I thought I had found a clever way around an annoying problem—I have to get hundreds of randomly-named SVG elements that correspond to ordered elements (train stations) in a CSV. So I concocted a script in Illustrator to extract, all at once, the layer names of a bunch of elements after I have cmd-clicked them so they're all selected. I am so clever. But ... Illustrator cannot extract them in the order I clicked them, only in layer order, which is itself random. Gaaah.
Subway Sign
After the parking signs last time, here is a subway sign.
A borough-specific sign to display
Here’s a direct link to the PNG and the PDF. Once again, put it onna stick and exercise the constitutional rights to freedom of expression, speech, and assembly enjoyed by everyone in the United States.
Just had some delicious potato and leek soup for lunch, with a little garlic bread. Which is an excuse to say that, in the opening line of Beowulf, “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum … “ the “Gar” in “Gardena”, i.e. “Spear-Danes”, is the same as the “gar” in “Garlic”, because garlic is the Spear-Leek.
I’m slowly and politely getting a large dataset (on the order of hundreds of millions of rows) via its API, so I wrote a script that logs progress and helps restart after errors. That logfile is going to end up being larger than the cross-national survey dataset I analyzed for my first empirical paper.
Meet Tuna: a brand new, modern, modal launcher for macOS
@hotdogsladies @siracusa I'm not endorsing this but I feel compelled to draw your attention to it.
https://tunaformac.com
Tuna
New, modern launcher for macOS.
Exclave Pixel Blitters was the name of my New Wave band in college
@hotdogsladies A nice big Baby Boom poster for you about the dread year of 1946 and the march of time in general, as per
@RecDiffs discussion. Some more detail at
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2023/12/20/the-baby-boom-again/ 
