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Plant’s First Flower is a ‘Death Bloom’ So Tall the Greenhouse Had to Remove Ceiling Panels - “It is such a spectacle for us to witness after growing this plant for a decade.”

Most people who grow veg in their garden are probably familiar with the what the hell am I going to do with all these courgettes problem.

Andy and I got together earlier this week to nurdle about some more on our little quest to reimplement gunzip.

Computerwelt IEEE The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities - The source code reveals that ELIZA was not merely a simple pattern-matching chatbot but can be better understood as a sophisticated platform designed for multiple “personas,” or scripts, with a

It’s been a long July.

At the end of our last video, Andy and I had worked up the Biterator, a little Iterator wrapper around a byte stream that lets you take a single bit at a time.

Guardian James Ellroy: ‘It’s satanic to me, the dependency people have on computers’ - Red Sheet’s protagonist is Freddy Otash, Ellroy’s recurring antihero.

As mentioned, Andy and I got together for another pairing session last week, where we continued our efforts to implement gunzip.

In the video we recorded a few days ago, Andy and I fumbled around for a couple of hours making a start on a version of gunzip, the venerable decompression program.

On Wintering - In the long winter, organisms route metabolism inward.