Matt McKeon

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Everything I wanted to build when I was a datavis researcher 20 years ago. Inlining visualization with lexical expression to help programmers see the abstractions they're working with.

The REPL is called Strudel and it's pretty neat.

strudel.cc

When I am SECNAV we shall start naming them in the style of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.

USS So Much For Subtlety

USS You'll Thank Me Later

USS What Are The Civilian Applications?

USS Frank Exchange of Views

USS I Blame My Mother

USS I Blame Your Mother

...and so on.

Meanwhile it sounds like Palmer pretends she's still a couch-surfing busker, freeloads off the vulnerable while claiming they're friends, then abandons them once they become inconvenient. That song lyric is gross - it blames Gaiman not for his abuse but for burdening her with his leftovers.

It's so much worse than I realized. I still found the article worth reading because it's a tutorial on the sort of monster who makes his victims feel culpable. Gaiman targets vulnerable people and strolls right over their boundaries then gaslights them.

if you're not etching cryptic warnings into the spires that surround your hidden entrance, what are you even doing on a dating app

YouTube video by Out of Spec Renew Here's How I Daily A 40 Year Old Electric Car

This guy drives a 1979 Elektrek every day (manual transmission!). My favorite is the owner's manual that says you should keep a fire extinguisher in the car at all times. Also, the carpeted steering wheel.
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I saw this hanging on a wall at Harvard and now I want to try to read it.

Free returns. The boots fit based on their sizing guide, they were just oddly designed. Much too tight at the front of the uppers and too loose in the back even when laced tightly, so that they were yanked up and down across my heel on every step even though the length was right.

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Thursday Boot Company: looks great, good customer service, badly designed and uncomfortable. yotpo.com/go/jgPNhwDm

Yes yes I should be focused on local activism and supporting my community via direct action in the face of creeping fascism at the national level.

But have you *seen* the shitshow that is local politics? I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

An epidemiologist friend had this to say (abridged):

Please do not get a cholera or typhoid vaccine. Both are low efficacy for a short time period (like ~50-60% for ~1-3 years) and in very limited supply. Instead prepare with bleach or PuR sachets for water treatment. These will be more effective.

An edition of linocut dog-day cicada prints in their first state. A grid of 8 prints are visible on 5” x 7” white washi paper with the open-winged cicada viewed from above. The body is black with bronze on wings and extremitie and green and yellow areas.

Completed the dog-day cicadas before the dog-days of summer, named for the 1st day Sirius can be seen to rise above the horizon at dawn. The Tibicen canicularis, also known as dog-day cicada, is common in North America and its power-saw like buzzing song is taken as a sign of summer. 🧪🐡

Reverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix) “Screenshots won’t get you in”, but Chrome DevTools will. Click here to skip the rant and go straight to the nerdy stuff. I recently purchased tickets to a concert from TicketMaster. If they had issue

Well this is embarrassing.

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Ticketmaster could have used an OS wallet and gotten rotating barcodes without exposing their secrets to hackers (e.g. developers.google.com/wallet/ticke...) but they had to force people to install their app I guess. #mobile #android #dev

Waterfront cities are going to have to rethink the whole underground tunnel thing.

Too bad we just spent $25 billion on a big one.

They'll make handy Venice-style canals though.

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Two week heat wave in Boston, of temperatures 10 degrees above average.

High ocean temps have created a pressure barrier that's steaming us like a dumpling.

2nd highest average July temp in history, and we're only 10 days into the month.

The previous highest average was in July 2023.

🍄📷 Green russala, Baxter State Park, Maine

I didn't think to sniff it to see if it was a parsley-scented russala, but it could have been based on the appearance and location.

Saying "Of course I'll review your self-published Kindle nonfiction" and sending you finicky copyediting redlines is my love language.

On the trail to Sentinel Mountain from Kidney Pond! Lots of great finds that day.

🍄📷 Salmon pinkgill, Baxter State Park, Maine

It's rich in some respects and pretty thin in others. I'm surprised at how hard it is to find a good tech community here, but there's a lot of neat art + science stuff going on.

Check out this great zoology-themed colorbook I picked up at Topo Paper & Post in Camden, ME. 450 palettes, each inspired by a different species, with RGB and CMYK values. I really like the organic shapes they use on each facing page to help you see how different elements work together. #SciArt

#SciArt and #Invertebrates

Something something white bread to sop up the sauce

🍄📷 Lovely Northern Tooth found in the woods in midcoast Maine.

Parrot mushroom, Gliophorus psittacinus

This beautiful parrot mushroom, Gliophorus psittacinus, was in a great spot to soak up some bright, diffused sunlight, making the colors on it and everything surrounding it the perfect amount of highlighted and vibrant 🟢💛💚🍄📷📸🎞

A detailed pencil sketch of a giant hornet is drawn on a white paper, surrounded by mechanical pencils and an eraser.

Completed a detailed drawing of a northern giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), also known as the murder hornet, with Pentel pencils (0.2, 0.3, 0.5 mm), a blender, and Blu Tack. 🐝 #sciart

Delicate white fungi resembling coral against a bed of moss and leaves.

More 🍄📷s on this foggy day in coastal Maine.

Ivory coral, also taken in Baxter State Park.

It's lovely how simple it is. A good example of how you can layer a sophisticated application protocol atop a less complicated one.

A cluster of Scarlet Hood mushrooms growing in green moss amidst tree roots in a Maine forest.

Posting some beautiful scarlet hood 🍄 that I captured in Baxter State Park a few years ago. Because I'm in Maine and it's wet and I wish I was in Baxter. Maybe later this summer.