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Have you ever had one of those times when you think you're doing everything right, yet still you get an unexpected bug in your application? Particularly when it is state-related and you thought you did everything you could to isolate the state by making copies instead of mutating it in place. Especially when you are, say, building a game that copies a blank initial state when you create a new …

Documents from and recordings of all presentations at the Lunar and Planetary Institute's Planet Characterization Conference, held in February 2024, are available for reading and viewing here.My presentation on February 21 was one of several under the heading, "The Impact of Taxonomy on Public Perception of Science and Our Universe: Advantages and Pitfalls. All the presentations are worth watching. Mine is titled, "Impact of the IAU Planet Definition on Public …

We live our lives never truly knowing when the day comes that something remarkable happens. I was doing totally normal errands today in the middle of town when I saw a sun dog, a common enough occurrence, but it was so bright I decided to snap a shot. But as I got out of the car, I realized something more complex had become visible, something I'm fairly sure I've never …

2024 was another lite reading year for me. The fact that it was an election year probably didn’t help, and one of my resolutions for 2025 is to spend a heck of a lot less time keeping up with the dreary treadmill of the 24-hour news cycle. Even videogames proved to be a better use of my time, and I wouldn’t mind plugging another 100 hours into Slay the Spire …

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I’ll never forget hearing Paul Simon’s album Graceland for the first time. As a kid growing up in West Texas surrounded by country music and perpetually drowning in the blood of Christ, the South African musicians on that record blew my world apart. At the same time, Paul Simon’s songwriting pulled my world together. I find every song on the album to be worthy of discussion. (Except “Crazy Love,” which …

I’ve just released a huge update to the Theme Machine. This is a tool a first put online last summer for building color palettes and exporting them as CSS custom properties. If you haven’t played with it yet, go a head and give it a try. Note: I made the tool responsive, so you can play around with it on mobile and see what it does, but it’s really designed …

I'm cross-posting again. This was posted on izzzzi yesterday, but's really an astrid dev log post I guess! I started reworking autotriggers in astrid again this weekend... I think this time they're nicer, simpler: basically just an array of structs in shared memory. The structs have an interval, a phase, and a payload field with a corresponding enum that indicates the type of the payload. There's a thread whose sole …

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 …