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…

In this article, I attempt to create a taxonomy of the types of risk posed by the rise of Artificial Intelligence. Any such list will be incomplete, and at the speed of AI development today (May 2026) it will certainly be out of date within a few months as some risks are mitigated and new ones arise. I know this article is extremely long, but that’s inescapable if I attempt to cover all the major risk factors. Use the table of contents to jump around. I am not an “AI doomer;” I believe AI is…

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…

They don't even have proper wings yet, but they already know that one day they will fly.

The first four days of the week whizzed by, with the gym, parents, and a bit of website admin. I also went for my first ever guitar lesson. I found a guy who teaches about 25 minutes drive from us, crucially on this side of Hereford. So no queues, traffic lights, congestion, etc. to contend with. Only narrow roads, oncoming tractors and, in winter, floods. This was only a quick half-hour getting-to-know-each-other session but he seemed very nice and he presumably approved of me because my first…

The confidence man of Herman Melville's tale boards the Fidèle on the Mississippi on April Fool's day and proceeds, through a succession of disguises, to talk the passengers out of their money. What unsettles the reader is not the swindler's skill but the passengers' appetite. The con works because they want it to. Each mark supplies, from their own optimism or vanity or wish to appear charitable, the credulity the con requires. Melville's swindler does not force the strongbox. They are handed…

The field-sizing property is coming to Firefox 152, making it available across all major engines. It allows you to control the sizing behavior of elements with a default preferred size, such as form elements.I'll take a closer look at the field-sizing property in another blog post, but I wanted to show you a cool feature first. By default, the width of a select element is determined by its largest option. Pick a city Amsterdam Rotterdam Scheveningen Utrecht Show code <label for="place">Pick a…

I'm not gonna lie to y'all. It's hot. It's June. The week was all about blockchain. It took a lot of effort to actually do anything but play House Flipper Remastered. Weekly Learning Objectives Identify the key transitions in the history of money and the latest developments with Bitcoin. Reflect on the broader trajectory of the evolution of money. Explore the distinction between physical and social technologies in relation to how digitalisation affects both in the context of money. Understand…

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such…

A colossal harvest of shiny links - a lot of folk getting extra inspired this past week! If you seek still more, see the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch, delinked by request. Dungeonfruit shares In Favor Of Repetition slothyyyyyyy hosts posts Extremely Byzantine 5-Room Dungeon Jam Gorgon Bones writes Guest Post: There's No Crying in Elfgames MurkMail shares How many words should we…

Hi, Another day another 8th Army addition. Despite lack of sleep and a fairly busy day work-wise I managed to get a little late arvo hobby time in and finished the M3 Stuart. I wanted it to look like it’s already survived a few run-ins with Rommels lot so went a touch heavier on the weathering. It’s also lost its track guards. I found my decal sheet from the kit so didn’t have to paint the stripes like I did on the universal carriers. Not too much else to say apart from this is the only Stuart…

You can now preorder the dbrand Companion Cube for Steam Machine. dbrand.com dbrand has officially released the Companion Cube for Valve's upcoming (very soon!) Steam Machine. It is basically a protective enclosure for the Steam Machine in the design of arguably Valve's most beloved inanimate object from the Portal series. I have no clue how dbrand can continuously steal designs like these and not get sued? The cube has vents for what dbrand calls uninhibited airflow, because apparently there…

June 22, 2026 A week in a branch office. Guaranteed to be cold during the day, so it’s not like you can take normal summer clothes. Plus, there will be executives there, and we have to pretend that we’re MUCH more serious than we really are! Our heroine has no idea where to start – until she digs into her scarf drawer: This gives her a color palette with two classic neutrals, and the sky blue and leafy green of summer! Perfect! Concourse of the Birds scarf – The Met Store She will travel in a…

Hard to believe, but we don't seem to have had that title before! I managed to pick up two rather nice tanks at Sandown Park's last show, nice for different reasons, and a possible 'sublime to ridiculous' scenario, but which is which, depends upon the personal loyalties of the viewer! This would be an antique toy enthusiast's ridiculous, but the sublime of a 'plastic warrior', being the

Three commutes last week. The journey in is trivial. But the last hour of the way home draaaaaaaags. I spent altogether too long noodling on my phone, so it’s time to get back into novels. Friday started a glorious weekend. Got my feet in the sand, got R’s bucket and spade out, made some clothes salt-damp. Lovely. Sunset solstice party in the castle on Saturday. So good to get out for a dance. I also went up for a grief circle/meditation with Katie Rose on Sunday. Grounding and beautiful, all…

I try to maintain a sense of rhythm on the blog, it helps keep me focused and gives a sort of heartbeat to the week. Most obvious is the weekly wrap up on a Friday, always incredibly popular and I hope too, that Commissions on a Monday are as warmly received and enjoyed by you all…This week we’re taking a look at a project that was a very long time in the making - with large delays in the supply of the kit and then missing parts, I am pleased to say that the quality of the Slaters kit and…

I don’t often wish I had an Apple Vision Pro, but when I do it’s because of completely off-the-wall things like this. UHF X11 is exactly the sort of gloriously impractical idea I cannot help but like: old-school X11 clients turning into spatial windows, floating around your face as if the future had decided to take a detour through the late 1980s. My Quest 2 would never be able to do this with the same flair, which is part of why this feels so charming. It’s not merely about remote windows or…