@drdrang Hey, I managed to trigger the thing.
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Kieran Healy
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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.
Borough-specific sign for the day. #NoKings https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/03/28/subway-sign/
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.
Confessors in Harmony
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/03/23/confessors-in-harmony/
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.
