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Some restaurants just make it look so easy, don't they? The menu at Camille is so enticing, with unusual eye-catching ingredients prepared in exciting and distinctive ways, that it's almost enough to spoil any other dining experience by default, and it makes you wonder if they can do it, why can't everyone else? I thought I might as well lead with this spoiler (yes, Camille is every bit as good …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

The membership of the America the Beautiful for All coalition stretches from the Marianas to Maine, Alaska to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. We are the largest, most diverse coalition of its kind to ever exist in the United States. Last week, 170+ conservation, climate change, and community leaders from across the United States ... Read More "6 Ways to Support the America the Beautiful for All Coalition" »

For like a year we've been sporadically reading the 1980 Barry Malzberg collection The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady. Today let's finish it up with the final five pieces of fiction in the book, all of them from the period 1977-1980. But first, links to my blog posts on the previous 23 stories in the volume. “On the Air”“Here, for Just a While”“In the Stocks”“The Man Who Married a …

Written by MichaelWell, this post won’t be as long. I’ve given up on this session after reaching what was almost definitely a dead end. And that’s after beating the darn ghost!This will be less of a blow-by-blow of the steps I’ve taken, and more of just a list of failures and frustrations.First, going back to the grave to dig up stuff that was stolen from me results in death, from …