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Art of Paris 2

Published April 2023 in Words by Korvin M

Part Two: Cabanes Imaginaires Autour du Monde This is the second in a series of posts relating my visit to Paris in October 2019.See Part One My first day's Parisian wanderings led me to the Louvre, which I'd not planned... read more ❯

Tribe

Published February 2022 in Words by Korvin M

As an undergraduate I became interested in the the word 'tribe', as we use it colloquially. Despite thinking of it as word for something other, non-modern, non-industrial and even pre-agricultural forms of social organisation, I was aware the... read more ❯

Sunday Afternoon Radio

Published December 2021 in Words by Korvin M

I spent the afternoon of the 24th October this year listening to two instructive, entertaining and even illuminating editions of two standards of BBC Radio broadcasting. Desert Island Discs, running continuously on the BBC since 1942, interviews each week... read more ❯

Taxing the Rich

Published November 2021 in Words by Korvin M

A year or so ago there was a possibility I'd be interviewed for a story in the Daily Telegraph. I subscribed to the paper to check out the journalist involved, and have never got round to cancelling. The... read more ❯

Docking Manoeuvres

Published December 2021 in Korvin M Media

Necessity gives birth not only to invention, but can lead to updating and upgrading skills. This year, moving to developing on a machine too lightweight to run a virtual machine necessitated using Docker to create my local development... read more ❯

Don't Track

Published October 2021 in Korvin M Media

A cursory web search for ways web applications can respect Do Not Track browser settings, found this article on Postmark read more ❯

WordPress Plugin Review: Your Channel

Published March 2021 in Korvin M Media

Everything you want in a YouTube plugin? A client of mine, a renaissance man, felt it was about time his ideas had an audience, and so requested a website to self-publish his writings, as well as setting up a... read more ❯

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 ❯