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Recently I was stood outside Huddersfield Railway Station waiting for my Replacement Bus Service. I was eating much needed food from a nearby fast food outlet and contemplating my next move. Other match-goers had gone …

I was in town for some shopping but it I couldn't resist visiting a pub which only opened yesterday, so I headed up Seel Street to 1936 Pub Co's newest outlet, St Peters Tavern:Wow! 1936 …

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. We open with the second half of our interview with Boston University Professor of Mathematics Jennifer Balakrishnan. …

This week in Modern Plain Text Computing we put together some of the things we’ve been learning about cleaning and tidying data. Here’s a somewhat sobering example using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, …

The election broadcasts in the U.S. are full-day affairs, and they make a great showcase for interactive graphics. The election setting is optimal as it demands clear graphics that are instantly digestible. Anything else would …

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 …

We asked content designers from various government departments how they initially learned about accessibility and what they wished others would consider when creating accessible content.

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. …

BLOG CONTAINS IMAGES OF ILL AND DECEASED BIRDS WHICH SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING In early October we were contacted by a concerned member of the Swan Support Group based in Thames Valley. An increasing …

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

I just discovered the React component click-to-component. The component adds a visual overlay to your React application, allowing you to click on an element and jump right into your code base. Magic! Obviously, there's some …

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 …

This week’s Debrief features an update on the Sunliner Dream Bike we gave away, Pivot Solo Tent, fresh bags from Rogue Panda and Oveja Negra, two events to follow live, and more. Find it all …

Brum Rush PANDEMONIUM, if press reports can be believed, broke out in the family room at the 1990 Great British Beer Festival. A rabbit leapt from a magician's hat; 20 children, plus organiser Pat Waters, …

Principal Component Analysis, or PCA, is a fundamental dimensionality reduction technique using in Machine Learning. The general goal is to transform a -dimensional problem into a -dimensional one, where is smaller than . This can …