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Photographie de Paris

Published October 2020 in Words by Korvin M

Twelve months ago I spent a few days wandering round Paris, in the symbolist tradition sketched in my walking blog, exemplified by Baudelaire. Taking photographs wasn't uppermost in my mind, but I thought it would be good to... read more ❯

Flowers of Evil

Published June 2020 in Words by Korvin M

Last week, in my post on walking, I mentioned the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, in which the figure of the flâneur emerged. I first heard Baudelaire's stuff as a youth, in translation, in this extraordinary recording made in... read more ❯

Watching the Detectives

Published June 2020 in Words by Korvin M

Tremendously interesting article in today's NYT on the power of police unions. When Steve Fletcher, a Minneapolis city councilman and frequent Police Department critic, sought to divert money away from hiring officers and toward a newly created office of... read more ❯

Woven Webs

the annotated notepad

Published July 2020 in Korvin M Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-JMOTy_9OE I feel I just learned a lot about using git from this great little talk. Meanwhile, I was impressed by this excellent approach to teaching git by MIT. Explaining git's underlying data model first, and then looking... read more ❯

Private Posts in WordPress

Published April 2020 in Korvin M Media

In WordPress, posts can be set to Public, Private or Password Protected, in the Document menu. Password Protected is out of scope for this article; it's not a feature I've used much. I do however often make Private... read more ❯

Simple stylesheet switcher

Published October 2019 in Korvin M Media

Tidying up my server I found a front-end style switcher lying around I'd not used much. It seems very simple and pleasant to use, so thought I'd blog it here, as a demo, before deleting the original... read more ❯

PHP basics

Published March 2019 in Korvin M Media

As a kinesthetic learner, my preference when taking a course in code is to build what I'm shown, but tweak, improve, build on and document what I learn as I go along. Returning to professional web development after a... read more ❯