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The first instalment of some much-belated travel photo blogging from our UK trip in May-June 2024. Above, the Sérilly Cabinet, a private room built for the lady of a Parisian town house around 1778, and now relocated in its entirety to the V&A. Completely unoriginally, we started our trip in London. Slightly more originally (for us), we stayed in Hammersmith, a part of town neither of us knew very well …

I decided to have a poke around and see if I could figure out how the HTTP streaming APIs from the various hosted LLM providers actually worked. Here are my notes so far. The general pattern All three of the APIs I investigated worked roughly the same: they return data with a content-type: text/event-stream header, which matches the server-sent events mechanism, then stream blocks separated by \r\n\r\n. Each block has …

If you’re anything like us, there’s nothing better than sitting down with a freshly brewed cup of coffee and a slice of homemade cake. But what if you could combine…

In the autumn of 2020, television production crews all over the world were beginning to cope with a new normal. Whilst non-scripted series were starting to return to our screens with socially distanced sets, reality show contestants in social bubbles and Perspex barriers in place, fiction was another matter, and production on prestige series including Better Call Saul, Stranger Things and Succession was only just starting to spin up again.Animated …

I’m mixing things up, let’s start with the links. Then end with a bonus one. 🔎 Found, interesting 🧐 This headteacher’s message from Dylan’s new school is flipping great about mobile phones, mental models and morality. (But I’d be less into a phone ban, if that’s where he’s heading). The web we never lost (via Dirty Feed). Giles Turnbull was interviewed by P&B (People & Blogs) and it’s unsurprisingly a …

Nic Chan - Nic has just finished rebuilding her website and it’s INCREDIBLE! Seriously just look at it CSS { In Real Life } | Limitation Breeds Creativity: A Study in Composition with Custom Properties - Michelle has done some (characteristically) amazing things with a handful of divs. Introducing @bramus/caniuse-cli, a CLI tool for “Can I Use …” - This is going to be very useful! Selling a small front-end …

In my head this week had two big themes: CP day and housework. CP day fell on Wednesday: it is my team’s quarterly all-in-office day. This round I was one of the organisers, and between holidays (and illness) we didn’t have much time to prepare. We split the day in two (as a proven format), with the first half being talks and a workshop with the theme of reviewing/discontinuing features, …

Parents and guardians estranged from their grown children often claim they have no idea why their kids don’t talk to them anymore. They say things like, “I did everything for them, and they want nothing to do with me now,” or, “I’ve asked them what I’ve done, tried to find out, and they don’t tell me. No-contact is unhelpful and hurtful.” I’ve been estranged from my biological mother since 2011 …

The full Stockholm Adventure, linked for ease of use:INTRO - Swedish MeatheadDAY ONE: THE RED LINE (SOUTH)Norsberg to Vårby Gård - (Just Like) Starting OverVårberg to Axelsberg - happy dot gifÖrnsberg to Midsommarkransen - Sorry, I Cannot Hear You, I'm Kinda BusyGamla Stan to Liljeholmen (plus Stockholm Södra) - Ödds & SödraDAY TWO: THE GREEN LINE (NORTH)Hässelby Strand to Blackeberg - Blood and ThunderIslandstorget to Stora Mossen - LayersAlvik to …

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In 1983 Roald Dahl reviewed Tony Clifton’s picture book God Cried about the 1982 Lebanon War. In the review Dahl says of the Israelis “Never before in the history of man has a race of people switched so rapidly from being much-pitied victims to barbarous murderers” Mark Rosenblatt’s debut play is inspired by the fall out from that review and the beginning of Dahl’s reputation as an anti-semite. John Lithgow …

I got my first introduction and was super excited about a detective story in school, and if I can recollect, it must have been 4th grade. I retraced my memory and the pieces of stories from that—it was Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Three Students by Arthur Conan Doyle. 221B Baker Street is the London address of detective Sherlock Holmes. In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a …

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from years of camping with our kids (and our dog, Drax), it’s that choosing the right campsite can make or break a trip. Whether your family is new to camping or seasoned pros, selecting the perfect spot ensures that everyone, from toddlers to teens—and even your pets—has a great time. So, what should you be looking for when choosing a campsite? Let’s break it …

Three weeks at number one from 9th January 1982There’s a sketch in the series “Big Train” which portrays Ralph McTell struggling to engage with an audience who only want to hear his hit “Streets of London”. Whenever he begins to play anything else, everyone gasps in astonishment at his audacity, and begins heckling furiously until he is forced to concede and play the song again. And again. It does a …

Tickets for my final Southbank walk until next summer: The South Bank – Marsh, Industry, Culture and the Festival of Britain, on the 20th of October, are now available by clicking here. I am back in Soho for this week’s post, continuing my exploration of Soho pubs, including one that claims to be “the West End’s best known pub”, and that “it’s a deeply loved London institution with a rich …