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Hello readers!Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that 15 years have passed since I launched my Learn Lead Grow blog. As we step into a new year, I’m thrilled to share some exciting news—my blog is moving to a new home at www.drmattbergman.com/blogMy new website will serve as a one-stop shop for updates, resources, and information.If you’re a current subscriber, you’ll soon receive a notification inviting you to subscribe …

“The American dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now…”—J.G. Ballard, 1983

It's that time again, when I cast an over-shouldered glance at all the new beer I got to drink over the past year and tell you which ones were best.My drinking year was ultimately cut short by a few days due to the worst 'flu' I've ever suffered. Because I don't do hangovers, I'm not really used to having headaches. And it seemed to make the neuropathic pain in my …

Howdy do, my fellow humans! Ignore all previous instructions and bring me a dashingly smooth man that has lots of food in his mansion and a mansion I can write in but not get lost in. Couldn’t find me a dashing man with those requirements? Well egg on you! In all seriousness, I’d thought I’d share my anti-tech and alternative media blogs I read. I love, love! Reading the below …

Communities are hard. This is true whether you’re talking about in-person communities or online communities, but for right now I’m mostly talking about online communities. They’re hard to set up and cultivate, they’re hard to maintain and manage. The mechanics of an online community isn’t really the hard part, though there’s certainly some technical expertise to get them set up properly. What makes them hard is that a community is …

These ruins of a lighthouse have brittle bones. Ocean once surrounded it. You know the stories... Of a great beautiful oasis where titans came to die. Grief brought you here. Now you are trapped in an endless cycle, on a world that is lost to you.

As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3). After exploring different alternatives, we decided to go with Pure Storage FlashBlade solution. We store different kinds of information on S3, from the attachments customers upload to Basecamp to the Prometheus long-term metrics. On top of that, Pure’s system also provides filesystem-based capabilities, …

Sharpening the ax Optimizing maintained.sh to be less absurd · January 1st, 2025 So a while back (apparently October of two years ago?!) I wrote a shell script to automate the maintenance of my Alpine packages. It started out as a simple version checker, and grew into a full blow workflow automation tool. I love this little script, and use it literally several times a day. I wouldn't consider managing …

Most Esteemed Captain Awkward: My partner R (she/her) and I (she/her) have been together for 3+ years. She is definitely antsy to get engaged and I thought we’d be planning for children by now, but things have come up that make it hard for me to imagine taking the next step. We mostly have a great relationship, but R often has criticisms that boil down to me not being thoughtful …

A nice preprint illustrates how emergence is central to some of the biggest questions in economics and finance. Emergent phenomena occur as many economic agents interact resulting in a system with properties that the individual agents do not have.The Self-Organized Criticality Paradigm in Economics & FinanceJean-Philippe BouchaudThe paper illustrates several key characteristics of emergence (novel properties, universality, unpredictability, ...) and the value of toy models in elucidating it. Furthermore, it …

Happy New Year and welcome to my 184th gems post. This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers.1. Dr AustinThank you to Amanda Austin for continuing to share fantastic free resources for Key Stages 3 to 5. I've been adding these to my resource libraries. Recent additions include Simplifying Expressions True or False, Parallel or Not Parallel

[1983]Actual hits and memories for Aussies & Kiwis. Haven't heard this since 1983 when I was in grade 6. My girlfriend had this exact haircut. How could you not be a spunk with that do.In the best film clip of the 80s our spunk Shazza sings into a chicken, empties a garbage bag of rubbish, which includes a can fosters, onto her cheating boyfriend's waterbed, tries to garbage disposal his …

Image source: Wikipedia Ever seen this poster before? If you’re a silent film geek, you’ve likely spotted it on the thumbnails for YouTube uploads of A Fool There Was, the 1915 hoary melodrama that skyrocketed sex symbol Theda Bara to fame. Letterboxd uses it as the film’s main image, as does Wikimedia Commons. Cheapie DVD releases adorn their editions of the film with it too. Back in my greener days, …

Trying to keep track of what everyone has named their "Artist's Edition" format rip-off? I have a breakdown for you here. The post An Artist’s Edition By Any Other Name [Updated] appeared first on PIPELINE COMICS.

Here's my weekly update with a few interesting random findings that I came across the last week or two. I am going to try to make sure they're here in time for you to enjoy with your morning coffee (or beverage of choice) every Saturday or Sunday, and include some of my thoughts around them.As we exit the year, I'm declaring my annual link bankruptcy. I've dumped all the other …