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The Art of Taking It Slow. I don't agree with all of this—index gears are much better than friction levers, and I never got on with adjusting side-pull brakes—but cycling is definitely about comfort, enjoyment and fun.Coming home. there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this …

A last resort Taking some brisk urban exercise in Chipping Norton, I decided to walk up the gentle rise on the Banbury side of town, aiming for a building I’d often passed in the car, the attractive wooden cupola in my eye corner, but never paused to look at properly. If I tell you that the cupola tops an octagonal roof and that there are two further wings projecting from …

On this week’s episode of WeeklyTrek — TrekCore’s news podcast — host Alex Perry is joined by Katie to discuss all the latest Star Trek news. This week, Alex and his guest discuss the following stories from TrekCore and around the web: TrekCore: Check out the New STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS Season 5 Key Art and Watch a First Preview Clip (8:28) TrekCore: STAR TREK Brings SECTION 31 and LOWER …

The New Moon is Thursday, October 3. Saturn is just past opposition, and is visible all night long. Venus draws away from the bright star Spica heading towards Libra. Mars and Jupiter continue to draw apart and Mars is in the heart of Gemini. Comet C/2023 A3 may be seen low in the morning twilight, it is closest to the Sun on September 27. The New Moon is Thursday, October …

As I've said before, when it comes to humor, punching up can feel pretentious, punching down is unseemly, but punching yourself is always funny. Gina Wynbrandt excels at this sort of comedy of self-humiliation, and it's been exciting to see her slowly work herself back into cartooning again after a long break. In I'm The Center Of Attention, Wynbrandt satirizes social media attention-seeking culture in a hilariously blunt manner, interpolating …

When I wrote this pull quote even I was surprised by how much Standard Ruby has improved in the last two years railsdeveloper.com/survey/2024/#what-code-quality-tools-do-you-use

Episode 149 of The Informed Life podcast features a conversation with message designer Tamsen Webster. Tamsen helps leaders enact large-scale change, and her latest book, Say What They Can’t Unhear explains how to drive lasting change through effective communication. That was the focus of our conversation. Tamsen’s journey with change started in her teens. But it was while moonlighting as a Weight Watchers leader that she gained firsthand experience using …

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (September 16, 2024 - September 22, 2024). Enjoy! Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - GitHub Repos Here are some posts I’ve written in the …

Personal Server with Docker Compose Over the last couple of weeks I updated the server this blog and many more stuff is running on. I decided to move (nearly) everything to Docker. My previous setup was much more traditional. My server runs Debian Linux. A single Apache server provided different virtual hosts, the different services used different PHP FPM pools, each using an individual user. My goal with the Docker …

My former colleague Bill Jackson is retiring from Queen Mary. Robert Johnson has put together a nice tribute to Bill, which you can find at https://www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/ccant/news/4784/retirement-of-professor-bill-jackson/.

Министерството на носталгията предупреждава: този продукт може да съдържа печени чушки. Както лошото време отминава и е неразделна част от природата, така и лошите моменти от миналото са важна част от живота. Според Защото обичам лошото време, болезнените спомени не са за пренебрегване и заключване надълбоко, защото това ни кара да зацикляме и пречи на развитието и в крайна сметка на щастието. Сценарист-режисьорката Яна Лекарска е създала един филм с …

Ad/Odds: Winston-Salem as Show Town SupremeNewspapers.com gifted us over Mother’s Day weekend with free access to their archive, opportunity to dig among microfilmed pages, reminder anew of damage done to precious print when libraries converted their lot to ugly photostat and junked original pages. Sad outcome for much of what had survived but no longer does. I at least was able to sift Winston-Salem Journal pages for what might bring …

Hi, I know the “Name That Trauma” is usually about movies or TV, but there’s a book about ghosts I read as a kid that I’ve been trying to find for years and I thought someone might recognize what book I’m talking about. It was a book about “real" ghosts. It was blue and oversized and had a picture of a ghostly woman riding a carriage on the cover. She …

COROS has announced a smattering of new features for both their watches, as well as their Dura bike computer. In the case of the bike computer, this firmware update will mark the resumption of shipping, after the company halted shipping back shortly after launch, due to issues with the mounting tabs on the Dura breaking in K-Edge bike computer mounts (arguably the most popular 3rd party mount company out there). …