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I really appreciated Cory LaViska’s take on #WebComponents here. Especially this bit:You know what framework I want to use? I want a framework that aligns with the platform, not one that replaces it. I want …

Ruby on Rails has built-in support for managing uploaded files with ActiveStorage, which both cleans up your application code and acts as an abstraction over different storage backends. Azure Storage is one of the supported …

This is my second in a series of guitars which take inspiration from the work of Dominique Field, this time in Red Cedar and 640 scale. With the addition of an elevated neck and a …

Another enjoyable weekend in North Devon shot by and no sooner than we had arrived it was time to head back up the M5 to the Midlands again. My friend Ken needed dropping off in …

This isolated tuft of the high ice-crystal cloud Cirrus is of the species spissatus, meaning ‘thickened’ in Latin, because it appears denser than the usual insubstantial appearance of Cirrus. This particular example, which was spotted …

'Another' pass out from the Wife saw me venturing to sunny Spain where Benidorm was the first port of call for a night to blow the cobwebs away, and then 5 nights at my mate …

A letter from Alexander Deriev, husband of the late poet Regina Derieva. The Russian couple have a helluva back story. I wrote about her in “Writ on Water,” an 2014 essay for the Times Literary …

In The Japan Times Mike Fu suggests that Han Kang's Nobel win underscores essential role of translators as literary tastemakers -- noting: Her meteoric rise since attests to the outsize influence that individual translators can …

Word has arrived that the Chicago Transit Authority, which in 2015 set aside eight 2400-series 'L' cars built by Boeing-Vertol for their historic collection, has downsized a bit. Cars 2543 and 2544, shown above back …

I have not decided yet what this structure is - maybe will later. It was scratch built based on a sketch I drew. It is two stories with an outside stair case. I put a …

Does it seem strange (ironic? unlucky? typical?) that, within days of the federal government reaffirming its support for a Via Rail high-speed rail corridor in Ontario and Quebec, the passenger railway was hit with new …

It’s 19th October, just past the middle of the month, and soon it will be all downhill towards December and the onset of winter. Fortunately, two or three of days of unseasonably warm weather, fuelled …

– What about the time I chipped my tooth on the bathroom urinal?! What the FUCK is so comical about that?!– It was a back tooth, Hank.(The Larry Sanders Show)===

How Apple's Macintosh design philosphy affects the web.

So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the idea even came up but it quickly snowballed into a curious expedition. The result from the journey was …