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This is a small utility that I wrote to compliment git bisect. git bisect is a fantastic tool. In the most basic usage you give it one “good” commit (a commit that doesn’t yet include …

By: Stuart LoweWe've done a lot of work with hex cartograms over the years. The tools we've made are often aimed at developers or those who can make a web page. Some people have used …

I will be part of a panel discussion titled “Folk Around & Find Out IV: Folklore of the Future,” on Sunday (3/24), the final event of this year’s Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival. A panel …

On regulatory capture…1/ There are two reactions a company can have when faced with calls for regulation. One is to appear to capitulate & work w/regulators to find a least disruptive path. Other is to …

The BL Labs team provided support to the Living with Machines team at critical points in the project. If you’re inspired to contribute to the future of BL Labs, now’s your chance! LwM Co-Investigator Maja …

In the previous article we showed how to automate the migration from callbacks to async/await for Mocha tests using jscodeshift. We started from the jscodeshift-ts-template repo and added the final implementation to the ts-codemods repo. …

Why, when I have a perfectly good one available right here? Because change is healthy. It’s nothing dramatic, just a change of scenery and a simpler outlook. You can read more about why on the …

What if something was designed one day, one change at a time? What if every day, it got just a tiny bit better? With time, revealed more of itself. A new project, where this website …

If you were familiar with Dingoonity, you might have noticed by now that I’ve made the decision to shut down the website.

What happened was, Brian and I were chatting about W3C GitHub issues and Brian mentioned how really long issues are annoying to search and read, because GitHub has this thing where if there are too …

I participated in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It was an 18-week program, funded by the Ethereum Foundation, that aimed to catalyze a wider exploration of protocols and …

British architecture studio Dowen Farmer Architects has released plans for Portal Road, a multistorey ghost-kitchen tower block in west London that would shuttle food to a public food hall like the “Ministry of Magic”.Dowen Farmer …

New video from SCTL Korea room temperature superconductor experimenters shows a very strong full levitation effect. Full levitation is evidence of the Meissner effect found only in superconductors. I have shown how the levitation evidence …

A curious case of jumper settings for PETs with the dynamic system board. The curious tale of a PET, two jumpers, and some funny games… Continue reading…

I've released a major update to my article, "A deep dive into CRT modelines and EDID editing". I've expanded on getting a VGA output using HDMI-to-VGA adapters (DACs), reading, writing, and editing EDID data on …

The weekend markets live-ish and direct in my hand A few years ago, I ended up spending 9 months living in South Gippsland, about two hours from Melbourne. We were doing a renovation on our …

I’ve been building a number of apps using Rails recently and they run on servers that are, shall we say, not particularly optimal. I’m from Yorkshire and I live in Scotland so thriftiness is ingrained.

My 23 hopes for 2023 didn't all come true. I'd say overall it was a pretty rough year for me in some ways, with high highs and monotonous lows, but hey, it ended on a …

Hosting Your Web Apps with PikaPods 23 April, 2024 To self host or not … that is the question. And it’s a question that I think I answered for my self in previous post. Despite …