it's my feeling is that many postmodern jukebox covers are far better than the originals.

the risk to google is not that something (cough cough… bing and chatgpt) is going to take their place.  the risk is that something is going to take the $200 billion/year search engine market and turn it into a $2 billion/year market.

i think increasingly my favorite thing about nyc is the fact that i can find and buy a great salad for lunch.

one of the crystal programming language’s greatest strengths is the ease with which you can work with c apis and external libraries without leaving crystal. you can even implement callbacks in crystal!

in sqlite you can define new functions—callable from sql—with sqlite3_create_function by providing a name and a callback that implements the function. i created a new function called strip, entirely in crystal, that removes html markup and leaves text. it can be used in a sql query like so:

select * from objects
where strip(content) like "%term%"

it’s part of the recently released content filtering code.

#crystallang #ktistec

arrived!

#roadtrip

ev battery performance feels like it’s been about 30% worse than last summer due to the cold weather. i’m in eastern pennsylvania now and it’s 40° f (vs 0° f in parts of north dakota, yesterday) and those 40° make a difference in distance covered between charges—though it still feels cold!

#roadtrip

it just started snowing north of chicago. apparently it’s due for 6 inches.

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3° f at 8:45pm.

the scenery is quite a contrast with may of last year.

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sheridan, wyoming… roads south are closed because of last night’s storm. backtracking to billings and then across north dakota this time.

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