JazzWax
Marc Myers writes daily on jazz legends and legendary jazz recordings.
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Updated 14 hours ago
Documentary: Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975)
In 1975, record and concert producer Norman Granz assembled a sizable ensemble of jazz legends and took them off to Europe. The players on this Jazz at the Philharmonic tour were trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Roy …
tenfootpole.org
I bought these adventure and review them so you don't have to.
By Bryce Lynch.
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Updated 7 hours ago
The Cliff-Lair of Heeter
By Corey Ryan WaldenSelf PublishedBasicLevels 1-3 A local tale whispers of a strange sorcerer who has dwelt in the cliffs and crags for centuries. During that time savage lightning has illumined the skies and valleys, …
By Bryce Lynch, 856 words
The Laravel Blog
By Taylor Otwell, James Brooks, Dries Vints, Joe Dixon, Nuno Maduro.
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Updated a month ago
Laravel Nova 5.0 Now Available
Laravel Nova 5.0 is now ready for upgrade. This release focuses on modernizing Nova's core dependencies while introducing several useful features to improve resource management and field handling.
By Cynthia Bell McGills, 33 words
Writer Beware
…shines a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers, industry news, and commentary.
By Victoria Strauss.
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Updated a week ago
Best of Writer Beware: 2024 in Review
Hard to believe another year has rolled around–it seems like five minutes ago I was preparing this annual overview for 2023. As always, it’s been a busy year of writing scams, publisher implosions, exploitative contract …
By Victoria Strauss, 1,994 words
learnbyexample
Learn Python, Regex, Linux, Scripting, Vim, Ebooks, Self-Publishing and Interesting Tech Nuggets.
By Sundeep Agarwal.
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Updated a week ago
Coloring matched portions with GNU grep, sed and awk
You might already know how to use the --color option to highlight matched portions with GNU grep. In this post, you'll see how to use ANSI escape sequences to format matched portions with GNU sed …
ODonnellWeb
The blog of Chris ODonnell.
By Chris O'Donnell.
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Updated 3 days ago
Sunday Links #3
The forecast is full of single digit lows and sub-freezing highs this week. Did I mention in live in the South? Tomorrow is a holiday to celebrate MLK's birthday. It seems like a sick joke …
By Chris ODonnell, 522 words
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Comment on macroeconomic issues.
By Simon Wren-Lewis.
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Updated a month ago
After neoliberalism: dynamics of transformation
As this will be the last blog until 2025, I thought I’d make it a bit more substantive than usual. Normal service will be resumed in 2025. I started writing about how the UK and …
Sentence first
An Irishman's blog about the English language.
By Stan Carey.
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Updated a month ago
When books make you sing: a record of accidental song lyrics
Books, especially novels, often quote song lyrics – typically as an epigraph and sometimes in the body text. If, that is, the author or publisher can afford it. But what of novels that quote songs …
Jazz Collector
Jazz Collector is the leading jazz blog and jazz website for those who love jazz and treasure the history, archives, ephemera and, most of all, the music.
By Al Perlman.
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Back on eBay and Ain’t it Grand
Now that I’m back in the business of watching rare jazz vinyl here at Jazz Collector, and doing more writing about it, I’ve become interested in expanded my experiences. Not necessarily ready to start selling …
It's A Raggy Waltz
I collect jazz on vinyl, I dig the Dave Brubeck Quartet, & I write about it.
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Updated a year ago
Waiting For Spring // David Benoit (GRP 9595)
I know what you’re thinking. “David Benoit?! We’ve waited a year for a record review and it’s David Benoit?!? What the heck is Tarik doing writing about HIM?!” Weeeeell hold on there. This may seem …
Trail Running for Life
Trail running to explore the unbeaten path.
By Sean Duffy.
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Updated 5 days ago
Planning Adventures for 2025
Long time, no update. I feels like an age since I last wrote on my blog. I’ve struggled to find time among work and life in general. I now find myself ‘reset’ in a way, …
Polytechnic — Blog
The personal brain-dump of Garrett Coakley.
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HTML Is Actually a Programming Language
When haters deny HTML’s status as a programming language, they’re showing they don’t understand what a language really is. Language is not instructing an interlocutor what to do in a way that leaves no room …
By Garrett Coakley, 182 words
Hinesight....for Foresight | Blog
Apply foresight to help organisations make more creative, innovative, and forward-looking decisions.
By Andy Hines.
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Degrowth Approaching the Mainstream?
Not exactly, but there are signs on the path to After Capitalism. Back in 2018 I posted Degrowth: A Growing Issue in the Future? that asked “is it okay yet to talk about degrowth in …
Declan Byrd
I'm a front-end developer in the UK.
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2025 Week Notes - Week 3
On Monday, I played in Worthing D&D White's 100-45 home win against Worthing D&D Ballers. It took me until the second half to find a shooting rhythm but I eventually finished the game with 12 …
Enchanted Prose
A blog for beautiful fiction, memoirs, inspiration.
By Lorraine Kleinwaks.
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Go as a River
Love is sacrifice, sacred land life-affirming (Gunnison River Valley, Colorado; 1948—1970): Crying can soothe us. All the more reason to let Shelley Read take you on this absolutely beautiful and sad journey. “There is a …