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After ignoring severe abdomen and chest pain for about forty-eight hours, I was finally moved to visit the ER late last night. As it turns out, I have an enormous gallstone. If I were an oyster and you cut me open and found this thing, you’d be psyched. What this means is that my gallbladder needs to be removed very, very soon. This was totally unexpected and will throw a …

I stood on the Land Rover track out towards Loch Einich contemplating my second failed long run in seven days. The air temperature was barely above freezing and brought below by gusts of wind. Around me, the mountains that form the walls of Gleann Einich were barely snow covered on their tops but grazed with low clouds. At my feet, the fast waters of Beanaidh Bheag flowed too deep and …

Best Instagram BIO for architects and designers Archiobjects In a complex and fluid world like Instagram, a good Instagram bio for architects and designers could be your architectural blueprint for connecting with a global audience. For professionals in the creative sphere, this 150-character canvas holds the power to convey your design philosophy, highlight your expertise, and inspire engagement. With the aim of digital […] The post Best Instagram BIO for …

You can’t really appreciate utility-first CSS until you have a decent understanding of CSS itself, so this article will principally be about that. However, paradoxically, the more you learn about CSS, the less you may appreciate utility-first CSS. You might begin to question why it should exist at all. It’s possible you’ll even start to question why you exist. I’ll try my best to explain. CSS is responsible for a …

Beautifully shot 8m interview with Jason Lengstorf about: how people love shredding nice things is there a "dream job"? how to know when you're successful? a secret for faster career growth? Watch on YouTube

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (February 12, 2024 - February 18, 2024) Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - Podcasts - GitHub Repos - Things I Learned Check out the Michigan Technology Conference, …

This could be not only Labour’s last chance but, if the party doesn’t recover some courage, British democracy’s. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th February 2024 It’s as if Keir Starmer is seeking out all the positive reasons to vote Labour at the next election and deleting them. The national care service, abolishing the House of Lords, a wealth tax: one by one, the Labour party has identified …

Back in 2021, Edsel Records released the compilation ‘Caught Beneath The Landslide’. It was a companion piece to photographers Kevin Cummins book, ‘While We Were Getting High: Britpop & The 90s’. Cummings was the chief photographer at the NME, which at the time of Britpop was a best selling music weekly newspaper. He then compiled a four disc compilation which included some of the biggest names from the period along …

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Image source: IMDB When I started doing these “greatest hits of X year” posts in 2021, I expected to only make one a year going forward. However, these are so much fun. I just love looking at what movies drew audiences in the past and looking into how they hold up over time. By this year’s end, I might have several of these on the blog. I can’t hold myself …

When we were in central New York for a short time a few weeks ago, I started an oil painting. It was the first one I'd worked on since 2018 - a pretty big gap in time. The interruption of the pandemic and the fact that we took apart our studio and moved were, of course, a major factors, but except for the three oils I did back in 2018, …

Madame Web: “The real culprit here is the greed manifested by studio suits who keep hawking cheap knockoffs. ‘Madame Web’ feels like a random collection of half-baked ideas thrown into the air and allowed to land, with the cynical assumption that we’ll buy any lazy hack-work that is Spider-Man adjacent. Kill me now.” — Peter Travers, ABC News Bob Marley: One Love: “If you’ve never heard of Bob Marley before …

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma's Macbeth is being staged in an industrial warehouse in Canada Water, south east London, which means there is space around the auditorium to start setting the scene. As you step in from the dockside entrance, there are banners emblazoned with an 'M' and the sound...

I recently started playing Terraria and have to say it is a very fun game! To let anyone play at any time I decided to spin up a dedicated server. Unfortunately the Terraria server isn’t what I would consider great server software. Here is how I got a good setup working on NixOS.The main flaw with the Terraria server is that it doesn’t gracefully handle SIGTERM. Generally it is expected …

As photographers, our journey is not just about capturing moments but understanding the gear behind each photo. In this post we’ll dive into the EXIF data, a feature ingrained in digital photography that often goes unnoticed yet holds a wealth of information. This comprehensive guide will explore what EXIF data is, its significance, and how you can use it to enhance your photographic expertise. Let’s dive in. Table of contentsWhat …