US Election Vote Share by Race
US election vote share by race for the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections
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Export Most of Your Data from Todoist with Nushell
Editor’s Note: Fixed some typos and the list numbering not working. See diff I have recently changed how I use Todoist, but before doing so, I exported all (okay, I think it was more like most of) my data. Since I exported all of my data once, I now want to export and back up my Todoist data regularly. Here is how to get most of your data from Todoist using Nushell: I’m going to assume you have…
Maybe Coming Soon: Daily Plaintext Todo
actually lemme start with something simpler: tell me about your unfinished works? what do you have that you haven't gotten around to publishing/finishing? you don't need to post the thing just tell me *about* the thing https://t.co/1bsC6BUZaz — Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) January 2, 2025 This tweet really resonated with me. I have a dozen-plus essays rattling around in my head that I want…
Colon Analogy Notation
I have been trying to find the name for this very common notation for analogies: A:B::C:D to represent A is to B as C is to D I have found it helpful to query LLMs (ChatGPT 4o in my case) with questions in the format A:B::C:?? I have tried to find the name for this notation by asking ChatGPT , using Google Search and Google Scholar, but I have not found anything authoritative. I think the name…
Maximizing, Satisficing and Perfectionism
Me experimenting with my daily bagel
Twitter Cards Images are Cached
Recently, I learned in a not-so-enjoyable fashion that Twitter caches summary card images . While writing Verify Jekyll Minima Sites on Mastodon , I originally had a summary card image which was getting cropped poorly, so I kept the image that was being displayed at the top of the article but changed the summary card image with a wider version which got a better crop. And it showed up correctly in…
Verify Jekyll Minima Sites on Mastodon
On Mastodon, one way that you can prove that you are who you say you are is by verifying that you own your personal site. For example, on my Mastodon account , I have verified that I own ramvasuthevan.ca You prove that you own a page by having a link from that page to your Mastodon account with a rel="me" attribute. The two simplest ways to verify your site: Adding an invisible <link> tag inside…
Search for All Dependabot Created PRs on Your Repos
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Create Jekyll Sub Blogs using only Liquid
Photo by Andrew Neel from Unsplash I started writing this blog in the spirit of Visa’s do 100’s things . The best way to become a better writer is to write. Writing and writing energy is not scarce. It’s not like you have a finite number of things you can write in your life. The more you write, the more you can write. If you write an article about an idea, it doesn’t need to be perfect. You can…
U of T Law School Courses Related to Real Estate
Photo of Flavelle House at the Faculty of Law by Chensiyuan/Wikipedia