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I have been working on moving a collection of about 20-30 AWS accounts from two different AWS Organizations into a new AWS Organization with Control Tower enabled. During the process I have run into a number of different blockers and issues which have not always had the most obvious solutions due to cryptic errors that the AWS Control Tower enrollment process shows. This blog post lists out some of the …

Once upon a time on Twitter: I was on the road and groggy with cold meds when this conversation happened, so I told my friend Rushkoff I’d get back to him when I was home and rested up. I thought that would be a week or so later. It’s been 2 months and I haven’t stopped thinking about it, in fact I’m still not entirely sure how to answer it. …

Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister, soft-cover book and slipcase (Phaidon Press, 2023). The book continues Sagmeister’s life-long interest how design can best speak to people and improve their lives. Initially conceived in 2020 as the world entered a global pandemic, Now is Better looks at quality of life issues through collected statistics and information. WOMAN I, from Now is Better. Percentage of countries in which women have the right …

Before this poster was created hardly anyone had seen the word "Fitzrovia" in print and virtually nobody would have recognised "Fitzrovia" as the name of a London neighbourhood. The origins of Fitzrovia's name begin in the late 1700s when Charles Fitzroy began developing family land in Fitzroy Square and surrounding streets. The Fitzroy Tavern, took its name from Charles Fitzroy's developments. It became popular with the artistic and literary crowd …

Léelo en español Years ago, I grew Stylidium debile in California. After a long period of not growing any carnivorous plants, a friend gave me this division, which just began to flower. Yes, yes, this is the most common Stylidium species in cultivation, and yes, it is exceedingly easy to grow. While that may reduce its cache with certain horticulturalists, it a pretty little plant. It features glandular carnivorous or …

The post Dieter Rams Braun Product Colour Palettes by Chad Ashley appeared first on Smithographic Logo Design All Original Content © 1996 – 2022 Smithographic.uk | Chad Ashley @cgpov has created these beautiful images of colour palletes created by Dieter Rams for the Braun product collection. Those colour buttons are just begging to be pushed, they are so yummy. ♡ Via: Present and Correct The post Dieter Rams Braun Product …

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. We know by now that not all code can be automatically migrated. So is there anything else we can do? If you happen to use some known test libraries or frameworks that come with their …

Would you like to become better at crafting pull requests and reviewing code? Here are the 13 tips from my latest book that you can use in your daily developer activity.

This blog post will delve into the details of each tool you need for plein air painting.

My first trip to Scotland was when I was sixteen. At the end of the summer term I was asked not to return to Lancing College, my boarding school, as I was deemed ineducable. My parents didn’t really know what to do with me but, somehow, my mother learnt of adventure training courses run by the Scottish Council of Physical Education (now Sportscotland) at Glenmore Lodge a Highland centre near …

Comme bien des montréalais depuis quelques années, des travaux sont en cours sur notre rue depuis deux semaines. Aqueducs, conduites d’eau contenant du plomb, remplacement de ci et de ça, la totale. Ce matin un camion avec tuyau articulé mêne un bruit d’enfer en pompant ou injectant quelque chose au fond d’un trou, je n’ai pas investigué. En revenant à la maison tantôt, autre camion au coin de la rue, …

We go back to Marlin Apartments in Stratford, where homeless families live 4 and 5 to a single room – around which they are pursued by militias of rats, mice, bedbugs, cockroaches, tiny flies and other pests that I didn’t care to view closely at the time. There are pictures and stories here if you can stand it. Being eaten by bedbugs was plenty to be getting on with, but …

This tour is massive, the excitement must be wild, what does it mean to you to be able to do this? It’s what we’re always waiting to get back to on our time off to be honest. It’s the most amazing rollercoaster, there are so many highs and lows, so many amazing moments and then some days when it’s really hard. So much life is concentrated into those couple months …

Start with something simple. We've got the verb give, which we all know, and the thing that you give is a gift. They're quite obviously related. This is Not Interesting.Then you've got people who use the word gift as a verb, as in "I gifted it to him." That's a bit odd because it's verb to noun to verb again. But it's still pretty obvious.Then you have the verb drive. …

Karen Lord, The Blue, Beautiful World, Del Rey, 2023.Audiobook available.The Blue, Beautiful World is a fascinating science-fiction stand-alone novel about first contact. Owen is a global music star. The crowds flock to his concerts, commune in his music which celebrates the countries where he tours. Beyond his fame and talent, he's also investing in virtual reality, and in a particular corporation he supports. He's surrounded by loyal aides and managers. …