Thomas Vander Wal

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The NY Times Games being out for the quick mind jog in the morning has been odd.

After “a few weeks" I've posted a weeknote again - https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2138

#indieweb

Weeknote - 15 March 2026 :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net

SCIENCE!
One day after it was 87F the sky has gone all slushie machine on us.

It has been a while since I've seen the GitHub angry unicorn. I was not expecting it trying to get to a github.com repo for Apple.

Everybody has to upgrades some time.

With a few small tweaks today I added in the post number where the title is missing and added the permalink to the blog posts as well.

I'm loving this month's IndieWeb Carnival blogging focus, museums (https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Carnival) with @capjamesg hosting it. His introduction is quite good: https://jamesg.blog/2026/03/01/indieweb-carnival-museum-memories

This took me down a bit of a rabbit hole as I have an affinity for museums (I initially was thinking just art museums, but I disabused myself of that quickly). I may have more than one post on museums, but the precursor is up https://vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2137

#indieweb

IndieWeb Carnival

IndieWeb Carnival is a blog carnival on topics related to the IndieWeb specifically.

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Yesterday I finally swapped the engine in the database for my blog posts in vanderwal.net and my lab project for adding search now can search 3 letter words.

With 35+ years working with SQL flavored databases I'm always cautious, but added a bit more caution than usual. Dang it was simple and no issues.

The vanderwal.net Lab search of my blog is at: https://lab.vanderwal.net/search_page.php should you want to try.

Next step: Add headers to very old blog posts and add the permalink to the search results.

Search Page :: Lab :: vanderwal.net

@adactio Happy Birthday Jeremy! May this be your best trip around the sun yet.

Local meteorologist stated late Sunday into Monday it will likely have an accumulation of pasty snow.

I'm sorry, what type of snow?

I mentioned to friends on a call and was sent a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty. So it will be snowing pasties.

Pasty - Wikipedia