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In August I bought a Kinesis Freestyle Edge keyboard off of eBay. I’ve been using it for about four months now, and I’m typing this review on it. I’d been wanting to try out a …

June Art Fair is pleased to announce its 2024 edition. This year, 12 galleries and 20 artists from 10 countries will present projects during Basel Art Week from June 10 - 16 at Riehenstrasse 90B, …

I don’t remember how I came across it, but this is one of the most exciting papers I’ve read recently. The authors train a neural network that tries to identify the next in a sequence …

Dear Diary, Hello! It is me, Lulu! Reya has hurt her hand a little when a Big Special Boat went very very fast (I will tell you about that soon!). It was her turn to …

A few years back I got so bored of taking attendance for my choir that I wrote a Slack integration to do it for me (I got us on Slack in 2014). That evolved from …

There are, famously, no silver bullets in software engineering. Computer programming is hard and although some people are really brilliant at it, there are also a lot of people out there making their career in …

This checkin to GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Checked in on this cache; found it wide open with the log book removed from its …

I recently discovered that there's an old software edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (the second edition) on archive.org for download. Not sure how legal this is, mind, but I thought it would be useful …

IEK is a tribute to East Kilbride, Scotland’s first new town. I worked there for a few years and admired it everyday from the top deck of a bus. It’s a surprisingly colourful place, with …

My mate Paul collected collections. He wrote a book, ‘Recollections of a Collection Collector.’ It was never published. Lance Stater – Detectorists, Series #1 Episode 6 Back in 2019 I attended Boring IX, a conference …

What if something was designed one day, one change at a time? What if every day, it got just a tiny bit better? With time, revealed more of itself. A new project, where this website …

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures …

I saw a prominent AI proponent asking why people always focus on the things that AI gets wrong. AI works so well, he asserted, that it was churlish and childish to focus on a few …

My only other experience of attending an athletics meeting came via the Paralympics and the World Championships at the Olympic (London) Stadium. The all weather track and associated set-up on Parkstone Road in Hastings is …