I wonder. I don’t know for sure what everyone’s doing to their connections with VPN software these days but being considered a bot every so often is a great productivity hack.

There are apparently some who think I’m an old archivist. I may have once worked at an archiving place before though. I’m young but I’ve felt old since ~2019.

Someone tossed a delightfully devilish idea. If the world hasn’t ended yet and I somehow do this a third time (~2031), maybe I’ll try to resurrect and programmatically annotate data starting from 1962.

The silly season has already started? For those interested, I’ll hide this election tracker here early for now. It’s a homework in progress. I’ve added incumbents (using 2021 polling data) and a timeline. Hopefully I didn’t make or copy too many mistakes…

After powering through years of local news, I’m no longer clueless and if there’s one thing that’s legendarily accurate, it’s letters to the editors in printed papers. Once 2026 polling data is finalized, I’ll make myself extra rare while pouring a nice cup of hot tea.

It’s Friday the 13th and I’ve just been lorem ipsum’d in the face. I’ve always preferred the textual rickroll while researching (quick & painless gotcha). Since 2023, I’ve mostly stopped reading articles.

The time saving trick now is to look at title dissimilarities and speed-read lightly. The new lorem ipsum is a thick labyrinth of maze like semantics that looks amazing, says nothing and something, and may violate the simpler laws of physics.

There are mistakes in places where they shouldn’t be and unfortunately I can’t play industrial scale spot the difference.

I’ve been slowly trying to fix one of my aggregators. I ended up discovering (quite happily) that Saint Lucia eventually caught up, and that there’s a neat book written about that scheme.

Now I’m tempted to compare notes with the hyperreality (for science). Anytime I mistakenly read into stuff, the situations are even more absurd than I remember. Getting scammed enough times is a viable short cut to Kant’s enlightenment (or something).

I actually peeked at that social media data. And it’s surprisingly good. I’m still questioning if it’s worth tracking the election this time round (no guarantees). The 2026 election doesn’t feel like it’ll be as interesting as 2021 and the hard part is researching candidates.

It turns out that I actually saved my copy of 2021 polling data, but of course the incumbents redrew the boundaries to make it extra fun.

Bonus: I didn’t notice before, but there’s also data on generative AI use worldwide and locally.

I came across some violently classical programming humor. Is HTML still even a pen knife in the hand?

OWASP’s cheat sheets are really good for quickly learning about web security gotchas. The load averages here appear nominal, so perhaps my servers haven’t been disembodied just yet.

I saw this riddle in a local newspaper the other day:

‘The visitors had missed their turn, doubled back, but “forgot” to stay on the right side of the road.’

Anyone speaking in writing has my ultimate props.

The happy new year is here. I was conversing offline with individuals about courses a little ways back in time. And, if it’s any solace to anyone online deathly afraid of the future, keep reading?

Fun fact: Many seemingly think that I’ve used generative models to build this inert static site (hoho). How would you know the difference? And can you fully trust it?

The end of the year is around the corner. There are varied spins on “speak of the devil”. I was shown a really neat one some time ago;

“Talk of an angel and you hear his wings.”