In the last Wait Wait Stats Updates blog post, I mentioned adding support for storing preferred pronouns for show hosts, panelists, and scorekeepers in the Wait Wait Stats Database, the Wait Wait Stats Library, and the Wait Wait Stats API.

Sometimes I like to walk around in the rain by myself. Perfectly normal behaviour.

I listened to the latest episode of We Can Be Weirdos where Rob Auton mentions how nice it would be when sitting on the train if you could just talk to the person next to you, get a load off your chest and just carry on with your day. It...

Una de las cosas que se me han quedado grabadas, según he ido creciendo, es que nunca hay que tocar a los pájaros volandones. Cuando te encuentras un gorrión pequeñito en el suelo, agazapado o correteando y aleateando de un lado a otro,...

See Contents and Introduction to this series. It was beautiful In the 2020s I bumped into an ex-colleague at the local swimming pool. She had been made redundant in some savage anti-education cuts at Sussex in 2012 and I had gone...

I’ve been building a directory of RSS feeds which has quickly grown to over a thousand feeds. To build the directory, I wrote a web crawler (open source) which fetches each feed, parses it to collect metadata, identifies OPML blogrolls,...