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In a cliché moment, I figured out how to refactor my stores and persistence while listening to Bach organ pieces.

20-minute run, 14 pull-ups. Done until Monday!

The sedition mob was bootstrapped on Facebook and organized further on Twitter, where they talked about how they could arrange rides for people who wanted to bring guns.

And of course, those platforms are still not responsible for that, nor for giving Trump the space to plant the ideas. No one’s responsible! What happens if a pedophile operates on your platform? No one is at fault except the pedophile. This way, companies can make billions of dollars, which of course benefits everyone.

The Zetas are, overall, terrifying, but this Stonecutters/The Prisoner naming scheme is hilarious.

His first week in Laredo, the special supervisory agent, David Villarreal, had given him the rundown and what was expected of him: “The Zetas are what we focus on in this squad. That’s What we do. And you need to learn as much as you can about them.” So Lawson had accompanied other agents while they met with their sources, typing up the 1023s for them afterward, just so he could learn whatever he could about the Zetas. What he’d found out so far was that Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, known as Z—3, was the cartel’s leader, and Miguel Angel Trevifio Morales, or 2-40, his second in command. And that Trevifio ruled over Nuevo Laredo like a feudal lord along with his younger brother Omar, known as Z-42, who at thirty-four was three years younger than Miguel and served as his right-hand man. Lawson was told that the Z stood for their radio call sign, and the number denoted when they’d joined the cartel. The Trevifios had been some of the cartel’s first recruits from Nuevo Laredo.

From Melissa del Bosque’s Bloodlines.

I finished reading Arrow of God last night. All of the books in that trilogy are tragedies. Arrow of God really didn’t seem like it would be, though, and on the whole, it was mostly about characters living vibrant lives as they got through problems.

The second book, No Longer at Ease, just felt like everything was a mess the whole time. Both the title and the opening chapter make it clear that things are going to be uncomfortable throughout.

Things Fall Apart is also titled so that you know shit will go down, but there are triumphs and good times in, and you think just maybe they’ll be OK.

Regardless of these tragedy ratings, they’re all really good windows into other ways of living. Maybe there should be a Netflix series.

Having your dinner going in the instant pot at 2:30 in the afternoon is a good feeling.

OH kid watching a book being read about the history of Haiti: “I don’t like slavery!”

I’ve done three half-days of coding (20 minutes at a time) in a row with no hand pain the following days. The consequences have been limited to tightness in the abductor digiti minimi and the the thenar eminence.

I had some carpal tunnel sensitivity in the previous week, and wrist pain the week before that. The week before that was when I had the a.d.m. injury from snow shoveling.

I think I’m on-track to ramp up to more keyboarding and some guitar playing next week when the guy goes back to in-person school, which should clear up a lot of time.

Our principal mentioned in an email that the police were racist. (Re: DC police behavior toward Black Lives Matters protestors, and their welcoming behavior toward White supremacists yesterday.) It’s a small thing, but it’s nice to see someone in any sort of position of government power say that.

12 pull-ups. Also, a few hours of standing in the playground.

Huh, Assück's first album was produced by famous Florida death metal producer Scott Burns. They're a grindcore band, but they're incredibly precise and crisp, so that's an effective choice. That snare sound is perfect.

I have to say, though, 1-minute songs that you haven't listened to in years are not a great choice for settling down to work. I've just been sitting here listening to the album and haven't even gotten to the terminal.

10-4-4-4-4-12.

I’ve been meaning to look at the template-string-based rendering libraries like nanohtml and hyperhtml for a while. So, I wrote some code with hyperhtml.

On one hand, their implementations are readable and fairly straightforward, which is important if you’re building a sufficiently complex thing.

On the other, doing a lot of DOM-defining template strings tends to get unwieldy once you start making nested stuff. Counterintuitively, there’s a world of difference between it and templates that are mostly uninterrupted HTML like the ones in Svelte. Fragmented HTML split up into various JS functions actually gives you a worse sense of the resulting structure than something like D3, which creates DOM pieces in code. It ends up feeling like JSX.

Well, ✓. I tried it.

The latest Dodecahedron is great. It's really nice to hear adventurous bass in dissonant Deathspell Omega-like black metal.

Aw dang I keep forgetting to pick posts for the bot email. Sorry, subscribers!

35-minute run, 13 pull-ups. I thought it was going to be hard because it was 32°F but the 80% humidity actually made it fairly pleasant.