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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 02/10/2026

Duolingo still can't do basic math. Apparently 1+1+1 = 2

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 17/09/2026

my weak eyes read that as acropotatoes.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 04/09/2026

Glad you got it resolved. Not the same, but I once left two water bottles - mine and my son's - on a Lufthansa flight at Frankfurt. I spoke to lost & found not hoping for much but they managed to find the bottles and get them to me before I boarded my connecting flight.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 31/08/2026

My Outlook has had a bug for over a year where the notification dot disappears after a few seconds of outlook starting and never shows up again. I've gone days without checking email because of this.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 28/08/2026

May have been this post: www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai...

gatesnotes.com

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 19/08/2026

The funny thing is that I learnt about the typographical origins of leading from the very first book on CSS that I read way back in 1998. That book also spoke about the railway line effect of serif fonts.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 13/08/2026

Shared trauma from developing for IE where your only tool for debugging was the `alert` dialog.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 13/08/2026

Once upon a time Internet Explorer on Windows treated <SELECT> elements as a separate window context from the main page so it didn't share z-index with the rest of the page unless you added an iframe with position:absolute right under it, and that wasn't even the strangest IE issue.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 12/08/2026

Maximal coverage from Cambridge.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 12/08/2026

Partial solar eclipse from Cambridge.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 10/08/2026

Not quite the same, but someone in Wholefoods once asked if I was the author of boomerang.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 08/08/2026

C3 & D3's attempts to set style properties threw an undefined access error.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 08/08/2026

Broke a whole bunch of SVG charts by accidentally changing the namespace URL from http to https. The SVG element was no longer recognized as an SVG element and had no accessible style attribute.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 06/08/2026

I picked my own lettuce and jalapeños today at our local city farmlet.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 02/08/2026

Did someone make Oligopoly?

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 27/07/2026

You could even go back to the 1920s with the Nelson Rules.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 26/07/2026

By "die Täter", I couldn't tell if you meant perps or "The Tates"

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 24/07/2026

C'ChoLat: maps.app.goo.gl/xsk2KgZyGfKL...

maps.app.goo.gl

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 22/07/2026

You might also be able to use thin willow branches if you can find some to trim off a living tree.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 20/07/2026

Found the weirdest thing when we stopped for ice cream after a waterfall hike. Apparently it's the "first confirmed UFO experience" in MA (not independently verified by me).

A plaque signed by then Gov of MA, Charlie Baker acknowledging the off world experience of Thomas Reed: "ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, I AM PLEASED TO CONFER UPON YOU THIS GOVERNOR'S CITATION IN RECOGNITION OF THE OFF-WORLD INCIDENT ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1969, WHICH ENGAGED THE REED FAMILY, WHICH HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. YOUR DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE INCIDENT WAS FACTUALLY UPHELD, FOUNDED, AND DEEMED HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT AND TRUE BY MEANS OF MASSACHUSETTS HISTORIANS. THE RECORDS HIGHLIGHTING THE HISTORIC EVENT ARE NOW OFFICIALLY PART OF THE GREAT BARRINGTON, MA HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION AND YOUR RECENT INDUCTION INTO MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY.

THIS THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER IN THE YEAR 2015"

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 07/07/2026

In India we used to wash leaves and greens in Potassium Permanganate (KMnO4) to kill any parasites and their eggs. Many homes have a small box of KMnO4 in the spice cabinet for this purpose.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 02/07/2026

Well @duolingoverde.bsky.social still can't do math. Finish 2 daily quests but they only count 1.

A screenshot of the Duolingo quest page. The completion bar at the top shows 1/50 quests while the bottom section shows two completed quests.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 02/07/2026

It was Buddy Brewer who borrowed that from oncology research.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 01/07/2026

I did a similar study a few years ago based on user tolerance of web performance and javascript errors. Starts at slide 17 here: speakerdeck.com/bluesmoon/sc...

speakerdeck.com

Sciencing Data

A short overview of what Data Science is and some of the kinds of insights we look for at Akamai. visual data like spice on a hot griddle patterns emerge

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Kellan @kellanem.com · 01/05/2026

A member of the generation that can remember migrating all your code from cgi-lib.pl to CGI.pm

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Most people think Sherlock Holmes began at 221B Baker Street. But Holmes began somewhere far stranger: in a Victorian hospital ward in Edinburgh, where surgeon Joe Bell taught students to read a body like a crime scene.🧵 Here's the US 🇺🇸 trailer for SLEUTH-HOUND. Preorder: linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 22/06/2026

It's like elect by reference vs elect by value. Pointers FTW!!!

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 22/06/2026

One way for cars, two way for bikes is my preference. It can make a lot of smaller side streets accessible to elementary school kids on bikes.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 17/06/2026

Lots of these at Lincoln park (attached to Argenziano school) and also at the King Open school. There's also a mulberry tree at Lincoln.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 17/06/2026

There are open data sets available to get yourself comfortable with the data. For example opendatascience.com/18-open-heal... or github.com/topics/healt... and github.com/collections/...

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 17/06/2026

Is that AI generated? There definitely isn't a Van Roth either, but I definitely think there was a discernible move from high energy bursts to sustained power when DLR left and SH came on.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 17/06/2026

bonus if you have a consonant:vowel ratio of 5 or higher.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 14/06/2026

This was my entry. I used Einkorn which is a typically very hard grain to work with, but tastes amazing. I used pepitas and black & white sesame for my seeds. I didn't rack in the top 3, but am looking forward to feedback from the judges sometime in the next week.

A loaf of sandwich bread on a metal cooling rack with a vase of flowers just above it. Both are on a wooden table. The flower vase has mostly green leaves of different types and a small bunch of small white flowers of a type unknown to me.
The sandwich bread is arranged horizontally with a wavy pattern of black and white sesame seeds running across the loaf on the lower half of the top face. The pattern ends at a score line running the length of the loaf. The loaf is a rich brown color with a slightly darker shade along the lip of the score line.

A side on view of a loaf of sandwich bread with a white and black sesame seed pattern of stripes on the right side and a pronounced lip along the score line on top.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 14/06/2026

Le Grand Prix Elmendorf du Pain starts in East Cambridge in just over an hour from now. I dropped off my seeded sandwich loaf earlier this morning. #bread #sourdough #ecba #elmendorf #cambridgema eastcambridgeba.com/le-grand-pri... img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/6a...

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 11/06/2026

This is the error I get and it's only for that particular photo.

Screenshot of a dialog box.
Title text is: Can't load some photos
Body text is: Please try again later. Your photos will be available once the issue is resolved.
Bottom right action button: OK

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 11/06/2026

The Peacock app on Xfinity uses a QWERTY keyboard on a TV screen that you can only navigate using the cursor keys on your remote. For some reason bsky won't let me attach a photo of this screen.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 08/06/2026

That's one way to deal with jetlag.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 08/06/2026

I wasn't entirely clear if by "An AI consultant" they meant a human individual who does AI consulting or an AI agent acting in the role of a consultant.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 01/06/2026

I want to know how you get your car to have 3 blinkers on and 1 blinker off like the red car in the image.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 01/06/2026

Someone used my phone number to book a restaurant reservation for this weekend. What should I do with it? So far I've entered the "Anything else we should know" field for the booking to say that whoever made the reservation used my phone number and I hope they have some other contact info.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 01/06/2026

Same in India. School starts in June, same time as the monsoon season. 3 months of continuous rain. We'd bike to school no matter how heavy the rain was, and still be wearing dryish clothes in class.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 01/06/2026

Seeded sourdough Einkorn sandwich bread.

A loaf of sandwich bread placed horizontally on a wire rack. The loaf has alternating diagonal stripes of black and white sesame about 2 inches each along the top surface.

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 29/05/2026

Channeling their inner Milli Vanilli

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Philip Tellis @bluesmoon.info · 28/05/2026

I don't have a work phone and it's not possible to check work stuff on my personal phone. It's harder to draw the line with the brain though. Same brain for work and personal, and that's where the bulk of the work happens.

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