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Shards (23)
Fractured bits, reads, and cuts.

  1. 15.12.2024
    Artful Rule-Bending
    The best writers bend rules, intently, once he knows them.

  2. 18.10.2022
    The Airplane Test of Fluency
    Linguistic fluency and focus in flight.

  3. 18.06.2022
    Strangling Deeds
    Deeds live on, akin to children.

  4. 11.06.2022
    Salted Correspondences
    Let stones lie as they were.

  5. 11.06.2022
    Vampiric Pathology
    Supernatural dissections and dissectees.

  6. 27.08.2020
    Write Like You Play Tetris
    Drop it until you clear it.

  7. 25.08.2020
    Triple Buffered Painters
    Useful metaphor for buffering/rendering/switching canvases.

  8. 20.08.2020
    A Case for Legalese (Or Not)
    Singular interpretations and written objectivity.

  9. 13.02.2020
    The Code Language Lawyers
    Debating code of code.

  10. 05.02.2020
    Nostalgic Raging Streets
    Streets of Rage 4 hits home, and it hits hard.

  11. 29.01.2020
    Code & Shame
    Be critical with your code, and sometimes yourself.

  12. 14.01.2020
    Third Time's A Charm
    Strive for two, but best make time for three.

  13. 23.08.2018
    Nostalgic Non-Memories
    Pining over something that never happened, thanks to musical stimuli.

  14. 23.08.2018
    Darwin's Details
    Science (and the devil) is in the details.

  15. 21.08.2018
    Roses as Time
    The withering of roses, the ephemerality of time.

  16. 19.08.2018
    The Brain-Attic
    Mise en place: in vogue (potentially) since 1887.

  17. 19.08.2018
    Saunter Not
    Ne'er a time for sauntering.

  18. 28.09.2015
    Mocking the Law - Excessive Judicial Discretion
    When judges should be chastised.

  19. 31.05.2015
    Judges Should Not Fear Criticism
    They should welcome it.

  20. 05.07.2014
    Jack Hamm on (Artistic) Practice
    On the virtues of practice (and of what/how to).

  21. 03.01.2014
    Write With Vigour
    Readable text is more cutting than writing.

  22. 08.11.2013
    Red Riding Hood's Examination-in-Chief
    Trip to grandma's, and the encounter with the Big Bad Wolf.

  23. 03.07.2013
    Craft Versus Discipline
    The difference between crafts and disciplines.

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