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My, a lot of Petula Clark fans read this blog. A number of you wrote to tell me that Ms. Clark had recorded a new version of "Downtown" in 2019 with a group called the …

Steffen Glacier calved off the Z group of icebergs at start of December following on a March prodution of X and Y bergs and a December-February 2023/24 breakoff of A,B,C. The Z icebergs have an …

GitHub has updated the page template used to list Commits on a repository. Central to this experience is an interactive list component that I was responsible for architecting. This work was done alongside input from …

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I have not had as many chances to build websites lately because for a little over the past 100 days, I’ve been in a non-developer role at work. It’s not really my cup of tea, …

The following is the second installment of a two-part guest post on the regulation of cryptocurrencies in the Gulf Cooperation (CCC) countries by Muneera Al-Khalifa, legal research fellow, working with Foreign Law Specialist George Sadek …

A bill introduced by Seattle Council President Sara Nelson this week is set to reignite a debate over allowing housing on Seattle’s industrial lands and the future of the SoDo neighborhood. The industrial zone in …

You may see a lot of tools, both good and bad, on the used market. But you will rarely if ever see a finishing brush on the used market. They simply wear out. These days …

by John Cook Conventionally it is accepted that Play for Today died forty years ago, in 1984. In the spring of that year, the recently appointed Head of BBC TV Plays, Peter Goodchild, decided to …

One of the little side-quests I’ve had on the agenda is to build some clamps to help out when the eventual planking process. Now, you might say, “hey, there are plenty of clamps available for …

Since Meta (the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) launched Threads as a rival to X/Twitter, there has been a healthy dose of scepticism from the fediverse community about Meta’s intentions, the company’s values …

It’s funny when you watch a sci-fi movie, because sometimes there is a prop which just seems a little out of place, usually because something doesn’t mesh with how it’s been built. Yes, I know, …

Part three of my personal favorites, with 15 landscape & seascape photos from San Diego County, Yosemite Valley, and New England. Read MoreThanks for following Alexander S. Kunz Photography via RSS & keeping independent websites …

Image credit: https://unsplash.com/@cathrynlavery It’s been a busy year, so here is a round up of the non-academic writing and podcasts I did in 2024:Writing“Who’s afraid of “killer robots”? Why human decision making remains the central …

Perhaps I should be more emotional about this, but this will be my last blog post on Airbag. The time has come to make this domain more useful than where I share my thoughts and …