When Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick says that today’s game features much more movement than eras past, is it just conjecture or can it be quantified by data?

The end my nearly two year Wordle streak.

Jonathan Snook opened his 2024 recap post musing, Sometimes I wonder if doing these recap posts at this point are masturbatory. It’s a great opening and the statement is not without truth. His recaps are a bit more introspective than mine, where I just compile my consumption habits for the previous year, and who else is really interested in that besides me? I still find the exercise fun, so let’s take a look back at what I read, listened to, and watched in 2024.

Every morning since January 13, 2022, I’ve faithfully done the same thing: played the daily Wordle. I never expected that I would continue that habit for over 1000 days, but here we are. It’s become a daily ritual because it combines two of my favorite things: word games and puzzles. Since I also love numbers and statistics, I started tracking my results years ago, and I thought I’d share some fun facts about game play now that I’ve eclipsed 1000 games.

Every year, the r/Fantasy subreddit issues a challenge: complete a bingo card filled with various science fiction and fantasy topics on it. As you can see, the topics are varied, but that’s the point.

The core of this challenge is encouraging readers to step out of their comfort zones, discover amazing new reads, and motivate everyone to keep up on their reading throughout the year.

The bingo period lasted from April 1st 2023 to March 31st 2024. I learned about the challenge around August, and decided to give it a shot even though I was getting a late start. I read a lot of SFF anyway, so I was sure that I already had some books that qualified. I thought I would complete the card fairly easily, but I couldn’t have been more wrong! As you’ll see below, I fell a few squares short. Finding qualifying books that were available at my library and met my own personal reading criteria was difficult. I ended up reading books hoping that I’d be able to fit into a square later. While I’m glad I took on the challenge, this made my overall experience unsatisfying.

It’s been far too long since I’ve done a personal year in review. Let’s take a look back at what I read, listened to, and watched in 2023.

Hello, 2023! I thought I’d ring in the new year by trying out a darker theme for the blog. I’m liking it so far. I may eventually add support for the CSS media feature prefers-color-scheme so people can choose between light and dark mode.

Jim Nielsen asked the following question on Twitter:

“I’ve used the online diff checker a few times, but does anybody know of or use a simple utility for Mac that will do this? Example. Copy/paste text to doc 1. Copy paste text to doc 2. Then say “diff these two” without having to check into git etc.”