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I Bought A Scanner (No, Really This Time) This is a transcript from a talk I gave at the German Perl Workshop earlier this year. If you'd...
2 days ago
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I Bought A Scanner (No, Really This Time)

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 days ago
This is a transcript from a talk I gave at the German Perl Workshop earlier this year. If you'd prefer to watch the video recording, you can find it here. I have lots of photographic projects on the go. Lots of these being on film, as some of these I started shooting a long...
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The Caretakers If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to...
8th Aug 2026
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The Caretakers

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2026
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to cover, you may have missed that BINGOS just hit 247 consecutive monthly uploads to CPAN1. This is noteworthy as it surpasses DROLSKY’s record set a while back. That’s an upload to...
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A World of First Drafts Five short essays on where we are currently at. A World of First Drafts Dreams and the Uncanny...
14th Jun 2026
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A World of First Drafts

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jun 2026
Five short essays on where we are currently at. A World of First Drafts Dreams and the Uncanny Valley Fiddlers in the Room The Last Hike Semantic Satiation of an Acronym A World of First Drafts I recently picked up a copy of “An Evening With Windham Hill”, a collection of early...
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Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2025 Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment1....
1st Nov 2025
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Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2025

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2025
Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment1. That market of investors, speculators, and dealers who are working with mind-boggling prices. This isn’t surprising. The buyers in this market aren’t interested in art, they’re...
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A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape TL;DR? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious...
17th Oct 2025
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A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2025
TL;DR? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious footnotes with links to much more information below. scalper noun [ C ] US informal /ˈskæl.pər/ (UK: tout) someone who buys things, such as theatre tickets, at the usual prices and...
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Backgrounds Are Important I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶...
15th Sep 2025
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Backgrounds Are Important

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2025
I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶ ̸[̶r̷e̶c̶e̴n̷t̵l̷y̷ ̷a̶v̵a̸i̷l̸a̷b̷l̴e̷ ̸o̷n̸ ̵Y̴o̷u̶T̴u̴b̶e̸]̴(̵h̸t̵t̷p̴s̸:̴/̸/̴w̸w̴w̶.̵y̶o̶u̵t̵u̴b̶e̸.̴c̷o̷m̷/̵w̵a̴t̷c̴h̵?̷v̴=̵G̵f̶H̶4̵Q̷L̸4̸V̸q̴J̵0̴)̷,̴ ̴b̴u̵t̷ ̴I̴ ̸c̷o̸u̸l̶d̴n̸’̴t̷ ̷g̷e̷t̵...
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Google Merchant Center is a Whiny Pain in The Arse fREW once said “As time goes by I have less and less patience for ecosystems that demand my time”...
26th Aug 2025
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Google Merchant Center is a Whiny Pain in The Arse

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Aug 2025
fREW once said “As time goes by I have less and less patience for ecosystems that demand my time” and I think about this now and then. However, in my case I replace the word “ecosystems” for “anything”. There are exceptions, of course, but I’m not going to list them here as those...
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A Thousand Tiny Optimisations This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM...
8th Jun 2025
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A Thousand Tiny Optimisations

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jun 2025
This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM but it wasn't accepted. There is also a companion playthrough video that goes into much more detail. Note that the post was written well over a year ago, as usual it just didn't...
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Snowsports and the Normalisation of Deviance Les Dents du Midi, March 2025 There’s a mountain range visible from the office here that i’ve looked...
4th May 2025
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Snowsports and the Normalisation of Deviance

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2025
Les Dents du Midi, March 2025 There’s a mountain range visible from the office here that i’ve looked at almost everyday for the last 12 years, when weather conditions allow of course. Les Dents du Midi. Often i’ve thought “I wonder if anyone has ever skied or snowboarded down one...
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Limited Editions and Ticket Demand Or alternatively "Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 4". If you’re not interested in buying music in a...
19th Apr 2025
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Limited Editions and Ticket Demand

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2025
Or alternatively "Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 4". If you’re not interested in buying music in a physical form you may well have missed that last Saturday (12th April 2025) was “Record Store Day” (RSD)1. A biannual event where independent record stores are supplied with releases...
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