Merry Christmas, from California! https://blog.minchin.ca/images/2023/PXL_20231226_194840979.jpg
The Mortal Engines Series, a Book Review
I recently completed the four books of the Mortal Engines series (Mortal
Engines, Predator’s Gold, Infernal Devices, and A Darkling Plain). I was
drawn in by the premise — that whole cities have gone mobile, something like
giant tanks, and have taken to eating each other — but it was the depth of the
love stories that drew me to finish it.
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Joseph Conrad on Sailors
into the "Heart of Darkness"
I recently re-read The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (the last time was
in high school, for English class). I was pleasantly surprised by how short it
was (~90 pages) and delighted by the prose: so much of the “modern” texts I
read are either soulless corporate speak, that say very little, particularly
about the things that actually matter, or flowery advertising speak, that
serves more to misdirect and hide, or bland and flat, by writers who are
exposed to very little soulful writing (or is this a description of my fears of
own writing??). It’s hard to tease apart how much is a result of being written
in over a century ago in 1899, how much is the writer displaying his craft, and
how much of the structure is borrowed from Conrad’s native Polish.
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They Shall Not Grow Old, As We Grow Old
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
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minchin.jrnl v7.1 “Phoenix” released
Today, the lastest update of minchin.jrnl was released! This release add
custom exporters and importers!
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minchin.jrnl v7 “Phoenix” released
Today, I do something that I should have done 5 years ago, and something that
I’ve been putting off for the last 2 years1: I’m releasing a personal fork
of jrnl2! I’ve given this release the codename Phoenix, after the
mythical bird of rebirth, that springs forth renewed from the ashes of the past.
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Winter is coming... the butter in the kitchen cupboards in no longer soft!
minchin.releaser v0.9.0 released with support for
pyproject.toml configured projects (that lack a setup.py file).
on PyPI #minchin.releaser #Releases #Python
AutoLoader Plugin 1.2.1 for Pelican Released
This release of Autoloader is to fix a crashing bug when no plugins in the
minchin.pelican.readers
namespace are loaded.
I also updated a number of other plugins to blacklist v1.2.0 to avoid these crashes.
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Seafoam v2.9.1 released with even better support for microblogging! pypi.org/project/seafoam/2.9.1 #Seafoam #Releases #Python