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CrankWheel uses Maxio (née Chargify) for subscription management. It’s OK but I’ve never been super duper happy with it (mostly because I chose it for its flat fee structure, then later they switch to charging …

I’ve been experimenting with the MapChart website to produce maps showing the birth county of people in North Walls and Brims in two censuses, 1861 and 1921. What do you think? 1861 Census And here’s …

The penultimate day on Te Araroa was a long walk along Oreti Beach, bookended with roadwalk in Riverton and Invercargill. I woke up this morning to a drizzle. It had dissipated by the time I …

Robb Knight in My Computing Origin Story and Kev Quirk in My computing History have both written posts about their computing history as part of WeblogPoMo2024. I thought I’d write about mine. I didn’t have …

Kaufelt was the proprietor of Murray's Cheese in New York City, named the world's best cheese store by Forbes magazine. That may or may not be the case but in any event, he is a …

I recently completed my latest sculpture, the Tooth Fairy, and this is the background of the character, the process, and what I learned.

🎙️ Listened to the “If Books Could Kill” podcast re-release of the episode on “Hillbilly Elegy”. I read parts of the book when it came out, and couldn’t understand why it was so popular, so …

Though I'd been solving Exercism puzzles for well over a year, I hadn't taken the time to put my solutions in a git repo (publicly…

Christopher Sharp has a concerning follow-up to the recent House hearing exchange between Representative Anna Paulina Luna and Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. It's fueled by revelations by The UAP Register's Dustin Slaughter, and …

Original airdate: May 19, 2024 The premise: Bart’s prank involving a human brain in a jar backfires when he is forced to “care” for it as a school assignment. He begins to form a true …

After the puffin tour, we headed north again with a stop at Cape Spear Lighthouse, a Canadian National Historic Site. Located on Canada’s most easterly point of land, the Cape Spear Light is the oldest …

Avoid your home overheating in summer by using your windows and blinds like the Maltese do on the Med! #BeatTheHeat

I never really thought I’d have a fast XC bike again, but, I was wrong. And I’m glad. And impressed at just how capable a “modern” XC race bike is. For almost three years I’ve …