2026-07-17 02:18:28
The Washington Post used satellite imagery, photos, and videos from when the blue paint was applied to the Reflecting Pool to figure out what caused the tears in the lining.
Of the identified locations with tears, every failure occurred where a layer of paint overlapped another. So the installers with the no-bid contracts probably did a terrible job.
We are in strange times.
Tags: error, reflecting pool, Washington Post
2026-07-16 21:06:13
This is issue No. 397 of the Process, where we focus on the details of visualizing data and how the steps flow together. I’m Nathan Yau. This week, I provide an update on my own process from start to finish, in 2026.
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2026-07-16 17:39:27
If you’re into visualizing networks, cosmos.gl looks like a fun library to play with. At a glance, it seems quick and responsive, and even my old computer can run the demos without the fan whirling.
2026-07-15 17:14:34
MapTap is a daily guessing game for geography. You get a location in the world, you mark where you think that location is, and you see how close you are. The closer the guess to the actual location, the higher the score.
I am not good at this game.
2026-07-14 19:28:36
AI Compass is a quiz of thirty questions that asks for your opinion on various topics. At the end, you are given an archetype that sits somewhere in an x-y-space with overhyped to transformative on the x-axis and bad to good on the y-axis.
I have a feeling this quiz and the classifications were made with AI, so take it as you like. I came out as the Org Chart Survivor:
Your company made you ‘AI Lead’ on top of your actual job. You use it, it helps sometimes, and you’ve stopped trying to explain to leadership what it can and can’t do. You run little experiments and post the results. Just try things, you keep saying. Just try things.
That’s number 16 in the chart above, right around the middle of the space, which seems about right.
Tags: archetypes, quiz
2026-07-14 15:49:40
The internet runs on a foundation of open-source software, but codebases, the learning process, and project maintenance grows more muddled as it gets easier to produce code without knowing what any of it means. For the Financial Times, Sam Learner reports on the fragile balance (paywalled).
As Learner describes, there’s a lot of relying on a few small bits, like the xkcd comic with all the blocks dangerously weighing down on one.
Tags: Financial Times, open-source, Sam Learner, vibe-code
