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TV In the past couple of weeks the latest series of Lucy Worsley Investigates has been released on BBC Two and the iPlayer. Not knowing what to expect, I headed into the first series, starting with The Witch Hunts and was struck once again with Worsley's ability to present difficult subjects with intellectual rigour but in an inclusive style that doesn't patronise the viewer. Until recently, every morning I'd watch …

Anthology for Books, Geneseo, IL(Like The Indie Bob Spot on Facebook and follow The Indie Bob Spot on X)Anthology for Books has been open for almost 5 months and I don’t know how they could've got off to a better start. It has been 20+ years since Geneseo had a bookstore and the enthusiasm for Anthology for Books has been off the charts since the day of the grand opening …

Hello friends! This post is here to help give you some ideas about how you might participate in this month’s Brassicas and Root Vegetables Community Canning Challenge. If you missed the introductory post last week, you can find it here. Sign up to participate using this form, and join me over at Substack (all challenge related posts will be entirely free) or our Facebook group for topic discussions. On the …

The T+A PA 3100 HV is a fully German made integrated amplifier for high end audio HiFi systems. Is this the worlds best integrated amp? Read my thoughts! [...] The post The T+A PA 3100 HV Integrated Amplifier Review. Worlds Best? first appeared on Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo.

I am continuing my reread of Rex Stout's novellas. "Die Like a Dog" is a 66-page novella in the Nero Wolfe series. It is one of three stories in Three Witnesses, published in 1957. I have featured some of my favorite novellas by Stout in previous posts in the last year. However, this story might be my absolute favorite of Nero Wolfe stories in shorter format.It is unusual because it …

You know that feeling of odd regret that happens after the fact, when you’re able to look at something more objectively? That’s kind of where I am right now, and it’s also where I’ve been. It’s not an easy place to be. There are red flags and green flags, but the flags in between are amber: warning signs that might indicate a problem. Photo by Joe Roberts on Unsplash Natalie …

Today we are announcing the availability of the SFO Museum Application Programming Interface (API). The API allows developers to access SFO Museum-related data programatically over the internet. The SFO Museum API has actually been around for a while now. It’s what powers the object counts as you add and remove filters on the advanced search page on the Aviation Collection website and is how items are added to and removed …

New article from Special Needs Jungle: Deep in the deserts of Turkmenistan, there’s a toxic fire that’s been burning for decades. It’s known locally as the Door to Hell. Inadvertently started by unaccountable government apparatchiks, exacerbated … The post PAC SEND report: Slightly pointless when decision-makers don’t know what they value more—money or children’s futures? appeared first on Special Needs Jungle. Matt Keer ⓒ Special Needs Jungle 2008-2023 All Rights …

Now that I have a job where I’m writing web components full time, I see the this keyword more than I ever have in my whole life. It’s not a problem, per se, but you can see how it’s a little repetitive. I started wondering what my options were to fix this minor annoyance and the ShopTalk Discord helped me find a simple way and an over-the-top way to fix …

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ICYMI I wrote about Jimmy Carter earlier in the month. This week, on Thursday, Andy Smarick and I are going to talk about his recent report on college and leadership. Join us at LInkedIn 130p for, “Do you have to go to an Ivy to lead?“ On the 28th, I’m moderating a discussion with the Campaign for Grade Level Reading about SEL, politics, and why athletics turn out to be …

When Alien: Romulus first came out, the buzz around it was so good that I was sure I was going to have to do the rarest of rare things in 2024: go see a movie in a theater. But after the initial wave of good vibes, the mood on the internet seemed to sour, with more and more people complaining that the movie was too derivative of Alien and Aliens …

hyperfine is a neat tool for benchmarking commands. If you provide it multiple commands, its output includes a comparison, saying which is the fastest, and by how much. I often find I want to benchmark before and after some change, by running the same test command on my main Git branch and a feature branch. Here is my hyperfine recipe to do that, using the --prepare option to switch branches …

One of the things I like the most about The Brutalist, I think, is that it is a movie that retains some of it’s secrets. Certainly, a lot of it drawn out right in front of you. This is an epic and I swear, almost a response to The Godfather. Mario Puzo had one of his characters say, right up front, “I believe in America.” Here Writer/Director Brady Corbet, joined …

I stumbled on the article, Lullaby Language by Jerry Weinberg. Here is an extract of the keywords that confuse teams involved in projects working together and the better ways of dealing with the situation. Should The meaning of “should” would be “probably won’t.” For instance, the sentence, “The Catalog Department should deliver component pricing data by 1 February to the IT Department.” Team-A interprets this as “The Catalog Department [must] …