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I like the background() function in P5.js. It accepts one or multiple parameters and is very easy to use. Setting the background color is often one of the first steps when starting a new P5.js sketch. function setup() { background(200); } When comes to CSS Doodle, the background color is usually defined within the :doodle block, which indicates that the color is applied directly to the component element. @grid: 1 …

From the Daily Telegraph: A Pakistani web developer accused of spreading fake news that helped foment anti-immigration and anti-Muslim riots after the Southport stabbings has been arrested in the city of Lahore. Farhan Asif is alleged to have worked for a sensationalist news aggregation website called Channel3Now, which published false reports about the identity of the knife attacker. Channel3Now infamously repeated claims that the attacker’s name was Ali Al-Shakati; that …

Table of contents Problem definition Conclusion Feature flags are one of my favourite practices in software engineering. I wrote a detailed article about their use-cases and how I consider them a superpower! In this article, we are going to build a feature flag service on-top of the Cloudflare Developer Platform, specifically Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects. I recently wrote about Durable Objects, in my opinion the most underrated compute and …

I have just come back from a short break in Alnmouth, and where we were staying had a “4D Sudoku” puzzle. The website for this puzzle is long gone, the Twitter account has not been updated since 2011, there does not appear to be any solution anywhere on the internet. I was on my own.

Having dispatched punctuation and book news, we’re on to pocket calculators! Incredibly, half a century or more after their appearance, there is still news to be had on the subject. In the introduction to Empire of the Sum, I mention that like some other animals, ravens and other corvids are known to be able to count. Not only that, but they understand the concept of zero, which is something that …

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...