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Which American Man is Most Likely to Win a Major First?
Entering the 4th round of the U.S. Open, each of the matches in the bottom half of the draw feature an American man. And there were three more chances yesterday for the top half of the draw to add another three Americans to the 4th round, for a total of seven Americans (two lost at…
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Race Control — Live Blog: 2026 Indycar Grand Prix of St. Pete — Race
🏁 Checkered Flag Palou wins the Grand Prix of St. Pete in dominant fashion. He makes it two years in a row winning the season-opener. McLaughlin holds on for 2nd and Lundgaard ends in 3rd, tied with Rinus Veekay for 10 overtakes. Lap 93/100 McLaughlin and Lundgaard pass Kirkwood! It’s too late for P1, but…
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Live Blog: 2026 Indycar Grand Prix of St. Pete — Qualifying
Trying something new this season, we’ll be live-blogging the Indycar series (with a stats-focused tilt, of course). Fast 6 Your fast 6: Fast 12 5:40 PM McLaughlin fastest by four hundredths over Palou. 4 Hondas and 2 Chevys yet again. Hauger, the rookie, advances to the Fast 6 as well. 5:37 PM Everyone on reds…
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How One setuptools Release Broke Everything, and What We Can Learn From It
If you work in python package development or maintenance, then your world may have stopped for a few hours on Monday afternoon. To most, it probably felt like one of those “random” errors that pops up one day and is gone the next, but behind the scenes were hundreds of developers arguing back and forth…
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Comparing Hurts vs. Mahomes and What Has Changed Since 2022
As a Penn Stater (and yes, an Eagles fan) it makes me very happy to see Saquon Barkley getting a chance at a Super Bowl ring after suffering with the Giants for a few seasons. From the initial reaction I saw, not everyone was pleased with a Chiefs/Eagles game again. I had a small preference…
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Mahomes Isn’t The Only One Flag-Baiting
There was a lot of noise this weekend—and rightly so—about Patrick Mahomes baiting defenders into late hits in hopes of drawing flags. He was able to get one early on in the game, but didn’t fool the refs later on when he loitered on the edge of the boundary and then flopped out of bounds…
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Never Write “dev” Anywhere, Ever
I was going through our deployment process this week and hit a snag: I was using the dev host in our production environment. And then another one, and another, and another… It turned out that we’d been breaking our own rules, not all at once, but slowly and surely. Sometimes it was a matter of…
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Reviewing My 2024 Goals, Plans for 2025 and This Site
I’ve been reading The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg, recently. You might know it by its bright yellow cover. I’m about halfway through, but as usual when I get into one of these books (Atomic Habits by James Clear being the other one), it makes me start to think about my own habits and…
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Norris Qatar Grand Prix Throttle Trace Analysis
At the Qatar Grand Prix on Sunday, an errant side mirror from the Williams ended up on the front straight, causing some brief yellow flags that Norris did not heed to, resulting in a 10-second stop-and-go penalty and effectively ending his day. Let’s take a look at the data and see what actually happened. First,…
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How F1 Can Keep Monaco Relevant
Monaco has always been the most prestigious event in all of motorsport. It shares a weekend with the Indy 500, known as the Greatest Spectacle in Motorsport, and it makes up one-third of the Triple Crown of Motorsport, which also includes the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This past weekend, however, there was little argument…