Hot tub spas should be as prevalent as Starbucks. Three to choose from any block in Manhattan. The idea that humans can't immerse their bodies in warm water as readily as they can buy stimulant is barbaric. How much happier the world would be if soaks were commonplace.#

I'm doing restoration work on a bunch of old UserLand websites. I just came across this screen shot of the weblog editor that was built into our first RSS aggregator, my.userland.com, in July 1999. I sort of remember it. It was super lightweight. It shipped, but we never really promoted it. It was way simpler than Manila. Things would have come out differently if we bet on this one instead. I often wait and do more powerful software when simpler stuff might work better. #

Manafort flipped. Occam's News says we will soon know all about the conduit between the political operations of the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. That's obviously the role Manafort played. #

On Tuesday I posted a braintrust query re how to get a list of all the files in a repo using GitHub's tree API. Last night I got some useful answers, and I can pick up the project. Will report back. #