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Candidate nominations closed yesterday for next month's Victorian local council elections. While local governments don't directly fund or run public transport, their deliberations strongly affect the environment in which it operates. Here's just a few examples: * Pedestrian crossings so you can easily reach bus stops (unless they are on main roads)* Whether development decisions reinforce or discourage public transport usage* The extent to which parking policy supports or impedes …

DDoS Update The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is ongoing. Even after I moved our load balancer to new hardware and a new IP address. This means that the attackers are not just targeting the IP address of the load balancer, but they are targeting “runestone.academy” by name. This is a much more serious attack and it is taking a lot of time to mitigate. I’ve learned a lot …

Hi Zettlers, What kind of (information) food are Cal Newport’s books? This is the question that I try to answer for myself. His term “ultra-processed content” is spot on for the process that both food and content processing share: It is about refining and combining key stimuli. Sugar, Fat, Salt, Protein — each are specific stimuli that in isolation are not particularly understandable (try eating pure sugar). However, cloaked in …

‘Using rocks from my garden, I built myself a plinth, scattered flour over the floor and turned the place into a desolate hinterland, like the surface of the moon. The result felt like a direct reflection of my emotions’Even before the pandemic, I struggled with feelings of isolation. I go through bouts of depression and needed to make something that reflected that. So, using rocks from my rock garden, I …

(Note: If you are seeing the above image in Safari or in any other non-HDR browser you are seeing a dark, dull, ugly conversion. If you are seeing it in Opera or Chrome on an HDR monitor you are seeing the real thing–a dramatic difference.) One of the most exciting technological developments in still photography is the (long overdue) advent of HDR. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and is …

When I teach the basics of probability in Intro Stats, I always emphasize absolute vs. risk. I am delighted to have a brand new example. Thanks to Sy Islam for sending it my way.Here is the headline from The New York Post:So, one murder is too many murders. A 60% increase feels very scary. Because relative risk is always the scary risk. Since this reporting is about something that is …

New York Review Books does it again. One of my all time favorite vintage children's books will be back in print next month. The Man Who Lost His Head by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. Bless this publishing house. Seriously. And check out my original post from way back in 2008.

Push Upstairs.

Git doesn’t store reversion links between commits. It only relies on commit messages to track this information. When you run git revert, the default message includes a line about the reverted commit: Revert "Build gazebo" This reverts commit 81d727c075984206633fa0c58fe3d7bcfd970f28. So, given a commit SHA, you may be able to find its reversion by searching for patterns in the default commit message, as long as the author did not remove them. …

On LinkedIn, the social network of mandatory happiness, software engineer Michael Sayman writes about his new product:Introducing SocialAI, a private social network where you receive millions of AI-generated comments offering feedback, advice & reflections on each post you make.I will admit my first thought about this was: this is a prank, right? This is a fake product that somebody who hates generative AI and the “techbro culture” would come up …

Hey, I safely made my trip back to the south of France after a couple of day in Bergen, Norway, for the Raptus Comic book convention where I was a guest. I had a very good time and signed many Pepper&Carrot books and drew almost non stop, meeting many of you. Again a big thank you to the one who also traveled to Raptus to meet me. 💜 Sadly, I …

Hello! I’m Rachel Snowdon of Rachel Snowdon Studio, a London-born relief printmaker and illustrator who has been based in West Devon since 2009. Describe your printmaking process. Having recently introduced more colour into my designs, multi-block lino printing is probably my favourite process as it allows me some flexibility to experiment with different editions. Almost all of my linocuts are burnished by hand onto fine Japanese washi or Lokta papers. …

I am excited to share my new game, Dr1v3n Wild! It’s an OutRun inspired racing game with procedurally generated art and levels. This was created for JS13K 2024 and the entire game fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file including … Continue reading →

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