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Our first release of 2024 is here! This one features many small improvements and fixes, plus a big new feature many people have asked for: newsletters / email subscriptions! Download v0.15.0 now, or read on …

Introduction # As we gear up for the release of Bonfire Classic 1.0 – which includes not just the software but also extensive documentation and tutorials for people to customise and extend functionality in-depth – …

Today’s reflection is from Bondings 2.0 Contributor, Angela Howard McParland. Today’s liturgical readings for the 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time can be found here. Pope Francis recently said that he hoped hell was empty. “It’s …

Preached at St Nicholas’, Leicester on Sunday 19th of February 2023READINGSExodus 24.12-end & Matthew 17.1-9SERMONAt face value, the Gospels are quite gritty affairs. Jesus in the dirt and the mud. Jesus in the dust. Jesus …

January 4, 2023 | by David Jackson | During this most Christian time of year, wherein our faith has leaked so profusely into popular culture, it can be tempting to rest in the comfort of …

Dan Janes writes: Spam is nothing new, spam on GitHub is also not particularly new. Any site that accepts user-generated content will need to figure out how to prevent people from submitting spam, whether that …

The 1976 Fender Guitar catalogue was fairytale-themed. Lot of links today, not much commentary, just to get rid of a few open browser/mental tabs. Currently: Maybe part of it is just that you can hear …

this week arts council england updated some of their policy wording1 to threaten organisations which host artists or artworks that could pose ‘reputational risk’, warning those that chose to go ahead with hosting these risky …

TL;DR: SQLite has JSON functions, generated columns, and full-text search - which all seems like a perfect mix for ingesting exports from Mastodon for search!

This question came in a while ago and I was holding onto it for possible book inclusion after sending a private draft reply to the person who asked, but the manuscript has changed shape since …

I think we all understand that while talking about our perfumes, the use of the word “collection” is somewhat a stretch: it is a collection in terms of being an assembly of items of the …

WHAT I SMELL: Rougewood opens with a juicy combination of ripened warmed berries and grapefruit and with some added peach blossom it’s beautifully decadent and rather lusty without being too heavy or carnal. Soon, a …

Photo by Bianca Czarnock on behance, borrowed for educational purposes Dior's Dolce Vita fetes its 30th anniversary this year, being launched in 1994, when Dior was very careful with its new launches and the firm …

The hyacinths : check. The crispness : check. The citric green : check. But then not really the honeysuckle, nor the chypric tones, nor the mystery. Just a bit of duty free iris and a …

I was back in Rome recently for a strategic retreat and thought it might be interesting to wear an Italian dessert fragrance every day to mark the occasion. Caveat: I have incredibly narrow parameters for …