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This is a pet peeve of mine, so when a headlight went out a few weeks ago I asked my mechanic about bulb options. He said he had no other choices for me, so now I am part of the pr…

I've been looking through twenty-five-odd years of my own photos. The collection includes scanned 35mm and medium format images; digital pictures from a few Canon Powershot generat…

Highly recommended... I found it quite beautiful and moving, and it's the only film I've felt compelled to write a blog post[1] about. "Seeing the film (made just last year) transf…

> I basically want to build a custom e-reader with a RasPi Zero for learning/home use, 8-10inches would be great. Though smaller than your target size, I did[1] something similar, …

Aaron Reed's 50 Years of Text Games[1][2] is a fantastic journey into the history and the possibilities of text-based games. I got the physical book and was surprised to find it as…

We had one of these at CERN in the experimental physics group I was in 1990-1991. I had no idea they were rare or that the line was a failure. It was certainly faster than the othe…

And, possibly, Clojurists are more likely to use the word, because of: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/reify

Not the OP but: One can develop with TDD in Clojure quite smoothly depending on choice of tooling; with CIDER in Emacs there are keyboard shortcuts to run tests for the current nam…

Very nice potential in this idea. A few related use cases I would like: - population density - average cost per square foot - distance from river or lake (I live in Chicago)