With our 2026 Open Day just six days away, we take a closer look at some of the games that members are putting on. We start with Chris S and Dave S who will be running a game of Legions Imperialis. As a neat twist Chris has been kitbashing units and buildings for the game. A bridgelayer tank has been converted with some parts from other tracked vehicles. Buildings and tower blocks have been constructed from scratch. And a great selection of old toys have been chopped up and reconstructed to…

Hello, and welcome to a Monday Pressing Concerns! We’ve got new albums from Sun Kin, National Photo Committee, and Wade Easy, and a new EP from Chorus Truly. Check ’em out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Sun Kin – Bobby’s Voice Release date: June 5thRecord label: Self-releasedGenre: Folk rock, indie pop,…

I find my camera cabinet to be surprisingly full. And I have rule that all of my cameras need to fit in there, and when I buy another camera, if I can’t make it fit, something else has to go. So I’m busy shooting some cameras that have accumulated to determine whether they get to stay. I’ve already decided to say goodbye to my Kodak EasyShare C613 and Kodak EasyShare Z710, both fine performers with great color — because neither can accurately date files anymore, given that the date range ended…

In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical video and streaming channels from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the channel and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Stanley, who runs the StanDoesMath Instagram channel. Channel title: StanDoesMathLink: instagram.com/standoesmathTopics covered: Equity/Inclusion and belonging in mathematics, humanizing mathematics, navigating math(s) graduate school and the unwritten rules of academiaAverage video length:…

You’re forgiven if you assumed 58 Joralemon Street was just another beautifully restored Greek Revival row house in Brooklyn Heights. Built in 1847, it resembles many of the elegant single-family houses on the block, with its red brick facade, long windows, and brownstone trim around the entryway. But take a closer look, and you’ll notice some oddities. For starters, the windows are black, and no curtains or blinds hang behind them. No personal effects sitin the windows or on the stoop, like a…

What’s going on, Internet? Friend of the site James recently shared a new post Blogger Archetypes which asks a series of questions to help you narrow down your character as a member of the blogging community. A bit of indie web fun. Here are my results: You are a Link curator The web is not just its pages, but the connections between pages. You have internalised this and love spending your time exploring the web and sharing what you find with the world. You are also a Culture maker You love to…

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The fox continues to prowl around our chickens. This morning we caught it in the GARDEN a few feet from our favourite chicken. Luckily the magpies warned us and we were able to scare it away. It's not nice keeping the little cluckers cooped up in this heat, but needs must unfortunately. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

A wet morning but a nice afternoon. Norman Harris brought 16 sacks of stuff to burn. A new countryman car came. Did some mowing round courts.

I wanted to visit TVC to monitor the construction of the house and help Kiran set up the fiber backbone for internet connectivity. TVC is roughly 90 kms from MG Road. It’s a good distance with variation to test my Yamaha and see how it performs over a long distance. If it can do 200 Kms in a day, it can probably do 350 Kms. And I don’t think I can ride more than that on this motorcycle in a day. I left early at 6:20 AM and took a break in Anekal for breakfast at Raghavendra Bhawan. Then I took…

I took a gamble on some Noctilucents reappearing last night with a 40 minute drive out to the coast, and then a 20 minute walk to find a clear view of the Northern horizon. There is never any guarantee the clouds will show up, but I have read many reports that the summer solstice brings more activity. I'm not really sure why, or if there is a genuine scientific reason for that, and perhaps its just more so that its bang in the middle of a typical Noctilucent season (late May-late July). PS.…

Marcie, in her last blog, wrote about our visit to Pioche, Nevada—a quiet little town tucked into the mountains of Lincoln County. We strolled past historic buildings, admired old mining relics, and snapped photos of the famous Million Dollar Courthouse. It’s hard to imagine that this peaceful place was once considered one of the bloodiest towns in the American West.During the silver boom of the early 1870s, Pioche exploded from a remote mining camp into a thriving boomtown. Along with miners,…

When you’re leading a one-off singing workshop, or have large influx of new members to your choir, there will be lots of people who don’t know each other. Here are a few simple ways to mix people up so there’s less chance of things becoming cliquey. mixing people up Whenever I lead a singing workshop, I always mix people up before the warm-up. I ask singers to stand in a circle in a particular order, then introduce themselves to the people either side of them if they don’t already know them.…

go toolachain cheat sheet Environment go env: see go environment go mod tidy: add all used libraries to the mod-file and download them go get -u: update and download all dependencies go tool <go repo with main>: run third party go repo (mockery, regctl) Research go doc <package>: Show index of given standard lib package go doc <package> <identifier>: Show only identifier with its docstring Tracing GODEBUG=gctrace=1: garbage collector debug info a la gc 2 @0.856s 0%: 0.023+0.16+0.011 ms clock,…

The Full Moon is Tuesday June 30. In the morning Saturn and Mars form a long line. Mars and Uranus are close together in binoculars and the pair are also midway between the Pleiades and Hyades clusters. In the evening, Venus Jupiter and Mercury form a line. On the 25th Mercury and Jupiter are close in the twilight. On June 28 the Moon occults the bright star Antares (East coast only early morning).The Full Moon is Tuesday June 30. The Moon is at apogee, when it is furthest from the earth, on…

I often hear that AI is resulting in 10k LOC reviews and this is creating a bottleneck. I don't think you should waste time reviewing every single line of code in here and just use AI to review it! What you contribute as a reviewerYou need to know what you contribute as a reviewer. As a reviewer, you contribute your Out Of Distribution knowledge that the author or the LLM might not have Its a mistake thinking you can outsmart an LLM into nitpicking few lines of code here and there. This is not…

Ansel Adams is one of the works most famous landscape photographers with an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society and photographs boosted into space as a record of human artistic greatness. He famously documented the stunning vistas of Yellowstone National Park; timeless renders of unsullied prehistoric landscapes. My attempt is like ordering an Ansel Adams off Wish but I'm starting to work out how to capture his dramatic skies. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know…

Hard to understand past experiences when you're constantly subjected to new things. https://strolling.rosano.ca/0266/ 10h12 from Berlin / Germany

I’m someone who often has trouble sleeping so when I came across Lynne Peeples’ book, The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms, I decided to read it in the hope of getting some tips and advice. It turned out to be more of a science book than a self-help book, but I found it absolutely fascinating. Lynne Peeples is a writer and journalist based in Seattle and goes to impressive lengths in order to carry out her research for this book. In the first chapter, she describes how she…

1888 scientific romance novella. A new self-fuelling railway locomotive turns out to be rather more effective than anyone had supposed.

While it’s said that dogs are a man’s best friend, that certainly doesn’t mean that they’re indifferent to women, and in today’s review we get to meet a pooch who’s loyal to a fault when it comes to his mistress. However, even if it appears that the story is all about our floppy-eared friend, in truth, there’s a whole lot more to the work than meets the eye – and, given the writer, you wouldn’t expect anything less… ***** Virginia Woolf’s Flush takes us back to 1842, where we’re introduced to a…

In the summer of 1994 I had just finished my first year of college. I had taken some Japanese language courses, and I was able to go to Japan with some of the friends I made in those classes. While staying near Yokohama, one of my Japanese friend's mom took us to The Hakone Open-air Museum - and wow, what an experience that was! It was this awesome museum that introduced me to one of my all time favorite artists: Pablo Picasso. I have never been very talented when it comes to drawing or…

Most people just use GitHub Actions to run their tests. It can do far more: deploy a PR to production before merge, make release processes more robust and automate the boring chores you keep forgetting to do. Here are a few patterns I’ve used to make my life easier with GitHub Actions. I’ve done a bunch to evolve Homebrew’s CI over the years so hopefully I can teach you something. 🚀 Merge Queues with Deployments GitHub’s Merge Queue was the last big project I led at GitHub so I’m biased towards…

POP Goes: Dick Tracy Detects, Hombre Means Man, Tides are Passionate, and Groucho Goes MotoringDICK TRACY (1945) --- Called in some quarters Dick Tracy, Detective, as if we’d need telling what Dick did for a living, or maybe it was necessary since Dick derived from a comic strip called kid stuff by most (even though grown-ups liked him too), the character better put to serials. Three of those stuff had come from Republic with Ralph Byrd starring, but RKO was for launching Tracy in features, and…

On the longest day, Bungle the cat sat in a trug for a good chunk of the morning. Meanwhile I fixed up our daft little water feature with an added dash of pebbles. Other things happened too but they're not recorded here.

It's three months since the most recent JD Wetherspoon beer festival, and three months to go until the next one. I thought this would be an opportune moment to have a look at what's been new (to me) in the Dublin branches. Moorhouse is a regular at the chain and Pendle Witches Brew is a beer I've certainly heard of, but was surprised to find I'd never drank. "Strong ale" is something of a rare style, although this is down at the bottom end of it — 5.1% ABV — where it could equally be badged as…

A few weeks ago, I learned about the removeprefix method in Python. It lets you remove a specific prefix from the beginning of a string. For example, I can use the following code to remove www. from the beginning of a domain name:"www.jamesg.blog".removeprefix("www.") If the string doesn’t contain the prefix, nothing happens; if the string does contain the prefix, the prefix is removed.I did some digging and, via a mention of the method in Stack Overflow, I learned that Python 3.9 added support…

The western sky at 02:22 AEST Sunday, June 28, as seen from Canberra. The Moon is about to occult the bright star Antares.The inset shows the telescopic view at the time. (click to embiggen). Click to embiggenThe western sky at 02:27 AEST Sunday, June 28, as seen from Sydney. The Moon is about to occult the bright star Antares.The inset shows the telescopic view at the time. (click to embiggen). Click to embiggenThe western sky at 02:12 AEST Sunday, June 28, as seen from Melbourne. The moon is…

Monday, the 22nd of June 2026 marks 2 years since I started HRT. Like most would say, I wish I started sooner. But everything happens when it needs to happen. It's kind of crazy how quickly those two years have passed. In that time I've got a new job, a new name, and a new appreciation for life. I'm really not to sure what I want this blog post to be, but I really cant overstate how positive of a change it has been for both my physical and mental health. It hasn't solved every single one of my…

Matching is in NC Matching theory is one of the richest gold mines of ideas and results in mathematics, computer science, and beyond. Recently, Abhranil Chatterjee, Sumanta Ghosh, Rohit Gurjar, Roshan Raj, and Thomas Thierauf proved that bipartite matching is in NC. Namely, there is a polynomial-time algorithm of polylogarithmic depth that decides whether a bipartite graph has a perfect matching. This problem has long been regarded as a holy grail of complexity theory. Congratulations to…