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Travel by Change – Denver, CO – Fujifilm X-T50 – Superia Negative Film Dial RecipeI get asked fairly regularly which Film Simulation Recipes are the most popular. For me, this is a fascinating topic, but it’s definitely hard to know definitively. While I get a glimpse on social media, my best gauge is the Fuji X Weekly website statistics; specifically, which Recipe articles are viewed the most. I don’t collect …

Over the weekend, Remy Sharp asked… Are we at all worried, or even wary, of web component name collisions? The concern here is that if you have a custom element named <toggle-tabs>, and then important another Web Component that also uses that same custom element name, you’ve now introduced a collision. In the ES import-based JavaScript world, having two functions with the same name isn’t that big of a deal …

Of course they do, and of course they don’t. This originally published 2016-10-07 by Springer-Nature at their “Science of Learning ” research community. By re-publishing here I assert my rights as author and release the text under a Creative Commons (CC-BY 4.0) license. Putting a student at the centre of their own learning seems like fundamental pedagogy. The Constructivist approach to education emphasises the need for knowledge to reassembled in …

Riddle of a Lady Anthony Gilbert published 1956 This was recommended to me after my recent post on Secretaries in Books appeared, and indeed we do have here a Queen of the Typewriter in ‘a long unfashionable coat and a hat with a wreath of flowers round it.’. Miss Bainbridge works for Henry Greatorex, in a small town family solicitors’ firm. Henry is a man of charm, very attractive to …

Juno House was officially opened by Mrs Annie Smith, a Minerva Estate resident since 1948, on Tuesday 5th June 2007.Anne Ambrose - ChairMichael Tyrrell - Chief ExecutiveTHCH

Learn how I started to go off-grid @Home, and warming up to getting real (spendy). #solar #microgen

Last week, I posted about wanting to hire a designer who can ship. As of today, applications are officially open! ⭐ 👉🏽 APPLY HERE 👈🏽 ⭐ A word of caution: please read my tips! It’s important to me to work with someone thoughtful and considerate who pays attention, and ignoring my guidelines is a great way to show me that we’re already not a good fit to work together. For …

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (September 30, 2024 - October 6, 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 …

One of the most interesting developments in the little world of political theory / philosophy in recent years has been the mass resignation of the editorial teams of both Philosophy & Public Affairs, and Journal of Political Philosophy. Public statements from both groups suggested they were disturbed by their existing publishers’ injunctions to publish in higher quantities, perhaps at the cost of academic quality. Both ultimately moved en masse to …

Something foul is in the air—are you the culprit behind the stink? Fear not, because Airheads is here to save the day with a burst of freshness! If stinky feet are your Halloween horror, we’ve got just the thing to turn your nightmare into a sweet dream. Instead of walking around with smelly shoes, you’ll be strutting your stuff with the irresistible scent of candy. Thanks to Airheads’ cherry-scented foot …

Most New Yorkers probably don’t think too much about their apartment hallway. It’s a typically narrow, empty space closed off by shut doors that we only pass through to get to the elevator or stairwell. Artist Charles L. Goeller decided to use a hallway as the inspiration of this undated painting. “Tenement Hallway,” as Goeller titled it, may seem flat and one-dimensional at first glance. But the more you look …

Wildflowers are multitaskers. They are a source of food for your friendly neighbourhood insects but also benefit the soil.

I’m down with the first flu of the season, so I thought I’d write up my notes on the Banana Pi M5 Pro and how it’s fared as part of my increasingly eclectic collection of single-board computers in the post-Raspberry Pi age. Disclaimer: Banana Pi sent me a review unit (for which I thank them), and this article follows my Review Policy. This piece was written after a month of …

It’s 1938 and Stella Fry has just returned to London from Austria, where she has been working as a private tutor for a Jewish family in Vienna. With the worsening political situation in Europe, the family decided to leave for the safety of New York, and Stella has found herself back home with no job. Famous mystery writer Hubert Newman is advertising for someone to type up his new manuscript …

After bowing in the eclectic Sundance Midnight program in January in Utah, "Your Monster" won the 2024 Audience Favourite Award in June at the Sundance Film Festival: London.