Year: 2026
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Two famous Hardwick couplets
Everyone who grew up near Hardwick Hall, like I did, knows the saying Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, a contemporary of Bess It’s a playful little rhyme about Bess of Hardwickâs famous house and its numerous large windows. The windows were a status symbol in Elizabethan England. It’s…
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Simplify your git config with conditional includes
Git config files support conditional includes and one of the conditions supported is the git remote url. This is interesting because one of the most common reasons for having a .gitconfig file is to store your email address. I version control my dotfiles and I was left with a choice of either: Neither is ideal…
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Reading 2025
I read 37 books from 21 different authors, 15 of the books were rereads of books I’ve read in previous years I’ve now read the nine full books of the First Law series and enjoyed every one of them. The first trilogy is still the stand-out though. I love the character arcs, the subverted expectations…
Dean Sas 