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Episode: ‘Meet the man archiving Biden’s presidency’ From POLITICO Tech: “The transition from one presidential administration to the next is generally thought to start around Election Day and end with the inauguration. But for the Internet Archive, it’s already underway. The nonprofit leads a coalition of libraries and universities that works to preserve the government’s digital history and to protect it from partisan tampering during administration changes. On POLITICO Tech, …

I missed the first day of VALA 2024, but I was there for days 2 and 3. The subsequent few weeks at work were ...eventful, including getting Covid (not from the conference). So this is my belated write-up of what I learned and observed at VALA 2024. Sites of resistance in the digital age The keynote on Wednesday morning was from dynamic Deakin University duo Hero Macdonald and Tui Raven. …

Looking to the next 50 years of Houston Foresight. We hope you’ll join us in 2025 as we glimpse back on the last 50 and get ready for the next! Registration coming soon, but mark your calendars now for this special event with alumni, students, faculty, and foresight friends.

In Lake of Darkness, what goes wrong is slightly mysterious. It may be a threat from an Ancient Evil which meddling scientists have unleashed from its prison (cue a great deal of speculation about who or what would be capable of constructing this prison and the paradoxes it builds into the universe). Or it may be that the evil has been loose and ac time for aeons. Or it may …

Starring Paul Dorsch, Jürgen Heimüller, Ingo Heise, Michael Kausch, Philipp Jacobs, Olaf Krätke, Marco Leibnitz, Ralf Lichtenberg and Patrick Pierce. Written and directed by Huân Vu. Produced by Jan Roth, Peter Tillisch and Huân Vu for Sphärentor Filmproduktionen. This film looks nice in b&w This adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 short story ‘The Colour Out of Space’, about the weird effects a meteorite has on local people, animals and plants, …

Well, that was quite the week! As the last few posts had possibly clued you in, we hosted a conference in Leeds this past week. We had around 50 participants, including the speakers and poster presentations. I am very grateful for everyone who came here, those that spoke and did such a wonderful job, the posters that were so fascinating, and the audience that asked questions. I'm really grateful to …

OCC 2024 Retrospective · July 27th, 2024 I'm apparently really bad at doing anything in a timely manner these days. There's never enough hours in the day to accomplish the things that I'd like to do, such is life sometimes. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't try! How thematic for this year's OCC, no? Just because something is obsolete, doesn't mean it's useless, or unworthy of effort. Sure it might …

Garbage Collection and Metastability Cleaning up is hard to do. I’ve written a lot about stability and metastability, but haven’t touched on one other common cause of metastability in large-scale systems: garbage collection. GC is great. Garbage collected languages like Javascript, Java, Python, and Go power a big chunk of the internet’s infrastructure. Until Rust came along, choosing memory safety typically implied choosing garbage collection. For almost all applications, languages …

Shed Build - Part 3: Walls, Window, Paint This is part three of the shed building series. Previously: Part 1: Foundations Part 2: Framing and Roofing Walls Last time, we left the shed in a very see through state, having a roof and a door, but no walls. To change that, we used tongue and grove boards to face the walls. The boards went up relatively quickly using brad nails …

This word means the tendency to forget names. This is something I’ve struggled with a LOT in recent years. I’m not sure what the cause is: the fact that my jobs at YOW and AWS meant meeting so many people? Did I get long Covid? Or is it one of the many joys of perimenopause? Or maybe it’s just getting older… At any rate, it’s incredibly frustrating to be able …

Kew is one of London’s leafy surburban neighbourhoods. Situated on a long curve of the River Thames, ot is of course famous for Kew Gardens,

Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken from space using an ever growing collection of satellites. These images, in addition to supplying information for numerous practical applications ranging from weather to intelligence gathering to the assessment of Earth resources, also provide the general public with inspiring views our home planet from a unique perspective. But such images did …

The Chicago Surface Lines ran a fantrip on October 23, 1938 using PCC #4002, then just two years old. It toured the city carrying many railfans, and was credited as giving the fledgling Central Electric Railfans’ Association a big membership boost. The excursion was also covered extensively in Surface Service, the CSL’s employee publication. This scan was taken from an original 3 1/4 x 5 1/2″ negative. The photographer is …

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A few weeks back I released a web component to enable you to add requirement rules to checkbox groups. Continuing in the form utility space, I’ve created a new web component that allows you to make fields required based on the values of other fields: form-required-if.The form-required-if web component, which is based on a jQuery plugin I’d written in 2012, looks like this:<form-required-ifconditions=“email=“><label>Required if there’s an email value<inputname=”depends-on-email"></label></form-required-if>You wrap any …