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# Duncan G M Stuart

Some of my thoughts and ideas on swing dancing, board games and more

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## Posts

- [ESDC 'Blues' Comp](https://duncangmstuart.com/2011/07/11/esdc-blues-comp/) - I'm nearly a month late on this, but I wanted to share my thoughts on this clip from the first European Swing Dance Championships: This was advertised on the ESDC website as a "Strictly Blues" comp and the compere introduces it as a "Strictly Blues Final", but there's something not quite right: to my semi-educated
- [Artisan food producers](https://duncangmstuart.com/2011/07/13/artisan-food-producers/) - I'm commuting to Reading a couple of days a week at the moment and today on my way back, while searching for some sort of cake to satisfy my sweet tooth, I dipped into Tutti Frutti at the station and emerged with a cone of incredible Raspberry sorbet, absolutely rammed with real fruit. Tutti Frutti doesn't
- [Swimmin' in the rain](https://duncangmstuart.com/2011/07/17/swimmin-in-the-rain/) - On Sunday morning I went swimming in Tooting Bec Lido for the first time. I possibly didn't see it at it's best - the rain ranged between drizzle and torrential - but it's still a beautiful pool with its colourful changing booths. It's also massive: the biggest open air pool in the UK. Swimming in
- [For one week only: free analyst/developer in London](https://duncangmstuart.com/2011/07/20/for-one-week-only-free-analystdeveloper-in-london/) - UPDATE: After following up a couple of possibilities I've decided to go and work with New Bamboo for the week to see what value I can add as a Business Analyst. I'm looking forward to working in a very fast-paced agile environment - somewhat different to the projects I've been on recently and I'll report back
- [Vintage at the South Bank - a guide for Lindyhoppers](https://duncangmstuart.com/2011/07/29/vintage-at-the-south-bank-a-guide-for-lindyhoppers/) - This weekend Wayne Hemmingway's Vintage festival comes to the South Bank Centre as part of the 60 year anniversary celebrations for the Festival of Britain. It's a celebration of all things vintage from the 1940's through to the 1980s and although it had its teething troubles, it did get some positive feedback from vintage lovers
- [4 reasons why Imperial College Swing Dance will be good for London](https://duncangmstuart.com/2011/09/27/4-reasons-why-imperial-college-swing-dance-will-be-good-for-london/) - Something exciting happened today: Imperial College Swing Dance was announced, bringing the grand total of student swing dance societies to two (alongside the LSE Swing Dance Society). Classes start on the 14th of October, and there's a free gig with the Imperial College Swing Band on the 6th to kick everything off. Both are open to students and non-students
- [On how things can work out pretty well sometimes](https://duncangmstuart.com/2012/06/11/on-how-things-can-work-out-pretty-well-sometimes/) - "OMG SO MANY GREAT BANDS!" I somehow stumbled across the existence of No Direction Home Festival about a week before the gates opened, fell in love with the lineup (Rachael Dadd, Wave Pictures, Laish, Veronica Falls) and felt the familiar craving to be out in a field in beautiful sunny surroundings with a pint of cider and
- [Formative Tunes](https://duncangmstuart.com/2011/10/03/formative-tunes/) - This post is all about songs and bands which other people have introduced me to which have deeply affected me and shaped my musical taste (my Heart Songs if you will). I'm exceptionally grateful for all the people who have shared music which makes my life better. Note: If you're not on the list, it doesn't mean
- [Lessons learned from Lindy Shock](https://duncangmstuart.com/2011/11/05/lessons-learned-from-lindy-shock/) - I've got back from the excellent Lindy Shock swing dance camp in Budapest on Wednesday, feeling exhausted but with some serious new dance technology under my belt. On the flight back I reflected on how my experience was affected both by how I prepared and how I approached things while I was there. I've learned
- [Jabberwocky Recited](https://duncangmstuart.com/2012/03/10/jabberwocky-recited/) - UPDATE: Jabberwocky in German UPDATE: My own recital - a bit panto Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll is one of my favourite poems. Widely regarded as the greatest nonsense poem ever written, it has stuck in my head from an early age and I love reciting and performing it. Wonderful though his voice is, he gets
- [Analysis of Spotlight entrances - ILHC Champions Strictly Final 2010](https://duncangmstuart.com/2012/04/09/analysis-of-spotlight-entrances-ilhc-champions-strictly-final-2010/) - I'm entering a few divisions at the London Jitterbug Championships in May, and one of the things I really need to work on is getting on and getting off in a Ninja fashion. To that end I've been watching some big international competition clips trying to work out what's what. In this post, I analyse the
- [Caching with Varnish on Heroku (Rails)](https://duncangmstuart.com/2012/05/14/caching-with-varnish-on-heroku-rails/) - I've had a bit of trouble understanding how to get Heroku to cache pages from Swing Out London, so here's my explanation - hopefully it'll help someone. The TL:DR Varnish Caching on Heroku IS as simple as the docs state but because Heroku has multiple Varnish servers, any given request is unlikely to return a
- [What would a Solo Jazz card game look like?](https://duncangmstuart.com/2015/02/12/what-would-a-solo-jazz-card-game-look-like/) - I've recently started getting into board games and I've become obsessed with the excellent review site Shut Up & Sit Down. In one of their podcasts (I can't remember which one) they talked about an interview with video game designer Sid Meier. He was asked "which comes first: the theme or the mechanics?" It's a good
- [Jabberwocky in German](https://duncangmstuart.com/2012/06/15/jabberwocky-in-german/) - Following up on my previous post about recitals of Jabberwocky, here's my friend Muriel (of Dating blog ‘I Wish There Were A Manual For Life’) reciting in her native German: Der Jammerwoch: German text, English text
- [Computer synesthesia?](https://duncangmstuart.com/2012/12/07/computer-synesthesia/) - I just realised something: when I have copied text to paste elsewhere (as I do tens of times every day) I experience the fact that I 'have' text as a physical sensation, like I'm actually holding on to an object, which I then release by pasting. Given how much and how regularly I use a
- [Removing duplicated rvm lines from zsh config files](https://duncangmstuart.com/2013/09/07/576/) - I've just been cleaning up my zshell config files. I noticed that the following lines were at the end of both my .zshrc and .zprofile files: # Add RVM to PATH for scripting [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function* I'm not sure how I
- [Settlers of Catan - Understanding the balance of resources](https://duncangmstuart.com/2014/05/03/settlers-of-catan-understanding-the-balance-of-resources/) - Part of what makes Settlers of Catan such a great game is how well balanced it is. Part of that balance is the way in which the importance of various resources changes throughout the game, requiring players to adapt their strategies accordingly. by Jessy Roos on Flickr The scarce resources: Brick and Ore The first
- [Paths in OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)](https://duncangmstuart.com/2013/09/15/paths-in-osx-10-6-snow-leopard/) - I've recently being doing a cleanup of my dotfiles (more on that later). In the process I commented out all of the "export PATH=..." statements in the profile and rc files in my home directory, but my path was still getting set to this: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin There are three problems with this: I'd prefer my /usr/local/bin

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- [About](https://duncangmstuart.com/about/) - Welcome to the blog of (as far as I know) the only Duncan Graeme MacDonald Stuart in the world. Check out my code blog at https://dgmstuart.github.io/ I'm a programmer and I like Swing dancing and board games (among other things). To find out more, or to contact me, please visit https://dgmstuart.github.io/

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