Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Though I've really been meaning to write an article about exactly why I think permanent DST is a bad idea.

I still need to get this plot looking nicer (it's a sun graph for New York, with DST):

Finally took the time to call my congressperson to register my opposition to the "Sunshine Protection Act" (H.R. 69). When the House votes it down by a single vote, you can thank me. 😉

Now that I've released this on a Friday afternoon, time to run off to go apartment hunting and make myself completely unavailable for a few days! Byyyyyeeeeeee!

Hot off the presses, we've just released the latest version of tzdata, bringing us in line with the upstream 2022b data: https://pypi.org/project/tzdata/

See release notes here: https://github.com/python/tzdata/releases/tag/2022.2

(Or upstream: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/2022b/NEWS)

Definitely not worth $4000, but if I were on Jeopardy and got this clue, I would have been very sorely tempted to answer, "What is 01189998819991197253?"

The branding of this restaurant in Madrid is really sending mixed messages about its legitimacy.

Every day as a parent, explaining why your kids need to do not fun stuff that is good for them:

It inspires great trepidation and ambivalence when I find something new that belongs in my "What to do when the bug is in someone else's code" talk (https://ganssle.io/talks/#upstream-bugs), but I think `patchy` has earned a slide.

Or, as the kids say, "Thanks! I hate it!"

https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamChainz/status/1539747526567510016

@cnx In case you are willing / able to help: https://twitter.com/jugmac00/status/1534209238268104705?s=20&t=mwOtLNlkgfyQVaNjri4l0Q

D... does the Travel Town Museum have a (decommissioned?) nuclear powered train?

Also saw some Cedar Waxwings in a tree right across the street from the swallow. This isn't my first time seeing those, but they're still reasonably rare (and not to mention pretty).

Too bad it's such a dreary day…

#birds

Saw this gorgeous tree swallow on my "walk to work" this morning. Been seeing this one and another one around these last few days, but this season is the first time I've ever seen them!

#birds #birding

@cryptoxic @AntennaPod On the other hand, when you posted that I was in the middle of composing my own post about how after one contribution to AntennaPod I'm already feeling the lure of fixing all my minor papercuts (also known as the dangerous road towards "you own it now"... 😅), so that should be an endorsement that contributing to AP is not bad at all.

@cryptoxic I don't think @AntennaPod has a mechanism for third-party plugins. I've always thought that such a thing would be useful, but of course that assumes people would develop plugins for it, and maybe the set of useful plugins that the maintainers would not be willing to upstream is too small...