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I enjoyed John McIntyre’s April 27 post: My Facebook feed has been cluttered this week with people posting this remark attributed to the late Joseph Sobran: “In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin …

On Sunday, April 14, 2024, the literary community lost one of its guiding lights when Janet Reid passed away. A New York literary agent for more than twenty years, Janet was possibly even better known …

Years ago I wrote about my trouble with a job queue in Postgres, in which table bloat caused by long-running queries slowed down the workers’ capacity to lock jobs as they hunted across millions of …

One of my first TIL entries was about how you can imitate Node’s node_modules semantics in Python on UNIX-like operating systems. A lot has happened since then (to the better!) and it’s time for an …

Most of Britain’s prime ministers and many of its leaders in all sections of society went to Oxford or Cambridge Universities. The influence of those two universities on Britain is huge, but has it been …

My fingerprints are all over this thing.

At least once a year I try to take a complete break from the Internet, which means no reading other sites, no posting in fora or on my sites, and no answering email for a …

I recently encountered an open source project that hadn't received updates for a while. The issue tracker had ~200 open issues, ~70 open pull requests, and CI was partially failing. It's not uncommon for projects …

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Renae in San Antonio. Winning a stuffed animal. Going to a carnival. Posing for me and my Rollei camera. Having a great time. Photography can be so much fun if we don't overthink it. Or …

The "Vitamin Sea" returns to her home port with a load of freshly harvested oysters fromthe James River in southeastern Virginia. (click to enlarge) For 50 years I've heard it told that it is only …

On our recent weekend in Cincinnati, I brought my Nikon Df along with the 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D Nikkor lens attached. Now that I’ve figured out to set the camera to ISO 3200 with this lens, …

I still have a ton of Fujifilm gear and use it everyday! I just wanted a light interchangeable lens camera for knock around use, if Fujifilm made something like this I would buy it in …

The iphone view of the pool. The two conical shapes on the horizon are the Bass Rock island on the left and North Berwick Law on the southern shore of the estuary. Both are volcanic …