History: Truce and Peace of God

Posted on Sun 26 November 2023 in history • Tagged with definition, dictionary

In the eleventh century the Catholic church instituted the Peace of God to stop knights from constantly battling each other and especially to stop them from hurting and killing noncombatant persons such as clergy, the poor, merchants and women. The church urged knights to take an oath of respect for …


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Hacking pickups on highly customized Les Paul

Posted on Sat 25 November 2023 in update • Tagged with guitar, hacking, pickups

Les Paul Les Paul

In this video I show my highly customized, hand wired and hand wound Les Paul. The pickup fell down off the spring and I had to restore it.


Impact of Java virtual threads on performance?

Posted on Mon 20 November 2023 in tech

Virtual threads are ideal for handling a large number of short-lived threads without prioritizing low latency or high throughput. This is because virtual threads share the compute resources overall. In contrast, applications seeking high throughput often use long-lived platform threads as dedicated workers for spinning or polling workloads. In this …


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EMOM Timer

Posted on Sun 19 November 2023 in tech

Exploring the EMOM Timer - A Rust and Yew Application

EMOM Timer

Introduction to the EMOM Timer

EMOM Timer is a customizable timer designed for your workout. EMOM Timer is developed using the Rust programming language and the Yew framework. This is a completely new way to develop web applications. The resulting application …


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History: aratum

Posted on Sun 19 November 2023 in history • Tagged with definition, dictionary

See carruca aratum|see carruca .


History: carruca

Posted on Sun 12 November 2023 in history • Tagged with definition, dictionary

A carruca is a heavy, wheeled plow, that revolutionized agriculture in the high middle ages, . The aratum , a light, wooden, non-wheeled plow was used previously. The aratum could be effective in the light soil regions of the Mediterranean, however it was ineffective in the dense clay soils of northern and …


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