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Some of the half-frame 35mm photographs from the French ‘Randonneur Round The Year’ rides will be included in a Brighton Photo Fringe exhibition between 16 and 20 October. The show is at Regency Town House …

Three weeks ago I wrote the following draft of a blog post entitled “Is It Better to Fail Spectacularly?”. I am having a lot of doubts. I’ve been training for the Chicago Marathon in earnest …

The DX-286 now comes with TWO 18650 Li-ion batteries and is available from Amazon for US buyers and Ali Express for those outside the US. See it at Amazon: See it at Ali Express: Jay …

The Chicago Surface Lines ran a fantrip on October 23, 1938 using PCC #4002, then just two years old. It toured the city carrying many railfans, and was credited as giving the fledgling Central Electric …

Your hosting package is due to expire on Oct 26, 2024 so you’ll need to renew by then to keep your website active. Don’t worry if you’re not ready to renew just yet, we’ll remind …

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 …

On a warm sunny October Thursday I headed to Birkdale, hoping for some overdue revisits and some new ones. I started in Bar'Nista:This is a pleasant cafe/bar in a shop conversion. What makes it special …

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. Before you look on the inside front cover to see what the cover image represents, what patterns …

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 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.