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Essays by Timothy D’Arch Smith Edited by Edwin Pouncey & Sandy Robertson £35 Available in a hardback edition of 500 copies only from SAP. 192 pp. | 133 x 203mm Illustrated, index Available mid January 2025 PRE-ORDER HERE In the long–awaited followup to his famed 1987 anthology, Books Of The Beast, writer, legendary bookseller and cricket enthusiast Timothy d’Arch Smith steps up to the crease with The Stammering Librarian, another …

0:00 /0:09 1× Flying south. Love. Communion. Reunion. Celebration. Blood family and found family. The husk of a person, still and silent in her pink floral casket. Soul taken flight. Lilies bowed as if in prayer. The finger-burning, salty abundance of fish & chips. Sandwich triangles with the crusts cut off. Sugary clouds filled with whipped cream.waitarere beach walk with my two sistersSandy feet. A shipwreck being devoured by sand …

There is a 2019 paper, in the journal Political Analysis (htm), with over 1000 Google cites, titled "How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice". The paper is not just widely cited, but is also actually influential. Most political science papers estimating interactions now-a-days, seem to... The post [121] Dear Political Scientists: Don't Bin, GAM Instead appeared first on Data Colada.

A small guest cabin near Montauk, New York with all the fixings. Built on an existing foundation, this 12’ x 15’ footprint is smaller than a single car garage but packed out with the full functionality of a house four times its size. The small kitchen and storage zone is tucked in under the narrow stair. The flue of the teeny wood-burning fireplace extends from ground floor to roof line, …

Sean will be the Grand Marshall of Dothan’s 10th anniversary Mardi Gras parade! Come join the fun and watch the parade! Time and other details to be added…. The post Grand Marshall–Dothan, Alabama appeared first on Sean of the South.

Between this newsletter, my podcast, my books, and my New Yorker journalism, I offer a lot of advice and propose a lot of ideas about how the modern digital environment impacts our lives, both professionally and personally, and how we should respond. This techno-pontification covers everything from the nitty gritty details of producing good work in an office saturated with emails and Zoom, to heady decisions about shaping a meaningful …

The holiday season is a wonderful time to catch up with friends and family, who inevitably ask me what kind of woodworking I’ve been doing lately. With some chagrin, I have to say that I’ve been so busy that I’ve barely touched my hand planes and hand saws since this summer. I haven’t been doing any woodworking at all. But that’s not entirely true. In fact, this fall I’ve been …

Filtered sampling from sorted values with incremental binary search Published 2024-12-03 I had a problem recently that I solved badly. As is traditional, I figured out how to solve it well in the shower this morning. The solution is obvious in retrospect, but I thought I’d share it anyway as it’s an interesting algorithm that I’d not seen before. def filtered_sample(random, values, lower_bound, upper_bound): """Samples a random value `x` from …

Ok I’ll admit it, the title is a bit dramatic. Makefiles and shell scripts are here to stay, and that’s fine. I’m wouldn’t make the argument that any tool is the perfect tool for all tasks all the ...

This evening I made a Timeline of Discovery, listing historical inventions, discoveries, events, etc. that I find personally interesting. I started doing it because I saw a project, Markwhen, on Hacker News, that turns a simple markdown-like format into HTML timelines and I wanted to try it out. It turned out not to be exactly what I wanted, because it makes a page that is "too interactive", and I couldn't …

I had some spare time recently as I waiting for the lacquer I'd sprayed on my current batch of acoustic guitars to cure in readiness for polishing, and as I'm becoming a big fan of headless guitars, I put the guitar pictured together while I had the opportunity to do so.I've had the maple neck blank and the Queensland maple drop-top cap in my tonewood stash for what must be …

I know from personal experience that if you work with an artist or band, you very frequently end up liking, or even loving, their music. This is true even for music that is wildly out of your comfort zone. This is also partly why whenever you see a flotilla of music execs in a industry magazine choosing their favourite music of the last year — or their tips for next …

Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet. Keep reading.

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Matt and Sam talk to Luke Mayville of Reclaim Idaho about progressive organizing in rural and red America.