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/ Treasa Ní Chonchúir

A brown sign outside of a business reads “whoop’-de-doo’” in a handwriting-like font.
Japan, 8 September 2019

An exclamation indicating (now often sarcastic) excitement or enthusiasm [Wiktionary]

. you’ll be missed. we now enter the final age of posting.


When “the business” is considering whether to move you up the ladder — which will plausibly result in you making increasingly more money for the rest of your career — your manager has one fundamental question they need to answer:

Will I be able to review this person as “meeting expectations” at the next level during the next review season, in a way that is true to the letter and spirit of the ladder?

Rebecca Murphey, in Eng ladders, promotions & glue work

Bop Spotter, by Riley Walz, via Eryn.


To summarize, the author of a web framwork that tries to abstract how the author thinks a browser works, is complaining about the amount of work it takes to conform their abstraction to how a browser actually works.

Joe Gregorio

Americans’ love affair with big cars is killing them, via Kottke.

What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing In The Street, by Stephanie H. Murray, via Karl.


Professor: Does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?

Me from the back of the room: Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

stem357

One Issue Where Israeli Extremists Are Mainstream, by חגי אלעד.

What JD Vance and Donald Trump don't want you to know about Springfield, by Radley Balko.

The toll of America’s anti-trans war, in The 19th.

Back to Basics, by Paul Bradley Carr, via Ben Werdmuller.


Sliding screen, 浜松Hamamatsu日本Japan, 13 September 2019.