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Alper Sarikaya

@alper.datav.is

Senior Visualization R&D at Microsoft's Power BI. PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I speak for myself. he/him https://alper.datav.is/

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bring back the Ivars at sea-tac, you cowards!! Ivar would have something to say about this...

27.02.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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the game is being snarky at me!!!

17.02.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

nick-young-huh.gif

17.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

doofus gonna doofus, no need to cave!

12.02.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Every American needs to watch this:

05.02.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 20545 πŸ” 10294 πŸ’¬ 582 πŸ“Œ 983
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons Looking at the first principles of icon designβ€”and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

wait until you get to the menu icons :D (i don't actually use mac, but loved this post)

tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

04.02.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Remote rsync for a Synology NAS Getting rsync to work on my Synology NAS from a remote machine.

I'm a bit slower writing than I wanted to, but I banged my head over this technical question during the holiday break and I'd figure I'd write this up so I could help at least one other person. Trying to counter all the AI slop articles I ran into while searching...

alper.datav.is/blog/2026/01...

02.02.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

27.01.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 17315 πŸ” 6912 πŸ’¬ 503 πŸ“Œ 329
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Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.

Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

17.01.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 4119 πŸ” 1906 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 118

oust'd't

18.01.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: CB 121138 Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the General Manager/CEO of Seattle Public Utilities or designee to acquire by negotiation or eminent domain (condemnation) a parce...

Is the Talaris development in Laurelhurst destined to be completely open space? Just saw that Seattle city council voted to acquire/condemn it for the developer's tax benefit at the tune of costing SPU $9.6M: seattle.legistar.com/LegislationD... (cc @theurbanist.org @typewriteralley.bsky.social)

22.12.2025 22:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A filter for SIGNTYPE = "R10-11A" works for me, but I don't see all of them listed. NE 65th and 15 Ave NE has an omission of many signs (bike advisory and NTOR signs don't show up at all)

22.12.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

nononoonononono

20.12.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thanks Jeff!

19.12.2025 20:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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xkcd with the assist! xkcd hits it out of the park, and using that to talk about my recent mindset.

A new blog post about _that_ new xkcd. Hit me pretty hard, so I wanted to write a bit about it, check it out below. alper.datav.is/blog/2025/12...

19.12.2025 09:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of my post

screenshot of my post

Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

09.12.2025 20:28 πŸ‘ 799 πŸ” 316 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 50
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a man with a beard is sitting in a chair talking on a cell phone Alt: a man with a beard is sitting in a chair talking on a cell phone (Die Hard)
08.12.2025 04:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Saved by Stoppard
Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy",
", and rapidly
we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival.
Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia.
Michael Baum
Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL
r.

Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.

Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.

02.12.2025 09:43 πŸ‘ 217 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 18

Hey Ken, can you tell that loud guy at the bar to stop talking?? I think their name was "Morn" or something..

24.11.2025 23:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really want to look past the opinion section to support the investigative journalists still there, but ... this was the final nail to cancel my subscription. What a bunch of strawmen to comment on an environment and context they know nothing about.

17.11.2025 19:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

NYT writing about how The Stranger became a political powerhouse without talking to @ericacbarnett.bsky.social @joshfeit.bsky.social or @mudede.bsky.social is extreme journalistic malpractice. Before they came along, it was a nightlife weekly with funny sex advice

14.11.2025 19:58 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

I recently ran into this ordinance from 1998 that details a bunch of routes in a restructure when trying to find information about routes 78 and 314: aqua.kingcounty.gov/council/cler...

28.10.2025 23:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Red light study Every red light on a 30mi bike ride.

reposting an old blog post because I think it's cool: every red light that I pulled up to while on a bike ride in September 2022.

alper.datav.is/blog/2022/09...

28.10.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the place where only PMs get to go to :'(

28.10.2025 16:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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21.10.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

np, I was surprised the first time I ran into this too!

17.10.2025 22:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it's in the legislative record, just like anyone that's confirmed for an advisory board. seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

17.10.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

see ya there!

17.10.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

now i'm trying to go just off of memory... something about a "traffic czar" and how they were going to run "the grid" more efficiently...

16.10.2025 23:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

wait that wasn't a weird shared dream?!?

16.10.2025 23:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0