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Further to the earlier post, Cock-Horses, I came across this video of a recent cock-horse competition. Credit: Mario Broekhuis. Orson Cart.

How to serve protomaps tiles with NodeJS.

12 new history books identified over Jan 2024. A fairly ecclectic mix but with some familar historical themes such as modern Russia and the British Empire. A few top picks highlighted below! Click the book …

David García Goñi released a brand new version of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager for devices by Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, and Novation. New features in this version: Audio recording Initial editing of …

After a wonderful bop around the Southern half of New Zealand, we booked flights to head up to Auckland in the North. After renting a car in a super sketchy, dark parking lot, we made …

Slowly but surely, a growing number of accessories are popping up around the Apple Vision Pro. Today, we thought we’d share our favorites so far. Battery Accessories Battery Packs The Anker Prime 27,650mAh power bank. …

February 23, 2024 This Year, She Wants to Keep Things Simple… Simple, like this: She doesn’t want too many things. She doesn’t want lots of flowers or stripes or novelty prints. She wants calm… Her …

The Sodium extension in PHP 8.4 now supports `AEGIS-128L` and `AEGIS256` Authenticated Encryption ciphers. They are significantly faster than `AES-GCM` and `CHACHA20-POLY1305`. This article benchmarks them and explains how to securely encrypt and decrypt data …

When I set out to build a simple computer with an FPGA ( here, here, and here), my end goal was always to display something on a computer monitor. VGA was a natural choice because …

“Oh! Now what?” “Sir, see the lit sign up there? You cannot turn right.” “But did you not see the car right in front of me turning right?” “Sir, if a person jumped off a …

One of the most interesting aspects of SwiftUI, at least from an architectural perspective, is how it essentially treats views as data. After all, a SwiftUI view isn’t a direct representation of the pixels that …

I came up with a really slick trick to write E2E tests that deal with sending/receiving emails recently. This is the sort of thing that seems like it's probably usually sort of a nightmare — …

When I started blogging again in 2020, I was using my work computer as my home computer was non-operational. Recently work appropriately increased security on the computers (which I fully endorse) so that I can …

We’ve known for a while now that the TV rights package for the NTT IndyCar Series would be up for bid this season. NBC’s current contract runs out after the end of the 2024 IndyCar …

Panorama of Katzie Marsh in Pitt Meadows, British Columbia with Widgeon Peak, Gloomy Peak (middle), and Osprey Mountain in the background. Panorama View of Katzie Marsh and Pitt Lake Area (Purchase) -click to enlarge- In …