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“Can I interest you in a makeover, sir?” The voice stopped Dawes in his tracks once his brain had processed the words. “In a what?” he asked as he glanced in the direction of the …

We spent the end of the year in Minas Gerais, the massive Brazilian state next door to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Because of our cat almost dying back in September, and him having …

‘…It’s a quasar – the bright core of a galaxy that is powered by a gargantuan black hole some 17 billion times the mass of our Sun. Known as J0529-4351, the object’s power was confirmed …

Here’s how you want to set your margins on your game to make sure it’s profitable. You’ll want to use a spreadsheet to keep track of some of this stuff. Spreadsheet maintenance is a big …

CSS today has advanced features that make browsers powerful, our work easier and JavaScript dependency minimal. Here is a list of some of my favourite new CSS features, including masks, container queries, and parent selector. …

Receiving comments about my usage of "light" mode makes me less inclined to use dark mode - Tagged: Rant, Skepticism, We live in a society

In the bustling world of Kotlin/Android development, maintaining code quality and consistency is essential. This is where linters come in, like shining knights cleaning up and polishing your codebase. But with a variety of linters …

I wonder if Figma’s cofounder, Dillon Field, knew just how widely used and successful Figma would become. While Figma as a company has been around since 2012, it wasn’t until 2015 that they launched their …

An interesting piece by Alfred Moore over at The Conversation talking about “Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names“. This hearkens back to a lot of thoughts …

All Chromium-based apps such a Google Chrome, Obsidian have a built-in DNS client. I have set up NextDNS on my computer to block ads and trackers. The built-in DNS clients by pass the NextDNS, which …

When I set out to build a history module for my bashrc/profile, the dearth of code re-use and collaborative ~unixy modularity struck me as a little sad. I knew early on that I wanted to …

Yuhki Danvers on Twitter: 5 months ago Patrick Harpin walked into Warner Bros. Pictures / DC Comics and pitched a Batman Beyond Animated Feature. Before we pitched, they warned us “there is absolutely no way …

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, …

packapunchpanda on Instagram tried lifting the weights of various Pokémon that Ash Ketchum has carried in the anime. I didn’t realise how heavy some of these Pokémon were and how easy Ash made it look!