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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 …

Arizona Supreme Court rules abortion ban from 1864 can be enforced …in the meantime, you have tens of thousands of people who are pregnant or will become pregnant who will either need to drive or …

Every technology is a transitional technology. This book makes the case that the complexity of modern technology is, well, complex! Systems are designed by so many people that their outputs are an utter mystery to …

Well, what a day of football that was. Depending on your personal affiliations and soccer priorities, you could get swept up with the Mighty Black and Greens recording a third consecutive final day win which …

I enjoyed Irina Mashinski’s Facebook post about her love for Nabokov, which began while she was still living in the Soviet Union (“Вообще мой список такой: Лужин, Пнин, Дар, Лолита, Машенька, Подвиг, несколько рассказов из …

Several years ago, when I was much stupider, I briefly interned for a reasonably well-known agent. I let her know ahead of time that I had a vacation lined up where I would be off …

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 …

I’ve read this in Helen Garner’s novel The Children’s Bach https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2024/04/21/a-short-highly-original-novel-that-includes-excellent-advice-on-how-to-write/ and thought that it expresses so well the horror of being a tourist in remarkably few words that I’ve given it a blog on …

I spoke with The Stack about the Investigatory Powers Amendment Act, which has passed its third reading and is awaiting royal assent.

Well, Sadie finally got down to business yesterday afternoon and produced two of the brawniest babies we’ve had at Goat-O-Rama in years. We haven’t named these two big bruisers yet, but we’ll keep you posted! …

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 …

jackironsides:loki-zen:rainbowfic:But there was a period of friction, when “hello” was spreading beyond its summoning origins to become a general-purpose greeting, and not everyone was a fan. I was reminded of this when watching a scene …

Former CEO of Ottobock Canada. A different location from the law firm discussed below.Over the last ten years most of my clients have evolved when it comes to executive portraits. We've moved past the traditional …