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Introduction # Welcome to the first post of our development diary for the Bonfire native app. In this series, we'll journey together through the entire process of designing and publishing Bonfire on the Apple App Store using LiveView Native (LVN), an experimental framework that enables developers to build native applications using Elixir. We're focusing on iOS first because the current LVN release targets the Apple ecosystem (iOS and macOS, but …

“The duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution.” For many young radicals in the 1960s, these words from Fidel Castro’s Second Declaration of Havana were instructions to be taken seriously. Richard Gott’s despatch from Bolivia, published in The Guardian on 19 August 1967 and reproduced in full below, exemplifies how this internationalist revolutionary commitment translated into political action that would shape a generation of left-wing thinkers. When Gott …

All of these stunning elevation maps of the world’s continents (except Australia and Antarctica) are the brain child of cstats1 who you can follow on X/Twitter here and Instagram here. And if you’d like to support them you buy something from their Amazon shop here. The first map above is an elevation map of Europe. Here are the highest and lowest points in Europe: Highest Point In Europe: Mount Elbrus, …

“Do the hard things” – Futurist Jim Carroll How many times do you say to yourself, “I’ll do the easy things first!” And then you just keep doing the easy things over and over again, always avoiding the hard stuff. And you never make any progress – because at some point or other, you have to do the hard things. What if you did the hard things first? What if …

Murder at the Monastery by Richard Coles Canon Daniel Clement, Vicar of Champton, is not having a good time in this fascinating novel. The Reverend Richard Coles continues his series of mysteries set in the English countryside in the late 1980s and early 1990s, where Daniel’s thoughtful approach means that justice can be done. This third novel, however, is set mainly in a monastery, and even with some specialist knowledge …

The last piece (for the minute) for Rhiw is a skip; one of those that sits by the lineside with a mix of gash inside and seemingly has no means of being retrieved.The root is one of a pair from the Peco Modelscene range which is stamped Leafdale Models 1988 underneath. A couple of coats of paint to dull the bright yellow plastic and then the full scrapbox treatment for …

This article was originally published, in slightly different form, on Strong Towns member Will Gardner’s Substack, StrongHaven. It is shared here with permission. All in-line images were provided by the author. This raised crosswalk and the separated path on the right are examples of infrastructure that keeps walkers and bikers safe. With the fall routine comes the launch of the bike bus here in my hometown of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Last …

Photo: Anna-Rose McChesney Drawing is the act of translating a thought to a mark on the page—where the hand is in conversation with the mind. This conversation is marked by an unbridgeable gap between the idea and the output—sometimes betraying and exposing the thought, and other times surprising you with an unintended vigour and clarity. Miles Davis once said that ‘what makes a wrong note right is the note you …

Kinn Hamilton McIntosh is a British mystery novelist, known as "Catherine Aird," who started her writing career in the sixties with The Religious Body (1966) and published her most recent novel, Constable Country (2023), when she was 93 – bringing the tally to twenty-nine published novels and short story collections. All except the non-series, standalone novel A Most Contagious Game (1967) featured her series-characters, Inspector C.D. Sloan and Detective Constable …

You know how “all the books say” not to cut Lavender back too hard, as it won't grow back.... well, a fortnight ago, I was doing the annual clip of a low Lavender hedge, and I spotted this: Uh-oh... is that a bare brown patch coming up?Hahaha! I'm teasing you, this was not a case of it having been cut back too hard, it's a case of two of the …

Just because I have been looking at lots of music from the Britpop era this year doesn’t mean there isn’t room for one of the bands that were an inspiration for good number of the musicians during that era. That band is The Beatles and today is also the 55th anniversary of ‘Abbey Road’. This post could easily have been title ‘The Beatles in 1969’. As it is, this this …

Above: Official poster by Yves Tinguely for the 12th New York Film Festival in 1974.The twelfth edition of the New York Film Festival, which took place 50 years ago this week, in September 1974, could have been convincingly called the New York European Film Festival. Out of the seventeen new feature films playing, all but two were European: seven French, three German, two Italian, two Swiss, and one British. Though …

Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. Go on a tour of the real locations seen in SLOW HORSES. Go to https://www.squaremilesecrets.com/slow-horses and enter the coupon code SLOUGH for 20% off your tour. We are back to break down all the excitement of the season four episode four of SLOW HORSES. I’m joined this episode by returning recapper Gary Dexter. We …

I bought two of these in Norway last spring. One I shared with two friends on top of a local hill at sunset. This one I found in the gel and sports nutrition drawer that’s mostly sugar. I’m saving it for something. I just don’t know what.