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Wed Oct 15
Although it has only been about a week since the last Wait Wait Stats Update blog post, there have been a couple of updates to the project and to the production instances of the Wait Wait Stats sites.
I was reminded today from a post by twelvety that we did in fact, back in the days of photo printing from film, use a little bit of nose grease on our negatives to take out scratches before we printed the images in an enlarger. Just rub...
Half motion-sick, I stumbled off the coach. To my left, a glittering flow of cars three lanes strong whooshes past. Looks like a lot of people still have somewhere to be tonight. Not me, though. Stepping back into my childhood home, it...
One last photo from the just-ended Osaka Kansai Expo 2025. A long exposure on Fujifilm Superia 400. 大阪・関西万博2025がちょうど終わったばかりだが、最後の写真を一枚。富士フイルム Superia 400で長時間露光した。
As President of Web Components, it’s my duty to publicly comment on every Web Component library and framework that exists. Today I’m taking a look at Quiet UI, a new source-available web component library soft-launched by Cory LaViska,...
Jahsalyn Robinson paints a mural of Maureen Wood in Northside — a community activist that transformed lives and the neighborhood.
I don’t remember when I first became aware of this book, though author’s name recognition definitely played a part, and I love the cover and the premise. Beware: sexist discrimination appropriate to the period; early dementia...
This one fully deserves a “OMG Ubuntu”, but meant more like “what on earth are you doing, Ubuntu?”. The font Ubuntu Regular has become thinner and therefore is much more difficult to read, apparently all in an effort to look “modern”. If...
A non-exhaustive list of people who may not be able to favour physical media over streaming
God be thanked: For his mercy and kindness shown in so many ways in my life -- in all of our lives. For health even at this age, for as long as it may last. For the relative ease of travel these days, compared to a hundred or more years...
I celebrate the quarter-century anniversary of the North American release of Pokémon Gold and Silver with the story of how I organically caught a shiny purple Drowzee in my first Gold run.
Extract of Vasari, "Le vite de' più eelLe vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori", related to Sanmicheli and the Fortress of Sant'Andrea.
Like a bridge over troubled water —Simon & Garfunkel Yay, a novel written in the first person! Yeah, yeah, present tense which isn’t wholly my jam but compared to the limited third person that’s been every single book for the past...
I woke up late today after a long night, so getting into the groove of my day has been rather slow. But here I am, writing to my ephemeral audience yet again. I've appreciated the messages I've been getting on my guestbook and I hope...
Because if there was a point to all of this, it would be pointless to continue. Am I doing this right?
One of my favorite videos I watched recently was by Pewdiepie, and while the title is “help, Im going through a midlife crisis…”, you realize about 3/4 of the way through that it was just bait. The real topic of the video is minimalism,...
Ya hace rato no publicaba sobre los logs de mi server. No es que falte material, pero lo que sucede parece rutinario ahora. El Evento y los logs Esta vez es curioso. Hoy al entrar en mi blog, no noté nada raro. De hecho, parecía estar...
show me the money!
A flow chart describing some steps and decisions done within curl when a HTTP URL is provided. For hostnames, protocol and port numbers. This flow chart ignores proxies, authentication considerations and use of unix domain sockets to...
It's been two weeks since my last post but I've been creating a stupid web thing every day this month for Weird Web October so there is some content…
Scientific American published a clock puzzle a couple of weeks ago that I finally got around to looking at today. It wasn’t hard, but I’m less interested in the solution than in a very small discrepancy I found. Finding discrepancies was...
Learn how to add an llms.txt file to your Hugo blog to make it more visible to AI agents and improve Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).
Hamilton Nolan writing at How Things Work: If you make a joke, they won’t get it. If you use sarcasm, they won’t detect it. If you exaggerate for effect, you will be taken literally, and if you try to be understated, you will be accused...
I ran some different Google Search queries to look for backlinks to The New Leaf Journal. I found a few. For example, New Novel ‘Under the Neon Sun’ inspired by real conflict between Yakuza and Chinese Gangs published by K. Kjelsberg on...
BirchtreeIn the 6 years we’ve been making these TV+-on-TV-on-TV jokes, I haven’t seen any evidence that this has caused any actual pain for users. Maybe it’s out there and I’m just blind to it, but I just haven’t
I have too many keyboards. But the real travesty of it all is that I have too many keycaps. And none of them are stored properly. I have a tote full of keycaps, none of them collected by set, just mixed together. What kind of monster...
Alpine Linux: The Alpine Linux Technical Steering Committee (TSC) has decided to change the base filesystem hierarchy. In the future, /lib, /bin, and /sbin will be symbolic links to their /usr counterparts, and every package shall be...
Just a few years ago, the philosophy major seemed on the rise. Now, the data reveal a different picture. As Eric Schwitzgebel shares in the following guest post, the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in philosophy (and their share...
Active Storage is a wonderful library for managing file uploads in Rails. But terms like blob and attachment are easy to mix up, and that confusion can remain even after you’ve been using Active Storage regularly. I’ve run into that...
October 2025. Brasov. Seven days, five cities, 3,568 calories worth of apple strudel. Romania is a gem, easy to negotiate, bar the painfully slow rail network. 2:34 hours on the train to Brasov (pop. 237k) in the centre of the country,...
Starting a new thing on this blog because I've been getting really into finding new music as a method of procrastination lately. I've gotten into so many genres and artists over the years, but I love how the world is so big that I'll...
Another game that I did not expect to beat in 2025, but here we are!
roti pisang, atau bolu pisang. resep favorit yang mudah dibuat dan selesai dengan cepat menggunakan oven rumahan.
Acronyms are great, as they save unnecessary repetition, but bear in mind that assumption is a foolish thing when writing. Firstly, the definition of an acronym: An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words. We've all...
This scene is mesmerising, especially when I am here watching it from window seat with my own eyes. It feels very similar to my imagination of being in a cold desert such as in Antartica. The clouds beneath are giving an illusion of a...
Back in the dark ages (the 1990s), I was an inveterate operating system switcher. At various points, I ran DR-DOS with DESQView/X (what Windows 3.1 should have been), FreeBSD, several distributions of Linux, Windows 2000, QNX Photon, and...
Born 100 years ago today was the artist and broadcaster Tony Hart. When he died back in 2009, I wrote a bit about him on this blog – 'A talented, inventive and exceptionally deft artist, capable of working fast on a large or small scale,...