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A gift from Bonner to a budding woodworker On this this July 4th holiday I’m re-posting this tribute to a woodworker and mentor, Bonner Hall. Bonner Hall stooped down and flicked a Japanese beetle off …

some notes from myself to myself. take whatever is useful Happy New Year. Here’s a message from Greg Plitt. Watch it. Do something. Stop wishing. Go to the gym. The gym is the single physical …

In a recent Virtual Coffee chat, I asked, "What is the favorite software tool/site/thing you've ever created?" A key point to some responses was that sometimes little, quick apps are the most rewarding and impactful. …

I've decided to migrate this blog to a quarto-based blog format. All future posts will be found here: https://swingley.dev/blog2.

The Untourists The Untourists - Travel Blog - Discovering the beautiful world we live in. We have always felt Indian food is best had in a home. There is no, not one restaurant which serves …

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There’s a stream that runs by the office where I work. The Winterbourne, its name a clue. It runs high and fast when the South Downs saturate and the chalk aquifers deep inside overflow. It’s …

In our last post, we explored the Nordic VPR RISC-V processor through the lens of the peripheral processor (PPR) on the nRF54H20. While we demonstrated how the application processor can configure and start a VPR …

Qodoesen is now selling an accessories package for their DX-286 and it looks like an incredibly good deal to me. This package includes: Canvas Carry Bag with Velcro closure Telescopic Whip Antenna 2 Rubber feet …

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 …

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 …

For the first survey of the year I headed up to Southport where there are umpteen targets awaiting my attention. I walked northwards along Lord Street, noting and photographing (It'll be dark by the time …

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. For this issue, we have a very special interview with Erica Klarreich. Erica earned her doctoral degree …

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, …

Long-time reader Georgette A. found this chart from a Linkedin post by David Curran: She found it hard to understand. Me too. It's one of those charts that require some time to digest. And when …