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Everyone is creating a new programming language these days, often one that's "like Go but with more features" or "like Rust but simpler". Solod, a systems language for C and Go developers, might look like one of those languages, but it...
Sublime Text is still around. The last stable build was released May 2025. There are dev builds as recent as July this year. I don’t know who develops it and I don’t care. All I know is that I can place my text cursor and read the...
Sendable is a protocol in Swift that indicates a type is safe to share across concurrency domains like actors, tasks, and threads. When a type conforms to Sendable, the compiler verifies at compile time that passing it around can’t...
Although Edmund Mortimer was only seven years old when Henry Bolingbroke usurped the throne from Richard II, he was a potential political threat. He was Richard's heir-presumptive, and his lineage gave him a greater right to the throne...
Before you go on a grueling ten-mile hike, try a three-miler. Before you run a marathon, it helps to have a few ten-mile runs in your legs. Before you ship a risky change, ship something smaller and safer first. And before you transfer a...
As a follow-up to the PSPunk story I shared recently, I wanted to post the full, unedited Q&A with the person behind the site.The published article was built from this conversation, but the interview itself ended up being the bones of...
Yes, these will be coming to Nashville in October! Stay tuned for details. They will be at the On the Paper Trail Live event, and depending on when we get the machines and have to send them back, in the store. Pen Shows 101 (and...
maybe i should try to play more sandbox games, but they are so intimidating to me. there is way too much freedom - you are given all the tools you want and you can do whatever you want for the rest of your time. many people seem to...
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Elasticsearch isn’t your AI search problem. You are. Why data governance and evaluation matter when building search systems, and especially when doing Retrieval Augnented...
I am still in the WhatsApp group chat for my Mum’s old road and now I have banned myself from TikTok, this is my new favourite scrolling location. People talk for months about missed bin collections. They swap seed packets and dining...
There's a certain strain of commentator who is just sure that nothing can ever get better. In amongst all the hullaballoo about the UK potentially banning under 16s from social media0, I saw a prominent historian say: i assume banning...
“Do people like us read too many books about people like us? “ From The Lisbon Traviata, Act II. Thank you to Tim Dunn especially and please check out the show if you are in the hudson valley. link here
Two weeks ago, I got a bacterial infection on one of my fingers (paronychia—don’t google it). I ignored the problem for a couple of days, then when it started to become unignorable, I finally looked for a dermatologist at 7pm on...
Frederick Cayley Robinson was an Engliah painter and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He carried some of the style and approaches from the late 19th into the early 20th, even as they were fading in...