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This September has seen a lot of convective activity with three days of thunder, already more than the whole of meteorological summer. The first storms arrived during the early hours of the 8th. Lots of thunder and lightning though only 7.1mm of rain. Further storms bubbled up at 1200 and 1720 with 9.8mm of rain. Both the 11th and 12th have seen further thunderstorms develop with hail recorded though rain …

TL;DR: A creative writing exercise inspired by getting up too many times last night.

”Understand me…I do not have time for things that have no soul.” – Charles Bukowski

We're thrilled to announce the next big step for Laravel Herd, making the best development environment for macOS and Windows users even better. This update ships an integration with Laravel Forge, a profiler, a way to store your project configuration in your repository, and massive improvements for the dump debugger.

The less interesting part of the story is that my big home stereo has new amplification: Tiny Class-D Monoblocks! (Terminology explained below.) More interesting, another audiophile tenet has been holed below the waterline by Moore’s Law. This is a good thing, both for people who just want good sound to be cheaper, and for deranged audiophiles like me. Tl;dr This was going to be a short piece, but it got …

Long term readers (or any Instagram followers) may recall that I am prone to several kinds of dermatitis: mainly the allergic and irritant contact variety, about which I have done a few posts, most notably - and graphically! - this one.I did also have a six month spell of seborrheic dermatitis, which came out of nowhere after the first Covid booster vaccine - I will of course never know if …

And thus, we arrive at the end. With the final two issues of Stormbringer now out in the wild, the The post Warhammer Age of Sigmar Stormbringer Delivery 21: Issues 79-80 Review appeared first on FauxHammer.

John Brayton: Similarly there is a new optional Next Article menu item for the swipe left menu of the article view on iPhone and iPad. To enable it, open the Settings screen, select Articles under Basic Options, and turn on Next Article under Basic Actions. I tend to do a continuous scroll through my unread article list each day on my phone and often want to skip over long articles …

Released the same month as Hail the Conquering Hero, Sturges at the top of his game with his regular comedy collaborators: Joel McCrea as the straight-man dentist, with appearances by Franklin Pangborn and Georgia Caine and Porter Hall, and yet another Betty co-lead – not Hutton or Grable but Field (of Renoir’s The Southerner). Twisting the concept of WC Fields as a big-nosed patient-hating dentist, McCrea empathizes with his patients …

I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some reasons. This came up today because I was trying to figure out why my terminal doesn’t break anymore when I cat …

Well, my new TV isn’t perfect, and I’ve been getting to know its quirks and limits as well as its advantages. Sometimes, the TV is slow to find the network when I turn it on, and I have to wait a minute or two for it to sort itself out. Loading the individual streaming apps takes time too. It struck me as ironic that as technology has advanced, TV has …

Chef Gísli Matt’s restaurant Slippurinn is on a tiny Icelandic island buffeted by trade winds in the middle of the Atlantic and only opens for a short season. The Common Table talked to him about decolonising island cuisine and whether “local fine dining” is an oxymoron or an answer. Slippurinn is a restaurant situated near the harbour of a 10,000-years-young active volcanic island archipelago south of Iceland. Buffeted by trade …

This week we held a little powerchair hack night with GOAT, Justin from General Lithium, CriptasticHacker and associates from Spokeland, Morgan from CIL, and more friends, to explore the battery technology of Whill Fi and Ci powerchairs. A Ci battery teardown is in progress along with an investigation into the Fi and its charger. There was also knitting, and an adorable small support dog on a fluffy cushion. I had …

Another large update to my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C 5 project file) SHA256: 532f6c72eadbb9e7ce74dded1bfcd71369a61d818f7c77160bb8a66d6f1ccf9cSHA1: c375a24e00900378e84745c1e11d3d6976ef749c This release features an overhaul of the interface bringing tabs allowing multiple channels and private message queries, including a number of other new features and bugfixes: Support window resizing, using an initial window size based on the screen size Connect-time settings (server, nick, password, …

Often I’m left with a selection of photos from a certain place and I try to choose the best one for a blog post. Sometimes that choice is clear, sometimes it is not. I tend to settle on 3 selections to publish in my Image Library from a given location/time that has provided a good ... Read more The post A Trio of Photos: Sunset at Alouette Lake appeared first …