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alexwein.bsky.social
data worker, word game liker, pretty boring quite frankly. Oakland, CA
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Five years ago today, Waxahatchee released Saint Cloud. Nobody has released a better album since.

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unfortunately, i'm pretty into the new linkedin game zip

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As promised, here's the link to our GDC Spreadsheet slides: tinyurl.com/GDC2025sprea...

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nostalgic for early pandemic when I was only simultaneously sad and angry like 30% of the time

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I added this bit to track pageviews yesterday, which made clear that I needed a /robots.txt too (not 100% sure I'm doing it right) www.val.town/x/alexwein/a...

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It seems like all the cool kids are going to this. But also me.

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this and the Rostam/Clairo track off the new Sasami are really working for me

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Mark Carney is the ultimate centrist name: both the victim of the con artist and the con artist himself

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for whatever reason, I've been listening to this song more frequently during workdays

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Total appearances of various "Makes sense to me!" entries in the New York Times crossword

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"vis" just doesn't have the rizz

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will i start blogging now that i have a blog? it's unclear alex-we.in

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My latest for @puddingviz.bsky.social: The Middle Ages Read: pudding.cool/2025/02/midd... Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zL...

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revisiting some code i wrote 10 years ago, and it’s such a valuable lesson that you do not need to be good at programming to make something really useful.

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All the videos are up at www.hytradboi.com/2025#program now.

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I forked my last word game and added wikipedia's list of birds alexwein-loopylettersbirds.web.val.run

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it's giving Frasier opening credits

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I was piqued by @albertocairo.com 's thread of responses about using llms for data viz, so tried to make a little dashboard for a little app I made for my little word games. It was going fine until I needed a stacked area chart.

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Dear 📊 ##dataViz crowd, help needed. What am I missing?

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Wordle 1,343 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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helping a new colleague with very important data wrangling techniques

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I'm a pie chart defender, but this is such a good joke.

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Weekend word game. Not fun, per se, but more fun than the last time I tried to make this particular game. alexwein-loopyletters.web.val.run

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can't tell if I'm disappointed with the new sabrina carpenter songs or just incapable of feeling joy at this moment

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Here's a diagram from this zine. There's certainly times when you're aware you're very lucky to get the readers you have.

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sorry but like, this isn't right? iso 8601 is a spec for text representations of datetime. it doesn't have an epoch and certainly not one that is 1850. 85 cobol does have dates stored from an epoch, but it's either 1601 or 1582

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My new favorite song is "Wanna Start A Band?" https://open.spotify.com/track/34ZmfrVwRAgTFSgMSmifbD

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AVCX and Puzzmo created two new very little "find some words" games for the Puzzmo newsletter. I'm a fan of both. Here's a solver for Fill Your Plate. observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/p...

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banger data-less data viz from Codd dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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i had a small table with more fields than observations, so I transposed it to fit better in the email. Immediately regretting it.

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I think about Harlan Crow's swastika napkins way too often

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nostalgic for early pandemic when I was only simultaneously sad and angry like 30% of the time

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www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

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inspiring the world is so 2010's coded. Now we "create value"

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Since the election, Curtis Mayfield is pretty much the only music that has hit for me in any meaningful way

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