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The wall across from Nankoweap, Grand Canyon National Park.

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Here’s a photo I took of Grandma’s Curb. She lovingly cared for this cherished mid-street curb for decades. On hot summer days, she would carry a bucket of water to the curb to water it and scrubbed out blemishes. She died at 107 but now Councilmember Saka wants to remove this historic curb?

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I think I’ll shutdown the cron job tracking the history for YR4. I enjoyed seeing the curve! http://billmerrill.github.io/yar_impact.html https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5307892/asteroid-2024yr4-not-hitting-earth-after-all

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I’m thankful I don’t have anything too complex planned today, the winds nudged me awake all night.

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no king but biking

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icymi: Bored with war alone, white people now fighting with money too

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Dear lazyweb, Do you know how to easily reflow text from Safari? I run into these fixed with text blocks that Safari’s reader mode don’t touch. I can work around but wonder if somebody made an easy way. https://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/jul99/931435915.As.r.html

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TIL King County has makerspaces!

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Moonrise

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Bill would allow cities to create ‘shared streets’ with walk/bike priority and 10mph speed limits www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/02/11/b... #Seattle #SEAbikes

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Ready for #accessibility automation that’s not just 3 axe-cores in a trench coat?

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The #Accessibility Operations Guidebook is now available in paperback! This edition ships with a discount code that gives you access to the ebook bundle for free. If you're looking for other formats, check out the info at book.dpersing.com. #a11yops #TAOG-BookClub www.amazon.com/Accessibilit...

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We went for a hike yesterday, this view was a great consolation for Paradise being closed. Looking across the Nisqually River valley from Rampart Ridge in Mount Rainier National Park.

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Today I decided I wanted to understand how the including the curvature of the Earth might impact a relief map... a 3D model of terrain. I learned a bit about Coordinate Reference Systems and decided it could be interesting to add this to my model engine. billmerrill.github.io/curvature.html

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There’s a classic attack on finance software: stealing fractions of a cent as amounts are rounded. Rarely implemented because the collection account usually leads to the thief, I mean if there’s auditing. Don’t know why that popped into my head.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

elon & co. are spending their dunning-krugerrands very, very quickly

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Flappy Triangles now remembers. http://billmerrill.github.io/flappy_triangle.html

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The completion of the E Marginal Way project is gonna be great…(next year)

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Yesterday I rode my trainer and listened to @standupmaths.bsky.social’s Love Triangle. This led me to want to animate some triangles and today I made this flappy triangle. Two arms spin and stretch randomly, stopping only if they become a triangle. A little fun with MatPlotLib for Python.

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Watching all the traffic use the 26th greenway to shave 30 seconds off their commute is really pissing me off this morning

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting to read this and apply the model to other domains (eg, tech/systems design, code review, etc): backofmind.substack.com/p/needles-an...

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The Rock at Chicxulub.

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I caught one of the voids in the light.

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Happy coincidence, our flight to Detroit is #313.

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If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.

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I’m digging into a story map idea I’ve had for the last decade. The Grand Canyon has become the forcing the issue for me.

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The clouds returned today.

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The voids are paying attention.

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Have you or a loved one been treated for cancer? Ever have a vaccine? Had someone you love revived by chest compressions? If so, then you have benefited from NIH-funded research, which has just been effectively shut down by the cancellation of NIH study sections. No new research allowed.

submitted 40 days ago • 12 comments

I am embarrassed at how long it took me to realize leaflet and geoJSON use different ordering of latitude and longitude in coordinates. And how deep I got into the debugger before I realized my problem was so simple.

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While it’s sobering, I’m really enjoying going over my old roadmaps from 2020 and 21. So many things I saw needing to happen did happen but some happened very differently.

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The dry, sunny day led me to finally clean the interior of my car’s windshield. That led me to take car of a couple more maintenance tasks. I’ve got a YT playlist of howtos for my car but I miss being able to buy a Chiltons.

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The void cats don’t really care about boxes but they will outright murder refracted light.

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Very low dark clouds and ebullient smoke stacks have Seattle looking real dystopia. I’m head up to the pass for some sun!

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Funemployment: Drink a pot of coffee to avoid doing work, rather than drink a pot of coffee to accomplish work.

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a very awkward reminder that I’m eligible in the fan artist categories for my 2024 work

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Still nerdin’ out on bike geometry.

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