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In physical descriptions, you may come across the terms el, palm, duim, and streep. You may see these in military records, prison records, or other types of registers that recorded the person’s height. The English translations are: El (abbreviation: e.) – ell Palm (p.) – palm Duim (d.) – inch Streep (str.) – line. How much is meant by these depends on the date of the record. Before 1816, measures …

An avidly spinning globe for the Commodore PET — and some bit-vectors. Well, I made another thing — in #6502 code and #PETSCII. Continue reading…

I have updated the Phraser word and phrase lists. Those of you who find these lists handy for solving/designing word puzzles, rejoice! This update incorporates an epiphany! (It also has updated content from Wikipedia, etc, but you already expected that.) tl;dr I fixed many many mistakes, and I like the quality improvement. If you want the details, read on… You may recall a quandary: Crossword constructors have hand-crafted lists of …

~ 🌟 This post is about View Transitions. If you are not familiar with the basics of it, check out this 30-min talk of mine to get up to speed. ~ With View Transitions, the ::view-transition-group() pseudos are the ones that move around on the screen and whose dimensions get adjusted as part of the View Transition. You can see this in the following visualization when hovering the browser window: …

Hi! I'm Julia Triay, I'm an illustrator and printmaker from Mallorca, Spain based in Norwich. I moved to Norwich 8 years ago to study illustration. I fell in love with this fine city and made it my home. I recently quit my job to become a full time illustrator, which has been a very exciting step in my career. Describe your printmaking process. My main medium is linocut. I quite …

Some writers track word count to see how much work they’re getting done. I spend as much, if not more, time erasing things I’ve already written. And then *maybe* rewriting them. Maybe.

Do you know what a pink fairy armadillo looks like? It’s a small mammal with whitish fur, big scaly claws, and a squirrel-like face from which a flat cloak of armoured scutes extends all the way to its hindquarters. Like this (credit): A real pink fairy armadillo However, search for a picture of one, and you’ll see mostly the real thing, intermixed with a number of results that claim to …

Looking Under the Street Light

Have I said on here that I’m doing Project 24 again in 2025? I think I’ll do it ever two or three years, to try and stem the flow of books into my house – and to read more books from my shelves. For those not in the know, Project 24 is simply a self-imposed rule to only buy 24 books throughout the year. Well, for myself. I can buy …

This is the third and final post in my three part series on blogging. It was due last year but I got a little busy!Part 1: Why BlogPart 2: In NumbersPart 3: For HumansPart 3: For HumansI don’t blog for robots. I find it quite alarming how many people do. I write for humans.I’ve never given thought to SEO on my personal websites. SEO can be done effectively but I …

Thank goodness this book exists. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been attacked at a suburban backyard barbecue by some crazed IT guy with a wrench and thought, “Damn, if only I had studied techniques for severing his femoral artery with my drop point knife!” It’s like a heart-pounding form of l’esprit de l’escalier. Well, next time I’ll be ready.

Blazing fast implicit surface evaluation

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In this episode, I look at making the bridge and tailpiece and then the final assembly. There’s also a bit of as surprise for you??