Carl Colglazier

Can Bluesky say every word in the dictionary?
I dunno but I plan to find out!

I made a website that tracks every single word said on bluesky (as of yesterday).

My mind is blown 🤯

Looks fun!

As the battle for Mecatol Rex rages, change comes to the Galaxy.

Twilight Imperium: Thunder’s Edge is a new expansion to everyone’s favorite galactic conquest and diplomacy board game Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition.

Learn more: www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2025...

I am being 100% serious when I say a social network being first to break baseball trade stories is a great proxy for its general utility for following the news

Yeah this a11y setting might be a good start: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

YouTube video by John Mongani Harry Caray's call of the Sandberg game vs Cards 1984

One of the greatest baseball players of all time, probably the greatest Chicago Cubs player next to Ernie Banks. His legendary performance against the Cardinals in 1984 will never be forgotten. RIP Ryne Sandberg.

youtu.be/34mz7wQKTB0?...

i’m gonna — use more — em dashes — so many em — dashes — that not even — an AI could — be assumed — to be the writer — of my posts — this is — how we assert — our — humanity

Project Veritas Withdraws Lawsuit Against The New York Times

This is the end of a defamation lawsuit that Project Veritas filed against Stanford Internet Observatory, UW, and the NYT back in 2021.

It lost its case against SIO in 2022, and was ordered to pay $150k in legal fees.

They sue to tie organizations up for years.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...

Working with @lit.dev and finding it a great fit for academic projects.

The components are self-contained WebComponents you can drop anywhere. They rely on web standards, so unlikely to break over time and perfect for research code you build once and don't touch for years.

Adding "All ATProto traffic needs to go through one central node that controls everything" to the list of Mastodon myths that I'll need to mention in a blog post…

map of Chicago boundary showing small black dots, each one representing a courtyard building there are 7,681 dots

map of the courtyard buildings in Chicago (this includes buildings with all kinds of courts, not just the obvious ones in the front like the OP above)

This is evil

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Internet Roadtrip Let's take a streetview roadtrip

The Internet Roadtrip is now trying to cross Labrador. A 100-foot gap in Street View coverage almost forced them to turn back, but as they approached the break, someone got a friend in Labrador City to drive to the spot IRL and take and upload a panoramic photo to fix it. neal.fun/internet-roa...

U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS

The indescribable cruelty of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

ty for not losing yesterday

Had an idea to do this back when LLMs were taking off. I’m noticing a lot of people using personal management systems using AI to write content for them and I’m not a fan of that use because it goes against the point of my system, but this sounds different.

Original map made by John Snow in 1854. Cholera cases are highlighted in black, showing the clusters of cholera cases (indicated by stacked rectangles) in the London epidemic of 1854. The map was created in order to better understand the pattern of cholera spread in the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, which Snow would use as an example of how cholera spread via the fecal-oral route through water systems as opposed to the miasma theory of disease spread. The contaminated pump is located at the intersection of Broad Street and Cambridge Street (now Lexington Street), running into Little Windmill Street. The map marks an important part of the development of epidemiology as a field, and of disease mapping as a whole. [text from Wikipedia]

John Snow's Cholera Map

Charles Minard's 1869 chart showing the number of men in Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign army, their movements, as well as the temperature they encountered on the return path.

Charles Joseph Minard's map of Napoleon's Russian campaign

Warming stripes by Ed Hawkins Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warming_stripes?wprov=sfti1#

Climate spiral by Ed Hawkins Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_spiral?wprov=sfti1#Critical_response

Hey #rstats, #pydata, #julialang & #dataviz folks! 😊

What are some iconic data visualizations, similar to @edhawkins.org‘s warming strips & climate spiral?

carlcolglazier.com/documents/cv.qmd at master · CarlColglazier/carlcolglazier.com My personal home on the information superhighway. Built with Quarto. - CarlColglazier/carlcolglazier.com

I made the CV on my website using typst/quarto.

It reuses the same YAML markdown I used to build the "/research" page. :)

At some point, I will probably update it to do everything else in YAML too.

github.com/CarlColglazi...

The forbidden desire to add a pipe operator to Python

DevOps is pretty close to being that guy who likes to fiddle with arch as a career.

YouTube video by BigBenjiBlue Smithers: What's wrong with this country?

Note: the screenshot shows fake data.

I have not, in fact, received 11 job offers.

Dashboard titled “Job Search Dashboard” displays three charts on the left and an application form on the right. Top-left chart: step line plot with Date (January–May) on the x-axis, Applications (0–100) on the y-axis, cumulative count reaching 100 by mid-May. Top-center chart: heatmap with weekdays (Mon–Sun) on the y-axis, weekly intervals on the x-axis, color legend “Applications” ranging from 0 (white) to 10 (dark blue). Bottom-left chart: Sankey diagram with a source node “Applications (100)” flowing to “Screener (57)”, “Interview (27)”, “Offered (11)”, “No Response (22)”, and “Rejected (21)”. Right panel: text inputs for Company Name, Position, Link; a Status dropdown set to “Applied”; an Application Date field showing “2025-07-14”; and a “Submit Application” button.

Made a little dashboard in #Quarto and #Shiny to track my job application process.

github.com/CarlColglazi...

An empty city lot between two buildings

The grimy outline of a home can be seen on a large, windowless brick wall

The two-flat that stood here was demolished a few months ago (fire damage) but its ghostly outline remains on the apartment building next door. They likely shared a wall for a century.

Pick a DAW that speaks to you. They all can do pretty similar things, but have different workflows.

You may want certain tools or plugins to help.

Based on what I know about you, I think you might vibe with Logic Pro, but try a few trials out and see for yourself.

A flier taped to a streetlight pole that reads: “I also have access to a printer, And I say Upzoning is cool and good and it is my friend Let ‘em build some housing! What're you worried about, people with jobs and homes using the Red Line? Atraid of density? then why did you move to the big city my good friend [emoji making a ‘this guy’s nuts!’ gesture] ‘But I wanna drive my car!’ The bus is better because you can read a book on the bus Dear ‘Save Edgewater’: If I ever see you again claming that increasing supply increases prices I will spank your bottom and enroll you in an econ class at Loyola Say YES to proposed Upzoning in Edgewater Email: Leni@the48thward.org Call: (773) 784-5277

God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more