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This is part IV of my all the things(!!!) blog series where I attempt to make sense of all the things I've gotten myself into these past 5-10 years, and I figure out how to Marie Kondo my professional hobbies. Yes...yes... I know that Kondo is no longer Kondoing and has given up the practice, but I am aiming for the gives you joy part.This particular post tackles teaching, a …

Yes, Wye not indeed, I can't think of many places that I have fished that look so good whatever the time of year. This time around I didn't have long available. On my way over to the river I swung into the Drennan HQ to pilfer some goodies and chew the fat with Peter and the boys for a couple of hours, always great to hear Peter's stories of an …

From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting a microservices architecture, a monolithic service architecture, or a hybrid between the two, has become one of the least-reversible decisions that most engineering organizations make. Even migrating to a different database technology is generally a less expensive change than moving from monolith to microservices or from microservices to monolith. The industry has in many ways gone full circle on that …

As I noted last month, I did spend the mid 90s listening to a lot of what we would now call Britpop, but that was not all that made its way onto my record player. There was a lot of other good music being produced at that time that was not Britpop and I thought I would put together another compilation of songs that reflected the period. Like last month, …

Searching Shamela, I recently realised that the earliest references to a language of (al-)Barbar in Arabic go back further than I had assumed, to the second century AH. While these are unlikely to shed much light on actual linguistic practices, they are worth a look. Two occur in the Qur'ānic commentary (tafsīr) of Mujāhid ibn Sulaymān (d. 150 AH = 767 AD); one in his discussion of sūrat al-Isrā': فقال …

Got a couple of bellends living in our hedgeIt’s fall. There’s a light breeze up and the sky is patchy with windswept fluff carried to and fro before the sun, causing the brightness in the window to pulse gently every few minutes. The light has, over the course of a single week, adopted the watery faraway look that it will retain for the next six or seven months. I can …

adding some final touches to gifts for sponsors of my trip to arnøya + a cosy friday night in, complete with takeaways from a local curry place + marking things off the to-do list on saturday morning before an afternoon in the city with friends for virtual reality shenanigans and texas-style bbq for dinner + japanese whisky tasting after darkif live gives you locally grown seville oranges, make a batch …

Written by Arthur McKenzie, Directed by Richard Holthouse Knowing PC Young’s eventual fate, it’s difficult not to look back at any episodes which featured him strongly with a keen eye to see how his character was developed. Even this early on it looks like the essential building blocks were in place – Young is keen to be a member of the team, but seems destined to always be something of …

The Bull’s Eye, Southampton, Hampshire This was the first new Watney’s pub to be built in Southampton after the Second World War. It has now become a Tesco Express.

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The idea is: if you have some resource which is partially used, and you increase the total capacity, how much does your free capacity grow in relation to your increase in total capacity? ChatGPT couldn't give me a name for this idea, so I'm calling it the free space equation. For example, if you are thinking of adding a second hard disk the same size as your current one, and …

Continuing the tradition I started earlier this year with the Oscars, here’s my pre-ceremony Emmy winner predictions, along with my personal favorites across the categories. We’ll also be doing a live chat backchannel in Stream Team if you care to watch along with us! UPDATE: Now marked with a for ones I predicted right, and a for ones where my pick won Best Drama Series MY PREDICTION: Shogun (FX) MY …

Overview If you’re new to the Fret Science Patreon, looking for an older lesson, or just trying to get a sense of what kind of content is here, this index is a great place to start. These are the main sections: YouTube videos with downloads Inside the solo How to improvise Backing tracks Chord tone soloing visualizations Scales and arpeggios Essential tools Administrative topics Contents are updated weekly. YouTube videos …

In my first post in this series I was just getting comfortable with Hyprland and setting up my new Linux box the way I wanted it. In this part, I will talk about switching to Aylur’s GTK Shell (ags for short) as my status bar and panel provider, and sorting out how to play music files locally. Aylur’s GTK Shell Statusbar using ags on Hyprland. I was using Waybar for …

Billy Bitzer and Griffith, 1914 One hundred and ten years ago this month, Grace Kingsley had lots of news about an up-and-coming filmmaker. On the ninth, she reported that David Griffith had taken his company up to Bear Valley shoot more scenes for The Clansman.” She also mentioned that when Dave learned it was actress Jennie Lee’s 65th birthday, he stopped work and formed a line for the cast and …