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[wallpaper] ravenna dead fern
Today I was shooting with a 50mm F1.4 lens, this was at F1.8. Some helpful layers and dramatic shadows in post.
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Meet Moon Wag, Werebear
Waking up from a dream where you hear yourself pleading, “choose the wolf? Choose the WOLF?” has always been a bad sign. Moon pulled his thinning wool blanket closer across his shoulders and watched the diffuse light of pre-dawn slowly illuminate the forest outside the hollow log he slept in. He had slept in better…
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Recent Battle to Use Thunderbird
I am a daily Ubuntu user, and I’ve been been one since 10.04. The use of Snaps in 22.04 took me for a very unhappy drive down frustration lane recently. Around February 2023, both Firefox and Thunderbird appeared with display rendering problems, like the were using bad video driver code. But also, Thunderbird became unkillable.…
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Programming and Escape Characters (PowerShell)
Having started using Perl back in 1996 and learning conventions for character escaping in like eight to twelve other languages since, I’m continually impressed by how escape characters vary by language. And in the case of PowerShell, the (`) character really pulls the majority of the weight in the language. PowerShell, coming from the Microsoft…
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Text Editor Debate
There was a listener question posed on Coder Radio 477 that asked: dafuq with the vim an shit, bruh? Having edited code since about 1988 (DOS 3.5 Bible era) and actually having taken classes programming in OG Unix (SunOS 4.1, 1993) before the time of vim, there was Bill Joy’s vi. But around that time,…
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Welcome Fredrik Feldspar
Fredrik is a Goliath, Cleric, priest of the competition. To make ends meet, he’s a traveling salesman. The mountains of his elders are dimly remembered after one of his uncles decided to challenge a purple worm that lived in crevices below their mountain slope, destroying a village of hundreds. His parents did not stay together…
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Meet Eritz Eisenblume
A young, banished gnome, bitter about being publicly beaten and humiliated by a high elf noble of Belgar. His first comission, which was finely crafted but to the wrong dimensions, was the cause of this bigoted beating. Eritz went north along the pirate coast, and eventually found himself on the steps of the Sing’jar temple…
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