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1990 was twenty years ago. Ten years ago.
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The Lonely Traveller
Back when I started this, the Internet was a lot more promising. You could assume that your words would be indelibly etched forever into the conciousness of humanity. I’ve seen the future, I can’t afford …
Leiden Medievalists Blog
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Cicero’s Life Reconsidered: Late Medieval and Early Humanistic Approaches
Details about Cicero’s life – well attested through many documents from antiquity – were almost forgotten during the Middle Ages. Substantial interest in his biography reemerged in the fourteenth century in the context of the …
Adam McKerlie
Musings of an Engineering Leader.
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Updated 2 months ago
Using AI to write blog posts, then and now
Six years ago I spent a week training a neural network to write blog posts and the results were terrible. Now with LLMs I want to see how much easier and better the results are.
Gansey Nation
"Here is the heart of Ganseydom on Earth" - Aragorn.
By Gordon Reid.
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Wick (Thos McKay): Week 18 – 14 October
This past week has been less fraught and adventuresome. The week in Northamptonshire was spent indoors, apart from shutting the front gate one day and putting out the bin another. Even though the weather was …
By Margaret Reid, 518 words
Luke Salamone's Blog
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Space Is Really Big
More than 30 earths could fit between the earth and the moon. Our elementary school models of the solar system really undersell how big space is. The problem is, space is too big and human …
Scott Boms | Documenting
The personal notebook and portfolio of graphic designer and printmaker Scott Boms.
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In Front of Me Now
It had been far too many years since the last time I saw Nada Surf play live1 and I’m thankful to finally break that lull on Friday night, seeing the band at the Great American …
shitty.blog
a shitty blog from a will smith.
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Kraken Not Found
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, …
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Open Objects
Every age has its orthodoxy and no orthodoxy is ever right.
By Mia Ridge.
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Notes from the Museum Data Service launch
I've shared these at work and thought it might be helpful to post my notes from the launch of the Museum Data Service at Bloomberg last week in public too. The MDS aggregates museum (and …
Paul Sellers' Woodworking Blog
A well-known amateur woodworker. Read his popular blog for hand tool woodworking tips, updates and project previews!
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Days of Old Men Working
I sometimes wonder if they can understand smoothness on wood after the plane, fresh-sharpened, swipes away that last thin shaving to leave a surface they’ve never felt before. I’m talking about someone who only ever …
By Paul Sellers, 61 words
Keith J. Grant
I make things on the web.
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CSS in Depth Addendum
As I wrote the both editions of CSS in Depth, I worked hard to stay on top of emerging features in CSS and where browsers were at in regards to adding support. The book writing …
ploeh blog
Danish software design.
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Legacy Security Manager in Haskell
A translation of the kata, and my first attempt at it. In early 2013 Richard Dalton published an article about legacy code katas. The idea is to present a piece of 'legacy code' that you …
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Human Transit
The professional blog of public transit consultant Jarrett Walker.
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San Francisco Bay Area: A Consistent Regional Mapping Standard?
In the San Francisco Bay Area, the regional transportation planning body, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), has launched a major effort to improve the coordination between the region’s 27 transit agencies. One element of this, …
The Stack
A completist plays old games.
By Carl Muckenhoupt.
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A Stray Thought on Konami Four-Player Arcade Brawlers Circa 1990
In 1989, Konami released an arcade game based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Everything about it was tailored to the source material. In the cartoon, there are four ninja turtles, who usually fight …
By Carl Muckenhoupt, 486 words
Trailspotting
Curated trail reviews, route maps and recommendations for day hikes and rail trails.
By Stuart Green.
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Mount Washington, Coös County NH
• 5-star hikes • 8 to 9 mile options • Hard | Gain 4,110 to 4,240 feet • Sargent's Purchase, NH | White Mountains . NH 4,000 Footers Looking north over the cog railway to …
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
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ANORA: THE LATEST FROM SEAN BAKER
Sean Baker is one of the brightest and most original filmmakers of his generation. He rates a place in cinematic history for being the first professional to shoot a feature film on an iPhone. That …
By Leonard Maltin, 133 words