Updated October 2026 With Ina’s Breakfast-for-Dinner Board, I officially completed every recipe from her 13th cookbook, Go-To Dinners! While making Boston Cream Pie with Ina will always feel like the official conclusion of my original project, there was no question I would cook my way through this book when it was published later that year. Longtime Ina fans will recognize some familiar territory, including fresh takes on classics like Beatty’s Chocolate Cupcakes, Creamy Hummus, and Chicken…

Today in the drum class, I gave up playing the song I was practicing. I had already spent three days learning it, and still couldn’t play it properly. In particular, I couldn’t keep the right tempo. I realized that I shouldn’t try anymore and decided to give up on it. I am largely an autodidact in many interests of my life. I taught myself programming, reading music, running etc by reading books, watching videos, listening to people. A big part of learning by oneself is knowing when to give up.…

A few months ago, I went to see Dr Hutchinson record his stand-up comedy special for the BBC - it's about his experiences working in the NHS as a Black doctor. As the title of the book implies, some of the public can be a mite suspicious that anyone with even a hint of melanin can rise beyond being a porter or, at a push, a nurse. Much like Adam Kay's "This Is Going To Hurt", this is part biography, part rant about the NHS, and part humorous look at what it takes to be a modern doctor.…

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It’s time for a Q3 progress review on Nic’s (Dragon Rambles) Law of Fives reading bingo challenge! I’ve now read 40 books for this challenge, with most of them counting… The post Q3 2026 Law of Five Reading Bingo Progress – BINGO! appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.

Welcome to my 203rd gems post. This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers. 1. Diagram BuilderI absolutely love this game changing diagram builder! mathfigures.com is the best I've seen. Thank you to @harryzafar for drawing it to my attention. It's incredibly easy to use. If you want to make a diagram for a lesson, resource or assessment,

Space Dwarf Attribution What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Where Are the Joneses? part 4 Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club plays Space Dwarf. To give this series some sense of organization, check out some basic facts without much in the way of context. For Clarity : You can best think of these posts like their titles suggest, as the seed of a discussion group (“book club”) to spark conversation about a Free Culture…

Aren't we happy to be fed. A powerful corporation has turned its gaze upon us.I went to Whitefield to attend OpenAI DevDay. It was at the convention center in Sheraton hotel. I can't remember how I got the invite, but I probably filled a form somewhere. It was an enjoyable metro ride. The light rain formed little streaks on the window that showed overcast sky of outer Bangalore. The soft hum, rain sounds and fuzziness of the station announcements was calming.Everyone in the compartment had…

I’ve had some really good feedback on hiring-manager-bar, and I wanted to spend more time on the examples behind it. The original idea still holds: if you’re using a portfolio to find a job, the person reviewing it should be able to understand what you made, what you were responsible for, and why your decisions mattered. I wrote about that in The hiring manager is your user. Where I wanted to go further was how the skill applies that judgement to different kinds of work. A brand designer might…

I've always had an understanding that the independent web was designed by humans and for humans. There were times that my inbox or forums I visit were solicited by people (and maybe occasionally agents) who vibecoded a project and were proudly sharing it as part of the resistance against the corporate web. That always felt totally antithetical to what is trying to be accomplished and achieved with regards to the IndieWeb. Take for instance this website proclaiming that the IndieWeb is punk.…

ECM has altered the possibilities of listening. Founded in Munich in 1969 by Manfred Eicher, the Edition of Contemporary Music advanced the conviction that a recording studio could participate in the invention of music, its architecture becoming a second instrument whose strings were strung across the space between a note and its disappearance. From Mal Waldron’s Free at Last onward, the label cultivated an ethics of attention capacious enough to accommodate the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s…

By Roberto MarcariniOld School FoxOSELevels 3-4 Beyond those tangled boughs, deep within the forest, the cure that could save Baron Duncan Bravewater and his wife from a terrible curse may lie hidden. Moira, the hag of Gloomwood, might know the secret to free them from their prison of stone… but what price will you have to pay to earn her alliance? And what dangers await you on the path to her remote hut, concealed among gnarled trees and deadly marshes? This 68 page adventure presents eleven…

Wilcosky.com has a new look. Previously the UI was a mock desktop operating system that looked like macOS. It used parts of Puppertino which I still think is a beautiful framework. But, the problem was that it sometimes didn’t look right on mobile and there were other aspects that made it potentially confusing to a […]

I’ve been thinking about an approach to the internet I’ve been calling hermit mode. Social media was never a big habit for me, so cutting that wasn’t much of a difference. But I used to spend real time catching up on news, soccer especially, which has always been a weak spot for me. Over time, I pared general news down to a single AI-generated morning brief. That still left the soccer habit untouched. Over the past three weeks, I’ve stopped that too. Now my only engagement with the internet is…

Batman strikes a pose with a skyscraper in the background: I was walking down Lexington Avenue and thought to myself “Chrysler looks better than usual from this angle”:

I've always had a soft spot for strange physical media (like my recent obsession with unique physical PSP games), particularly the sort of thing that makes you wonder why anybody thought it was a good idea in the first place. There's something fascinating about the unusual ways companies tried to deliver entertainment before everything became a download, and even more fascinating when somebody decides to revisit one of those ideas decades later. Which brings me to a question I hadn't really…

In case the dead silence hasn’t been enough of a clue, I’ll spell it out: it has been a rough week at Casa Aztec, though things are finally looking up (among other things, it’s finally fucking Friday! YAY!) ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ A bike update: I mentioned at the end of this post that the rear tire exploded–as I was riding at a good 13mph too–a couple of weeks ago. A few days after the fact, I realized a bit of metal had embedded itself into the tire–ergo, explosion: I am not sure the image conveys the…

Daily Drawing 1021

My plans to visit New York City fell through, leaving me with a free morning. I spent it exploring a local wildlife management area here in Williamstown. There were a few locations that I could visit. I chose a spot that has been on my list to explore for the better part of a decade. One of those places that I always drive past, but never at the right time to visit. The Whitehall Branch runs through the northern part of the management area. It is a small tributary of the Great Egg River. I knew…

I am having a bath. I don’t have baths very often, but I’ve a bad head cold so I’m hoping some vapour bath bubbles and a hot steamy room will help unclog me a bit. But I don’t have baths very often, to the point that I once shared the fact on social media. A bath in a new home. A photo of my feet sticking out of the water. I’m 186cm tall (6’1”) so most regular sized baths are a little too small for me to lie out completely. So there I was, happy in my bath, cropping the photo a bit to keep…

Rain flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license Today’s TDC says Where do YOU stand? Share a six-word story about your place or location (and maybe we can even guess where it is?!) Feel free to add art or be creative with your six word story. I wrote one about the city I call home: Rain always near: dear green place The image at the top is taken through my study window looking out at my garden on a typical Glasgow morning

3:0 English weeks in the 3rd Bundesliga. Away at Ingolstadt on Sunday, at home against Aachen on Wednesday, and away again in Regensburg on Saturday. The new manager, Jochen Seitz, seems to have made really good use of the long international break, as the team was already 2 goals ahead in Ingolstadt, then conceded an own goal and a counter-attack, before scoring two more goals in the last minutes to make the final score 2:4. Hats off to that mental strength! On Wednesday, Alemannia came to…

We had a Hotpoint engineer come out to repair our washing machine yesterday. While replacing the machine, he forgot to connect the waste pipe and we came down to this mess this morning. 😡 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 cloudfront moves over the mountains towards the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The post Monoliths Under the Clouds appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Whether…a…person has a vagina or a penis has no bearing on the deadliness of a firearm. – Judge Carlyn Addison Monsters Some states appear to be determined to reverse civil rights progress: Paris Lee was shot six times and killed by Samuel Ward Jr…[who] was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in May 2025. He claimed it was self-defense, but the jury didn’t buy it…however, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals [has] reversed his conviction…declar[ing] that…[by] not disclosing [that] the…

A small Shinto shrine inside the Tenryuji Temple complex, as the light fades into the night. 天龍寺の境内にある小さな神社だ。薄明かりが夜に溶けていく頃。

https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-subarray/ Already solved this couple of times. But still feels a new. Probably my brain :) Started thinking from scratch and found the original Kadane's algorithm. Keep running sum timeline and stash the max sum when it is bigger than the current max. Reset the running sum when the current number itself is bigger than the running sum when add to it. Because when you add it running sum is going to decrease and not increase so we can reset comfortably as we…

The long way round Chris5156 Sat, 17/10/2026 - 09:53 When a road is closed, why isn't the diversion route just the quickest way past the closure? https://roadsorguk.substack.com/p/the-long-way-round?r=63d189&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Laura by Vera Caspary published 1943 [A young woman's body has been found in a New York apartment, and the case has attracted a lot of attention...] Laura had become a Manhattan legend. Scarlet-minded headline artists had named her tragedy THE BACHELOR GIRL MURDER and one example of Sunday edition belles-lettres was tantalizingly titled SEEK ROMEO IN EAST SIDE LOVE-KILLING. By the necromancy of modern journalism, a gracious young woman had been transformed into a dangerous siren who practiced…

I’ve never liked the idea of giving my instruments a name other than one that describes it, i.e. parlour guitar, twin-point mandolin etc. Clearly, the different instruments must have some means of reference, especially as all enquiries for my instruments come via email and a prospective client needs to communicate their needs. You would probably have seen my previous “New Model Mandolin” build series: I called that instrument “New Model” as, at the time I was undecided on a suitable name.…