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The New York Times published this chart to illustrate the extreme ocean heat driving the formation of hurricane Milton (link): The chart expertly shows layers of details. The red line tracks the current year's data …

Acknowledgements The code in this post is indebted (and in some cases wholly ripped off from) work by the glorious Finn Lindgren, who emailed me some code to do this probably a decade ago. Yes …

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provides a helpful framework for identifying technical accessibility issues, but what happens when the same issues crop up time and again? How can you find the causes and change …

Evolving ACE – sharing the latest news and pipeline updates with our community Our second community event of the year was held in London this week, drawing in almost 200 people in person and online. …

The UK government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) recently attended the 8th World One Health Congress (WOHC) in South Africa. The Congress took place over …

The CSS Anchor Positioning API is a game-changer in web development because it lets you natively position elements.

Code reviews are, by nature, intimidating. Sometimes even brutal. If you've been in the game for long enough, you probably experienced the following: you worked hard on a feature, you're proud of yourself and open …

Just a brief update here -- I recently had the honor of participating in Rock Paper Shotgun's "what's on your bookshelf" interview series.It's one of my favorite gaming journalism things happening at the moment, full …

At 1:07:17 on Saturday, Jake Inger rolled into the Picket Post trailhead to win the 2024 Arizona Trail Race 300 with a time of 2 days, 7 hours, and 17 minutes (2d:07h:17m). To say that …

Four-Gone Conclusion It’s just before 5pm on a Saturday afternoon and the Fourpure Brewing Co taproom is quiet. Very quiet. A space that could easily accommodate 400 customers contains about 25 mostly middle-aged men. Much …

We all have some problem we are trying to solve. First off, if you can convert the problem to text, or increasingly pdfs, images, video, etc., then you might be able to use AI for …

Several years ago, I had a little mystery regarding the 1988 film Just Ask for Diamond. You can go here for a full refresher, but in short, I am in possession of two substantially different …

Another heron at RSPB Ouse Fen (Earith). There were 4 or 5 flying around. This is the Great White Egret, Ardea alba. It’s about the size of a Grey Heron, but white. Great White Egret …

We have committed to a real estate agent. He thinks my mother’s house will be on the market within a few weeks. I signed up a cleaning service who will sweep in on Wednesday, and …

Sarah Manavis, writing for The Guardian: A survey commissioned by the Booksellers Association ahead of Bookshop Day tomorrow has found that gen Z and millennials are more likely to buy a book based on a …