A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Congratulations to the Kraken for winning the World Cup! 010
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 19/01/2026TFW you're custom implementing a Base64 to interpret a bit vector...in javascript... for your webpage about school districts. 010
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Why am I writing byte parsing code in the browser for 128-bit integers? Why? 010
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 29/11/2025I swear half my life with computers is converting one file format to another. Grrrrr 030
Reposted by A WongRobert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 12/11/2025I 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.medium.comThe Stranger Should Cover SPS More or Consider Not Endorsing in Seattle School Board RacesOver 20 years The Stranger’s endorsees have made up 34 of 36 School Board members even though The Stranger does not cover SPS consistently. 3283
Reposted by A WongRobert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 10/11/2025So, 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... 2192
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 27/10/2025If 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) 042
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 25/10/2025New analysis: 50M of the SPS budget is chronically never used but still inflates the budget badly. medium.com/@awongawong/... Also, if you're interested, here's my school board election thoughts medium.com/@awongawong/...medium.comCracking the Budget #1: Chronic Underspend[ The 2025 School Board Election is Pivotal. Remember to Vote. Click through if you want my election opinions. ] 120
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 21/10/20252 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 :( 120
Reposted by A WongSarah for Seattle School Board @sarahforschools.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Ballots 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 032
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 04/09/2025When you start trying to remember how borgmon var names were structured for design ideas you know you're in trouble... 100
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Zomg. 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)americabydesign.failAmerica by Design FailTrump fired the best designers in the Federal Government 051
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 20/08/2025embedding javascript into react to write html is all sorts of backwards feeling 010
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 14/08/2025That 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. 000
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Today'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.youtube.comスパークル Sparkle - Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) // Grissini ProjectYouTube video by Grissini Project 010
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 14/08/2025OSPI 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‽‽‽ 020
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Published 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.seattletimes.comWhat Seattle Public Schools needs is to restore a broken chain of control | Op-EdThe next superintendent must be someone who can reshape an organization that, for decades, has struggled to align its budget with School Board policy. 050
Reposted by A WongRobert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 11/08/2025This 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.seattletimes.comWhat Seattle Public Schools needs is to restore a broken chain of control | Op-EdThe next superintendent must be someone who can reshape an organization that, for decades, has struggled to align its budget with School Board policy. 151
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Shout out to everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, who ran this cycle. Thanks for giving us choices! 010
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 05/08/2025I mean really.... where can the city council put a new hydroelectric dam in city or a new nuclear facility? 110
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 02/08/2025SQL 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. 010
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Another part of seattle going. :(gofund.meDonate to Help Ravenna Varsity Close with Dignity, organized by Sandy PelkeyHelp us send the Seattle staple Ravenna Varsity Restaurant off with Dignity … Sandy Pelkey needs your support for Help Ravenna Varsity Close with Dignity 000
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 25/07/2025For SPS Board Primary, vote Vivian Song, Sarah Clark, and Joe Mizrahi. medium.com/@awongawong/... 165
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 25/07/2025This is a really good write-up of the politics...and I thought that before I saw some of my posts quoted (Thanks for that!) 021
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I asked ChatGPT to write fanfiction involving Hello Kitty, Guan Yu (chinese historical figure + legend), and 2 google engineers who love memory safety. It delivered. 000
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Some days I hate SQL. other days... actually there are no other days. 010
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 19/06/2025some days you just feel like putting in a tablespoon of coffee into the family's miso-based soup noodles... this is one of those days. 010
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Wherein we show that yearly deficits of the past ~15 years have been almost entirely prediction mistakes and exist on paper only during the budgeting process. We also show that in the past 2 years, the real deficit has only been 40M and then 13M (nowhere near the 100M). Please reshare.medium.comManufacturing a Deficit: Why we always have 100M+ in the bank but keep having to cut staffTL;DR Over the past decade and more, our Budget Books have had three widely different numbers representing each year’s September Beginning… 180
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Wow. This explains how 5 intersecting policies combine to have intersectional harm, sometimes doing the exact opposite of the policy's objective. Recent SPS advocacy pushed lot sof broad "magic bullet policy" which can backfire badly. Folks in SPS should read this for background. Good job Rebekah.medium.comAn Analysis of Policies that Disproportionately Harm High-Poverty Students in SE SeattleBy: Rebekah Binns, former SPS teacher, current SE Seattle parent 193
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Gauche as it may be to repost someone posting about something I wrote, I don't know how to twittersky so here we are. Thanks @robertcruickshank.com ! 050
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Willing to trade one Gulf of America EO for one No More Daylight Savings EO... 050
Reposted by A WongKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — 21 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk's DOGE, refusing to "dismantle critical public services." 12349861145
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Wherein I highlight a bunch of inconsistencies in the SPS budget as well as the fact that we seem to have reconfigured staffing from "teacher" to "aides" meanings we got larger classroom sizes for lower "staff : student ratios"... hmm... feels like multiple structural issues. Lots of questions...medium.comSPS 2025 Budget Open QuestionsComing out of the whole Well Resourced Schools disaster, it has become clear that something about how the SPS Staff and the School Board… 030
Reposted by A WongJeremy Zitomer @and-all-that-j-a-z.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Hi Mark! Frmr engineer and program strategist from US Digital Service (which is now DOGE). Would love to chat w you about putting some serious capital into direct social services (food stamps, social security, etc) that the public can rely on as fed. services are under siege. Open forum on it maybe? 17011
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 12/02/2025if you know anyone that is thinking of leaving gmail/outlook.com/etc "for security" and they don't have some sort of insanely specific knowledge about security and threats, please tell them to stop it. kthxbai 062
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Nov's unemployment figure of 4.2% "counted homeless people doing occasional work as 'employed.' ... [If you include] unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a poverty wage (roughly $25,000), the percentage is actually 23.7 percent." www.politico.com/news/magazin...politico.comVoters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest. 111
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Opinion: 2-hour delay with remote learning is the WORST of all possible worlds in terms of setup. 210
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Wait a sec.. 415M for computer infrastructure upgrades over 100 schools for 6 years? 4M/school/6years. What kind of infrastructure are they putting in??? New WIFI APs in each school? New laptops per student? Subscriptions? 000
Reposted by A WongJane Tunks Demel @janedemel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025It took me weeks to actually commit to putting this message out there. We can say hard things. 141
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 30/01/2025www.seattletimes.com/opinion/we-w... I'm torn... But leaning no on BEX that isn't crafted in coordination with city or demographic strategy.seattletimes.comWe want to vote for Seattle schools Prop. 2. Here’s why we can’t | Op-EdVoters in Seattle deserve transparency about the implications of their Seattle Public Schools levy approval — not just promises of shiny new buildings. 000
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 23/01/2025That feeling of panic when you're glancing at really old tabs you've left open and you forget you were looking up some details on how to do process management in bash. 040
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Trying to schedule an appointment and currently: "you are the ... FORTY SEVENTH ... caller in the queue". Should I stay or should I go? 000
Reposted by A WongBeth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Highly recommended: Albert Wong 's (@awongpublic.bsky.social) editorial in the Seattle Times calling for school board members to resign. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/been...seattletimes.comBeen on Seattle School Board more than a year? Please resign | Op-EdIf I, as a parent, can figure out Seattle Public Schools' finances with a little work, why isn't our School Board doing its due diligence? 1143
A Wong @awongpublic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Huh. I got followed by this guy. he keeps using that follow button. I do not think it does what it thinks he does. 000
