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1. justmarkup, 22 hours ago, more info

   This morning I shared an article about Balancing text in CSS (it's a great article, read it) on LinkedIn. To give a quick preview I decided to create a simple GIF of the first interactive example in the article. The GIF showed more or less how I clicked a button, which, after I clicked it, applied the CSS text-wrap: balance; to the text, and the text visually looked more balanced …

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1. Cemetery Club, 8 hours ago, more info

   This was more than just your average funeral. Brompton cemetery was filled with thousands of mourners. They crammed themselves in as the gun-carriage took the remains of a national hero to his last resting place. Another man whose life had been prematurely shortened by this dreadful war. His death was more than just a chance […]

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1. Classic Movie Hub Blog
   Watching Classic Movies and Lovin’ Every Minute of It! By Annmarie Gatti, Minoo Allen, et al. More info

   Updated 3 days ago

   A werewolf walks into a bar and …. No, that’s not a joke. It’s the opening scene of a 1956 low-budget film with the straightforward and generic title of The Werewolf. And if you’ve seen …

2. Condensed concepts
   Ruminations on emergent phenomena in condensed phases of matter. By Ross H. McKenzie. 🇦🇺 More info

   Updated a week ago

   A nice preprint illustrates how emergence is central to some of the biggest questions in economics and finance. Emergent phenomena occur as many economic agents interact resulting in a system with properties that the individual …

3. Prop Up the Bar
   Travelling the land looking for the perfect pub. Then wondering what the one around the corner is like... By Nick C. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated a month ago

   I'm afraid that my dedication to the blog and all things pub has trailed off at the end of 2024."Stuff" has gotten in the way, as it does occasionally.So instead of pubs adorned in Christmas …

4. Actuaries in government
   News and updates from the Government Actuary's Department. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated 4 hours ago

   Introduction As we look back on 2024 and forward to 2025, it’s clear that the pensions administration industry is facing significant changes and challenges. With those, come opportunities. New year, fresh challenges. Credit: Kelly Sikkema, …

5. Granite and Sunlight
   Disability justice in the age of austerity. By Fiona. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated 4 months ago

   I write a lot about how I see hope. I have poems about how hope doesn’t feel positive to me – I know its effect is positive, but it’s not a nice feeling. It hurts. …

6. Josh Collinsworth | Blog
   Writings on development, design, and random thoughts. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated 3 weeks ago

   Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.

7. Humanizing The Vacuum
   Alfred Soto's blog about arts and politics. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated 17 hours ago

   Chatty, narcissistic, and vulgar, “My Name Is” is one of those singles which will never date; if Eminem never released a followup, we’d remember it as a brilliant one- or two-off like “Roxanne, Roxanne.” Madonna …

8. The Aperiodical
   Occasional(ly) mathematical blogging. By Katie Steckles, Christian Lawson-Perfect, Peter Rowlett. 🇬🇧 More info

   Updated 2 days ago

   Here’s a round-up of some news stories from the last two months of 2024, (mostly) not otherwise covered here on the Aperiodical. Maths Research At the start of December, John Carlos Baez shared on Mathstodon …

9. Peter Follansbee: Joiner's Notes
   Seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools. 🇺🇸 More info

   Updated 2 weeks ago

   riving white oak Twelve-thirty-one. What better time to look at what’s what. I’m not going to write “in 2024, I did this/that/the other…” – mostly. Or maybe that’s exactly what I’m doing. I’m still working …

10. sjhoward.co.uk
    Simon Howard's personal blog about stuff. 🇬🇧 More info

    Updated 12 hours ago

    Middlesbrough’s Royal Exchange building opened in 1868, and quickly became one of the most important sites for industrial deal-making in England at the heart of the town nicknamed ‘Ironopolis’. A very grand Italianate building, it …

11. EvermoreStudio
    By Andrew Crawford. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated 2 weeks ago

    After making hardwood gift boxes for the 20-sided dice I made to give as holiday gifts, I decided they needed an additional wrapping to protect them, and to create a reveal for the wooden boxes. …

12. Life, Technology and more…
    I'll know where I'm going, when I get there... By Mark Cathcart. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated 5 hours ago

    I’ve always been somewhat careful with my login passwords. 2024 was a complete disaster for me, and I pay for it every day with wasted time trying to recover, reclaim, and reduce my exposure. I …

13. declad
    I am an architect with over twenty years experience working in different countries. I am British but I live in Helsinki. By Lewis Martin. 🇫🇮 More info

    Updated a month ago

    The Book The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine I saw a reference somewhere online to Yuiri Slezkine’s The House of Government and thinking it was a book about a single building a giant 1931 …

14. He Can Jog
    A composer, improviser and instrumentalist of sorts. By Erik Schoster. 🇺🇸 More info

    Updated 2 weeks ago

    I'm cross-posting again. This was posted on izzzzi yesterday, but's really an astrid dev log post I guess! I started reworking autotriggers in astrid again this weekend... I think this time they're nicer, simpler: basically …

15. Oliver Andrich
    A software developer from Koblenz with a passion for code, coffee, punk rock and a good conversation. 🇩🇪 More info

    Updated 3 days ago

    Recently, I did myself a favor and bought a little Beelink SER5 Pro Mini PC a home server to run some services I use on my home network and also to run some development containers. …

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