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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#DollyParton 's songs on the #BillboardHot100 She had two songs reach # 1: 9 to 5 Islands in the Stream (Duet with Kenny Rogers) www.briandill.net/apps/billboa...

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Checking in on Drake's massive 3-album drop on the #billboardhot100 www.briandill.net/apps/billboa...

Billboard Hot 100 chart showing Drake's 3 album drop in May and the songs still on the chart months later.

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The recent removal of the 5-hour rate limiting window by both Codex and Claude Code has the economist in me wondering are they: 1) having a somewhat rare "price" war 2) worried about user friction with open-source models nipping at their heels 3) Something else entirely? 4) all of the above?

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Do you play Wordle? Do you friends always seem to do better than you? Shhh! I won't tell if you won't. www.briandill.net/apps/wordle/ #WordleApp #wordle

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Wordle Solver

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Updated my Baby Names search page. It shows the popularity index as well as raw # of births over time. www.briandill.net/apps/babynam... #babynames #ssa #data

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Billboard Hot 100 artist search www.briandill.net/billboardhot... A song earns 101 minus its chart rank for each week it appears. Points are the sum of those weekly scores. #billboardhot100

Graph of top 25 songs by Prince on the Billboard Hot 100

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Olivia narrowly remains the #1 most popular baby girl's name while Charlotte leapfrogs both Emma and Amelia to become the #2 name in 2025 according to the #SSA #data. The 2025 data was released in May. I predict that Charlotte will be #1 for 2026. www.briandill.net/babynames/in...

Social Security Administration baby names. Top 5 girl's names for 2025

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The 2026 biopic "Michael" has caused several of Michael Jackson's songs to re-chart on the #BillboardHot100 in the past few weeks. shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot... #rstats #michaeljackson #beatit #billiejean

Michael Jackson songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for May of 2026

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

#Drake dominates the #billboardhot100 this week. He has 42 of the top 100 songs and I think that is a record. (Morgan Wallen had 33 one week). Drake had 12 of the top 13 (with "Choosin' Texas" at #5) shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot... Official site: www.billboard.com/charts/hot-1...

spreadsheet showing 42 of Drake's songs in the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of 5/25/2026

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

An excellent take on #AI, recent grads, and where it is all heading. It includes a clip from the #MTSU graduation speech. youtu.be/nSgXlO6ouAo?...

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The AI backlash just got VERY public

YouTube video by House of El - AI

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I was today years old when I discovered that in the chorus of Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" the ladies where singing in French "Les yeux sans visage" - apparently named after a 1960's French film by that name. #BillyIdol #80srock www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFp...

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Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face

YouTube video by BillyIdolVEVO

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#OliviaRodrigo - off the #BillboardHot100 charts for almost two years comes in hot with "Drop Dead" debuting at #1! shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot... #rstats

Olivia Rodrigo Billboard Hot 100 chart showing her songs that charted.

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

RAM prices have dropped from 4X the normal price to just 3X the normal price. I GUESS that's good??? This is for Corsair 2 x 16GB DDR5-6200 kit #ram #hardware #inflation #ai

price chart for Corsair RAM. It spikes in Oct 2025 and drops a little at the end of March 2026.

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

After the post-Christmas slump, "Opalite" and "The Fate of Ophelia" rebounded on the #BillboardHot100. This week "Opalite" takes the top spot and all but these two songs have fallen off the chart for #TaylorSwift.

Billboard Hot 100 chart of Taylor Swift songs from her "Secret Life of a Showgirl" album.

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Darling Data @erikdarling.com · 11/02/2026

Announcing Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring That Doesn't Suck Announcing Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring I built a free, open-source SQL Server performance monitoring tool. Two editions, no licensing...

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

#BadBunny continues his post-Superbowl bump in the #BillboardHot100 shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot... #rstats

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Dec 5, 1998 saw the most songs (60) debut on the Billboard Hot 100 - aside from the chart's inaugural week way back in 1958. The next highest debut week had just 34 in Nov 27, 2021. The average # of songs newly appearing on the chart in any week is 9.21. #billboardhot100

Table showing the Billboard Hot 100 weeks with number of new songs that week.

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

YouTube is now old enough to drink.

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Come see my "DuckDB 101" session on Saturday March 7, 2026 at the datatuneconf.com in Nashville #DuckDB

DuckDB 101 session will be presented at DataTune conference in Nashville on Sat March 7, 2026

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

@heidisql.com is there any consideration for supporting DuckDB databases? @duckdb.org

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Is it just me or is the Venn diagram of the Gadsden flag "Don't tread on me" crowd and the "comply or die" crowd starting to look like concentric circles? #Minnesota #minneapolis #ice

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

"William" is the most popular name to never reach number one in any year. #SSA #babynames shiny.briandill.net/Babynames/?n... wiki.briandill.net/books/duckdb...

Table showing ranking of popular names that never reached #1

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Like a moth to a flame Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" returns to #1 again and again. shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot... #billboardhot100 #rstats #shinyr

Mariah Carey's Billboard Hot 100 chart. Showing her song "All I want for Christmas is You" return to #1 year after year for the past 8 years or so.

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Michael, David and Jacob were the king of boy's names from 1954 to 2012. All have seen rapid decline in popularity since 2013. How popular is YOUR name? shiny.briandill.net/Babynames/ Some stats: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Data: #SocialSecurityAdministration #rstats

chart of popularity of boy's names: Michael, David, and Jacob

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It's only Dec 4th and already 4 of the #BillboardHot100 chart's top 10 are Christmas songs.

Four Christmas songs in the top 10 - #5 "All I want for Christmas" by Mariah Carey, #6 "Last Christmas" by Wham!, #7 "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee, #8 "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The # of unique female names began its long rise around 1945. Male names didn't start its long rise until the late 1960's. Both climbed until the mid 2000's when both stopped climbing. Data from the #SocialSecurityAdministration How popular is your name? shiny.briandill.net/Babynames #rstats

plot of number of unique names for a given sex/year. X-axis is year and y-axis is count. One line for male and one for female.

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The best explainer I have seen on UTF-8 if you want to take a short trip down the encoding rabbit hole. youtu.be/vpSkBV5vydg?...

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UTF-8, Explained Simply

YouTube video by Nic Barker

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Can we outlaw the rubberized coating on plastics that turn into a sticky goo after a few years? Or at least require labeling? #consumersfirst

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Why can't someone make an 18650 Li-ion charger that stops charging at 4.10V?

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"... it’s far easier to lead ourselves astray when the practical consequences of being wrong are small or nonexistent, while the social consequences of being “wrong” are severe. It’s no coincidence that this describes many controversies that divide along partisan lines." Ch 1 of amzn.to/46xNVtg

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Where my #chemistry geeks at? Avocado's number anyone? If you don't store it carefully it will probably be eaten by a mole!

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I'm always weary of pre-trial hype, but if true this is more than a watershed moment. This is species changing. www.facebook.com/share/p/179c...

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The iconic group "Heart" had two songs hit # 1 on the #BillboardHot100 Can you name them? Don't peek until you have guessed: shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot...

photo of Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson of the band "Heart"

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Artists with 3+ simultaneous Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Beatles 1964 The Bee Gees 1978 none in the 80's, 90's, 00's until Adele in 2012 Justin Bieber 10-weeks 2015-16 Drake - the first to have 6 2018 Taylor Swift - the first to have 8 - 2022, 2023, 2024 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Today in "let's make you feel old"... The SNL "more cowbell" skit (2000) is closer to the release of Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" (1976) than today (2025). youtu.be/cVsQLlk-T0s?... youtu.be/cVsQLlk-T0s?...

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More Cowbell - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Guess who was POTUS for 9 of the 10 largest single day drops of the DOW? #ArtOfTheDeal #ColdHardFacts

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I'm down the rabbit hole in ICD-10-CM codes. I guess it's not surprising that the category with the greatest number of codes is dislocation and sprain of joints. What I would NOT have guessed is that "Other disorders of the eyelid" would be the 3rd highest! #icd10 #icd10cm

ICD-10-CM code categories ranked by most common

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Since 1998, Democratic senators have continuously represented more Americans than Republican senators have, but Republicans won control of the Senate in 8 of the last 14 elections anyway. Likewise, Republican senators have not won more combined votes than Democrats since the 1990s. Source data:

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

1) The Senate will be 53-47 GOP while Dems represent 53.5% of the 50-state population 2) 51% of Americans live in the 9 biggest states & get 18 senators; 16% in the 25 smallest states get 50 3) CA is > the 21 smallest states combined & 67 times > WY 4) 4 million citizens in DC & PR get 0 senators

A graph showing the percentage of the 50-state population represented by each party in the U.S. Senate from 1994 through 2024. Republicans have won the Senate in 8 of 14 elections since 1998 despite Democrats representing more Americans in each election.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Interesting to note that HI doesn't have any local funding for public libraries. #rstats #imls #PublicLibraries data: www.imls.gov/search-compare

stacked bar chart for each state showing the percent of operating revenue from federal, state, local, and other. Hawaii has zero percent local funding whereas most states' libraries have most of their funding from local sources.

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I stand by my assessment. The only question I is "will he nominate another "F" or will he nominate a "D"?

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Soon, the zombies will come for Medicaid. Clearly, Rs will try to push many off the program with work requirements. Except anyone who has looked at the numbers knows that more than 1/2 of the money goes to the elderly and disabled ... 1/

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I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

There you have it. Texas is the first state to officially offer up their state for the concentration camps

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you scared of high prices before, Trump's plan will tariff-y you! #Econ101 #TariffsAreATax

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Brian Dill @wbdill.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Like many of you this account was one the few reasons to even keep/look at X.

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