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The Medici of Bruges, Tommaso Portinari actually worked as a banker for the Medici family while living in this historic Flemish city. Yet his greatest legacy was the group of talented artists he patronised in the 15th century, like Flemish Primitive painters Hugo van der Goes and Hans Memling. Portinari never got to see the Hotel Portinari, at the gateway to Old Bruges, but the hotel honours his legacy by …

There's a big ideological blindspot in political debate. To see it, consider two quite different recent texts: Conservatism in Crisis (pdf) co-authored by Kemi Badenoch and many others; and Sam Freedman's Failed State. Let's take Conservatism in Crisis first. The authors complain of the "rise of a new bureaucratic class" wherein "increasing numbers of middle-class jobs relate more to government rules than goods and services bought and sold in the …

Lesley Wheeler’s “Rhapsodomancy” appears in her forthcoming poetry collection Mycocosmic. The title is an invented word that riffs on bibliomancy, randomly opening a book and stabbing a passage with your finger to tell the future. The 22-line poem (published online at the ASP Bulletin) also riffs on the tarot deck, one line for each card of the Major Arcana. But for me, the poem is a comics script. I’ve been …

As a lover of all things vintage and archival, there are few things that excite me more than a project that plumbs the historical trove of a company or design movement and resurfaces its forgotten gems; it’s the same thrill I get shopping a flea market or antique mall and discovering something incredible that had previously gone unnoticed or been cast aside. Which is why I felt a pang of …

Patreon Thanks to my supporters on Patreon.com/KnifeSteelNerds. Thanks to your support we can do studies like this. Come join us on Patreon if you want support knife steel research too. Video I also have a video covering this same material: Cold Forging and Rolling I already have a separate article about the mechanisms behind cold forging and rolling, so I will not recap much of that here: Cold Forging of …

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Verso Fiction: uncompromisingly intelligent and beautiful books, with an international focus. See all our fiction here. The Destructive Force of Romantic Love: read an excerpt from Vigdis Hjorth's new novel, If Only. "I want to read about women who can’t make things": read an excerpt from Hannah Regal's debut novel, The Last Sane Woman. Roughage: read a short story from India Ennenga on the Verso Blog. 2024 Highlights [book-strip index="1" …

Tap to view at full size. Mine’s going through its greatest era. (And no, there’s nothing secret or security-compromising on my laptop screen in these photos — in fact, it’s documentation that I wrote for Writer, and you’re supposed to see that.) Tap to view at full size. Tap to view at full size. The post What does YOUR workspace look like? appeared first on Global Nerdy.

A late summer coffee-fueled hike through Vancouver Island's historical Kinsol Trestle, blending stunning nature with the perfect cup. The post Kinsol Trestle Coffee Hike appeared first on CoffeeGeek.

Instead of adding document.startViewTransition at various places in your JS, use a MutationObserver to watch for DOM mutations. In the Observer’s callback undo the original mutation and reapply it, but this time wrapped in a View Transition. ~ # The need for automatic View Transitions Today on BlueSky, Cory LaViska wondered the following about Same-Document View Transitions: I wish I could opt certain elements in to View Transitions so all …

Migrations in Laravel are a great way to manage your database schema. From the ability to easily create and drop tables, to the ability to add and remove columns, migrations are an essential part of any Laravel application. And though migrations covers everything related to a database schema under the sun, there might be a few things that might be missing. Like when you upgrade your application to use a …

On 25th November 1974, Nick Drake passed away in his parents home in Tanworth-in-Arden. His work was not well known at this time and it would take until the end of the decade that his profile began to rise. By the mid 80s, he was being mentioned by a number of musicians as an influence and in the following decade, his gained further exposure due to the BBC broadcasting radio …

This is a guest post by Ryn Cole, who was an intern this summer in the Office of Communications. It appears in slightly different form in the November-December issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. The fourth Thursday in November today means family, food and giving thanks. The national holiday of Thanksgiving, however, did not come quickly or easily. The precedent for a national Thanksgiving holiday can be attributed, in …

As you probably know, it's a tradition here to look at the Thanksgiving Day listings on Thanksgiving week, and this week's listings come from the Wisconsin State Edition. All three networks preempted substantial parts of their daytime schedules for parades and football, but if you need something to keep you awake after all the foot, you might want to stick around for NBC's Kraft Suspense Theatre and "Graffiti," a WWII …

Some of us are lucky and sell out our concert, or have to close our choir to new members. photo by Pacopac It’s a nice problem to have, but I hate turning people away, so are there alternatives? It’s inevitable that when you offer something good, there will come a time when you become over-subscribed. Your concert or singing workshop sells out, or you reach capacity with your choir membership. …