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As the church bells were chiming on Christmas Eve, Dina and Kb clinked mugs of hot lemon and honey tea with us Bookfayries, toasting to the demise of germs and the hope for brighter, sniffle-free days. They spent Christmas battling the flu and now having emerged from the duvet fortress determined to leave all traces ...

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Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself a seasoned pro, I suggest reading An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations. Josh (as always) does an impeccable deep dive that includes interactive demos for multi-step animations, loops, setting dynamic values, and more. This is a quick post pointing out some other minor particulars: Duplicate keyframe properties The order of keyframe rules Custom timing function (easing) …

Hoshigaki is a traditional Japanese delicacy that transforms fresh persimmons into candy-like dried fruits. The process of creating hoshigaki has been perfected over centuries and involves carefully peeling and hand-massaging the persimmons as they slowly air-dry, resulting in a uniquely sweet and complex flavor and a slightly chewy yet soft texture. Although the process is ... The post Hoshigaki Dried Persimmon appeared first on Chopstick Chronicles.

John Foreman’s Australian Pops Orchestra blends traditional New Year’s Eve favourites with a generous serving of musical theatre and pop hits for a thrilling presentation of their annual New Year’s Eve & The Day Before Gala Concert. New Year’s concerts are a custom the world over and Melbourne is fortunate to have its own tradition curated so lovingly by John Foreman. Showcasing three fabulous headline stars, the 60 piece orchestra …

Jimmy Carter. Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Naval Photographic Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Jimmy Carter is dead. He became 100 years old. He may be known as the 'least-bad American president', which is no small feat. Let's look at what he did, based on some notes I've made through the years; in other words, this is merely a collection of quotes from books, articles, and video …

Pick two There’s a well-known project management / product management adage… you have three variables – speed / price / quality – and must choose two. FOSDEM 2025 My friend Chris Adams is, like me1, headed to FOSDEM 2025 – in fact, for the last couple of years, that is the only time I’ve had the joy of seeing him, so I already treasure the opportunity to go there! Background …

The Best & Worst of:2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010I bought a GameCube this year. It's orange.I also bought and played things that aren't twenty years old. New things. Whether I was pumping dozens of hours into the latest blockbuster, discovering a charming indie, revisiting an old favourite, or …

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Just in time for the holidays, Colleen Robichaux and I wrote this paper on positivity of Schubert coefficients. This paper is unlike any other paper I had written, both in the content and the way we obtained the results. To me, writing it was a religious experience. No, no, the paper is still mathematical, it’s just, uhm, different. Read this post till the end to find out how, or go …

The Eiger Sanction (1975). This action thriller, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, follows a former assassin who is coerced into one last mission. There is some talk about recovering a germ warfare formula, but the mission is really about revenge. Two bad agents kill one of ours, so a shadowy U.S. agency wants them sanctioned--which is apparently code for eliminated. Eastwood's ex-killer now teaches art at a college (!) …

This year we enjoyed around 40 events, including monthly pub meet-ups at the Wheatsheaf in Fitzrovia. There were our hardy annuals such as the Big Pub Quiz, Annual Lecture, Picnic and Life Members’ Lunch; among the rest, highlights have to be our visit to Berry Bros & Rudd, the Gas Lamp workshop, the Kennel Club […]

If anything looks wrong, read on the site! Happy Holidays! I have four new links to read while you recharge your batteries from dealing with end-of-year stress or recovering from overeating. They’re either introspective or retrospective, as is the theme this time of year. Care Doesn’t Scale, by Steven Scrawls This is such a good article that resonated very deeply with me. As someone who wished could do more to …

You Can't Rebrand a Class War. This is about America, but the Labour Party seem intent on telling everyone the system has failed over the past decades that it's not possible for it to improve, and will then be shocked when the populist fascists get more votes for their lies that they will improve things; just as happened with Brexit. When the current situation is broken and one party is …

I dual-boot my desktop between Windows and Linux. Over the past few years, Linux would often crash when I tried to sleep my computer with high RAM usage. Upon waking it would show a black screen with moving cursor, or enter a "vegetative" state with no image on-screen, only responding to magic SysRq or a hard reset. I traced this behavior to an amdgpu driver power/memory management bug, which took …