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Chicken Curry Recipe
Ingredients: Group 1 (add to heavy-bottomed pan) 2T ghee 1T olive oil Group 2 (add to small glass dish) 1T…

Lasagne Recipe
1 T olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 1 carrot, finely diced 4 cloves garlic, minced 700g beef mince…

Which Unicode character should represent the English apostrophe? (And why the Unicode committee is very wrong.)
Iʼm very persnickety about this stuff, especially in my professional writing, and I agree with Ted. Iʼm now using 7…

ESP8266EX Pinout
The ESP8266EX is a tiny 5mm × 5mm QFN-32-packaged IC. Naturally the “32” stands for 32-pin. Here is the pinout:…

Pizza Recipe
Dough Considering how much work it is to turn flour into dough, then wait for it to rise, it’s better…

Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe
Ingredients: Stuff thatʼs numbered together can be mixed together while youʼre gathering ingredients (in other words you donʼt have to…

Oxtail – Pressure-Cooker Recipe
Ingredients, in order of use, and grouped where it doesnʼt matter if they are mixed together – no need…

Turning off Twitter’s annoying Tweet Notifications programmatically (PHP)
This has been bugging me for weeks now. Every time I google it, I get various anwers that don’t work…

Simple Lambda function layout
Clearly there’s no advantage to the lambda function in this example, but it demonstrates the comparison between “old-school” function definitions…