After HOW TO BUILD A NEW WORLD, by W Heath Robinson Strophe Who will hold the plumbline, while we build downfrom this finial, our highest reach?Then we can consolidate. And if wedismantle steeples, minarets, we will bethe tallest, newest, most up-to-dategreat achievement. All solid materials.The design a variation on enclosure,isolates the future from what we leave behind. The multitudes will earn admittanceby thrift; the virtues of living in limited space,for broadband’s dependable band-width…

Vegetable smile flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Make a vegetable smile Yes, you can just draw a smiley face on a potato, but we bet you can do something more creatively challenging than that! Craft that veggie… I made my smiley face out of potatoes …

Managing external dependencies for a software project has become an integral part of the software supply chain. Whether it’s application dependencies with tools like npm, Yarn, Composer, and so on. Or dependencies used by CI/CD workflows with tools like GitHub Actions, we’ve made considerable progress in managing dependencies across these layers. Now that AI agents are an indispensable part of how we build our software, it’s important that we manage dependencies around them as well. You might…

TRANSMISSION is an online larp designed and run by Chloe Mashiter. I think there's two tickets left for the current run, both in the late night run on Thursday. It's set during the Great Storm of 1987. You're a group of 30-somethings, all old university friends, all getting back together for a reunion in a country house in Norfolk. Then the power goes out. You're isolated, in the dark, no way to contact anyone else. And then the TV turns itself on. And there's Teletext on the screen. And then…

Boo! Happy Halloween. See you next year for another scare. In the meantime, live slogs, and sometimes rushes, on. We’ve had the pleasure to experience the grand opening of the flu season resulting in more sleep deprivation whilst trying to take care of the sick kids. As you can imagine, dodging sickness itself became an impossible task. It looks like every month comes with something to complain about. Did you know that nonstick pans only last two to five years, according to the shop assistant…

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I have been playing woodworker for almost 60 years now. I like the build process and hate the final step which is applying a finish. I understand the importance of it with the prep and careful application of whatever the finish is. To me it still sucks pond scum and I don't like doing it. And I've tried a bazillion different types. Initially my go to was Minwax Poly before I discovered shellac. It is now my default, go to finish. It is easy to apply and even easier to reapply to fix a boo boo.…

It is the morning after a historic election day with not much time to write. Here's the Facebook post I made just after midnight: I fell asleep early-ish for an election night (by 9 p.m.), early-ish for most grown ups on any night, and scrolling through results at midnight, I'm struck by how many of the winners are women, particularly in races for governor. It's going to be a record breaking election day for all sorts of reasons, but women winners give me so much hope!

Hi, welcome to this write-up for the 4. The Rider's View challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. First lookWe've received a picture made by Giancarlo of two people on a motorcycle on a busy street. It's our task to find an answer to the following question: What nearby monument can the rider see from their vantage point, and what is the name of the person…

Saturday night, I started to get sick. Not ideal, as on Sunday we had to drive down south to visit the kid and her partner. I was probably not good company for two days, as I got sicker and sicker on the drive down, and talking became very difficult. But it was, as ever, a joy to hang out with them, and we got to take them out for dinner one day and lunch the next. I am still extremely fucked up, and the chances of my producing work this week are slim to none. ACCESSIONS: A care package from…

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time review: A dream come true theguardian.com Nintendo’s modern Zelda team have turned one of the best games of the 1990s into one of the best games of the 2020s, and made time-travellers out of us all. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time never gets old theverge.com And it shows there’s still some life left in the traditional Zelda formula. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time review: "Pure magic – the biggest, boldest remake I've ever played" gamesradar.com…

The sign for the newly-renovated and reopened historic Forest Theater, which first opened in 1949 in South Dallas. The post Forest appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Life Godot Darek didn’t come the next day. Or either of the days in the week he said he would. But on Sunday he finally made it. He claims to have fixed the leak, but we now have two new plumbing-related issues that he’s suggesting are coincidental. Seems unlikely! I think what’s going to happen is we’ll come to the end of the three month warranty period for the work and then get a proper plumber in. Perhaps we should just be doing that now, but Darek’s so charming it’s hard to resist getting…

woke up to blue wavesacross many states–anocean of bluesweeping in forc o n t r o l. are we ready for thechange that ishappening, and how willwe handle it? surging in likethieves in the night–Georgia,Texas, Kansas, and Michigan,just to name a few…projected stars to be. bring some peace.bring some answers.bring some other thingthan t h i s.

The gym was looking a little ominous this morning . The post Creepy Vibes appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

Nota bene: Here are the previous installments — parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12a — in my multi-part series on Adam Smith’s day-to-day duties as a commissioner of the Board of Customs of Scotland. Order #132 is dated __ Nov. 1784 (the day is cut off from my copy of this document) and is signed by Adam Smith (top signature), Basil Cochrane (middle), and James Buchanan (bottom). In this order, the Board of Customs formally terminates a local customs officer, a land surveyor by the…

There’s a lot of talk about AI slop, ugly and/or unecessary things created too easily with various LLM tools. But there’s a also a certain style of web and email design that’s recognisably Claudeish (created by Anthropic’s Claude applications). And, well, that’s much better than a lot of the ugly, near illegible stuff we were getting before so that’s … good? At the same time, it’s so common that I’m also getting tired of it. So more polish but all the same polish, is it really better than…

We’re in full-on prep mode for Friendsgiving this weekend (Ayesha Nurdjaja-themed this year!), so we’re keeping dinners simple this week. Irene Yoo’s Ramen Carbonara was the perfect quick and satisfying meal! After crisping the bacon, you cook kimchi in the bacon fat until tender and caramelized around the edges. Then it’s as easy as cracking an egg into a pasta bowl, whisking it with Parmesan, and adding the hot, freshly cooked ramen noodles, bacon, and kimchi. You then toss until the sauce…

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While the results of the mid-term elections appear to be a stinging rebuke of Trumpism, an enclave remains in the failed state of Florida. The ballot initiative to amend the Florida constitution to reduce property taxes passed. This is an effort to shore up the Florida real estate industry. With skyrocketing insurance premiums, the only lever that Republicans will touch is cutting taxes. This will most seriously affect the urban areas and the public service sector. The fact that those areas are…

When people hear the word troll, many think of the mythical monster lurking beneath a bridge, waiting to trouble unsuspecting travellers. But, internet trolling was not really about monsters, it was about fishing. When fishing by trolling, you trail a baited line behind your boat, hoping to hook a fish. You don’t chase the fish; you dangle something tempting and wait for a bite. Which is what internet trolls do. They post a provocative comment, an outrageous opinion or a deliberately misleading…

I dreamt of you last night. The brushing, tingling of lips. A tangle of limbs. And then I awoke, dreary eyed, into November 3rd. Two days after I officially moved into my new house. Two days after I left you at Terminal 1, white knuckled grip on the steering wheel to keep me from turning around. One whole week of you, and now I must wake up from that dream. It started raining today, too, as if the world mourned your absence. As the droplets patterned a muffled drum into the roof above me, my…

I like small and light. One of my favorite laptop was Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air. That machine was light enough that I bought it with me almost everywhere I went, and it was small enough that I can use it comfortably at different environments. iPhones are pretty small and light already. (I've never used the Plus or Max versions.) But iPhone mini is one of my favorite, especially after using the not-so-small and not-so-light iPhone X just before that. You'd think the newly released iPad mini…

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Let Him Lieby Ianthe JerroldGenres: Crime, Mystery Pages: 249 Rating: Synopsis: Murder begins with the death of a kitten... Artist Jeanie Halliday is thrilled to move into a country cottage of her own, next door to the home of her dear childhood friend Agnes. But the countryside idyll isn't quite what she might have expected: Agnes is suddenly and unaccountably unfriendly for one thing; and then the neighbours are a little peculiar - old Mr Fone, obsessed with burial mounds; the scandalous Hugh…

The House and the Senate are back under Democratic control. It’s a great first step. It’s a huge sigh of relief. Most of the rest of the world applaud the thorough spanking the mid-terms have delivered to the Republicans who are now starting to see the actual backlash of being Trump lackies. However it is just the start, please don’t let up. You need to go all the way on this, you need to figure out who is going to lead you into the Presidency at the next opportunity, you need to rebuild your…

The teenager who ported Outrun to the C64 The post OutRun: The Last-Minute Bug That Nearly Derailed the C64 Port – The Retro Hour EP555 appeared first on Retro Hour Podcast.

Recorded live at Retromessa in Norway The post Hitoshi Ariga: The Art of Mega Man and Streets of Rage – The Retro Hour EP554 appeared first on Retro Hour Podcast.

Update while writing: I started thinking about this yesterday, then got to write this post this morning, went to check how itch's dealing with the filtering and, would you look at that, they are already using this idea. I'll still post what I originally wrote and leave it on the internet because, unsurprisingly (maybe), itch is still a niche storefront, so I think the more people talking about this approach, the better. If you don't know what itch.io is, go check it out. I've been reading about…

Really great video from the Rabbit Room on Malcolm Guite and the making of his Arthuriad. I’m looking forward to starting the books soon.