Archive

2023

June

Jun 07

New CREDO, and some plausible stories about heterogenous results for charters

Jun 06

Maybe we have a glimpse of the post-television living room of my dream

Jun 03

A terrible, inefficient, no good way to download things (App Dot Net) with Elixir

Jun 02

Tapped out on being a true fan

Jun 02

Letters: June W1

May

May 28

Places I've Been

May 28

Letters: May W4

May 22

Letters: May W3

May 16

Letters: May W2

May 16

Letters: April W4

May 13

Scleral lenses are a miracle

May 10

Localism is bad for transit (and education)

May 09

Letters: May W1

May 05

Jordan Neely died beacuse we're cruel

May 04

Brown redid the CS curriculum right after I graduated and it's awesome

April

Apr 29

Letters: April W3

Apr 25

Discovery is also content moderation

Apr 15

The Most Important Travel Hack

Apr 15

Letters: April W2

Apr 10

We're just trying to erode trust at this point

Apr 05

Letters: March W4

Apr 02

We might be done with the movies

Apr 02

Letters: April W1

March

Mar 26

Buerger Bros 1885-1929 Denver, Colorado

Mar 21

Letters: March W3

Mar 20

Do you ever miss a possibility?

Mar 17

They're lying about guilt

Mar 17

Mar 17

Building a page for Letters

Mar 13

Letters: March W2

Mar 12

The experience of working on your own blog

Mar 06

Letters: March W1

Mar 05

I'm writing daily pages now?

Mar 03

Letters: February W5/March W1

February

Feb 28

Stop with the rules, pay for results

Feb 27

One last trip to the moshav

Feb 26

Are you a grown-up?

Feb 25

Letters: February W4

Feb 25

A rant about budgets, data, and abstractions.

Feb 17

Letters: February W3

Feb 11

One carefully chosen item at a time

Feb 09

Letters: February W2

Feb 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 22

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

Jan 07

How did ”fun” go in 2022?

Jan 06

More articles on friendship

Jan 05

DayOne is a great travelogue

Jan 05

We need bike infrastructure and e-bike subsidies

Jan 05

Internet communities should be fragmented--so should identity

Jan 03

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 19

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

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

Aug 13

Aug 13

Wandering in Pittsburgh

Aug 13

Aug 06

Delegating tasks to next week

Aug 06

TV I still haven't watched

July

Jul 30

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 07

The vacation after COVID that revealed my problems

Jul 06

Jul 05

Is it the frameworks or the developers?

June

Jun 22

Entanglement and Lemon

Jun 21

Morning coffee vibe

Jun 21

Jun 13

Office vibes today

Jun 03

Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend

May

May 31

He fired over 300 rounds

May 20

May 19

🦀 Crabs with some out of town friends.

May 17

May 16

May 16

Monday afternoon in Chicago

May 16

May 15

Walking About Chicago

May 15

Girl & the Goat

May 13

Day 1 in Chicago.

May 01

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 14

Apr 10

Silicon Valley Icons Gonna Tech Bro

Apr 02

Dinner was fine -- Cosima with Dad

March

Mar 20

Some thoughts on The Batman

Mar 19

Getting old, but looking alright

Mar 14

Mar 14

Mar 14

San Pedro Cholula

Mar 14

Mar 05

Are there good new apps for macOS?

Mar 05

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

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 13

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

Dec 23

Gracie’s First Beach

Dec 11

Dec 10

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 05

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

Sep 13

Select Moments from Our Weekend in New York City

August

Aug 31

The Goal is to Build Community

Aug 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

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

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

Jul 05

Omakase at Kokoro

Jul 03

Personal Physical Progress Test

Jul 02

Jul 02

Lunch with a view

June

Jun 30

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

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

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

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

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

Dec 05

Decentralized Culture Does Not Imply Unaccountable, Centralized Technology Stacks

November

Nov 22

Nov 16

The Shape of Student Debt Relief Policy

Nov 01

America is an early stage fascist country

October

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

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

August

Aug 30

Great Weather, Great Day

Aug 09

Two Hundred Unread

Aug 07

Automattic Releases P2 Theme

Aug 07

Aug 07

Aug 07

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

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 04

Ban Single-Family Zoning

Jul 01

Remembering Hong Kong

June

Jun 24

Jun 21

When (Home) Equity Disappears

Jun 21

Actual Confederates Have No Problem Saying It Was About Slavery

Jun 20

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

May

May 29

A rough birthday

May 27

May 25

May 25

May 25

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

Apr 03

Play Crack the Sky Cover

March

Mar 20

Mar 17

New COVID Workspace

Mar 16

Mar 07

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

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 04

An Inconsistent Year of Reading

Jan 01

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

Jun 15

Social Media is Neoliberalism’s Biggest Failure

Jun 10

Bilbao is also pretty great

Jun 10

San Sebastián is Gorgeous

Jun 09

Jun 06

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

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

Mar 23

Things I’d like to see at WWDC this year

Mar 03

Sunset in Waikiki

Mar 02

Took a walk today in Hawaii

Mar 02

Hiking Diamond Head

Mar 02

Trees of Hawaii

February

Feb 04

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

November

Nov 30

Nov 28

Nov 14

The Lady Astronaut Series

October

September

Sep 17

Sep 16

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

May 27

May 13

April

Apr 29

Tsz Shan Monastery part I

Apr 26

Sometimes You Skip The Paste And Head For The Chili

Apr 25

Another Walk Up A Mountain. Once Again, Worth It

Apr 25

Apr 25

A Tail of Two Breakfasts

Apr 24

A Rainy Morning in Hong Kong

Apr 22

Select Sights From A Free Walking Tour

Apr 22

Apr 22

A stroll through National Taiwan University

Apr 21

Hazy Day From Taipei 101

Apr 21

Apr 21

Hiking The Elephant Trail

Apr 21

Apr 20

First Day in Taipei

Apr 14

Apr 07

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

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

Jan 02

Naming Manual Colors with ggplot2

2017

December

Dec 30

This Year in My R Code

November

Nov 11

October

September

Sep 27

Sep 26

Sep 25

Synchronized Sleeping

Sep 10

Sep 07

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 01

Paul Cuffee Middle School, Addressing Emotional Needs

October

Oct 08

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