Today in Townscaper: A series of terraces lead steeply upward from the pier, to a tower where either a wizard or a coffee shop overlook the town.

I started playing with Townscaper last night. It’s a city-building toy that lets you paint colorful houses and buildings over an empty seascape. It’s absolutely delightful.

Oh dear. I just learned that I am That Dad who shouts COASTER PLEASE when my kid puts a glass down on unfinished furniture.

The White House is a shitshow as positive tests continue to roll in, and Pence is now playing chicken with Harris in order to claim a political media cycle. What an embarrassment, what a pathetic failure.

I’m getting incrementally better at Star Wars: Squadrons. It has cross play, so if any micro.friends are down to try blowing up some capital ships together, well, Red 5 is standing by. 🎮

Likely not on the radar for most of my academic, stats and data sci friends: the Tableau conf is free and online this week. While the tool may not be in your wheelhouse, it’s almost certainly in your institutional/civic infrastructure. Good oppty to see the conversation here.

Gotta take the little satisfactions where I can find them these days, and I just refactored the shit out of this dishwasher load.

Okay, Star Wars: Squadrons is fun because flying spaceships with lasers is fun. But I’m utterly awful at it. Oof. 🎮

The documentation and process of trying to inherit a backblaze backup on a new Mac is a special kind of terrible thing. I haven’t been this stabby in a long time.

Rapidly developing strong negative feelings about the Touch Bar.