Brian Gawalt
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MVWSD's planned budget cuts got an update in the last week: www.mv-voice.com/education/20...?
January 27, 2026 at 7:21 PM
MVWSD's planned budget cuts got an update in the last week: www.mv-voice.com/education/20...?
Castro and El Camino, right now
January 24, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Castro and El Camino, right now
We have a new global standard, please consult this chart for conversion purposes
January 23, 2026 at 9:16 PM
We have a new global standard, please consult this chart for conversion purposes
wait so who the hell were these guys
January 23, 2026 at 7:50 PM
wait so who the hell were these guys
"till someone finds a mushroom that kills you"
January 23, 2026 at 7:14 AM
"till someone finds a mushroom that kills you"
Second try, it's beautiful, anything is possible
January 22, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Second try, it's beautiful, anything is possible
Super Mario RPG with the kids
January 16, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Super Mario RPG with the kids
oh wait, im a dummy, there explictly is an age breakdown (that i'd read as a year-of-survey breakdown); older scrollers are *more* likely to be dedicated viewers vs stumbleuponers. but all age groups are mostly stumblers.
January 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
oh wait, im a dummy, there explictly is an age breakdown (that i'd read as a year-of-survey breakdown); older scrollers are *more* likely to be dedicated viewers vs stumbleuponers. but all age groups are mostly stumblers.
stuck bouncing back and forth between these faster and faster. do we, like the guy on the left, not see anything done, because the only thing to do is the thing on the right? can anyone think of another thing, that will change ice now? make clear that what ice does today means prison time later?
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
stuck bouncing back and forth between these faster and faster. do we, like the guy on the left, not see anything done, because the only thing to do is the thing on the right? can anyone think of another thing, that will change ice now? make clear that what ice does today means prison time later?
i dont understand this bit in money stuff. if you're selling to a shark, presumably collecting that same 2c spread on each individual sale, how are you harmed (other than the opportunity cost of "you didn't hold") by selling all the way up to $1? where does "buy @ K-1, sell @ K+1" break as K grows?
January 14, 2026 at 9:31 PM
i dont understand this bit in money stuff. if you're selling to a shark, presumably collecting that same 2c spread on each individual sale, how are you harmed (other than the opportunity cost of "you didn't hold") by selling all the way up to $1? where does "buy @ K-1, sell @ K+1" break as K grows?
My notes on Chapter 3 of "Regression and Other Stories," plus the problem set:
github.com/bgawalt/ros/...
The purple line represents malicious compliance.
github.com/bgawalt/ros/...
The purple line represents malicious compliance.
January 14, 2026 at 6:18 AM
My notes on Chapter 3 of "Regression and Other Stories," plus the problem set:
github.com/bgawalt/ros/...
The purple line represents malicious compliance.
github.com/bgawalt/ros/...
The purple line represents malicious compliance.
[me on spring break reading this in a collected edition seven years after they appeared in a newspaper] rack em
hdl.handle.net/1811/7232771...
hdl.handle.net/1811/7232771...
January 13, 2026 at 5:24 PM
[me on spring break reading this in a collected edition seven years after they appeared in a newspaper] rack em
hdl.handle.net/1811/7232771...
hdl.handle.net/1811/7232771...
I grew up in Fairfax Co, VA, so we got the Washington Post, which had (has?) a monster comics section. Three daily pages, like eight pages on Sundays. I'd thought that volume, times my love of doodling, was why comic strips made such a difference to me. Guess it was sufficient, not necessary?
January 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I grew up in Fairfax Co, VA, so we got the Washington Post, which had (has?) a monster comics section. Three daily pages, like eight pages on Sundays. I'd thought that volume, times my love of doodling, was why comic strips made such a difference to me. Guess it was sufficient, not necessary?
it's easier to just say "the l1 penalty makes it sparse" without *really* laying out why, but i think it's worth the explanation
January 12, 2026 at 5:03 PM
it's easier to just say "the l1 penalty makes it sparse" without *really* laying out why, but i think it's worth the explanation
Good post, my favorite/most-emphasizable part is this. I can read and write Markdown easily and confidently over SSH in a terminal, and that's unique. I can do quick edits in Vim without having to load up a whole web browser.
![Screencap of a paragraph from dash's blog post with one bit of emphasis from me
2. Solved a real problem.
This one is not obvious, but it’s really important that a new technology have a real problem that it’s trying to solve, instead of just being an abstract attempt to do something vague, like “make text files better”. Millions of people were encountering the idea that it was too difficult or inconvenient to write out full HTML by hand, and even if one had the necessary skills, it was nice to be able to do so [I, Brian, have highlighted the following words:] in a format that was legible as plain text as well.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:43nhmzgiugf65gwskj3kpfj5/bafkreiho7uexm54ytv5kg2dfrg27bkxq7zfflnpv6poxkdjk4tuzswebqe@jpeg)
January 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Good post, my favorite/most-emphasizable part is this. I can read and write Markdown easily and confidently over SSH in a terminal, and that's unique. I can do quick edits in Vim without having to load up a whole web browser.
Drew a ninja turtle for him to color (he's shading it now)
January 11, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Drew a ninja turtle for him to color (he's shading it now)
The plan, which is right on track, is new PRs like four or five times a month, so I promise not to post each one. But this one's fun; 170lbs, "the Towers of Hanoi"
January 10, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The plan, which is right on track, is new PRs like four or five times a month, so I promise not to post each one. But this one's fun; 170lbs, "the Towers of Hanoi"
here's what i see in Feedly. both the embedded bsky post, plus the image from it pulled out. so duplicative. and no titles for the individual rss entries. but! definitely does the main thing of "my rss reader has the funny papers in it".
January 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
here's what i see in Feedly. both the embedded bsky post, plus the image from it pulled out. so duplicative. and no titles for the individual rss entries. but! definitely does the main thing of "my rss reader has the funny papers in it".
i saved the ms paint template
![as before: five photos of five red road signs with white text, all against a arid california chapparal type background
TYGER TYGER
BURNING BRIGHT
IN THE FORESTS
OF THE NIGHT
WHAT IMMORTAL
HAND OR EYE
COULD FRAME THY
FEARFUL SYMMETRY?
[cursively scripty logo] Burma Shave](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:43nhmzgiugf65gwskj3kpfj5/bafkreiel2isbebwgdtbotnbxyrvq3y6sl7cgfbjw5y6i66cn2znk2tsmyi@jpeg)
January 8, 2026 at 10:27 PM
i saved the ms paint template
![five photos of five red road signs with white text, all against a arid california chapparal type background
THOUGH THE DARK
OF FUTURE'S PAST
THE MAGICIAN
LONGS TO SEE
ONE CHANCE OUT
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
FIRE WALK WITH ME
[cursively scripty logo] Burma Shave](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:43nhmzgiugf65gwskj3kpfj5/bafkreiawxj5zmamon7ethuvwo63djf4cjdpexdixtqsybrjgk2i4hzmbve@jpeg)
Via wonder.cdc.gov, empysema mortality in the US #ROS
January 7, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Via wonder.cdc.gov, empysema mortality in the US #ROS
baby names (work in progress for "Regression and Other Stories", this is exercise 2.3)
January 7, 2026 at 7:19 AM
baby names (work in progress for "Regression and Other Stories", this is exercise 2.3)
