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- JEP draft: Add detailed message to NullPointerException describing what is null
Noted by Damian Cugley 7 years, 2 months ago.
(Via Richard Rutter on Twitter via Clearleft on Twitter)
- All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS Earlier this month I was invited to give an evening lecture at the Typography Society of Austria (tga) in Vienna. I was honoured to do so, as it meant following in the footsteps of such luminaries as Matthew Carter, Wim Crouwel, Margaret Calvert, Erik Spiekermann, and the late Freda Sack to name but a few.
Noted by Damian Cugley 7 years, 2 months ago.
- Clear Left
- CSS
- hyphenation
- reference
BBC coverage of the the People’s Vote March on 2019-03-23 includes aerial footage showing the scale of the crowds, and quotes from some of the marchers.

(Via BBC Politics on Twitter via Mike Galsworthy on Twitter)
- Brexit march: Million joined Brexit protest, organisers say - BBC News Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in central London calling for another EU referendum, as MPs search for a way out of the Brexit impasse.
Noted by Damian Cugley 7 years, 2 months ago.
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- Massimo on Twitter: Pure samples of hydrogen, nitrogen and five noble gasses are subjected to the high frequency pulsed field of a miniature Tesla coil. Each gas has a characteristic breakdown voltage and emission spectrum https://t.co/wOpc2LcgkZ…
Noted by Damian Cugley 7 years, 2 months ago.
Ideas for extending the Java language with data classes and sealed types to get the effect of algebraic datatypes in the Haskel or SML sense.
- Data Classes and Sealed Types for Java Brian Goetz, February 2019 This document explores possible directions for data classes and sealed types in the Java Language, and is an update to Data Classes in Java. This is an exploratory document only and does not constitute a plan for any specific feature in any specific version of the Java Language.
Noted by Damian Cugley 7 years, 2 months ago.
- data class
- Java
- programming
- proposal
- Saladin Ahmed on Twitter The great Dick Dale, godfather of surf rock, has passed. Dale, born Richard Monsour, was Lebanese American, raised in an immigrant community.In creating surf rock he drew on Middle Eastern sounds, and his most famous recording 'Misirlou' is a version of an old Arabic song.…
Noted by Damian Cugley 7 years, 2 months ago.
(Via Marcin Wichary 💔 on Twitter)
- Morris: A Cat For Our Times (calendar) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Noted by Damian Cugley 7 years, 2 months ago.
- archive
- cat
- ephemera
Lovely Milky Way composite image, with a discussion of how it is achieved in the comments.
- 1 Exposure vs 120 Exposures Stacked Together I had never actually seen the Milky Way with my own eyes, living in central India all my life in a very light polluted city of over 2 million people. So one night I took my camera out to the roof, clicked 120+ shots, and this was the result. : space
Noted by Damian Cugley 7 years, 2 months ago.
What is the greenest way to wrap a garment for delivery through the post?
- Lucy & Yak | Biodegradable Poly or Paper Packaging?
Noted by Damian Cugley 7 years, 2 months ago.

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