A Wong
@awongpublic.bsky.social
software eng, amateur HVAC expert, bento box maker
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I very strongly agree with this from @awongpublic.bsky.social. And I was happy with 3 of the 4 school board endorsements the Stranger made this year! But overall they’re doing more harm than good by making school board endorsements when they don’t regularly cover the district.
The Stranger Should Cover SPS More or Consider Not Endorsing in Seattle School Board Races
Over 20 years The Stranger’s endorsees have made up 34 of 36 School Board members even though The Stranger does not cover SPS consistently.
medium.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I very strongly agree with this from @awongpublic.bsky.social. And I was happy with 3 of the 4 school board endorsements the Stranger made this year! But overall they’re doing more harm than good by making school board endorsements when they don’t regularly cover the district.
Reposted by A Wong
So, this is an interesting analysis from @awongpublic.bsky.social - since 2005, only two people (out of 36) have gotten elected to the Seattle school board without a Stranger endorsement. And none since 2011. Whereas the Times is batting just above .500 www.reddit.com/r/seattlepub...
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
So, this is an interesting analysis from @awongpublic.bsky.social - since 2005, only two people (out of 36) have gotten elected to the Seattle school board without a Stranger endorsement. And none since 2011. Whereas the Times is batting just above .500 www.reddit.com/r/seattlepub...
If you care about SPS and want to help, we need folks to text-bank for Sarah Clark!
It's super easy. I've automated the process to just a few clicks from your phone that you can do between tasks.
If you're up for it, DM me! (heads up: it will use your SMS number)
It's super easy. I've automated the process to just a few clicks from your phone that you can do between tasks.
If you're up for it, DM me! (heads up: it will use your SMS number)
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
If you care about SPS and want to help, we need folks to text-bank for Sarah Clark!
It's super easy. I've automated the process to just a few clicks from your phone that you can do between tasks.
If you're up for it, DM me! (heads up: it will use your SMS number)
It's super easy. I've automated the process to just a few clicks from your phone that you can do between tasks.
If you're up for it, DM me! (heads up: it will use your SMS number)
New analysis: 50M of the SPS budget is chronically never used but still inflates the budget badly.
medium.com/@awongawong/...
Also, if you're interested, here's my school board election thoughts
medium.com/@awongawong/...
medium.com/@awongawong/...
Also, if you're interested, here's my school board election thoughts
medium.com/@awongawong/...
Cracking the Budget #1: Chronic Underspend
[ The 2025 School Board Election is Pivotal. Remember to Vote. Click through if you want my election opinions. ]
medium.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
New analysis: 50M of the SPS budget is chronically never used but still inflates the budget badly.
medium.com/@awongawong/...
Also, if you're interested, here's my school board election thoughts
medium.com/@awongawong/...
medium.com/@awongawong/...
Also, if you're interested, here's my school board election thoughts
medium.com/@awongawong/...
2 things that make me hate modern tech society:
(1) Data is so frequently sent around in PDFs.
(2) Google Sheets is still one of the best multi-user, strong consistsency, small-scale backing stores for your web services.
As a society, what in the world have we built :(
(1) Data is so frequently sent around in PDFs.
(2) Google Sheets is still one of the best multi-user, strong consistsency, small-scale backing stores for your web services.
As a society, what in the world have we built :(
October 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
2 things that make me hate modern tech society:
(1) Data is so frequently sent around in PDFs.
(2) Google Sheets is still one of the best multi-user, strong consistsency, small-scale backing stores for your web services.
As a society, what in the world have we built :(
(1) Data is so frequently sent around in PDFs.
(2) Google Sheets is still one of the best multi-user, strong consistsency, small-scale backing stores for your web services.
As a society, what in the world have we built :(
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Ballots are arriving in mailboxes this week — and I’d love your vote to continue doing great work for our students! Watch the video and learn more: www.sarah4schoolboard.org
October 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Ballots are arriving in mailboxes this week — and I’d love your vote to continue doing great work for our students! Watch the video and learn more: www.sarah4schoolboard.org
When you start trying to remember how borgmon var names were structured for design ideas you know you're in trouble...
September 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When you start trying to remember how borgmon var names were structured for design ideas you know you're in trouble...
... uh... wha???
Am I a misogynistic racist for sending this email to Liza Rankin, who represents me on the school board, asking some questions about a memo she wrote proposing more school closures? I just received this reply from a different school board director. I submit myself to the Internet’s judgement.
August 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
... uh... wha???
Zomg. americabydesign.fail
"Do your people even know basic HTML? Why is every single word wrapped in two spans? What’s up with the inline styles? Did you know that you can use CSS to make text uppercase?"
Whomever made this, I wanna buy you a drink.
(Switch .fail to .gov to see original)
"Do your people even know basic HTML? Why is every single word wrapped in two spans? What’s up with the inline styles? Did you know that you can use CSS to make text uppercase?"
Whomever made this, I wanna buy you a drink.
(Switch .fail to .gov to see original)
America by Design Fail
Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government
americabydesign.fail
August 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Zomg. americabydesign.fail
"Do your people even know basic HTML? Why is every single word wrapped in two spans? What’s up with the inline styles? Did you know that you can use CSS to make text uppercase?"
Whomever made this, I wanna buy you a drink.
(Switch .fail to .gov to see original)
"Do your people even know basic HTML? Why is every single word wrapped in two spans? What’s up with the inline styles? Did you know that you can use CSS to make text uppercase?"
Whomever made this, I wanna buy you a drink.
(Switch .fail to .gov to see original)
embedding javascript into react to write html is all sorts of backwards feeling
August 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM
embedding javascript into react to write html is all sorts of backwards feeling
That there are 2 packages danfojs and danfojs-node drives me nuts. I can't test my code in the commandline easily without abstracting out the frigging environment. I hate node.js.
August 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
That there are 2 packages danfojs and danfojs-node drives me nuts. I can't test my code in the commandline easily without abstracting out the frigging environment. I hate node.js.
Today's joyful posting -- cover of Sparkle from Kimi no Na Wa (Your Name) by the Grassini Project. The singer's expressiveness is really cool on this one.
スパークル Sparkle - Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) // Grissini Project
YouTube video by Grissini Project
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August 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today's joyful posting -- cover of Sparkle from Kimi no Na Wa (Your Name) by the Grassini Project. The singer's expressiveness is really cool on this one.
OSPI provides a "enrollment summary" table and a "per-school enrollment" table. The two do not use the same units for counting students.
WHY CAN'T ANYTHING BE EASY‽‽‽
WHY CAN'T ANYTHING BE EASY‽‽‽
August 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
OSPI provides a "enrollment summary" table and a "per-school enrollment" table. The two do not use the same units for counting students.
WHY CAN'T ANYTHING BE EASY‽‽‽
WHY CAN'T ANYTHING BE EASY‽‽‽
Published an OpED on the SPS Superintendent search. Basically, we need someone that can get the organization in order in terms of staff and finances so that vision and policy can even be implemented. Focus on that first. Then worry about vision, etc.
What Seattle Public Schools needs is to restore a broken chain of control | Op-Ed
The next superintendent must be someone who can reshape an organization that, for decades, has struggled to align its budget with School Board policy.
www.seattletimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Published an OpED on the SPS Superintendent search. Basically, we need someone that can get the organization in order in terms of staff and finances so that vision and policy can even be implemented. Focus on that first. Then worry about vision, etc.
Reposted by A Wong
This from @awongpublic.bsky.social is excellent. SPS needs a board and a superintendent committed to basic fiscal controls. But over the last 20 years those have eroded. It got a lot worse in the last 5 years as Liza Rankin and allies further removed most board oversight of operations and money.
What Seattle Public Schools needs is to restore a broken chain of control | Op-Ed
The next superintendent must be someone who can reshape an organization that, for decades, has struggled to align its budget with School Board policy.
www.seattletimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This from @awongpublic.bsky.social is excellent. SPS needs a board and a superintendent committed to basic fiscal controls. But over the last 20 years those have eroded. It got a lot worse in the last 5 years as Liza Rankin and allies further removed most board oversight of operations and money.
Shout out to everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, who ran this cycle. Thanks for giving us choices!
August 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Shout out to everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, who ran this cycle. Thanks for giving us choices!
I mean really.... where can the city council put a new hydroelectric dam in city or a new nuclear facility?
August 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I mean really.... where can the city council put a new hydroelectric dam in city or a new nuclear facility?
do people know what office they are running for?
August 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
do people know what office they are running for?
SQL automatically casts for me sometimes.
When it does it, I hate it.
When it won't do it, I hate it.
I just hate SQL.
When it does it, I hate it.
When it won't do it, I hate it.
I just hate SQL.
August 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
SQL automatically casts for me sometimes.
When it does it, I hate it.
When it won't do it, I hate it.
I just hate SQL.
When it does it, I hate it.
When it won't do it, I hate it.
I just hate SQL.
Another part of seattle going. :(
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July 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Another part of seattle going. :(
July 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This is a really good write-up of the politics...and I thought that before I saw some of my posts quoted (Thanks for that!)
This election is a huge turning point for Seattle's public schools. That's why @ronpdavis.bsky.social and I wrote this guide to the election -- and why we're backing Sarah Clark, Joe Mizrahi, and Vivian Song for school board. Read our explanation here:
Mizrahi, Clark and Song for School Board
By two SPS dads
rondezvouswa.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This is a really good write-up of the politics...and I thought that before I saw some of my posts quoted (Thanks for that!)
I asked ChatGPT to write fanfiction involving Hello Kitty, Guan Yu (chinese historical figure + legend), and 2 google engineers who love memory safety. It delivered.
July 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I asked ChatGPT to write fanfiction involving Hello Kitty, Guan Yu (chinese historical figure + legend), and 2 google engineers who love memory safety. It delivered.
Some days I hate SQL. other days... actually there are no other days.
July 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Some days I hate SQL. other days... actually there are no other days.
some days you just feel like putting in a tablespoon of coffee into the family's miso-based soup noodles... this is one of those days.
June 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
some days you just feel like putting in a tablespoon of coffee into the family's miso-based soup noodles... this is one of those days.