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I'll be at RustConf 2024, speaking about KCL, the 3D manufacturing language we're building at Zoo.dev! I'm really excited to present, and to meet a lot of other Rustaceans. If you're going to be in Montreal, send me a message or email (contact details here) and let's make sure we say hi.

After reviewing some recent posts about Jung and his anagram on Jungian fanboy sites, I do now think a solution has been found to the Seven Sermons to the Dead topic. In German, you can put date descriptions together in different ways, much like we can describe "1916" in English as "one thousand nine hundred and sixteen" or "nineteen hundred sixteen". And using "I" for "J" follows medieval German usage …

Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That hiatus has now come. It’ll run for at least September and then I’ll take stock …

A farewell to XOXO, a festival that has forever changed me for the better.

Ritual, a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. When you hear this word, where does your mind take you? For me, I find myself asking, what's the difference between a ritual and routine? Turns out that, in essence, routines are practical, while rituals are meaningful. I have both. Some casual and spontaneous, and others strict and frequent. I do enjoy structure and rhythm, and it's really …

My new book, Intervals of Darkness, with 14 weird stories, is now out. You can buy it as a paperback or eBook more-or-less anywhere in the world, including UK eBook | paperback US eBook | paperback From the ghosts of marching soldiers haunting marshland to delivery drivers lost in nightmarish tower blocks, and from reanimated skulls to psychogeographers encountering ancient spirits on council recreation grounds, it’s a wide-ranging collection direct …

Charli XCX and Lorde's 'The Girl, So Confusing Version with Lorde' is the winner of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. Charli's first Twenty Quid nomination was in 2014… The post Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize appeared first on Popjustice.

Needle lace is made using only a needle and thread: You make the lace from scratch without a fabric base. There are different types of needle lace. In this video tutorial I’ll show you to make flat Venetian point lace. I’m making this Venetian needle lace motif for my hand-embroidered Edwardian mixed lace blouse. Venetian Needle Lace What Is Needle Lace? Needle lace – aka point lace or needlepoint lace, …

It was a fun night at the ballpark. LFGO’s

BOUGHT:Dracula Book 1: The Impaler (Orlok Press) I'll be the first to admit that I don't understand Kickstarter, and how it works in today's comic book publishing field. I mean, the concept of creators crowd-funding directly from their would-be readers and thus negating the need to sell a book to a traditional publisher makes sense to me...even though it sometimes boggles my mind that some of the most talented, most …

In case you’d got the wrong idea about how the ’regulatory state‘ is supposed to work Regulation and regulators are in the news again – the Grenfell tragedy, water companies and social media. Here’s how regulation works: The present-day regulatory state is not an intrusive government intervention, it’s the invention of the post-war neoliberal economists. It was designed not to protect consumers but to shield capital from democratic control. Since …

There’s a million reasons why you would want to record audio coming from your browser, some — innocuous, some — nefarious. You can definitely record blank video with just the sound in OBS, but that’s not necessarily what you want. So to record just the browser audio on Linux, you will need two applications and a fairly recent Linux distribution that has the new PipeWire audio system, preferably installed by …

The last picture show, Christopher Soukup

The end is now the beginning. It’s time to close my chapter of limiting beliefs and feeling stuck and begin writing a new chapter on a blank canvas. I find myself writing from Santiago de Compostela, the famous ending point of the Camino de Santiago. Those who have followed my journey know that I’ve walked...

The other week, the Internet’s most beloved creepy snowman wrote a blog post where he showed how to use a little Python to group states by their number of electoral college votes to make a table like this: Electors States PopPct ECPct 3 AK, DE, DC, ND, SD, VT, WY 1.61% 3.90% 4 HI, ID, ME, MT, NH, RI, WV 3.04% 5.20% 5 NE, NM 1.22% 1.86% 6 AR, IA, …