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I'm a huge Philadelphia Phillies fan and a baseball fan. Over the years I've collected a collection of Phillies fitted caps of various different styles. One of the caps I bought was a modern replica of a 1929 Philadelphia Athletics hat complete with World Series patch on the side of it. It got me thinking a bit about how we choose what team to follow and become a fan of.

In the NHL, in the regular season, if a game is still tied after the end of the overtime period, the game is decided by a best of 3 shootout where a skater gets a free shot on the goalie. It then moves to a sudden death shootout. I’m not a fan of them. It feels gimmicky and removes the team aspect of the game. In my beer league, slightly different story.

March was a mostly quiet month.

I'm a Philadelphia sports fan. Through the good seasons, and the bad, I'm always cheering on the Philly teams. For the Phillies and Eagles, times have been great. Phillies are competitive and are playoff contenders. The Eagles just won the Super Bowl. For the Flyers and 76ers on the other hand...

Baseball season has begun and hope springs eternal.

This past week our dryer stopped working. Our dryer came with our house and is easily 30 years old, thought probably older. We had repaired it before, but this time around, my father in-law, my wife and I could not salvage it. We might have been able to jury rig something, but it probably wouldn’t hold for that long. It was time to replace the dryer.

This past week at work we ran into a weird bug. It was one of those bugs where everyone’s trying to replicate it with mixed success. Most of the time it works just fine, but every so often it fails with no clear indication as to what’s different about the failure case. It took a while, but we were finally able to identify the cause and it presented us with a slight headache.

Five years ago, the US and much of the world shut down to the rapid spread of COVID-19 and the beginning of the pandemic. At the time, I and pretty much everyone else had no idea what to expect in the coming weeks, months, and as it turned out, years.

Shortly after the new year, I made the decision to take a break from social media. I deleted the apps off my phone, logged out of my accounts on my laptop, and just stopped visiting all of them. No Mastodon, no Bluesky and no Pixelfed (I actually deleted that account). There are days I consider opening them up, but for the moment, I just don’t think I’m going to.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around some of the latest features of CSS and now they’re introducing custom CSS functions in Chrome Canary...wowzers. With the caveat that it’s still early and they’re nowhere near production status, Juan Diego Rodríguez has a good write-up on them.

For those unaware, 18F was a digital agency within the US Federal Government to help with technical services and products. Recently, it was in the news as Elon Musk and DOGE came in and as they are apt to do, ruin a good thing.

February was kind of a busy month for me. Work has been a little hectic, we’re making sure to put in the time training Tess, it’s just sometimes felt like a blur. Thankfully it’s not a bad busy.