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We can't have nice fountains, part 3

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/we-cant-have-nice-fountains-part-3/

Published: November 13, 2025 18:30

This skateboarding-focused history of Embarcadero Plaza is pretty great, and includes some bits about the amazing Vaillancourt Fountain that our city is still planning to destroy. Thrasher: This Old Ledge

The algorithm failed music

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/the-algorithm-failed-music/

Published: November 11, 2025 21:35

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. Spotify leadership didn't see themselves as a music company, but as a time filler. The employee explained that, "the vast majority of musicā€¦

DHS Just Pepper-Sprayed a Baby

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/dhs-just-pepper-sprayed-a-baby/

Published: November 11, 2025 21:19

ObergruppenfĆ¼hrer Bovino took "dress for the job you want" to heart. Gregory Bovino's Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago has hit a new low: For months, border agents have been brutalizing civilians and making absurd excuses for their barbarity. After ICEā€¦

DNA Lounge: Wherein our FORTIETH anniversary is next Friday!

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/11/10.html

Published: November 10, 2025 21:50

DNA Lounge opened on November 21st, 1985. Reagan was president, Back to the Future, Rambo and Rocky IV were the highest-grossing films, the number one song that week was We Built This City, and Microsoft Windows 1.0 had been released the day before. Itā€¦

jwzsheet

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/jwzsheet/

Published: November 8, 2025 06:14

Here's a thing I wrote last month: jwzsheet. It is a small and self-contained PHP and JavaScript library for generating HTML tables of spreadsheet-like reports, including arithmetically-computed cell values. I did this while refactoring some of DNAā€¦

Pi 4 SPI lossage

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/pi-4-spi-lossage/

Published: November 5, 2025 07:47

Dear Lazyweb, any idea why switching from a Pi 3b to a Pi 4b made my MAX7219 start behaving like this? If I switch back, it's behaves properly. Same CF card, so no software differences.

Monkey Jailbreak

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/10/monkey-jailbreak-2/

Published: October 29, 2025 09:05

I feel these monkeys were not living their best lives. They have all the diseases. We are continuing to look for the one monkey that is still on the loose. A wreck occurred on I59. This was a truck carrying Rehsus monkeys from Tulane University. Theā€¦