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I'm trying to consolidate my hosting for this website onto my cloud Kubernetes cluster as much as I can. Today I moved the part of my website that serves stickers into the Kubernetes cluster. I wanted to see how minimal I could make it. Turns out, it can be way more minimal than I thought. In the process I discovered how to get all the advantages of Tailwind with none …

I ain't never lived in a house that didn't have wheels on it. It’s been a few years since I last watched this, and I’m probably in a very small club of people who have seen it twice. It’s my wife’s favourite film though so here we are again. I urge you to go back and read the previous review, because there is too much to talk about here. It …

While thinking of those affected by the Southern California wildfires and suggesting Operation USA as a good place to donate, we turn to the topic of today's post, cartoons appropriate for National Milk Day, an event originated in India and now set on January 11. We'll start with Toby The Pup.While perusing the Borden Dairy Products Commercial Archive on YouTube, we continue with a cartoon which is not a milk …

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: A conceptual fashion space hidden in a Tashkent street market, joyful ceramic candleholders shaped like sardines and bananas, and a new collection of lamps inspired by the Triadic Ballet.

Edwin Ray, David Michael Johnson, Iona Fraser, Kim Healey, Rakesh Boury and Eloise Davies in The Creakers at the Southbank Centre, London. Picture: Pamela Raith Photography The Creakers Musical was reviewed at the Southbank Centre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Wow’ is not a word I have ever attributed to a musical aimed at children. Creakers is the first stage show I’ve seen which ticks …

Bicycles on a Dirt Road – Buckeye, AZ – Fujifilm GFX100S II – Velvia FilmMy 15-year-old son, Jonathan, has shown a strong interest in photography for a few years now, so for Christmas my wife and I got him a camera. He just began a high school photography class this semester. Jon told me that one of the first lessons was on composition, including leading lines. A couple days ago, …

In August 2019 my brother Richard and I made a trip to Scottsboro and visited among other places Unclaimed Baggage. Their web site will tell you the store's history and how the business works. You can read my two-part report of that visit to Scottsboro here and here. This past December 26, Dianne, my son Amos and daughter-in-law Kim made the trip to the popular attraction. Amos had also visited …

I don’t think 2024 was a great year for video games. Don’t get me wrong, the games themselves were great! But for the industry? For the medium? Ehh. For starters, AAA titles – arguably the releases that provide shape and form to a year of gaming – either arrived with no impact or failed to show up at all. Outside of Astro Bot, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Indiana Jones, …

5 paintings from August 2023. The post Watercolor Saturday (2) first appeared on Cendrine Marrouat - Artist.

The Verge’s Abigail Bassett profiles Watch Duty, the remarkable nonprofit app that’s become a must-download utility during the Los Angeles fires: Watch Duty is unique in the tech world in that it doesn’t care about user engagement, time spent, or ad sales. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit behind it only cares about the accuracy of the information it provides and the speed with which the service can deliver that information. The app …

Ermitaño Meditando (1955) by Remedios Varo. • Public Domain Review announces the Public Domain Image Archive. I’ve added it to the list. Meanwhile, the PDR regular postings include Francis Picabia’s 391 magazine (1917–1924). • Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: The Well at the World’s End by William Morris. • At Smithsonian Magazine: “See 25 incredible images from the Wildlife Photographer of …

Task queues have been on my mind lately so here's a little primer on what they are, how they work, and why you need them when your project starts to grow.

CNBC: Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, becoming the latest major tech company to try and curry some goodwill with the incoming administration. “Google is pleased to support the 2025 inauguration, with a livestream on YouTube and a direct link on our homepage. We’re also donating to the inaugural committee,” Karan Bhatia, Google’s global head of government affairs and public policy, told CNBC in a statement. …

Here’s a round-up of some news stories from the last two months of 2024, (mostly) not otherwise covered here on the Aperiodical. Maths Research At the start of December, John Carlos Baez shared on Mathstodon that the moving sofa problem may have been solved – the question of the largest possible shape you can fit around a 2D corner. For many years, a shape called Gerver’s sofa has been thought …

Receiver Coffee opened a new treehouse location, a labyrinth of levels set into the branches of a banyan forest located, oddly, in central Charlottetown.One afternoon, Tim Chaisson and I were sharing a coffee at the highest level of the forest-café when we both leaned back over the railing too far and fell over the edge.“Grab the vines, Tim, GRAB THE VINES!”, I yelled.We grabbed the vines, and we survived, unscathed.Safe …