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Conway’s Game of Life is a simulation developed in 1970 describing a grid of binary cells and transition rules for each cell which depend on the state of the cell’s neighbors. It’s capable of creating …

Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily …

OK, I built a new PC last year, and it’s been generally awesome. Except for one little thing. I put a NZXT Kraken Z53 in it. The Z53 is a nifty dual-fan all-in-one water cooler, …

I'm giving a lecture on 'crowdsourcing at the British Library' for students on UCL's MSc Sustainable Heritage taking the course 'Crowd-Sourced and Citizen Data for Cultural Heritage' (BENV0114). As some links at the British Library …

This box is my latest offering in box design. I was very pleased with the outcome and decided we should video its making for others to make. I cannot recall the timing of things but …

Every now and then, I see someone post their latest and greatest set of CSS resets. Here’s mine: @layer reset { *, *::before, *::after { box-sizing: border-box; } body { margin: unset; } button, input, …

Statically typed languages are also good for ad-hoc scripting. This article is part of a short series of articles that compares ad-hoc scripting in Haskell with solving the same problem in Python. The introductory article …

On February 21 at 12:00 Eastern (UTC-5), join me and Steven Higashide (Better Buses, Better Cities) for a discussion of the new edition of my book Human Transit. It’s sponsored by the great journalists at …

Having now acquired Little John, I get to bring him on missions. As expected, he’s a variant on the Strong Merry 1Tangentially, the game’s random name generator has given me a merry man amusingly named …

• 4-star trail • 1.8 miles each way • Easy difficulty | Easy elevation • Portland, ME | Maine • Driving Directions: Marked ⬤ on map Sharing the trail with the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad. …

I’ve come to trust Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen—his good taste in movie roles is seasoned with a sense of daring, as we’ve seen in such outstanding imports as The Hunt and Another Round. I’m also …

Shadows and grey The low angle of the sun highlights just the tops of these snow coated trees; the rest of this scene is in grey shadow.

Ninety percent of the ads I see on Facebook are either for shoes (especially with wide sizes), electric cars, or glasses, especially sunglasses and reading glasses. That’s because I’m interested in those things, and keep …

As you’ve seen from the site, I’ve been really into the forthcoming Elephant Stone LP, which finally drops tomorrow! While we initially got into the band with their psychedelic sounds, Back Into the Dream seems …

Through blendery Het Boerenerf, Senne Eylenbosch saved his farm, discovered his identity, and continued his family’s storied Lambic heritage. The post This Is Senne’s Valley — On Gueuze Blendery Het Boerenerf of Huizingen, Belgium appeared …