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Noah Veltman

@veltman

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Data+viz @netflix. I try to make fun things on the internet. Code, graphics, data, journalism, etc. Previously: @datanews @bbcnewsgraphics @[email protected]

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Joined November 2008
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Noah Veltman
1 year
Was wondering what the most extensive "Controversies" section on Wikipedia is and depending on how you tally it I think it's either the BBC, Wells Fargo, or KPMG
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1 year
saving this GPT quick reference for the future
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1 year
"if your request for JSON is too formal, it might just scream whitespace into the void forever" is a very funny era of computing
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1 year
Was wondering "did the Warriors have as many late-game collapses as it felt like this year" so I charted each postseason team's losses by their peak win probability during the game (answer: yeah pretty much)
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3 years
has anyone built a sorting hat for Mastodon instances yet.
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3 years
Thinking about skipping right over my Mastodon phase and starting a MUD.
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3 years
I really thought I had seen it all for nerdy license plates in the Bay and then I saw the Unicode for the 🚗 emoji
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3 years
what filename has the highest average entertainment value on GitHub? quirks.* gotta be high on the list.
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3 years
This file is like the Picture of Dorian Gray, a grotesquerie absorbing all the web's sins. Needless to say I love it!!.
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3 years
Looking at this file from WebKit may change how you think about web browsers 😅.
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Noah Veltman
3 years
What movie had the most impressive cast that was only impressive in retrospect (i.e. they weren't big stars at the time but went on to stardom)? Thinking about how The Outsiders had young Tom Cruise, young Patrick Swayze, young Rob Lowe, etc.
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3 years
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3 years
hmm a spreadsheet with cells that can die from neglect feels like it could be an @rsnous thing.
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Noah Veltman
3 years
Goodreads but it takes the hint when I repeatedly pass over the three-volume biography of Teddy Roosevelt in favor of another book about outer space or the internet.
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Noah Veltman
3 years
Realizing that an auto-expiring list is what I need everywhere—articles to read, shows to watch, recipes to cook, emails, etc.—probability that I'll ever get to it drops steeply with time and quickly approaches zero, untouched items should just drop off after a month.
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3 years
Semantle but instead you guess a Wikipedia page and it tells you how many links away from the answer it is.
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3 years
realized I can use outpainting to draw a big rube goldberg machine
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3 years
more cartoon minimaps
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3 years
now I think about these every time I see two guys arguing on Twitter, good job DALL-E.
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3 years
"vintage political cartoon about twitter" is perfect
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3 years
"ikea instruction manual for the trojan horse"
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3 years
"promotional photograph of a new york subway board game"
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