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The title pretty much sums up the entire post, but I’ll drop my two cents anyway: As someone who’s always reading new code at $DayJob, I have learned and realised…

I’m sometimes linked to Twitter (sorry, I mean X) threads. It’s usually updates on the war in Ukraine, because Twitter is still the default medium if you want to see…

The new visual appearance and functionality of watchOS 10 is a welcome change. There was clearly a lot of design and engineering effort put into this new interface and the…

I've started sharing a list of rules-for-weeknotes with teams that want to do them; I think they're useful rules, because they give teams new superpowers.

Notoriously hard to define, but I’m trying.

The first three minutes might be my favorite opening scene in cinema.Atlas Minor

I read The Dreaming in record time, especially for a short story collection. I’ve been having trouble getting into short stories lately, and this is the first one that has…

I started a new blog! Come check it out and consider subscribing, the content will be similar to what I post here, but hopefully will be more polished. https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/

Power generation and distribution at the South Pole.

This week, over on Substack, we are looking at the sensation of taste. Come and join us – Late Summer: A Sensory Experience

Last Spring I published a large mosaic photo of the Milky Way and it went viral!A blog post about it can be seen here: https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2021/03/gigapixel-mosaic-of-milky-way-1250.html  I have now even a large version of…

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Images found in two 1980s books, Naoyuki Katoh SF Illustrations I and II (there's also a volume III), which I occasionally have for sale at 50 Watts Books. Naoyuki Katoh,…

We are flush with chanterelles! Along the tractor path to the southeast of our house, among invasive Japanese stiltgrass are many pounds of bright gold fungus. Zack and I harvested…

The city of Kyoto was the only great city of Japan to be spared serious bombing during World War II, despite being among the top targets preferred for the atomic…

I’ve taught a few workshops this year on academic writing and there’s always at least one attendee who has already completed their PhD and is looking for strategies to craft…

CW: talk of death and cancer On July 11th, 2018 I arrived at the pub a little past noon. The place was packed. There was a mix of both teams…

Last year in the garden, a new variety climbed up to take the gold medal place for summer squash in my heart: ‘Friulana Rugosa.’ This summer squash is an Italian…Keep…

Singapore is the only country in the world where it’s legal to sell “cultivated” (lab-grown) meat for human consumption, and Huber’s Bistro in Singapore is the only restaurant in the…