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And in sports & friendship news, I recently played at the 25-years-and-going weekly night basketball game at my old highschool and was delighted to find the positive energy vibes of Coach Phil Davis still there!

Pasalubong (Presents) by Maria Rilkë Arguelles (Philippine High School for the Arts and Grana-PH Book Publishing, 2022) "Real art has the capacity to make us nervous," said Susan Sontag in her essay "Against Interpretation," where she expressed her displeasure at interpreting (or taming) works of art to conform to how one apprehends this world. "As if there were any other", she scoffed

Improvements are made to graphics, the Lua API, and the user interface. We present the winners of the 2023 Game Jam along with other cool mods. A new core developer joins the team, and we look forward to FOSDEM 2024! Engine News 2023 Game Jam Winners Mods News Art and Builds Other News FOSDEM 2024 Contributing to Minetest Engine News New Core Developer The community welcomes longtime community member Lars …

A detail of the Chicago O'Hare International Airport on the Chicago section VFR map. Source: FAA.Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) aviation maps. Intended for pilots, the FAA publishes free detailed maps of the entire U.S. airspace, and detailed maps of airports and their surroundings and updates them frequently. …

Tuesday, Jan 30 Trikona (permalink) made and submitted by RnkSngh An moveable and rotatable 3-d Sierpinski pyramid made in Haskell — RnkSngh

practicing with new brushes and dusting off the rust with life drawing.

Making space to work out at home When we moved to out house almost two years ago from one one-bed London flat, I was really excited to have more space to do some home workouts. Living in a small flat, with a toddler through lockdowns was hard, but we made it work. It was where I recorded all of my YouTube workouts that have now had many thousands of plays. …

Following the Swedish debate that kicked off earlier this year when key ministers spoke out publicly about the risk of a war involving Sweden, a number of commentators invoked Finland and the Finnish public discussion as arguments in the discourse. I wrote a post as part of my regular slot on the blog of the Swedish Royal Academy of War Sciences outlining how the Finnish view on the risk of …

The teams at Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA) and Canada Weather Analytics (CWA), where this author is the Chief Scientist, had the honor of having our abstract about our Hurricane Hunter Satellite (HHSat) accepted for the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology as part of the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Baltimore. With the first pair of HHSats currently being built by our new strategic …

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 …