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There are two main reasons people use mohair for tailoring today. One is for eveningwear, when they want something with a little more sharpness and lustre; the other, less common, is as an alternative to high-twist wools in the summer. And... > Read more

One of the hallmarks of American motor racing is the flying start or some refer to it as a rolling start. If you’ve ever heard old broadcasts of the Indianapolis 500, you’ve heard chief announcer Sid Collins refer to the start of the 500 as “the world’s fastest flying start”. Flying starts are the norm […]

So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values. I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50% 0%). I log those in the click handler function where I expect the color to change. onClick={() => { // …

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Last night I did something crazy... I bought tweet.new. Yep, I know we're not supposed to call it "tweeting", it's now "posting", but let's be honest, we all do it. What is .new? .new is a domain extension exclusively for performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it. Help your customers take action faster. Less time clicking …

A month has passed since we finally moved in, my wife, my youngest son, and I, joined on weekdays by my nephew who’s at sixth form in Leeds. Oh, and also the cat of whom more later. I might have hinted in my weeknotes, but only now do I dare to write about the entire, long-drawn-out process. 14 frustrating months elapsed between us making an offer and actually moving in, …

We’re getting into the period when “75th Anniversary” books should be being announced. I don’t know if either of these will be branded that way. Coming in May, 2025 is Happiness is Peanuts, which seems to be an attempt to capture the magic of the Happiness is a Warm Puppy-style books of the 1960s, but with fresh art provided by Robert Pope. Coming in August, 2025 is Snoopy, the Story …

Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st October 2024 The sentences were handed down just as Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina. As homes were smashed, trucks swept down roads that had turned into rivers and residents were killed, in the placid setting of Southwark crown court two young …

Waiting For Godot is a play I love; I studied it for A-level, so I'd buy tickets regardless of the casting, but the combo of Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati was definitely an added draw. It is a play that tends to attract starry casts - I've seen productions with...

Around 1.67 million EIGEN tokens belonging to an investor in the popular Ethereum-based EigenLayer project were stolen after the investor was tricked into transferring the tokens into the attacker's wallet. The thief then sold the tokens for around $3.1 million, although the tokens were notionally worth around $5.5 million. Some of the stolen funds were later frozen by centralized exchanges.After the incident, some questioned why the tokens had been sent …

Episode 150 of The Informed Life podcast features a conversation with bestselling author Scott Berkun. Scott has written nine books on design, innovation, remote work, and more. His most recent, Why Design Is Hard, is the second of a pair on why design makes a difference and how designers can best go about it. It’s especially timely. Many designers feel beleaguered amidst layoffs and reduced agency in the business world. …

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It’s so easy, watching on the news, to scream at people who don’t evacuate ahead of oncoming storms. I get it. I scream at them, too. It’s often a fitting reaction.And yet.Evacuation is a process. It’s not “throw a handful of things in an overnight bag and floor it.” You still need to put in the time, money, and effort of preparing your house (or condo, or apartment) for the …

Detail of “Arthropod No. 2”, Phillip KeefeVia https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/phillip-keefe-wood-furniture/