A Wong

Congratulations to the Kraken for winning the World Cup!

TFW you're custom implementing a Base64 to interpret a bit vector...in javascript... for your webpage about school districts.

Why am I writing byte parsing code in the browser for 128-bit integers? Why?

I think we have a lot of staff classified with the state as full time instructional professional development. What they do I'm less clear.

I swear half my life with computers is converting one file format to another.

Grrrrr

@thestranger.com: This links the finished version of my Guest Rant from Mon. As noted, w/o response I'd make it an open letter by Wed.

I like the Stranger a lot the school board endorsements as needing major improvement.

I also must spotlight classic job-interview style racism towards Clark.

The Stranger Should Cover SPS More or Consider Not Endorsing in Seattle School Board Races Over 20 years The Stranger’s endorsees have made up 34 of 36 School Board members even though The Stranger does not cover SPS consistently.

I very strongly agree with this from @awongpublic.bsky.social. And I was happy with 3 of the 4 school board endorsements the Stranger made this year! But overall they’re doing more harm than good by making school board endorsements when they don’t regularly cover the district.

Bar graph titled "The Stranger's Endorsements Effectively Appoint the Seattle School Board" with two bars, one labeled "The Stranger" and one labeled "The Seattle Times"

So, this is an interesting analysis from @awongpublic.bsky.social - since 2005, only two people (out of 36) have gotten elected to the Seattle school board without a Stranger endorsement. And none since 2011. Whereas the Times is batting just above .500 www.reddit.com/r/seattlepub...

If you care about SPS and want to help, we need folks to text-bank for Sarah Clark!

It's super easy. I've automated the process to just a few clicks from your phone that you can do between tasks.

If you're up for it, DM me! (heads up: it will use your SMS number)

The next post will be more fun. I'm gonna correlate FTE categories vs enrollment and then talk actual cuts

Well, first it should remove the deficit. There nothing to redistribute yet cause we are negative.

Cracking the Budget #1: Chronic Underspend [ The 2025 School Board Election is Pivotal. Remember to Vote. Click through if you want my election opinions. ]

New analysis: 50M of the SPS budget is chronically never used but still inflates the budget badly.

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Also, if you're interested, here's my school board election thoughts

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Absolutely. Proud to have been there with ya.

2 things that make me hate modern tech society:

(1) Data is so frequently sent around in PDFs.
(2) Google Sheets is still one of the best multi-user, strong consistsency, small-scale backing stores for your web services.

As a society, what in the world have we built :(

Ballots are arriving in mailboxes this week — and I’d love your vote to continue doing great work for our students! Watch the video and learn more: www.sarah4schoolboard.org

When you start trying to remember how borgmon var names were structured for design ideas you know you're in trouble...

... uh... wha???

America by Design Fail Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government

Zomg. americabydesign.fail

"Do your people even know basic HTML? Why is every single word wrapped in two spans? What’s up with the inline styles? Did you know that you can use CSS to make text uppercase?"

Whomever made this, I wanna buy you a drink.

(Switch .fail to .gov to see original)

embedding javascript into react to write html is all sorts of backwards feeling

That there are 2 packages danfojs and danfojs-node drives me nuts. I can't test my code in the commandline easily without abstracting out the frigging environment. I hate node.js.

スパークル Sparkle - Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) // Grissini Project YouTube video by Grissini Project

Today's joyful posting -- cover of Sparkle from Kimi no Na Wa (Your Name) by the Grassini Project. The singer's expressiveness is really cool on this one.

OSPI provides a "enrollment summary" table and a "per-school enrollment" table. The two do not use the same units for counting students.

WHY CAN'T ANYTHING BE EASY‽‽‽

What Seattle Public Schools needs is to restore a broken chain of control | Op-Ed The next superintendent must be someone who can reshape an organization that, for decades, has struggled to align its budget with School Board policy.

Published an OpED on the SPS Superintendent search. Basically, we need someone that can get the organization in order in terms of staff and finances so that vision and policy can even be implemented. Focus on that first. Then worry about vision, etc.

What Seattle Public Schools needs is to restore a broken chain of control | Op-Ed The next superintendent must be someone who can reshape an organization that, for decades, has struggled to align its budget with School Board policy.

This from @awongpublic.bsky.social is excellent. SPS needs a board and a superintendent committed to basic fiscal controls. But over the last 20 years those have eroded. It got a lot worse in the last 5 years as Liza Rankin and allies further removed most board oversight of operations and money.

Shout out to everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, who ran this cycle. Thanks for giving us choices!

Absolutely correct. Even if we remove these errors, we likely will only have enough to limp along with substandard delivery of service to middle and highschool in terms of offerings and in terms of class ratios everywhere

I mean really.... where can the city council put a new hydroelectric dam in city or a new nuclear facility?

do people know what office they are running for?

SQL automatically casts for me sometimes.

When it does it, I hate it.
When it won't do it, I hate it.

I just hate SQL.

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Another part of seattle going. :(