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  1. Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
    A blog about the origin of Hebrew words and phrases and how they relate to English and other languages. By David Curwin. 🇮🇱 More info

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    leitzan and mukion
    Let's look at two Hebrew words for clown - לֵיצָן leitzan and מוּקְיוֹן mukion. Leitzan is the more common of the two, so we'll start by examining it. It first appears in Rabbinic Hebrew, meaning …
    By Balashon, 920 words
  2. The Well-Appointed Desk
    For the love of pens, paper, office supplies and a beautiful place to work. By Ana Reinert, et al. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Fashionable Friday: Pantone Color of the Year 2024 Mocha Mousse
    While I am never certain if Pantone’s Color of the Year choices are an accurate predictor of color trends or if, because Pantone says its the color of the year, it just becomes the color …
    By Ana, 310 words
  3. WPatrickEdwards
    A traditional furniture conservator, restorer and maker discusses his life experiences and his philosophy of work. If you love marquetry this is the place to discuss it. By W. Patrick Edwards. 🇺🇸 More info

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    One Moment in Time with President Carter
    It is not often in life that you get a chance to meet a President. I consider my life changed by standing in front of Jimmy Carter and having a conversation. A sincerely human and …
    By W. Patrick Edwards, 571 words
  4. Orson Cart – at large
    Carriage building, driving and general horsing around in country Victoria. More info

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    A Vardo – Part Seven
    Regular readers will have previously seen the lock and wheels etc. upside down in A Vardo – Part Four, but now that I have it all painted (figure 1), it’s constantly in the way and …
    By orsoncartatlarge, 507 words
  5. ckochis.com | Craig Kochis
    Engineering articles by Craig Kochis. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Serve Protomaps Tiles with NodeJS
    How to serve protomaps tiles with NodeJS.
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  6. Popular history books homepage
    A blog reading and reviewing popular history books. We review great (hopefully!) new (probably...) history (certainly 🙂) books - that you might otherwise overlook. 🇬🇧 More info

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    New history books in January 2025
    It's the first post of the new year 2025 and unlike every other website on the internet I am going to start with a damp squib rather than a bang. Hopefully we will build to …
    By Anthony Webb, 253 words
  7. Libre Arts - Home
    An online magazine for creative professionals using free applications for digital painting, graphic and web design, desktop publishing, photography, and CAD. More info

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    Weekly recap — 12 January 2025
    Week highlights: new releases of HDRView, LibreCAD, and cabbage; new features in GIMP and Ardour; FreeCAD’s alternative Ribbon UI gets an update. GIMP The DDS plugin now support loading files with BC7 compression. CmykStudent read …
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  8. Financial Mechanic
    the money tools you need to be set free. More info

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    I’m 50 And Ready To Quit; A Case Study Update 3 Years Later
    I'm in my 50s and want to quit-- but I don't know if I have "enough". The post I’m 50 And Ready To Quit; A Case Study Update 3 Years Later first appeared on Financial …
    By financialmechanic, 49 words
  9. MacStories
    Apple news, app reviews, and stories by Federico Viticci and friends. By Federico Viticci, et al. More info

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    The Latest from Comfort Zone, NPC, Magic Rays of Light, and MacStories Unwind
    Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone In this very special episode, the gang makes their “Pro” and “Pro Max” predictions for tech in 2025 and oh my, does it get …
    By John Voorhees, 815 words
  10. The Vivienne Files
    Capsule wardrobes inspired by art and nature. By Janice Riggs. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Want Lots of Accent Colors? The Meredith Wing Scarf by Echo
    January 17, 2025 This scarf scream warm weather to me, but I’m pretty certain that we can figure out ways to wear it every month of the year! scarf – Echo There are a few …
    By Janice, 443 words
  11. PHP.Watch
    A source for PHP News, upcoming changes to the language core and extensions, and articles. By Ayesh Karunaratne. More info

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    How to install PHP on Windows using Winget
    Installing, Updating, and removing PHP on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2025 made with `winget`.
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  12. Austin Morlan
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    The Joy of Retro Gaming
    I’ve owned a lot of gaming hardware throughout my life. The NES was technically my first gaming console but the SNES is where my gaming journey really began. I had a Sega Genesis at one …
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  13. The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm
    The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”. By Sean Conner. 🇺🇸 More info

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    I am Socrates
    I tried reading this with an open mind, but then I came across this: This is a very easy fix. If I paste the error back into the LLM it will correct it. Though in …
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  14. Swift by Sundell
    Weekly Swift articles, podcasts and tips by John Sundell. 🇵🇱 More info

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    SwiftUI views versus modifiers
    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 …
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  15. Wesley Aptekar-Cassels
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    End-to-end testing emails
    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 — …
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