A Place For My Head
Thanks for visiting. I’m Shiv J.M., a software developer from India (shivjm on GitHub). I write about technology & software development; my work; movies, shows, books & games; and whatever’s on my mind. If you’d like to know how this started, my very first entry explains how A Place For My Head came into being.
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The Triumph of Time by James Blish
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Kicks
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Pacific Rim
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Zootopia
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Robin Robin
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Earthman, Come Home by James Blish
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Burn After Reading
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Hilda and the Mountain King
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A Life for the Stars by James Blish
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- Balancing Usability and Economy in Article Headers
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The Witcher : Season 2
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The Witcher : Season 1
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- Replacing Ruby with CSS Grid on shivjm.name
- Computer Audio is Frustrating
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They Shall Have Stars by James Blish
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All Systems Red by Martha Wells
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Turning Darkness Into Light by Marie Brennan
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Encanto
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Hawkeye : Season 1
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
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Sourdough by Robin Sloan
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Age of Frenzy by Mahabaleshwar Sail
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I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly & J.M. Ken Niimura
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All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely & Jamie Grant
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Invasion : Season 1, Episodes 1–4
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Fun with Dick and Jane
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Ocean’s Eleven
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8-Bit Christmas
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
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Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands by Olivier Wings & Joschua Knüppe
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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- You Want it Darker?
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Arcane : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- Miscellany, Vol. 3
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No Man’s Sky
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Game)
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Cyberpunk 2077
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Game)
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider
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ENDLESS™ Legend
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Two Point Hospital
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Game)
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Pathway
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Game)
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- 2022: Afterword
- Compiling emacsql-sqlite on Windows with Zig
- Switching to Firefox from Firefox (and Chrome)
- AMD X670 Chipset and Ryzen 9 Early Adopter Woes
- Relabeling Docker Images in GitHub Actions
- A More Complicated Docker Image for Rust with Nix
- Building QEMU with WHPX for Windows using MSYS and MinGW
- Perfect Docker Images for Rust with Nix
- Extending the Primary Partition in Linux Without Rebooting
- Remove cloud-init with User Data
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Werewolves Within
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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How to Train Your Dragon
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Time’s Eye by Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Doom Patrol : Season 3
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Red Notice
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Eternals
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The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin
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All Creatures Great and Small : Season 2
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What We Do in the Shadows : Season 3
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Night Teeth
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Inside Job : Season 1
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Dune
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The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
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Circe by Madeline Miller
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Centaurworld : Season 1
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- Rewrote It In Rust: A Tiny Go Scraper
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Archer : Season 12
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- Rewriting the Git Author
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Into the Breach
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Game)
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Marvel’s What If…? : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- Failing to Build Statically-Linked Rust Binaries
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Mutant: Year Zero: Seed of Evil
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Game)
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No Time to Die
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Free Guy
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Airborne Kingdom
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All Creatures Great and Small : Season 1
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Jurassic World Evolution 2
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Game)
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Let’s Build a Zoo
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Prison Architect
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Empire of Sin
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Game)
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- Introducing: Games!
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XCOM 2
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Game)
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- Fixing Disproportionately Slow grepping in Emacs
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League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik
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- Minor Emacs 28.1 Hiccups
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Tokyo Revengers : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- Android 12 Ruined My Phone
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Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik
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- tree-sitter-hl-mode, lsp-mode’s Semantic Highlighting, and rust-analyzer
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Sex Education : Season 3
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- An Ad Hoc, Informally-Specified, Bug-Ridden Implementation of GitOps
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine : Season 8
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- Miscellany, Vol. 2
- Continuously Varying Font Sizes
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Only Murders in the Building : Season 1, Episodes 1–3
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- A Close(r) Shave
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The Bug by Ellen Ullman
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
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Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma : Season 5
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- Aspell & Flyspell on Windows via MSYS2
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Bhoot Police
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Rick and Morty : Season 5
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Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
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Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
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Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma : Season 4
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Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma : Season 3
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- 2021: Afterword
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Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
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- The Right Way to Use a Logitech Webcam
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Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma : Season 2
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Gunpowder Milkshake
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Modern Love : Season 2, Episode 1
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Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
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His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
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Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma : Season 1
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- Deploying Kyverno: The DigitalOcean Kubernetes Challenge
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The Suicide Squad
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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- Transferring a Google Workspace Subscription From a Reseller
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Reservation Dogs : Season 1
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A Silent Voice
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- Miscellany
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Black Widow
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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- Adventures in Preformatted Text
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Blood of Zeus : Season 1
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The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
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Space Jam: A New Legacy
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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- How I Built shivjm.name
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Never Have I Ever : Season 2
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- The End of the Road for Webmentions
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The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan
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- shivjm.name: How to Use My Name
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The Tyrant’s Tomb by Rick Riordan
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The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan
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The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan
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The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan
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We Are Lady Parts : Season 1
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- Finding Uncommitted Changes with PowerShell and fd
- Switching to straight.el
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Ruthless People
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Loki : Season 1
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The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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In the Heights
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- A Viral World No More
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The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
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The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
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The Serpent’s Shadow by Rick Riordan
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The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
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The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
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The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
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The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
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Iron Man
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
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- A Simple Helm Charts Repository on GitHub
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Luca
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Hacks : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Sherni
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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- helm-kubeconform-action: Validate Helm Charts with Kubeconform on GitHub
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The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
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The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
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The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
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The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
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The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi
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The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Early Man
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The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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- Removing the Automatically-Generated Social Media Images
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Monster Hunter
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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The Mitchells vs the Machines
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Within the Sanctuary of Wings by Marie Brennan
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Never Have I Ever : Season 1
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In The Labyrinth of Drakes by Marie Brennan
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Shadow and Bone : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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- The Tyranny of the One-Sentence Paragraph
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Little Witch Academia : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Hilda : Season 2
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Kung Fu : Season 1, Episode 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Resident Alien : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Dash & Lily : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Godzilla vs. Kong
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Cursed : Season 1, Episodes 1–4
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Dota: Dragon’s Blood : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Pacific Rim: The Black : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- Four Months of Having A Place For My Head
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Raya and the Last Dragon
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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WandaVision : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Dragon’s Fire by Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan
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- Automatically Generated Social Media Images with HTML, CSS, Eleventy & Puppeteer
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Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts : Season 3
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- When to Use Pagination in Eleventy
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Tenet
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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- How I Create an Article Series in Eleventy
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Bridgerton : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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The Queen’s Gambit : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
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The Flight Attendant : Season 1
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Soul
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Wonder Woman 1984
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
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Idris: Keeper of the Light by Anita Nair
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Primal : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Teenage Bounty Hunters : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- The Old Ways Are The Best Ways
- A Tale of Reinstalling Windows
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The Boys : Season 2
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- Why Would My Load Generator Lie to Me?
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The Farewell
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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- A Remarkable Discovery
- Starting with the Fundamentals of Observability
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Ride Your Wave
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Unpregnant
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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- webmentiond-helm
- Signing Git Commits
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Captain Marvel
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts : Season 2
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- Approximate Typography
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Getbackers
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- Rust Macros Rule: DRY warp Routes
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The Politician
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Promare
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Y tu mamá también
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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- A Better Reading Experience
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Doom Patrol : Season 2
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Elidor by Alan Garner
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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- The Road to Webmentions
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Guilty Crown
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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+1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Brittany Runs A Marathon
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Onward
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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- GG WP, DotA
- Better Icons & URIs
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Palm Springs
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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- XCOM 2: Slings, Arrows, and Fortunes
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Booksmart
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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- GitLab Pipelines & Netlify Deploy Previews
- Comments vs. Responsive Images: A Negotiation
- React is JavaScript
- A More Considered & Considerate Face
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power : Season 5
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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The Half of It
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Film)
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Normal People : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Run : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- Conversations with Tech Support
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Death’s End by Liu Cixin
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The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
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The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
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- Archives & Permalinks
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Better Call Saul : Season 5
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- Multiple Simultaneous Immutable Responsive Images
- Using pnpm with Netlify
- Just Do The Work
- Your JavaScript-Only Website Sucks
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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Book)
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Avenue 5 : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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Raising Dion : Season 1
- Thoughts & Spoilers (Show)
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- I Have A Face Now
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Altered Carbon : Season 2
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Altered Carbon : Season 1
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- Safely Extracting Archives
- Using rust-analyzer in Emacs
- Speedily Parsing JSON in Rust with Serde
- Building Statically Linked Rust Binaries
- Plucking Some Low-Hanging Fruit of Spring Boot Web Performance
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Westworld : Season 3
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Westworld : Season 2
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Westworld : Season 1
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- Updating My Emacs Rust Configuration
- How to Include PrismJS CSS Only When Required In Eleventy
- Hello, World!