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Cats are known to be the leading predator of birds in the U.S.A, killing somewhere between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds per year. It's a major problem.And there's a sense that it's a new one. The Scott Loss paper cited about came out in 2013, and seems to have marked a turning point in the discourse. "Did you say billion?" A growing number of people talk about the problem, and …

Dear All; and you are all very dear to me and I have been thinking of you a lot over the past many months. Some of you may have forgotten all about me, some may have been wondering where I had got to, others may already know what I have been doing. If you have been reading my blog for some time you will know that I am married to …

My book, The Monumental Andes—Geology, Geography, and Ancient Cultures of the Peruvian Andes, is hot off the presses! (Finally! Hooray!) Encompassing towering snow-covered volcanoes, elegant ruins of ancient civilizations, a wide variety of rock types and fossils, llamas and alpacas—there is so much about the central Andean region that fascinates. My book is one that I would have liked to read before traveling in Peru. In my blog posts, I …

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 …

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, …

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.