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  1. The Public Domain Review
    Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)
    Scatology, autophagia, and vulva-like flowers all commingle in this ornament design book of grotesques.
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    Template files for nvim
    Over the years I’ve picked up various tweaks for my nvim configuration. One of them is template file support. This article is a short introduction to what they are, how do they work and how I recently extended them to support snippet expansion.
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    The childlike and the childish
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    Log: Wednesday October 30th
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