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Given recent events in the US, I'm now looking for work to help keep myself and my friends safe. I have over 10 years of programming/hardware experience on microcontrollers, phones, and desktops/servers, spanning native and managed languages. I'm highly adaptable and quick to learn new domains, but have deep experience writing and profiling real-time/high-performance code, building and debugging thorny concurrent/multithreaded systems (hi Send/Sync!), and implementing audio/video signal processing (DSP).

That was fast. The $10 off sale at Amazon on Arkham House Ephemera: The Classic Years only lasted a couple of days. Now they’ve got it at $35.28, creeping back toward the original $40 retail tag. If you want to scramble around some, I believe the bookseller Terence McVicker may still offer his last few copies for $30 each. As perhaps the premiere online seller of actual ephemera Items, McVicker …

I wanted to share some notes on how I run remote retrospectives. These are not incident retrospectives, which I tend to run differently. But these are for project retrospectives, or for regular check-ins with a group of people to ask ourselves what we can do better. Why use this format? This retro style is more effective than other formats I’ve used. It has these advantages: You get almost universal participation. …

official-linguistics-post:saja-star:One of my favorite things about learning about traditional textiles is the little ghosts they left in the language. Of course the ghosts are there, now that I know to look for them. Once upon a time, half the population spent a majority of their day making textiles. Spinning, at the very least, has been a part of humanity since the Neanderthals. That kind of knowledge doesn’t just disappear. A …

Walk down St John’s Lane in Clerkenwell and at the end of the street you will see a impressive gatehouse. Incongruous to its surroundings, it looks almost as if it has been transported out of a medieval world. This was once the Southern entranceway to the Clerkenwell Priory, the English Headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller. […] The post The History Of The Order Of St John In Clerkenwell appeared first …

Welcome to this Fall's CMBA Blogathon with the captivating theme of the afterlife in film. A realm where past and present are woven together and the echoes of lost souls connect us. But this exploration can also extend well beyond the supernatural. It invites us to reflect on the haunting nature of being tormented by the memories of trauma, abandonment, or unattainable love, the relentless pursuit of a dream just …

Over the past couple of months, I've written a number of posts about the multitude of reasons I believe that President-elect Trump is a spectacularly bad choice to lead the United States for the next four years. The fact that he was elected last week does not lessen my concerns.What follows is a hodge-podge of thoughts and quotes... a virtual download of my fears and frustrations. I'm still trying to …

Kaisa Matomäki, Maksym Radziwill, Fernando Xuancheng Shao, Joni Teräväinen, and myself have (finally) uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Higher uniformity of arithmetic functions in short intervals II. Almost all intervals“. This is a sequel to our previous paper from 2022. In that paper, discorrelation estimates such as were established, where is the von Mangoldt function, was some suitable approximant to that function, was a nilsequence, and was a reasonably …

Last week, I found it very hard to get down to the work I was supposed to be doing. Writing about music felt trivial, absurd. That feeling has passed - for now at least. Not because the trauma and dread has receded. But protecting the mental space to be excited and obsessed and amused by music, ideas, art, etc - life's essential inessentials - feels like something worth doing. Allowing

A little while ago I wrote about managing my reading list using a JSON file. Then I decided that was too easy, so I starting using an SQLite database instead. Moving my reading list to JSON was a mistake, to be frank. Data is spread across three tables, and there’s no easy way to reference the schema while I’m adding new entries, as I mostly do it via the slqite3 …

Sitting at the bar in my local pub, the Great Northern Railway Tavern, earlier in the year, I noticed the regular guest lager produced by the brewery I co-owned, Bohem Brewery, had been replaced by a specially-brewed lager for the pub by Gipsy Hill Brewery. The deal had just been struck and the sales guy…

I’m writing an adventure. I might even get round to publishing it one day! The adventure at the moment has quite a lot of NPC-NPC relationships going on, and I thought it might (initially) be tricky to follow these relationships as a GM running the game.So, I wondered if providing some sort of relationship ‘mind map’ would be helpful.I started the ‘mind-map’ with this webpage: csacademy This app is nice …

Continuing on with some of the topics that Handmade PHD is attempting to make sense of through exploration...Side seam length and shape. Length- the front and back side seams in her sample trouser pattern should be the same length. In most trouser patterns they are. Is there a time when the lengths could be different? Yes, if it is an intentional design feature, or sometimes for shaping. (