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  1. The Reinvigorated Programmer
    Everything except sauropod vertebrae. By Mike Taylor. 🇺🇸 More info

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    What I’ve been reading lately, part 53
    The Guns of Navarone — Alistair Maclean I guess Maclean is not much read these days, but when I was in my teens his books, like those of Desmond Bagley, were a major part of …
    By Mike Taylor, 1,372 words
  2. Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week | SV-POW!
    All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access. By Michael P. Taylor, Mathew J. Wedel, Darren Naish. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 More info

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    Move over, All Yesterdays: It’s time for #MikeTaylorAwesomeDinoArt, redux!
    Back in 2013, John Conway was doing some paintings and Darren Naish was drawing lots of animals for a book. I chipped in to help with their artwork and some back and forth ensued. All …
    By Mike Taylor, 1,126 words
  3. bertrand fan
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    Recreating ANSI Art from a screenshot
    In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that …
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  4. Python for Engineers
    Now Powered by Flux Capacitors! And with 100% more Electrolytes. By Shantnu Tiwari. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Awesome Python Library: Tenacity
    Link: https://tenacity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/When writing code or tests in Python, one issue I had was when the code would fail due to random things like network issues or external peripherals not responding in time. Just rerunning the …
    By Shantnu Tiwari, 591 words
  5. The Functional Art
    Alberto Cairo's weblog about visualization, infographics, and data journalism. 🇺🇸 More info

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    The conversation continues on my bilingual newsletter
    Just a reminder of my newsletter, available in English and Spanish. Let's continue the conversation there!
    By Alberto Cairo, 23 words
  6. Koos Looijesteijn | Blog
    Hello and welcome! Here I occasionally post about making digital products. 🇳🇱 More info

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    Your lifestyle won’t save the world
    What’s wrong with mindfulness? Why do companies make everything worse? And why do we still work for them? I’ve got answers! Please continue to my website to read the post. Sorry about that. If you're …
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  7. (lambda (x) (create x))
    By Will Sinatra. 🇺🇸 More info

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    403: You are not authorized to access this material
    403: You are not authorized to access this material Or using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots · October 18th, 2024 U G H. For some reason my quaint little piece of …
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  8. Joel Auterson
    I'm a software developer. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Is Bluesky in the Fediverse?
    Bluesky is having A Moment right now, and my feed is getting busier with games industry folks. It’s lovely! I’m a little sad Mastodon didn’t get the same love but Bluesky is undoubtedly easier to …
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  9. West Halton Sidings
    A bit of North Lincolnshire on the North Lindsey Light Railway. By James Wells. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Making Point Blades using The Scalefour Society Jig
    Making your own track, especially points, can seem daunting. Maybe not so much plain track forming crossing bees, common crossings and point/switch blades. You can make these all freehand but jigs from the specialist societies, …
    By James Wells, 405 words
  10. upside down in cloud
    Illustrator in Bristol, England. I blog local interest, poetry, wildlife, travel, and art. Also LGBT and gender politics! By Dru Marland. 🇬🇧 More info

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    the 2025 Kennet and Avon Canal calendar
    The new calendar is here! This year I've gone back to people on the canal; so there's incidents from daily life and history, like the workboats - here's John Knill in 1950, delivering a cargo …
    By Dru Marland, 153 words
  11. Martijn Grooten – Blog
    I am a consultant, a researcher and a writer with a holistic view on digital security. 🇬🇷 More info

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    Kite
    Thirteen years ago, my wife Dimitra wrote a children’s story about a magical kite for the teacher training course she was doing in England. Today is Clean Monday, a day when Greeks traditionally fly kites, …
    By Martijn, 3,059 words
  12. Flaming Pablum
    Hopefully an Interesting, Informative and Amusing Experiment and Not A Slavishly Masturbatory Exercise in Abject Time-Wasting. By Alex in NYC. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Things I Learned This Week
    In the futile interests of creating space in my brain for things other than withering contempt and existential dread, herewith a short list of non-horrific things I learned this week. Sonny Curtis, the guy who …
    By Alex in NYC, 195 words
  13. Error Statistics Philosophy
    By Deborah G. Mayo. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Where Are Fisher, Neyman, Pearson in 1919? Opening of Excursion 3, snippets from 3.1
    November Cruise This first excerpt for November is really just the preface to 3.1. Remember, our abbreviated cruise this fall is based on my LSE Seminars in 2020, and since there are only 5, I …
    By Mayo, 1,999 words
  14. Xi'an's Og
    an attempt at bloggin, nothing more... 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 More info

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  15. The Patron Saint of Superheroes
    Chris Gavaler Explores the Multiverse of Comics, Pop Culture, and Politics. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Hazardous Cut-Outs
    I’m auditing a drawing class by Leigh Ann Beavers (who co-authored Creating Comics with me), which has been influencing my digital work, adding speed and perhaps a slight improvement in observational accuracy (alas, the above …
    By Chris Gavaler, 365 words