For the last several evenings a thought burrowed away at the back of my mind – that I hadn’t written anything in the blog recently, and that I didn’t really have anything to share. In the past I wouldn’t have let that stop me. I had a conversation with my eldest daughter in the w … | Continue reading
A generation ago, Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered in what appeared to be a homophobic attack. This month, Ben Kawaller traveled to the scene of the crime. He heard a different story. | Continue reading
Seit Ende Oktober 2023 ist Brunel mit der Kölner Agentur format:c live communication und dem JobTOUR-Mobil unterwegs, um sich an verschiedenen Stationen in der Republik als Arbeitgeber vorzustellen. Die JobTOUR wurde nun bis Ende Juli 2024 ... | Continue reading
"Thank you! This advice arrived just in time." Homesteader shares quick and easy trick to collect veggie seeds from your garden: 'This is genius' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A new multiwavelength 3D visualization of the iconic "Pillars of Creation" showcases the differences between Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope data. | Continue reading
In this post I'll give updates about open source I worked on during May and June 2024. To see previous OSS updates, go here. Sponsors I'd like to thank all the sponsors and contributors that make this work possible. Without you, the below projects would not be as mature or wouldn … | Continue reading
A few glasses of fizzy were consumed during the JetBrains party at Devoxx Belgium last year: Holly: You do presentations about productivity, and about developer happiness, and I do presentations about developer joy. We should do a presentation together! Me: Yes! What a fantastic … | Continue reading
The Kindle is for e-book reading, and Google is for searching online. This should speak volumes about Kindle’s capabilities, not just its scope as a premier e-reader device but also its build quality. We have come across stories of people still enjoying their Kindle devices bough … | Continue reading
The School of OpenJDK Migration is totally free and self-paced. Do yourself a favor and start preparing about OpenJDK migration today. The post Master Your Journey in the School of OpenJDK Migration appeared first on foojay. | Continue reading
How to automate a gate door without remote capabilities using a smart relay and integrate it into HomeKit via Home Assistant. | Continue reading
In computer science, an associative array, map, symbol table, or dictionary is an abstract data type that stores a collection of (key, value) pairs, such that each possible key appears at most once in the collection. In mathematical terms, an associative array is a function with … | Continue reading
Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging {micro maique}, the wonderful photo blog of Maique, resident visual artist, role model and superstar of Micro.blog, Scribbles, Flickr and Instagram. I linked to some wonderful outdoor photos entitled, The River. | Continue reading
The delisted lake previously had elevated phosphorus levels, which fueled plant and algae growth and left it green and unhealthy. Major lake makes monumental return after two decades on 'impaired water list': 'Absolutely the cleanest I've seen this lake' first appeared on The Coo … | Continue reading
Went for a nice walk in the countryside yesterday. | Continue reading
Today marks the end of the month-long Junited challenge. Here’s my complete list of Junited 2024 links. Thank you very much to all the participants! I feel like I've discovered more blogs and interesting content in this one month than I have in my entire life. The end of Junited … | Continue reading
"It revolutionizes how we harness sunlight." Tech company unveils tiny spheres that outperform solar panels using both sun and artificial light — and the company says they could hit 60 times the current capacity first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The diversity of even the largest animals depends on the smallest factors. | Continue reading
I was posting my usual waffle over on Fosstodon yesterday, and someone asked a question about having a personal site vs just using social media. So I naturally decided to write a post on my personal site about it. 🙃 The Fosstodon post was about the new homepage on this si … | Continue reading
Regular expressions are one of the classic examples of hate and hate relationships. Yes, it’s not a typo; hate and hate. Do you know anyone… | Continue reading
"How in the world are we JUST being told this happens with gas stoves?" Man stunned by results after testing indoor air pollution while cooking with gas stove: 'This is alarming' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The Kármán vortex street, an organized pattern of swirling vortices, demonstrates both aesthetic beauty and immense power, ranging from inspiring paintings in Bologne to influencing... | Continue reading
Cloudy and damp this morning, so I found a few more memes to cheer everyone up. Still looking for more! | Continue reading
Learn how to containerize a Spring Boot application using Podman Desktop. | Continue reading
Hard to believe it is almost July. Summer came late, but it arrived in Beetley with a humid heatwave vengeance. A few uncomfortably hot days seemed to hinder my recovery from whatever virus I had contracted recently. I had the added discomfort of a very upest stomach, and could o … | Continue reading
Explore the performance differences between two basic Java classes for writing files: FileWriter and BufferedWriter. | Continue reading
Let's explore how to write effective tests to verify our CORS configuration using MockMvc. | Continue reading
Delve into why this error occurs, identify common scenarios that trigger it, and see how to resolve it. | Continue reading
Anyone who knows me will tell you I am partial to a glass or more of red wine. In every country I have ever visited, I have sampled the local red wine, and with so many affordable wines now available in major supermarkets, I am often spoilt for choice. So here is some Sunday home … | Continue reading
Quick tutorial on how to read the last N lines from a file using different standard Java packages and the Apache Commons IO library. | Continue reading
The post (The) Things T-Shirt by pencilmancer art appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
"It'll kill any tree it climbs, eventually." Homeowner issues warning about irrevocable gardening mistake: 'It knows no property lines and will take over' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Let’s welcome the new month with some fresh desktop wallpapers! Created by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for July 2024. Enjoy! | Continue reading
Black mold spore photo by Ramy algayar leftover_scrabble_rack is feeling a bit overwhelmed about what to do about a household mold issue, and nouvelle-personne steps up with some super useful advice about how to triage, assess, and address the problem. | Continue reading
The Meteor Crater in Arizona, formed by a meteorite impact 50,000 years ago, provides valuable insights into the geological processes of planetary bodies. Preserved by... | Continue reading
There’s no Toryism without the CofE, the monarchy or memory of empire. | Continue reading
You cannot “max out” a country’s credit which means you don’t have to live under permanent austerity. | Continue reading
Yes to the narrowing of audiences. | Continue reading
Things I wish I hadn’t done… Hey, Folks. I know, it’s been forever since I shared something on WordPress. Mea culpa. But here’s a little sample of what I’ve been doing as I mess around over on Medium… 1. Listen to people who did not have my best […] | Continue reading
"We [for real] get this thrown out every week." Walmart employee shares disappointing photo of product going to waste: 'Absolutely disgusting how much food gets wasted' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Swift 6 claims built-in support for writing asynchronous and parallel code. But these are very different, and that for multithreading appears elusive. | Continue reading
Greetings to all Elixir enthusiasts! I'm happy to present my take on implementing ES/CQRS systems with Phoenix/LiveView and EventStoreDB. I believe those pieces of technology grew from the same conceptual root and are a great match. If you have ever felt joy from expressing a dim … | Continue reading
I can't believe that is is Sunday again as well as being the end of June! June has just whizzed by at the speed of light! On Sundays I like to share with you, my readers, my Meals of the Week. All of the deliciousness which I have enjoyed eating for my main meals over the past se … | Continue reading
"The strategy falls short of food-waste laws in other countries and even those of some American states." White House announces country's first strategy to tackle national problem of food waste: 'Everyone has a role to play' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Organisers of Berlin’s official Christopher Street Day Pride parade have threatened to disinvite Mayor Kai Wegner from the event unless local government change certain policies.... | Continue reading
It seems like I finally fixed a memory leak in GoBlog yesterday, that sometimes made my blog crashing. How? I used Anthropic’s new Claude 3.5 Sonnet to write me a new HTTP compression middleware that compresses HTTP responses using zstd or gzip when possible. I needed to instruct … | Continue reading
"The incident snapped the electricity connection for around five hours." Residents call out government for controversial energy switch posing 'serious threat' to cornered wildlife: 'I am especially concerned' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Oxford have collaborated to uncover how our brain reacts to and recognizes music. Their study reveals that... | Continue reading