Monday, 19th October 2020
The stampede of the affluent into grim-faced, highly competitive sports has been a tragicomedy of perverse incentives and social evolution in unequal times: a Darwinian parable of the mayhem that can ensue following the discovery of even a minor advantage. Like a peacock rendered nearly flightless by gaudy tail feathers, the overserved athlete is the product of a process that has become maladaptive, and is now harming the very blue-chip demographic it was supposed to help.
Dogsheep: Personal analytics with Datasette. The second edition of my new Datasette Weekly newsletter, talks about Dogsheep, Dogsheep Beta, Datasette 1.0 and features datasette-cluster-map as the plugin of the week.
This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine. (via) I love it.