Alex Wein
@alexwein.bsky.social
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data worker, word game liker, pretty boring quite frankly. Oakland, CA
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
4 days 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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4 days ago
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Dave DiCello
4 days 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
5 days 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
6 days 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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7 days ago
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Adam Star ~ Marvel Snap Lore
15 days 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.
16 days ago
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sam³⁰⁰⁰
16 days ago
Happy 40th birthday to Carly Rae Jepsen! No better time to reflect on her works than today.
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Gregor Aisch
24 days 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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dope dope dope dope dope dope dope dope
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25 days 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
25 days ago
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Alfred Soto
27 days 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.
28 days 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
29 days ago
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Buddy Toledo
2 months ago
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Thinky Games
about 1 month ago
We are live! 🎉
thinkygames.com/even...
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Adam Wagner
about 1 month ago
new name, new bovid, same great gameplay. Anigrams is now The New Yorker's: SHUFFALO!!!
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this is an archive of 1300 examples of string boards in media
www.vaultofculture.com/nst
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Narrative String Theory — The Vault of Culture
An ongoing series, initially appearing on tumblr, collecting all known appearances of “narrative string theory” (string walls, walls and floors littered with paperwork by obsessives, etc.).
https://www.vaultofculture.com/nst
about 1 month ago
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brooke husic
about 1 month ago
the minis are free forever! you can share them using the quoted post above. i also catalogued them here:
www.brookehusic.com/puzzminis/
xoxo 💕
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https://www.brookehusic.com/puzzminis/
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this snocaps album is great. does a cool job bridging some of katie's pre-2020's sound with the saint cloud/tiger's blood stuff. I missed the scuzzy indie guitars.
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jenny from let's eat grandma is back with a very satisfying 80s synth anthem
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about 1 month ago
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Lars Gotrich
about 2 months ago
I happen to work with two of my favorite Thinkers About Music:
@annkpowers.bsky.social
and
@artsorority.bsky.social
. Lo and behold, they have a new
@npr.org
podcast together! (This episode's free. The rest will be on NPR Music+, which costs a nice cup of tea/month.)
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
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“I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” by Stevie Wonder : All Songs Considered
This is the first episode of a new series on All Songs Considered, hosted by NPR Music critic Ann Powers and editor Daoud Tyler-Ameen. Most of what you hear on All Songs is focused on new music, but n...
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5582408/i-believe-when-i-fall-in-love-it-will-be-forever-by-stevie-wonder
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whoa bloomberg has a line chart-based word game
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about 2 months ago
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boggle
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about 2 months ago
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scrabble
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about 2 months ago
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i got a new notebook yesterday, but the paper is a little too glossy, so I don't think it's gonna fix my life
about 2 months ago
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phyllis beat me 78-73 in round 3 this month; not as heartbreaking
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about 2 months ago
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shit...damn...motherfucker
about 2 months ago
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not enough discussion of charts and graphs
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about 2 months ago
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when i started my job, i talked a lot about how valuable good documentation is. but now I have to write good documentation and I do not want to.
about 2 months ago
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fun stuff...although after reading, i am less certain i understand either what a theory is or what a shape is
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about 2 months ago
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had to get into some of the nuances of marvel snap's in-game currencies with my therapist this week
2 months ago
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brooke husic
2 months ago
i wrote more here:
blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/1...
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Learn the grammar of crosswords with Puzzmo minis
Today is the first day of a series of 30 mini crosswords designed to help you become a better crossword solver. They’re free for all players, and you can solve the first one here. In college, I accide...
https://blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/10/01/minis/
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Reo Eveleth
2 months ago
This is my first story for
@coyotemedia.org
and I'm pretty proud of it! I think it will surprise and delight you, even if you don't live in the Bay Area. Plus, it includes a recipe for pie.
www.coyotemedia.org/where-did-th...
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Where Did the Fairyland Dandelions Go?
For more than 45 years, three huge steel and bronze dandelion puffs reached for the sky outside Children’s Fairyland only to disappear without a trace. COYOTE went on a quest to find them.
https://www.coyotemedia.org/where-did-the-fairyland-dandelions-go/
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2 hours and 50 minutes? maybe a few of those battles could have happened concurrently. (the runtime was fine actually, i just needed to get the dumb joke out of my head.)
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2 months ago
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Benjamin Tausig
2 months ago
This was a really fun conversation. I don’t get too many chance to talk about puzzles as independent media, but I really believe in the point and Phil is a pretty brilliant interlocutor.
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this morning i discovered that my blog has been down for a month...back up now, but still no new posts since april
alex-we.in
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2 months ago
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i enjoyed the part in one battle after another where junglepussy said "hi, i'm junglepussy"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQuo...
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Junglepussy - State of the Union
YouTube video by JUNGLEPUSSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQuoix5IdGQ
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unironically, i love it every time there's poptimism discourse
3 months ago
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Jer Thorp
2 months ago
I had an idea yesterday about making a word search that, when solved, would be a data visualization. So, I coded it up... and it worked! This shows abundance of three bird species in Brooklyn Bridge Park over a year. It feels like there are some fun possibilities here. 📊🪶
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another good debbii dawson single. this one is produced by luka/elvira (who did all of addison) and has a writing credit from max martin (jessie j's "domino")
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3 months ago
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i was in the snowflake docs a little while back and noticed asof join (added last year), and i now have a load-bearing asof join
3 months ago
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Data Visualization Society
3 months ago
📊 Academic papers can be challenging to read, especially for students new to a field. Alyxander Burns shares an activity that uses data comics to help students better understand and engage with academic literature.
www.nightingaledvs.com/learning-academic-papers-making-data-comics
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Learning to Read Academic Papers by Making Data Comics, Nightingale
Learning to read academic papers is a considerable challenge for many college students.
https://nightingaledvs.com/learning-academic-papers-making-data-comics
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Dorothy
3 months ago
What it's all about.
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gordwame.val.run
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7 months ago
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i deserve a prize for keeping my pessimism off social media: a non-participation trophy
3 months ago
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saman
3 months ago
We took a month-long break from making daily games to work on a multiplayer competitive word game. Just published a blog post about the design + dev process 👉
blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/0...
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The Making of Circuits Royale, a Communal Word Game for the Web
We’ve been tossing around ideas for a fast-paced multiplayer variant of a Puzzmo game for a while, and decided the Circuits launch would be a great chance to have a go at it. Circuits Royale, released...
https://blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/09/08/the-making-of-circuits-royale/
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LaurenWhatevs
3 months ago
02. Strong Start?
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