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Simon Sarris, Reading Well: You should start many books and complete few. You should never feel beholden to completing them, there are simply too many worthwhile works to read. I’m a completionist. I don’t like …

The Hebrew month of Elul אֱלוּל begins this week, so let's look at its etymology. As with the other names of the months in the current Hebrew calendar, it was adopted in Babylonia, and therefore …

I need your help. I have had multiple brands of ereaders over the years. My latest ereaders are an 11-year old Kobo Aura and a Kindle Paperwhite purchased in 2018. These devices are old and …

Patrice Lejeune and W. Patrick Edwards show off their creations, the "Treasure Box" series, 2008-2024. When the economic crash of 2008 happened, all our business plans for making expensive marquetry furniture changed. We needed to …

I attached the roof panels to the mollicroft frame, undercoated it all (figure 1) and then hoisted the whole thing atop the body and fixed it to the two end-wall rafters (figure 2). Fig. 1. …

How to serve protomaps tiles with NodeJS.

Our review of The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943, by James Holland, first published in September 2023. An in-depth investigation into a few months in the Battle for Italy: we get a sense …

Week highlights: new releases of Inkscape, Friction, and Ardour, update on upcoming major releases from GIMP and FreeCAD. Disclaimer: yes, it’s been quite a while. I’m bringing back weekly recaps under different terms. Now they …

I QUIT MY JOB TWO YEARS AGO! Isn’t that crazy? I can’t quite believe it’s been two years of early retirement. Two years with no boss, no annoying colleagues, and living every day like it’s …

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories Federico and John announce that AppStories is now on YouTube and discuss the Club MacStories Fall Membership Drive and listener follow-up before digging into Federico’s …

October 21, 2024 Normally Neutral She usually wears ivory and black. Every day. With nothing else added… So this scarf has some appeal, right from the start! scarf – Echo She recently made a mistake …

How to fix the `SQLSTATE[HY000] [1524] Plugin 'mysql_native_password' is not loaded` errors caused in MySQL 8.4 no longer enabling the `mysql_native_password` plugin by default.

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 …

I'm posting my previous entry to LinkedIn when this time I'm asked “You're one of the few experts invited to answer: Your team is hesitant about new web app technologies. How can you overcome their …

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 …