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Barry Petchesky, Defector: For I am a baby gamer: I do not wish to be unduly or excessively challenged by video games. I wish to die a maximum of, let's say five times before beating …

Continuing the exploration into interesting LEGO techniques, my son played around with SNOT. SNOT stands for Studs Not On Top – it is a way of building LEGO where the studs face in other directions, …

I keep seeing awesome keyboards and then get sad that I don’t have a mechanical keyboard. Royal Keycaps are, according to owner Tommy, keyboard enthusiasts interested in delivering niche and specialty products for other fanatics …

I’ve not been blogging much lately as I’ve been following the invasion of Ukraine by the genocidal regime in Russia. You can donate to a reputable aid charity to help Ukraine here (LINK). So, to …

Italian basil pesto lasagne al forno (also called lasagne alla Portofino) is hands down the best summer lasagna recipe. It’s light, easily made vegetarian and just totally delicious. If you love pesto, you’ll swoon over …

At the beginning of the summer, I had the opportunity to join the team at Royalty Pharma for a great event at MIT (link here). It was an interesting time for me as I was …

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History Tonny & Annie Calderwood lived in North Haven, Maine. They were farmers in Indian Point and their diaries have been transcribed and uploaded by a local historical society. This is a useful demonstration of …

So you’ve got a log. Maybe its a tree that came down nearby, or maybe somebody heard you’re a woodworker and offered you a log. And you have a bandsaw. You start wondering if you …

Some architecture links: another piece about Eaton’s ninth floor has a few nice photos; Dezeen looks at a new residential building in the Technopôle Angus (which it describes as “outside Montreal” and “northeast of Montreal …

I’ve been following the press and social media coverage of Apple’s pricey new Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, which now totals hundreds of stories and thousands of comments and I’ve noticed one idea missing from …

Despite growing up as a third culture kid used to travel, and having spent almost 20 years visiting various places around Japan, this spring brought a new experience: taking my kid on their first international …

A Chinese chip design company called SpacemiT has unveiled a new laptop that will be powered by the company’s K1 processor, which is an octa-core processor that should offer better-than ARM Cortex-A55 performance, support for …

Attributes and properties are fundamentally different things. You can have an attribute and property of the same name set to different values. For example: <div foo="bar">…</div> <script> const div = document.querySelector('div[foo=bar]'); console.log(div.getAttribute('foo')); // 'bar' console.log(div.foo); …

So years ago I discovered double wall glass mugs. Nearly perfect but just too fragile, leading to lots of orders: They are nearly ideal. Zero flavor retention, easy to clean, great for hot coffee and …