I remember hearing this back in the late 90s and I came into my high school biology class and mentioned it. The teacher was kind enough not to call me a moron but he made clear he didn't believe it, and I didn't (and don't) remember where I had heard it back then. Glad to know I wasn't completely wrong for regurgitating that factoid then.
I wrote about this exact thing. If they gave me a Google Reader-esque product as part of their subscription service for VPN etc., it would get me to subscribe.
Agreed. It turns out the data they report from actually has that exact thing in it: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-... -- I believe this change rate appears calculated against their 2020 census data and not the estimates from 2022.
States with most negative change rate: California (-0.9%), Illinois (-0.8%), Louisiana (-0.8%), West Virginia (-0.6%), Hawaii (-0.5%)
Five most positive change rate: South Dakota (1.5%), Texas (1.6%), South Carolina (1.7%), Idaho (1.8%), Florida (1.9%)
Interestingly three states did not have enough change to register: Kansas, Michigan and Vermont.
I recently unearthed one of my old Hipster PDAs from college. It was buried in the back of a drawer. Quite the bit of nostalgia as I leafed through it.
Most of mine are one-time use or limited use. I have a few ongoing dev projects for personal use:
- My smaller blog is a (poorly) written CMS that makes a static site. Almost zero reason other than I wanted the experience of building my own CMS, could easily use another tool.
- I have a 'Pick'em' with friends for MLS soccer. It's a fully coded website, definitely my biggest ongoing project.
- I have a tool which looks at upcoming soccer games around the world and recommends the best ones to watch (looking at a number of variables such as relative ranking in the league, historic goals for and against, gambling odds, etc.)
- I have a weight and body fat tracker I use to enter my daily weigh in and see graphs and charts of my progress.
What a blast from the past. I was just on the very tale end of BBSs but those were wild times. I remember logging into a local PC wholesaler my father worked with because their BBS had what is today a very not-politically correct blond joke on their BBS every day.
This was a huge eye opening moment for me. I thought it was about using a deck, and I always found it less than fantastic. Now that I am making my own deck, it is far more useful.
As a programming project and a need for something to constantly fiddle with, I decided to make my own CMS that generates html files for the website. It's far from competing with Wordpress, but I've build out a templating system for publishing, and made a fairly robust admin for setting variables and managing posts etc.
Written in PHP, MySQL, Javascript (leaning on Jquery) and CSS.
I was a web dev 10 years ago, since then I've been working on marketing and barely coding as a hobby.
Later this month I'm going to embark on a rewrite of a webapp I wrote for me and my friends that administrates an MLS (soccer) Pick'Em.
My other project is a soccer match recommender. It pulls in matches, and based on a few variables. I definitely want to improve this at some point, but largely it's again just a side hobby to tinker with. If I find a framework I'm happy with I'd love to make it a small money side project and expand it to other sports so people who are just generic sports fans not sure what to watch, can get recommendations of matches expected to be good ones.