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I explored the collection and picked my top six favorite Cavallini puzzles to share with you! I hope you'll find them as captivating and delightful as I did. Whether you're gifting them or enjoying them …

writing code on TRS-80 like it's 1983 (sort of)

Add a new Building Block to the Building Blocks page, called “Precondition Unidling”:- Idle Genetic Engineers may submit Proposals as if they were not idle; such proposals are known as Precondition Proposals, and should suggest …

A while ago I went to north Wales with my daughter. I posted here a few pictures from that trip. We wanted to visit a place I saw in various websites, that at first looked …

Yes, these are my hand-written notes. My descent into madness continues apace. Check here for part 1.PART 4: SECRETS OF 1.00Digging through this immensely helpful spreadsheet has revealed many things. A lot of the changes …

Kamakura, where I lived from 2020 to 2024, is a beautiful coastal town less than an hour south of Tokyo. Its temples, gardens, and beaches attract tourists from across Japan and the world, but what …

hello all! no more art will be posted on this log/RSS feed; i’m merging/updating it to a new art blog powered by tegalog instead of wordpress. the new RSS link is not “quite” live yet …

Pointless Exposition I’m not in the Apple ecosystem, but I was quite enthused about the announcement of the airtag and the FindMy network back in 2019. The private-by-design protocol / implementation looked great, especially compared …

Jim VandeHei (Axios co-founder) on The Grill Room podcast regarding new media vs the old: “What I tell our staff is, I don’t have time to be romantic. Whatever was will not be in the …

I developed the theme used on this site from scratch and have made it available as free open source software. You can see the code hereGitHub - nickabs/transmission: transmission Ghost themetransmission Ghost theme. Contribute to …

“Fred Moore was Disney drawing," his colleague Marc Davis once said. "We’ve all done things on our own, but that was the basis of what Disney stood for.”

Aimee Hess. Photo:Shawn Miller. –Aimee Hess in the Publishing Office helps produce books highlighting the Library’s collections. This story also appears in the Nov.-Dec. issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. Describe your work at …

The Tim Traveller travelled to Milan to visit the Arena Civica (officially Arena Gianni Brera) and ask a question: is this the oldest stadium in modern professional football? But before you get ready to Well …

Just learned this evening that my Mom has passed away.Not much to say right now. Lots to process. She was an exceptionally good person, a medical pro who cared about everyone.Not sure if I'll have …

When you think of your own circle of competence, you quickly come to realize that this model is a way to express self-knowledge — and self-knowledge in turn helps you articulate your circle with more …