Significant progress was made on the historic blogroll graph. Most of the work was transforming the OPML files that can be rendered with D3. There were also a few anomalies in the data that needed to be handled. The results are on the blogroll page. It needs work, especially from a visual standpoint. Some basic interactivity would also go a long way towards making it more usable.

I made heavy use of Copilot on this, which reduced what might have been a day’s worth of effort (for me) to a couple hours. Watching some random dude on Youtube attempt to vibecode his way into a money-making app was the inspiration for using Copilot. Watching the way he worked for a few minutes changed how I used these LLM tools. Thanks random Youtube influencer!

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This weeknote comes almost a week late because the live, out-of-town jam session threw my timing off.

What a great session it was! Cold, rainy days are good for rocking indoors. And rock we did, and at way louder volumes than I’m used to hearing through my headphones when we use Jamulus. It is great to play in-person verses our normal, remote setup. I hope we get to do it again soon.

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It was a banner week here in the U.S. With a stroke of his pen, the President pushed the world towards a recession. Then, he toddled off to Florida for a long weekend for golf and fundraising. What an asshole. It really is so much worse than I expected.

People took to the streets all of the country on Saturday for the hands-off day of action. The tanking of the markets this week surely brought out even more marchers. It’s good to see more and more people getting vocal about the sad trajectory of the nation.

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We tried two new tunes in Friday’s jam session. They sounded surprisingly good given that this was the first time playing them together. I got complements the drum track for Last Time, I think it was because of the tambourine. We have a live jam coming up in a couple weeks we’re all looking forward to. Need to practice more than I have been.

We saw 80º (26.6º C) in NYC on Saturday. Pretty much everybody was outside, seemingly in or on there way to a city park. The Great Meadow in Prospect Park was absolutely rammed. There were so many people that the din of their collective conversations was noticeable to passers by.

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I don’t have much to say this week, so it’s all about the links.

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