Here are three popular blog posts from 2023 (along with an honorable mention and a popular Mastodon toot):
Were you hoping for more than three blog posts? lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2023/ lists all my 2023 blog posts, with more pithy observations than you can stand.
- Lemmy's RSS feeds don't embed images so I wrote a little program to embed 'em. Though the anti-Reddit protests have calmed, Lemmy still has a pretty cool meme-scene, and I still use this little program to follow part of it.
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I chuckled at the Big Free Library that the Internet Archive has by their side door (Clement Ave/Funston), since the I.A. functions as a big, free library. But it wasn't until I got home and looked at the picture more closely that I realized that the library's door is decorated to look like the Internet Archive logo.
Honorable Mention: This year, I participated in #EnigMarch. That is, each day in the month of March, I responded to a prompt from the #EnigMarch organizers by writing a puzzle. These puzzle blog posts were consistently pretty popular; but no single puzzle broke out to "Top 3" status such that I'd normally include it in a wrap-up. One especially-well-liked puzzle was the one prompted by the word hazard which challenged folks to insert two-letter USA state codes into words to form different words.
Finally, I posted a silly picture on Mastodon that "did numbers on the socials" as they say; but I never posted that picture on my blog until today:
OK, now to go post this on Facebook, Twitter, and Post.news for folks who don't follow my posts year-round like the long-suffering denizens of Mastodon and Bluesky.
