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The 2024 Washington wildfire season is thankfully behind us. However, wood burning for residential heating is a concern during the cold seasons when temperature inversions and light winds cause smoke to stagnate. Valley communities are more prone to this and often experience impaired air. Thus, air quality burn bans may be called for your area in the coming months. Local air quality contactsHave questions about smoke or air quality issues …

TL; DR: Critique and review are different. Critique is simply about making the work better. Review is about assessing readiness for the next stage in the process. Healthy critique requires psychological safety. To make the work better means being able to discuss it openly, and frankly, warts and all. To do so in a constructive fashion requires that everyone involved know there will be no retribution for their work or …

Can I Call You Rose? is one of my favourite recent soul tracks. Its by San Diego's Thee Sacred Souls. A great write up HERE in the Guardian on the Low-Rider soul scene, and this band.

on creative practices & how i work today I want to share two modes of working that have formed the backbone of my creative, digital, and business practices: working in ongoing rituals vs. in intensive, focused sprints. I describe this as the difference between the daily (sometimes tedious) practice of tending to a garden — versus the focused (often adrenaline-infused high) of riding an energy wave to complete a creative …

We recently rebuilt our merchant-facing help and documentation site to make it easier to update, and easier to use.User-facing documentation is an important element of good software. Sure, good software should always be as easy to use as possible, but making software perfectly intuitive is challenging when building something as powerful as the Corso app.Our software offers a highly-customizable experience for customers and merchants alike across returns, exchanges, warranties, registrations, …

Japanese otaku artist Mr. to open debut solo exhibition in LondonExhibition Details

So many hours of our lives are wasted worrying about what other people think. How many times have you had an interaction with someone and immediately wondered, “Did I do something wrong? Are they upset at me? If I do this thing for this person, will it bother this other person?” These worry cycles are counter-productive. Still, our brains can’t resist. They’re happy to keep us awake at night spinning …

A disclaimer first: we were involved in a little background work (figuring out e.g. dates of parties) for this documentary, so what you are about to read is a little biased. I had been looking forward to Aaron Trinder’s documentary for a long time, and even though I had heard plenty of positive feedback from others, nothing could replace experiencing it for myself. It was well worth the wait. This …

British film critic David Thomson interviews Greil Marcus on the occasion of his recent book, Why I Write. Courtesy of Yale University Press.

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As part of wrapping up the work I’m doing toward a PhD, I realized the other day that I’d never actually compiled anything like a comprehensive bibliography, and that it’s well past time I fixed that. Here, then, is a reasonably complete roundup of things I’ve published in all the years since I was SPIN‘s worst and most teenaged staff writer, back at the tail end of the foul Eighties. …

In today’s attention economy, authors and publishers are competing not only with each other, but also with the many distractions of life 一 from streaming platforms to social feeds. Book covers have long played a vital role in driving sales by appealing to the book’s target audience. Yet now more than ever, they’re an author and publisher’s best chance to compel people to stop what they’re doing and find out …

Following on from my previous article I added GPS1 (well, GNSS) to my tiny drone – the Meteor 75 Pro. I wanted to add GPS so I could make use of GPS rescue in betaflight as well as see the altitude, speed and distance in the OSD.

Bronx Zoo, New York, NY, 2024

Some of the most impressive churches and historical sites are found along the Camino de Santiago routes that twist through the length of Europe. While tourists and pilgrims alike will be drawn to the grand cathedrals on the Camino de Santiago, I find the most special places are the tiny chapels, churches, and unplanned hidden...