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Clearing storm over Lookout Mountain. Walker County, GeorgiaBob Schwalberg (European editor of the now-defunct Popular Photography magazine) was once raving about the newest cameras on the market to Ernst Haas, an Austrian who was one …

The Knees needed their daily. Curiosity looked at the map and suggested this. A thin strip of woodland, apparently a ridge between two suburban areas just north of Glasgow. It turned out to be as …

In this issue:A brief reflection on style and its role in contentLinks of the week: Content management and shoddy tech journalismDid you read? You should do that weird content project you've been thinking about Great …

Here's another of the compilation cassettes I bought this summer, having taken home a Denon twin-deck hi-fi cassette player from the local charity shop. All Wrapped Up is a 1983 compilation of singles by The …

How many decimal places do you really need? The level of precision in your data visualization depends entirely on your audience. The post An Appropriate Level of Precision appeared first on Evergreen Data.

In my latest update to Elite Hoops, I replaced several homegrown solutions with Apple’s nascent iOS 17 equivalents. The most prominent example of this is TipKit. To prompt coaches about a functional user experience feature …

Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that becomes more capable as time passes without any effort on our part.” Wouldn’t that be amazing? …

10 ways to use a hair dryer for anything other than drying your hair. Dear men who are bald and everyone else who doesn't own a hairdryer. You've been missing out on one of the …

In 1974 National Semiconductor introduced what is arguably the first 16-bit microprocessor (it had a 8-bit mode as well which was more efficient but could run 16-bits as well). This chip was made on a …

When working on the last series of posts, I stumbled on a signal that caused an FFT analysis to look a little strange to me. This post is about that strangeness. If I make a …

I used to think there was nothing more embarrassing than to write about the internet. It wasn’t literary, I thought, and to give it a place in my fiction would be to admit not only …

Last October, the Letterheads movement picked up the pace in France with the inaugural 'Martre' event in Grand-Champ, Brittany. Martre, literally marten, is also the French word for a sable brush. I caught up with …

Schiopol airport is confusing; so confusing that my wife has sent me an email with some advice on how it can best be navigated, There are three main terminals, each with a set of sub-desks …

On Warwick Lane in the City of London, minutes from St Paul’s Cathedral, you will find the rich, red brick facade of Cutlers’ Hall. This is one of the City of London’s 40 livery halls, …

Very few LPs radiate a level of spiritual grandeur quite like the 1974 summit between Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana, Illuminations. With Coltrane’s harp and soaring orchestration, uncharacteristically patient, technically precise lead work from Santana, …