OK so here is my Music Theory Explainer for why Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is a genius piece of songwriting.

First, you have to be aware that Cohen is of Jewish extraction (It’s in the name - Cohen).

Next, know that figuring out which key Hallelujah is in, is not easy or straightforward —

Port of Portland is talking about building 11,000 new car parking spaces. They have a survey where you can tell them this is a bad idea. Or maybe they should try increasing the number of TriMet bus lines to the airport (currently 0), or make biking to the airport safe: app.maptionnaire.com/q/oh2

welp, finished migrating to zen-browser.app as my new main browser because I'm a sucker for new things and this thing is genuinely nice, and not VC, and not genAI, and as far as I can tell not built by fucking nazis so it's like hey cool

You have until Sunday SUNDAY Sunday to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt. I don't have room in my house for piles of shirts so our shirts are always time-limited.

Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, supports @skypeascientist.bsky.social, looks cool as hell.

Get one: SquidFacts.net

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

The W3C TAG is going to Hong Kong in 2 weeks for a face-to-face meeting, and as part of that, a local developer group is hosting us for a developer meetup: www.meetup.com/codeaholics/...

I hope to see lots of folks there! Please repost this and let more people know about it.

#WebStandards

Wishing my city could be more like Paris: urbanists.social/@straphanger...

@contraireclaire.bsky.social Relevant to your interests: youtu.be/LSZPNwZex9s?...

Throwback to the time my three-year-old insisted that the bedtime story be “The High Cost of Free Parking.” RIP Donald Shoup. @jyasskin.bsky.social

Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA, because they needed a treasurer and I'm good enough with numbers. It was a straightforward, self-contained job: balancing the checkbook for an organization that only did a few fundraisers each year.

I don't want to install a fucking app for a website. I already HAVE an app for looking at websites, it's called a browser and it works on all websites.

I don't want a video explaining how to do the thing. I want step-by-step instructions in a plain text document, on a single page, ideally that I can see all of without scrolling while using a reasonably big font.

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?