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Thanks for this background! I encountered dolosse or something dolosse-like at Praia da Ilha de Tavira, in the Algarve, here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farol+de+Tavira+Molh…

I think this is the reason. For a deeper look at this philosophy of craft you won't do much better than The Beauty of Everyday Things, by Soetsu Yanagi: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/b…

I'm an experienced software engineer and ceramicist and I enjoyed this essay. I have stuff to say. There are some wonderful industrial ceramic designs, e.g. Royal Copenhagen. But m…

In the late 90s and early 2000s there was a bunch of academic research into collaborative multi-agent systems. This included things like communication protocols, capability discove…

That's a great question! It comes up for me a lot. I can walk through my local woods and listen very carefully but I don't think I could read a recipe book and pay attention to an …

Can I read a physical book when I'm running? Can I read a physical book when I'm doing house work? Or throwing pots in my studio? Or knitting? Or cooking? Or driving? Can I stay fo…

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Thank you! I'm on my 3rd draft of a novel so that's actually super lovely to hear.

I was en route to St Helena and I had several days of a raging fever on Ascension, and my memories of the place on either side of my illness are suitably strange. I remember walkin…

Normal firebricks wouldn't withstand mid or high fire temperatures. They'd crack or melt or both. An iron grate wouldn't fare well either. You could probably make modifications to …

It's scary for me too! And way less economical in the UK than electric. My small electric kiln costs £5 to fire. My big (perhaps 4 times the size) gas kiln costs £70-£80. I'd much …

The raw clay wouldn't be vitrified, so it would be porous and would seep or leak. A glaze is a glass, more or less, and to get the silica to melt you need a flux. There are differe…

You can eat as many fermented foods and do as much tai chi as you like, and you can get therapy and manifest and go on retreats. But nothing improves life as much as a 4-day week.

I've been working four-day weeks for about six years. It's a force-multiplier for contentment. No other life change comes close. I'm grateful every week and like you I'm never goin…

Another reason for using tmux: never worry about changing your muscle memory for splits and nav ever again. I've been using tmux for five or six years. In that time I've used Linux…

I have very similar use-cases, and I also I found makefiles a bit limiting. I wrote lk[1] to make this sort of thing easier, and you can just write plain bash functions instead of …

I grew frustrated with the compromises of makefiles for this and over the years I wrote a couple of alternatives, run_lib[1] and lk[2]. Now I write files full of the bash functions…

I found stdx to be a useful set of sign-posts. But it's not been updated in three years. E.g. it suggests `error-chain` instead of `anyhow` and `thiserror`.

There is a way in which Rust reduces mental effort: a compiled program is more likely to work in the way you expect. It cuts out a swathe of post-compile testing and prodding, or a…

I actually found it a bit rough at first but it seems OK now. That took maybe four weeks. But perhaps I was motivated to persevere because many regular deodorants give me a painful…

Bicarbonate of soda works as a deodorant. I have a small pot by my bathroom sink. Dab in two damp fingers, under the arms, no smell. It's more effective than any deodorant I've tri…

Fiction can be moving and transforming. The typeface, cover, colour, and smell of a book can work as mementoes -- when I pick up a book I read when I was 23 it might remind me who …

I don't have any data but I don't think this isn't true at all. I have read at least two articles describing the extra lengths publishers are going to in order to compete. I have b…

I like the look of this. Why would I use it over Taskwarrior?