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Chapter 5 of The Staff Engineer’s Path is going to be about leading big projects, the kind that involve a lot of teams, or where the stakes are high, or the path forward is ambiguous–or …

I've a written a new book. It's a children's book and it's called A Riddle for a King. It's suitable for those aged between about eight and twelve, although it has been rigorously tested on …

Submitted by Lachlan, who says: Brisbane dropped a new transit map and it is EXTREMELY pretty. I’m a big fan. Definitely the best-designed official transit map in Australia in my opinion. It even acknowledges the …

Welp. That week happened. I’ve added in a couple extra things I appreciated this week because I think a lot of us could use some joy right now. Highlight of the week: meeting our neighbors …

Many viewers have asked for a review of a recent study which supposedly shows “new evidence” in the climate change “debate.” More specifically, the study’s authors claim that we need to conduct more research into …

Part of what excites me about generative AI LLMs and GANs is the back-and-forth between language and representation. I’ve lately been playing more with MidJourney and Deep Dream Generator and a local install of Stable …

Ideated from: some recent releases I’ve been spinning Stumbled across this without really knowing how much of a puzzle it would be to sort out what it was. Siobhan is a noted jazz guitar player …

The Old Royal Naval College dominates the riverfront at Greenwich. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren, the complex was originally a Royal Navy hospital, but from 1873 to 1998 was home to the Royal Navy’s officer …

for we must know in advance, if we are prepared for that conflict, that the combat may have truces but never a peace. If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there …

You can take the bear out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the bear. The third Paddington film. This time Paddington goes on a trip to Peru to see his …

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 …

Spent a few days over in Lithuania at the end of October, visiting our lad in Vilnius. The city is spilt by two rivers, the Vilnia and the much larger Neris, which are home to …

The accessory cloud known as velum – Latin for the ‘sail’ of a ship – is often upstaged by the huge and dramatic formations that cause it to appear. Clouds like the blustery Cumulonimbus storm …