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Online forums, especially Hacker News and Reddit, are very hostile to LinkedIn. Everyone makes fun of the self-promotion and silliness that goes there. There are complaints the site is unusable, which I didn't agree with until now. I've had an account there for a few years. I used one simple rule to make the site usable:Only add people I've met in real life to my friend list, and then only …

Historical architecture encompasses various architectural styles and periods characterized by distinct characteristics, influences, and ambassadors. The characteristics of historical architecture vary depending on the period and style. From the grandeur of classical columns and symmetrical designs to the intricate detailing of Gothic arches and ribbed vaults, historical architecture reflects the craftsmanship and architectural principles of ... Read more

It is almost February. Happy New Year! Time to round up drafts posts from, um, December. I’ve been working a bit obsessively on what I think is a pretty great engine for turning any RSS feed, even from statically generated sites, into beautiful subscribable newsletters. You can now sign-up for an e-mail subscription to drafts, where I am actually writing these days. If you are interested in the RSS-to-E-Mail service, …

This post is the second in a RISC-V Bytes subseries on the PINE64 Pinecil soldering iron and development board. Previous and subsequent posts can be found under the RISC-V Bytes category. In the most recent Pinecil post, we walked through how to solder the header pins on the Pinecil breakout board. With the headers attached, we can now communicate with the Pinecil’s microcontroller via a number of protocols. Today we …

Or, why I thought the joke in my last comic was actually a bit shit but posted it anyway… Last night I posted a new cartoon over on comic.conniptions.org featuring Rishi Sunak. I’ve not drawn him before and it’s been a good while since I last drew a political caricature, so I was pleased with how that part of it came out. But the joke, such as it is, no …

Several years ago, when I was much stupider, I briefly interned for a reasonably well-known agent. I let her know ahead of time that I had a vacation lined up where I would be off grid about a month after I started, which she was on board with. However, due to some wires getting crossed on my end and some stressful visa shenanigans, my last email to her before I …

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This capsule review will have spoilers.Here's some boring facts about the book up front to avoid diving right into the spoilers. The Curious Conundrum of the Conflagrated Condottiero (henceforth referred to as "4C" for the rest of this review) is 26 pages, with Kelvin Green doing the writing, art, and cartography, as he is known to do. It's 26 pages and you can get the PDF here: 4C on DriveThruRPG …

These nymphs have to be the most realistic nymphs I have ever seen. I ordered both patterns. I can't wait to give them a try on the Sipsey and Smith Lake. The bodies of these nymphs are hard body and have weight.

I'm giving a lecture on 'crowdsourcing at the British Library' for students on UCL's MSc Sustainable Heritage taking the course 'Crowd-Sourced and Citizen Data for Cultural Heritage' (BENV0114). As some links at the British Library are still down, I've put the web archive versions into a post, along with other links included in my talk: … Continue reading Links for a talk on crowdsourcing at UCL

If you haven't read part 1, check it out first, as this is a continuation. From poor leaders, I've learned what doesn't work: breaking the team's trust, operating without transparency (a lack of communication), employing a destructive and unempathetic approach, micromanaging, and setting people up for failure. These traits have stood out as particularly detrimental in my observations.In contrast to the negative leadership traits I've observed, my experiences with friends, …

When I'm looking at pdf files in Emacs, I use =doc-view mode=. And usually I'm looking at pdf files because I'm writing a screenplay in Fountain mode. So I'm making changes to the source file a lot, and the pdf is constantly changing. But the pdf in Emacs isn't changing! That is, Emacs has read the file into memory, and displays that memory as a pdf, no matter what has …

The third of my year-in-reading columns has gone up over at Dorian's blog: the best stuff I read in 2023.

New album: A Drop Of The Morning Dew: Live At Bacca Pipes Folk Club released 1 March 2024 Distilling both folk and country influences and performing a heartfelt mixture of self-penned and traditional songs on 12-string guitar and banjo, Serious Sam Barrett was raised in the Dales village of Addingham and began performing in and around Leeds in 2004. With the release of his debut album Close To Home in …