2025-01-30 21:28:56
Maggie Appleton is growing a human, and as you might expect, pregnancy can be tiring. The data from her watch says so:
I felt slightly validated when this subjective feeling-like-shit state clearly showed up in my Garmin tracking data. From the moment I found out I was pregnant in mid-July, my resting heart rate began to rise, my stress graph went permanently orange, and my sleep quality dropped.
Tags: Maggie Appleton, pregnancy
2025-01-30 19:10:49
Noah Kalina has been taking a picture of himself every day for 25 years. He earmarked the milestone with a look through his archives. That is a lot of selfies.
For the uninitiated, Kalina gained mainstream attention in 2007 after taking a picture of himself every day for six years. The Simpsons even riffed on the project with a version with Homer Simpson. My favorite remix was the time-lapse of a research paper.
Tags: Noah Kalina, selfie
2025-01-30 01:54:32
A spreadsheet of 2,600 grant and loan programs circulated to federal agencies, alongside a memo to freeze spending. NYT’s Upshot listed and linked to all of them.
Tags: funding, government, Upshot
2025-01-30 01:37:54
NBA all-star voting is mostly for the fans, which means some players can get a lot of votes because they’re fan favorites and less so because they’re having a great season. Owen Phillips plotted votes against estimated plus-minus, which is a metric that estimates players’ contributions in points when they’re on the floor, to see who is overrated and underrated.
The trend is actually tighter than I expected. Bronny James appears to be the standout in the bunch, maybe not for the preferred reasons though.
Tags: basketball, F5, NBA, ratings
2025-01-29 20:09:48
It takes me back to my BBSing days, when my parents just absolutely loved that I tied up the phone line during all available hours.
2025-01-29 02:07:01
Cozy games are casual games that give you a warm, fuzzy feeling when you play them. Design a character, walk around, and chat with others. To demonstrate the mechanics and provide background, Reuters designed a cozy game within an explainer.
You are a radish of some sort in a fictional town of Rootersville. Tend to your garden, clean your house, and talk to the other root vegetables. There are sound effects and background music. You earn badges along the way.
I understand cozy games now.
