2023
February
Feb 05
Now 2022-02-05
January
Jan 31
Letters: February W1
Jan 28
Poverty is the bleeding
Jan 28
Letters: January W4
Jan 27
Vouchers and ESAs are about the rich and the religious
Jan 21
Delimited files are hell-- a comparison of methods to read bad files
Jan 19
Letters: January W3
Jan 16
A thought experiment on replacing my Synology with a Mac mini
Jan 10
Letters: January W2
Jan 07
MRAN is dead
Jan 07
How did "fun" go in 2022?
Jan 05
More articles on friendship
Jan 05
DayOne is a great travelogue
Jan 05
We need bike infrastructure and e-bike subsidies
Jan 04
Internet communities should be fragmented--so should identity
Jan 02
In defense of views, likes, reposts, webmentions, trackbacks, etc. Blogging about blogs again.
Jan 01
Letters: January W1
2022
December
Dec 31
Reading in 2022
Dec 29
Signs of Mexico
Dec 18
Consistent and Complete
Dec 17
Reading, Writing, Discovery
November
Nov 28
Why do I want to publish correspondence on my blog?
Nov 28
A new project for 2023-- seeking multiple collaborators!
Nov 14
The world we have or the one that we want?
Nov 12
Do we let creators/influencers/web projects end?
Nov 11
There's always some *coin
Nov 09
We still stink at probability and uncertainty. It's time for Steel Man Narratives.
Nov 06
A birthday present for Jess
October
Oct 28
Now 2022-10-28
Oct 22
All that time in a bed, and yet…
September
Sep 18
Updating my story
Sep 11
Tips, Service Fees, Plus Tax
Sep 11
Time for fresh lenses again
Sep 03
Mens’ skincare products
August
Aug 31
The Historical Accuracy of Semi-Fascist
Aug 28
Now 2022-08-28
Aug 13
Downtown
Aug 13
Wandering in Pittsburgh
Aug 13
East Liberty
Aug 06
Delegating tasks to next week
Aug 06
TV I still haven't watched
July
Jul 30
Meta-boring
Jul 19
I smell like lobster and I'm not mad about it
Jul 15
Spending some time in one of my homes, Providence.
Jul 06
The vacation after COVID that revealed my problems
Jul 06
Portland Eats
Jul 05
Is it the frameworks or the developers?
June
Jun 22
Entanglement and Lemon
Jun 21
Morning coffee vibe
Jun 21
Cool Van
Jun 13
Office vibes today
Jun 03
Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend
May
May 31
He fired over 300 rounds
May 20
This. Dog.
May 19
🦀 Crabs with some out of town friends.
May 17
Ramen-San
May 16
Au Cheval
May 16
Monday afternoon in Chicago
May 16
Cool Signs
May 15
Walking About Chicago
May 15
Girl & the Goat
May 13
Day 1 in Chicago.
May 01
Pickup 🏐
April
Apr 30
Eight years at Allovue
Apr 26
Shortcuts -- who can use this thing?
Apr 26
Tumblr and Twitter’s Failure
Apr 26
Matching Mark One
Apr 25
Always. Be. Begging.
Apr 24
Sherwood Gardens
Apr 13
St. Petersburg
Apr 10
Silicon Valley Icons Gonna Tech Bro
Apr 02
Dinner was fine -- Cosima with Dad
March
Mar 19
Some thoughts on The Batman
Mar 19
Getting old, but looking alright
Mar 14
CDMX Part II
Mar 14
CDMX Part I
Mar 14
San Pedro Cholula
Mar 14
Puebla
Mar 05
Are there good new apps for macOS?
Mar 04
The Good Web
February
Feb 27
Peach 🍑 or Coconut 🥥
Feb 14
Abandoning Control
Feb 13
It’s not the COVID cautious preventing you from “normalcy”
Feb 13
Routine siphons vitality
Feb 12
Viejo San Juan
Feb 11
Not the Worst: Puerto Rico in February
Feb 06
The Curse of Ubiquitous Fandom
Feb 04
🔮Add this to the vision board.🔮
Feb 02
(Not so) Funny Stories
January
Jan 30
Age Appropriate
Jan 27
Not bad for a healthy breakfast
Jan 26
Maus is banned. Now what?
Jan 23
Hands-off Pork and Beans by Carla Lalli Music
Jan 22
Who has a better life?
Jan 17
Huevos, without the Johnny Bread
Jan 17
Ten Years(ish) Apart
Jan 16
Blog Changelog: Books Page 📚
Jan 15
Corporate Executives are also Sorting
Jan 12
What Have I Done for Fun?
Jan 12
Reading Together
Jan 10
The Holy Trinity
Jan 09
Returning to News Journalism Immediately Reminded of the Blogosphere's "Why"
Jan 01
First Lego Kit Since 5th Grade
2021
December
Dec 28
I Loved Middle School
Dec 24
Eating bagels
Dec 23
Gracie’s First Beach
Dec 11
Suraya
Dec 10
We Drift Away
Dec 07
Resource Allocation Models Are Powerful Policy Levers
Dec 07
The Ultra _Fine_ Monitor Market
Dec 05
Down Time: My New Focus Mode
Dec 04
Sidesgiving
November
Nov 25
This year’s plate
Nov 16
Off to the Woods
October
Oct 10
In Response to The Why of Newsletters
Oct 04
Some time in Vail
September
Sep 26
Sunday morning walk outside
Sep 25
120 Hz iPhone
Sep 13
Select Moments from Our Weekend in New York City
August
Aug 31
The Goal is to Build Community
Aug 29
Now 2021-08-29
Aug 27
Make Government Work
Aug 16
Sequels: a quick review of The Hidden Palace
Aug 15
Not Quite a Bookclub 📚
Aug 13
Thunder Buddies
Aug 01
Sometimes we reject authority based on unreasonable expectations
July
Jul 31
Changing Careers and Leaving a City Behind is Hard
Jul 31
Hi Papas!
Jul 28
Today in, "Your taste can exceed your talent."
Jul 26
The Axis of Temperament
Jul 18
Current State of the Office
Jul 18
Guitars are up
Jul 17
New bar in the dining room
Jul 16
It's a mitzvah to exercise being a friend
Jul 15
Real Names and Online Abuse
Jul 14
Conflicting feelings about vaccine boosters
Jul 11
New string day
Jul 05
Omakase at Kokoro
Jul 03
Personal Physical Progress Test
Jul 02
I like pizza
Jul 02
Lunch with a view
June
Jun 30
Vacay Jay
Jun 29
Burrata Stuffed Heirloom
Jun 23
rJava on arm64 for R 4.1
Jun 20
A Short Review of 18 Months Sleep Tracking
Jun 18
My morning
Jun 18
The Resource Gap is (much) of the Outcomes Gap
Jun 04
The Folly of Design-Build in Infrastructure and Software
Jun 03
Personal Email is Magic🔮
May
May 31
Revisiting old code-- the power of across and tidyselect
May 30
Now 2021-05-30
May 11
Sadly, I will probably never return to Israel
April
Apr 27
Managing my Power
Apr 27
More Basecamp thoughts
Apr 26
On Politics at Work
Apr 20
Design Review Boards are Fucked Up
Apr 17
Back at the Gym
Apr 11
The Power of Another’s Faith
Apr 03
It's Just Like the Flu
Apr 01
🔗 How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism
March
Mar 24
Leno's Heart
Mar 20
🍿 Prospect (2018) ★★★★
Mar 19
🍿 Call Me By Your Name (2017) ★★★
Mar 18
Testing, ESSER Funding, and Liars
Mar 14
Value Hand in a Growth Game
Mar 13
🍿 Cherry (2021) ★★★
Mar 13
America's Crumbling Infrastructure
Mar 13
Micro.blog Bigfoot Plug-in Upgrade
Mar 12
🍿 Coming 2 America (2021) ★★★
Mar 07
We’re Never Going to Have...
February
Feb 28
Elsa made ramen
Feb 11
A Frustrating Conversation with a Conservative
Feb 06
🍿 In and Of Itself (2021) ★★★★★
January
Jan 23
🍿 Chef (2014) ★★★★
Jan 23
School Finance (Un)Fairness
Jan 23
Paving the way for the M1 Mac mini-- I/O edition
Jan 20
Clippings
Jan 16
🍿 Locked Down (2021) ★★★
Jan 15
Discrete Internet Time
Jan 10
🍿 The Midnight Sky (2000) ★★★½
Jan 05
Why Romney, Sasse, Alexander, and Collins Fail
Jan 04
🍿The Vast of Night (2019) ★★★½
Jan 03
🍿 Greenland (2020) ★★★★
Jan 03
A healthy posting/writing habit
2020
December
Dec 07
The Autogolpe
Dec 05
Decentralized Culture Does Not Imply Unaccountable, Centralized Technology Stacks
November
Nov 22
Sunday Hike
Nov 16
The Shape of Student Debt Relief Policy
October
Oct 31
America is an early stage fascist country
Oct 31
Some more impressive dynamic range from the new iPhone 12 Pro
Oct 24
Some Greek Cooking
Oct 03
You Can’t Solve It
September
Sep 26
Amy Coney Barrett, Patriotism, and Tone Policing
Sep 20
We grew these
Sep 16
Why the Left is Toxic to Progressive Goals
Sep 13
Harissa Chicken Pita
Sep 13
Simpler Way to Fill Missing Data?
Sep 12
Taken Over by Blands
Sep 07
Worth It
August
Aug 30
Great Weather, Great Day
Aug 09
Two Hundred Unread
Aug 07
Automattic Releases P2 Theme
Aug 07
Summer Blooms
Aug 07
Gracie's Face
Aug 07
Hampden Rubble
Aug 07
NYC Schools Should Reopen
Aug 03
Advice Needed: Desk Conundrums
July
Jul 29
Lettuce Grow Update
Jul 27
Worth It: Ten Quality Links for 2020-07-27
Jul 26
Sunset from Our Back Deck
Jul 25
But aren't blogs dead?
Jul 24
She Hides
Jul 23
The State Should Not Support Religious Schools
Jul 21
The GOP is Building Liberal Leadership
Jul 20
A North Carolina store clerk on urging customers to wear masks amid pandemic
Jul 18
Policy is Explicit
Jul 12
The American Nightmare
Jul 10
Remember That Chaos Is Not Evil
Jul 06
Who the Police Protect
Jul 05
Why the Statues Must Come Down
Jul 03
Ban Single-Family Zoning
Jul 01
Remembering Hong Kong
June
Jun 24
Reparations
Jun 21
When (Home) Equity Disappears
Jun 21
Actual Confederates Have No Problem Saying It Was About Slavery
Jun 20
Carnitas
Jun 20
The Perfect Time for Vacancy Taxes
Jun 15
The Answer is Clear
Jun 14
Why the Cops Shouldn't be in the Business of Traffic Enforcement
Jun 11
How White Jews Became Just White
Jun 11
Schools in the current recession
Jun 09
Anti-Blackness is a feature of US policing, not a bug
Jun 07
Before and After
Jun 06
Tonight is sopes night.
Jun 04
The Joy of Elsa Cooking
Jun 03
Mattis Excoriates Trump
Jun 01
Night flowers
May
May 29
A rough birthday
May 27
White Noose
May 25
Doorways
May 25
Custom Curator
May 25
Lives Lost
May 14
A little relief from good personal health news
April
Apr 26
Three Tools for Perfect Picture Hanging
Apr 12
A little kindness for myself
Apr 09
Book haul
Apr 03
Play Crack the Sky Cover
March
Mar 20
Now 2020-03-20
Mar 17
New COVID Workspace
Mar 16
Office mates
Mar 07
Ready to Rage
Mar 06
Sisters snore together
February
Feb 25
A little grace for myself in the face of hard problems
Feb 21
Two Baltimore Neighborhoods Demonstrate Government Sponsored Wealth Gap
Feb 20
Sunset in Roosevelt Park
Feb 14
Kakistocracy
Feb 10
Change Your Threat Model
Feb 07
As above, so below
Feb 04
New business card, who dis?
January
Jan 16
A neighbor worth visiting
Jan 07
Child poverty is our nation's shame
Jan 05
📚Read: Interference by Sue Burke
Jan 03
An Inconsistent Year of Reading
Jan 01
The First Ten
2019
December
Dec 31
A Gallery View of New Orleans Museum of Art Sculpture Garden
Dec 30
Using GLightbox with custom Hugo shortcodes on Micro.blog
Dec 08
Grandma woke up to this stare...
November
Nov 30
Night Time Naps
Nov 19
RI Funding Formula Time Again— Some Things I Would Do
Nov 02
Hard to be an alebrije
October
September
Sep 08
Some of Portland
Sep 06
Can we make the web a good social space again?
August
July
Jul 21
Remembering our old home today
Jul 19
Friday Good Tunes: Dabu - ÄTSCH
Jul 10
MiTo MT3 Godspeed
June
Jun 29
Great Video on The Death of Malls
Jun 23
The Problem with Prequels
Jun 22
Three Vertigo Comics Worth Reading
Jun 21
Speed is the key to low infrastructure costs
Jun 21
Resting
Jun 15
Social Media is Neoliberalism’s Biggest Failure
Jun 10
Bilbao is also pretty great
Jun 10
San Sebastián is Gorgeous
Jun 09
Photo Thoughts
Jun 06
Park Güell
Jun 06
Select shots from San Sabastian
Jun 06
Select Street Art from Bilbao
Jun 06
A true international treasure
Jun 06
Who makes a coffee shop like this?
Jun 02
Zelaitxiki
May
May 23
Showing off tonight, Baltimore
May 21
Social Media is Bad. Google Reader was Good. And I Give Up on the Mainstream.
April
Apr 27
I Am Not Staying at an AirBnB While in Barcelona
Apr 27
Update on Subscription Reviews
March
Mar 28
Spring?
Mar 23
Things I’d like to see at WWDC this year
Mar 02
Sunset in Waikiki
Mar 02
Took a walk today in Hawaii
Mar 02
Hiking Diamond Head
Mar 02
Trees of Hawaii
February
Feb 04
The life
January
Jan 20
Better Worlds, The Verge at their best
Jan 04
Worth It: Week 1 2019
Jan 01
Reading Women the Last Three Years
2018
December
Dec 29
2018 Review of Subscriptions
Dec 28
2018 Review of Subscriptions
Dec 18
Worth It: December 19
Dec 15
HomePod(s)
November
Nov 30
Our Legacies
Nov 28
Now 2018-11-28
Nov 13
The Lady Astronaut Series
October
September
Sep 17
Slowing Down
Sep 16
Naps
Sep 09
Found a bed bug
August
Aug 12
Continuing to read my interest graph
Aug 06
How Infowars Reinforces My Support for the Web
July
Jul 27
Summer of Storms
June
May
May 30
Napping Egg
May 27
Uncle
May 13
Hampden
April
Apr 29
Tsz Shan Monastery part I
Apr 25
Sometimes You Skip The Paste And Head For The Chili
Apr 25
Another Walk Up A Mountain. Once Again, Worth It
Apr 25
Night lights
Apr 24
A Tail of Two Breakfasts
Apr 24
A Rainy Morning in Hong Kong
Apr 22
Select Sights From A Free Walking Tour
Apr 22
Food Day 3
Apr 21
A stroll through National Taiwan University
Apr 21
Hazy Day From Taipei 101
Apr 21
Day 2 Food
Apr 21
Hiking The Elephant Trail
Apr 21
Taipei Day 2
Apr 20
First Day in Taipei
Apr 14
Finding Places
Apr 07
Chicago
March
Mar 17
We lack complex female stories, and we lack real relationships between the sexes
Mar 14
Does Weighted-Student Funding Imply Autonomy? Sorta.
Mar 08
SXSWEDU 2018
February
Feb 25
Missing the vulnerability of a smaller, pseudonymous internet
Feb 24
How I start my work in R
Feb 03
A new, smaller home
January
Jan 24
Stack of Glue
Jan 02
Naming Manual Colors with ggplot2
2017
December
Dec 30
This Year in My R Code
November
Nov 11
Sunning
October
September
Sep 27
Peas in a Pod
Sep 26
Love
Sep 25
Synchronized Sleeping
Sep 10
Good mornings!
Sep 07
The Life
August
Aug 17
Tyra Approved Makeover
July
Jul 20
R, Docker, Circle, and Environments
June
May
May 31
Announcing jsonfeedr, a new R package
May 28
Functions as Arguments in R
May 17
Making Sense of dplyr 0.6
April
Apr 02
Foreign Keys and assertr
March
Mar 02
Labeling Data with purrr
Mar 01
Contributing to vegalite
February
Feb 27
My confrontation with the mainstream
January
Jan 13
Siri Won't Catch Alexa
2016
December
Dec 28
A Gateway Drug to purrr
Dec 27
Introducing json.blog
November
October
September
August
July
Jul 08
Songs in the Key of Allovue
May
April
Apr 23
A note on sequels
March
January
2015
December
November
October
September
August
July
Jul 05
Returning to Tumblr
Jul 04
News on Assertions in R
June
Jun 14
Rhode Island Disease
May
April
Apr 16
Acceptable Terms
March
February
January
Jan 22
A PostgreSQL Cheat Sheet for OSX and R
Jan 10
Taking Control
2014
November
Nov 27
Amazon Creating A Services Marketplace Online
Nov 27
The Power Of Sound
Nov 18
School Funding Reform, Hard Work and Fraught with Potential
Nov 12
How do we attract the best teachers to struggling schools?
Nov 01
NaNo(Blo)WriMo
October
Oct 05
Growing Up in the Internet Hate Machine
August
July
June
Jun 12
When We Legislate and Ajudicate Our World View
May
May 19
They really don't make them like they used to...
May 12
Pindown: Failed Dreams
April
Apr 01
Symlinking Your Data
March
Mar 09
Expressiveness Counts
February
Feb 26
Latinos in Rhode Island Face Housing Burden
Feb 17
Appreciating the Beauty of dplyr
Feb 09
Freedom Should Be Reserved for the Wealthy
Feb 05
Dreamschooling
January
Jan 06
Garrahy Complex: Rules for Public Investment in Parking
2013
December
Dec 09
Did public schools build economies, or did economies build public schools?
Dec 03
Calculating Age with Precision in R
Dec 02
A Different Angle on PISA
November
Nov 22
A Good Long Read on Assessment and Accountability
Nov 20
Bilingual Education at Providence Public Schools
Nov 19
DeBlasio: Weak on Implementation
Nov 18
More evidence for "mere facts"
Nov 18
The four ways to really fix education
Nov 17
It's Poverty Stupid... or is it?
October
Oct 07
Incomplete Evidence
September
Sep 22
Using R to Calculate Student Moblity
Sep 16
A New Calculation for Student Mobility
Sep 12
Documentation of Business Rules and Analysis
August
Aug 21
Some Changes for Rhode Island State Aid to Education
Aug 14
What can be done for Rhode Island Pensioners?
July
Jul 28
Thoughts on Teach for America
Jul 22
Smarter Balance Released Items Scare Me
Jul 22
Summer Reading
June
Jun 19
Economic Policy Institute is Wrong
Jun 11
Calculating Age in R
Jun 04
Stubborn Problem with MOOCs
Jun 01
Linear Thinking
May
May 29
Cleaning URLs with TextExpander
January
2012
December
Dec 19
The Slow Trek to Pelican
November
Nov 19
A little knowledge is a wonderful (dangerous) thing
Nov 03
Frictionless
Nov 01
Paul Cuffee Middle School, Addressing Emotional Needs
October
Oct 08
Where I Share
September
Sep 30
Thoughts on Grit
Sep 30
What Can Management Do? iOS6 Maps Monday-Morning Quarterbacking
Sep 18
Thoughts on Grading
August
Aug 21
There must be an easier way... survey questions in R
Aug 05
Pay For Quality: Join App.net
July
Jul 11
Follow up to Nesi's Notes Guest Post: Woonsocket School Funding
Jul 11
Legal Context: Can Woonsocket Successfully Sue the State for Additional Aid?
Jul 11
Limitations of the Nesi's Notes Analysis and Some Additional Questions
Jul 11
Using the Common Core Data on NCES
Jul 09
Ranked Likert-Scale Visualization
Jul 09
Update on Social Promotion
Jul 08
Work Place Liberty in the Context of Education
June
Jun 12
Algorithms Design and Analysis Part I
Jun 06
Fixing Dyer Street
May
April
Apr 24
Downtown Improvement District
Apr 03
The End of Every Night
Apr 03
Trees are Early on Westminster
March
Mar 19
Providence needs a little innovation
February
Feb 14
Social Promotion, Tutoring, and Funding
Feb 08
Worth It Five Stories from the Last Week
January
Jan 30
Bank of America will leave 111 Westminster
Jan 24
Providence Pensions-- Let's Call a Spade a Spade (or the COLA a Raise)
Jan 22
Providence Real Estate Sales in R
Jan 17
What if the technology revolution in schools is really about the simple stuff?
Jan 12
Value-Added on Core Knowledge Blog-- some thoughts on Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff
Jan 06
Associated Press: Israeli schools not looking so good against OECD peers.
2011
December
Dec 18
GrapheR is an awesome GUI for R beginners
Dec 13
House wants unemployed to earn GEDs against all economic sense
Dec 11
Diane Ravitch, rebuttals.
Dec 10
How to use Picasa with iOS5
Dec 07
How Social Reading Should Work
November
Nov 28
Contracting Technology in Education
Nov 27
Is Diane Ravitch a reliable historian?
Nov 05
Why isn't the Core Connector using Westminster with full RoW?
October
Oct 15
GoLocalProv -- Bad at Math
Oct 14
TEA Party and Occupy Wall Street
Oct 05
School facilities-- anachronistic, expensive, isolating, and all around bad public spaces?
September
Sep 25
Downcity Residents Should Support the Core Connector and the Tax Makes Sense
Sep 15
Justin Baeder Asks the Wrong Question on Teacher Evaluation
Sep 14
Libertarians and Charity
Sep 13
Apple Migration Assistant
Sep 07
Community Voice at the Knowledge District Development Framework Meeting