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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Canadian/Ontario/Regional Organizations There is a sometimes-confusing panoply of organizations working to protect the natural world..

While 3D printing was originally invented by commercial interests, consumer-oriented or desktop 3D printers are another story, literally.

Anything that can bring light into some lives in these dark times is a good thing.

I’m excited that the fifth edition of my Java Cookbook has been released!

Another year, bringing fresh challenges for the world: Ongoing warfare in Ukraine and Gaza (those are just the two that make the daily news), massive wildfires in California, a rapidly changing climate worsening fires, floods and hurricanes, and a new adm…

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Today, 2024-03-19, was marked by two important Java items: The full public availability of Java 22, a release with a lot of upgrades; The announcement that there will be a JavaOne event in March, 2025, to mark both Java’s thirtieth birthday and the release

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My review of the DELACK 3D printer enclosure is now live on medium.com.

Our cell phones have become a prison to many of us, prompting Dipika Joshi to cartoon the situation (Facebook login needed to view; there’s a cartoon of a person in a cell phone with jail bars over the screen, and the text below reads "People are prisoners

List of stuff for sale cheaply, most are awkward to ship so I’m pitching this mainly to GTA (Toronto area) people, but for the smaller items, offers from anywhere are going to be accepted.

From my personal space, a batch of items that I’m no longer using.

As 3D printing gets more popular, even mainstream, the "build volume" of new printer models is increasing.

Security often seems like a joke: there seem to be more, and better-funded, bad actors than security practitioners.

It’s common for non-technical people to assume that Java and JavaScript are alike, but it’s rather more like Tom and Tomato, or Pot and Potato.

Mike O’Dell once quipped that "nobody’s armchair is a good predicter of the future."

I recently needed to make minor code changes to an Android app that was part of the code examples collection from the Android Cookbook.

Long, long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a new technology was invented for downloading research papers.

For mobile developers: My favorite ORM tool for the Flutter all-platform app toolkit recently got a new name and a new version.

Unlike laptops from most manufacturers, the Framework Laptop was designed from the outset to be sustainable; this lightweight, stylish beast is field-upgradable and field-repairable.