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Review yesterday, giveaway today! I enjoyed the Uni Kuru Toga Metal in Orange, but it won’t be my primary Kuru Toga, so let’s give it away! This is my review model Uni Ku...
Have you heard of the Croquembouche [CROCK-you-EAM-butchy]? It's a French thing.Well, if not, here's what it's supposed to look like: ...
We needed the insight and confidentiality to protect our users, but now that anyone can get the same results from LLM?
There’s the more modern Shanghai, beautiful lanes full of expensive yoga studios or artisan coffee shops, lined with the London Plane Tree (法国梧桐) and the Wukang Mansion (武康大楼), and renovated parks like the North Bund (北外滩) and West Bund (西岸). There’s also the Shanghai as the international metropolis and a symbol of China’s rising economic […] The post Cake and Timepieces appeared first on Jaap Grolleman.
For no particularly good reason, here, have some pictures of flowers and plants from around my house that I’ve taken in the last couple of days, which I then photoedited to look dramatic and possibly gothy. In order: Dahlia, Gooseneck Loosestrife, Sempervivum, Day Lily, and a bunch of peaches which now look like alien eggs. […]
America, I need to address you like this again, hopeful and hopeless and frustrated with those who wave their fist and scream for justice and anarchy or for whatever else comes in-between. I see them often too, those who call themselves the political justice warriors, and I see how they scream for our government to do […]
23 June 2026 Halfway into the 2026 Peregrine Season I thought our region would have lower than usual nesting success because we had fewer active sites than last year. But peregrines always surprise me. This month observers found fledglings at two bridges that weren’t on the list: 62nd Street Bridge and the Rt. 40 Bridge … Continue reading Peregrines Surprise Me: Success at 2 Bridges! →
Inland, they have a red warning for heat up to 40°C. We only have an amber warning. It’s 24°C where I am.
"The Road Goes On Forever" by Robert Earl Keen Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Describe the perfect song for a road trip and why it works. - The Road Goes on Forever by Robert Earl Keen The song is basically Texas outlaw mythology compressed into four minutes. Sonny and Sherry are not heroes in any moral sense, but Keen writes them with enough speed, grit, and sympathy that I just lean into it. It is kin to “Pancho and Lefty,” “Me and...
Open source web application for learning to play piano that listens to your MIDI instrument input while you play to songs displayed as sheet music or falling notes, both with extra notation to help beginners such as named notes (alphabetical and fixed do) and colors (Settings icon on top-right → Display → Visualizer ). You can also free play, choosing different instruments, and record your own performance into a MIDI file to use later in your DAW, or load custom ones.
This section of a great interview with Magic Tuber Stringband in the June 2026 copy of The Wire really struck me. It relates to the influence band member Courtney Werner’s field recording work on a former nuclear weapons production site in South Carolina had on the band’s Heavy Water album. “Werner’s field recordings appear on The post Field Recordings & Magic Tuber Stringband appeared first on the lost byway.
In April, Jonathan Pike, a professor of philosophy at Open University, submitted a formal complaint about the appointment of his colleague, professor of philosophy Sophie Grace Chappell, a trans woman, to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 subpanel for philosophy. [Detail of cover of Transfigured by Sophie Grace Chappell]That complaint has now been dismissed, according to Professor Chappell, who, in an email and also on Facebook, wrote: “On June 15th… UKRI’s...
While I ran websites and newsletters before, I've only been blogging for almost 2 years. By coincidence I found Bear, and I immediately got drawn to it. Not only did it look like a good platform, it also hosted a great community. So while I got started, I got to know other bloggers and learned from them.I enjoyed my blogging experience. And my blog grew. I added snapshots, app reviews, ... And the more I published, the more visibility I gained. People started to reach out...
Learn how Expressive can improve a Laravel application by keeping Eloquent as the database layer while moving business logic to fully typed objects. Read more
Your monthly hit of all the things that are fit to print without a better place to live. Today is election day here in New York City, so again a reminder that if you are a registered Democrat and live … Continue reading →
We constantly see different variations of "just build it, you can make it better later" on LinkedIn and other places dedicated to recycling cliches. Normally, the writer is a CLUMS (short for cliche-loving, unimaginative, mindless soul) who labels the opposite approach as perfectionist and rejects it on that grounds. In practice, what CLUMS has in mind and rejects is not perfect, but only well-built (perfecti...
The ethics of fly fishing for bull trout are nebulous. They’re also a bit ephemeral, depending on where you’re fishing and your intent. The endangered char of the Northwest is protected by law in both the United States and Canada, but fishing for them throughout most of their native range is legal, so long as they’re released unharmed.
Parece que foi ontem que eu comecei esse blog. Não tinha muito motivo para iniciar o blog, e eu estava querendo voltar a escrever a bom tempo mas não queria usar nenhuma outra plataforma que eu tinha abandonado. E depois de procurar e ficar sabendo de coisas como neocities e outras plataformas que estão voltando a ter mais espaço na web indie, eu cai aqui no Bear. A ideia de não ter nada "a não ser texto" me pareceu incrível e foi o que inclusive inspirou a página de...