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alexwein.bsky.social
data worker, word game liker, pretty boring quite frankly. Oakland, CA
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it was quite the fun diversion to contemplate #poppelgangers this last week or so

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

This is the NOMINATIONS THREAD for next months #POPPELGANGERS Pop Poll Please nominate two pairs of different songs with the same title, one MAIN (guaranteed entry) one bonus Guidelines: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 21 hours ago • 92 comments

a list of my bluesky posts liked by my mom but nobody else alex-we.in/posts/2025-0...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New Change, Technically episode is out: WHO'S AFRAID OF MATH? We tackle *math anxiety," @analog-ashley.bsky.social teaches me about vulnerable circuits in the brain and being vulnerable about teaching, and I read a HECK of a lot of science to bring you this episode

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Five years ago today, Waxahatchee released Saint Cloud. Nobody has released a better album since.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

"vis" just doesn't have the rizz

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

it's giving Frasier opening credits

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

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.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 34 days ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

helping a new colleague with very important data wrangling techniques

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments