Alex Wein
@alexwein.bsky.social
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data worker, word game liker, pretty boring quite frankly. Oakland, CA
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Mark Ruffalo
2 days ago
It’s also the way I walk.
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Al Shipley
1 day ago
I wrote about Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" for Spin's Deep Cut Friday column this week:
www.spin.com/2026/02/deep...
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Deep Cut Friday: ‘Carmelita’ by Warren Zevon - SPIN
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Warren Zevon kicked around The oft-covered standout from Zevon’s self-ti...
https://www.spin.com/2026/02/deep-cut-friday-carmelita-by-warren-zevon/
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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
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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.
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sincerely, rob dubbin
6 days ago
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-...
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Puzzmo - Cross|word
Play Cross|word on Puzzmo, Take a hint.
https://www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-02-01/crossword/mini
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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
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an hour into this video, i learned that Glenn Jones, who leads the marvel snap design team, made a little word game:
letterperk.com
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8 days ago
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Find A Big Word
8 days ago
solution:
https://bigwordbot.val.run/IM__ETE__LSN__IS
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Celia
8 days ago
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
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✨The Daily Spell✨: a daily word puzzle
Drop letters into place to unscramble today's magical headline. New puzzle and story daily!
https://www.the-daily-spell.com/
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benjamin dickman
15 days ago
new CollectEdNY blog pot from Mark Trushkowsky!
www.collectedny.org/2026/01/slow...
#iTeachMath
♾️ see posts below ⬇️
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hilary duff doing carlycore
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15 days ago
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Eric Harvey
16 days ago
Heavy Rhyme Experience was a Delicious Vinyl artist showcase with the Heavies as the MG's and we used to be a real country. Acid-jazz rap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JZ...
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Grand Puba, Masta Ace, Main Source & The Brand New Heavies - Heavy Rhyme Experience Theme
YouTube video by UPROXX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JZ91TansA
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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
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19 days ago
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i've decided to revisit my least fun word game. for some reason.
observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/a...
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Alex's 11 little word game notebooks
Over the last few years, I've used Observable to make a handful of very janky word games. Several are focused around Finding A Big Word. This is a list of what I've made so far. They are roughly order...
https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/alexs-word-games
21 days ago
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Data Visualization Society
25 days ago
📊 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...
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REVIEW: Everyday Data Visualization: A Refreshing Return to Fundamentals, Nightingale
A Zen Buddhist teacher, Suzuki Roshi, famously said, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.
https://nightingaledvs.com/review-everyday-data-visualization/
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Tom MacWright
27 days ago
reading some academic papers on graph layout:
macwright.com/2026/01/11/g...
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Graph layout
JavaScript, math, maps, etc
https://macwright.com/2026/01/11/graph-layout
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Aman Bhargava
about 1 month ago
Rhea and I have been tracking our
@nytimes.com
word games (Wordle, Connections and the Mini) for the past two years. I decided to analyze our 4,200 gameplays with
#rstats
to determine a winner and made some festively embroidered charts with ggplot. Have a read.
#dataviz
aman.bh/blog/2025/tw...
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Westwords Tournament
29 days ago
📢📢📢 It's happ3ning! 📢📢📢 Westwords III Sunday, June 14 Berkeley, CA Individual and pairs solvers welcome If you haven't competed previously, you can sign up for email updates at our website. See you in June!
westwordsbestwords.com
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Westwords | June 22 | Bay Area & Online
Westwords 2025 is in the books! Thanks to all of our solvers, volunteers, and constructors for making it a huge success, and congratulations to the winners! The puzzle packs from 2025 and 2024 can be ...
https://westwordsbestwords.com
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david ehrlich
29 days ago
on tuesday night i held several of the world's greatest filmmakers hostage for a 15-minute speech about what critics & artists owe to each other in the age of rapid enshittification. i'm not entirely sure why i did that. anyway you can read it here if you want to:
www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
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@mjskay.com
@matthew.wiki
he needs some theory shapes. standard iceberg? hybrid network/iceberg?
arxiv.org/abs/2510.01382
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29 days ago
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does anybody remember how to do my job?
about 1 month ago
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my brain just kinda short-circuits when I try to think about What's About to Happen, so instead i will think about boggle this weekend
about 1 year ago
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best beverage songs of 2025: Lemonade by Maren Morris, Elderberry Wine by Wednesday, and Soda Pop by Saja Boys
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about 1 month ago
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the best addison song of 2025 was "i want you" by debbii dawson
observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/f...
about 1 month ago
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2025 saw the release of two data visualization centric digital games that are both worth your time: Pocket Boss and Alphadots.
alex-we.in/posts/2025-1...
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https://alex-we.in/posts/2025-12-25-chart-games-2025.md
about 1 month ago
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last minute channuka gift to myself
about 2 months ago
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really dug yesterday's
@morayati.bsky.social
puzz
www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...
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Puzzmo - Cross|word
Play Cross|word on Puzzmo, Take a hint.
https://www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-12-19/crossword
about 2 months ago
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RJ Andrews
about 2 months ago
Perozzo rides again! See it in action at
charts.infowetrust.com
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i concur
alex-we.in/posts/2025-0...
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about 2 months ago
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despite having curated the wordlist, this one stumped me for a bit
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about 2 months ago
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uh oh. the awesome service i use for my hobby coding projects is trying to find product market fit.
2 months ago
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just subscribed to a free trial of some streaming service called "qello concerts by stringray" to watch the stax-volt revue - live in norway 1967...rip steve cropper
2 months ago
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my first, fifth, and sixth most streamed songs of the "year" were co-written by steph jones...nothing from man's best friend cracked the top 100
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Dave DiCello
2 months ago
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in
#Pittsburgh
, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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Ben Schmidt
2 months ago
AFAICT there are infinitely many such splits, lying on a line that looks roughly like this: it's reasonably far away from the antipodal points that make the land and water hemispheres, but *not* just a great circle away from it. This notebook tries to find it:
observablehq.com/d/db36886905...
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Find A Big Word
2 months ago
solution:
https://bigwordbot.val.run/ATESC_EG_BIOSU_R
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i cleaned up my boggle bot over the break. among other tweaks, it now uses a bespoke word list, has solutions via a vibe-coded solver, and has a non-default bluesky avatar.
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2 months ago
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Adam Star, Master Mind Excello
3 months ago
More Marvel Snap funnies coming soon? Maybe. No promises. But enjoy these classics from days of yore.
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was googling to see if any of the writers for "a man on the inside" went to a liberal arts college. seems like mostly just harvard.
3 months ago
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sam³⁰⁰⁰
3 months ago
Happy 40th birthday to Carly Rae Jepsen! No better time to reflect on her works than today.
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Gregor Aisch
3 months ago
I think this is pure charting gold from WaPo (credits to Szu Yu Chen,
@emmakumer.bsky.social
and
@jeremybmerrill.com
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www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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dope dope dope dope dope dope dope dope
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3 months ago
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i know we all rag on tufte for insisting that joylessness should be a core value of visualization, but we forget about the adorable little "ideas" guy from tvdoqi
3 months ago
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Alfred Soto
3 months ago
I once called her America's best working popular musician-songwriter. Happy birthday to Miranda Lambert. What a discography.
humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/r...
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Ranking Miranda Lambert’s discography
I called her the best working American singer-songwriter. The six albums below offer ample demonstration.
http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/ranking-miranda-lamberts-discography/
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made enough progress on coney letters to push to prod
loopyletters.val.run/coney
like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.
3 months ago
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i was considering adding more loops to loopy letters, but ended up filling in the donut instead. wip
alexwein--0199cef989287565a4c0a69b4c1e007f.web.val.run
3 months ago
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Buddy Toledo
4 months ago
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Thinky Games
3 months ago
We are live! 🎉
thinkygames.com/even...
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Adam Wagner
3 months ago
new name, new bovid, same great gameplay. Anigrams is now The New Yorker's: SHUFFALO!!!
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