2025-04-11 16:44:46
Alex Ovechkin passed Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record with number 895. For The Athletic, Dom Luszczyszyn highlights “Ovechkin’s spot” on the ice (paywalled), where he scored 285 of his career goals.
After watching every goal Ovechkin has ever scored from his spot, what became clear is how often he made damn sure that the goalie had absolutely no shot at stopping what was coming. Even with a gaping net facing him, Ovechkin would very often put pucks as far out of reach from a goalie’s potential grasp. These were perfectly placed shots, as if Ovechkin was picking corners on an invisible goalie in front of him. The frequency that one of his goals was laser-focused on just inside the post-crossbar connection was astounding.
I know very little about hockey other than whatever knowledge I gained through osmosis living in Buffalo, New York for a few years. But I appreciated this statistical breakdown and the dots that look like cupcake sprinkles.
Tags: Alex Ovechkin, Athletic, hockey, sports
2025-04-11 06:26:28
2025-04-11 01:03:00
For Associated Press, Fatima Hussein reports:
The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S., according to two people familiar with the decision.
Melanie Krause, who had served as acting head since February, will step down over the new data-sharing document signed Monday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The agreement will allow ICE to submit names and addresses of immigrants inside the U.S. illegally to the IRS for cross-verification against tax records.
There are laws that threaten fines and prison time for just accessing IRS data from outside agencies. This seems upside down.
Tags: Associated Press, ethics, government, immigration, IRS
2025-04-11 00:15:00
In the everyday, when things are getting too heated and frustration sets in, it pays to take a step back and evaluate the full situation. Take a breath. Get the big picture. With data, we can zoom out.
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2025-04-10 15:53:26
New to me, Anime.js by Julian Garnier seems like a fun library to play with.
Anime.js is a fast, multipurpose and lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API. It works with CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript Objects.
The 4.0 version was just released.
Tags: animation, JavaScript, Julian Garnier
2025-04-09 13:43:11
Stock markets dropped in value this week, and it seems there is more turbulence ahead. So households are seeing the value of their savings decrease significantly over a short period of time.
Perhaps now is a good time to look at value from a long-term perspective.
