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We're finally getting a way to fully style & customise <select> elements! But there's a detail I'd like everyone's opinion on. A brief intro to customisable <select> If you want to hear about it in …

It will not come as news to anyone streaming music via Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Tidal, etc – the playlist is the proprietary bit. The music is identical but your curated playlists are a barrier …

A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern …

In the waning minutes before the Orioles postseason begins I ought to mark down, as is my habit, some notes on games I saw; by complete chance I was visiting Harvard CMSA (where I talked …

Some time back, Kevin Buzzard (friend of the blog!) gave a series of talks in which he criticized certain aspects of the mathematical culture when it came to accepting proof. In addition to obvious targets …

Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns & health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal gov’t. She wants to recreate America in the image of …

A reader who enjoys the novels of Sinclair Lewis tells me she is put off by the length and dullness of Mark Schorer’s 1961 biography of the Nobel laureate. I haven’t read Lewis since high …

Ancient indigenous people used seven so-called “Metals of Antiquity”: gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron, and mercury. Today, our complex societies require a much longer list of metals. We build components for power generation, transportation, …

Nature is all about life - and death.As lovers of the natural world, we delight in the abundant, thriving, humming life all around us, which is at no time of the year more apparent than …

Photographer: Rosario CataniaSummary Author: Rosario CataniaMount Etna, Europe's highest active volcano has four summit craters: The Voragine and Bocca Nuova craters, which were formed within the Central Crater in 1945 and 1968 respectively, the Northeast …

In my last post, I debunked the myth of the "reserve pool" of British workers. In this post, I discuss three more labour force myths that refuse to die: the myth of the "tide of …

Joe Walker serves as interlocutor in “Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution” (The Joe Walker Podcast, October 22, 2024). Here are a couple of points that caught my eye, but there is …

To be fair, the original joke, published on X (formerly Twitter) on July 15, 2024, did not label U.S. Senator and vice-presidential candidate JD Vance, Republican of Ohio, a “couch-fucker.” That came later. The joke, …

The following is a press release from Alliance Defending Freedom. According to Wikipedia, they are an American conservative Christian legal advocacy group that works to expand Christian religious liberties and practices within public schools and …

Another week is over and oh boy, am I ready for a couple of weeks that aren’t regular work weeks.Or maybe just for a few weeks where I don’t read the internet all that much. …