my post on how not to calculate cosine I said that the first step in calculating cosine, particularly cosine of a large number, would be to do range reduction. This post will present a simple range reduction method by Cody...
MarkText — The Markdown editor that gets out of your way is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. I grabbed the Flatpak today and first impressions are good. Worth a look. (h/t Alex) ✍️ Reply by email
I used Claude and Codex to get to a working version of Persimmon, my technically-in-development-but-really-just-abandoned C library for persistent immutable data structures.
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Here we go.There's mixed news for our battling barbarian, this month.The possibly bad news is that the demon inhabiting the body...
I’ve managed to make a small AppleScript that gets the selection from Safari & a link and posts it to RSS.chat. I already had a script that copied the selection and put it and a link on the clipboard ready to paste into a blog post. I’d...