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Here we are againI will add to this, but it appears that new tools on both sides of the marketplace are emerging both for shoppers to get better deals and for shops to screw over their customers.Back in 2013 I looked at an area of work for a “data locker” product for Telefonica. Big data but for the masses, what would make sense. Tiny data, maybe?The shopper tool here showing …

I was very happy to see a new book by Lost Art Press on saw sharpening. The book, by Matt Cianci, a long-term customer and friend of TFWW, is succinct and very useful. Saw sharpening is a critical part of successful woodworking. A sharp saw is not only just a pleasure to use, it'll work accurately and quickly. In the past people didn't really sharpen their own saws. If you …

How to use multiple Erlang/Elixir versions in Windows

I’ve been home from the Grand Canyon for some time now. We had a wonderful trip and I’m slowly working on editing those photos. But we’ve also been trying to enjoy a bit of summer here up north. To that end, Eli and I recently spent three days hiking, bushwhacking and clambering in the Scotchman Peaks Proposed Wilderness on the northern Idaho-Montana border. I got a few respectable images, plus …

Hi! Here’s the game we’ve been working on for 6.8 years! You can see the launch trailer and all the details on the store page, but for some reason what I feel like sharing here is the very quickly knocked together trailer I made for the developer commentary, which comes with the Special Edition of the game. It just feels like the sort of thing long time blog followers might …

Nolan Lindquist, who leads JFI’s affiliate, the Center for Active Stewardship, spoke to Oxford and Harvard Business School professor Robert Eccles, an expert in Environmental, Social, and Governance investing. The energy transition is now at the top of the agenda, but its scope has expanded way beyond the traditional remit of environmental policy. Now it’s caught up in this broader push by governments around the world to use policy levers …

I miss blogging. I’ve been publishing a newsletter on Substack for years, since it was a simple platform to publish a letter. These days, it feels like so much more. So many things going on, so much noise. It feels like a social media platform now. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. I know lots of writers (and celebrities, content creators, podcasters, etc.) that are thriving in this environment. Substack …

I remember, in the dilapidated church of Thouzon, which we visited on one of our excursions in Vaucluse, the Cathar dove carved inside the architrave of a window in such a way that no one could see it without looking in the opposite of the usual direction.from Self-Portrait in the Studio by Giorgio Agamben

There has been a need for lots of spells recently. Yesterday Mr BW found a dead sparrowhawk in the greenhouse...

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I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites of Silicon Valley with a joke: in San Francisco reading books, and talking about what you have read, is a matter of high prestige. Not so in Washington DC. In Washington people never read books—they just write them. To write a book, of course, one must read a good few. But the distinction I …

What is the smallest number of points in the -dimensional (hyper)cube needed to hit every -dimensional subcube? To be clear, a subcube of dimension is obtained by fixing coordinates to some specific values and then letting the other coordinates vary. Therefore, in total there are copies of in and our set of points must intersect each of them. For example, and an optimal construction is shown below with the red …

How do you pronounce the name Jrue? The question is straightforward enough. The answer, though, leads us into a thorny maze of names, language, culture and identity. Because Jrue, as in basketball star Jrue Holiday, is a phonetic spelling. It’s the familiar name Drew, but spelled like it sounds…to some people. The D/J Divide English speakers are split on the pronunciation of the consonant combo DR. To some it’s simply …

Photos by Kasper Mundt-Nielsen This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Straight Talk” series of podcasts. podcast is about Belgian Beer World, the new visitor experience housed in the iconic Bourse building in Brussels’ city centre. The podcast features an in-depth interview with Krishan Maudgal, Director of the Belgian Brewers Federation, about the obstacles the project faced: the huge costs required a robust public-private …

The Little Park, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, gouache on parchment, roughly 8 x 10″ (20 x 24 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. I had the pleasure of seeing this delightful little gouache painting by the 18th century French Rococo painter in a show at the Morgan several years ago. I was aware of the larger oil of the same subject in the Wallace Collection in England …