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Mount Fuji, as seen from a passing bullet train. The mountain is under a clear sky, though there is a layer of clouds that bisects the mountain a bit below the snow line.
2024年4月6日の富士山（Mt. Fuji）

mid-September tumbling

The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman, by Irene Y. Zhang, published by ACM SIGOPS.

I Never Expected To Run For Office—Here's What I Learned, by Will Stancil.

Colonial Williamsburg is where MAGA Granddads and Resistance Moms Go to Learn America’s Most Painful History Lessons, via Kottke.

Everything is being turned into a fine paste of hallucinated LLM slurry. The web is failing at the thing it used to be best at: Directing you to the information you seek as provided by a human who knows about the topic and has taken care to write about it accurately.

— Gretchen Leigh, in It's not just you; the web is getting worse

Something went wrong, by M⁠аth​ias Sc​hä⁠fer, via baldur@toot.cafe. It’s always nice to see the EWP cited. This article introduced me to the term FORC (Flash of Readable Content) and contains one of the best descriptions of Conway’s Law I’ve yet read:

Over the course of years, every real-world software project becomes a monument of shifts in product direction, power struggles, management and organizational restructuring, conflicting programming patterns and incomplete migrations.

Every industry hype, every JavaScript trend leaves its mark in the codebase[.]

6 April 2021

My Eulogy for the Open Web and Old Google, by Chris DiBona.

My focus is entirely on well-crafted, quality products. I have no interest in disposable garbage, and I’m skeptical of folks who do.

— Chris Ferdinandi

Web Browser Engineering, a book by Pavel Panchekha and Chris Harrelson.

Making websites without a build step is a gift to your future self. When you open that project six months or a year or two years later, there’ll be no faffing about with npm updates, installs, or vulnerabilities.

Need to edit the CSS? You edit the CSS. Need to change the markup? You change the markup.

It’s remarkably freeing. It’s also very, very performant.

— Jeremy

Blot turns a folder into a website. Files become posts on your site. Drag-and-drop to publish.

A Manga for the Transgender Soul: Rumiko Takahashi’s Ranma ½, by Ryka Aoki, author of Light From Uncommon Stars:

For me, Ranma ½ was more than a coming-of-age experience—it was an epiphany. This work not only challenged so many prevailing (and rather depressing) thoughts and philosophies about being trans—but did so as a manga.

Will & Harper Is a Daringly Honest Look at Trans Belonging in America, reviewed by Samantha Allen, author of Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States:

What Steele learns, much like I did in 2017, is that transitioning does indeed change your relationship with wide swaths of the country. There are fewer places where she feels safe, and some where she feels actively threatened. Casual interactions with clerks, waiters, and fellow travelers become fraught highwire acts. Like me, Steele has privileges of race and financial security, but those are not impenetrable shields against the kinds of things that can happen to trans women in sparsely populated places.

How to hide information from yourself in a solo RPG, from A Neighborhood of Infinity.

strftime cheatsheet, by Will McCutchen.

The Dying Computer Museum, by Jason Scott, one of my personal heros.

Our RNG Git Hash Bug, by Tim Mendez. YAML is… not great.

Some recent-ish additions to my watch collection, for the three readers who care about this sort of thing (hi, Mark):

1. Casio A171WE-1A
A silver-tone digital watch with a black face surrounding the positive display.
A steel watch is center frame, with a bright pink dial with white hands and indices, an aluminum, rotating, dive-time bezel, and an H-link bracelet.
2. Erebus Origin 38
3. G-Shock GMA-P2100-7A
A white plastic analog/digital watch on a matching strap. The dial and indicies are also white, while the hands are silver.
A steel watch with a white dial. There’s a steel bezel with 24-hour markings around the watch’s crystal. The dial is marked like a traditional field watch. There’s an orange GMT hand which tracks a second time zone, and there’s a date complication at 3. The watch is on a dark gray NATO strap.
4.
  1. The A171WE-1A really scratches that 1980s digital watch itch.
  2. I love the extremely pink dial on this 38 mm Erebus, and the way the dial contrasts with the bezel.
  3. The GMA-P2100-7A, the littlest CasiOak, makes for a great summertime funtime watch.
  4. I tried to buy one of these Seiko JDM GMT field watch when I was in Japan this past April, but it was sold out everywhere I looked. I ended up using Buyee to pick it up after I got home.