Alex Wein
@alexwein.bsky.social
data worker, word game liker, pretty boring quite frankly.
Oakland, CA
Oakland, CA
just subscribed to a free trial of some streaming service called "qello concerts by stringray" to watch the stax-volt revue - live in norway 1967...rip steve cropper
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
just subscribed to a free trial of some streaming service called "qello concerts by stringray" to watch the stax-volt revue - live in norway 1967...rip steve cropper
my first, fifth, and sixth most streamed songs of the "year" were co-written by steph jones...nothing from man's best friend cracked the top 100
if wikipedia is to be trusted, steph jones has zero writing credits on the new sabrina carpenter album (8 for antonoff). seems like a bad move, but i guess we'll find out soon.
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
my first, fifth, and sixth most streamed songs of the "year" were co-written by steph jones...nothing from man's best friend cracked the top 100
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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AFAICT there are infinitely many such splits, lying on a line that looks roughly like this: it's reasonably far away from the antipodal points that make the land and water hemispheres, but *not* just a great circle away from it. This notebook tries to find it:
observablehq.com/d/db36886905...
observablehq.com/d/db36886905...
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
AFAICT there are infinitely many such splits, lying on a line that looks roughly like this: it's reasonably far away from the antipodal points that make the land and water hemispheres, but *not* just a great circle away from it. This notebook tries to find it:
observablehq.com/d/db36886905...
observablehq.com/d/db36886905...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
i cleaned up my boggle bot over the break. among other tweaks, it now uses a bespoke word list, has solutions via a vibe-coded solver, and has a non-default bluesky avatar.
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
i cleaned up my boggle bot over the break. among other tweaks, it now uses a bespoke word list, has solutions via a vibe-coded solver, and has a non-default bluesky avatar.
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More Marvel Snap funnies coming soon? Maybe. No promises. But enjoy these classics from days of yore.
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
More Marvel Snap funnies coming soon? Maybe. No promises. But enjoy these classics from days of yore.
was googling to see if any of the writers for "a man on the inside" went to a liberal arts college. seems like mostly just harvard.
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
was googling to see if any of the writers for "a man on the inside" went to a liberal arts college. seems like mostly just harvard.
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Happy 40th birthday to Carly Rae Jepsen! No better time to reflect on her works than today.
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Happy 40th birthday to Carly Rae Jepsen! No better time to reflect on her works than today.
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I think this is pure charting gold from WaPo (credits to Szu Yu Chen, @emmakumer.bsky.social and @jeremybmerrill.com) www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I think this is pure charting gold from WaPo (credits to Szu Yu Chen, @emmakumer.bsky.social and @jeremybmerrill.com) www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
dope dope dope dope dope dope dope dope
My new favorite song is "Dopamine" https://open.spotify.com/track/168GHxsiJyT9tlJN74ZO11
Dopamine
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open.spotify.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
dope dope dope dope dope dope dope dope
i know we all rag on tufte for insisting that joylessness should be a core value of visualization, but we forget about the adorable little "ideas" guy from tvdoqi
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
i know we all rag on tufte for insisting that joylessness should be a core value of visualization, but we forget about the adorable little "ideas" guy from tvdoqi
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I once called her America's best working popular musician-songwriter. Happy birthday to Miranda Lambert. What a discography. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/r...
Ranking Miranda Lambert’s discography
I called her the best working American singer-songwriter. The six albums below offer ample demonstration.
humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I once called her America's best working popular musician-songwriter. Happy birthday to Miranda Lambert. What a discography. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/r...
made enough progress on coney letters to push to prod loopyletters.val.run/coney
like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.
like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
made enough progress on coney letters to push to prod loopyletters.val.run/coney
like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.
like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.
i was considering adding more loops to loopy letters, but ended up filling in the donut instead. wip alexwein--0199cef989287565a4c0a69b4c1e007f.web.val.run
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
i was considering adding more loops to loopy letters, but ended up filling in the donut instead. wip alexwein--0199cef989287565a4c0a69b4c1e007f.web.val.run
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November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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new name, new bovid, same great gameplay. Anigrams is now The New Yorker's: SHUFFALO!!!
Introducing our new game, Shuffalo: a daily word-scramble challenge. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/p29khb
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
new name, new bovid, same great gameplay. Anigrams is now The New Yorker's: SHUFFALO!!!
this is an archive of 1300 examples of string boards in media www.vaultofculture.com/nst
Narrative String Theory — The Vault of Culture
An ongoing series, initially appearing on tumblr, collecting all known appearances of “narrative string theory” (string walls, walls and floors littered with paperwork by obsessives, etc.).
www.vaultofculture.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
this is an archive of 1300 examples of string boards in media www.vaultofculture.com/nst
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the minis are free forever! you can share them using the quoted post above. i also catalogued them here:
www.brookehusic.com/puzzminis/
xoxo 💕
www.brookehusic.com/puzzminis/
xoxo 💕
www.brookehusic.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
the minis are free forever! you can share them using the quoted post above. i also catalogued them here:
www.brookehusic.com/puzzminis/
xoxo 💕
www.brookehusic.com/puzzminis/
xoxo 💕
this snocaps album is great. does a cool job bridging some of katie's pre-2020's sound with the saint cloud/tiger's blood stuff. I missed the scuzzy indie guitars.
Five years ago today, Waxahatchee released Saint Cloud. Nobody has released a better album since.
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
this snocaps album is great. does a cool job bridging some of katie's pre-2020's sound with the saint cloud/tiger's blood stuff. I missed the scuzzy indie guitars.
jenny from let's eat grandma is back with a very satisfying 80s synth anthem
My new favorite song is "Every Ounce of Me" https://open.spotify.com/track/5BzflWkeMBaO8ggcT6c1fJ
Every Ounce of Me
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open.spotify.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
jenny from let's eat grandma is back with a very satisfying 80s synth anthem
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I happen to work with two of my favorite Thinkers About Music: @annkpowers.bsky.social and @artsorority.bsky.social. Lo and behold, they have a new @npr.org podcast together!
(This episode's free. The rest will be on NPR Music+, which costs a nice cup of tea/month.)
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
(This episode's free. The rest will be on NPR Music+, which costs a nice cup of tea/month.)
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
“I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” by Stevie Wonder : All Songs Considered
This is the first episode of a new series on All Songs Considered, hosted by NPR Music critic Ann Powers and editor Daoud Tyler-Ameen. Most of what you hear on All Songs is focused on new music, but n...
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I happen to work with two of my favorite Thinkers About Music: @annkpowers.bsky.social and @artsorority.bsky.social. Lo and behold, they have a new @npr.org podcast together!
(This episode's free. The rest will be on NPR Music+, which costs a nice cup of tea/month.)
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
(This episode's free. The rest will be on NPR Music+, which costs a nice cup of tea/month.)
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
whoa bloomberg has a line chart-based word game
October 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
whoa bloomberg has a line chart-based word game