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I need a lot of motivation to clean; I certainly don’t finish up a day of work and think to myself, “It would be relaxing to vacuum and do laundry right now.” Sometimes, I can whip myself into the spirit by following techniques or using a reward system, like watching a favorite show while I […]
Andrew Dismukes got some shine in the Saturday Night Live spotlight this weekend. He and Ego Nwodim play a young couple trying to convince their skeptical parents that their interracial romance will stand the test of time. To prove his love, Dismukes breaks out a ukulele to sing a song he wrote about their love — Train’s, er, […]
Change comes slowly to Vatican II Vatican II began in 1962 much like Vatican I: an all-clerical, all-male assembly. Women initially sought influence in similar ways as well. Every night the Belgian journalist Betsie Hollants made a pot of soup and held open house for the council fathers. Soup broth and red wine were cheap, […]
Portugal manager Roberto Martinez was in a defensive mood following his team’s goalless draw away to Scotland in the Nations League on Tuesday night. After scoring in each of the Spaniard’s first 12 competitive matches in charge of Portugal, the Selecao have since drawn a blank in four of their last seven matches. Despite Cristiano […]
Android has a lot of tools for developers and one that has been around for as long as I can remember is Android Debug Bridge (adb). It allows you to issue commands to an attached device, such as installing an app or starting an Activity. If I want to test deeplinks, for example, I can […]
This week on Invisibilia, could the rebrand of a familiar pill open up a new way to control fertility in a post-Roe America? Featured in this episode: Learn more: Late Period Pill Study When Abortion Was a Crime by Leslie J. Reagan “Before Roe: The Physicians’ Crusade” from NPR’s Throughline “The Racist History of Abortion […]
While cleaning is traditionally a spring activity, let me invite you to do it at the end of summer this time around. Note: Yes, I’m still using Groovy because I never found a compelling reason to upgrade to Kotlin DSL 🤷 Something I’m quite enthusiastic about is having the simplest and most default Gradle configuration […]