I'm having a hard time accepting that a youtube video series can be a "podcast", but I've been digging these little conversations and will continue to listen/watch/consume the content marketing. Also: Publish the Manifesto!

riding @radosh.bsky.social's coattails a bit longer, here are the original release years for the initial "Oldies But Goodies" compilation released in 1959--you may say our experience of history started accelerating quickly for some unknown reasons in the 1950s

It’s extremely good. My new favorite podcast

I was asked to speak with a graduate class today about research data management. I was asked, "How do people become convinced that beginning data management early on in a project is worth it?" Me: "Suffering. They usual have to suffer first." 😅

It hasn't really converted me into a cryptics appreciator (yet), but I've been doing Parseword every day and find it plenty charming.

Once again the only pop chart that matters is BallparkDJ's monthly ranking of walkup songs for Little League baseball and softball

it's been almost a year since i got Luck Be a Landlord and I still play it almost every day. perfect fit for phones. (maze mice is great too, but more of an ipad game)

my current bout of creativity is unfortunately localized to the viv vision marvel snap card

github is down and this chart just kills me damrnelson.github.io/github-histo... this is what azure does to software!!!

i didn't read the article but it sounds like the answer to "is geese a psy op?" is actually pretty grim: no, people genuinely enjoy that music

In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers. 🧵

My Square Theory talk from @puzzmo.com's Crossword Con is now available to watch! youtu.be/iEa_Arn9pH0

my boggle bot ran out of the words last week and was briefly not posting, but i have added a new batch of words, which skew somewhat higher in letter count.

Day 8 #30DayChartChallenge: circular. Serious research happening over here...nyacht. Drawing as I learn, boy did I make some bad assumptions. Watercolor and ink. 🦈🦜🍔

jealous that the spotify playlist agent gets sql access

happy first anniversary to my blog. Sorry, blog, that i have not always been fully present in the relationship. alex-we.in/posts/2026-0...

hell yes a new julio torres special

My Infantino caption hands obsession is paying off! From a student comic…

trying the andreessen thing where i stop introspecting. impossible to know if it's having an impact though.

for religious reasons, i can't celebrate any holidays that aren't represented in Daria s3e4 "Depth Takes a Holiday", but i wish a peaceful and contemplative pi(e) day to all who observe.

honestly really happy to see Observable correct a rare L: a few months ago, they posted six ways of visualizing parts and wholes, but left off pies! this one has waffles too.

A cool ASCII reactive notebook build on Observable Runtime recho.dev/notebook

Pierre: The Dark Water Loot Pyramid #GDC26

I've released a new word game called Parseword, that tries to make cryptic crosswords more accessible. You can play it here: www.parseword.com

happy first anniversary to my blog. Sorry, blog, that i have not always been fully present in the relationship. alex-we.in/posts/2026-0...

the usual saturday morning activity of failing to write a blog post is extra meta today because the post is about failing to blog

i deserve a prize for keeping my pessimism off social media: a non-participation trophy

solution: https://bigwordbot.val.run/_RP_AE_SD_TESHE_

but maybe not? bsky.app/profile/alex...

You can honor W.E.B Dubois (born on this day, February 23, 1868) by participating in the #DuboisChallenge2026 #WomeninSTEM github.com/ajstarks/dub...

What if concomitant is the fiasco we need to get ny times to update the word list? Or perhaps better, to allow users to curate their own personal list tto accommodate specialist terms, or to make a simpler list for a small child, for example

unfortunately, gold medalist alysa liu is a fan of the worst charli song...maybe she's just never heard track 10 (the best charli song) oaklandside.org/2026/02/02/a...

Birdigo, our acclaimed Wordle-meets-Balatro game, is out today on the App Store! No ads. Just pudgy birds. @gameteam6.com apps.apple.com/us/app/birdi...

about to play caves of qud for the first time and having weird anxiety. what if it's as good as people say? but also, what if it isn't?

I do think one of the most significant developments in computing in the last decade (apart from ~that~ one) has been the computational notebook. Browsing through my @observablehq.com notebooks, they capture my visual and computational thinking more effectively than anything that preceded them.

It’s also the way I walk.

I wrote about Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" for Spin's Deep Cut Friday column this week: www.spin.com/2026/02/deep...

i guess adoption of the AI feature on app dot snowflake was low, because they added a terribly annoying hypocycloid in the margin that follows your cursor

me on a zoom call this morning: what your asking sounds very difficult maybe literally impossible. me 5 minutes after the call ends: here's a 10-line sql definition that should be work as a robust solution.

thrilled to announce i’m doing a mini-crossword residency at @puzzmo.com all month! 28 tiny crosswords, one each day of february. i’ll thread them here, first up is CROSSOVER EVENT www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...

would it surprise you to learn that the first thing i tried to make when learning javascript in 2017 was a word game? alexsfirstwordgamewasbad.val.run

an hour into this video, i learned that Glenn Jones, who leads the marvel snap design team, made a little word game: letterperk.com

solution: https://bigwordbot.val.run/IM__ETE__LSN__IS

I'm starting a newsletter for The Daily Spell! It'll have weekly updates plus bonus puzzles with some extra lore. Interested in TDS, but the daily pace doesn't work for you? Subscribe to solve puzzles and discover the story weekly instead. Go to About the Game to subscribe: www.the-daily-spell.com

new CollectEdNY blog pot from Mark Trushkowsky! www.collectedny.org/2026/01/slow... #iTeachMath ♾️ see posts below ⬇️

hilary duff doing carlycore

tove styrke's first new song since 2022 is more of sonic departure than I maybe wanted, but it's growing on me. i'm still pulling for tove as this year's zara larsson

i've decided to revisit my least fun word game. for some reason. observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/a...

📊 In her latest review, Nicole Mark (@nicoledesignsdata.com) explores how Desiree Abbott's "Everyday Data Visualization" offers seasoned practitioners a refreshing return to the scientific rigor behind color theory, accessibility, and project management. nightingaledvs.com/review-every...