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Philip Martin

Published December 2020 in Words by Korvin M

The writer Philip Martin has died. Probably best known for the 1970s TV play and later series 'Gangsters', which was set and filmed in Birmingham, 'Gangsters' stands up today partly as social commentary and partly as an exemplar... read more ❯

Art of Paris

Published December 2020 in Words by Korvin M

Part One: The Public Sphere In visiting Paris last year in pursuit of art I had two specific objectives: an exhibition and a gig., But as I outlined in my walking blog, the journey would be nothing without the... read more ❯

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 ❯

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 ❯