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I got a watermelon yesterday.

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Katt showed us how to make linocuts this February vacation week!

I often talk about important bill pay web sites that are shoddily built and have some problem that prevents you from actually paying your bill, unless you go into devtools and mess with stuff.

Yesterday at judo, I tore or strained some intercostal muscles (the muscles that go between your ribs).

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Bryan Byun passed away recently.

I work on the web and usually have access to CSS color, which lets you specify colors in the HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) space.

I learned via this report that the essays in the MCAS are being graded with AI, and that it has graded at least 1,400 essays incorrectly.

It’s a new month, so it’s time for me to once again be shocked that it’s a new month!

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I was just thinking, oh, yeah, the triangle wave is one of the basic waves, so the equation for it is probably fairly obvious with a mod somewhere in it.

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A few weeks ago, I found myself having to do a thing over and over again in my browser.

Anton Podviaznikov, a Recurse Center alum, is matching donations to Ukraine.

Since November of 2023, I’ve been doing morning warm-ups.

I finished a new song.

Last Friday, I found myself a liturgical space while listening to a news podcast.

We finished Season 1 of Girls’ High Mystery Class, which was fun.

Sadly, Now More Than Ever, every single Bandcamp Friday is possibly the last one, a last chance to conveniently maximize how much money you get to artists when you buy music.

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At the last three jobs I’ve been at, I’ve hit some form of this issue: I am writing a web app.

This is a roundup of miscellaneous things that I’ve found out about (or have rediscovered).

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As a public service, I’m explicitly stating that linearRampToValueAtTime does not work on an AudioBufferSourceNode’s playbackRate, as of February 24, 2023, on Firefox.

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This weekend, we were riffing about soup sleeves at lunch.

This is a roundup of miscellaneous things that I’ve found out about (or have rediscovered).

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It is important to me to create Small Findings episodes that have information that I myself would want to hear.

There’s one finding about a handy D3 method, and the rest are about quirks, including one that affected getting this weblog, in this edition of Miscellaneous Findings.

This time, in Miscellaneous Findings, we’ve got some command line things, plus a huge Raspberry Pi setup dump, with some related stuff about hard drives and filesystems mixed in.

I really liked this video essay I saw, and I have some thoughts about it.

Here’s a script that’s handy for unzipping stuff you download from Bandcamp.

People have been writing software for quite a long time, so natually, there are some amazing, rock-solid old tools out there, like make and rsync.

Last Wednesday, I played Dungeons and Dragons with my six-year-old kid.

For this round of Miscellaneous Findings, we have things related to the internet, mostly the doings of servers.

For this round of Miscellaneous Findings, we have a few web dev odds and ends.

I finished reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

In the novel Things Fall Apart, the people in village of Umuofia practice ancestor worship.

I tried to explain this process on my podcast, Small Findings, but I found that it was just way too hard to do without showing numbers.

I’m currently looking at potential new jobs and started talking to a company that looked like it had potential.

A big problem with installing a Firefox add-on or Chrome extension is that you have no idea what it does.

For this round of Miscellaneous Findings, we have a bunch of ways to mess with text.