It’s been a few weeks since the #AoIR2026 conference, but I wanted to share a bit of what I presented in Mexico City from the project that I'm working on with Miles Shelton
Miles has developed a Git respository scraper for archiving and analyzing […]
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![XKCD Comic:
[Two Cueballs stand facing out of the screen.]
Cueball #1: I'm a Mac
Cueball #2: And I'm a PC.
Cueballs: And since you do everything through a browser now, we're pretty indistinguishable.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtgt6rnut7pmlyu2ki2hdm56/bafkreie5iq2wkbuk5uktq3rizplw2iti5qqw2mvnfuwxueltotbi3qnovq)
![[Megan, standing next to Hairy, is addressing the reader holding her arms out. Cueball walks in from the right.]
Megan: Our field has been struggling with this problem for years.
[Cueball holds his laptop high up in one arm above Megan's head while holding his other arm out as well. Megan has turned to look at him.]
Cueball: Struggle no more! I'm here to solve it with algorithms!
[In a frame-less panel Cueball sits on a chair at a desk with his laptop working on it, while Hairy and Megan looks on from behind.]
[Cueball, still sitting at his laptop, points at the screen. Megan raises her arms and four small lines above her head, on either side of her speech line, indicate her annoyance with Cueball.]
Six months later:
Cueball: Wow, this problem is really hard.
Megan: You don't say.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtgt6rnut7pmlyu2ki2hdm56/bafkreih3pjphpckxn36k22637eklyq7nay5jf2enknak77rgcacvuzsvya)
