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Most of my multi-page designs are typically created in Adobe InDesign, but for simpler layouts, I sometimes opt for Illustrator. While InDesign offers more advanced tools for managing text styles, the key advantage lies in its use of Master Pages. However, Illustrator also supports threaded text, allowing you to link text areas and have the content flow from one frame to another, along with several useful options and features. Create …

This is a rough transcript based on my notes for the sharing session I presented at the online Groove meetup in June. I've shared the slides before, but I think it's worth putting the content in writing. The full slide deck is accessible on GitHub. css-doodle is a project I started many years ago. Initially, it was used to draw some simple graphic patterns, but over time, it evolved into …

The examples used here are from the weekly challenge problem statement and demonstrate the working solution. Part 1: Contiguous Array You are given an array of binary numbers, @binary. Write a script to return the maximum length of a contiguous subarray with an equal number of 0 and 1. Let’s not concern ourselves with any particular efficiencies and just analyze all the subsets of the given numbers! The main loop …

In past seasons, I've written holiday gift guides focused on what you might buy other people. These are always tricky; you should usually not buy other people clothes, since you probably don't know what fits them or their style as well as they do. I also listed out some good black friday sales, generally, but you might want more specific guidance. But Jake Woolf inspired me. He showed me the …

I got myself a coffee advent calendar and I have to admit it was more aspirational than anything. I don’t drink enough coffee. But the packaging is nice. Web developers around the world have for years given a nod to Saturnalia solstice Isaac Newton’s birthday Yule wassailing mummering end of Gregorian calendar year Christmas with advent calendars covering web-related topics. As a result, you may (should) recognize some of the …

Thanks to the excellent Why Don’t YouTube, over on Bluesky, I was made aware of another short-lived Noel Edmonds curio. Noel Edmonds' first new series after The Late Late Breakfast Show's enforced cancellation was Whatever Next?, as seen today in 1987, a single series light oddity in which two pairs are challenged to predict the outcomes of street dares, queries and stunts.— Why Don't YouTube? (@whydontyoutube.bsky.social) 2024-11-30T19:00:02.086Z Coming so soon …

The city is a map of stories, and in them we are both the inhabitants and the explorers. Zadie Smith (from NW) At Psychogeographic Review I write about the books, poems, maps, photographs, paintings, films and music that help us to construct a living map of the places where humans live. The following is my personal and very subjective list of some of the books that have informed this discussion …

(⏱️ ~10 min read) Another month, another collection of shiny objects (stuff I found in the the past month that were valuable/inspiring). See also, previous Signal Boosts for Oct/Sep, Aug/July, June, May 🩸 Kurzgesagt gets to the bottom of a science myth ↪ 😭 Paper: AI poems are now "more human than human" ↪ 🇺🇸 U.S. Election-related analysis ↪ 👄 The Substance ↪ 🩸 Kurzgesagt gets to the bottom of …

I’ve played 186 games of Forest Shuffle this year. I like it a lot. Here are some new games I’ve played during the past few months. Fishing. Friedemann Friese’s latest curious trick-taking game is a lot of fun. This is an evolving game with a lovely ebb and flow to it. The game starts simple. You play a normal game of trick-taking and score a point for every card you …

. Winter brings longer nights and the desire to read by the fireside. Welcome, dear reader, to 19th-century Paris’ vibrant literary world! Let’s explore the various styles and flamboyant authors who penned their way into world-wide fame. Romanticism (from 1790s to 1850s) Romanticism was a literary movement focused on emotion, imagination, and the natural world. It was a time of heightened creativity and experimentation. Writers during this period explored themes …

I’m trying not to borrow grief from the future, as the saying advises, but the terms are so damn attractive.

I thought I should share more pictures from my trip to Venice, some months ago. I recently listened to this podcast from the BBC and I learnt a lot more about the history of such amazing place. I totally recommend it. As always, let me know if you would like a print of any of these pictures ;). Source

The American worker divide: Those who sit, and those who stand.

The road to Dirē Dawa is a long one: an eight-hour drive from Addis Ababa, or so we are told. We left Addis Ababa at dawn, our bus rattling through empty streets shadowed by new-build office blocks. As with almost everywhere currently in Ethiopia, the pavements were piled with concrete rubble, the result of Prime … Continue reading "The Road to Dirē Dawa"