i feel like we're about a year away from puzzmo clueing a three letter entry with "website that sucks, for short"

i should probably be embarrassed about liking this stella lefty ep, but she's got some earworms. her voice somehow reminds me of teenage bieber and this one has is a steph jones co-write, so of course i was gonna like it.

debbii dawson with her third entry on my favorite songs playlist. the new ep is great

Day One: "Fast and Furry-ous" September 17, 1949 The debut film of the Coyote & Road Runner, written by Michael Maltese, directed by Chuck Jones Watch the full short here (7 min): dn721500.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-...

while i do want to believe in The Power of Word Games, i'm not persuaded that nyt not buying wordle would have that kind of butterfly effect.

Oh man, Emmy Blotnick is one of the very best comedians, and her new special is just free to watch?????

i have such a hilariously complicated relationship to the puzzmo game ribbit

weird way to learn nitsuh's been writing "on language"

Changing my name to Claude so people give me context

a few bullet points on bullet points; maybe not as bold as it ought to be alex-we.in/posts/2026-0...

the usual saturday morning activity of failing to write a blog post is again meta: i'm writing a bulleted list about writing bulleted lists.

For years, open source communities relied on visible friction: people got stuck, asked questions in public, and became part of a community. AI is changing that. What happens when newcomers are no longer visible—and neither side knows the other is there? blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-i...

this 67-second opening track from the horsegiirl album makes me want to make a pie chart

Order Up is finally back!

this is gonna be rad

i almost responded pedantically again today to someone who doesn't follow me, but this time restrained myself

BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism

i'm trying to write a rant about business intelligence but have reached an insurmountable obstacle: explaining what salesforce does

my job gave us a wellness day today but jokes on them i'm doomscrolling

i went to sign up for westwords and instead got banned from paypal forever?

oh no the software developer who makes my favorite tools is sayings he's going to start posting about ai on his substack more often (obviously there's an ai generated og image)

Dang this is so interesting I had no idea that there are so many kinds of mahjong with such rich histories. A really fascinating look at how tricky and complicated conversations about cultural appropriation can get. www.coyotemedia.org/traversing-t...

took me a listen or two to get past the corniness, but the new miranda lambert is going to be stuck in my head for a while

a straightforward cover from ken pomeroy, but she sounds great

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