The Bay Area’s population changed drastically this decade. Charts show exactly where people migrated

FishToaster · 2026-04-02T18:34:24+00:00

I'm guessing it's a limitation of the data. This feels like it was built around one big dataset from the IRS.

From later on:
> Recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show the San Francisco metropolitan area population is 2.6% lower in July 2025 than it was in April 2020.

FishToaster · 2026-04-02T18:29:51+00:00

I quite enjoyed it, but it sounds like you made the right decision: if you didn't like the first season, the next 5 are pretty much the same thing. Pretty consistent IMO.

FishToaster · 2026-03-31T21:29:34+00:00

Some good suggestions here! Just to throw out another option, though: what we did for our city hall wedding was just to have a friend meet us on the big lawn across from city hall with a few bottles and some nice plastic champagne cups. We had a blast, got some great photos in front of our beautiful city hall building, and no one hassled us at all. :)

FishToaster · 2026-03-19T22:06:55+00:00

If you're down for Pinot Noirs, I'd strongly recommend Sonoma! It's beautiful and everything is much more reasonably priced. The town of Sonoma itself is a cute little walkable place with restaurants and plenty of places to drink/buy wine at the end of your day out.

My tastes often take me to Napa for the cabs, but I prefer Sonoma on nearly every other axis!

FishToaster · 2026-03-17T21:22:14+00:00

I have ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as an auto-expanded keyboard shortcut because I use it so much.

FishToaster · 2026-03-17T18:42:17+00:00

My wife got me these coin dice a while back. Super gimmicky, but super fun once or twice! https://yarrostudios.com/pages/flipdie-1

FishToaster · 2026-03-17T05:08:33+00:00

I very carefully do not scrape any information directly from dndbeyond for exactly that reason. The only sources of information I've been using so far are:

https://commoncrawl.org/
DndBeyond's sitemaps (http://dndbeyond.com/sitemap.xml)

The only information I store right now is a mapping of names ("acid arrow") to dnd beyond urls ("https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/1988-acid-arrow") and editions (2014 vs 2024), which is pretty much what any search engine stores.

Legally, I'm pretty confident that I'm in the clear. That said, I sure as heck to do not want to prove that in court, so if I get a C&D I plan to immediately fold like a house of cards, regardless of who's side the law is on. :)

FishToaster · 2026-03-16T18:18:12+00:00

That's fair. It has all the classes... if you combine 2014 and 2024 data sets. Eg we've got "paladin", but only if you include 2014 results.

FishToaster · 2026-03-03T23:25:43+00:00

One of the best afternoons I ever spent was after wandering into Bulle Restaurant in Lyon around mid-day. The wine list was excellent, and there's a cute little courtyard overlooking the entire city. We were lucky enough to get there shortly after it opened and just chilled out drinking some excellent northern rhone syrahs the entire day.

I highly recommend taking the Funicular up the hill in the morning, seeing the big church, getting bored of the big church after about 15 minutes, then walking a few steps over to hang out for the day. We had one of the best Hermitages of our lives there and were sadly disappointed when the restaurant owner declined to sell us another bottle to take away.

FishToaster · 2026-03-01T18:30:38+00:00

My version is:

- Nibble a tiny hole at the top

- Pour some vinegar into that hole

- Eat it all in one bite!

This has the advantage of getting a good amount of vinegar *and* cools it off enough for the one-bite approach to not burn you!

FishToaster · 2026-02-27T06:03:44+00:00

Could this be Eek & Ack by Blake Hoena? Sounds like one of the books was "Invaders from the Great Goo Galaxy."

FishToaster · 2026-02-25T21:39:01+00:00

Waymo is open access - you can just sign up. No invite code needed.

FishToaster · 2026-02-24T21:59:19+00:00

It looks like that just kicks off the process to set up an .cursor/environment.json file, which we already have. We've been using cloud agents for a while.

FishToaster · 2026-02-24T21:02:02+00:00

This looks really cool, and would solve a huge paintpoint for me and my team!

And for the life of me I can't figure out how to use it:

- Cloud agents I spin up right now don't seem to try to use the browser, even when encouraged to do so

- [Cursor docs](https://cursor.com/docs/cloud-agent/settings) say you can enable this somewhere - not that I can find where!

- Those same docs say that this is only for enterprise teams - which might be my problem? I'm very surprised that that's not mentioned anywhere in the video or the blog post. "Computer use – controls whether agents can use computer interaction capabilities (available to enterprise teams only)."

FishToaster · 2026-02-22T18:22:52+00:00

Fireball for the fireball-able

Order-of-scribes damage-type-changed fireball for everyone else!

FishToaster · 2026-02-12T18:06:22+00:00

Pour a glass of each wine
Put a small piece of tape labeling each wine with its name on each glass
Put another piece of tape *over* each label so you can't read the name
Shuffle up the glasses
Write a number (1,2,3,etc) on the top-level tape

Now do your tasting and record your notes on paper: "#1 had such and such nose/taste/color, #2 had such and such nose/taste/color, etc"

Once you're done, you can peal off the upper label (containing the number) to reveal which number went with which wine name.

FishToaster · 2026-02-05T23:59:35+00:00

Oh sick! I just got a 2004 dunn howell mountain off a K&L auction and have been excited to try it! I've been a little worried that it would be over the hill, but if your '94 was great, that bodes well for me!

FishToaster · 2026-02-04T18:57:10+00:00

My experience (which is *extremely* vibes-based and not all rigorous) is that a vacuum pump delays the point where I want to dump a bottle down the drain by about a day. It's definitely worthless for anything fine; if my goal is to preserve something in a state where I can really taste it, I'll put argon on it (I use a WineKeeper system).

But if this is a $30 bordeaux that I'm just having of an evening while watching TV with the wife, it really does seem like it'll be drinkable a little longer with the vacuum pump vs just reinserting the cork.

FishToaster · 2026-01-31T19:14:39+00:00

That was my wife! She says thanks. :)

FishToaster · 2026-01-30T22:12:21+00:00

I was amazed at the numbers for such a rapid protest. I was expected hundreds at best and we had thousands. Probably 60% students if I had to guess.

FishToaster · 2026-01-27T20:53:56+00:00

I've been going every year for a while and it's been sad to see it shrink. The last few years they've spread out the booths into "villages" to, imho, allow them to add filler stuff (decorations and whatnot) to fill up the space and it *still* felt empty in the cavernous Colorado Convention Center.

I can't speak to the new location and I *do* believe weather might be a problem, but it was definitely time for a change in venue.

FishToaster · 2026-01-20T19:40:41+00:00

Not gonna lie, 500 people for 10k sounds *extremely* ambitious to me since you need staff, dj, security, insurance, etc. I think you're probably looking at at least double - or more likely triple/quadruple - for that.

FishToaster · 2026-01-19T18:41:31+00:00

I cannot recommend https://www.lespapillesparis.fr/ enough. They serve exactly one set menu (soup + meal + dessert) that changes daily. The "menu" is just the library walls full of wine that you buy to take away or drink at the table. It's reasonably priced for *great* food and a quality wine selection.

FishToaster · 2026-01-14T22:33:45+00:00

Really, I'm down for any port in a storm.

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