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18XX. This has been a year of 18XX games. Things started slowly in the Spring, but then 18 India hit us by a storm. I ended up playing various 18XX titles over 20 times this …

Nine Tiles is from Japanese publisher Oink Games, but the designer is Jean-Claude Pellin from Luxemburg. The Sanrio characters version I have is not the first edition. The very first edition uses just generic abstract …

In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The foundation is a part of the new nationalist establishment steering Indian society. As they see things, India’s …

A small article in the Honolulu Star (March 27, 1900) made the announcement … “Hibernia block will probably be the name of the new sky scraper to go on Hotel Street, between Union and the …

For years now I have had a boilerplate rejection notice for review requests from Elsevier journals. (See the Cost of Knowledge pledge for why.) I include it here, feel free to remix and reuse: As …

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level has been percolating among monetary theorists for over three decades: Eric Leeper being the first to offer a formalization of the idea, with Chris Sims and Michael Woodford …

This episode is released exclusively on Pushkin+. Episodes are released on the main feed each Friday. Lying on the cold metal table, Voyne Ray Cox knew the drill. This was his ninth round of cancer …

It does, actually. In Firefox. Sometimes. A major risk of using ARIA to define text content is it typically gets overlooked in translation. Automated translation services often do not capture it. Those who pay for …

My @container scroll-state() article is live! developer.chrome.com/blog/css-scroll-state-queries Stuck state: Triggered when an element is stuck.Snapped state: Triggered when an element is snapped.Scrollable state: Triggered when an element is overflowing.

A cold east wind but no snow or frost. Had to do No2 again today. Hoovered the pipes and boilers. Cleaned a truck load out of the silage lab again. Did all the Ts again.

When this blog reached its five-year anniversary in 2018, I wrote a summary of the conclusions it had reached so far, and I vaguely thought at the time that, should it run for another five …

. After Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie, and the Prince Imperial, let’s add yet another profile of a Bonaparte who imprinted their personal style on 19th-century Paris: Princess Mathilde. If you were to design the exemplary …

Having regular pain can be depressing and demoralising, but waking up in the middle of the night in pain, as I did last night, can be even moreso.For some reason my left knee ached severely …

-Black Friday // Cyber Monday- MAKER’S MOB BIGGEST SALE EVER CLICK HERE This project proves that the best laid plans don’t always guarantee success. I did a lot of planning before I started, but still …

Further adventures of the Amiga port of Cecconoid! And this one's kinda crazy. Neil, from RMC, recently came across an Arcadia cabinet, Mastertronic's folly to make an arcade machine out of an Amiga 500. As …