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Natural Theology — a response to Moser
Natural Theology: Five Views John C. McDowell, Alister E. McGrath, Paul K. Moser, Fr. Andrew Pinsent, & Charles Taliaferro What follows is a response primarily to Moser’s chapter in the above work, which defends a so-called “Deflationary View” of natural theology. McGrath, Pinsent, and Taliaferro’s chapters in this volume are well worth reading; I haven’t quite finished reading McDowell’s chapter yet, so I apologize if I fail to mention any relevant points made there.
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Some observations on leadheads and palindromes
This post is a somewhat technical discussion of some mathematical aspects of change ringing. I’ll assume you have familiarity with changes, leadheads, Plain Bob leadheads, palindromic methods, etc. A question that I’ve always had about change ringing is: Why Plain Bob leadheads? Is there some sense in which this particular set of leadheads is mathematically or musically unique, or is their predominance largely due to historical accident?
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Ringing Room Under the Hood, part 3
This is the third in a series of posts discussing the technical decisions that went into creating Ringing Room, the first web platform for distributed English change-ringing. The first post gives a little bit of background on change-ringing for non-ringers to be able to follow the series. This post looks a bit more at how Ringing Room models rooms (“towers”) on the server.
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Ringing Room Under the Hood, part 2
This is the second in a series of posts discussing the technical decisions that went into creating Ringing Room, the first web platform for distributed English change-ringing. The first post gives a little bit of background on change-ringing for non-ringers to be able to follow the series. This post looks more at how Ringing Room clients communicate with the server.
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Ringing Room Under the Hood
This is the first in a series of posts discussing the technical decisions that went into creating Ringing Room, the first web platform for distributed English change-ringing. This first post gives some background on change-ringing; my aim is to give just enough background to enable non-ringers to follow the discussion that follows.
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Flask + Svelte
File this under “it took me a whole 10 minutes to figure out so I thought I’d save you 9 of those”. Svelte is a front-end framework with a number of advantages, not least of which is that it compiles down to vanilla JS on the server-side and so is quite zippy for the user.